Presentation about Australia

1. What Do You Know about Australia?
- What is the capital of Australia?
a. Sydney b. Melbourne c. Canberra
- Which city is the oldest and largest?
a. Canberra b. Sydney c. Darwin
- Which is a popular Australian animal?
a. bear b. kangaroo c. fox
- Who are the Australian natives
a. Eskimos b. Aborigines c. Indians
- Who discovered Australia?
a. Columbus b. Captain Cook c. Lewis and Clark
- What is the official Language in Australia?
a. English b. German c. Spain

2. National symbols of Australia
GOLDEN WATTLE

3. ANIMALS
There are many animals in Australia that you cannot see
anywhere else. Did you know that? Of course, you did!
KANGAROO

4. EMU

5. KOALA

6. The strangest of all
Australian mammals is the
platypus. The platypus is
a shy animal, usually
feeding under water at
night. It has a mouth
shaped like the the flat bill
of a duck which acts like a
radar. It tells the animal
where worms and insects
can be found. The platypus
swims with its eyes and
ears closed!

7. There are about 800 kinds of birds, among them the
kookaburra, the Australian bird whose call sounds like
loud laughter.

8. LOCATION
Australia is in the
Southern
Hemisphere.
Because it is south of the equator, the
seasons in Australia are the opposite of
those in Europe: it’s winter in Australia
when it’s summer in Europe.

9. Australian Coat of Arms
The best animal, the kangaroo, and the world’s second largest bird, the
flightless emu are represented on the country’s coat of arms.
Flag of Australia
The flag of Australia is the only one to fly over a whole continent. The small Union
Jack represents the historical link with Britain, the large seven-pointed star represents
the six States and Territories, and the small stars from the Southern Cross – a
prominent feature of the southern hemisphere night sky.

10. The currency is the Australian dollar.

11. Did you know that Australia is the biggest island in the world? It is only a little smaller that
the United States of America, and it is bigger than Western Europe.
Australia is the only country in the world that is also a continent.
- It’s the 6th biggest country in the world.
- It’s an island, surrounded by water.
- It’s the smallest continent in the world.

12. Elizabeth II, Queen of
Australia
Australia is a constitutional
monarchy like Great Britain.
The British monarch, Queen
Elizabeth II, is also queen of
Australia and country’s head
of state. But the queen has
little power in the Australia
government. She serves
mainly as a symbol of a long
historical tie between Great
Britain and Australia.

13. Australia is situated south of Asia, between the Pacific and the Indian
Oceans. Australia is located in the southern hemisphere.

14. HISTORY
Captain James Cook discovered Australia in 1770. He was sent to
discover the huge land that many people believed was south of the
equator. He landed south of present day Sydney in New South Wales. H
claimed this part of the land for the King of England.

15. Australia is composed of 7 territories:
Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, New South
Wales, Victoria + Tasmania, and Papua New Guinea.

16. Aborigines
The Aborigines are the Australian natives that had been living there for
thousands of years before the first Europeans came to Australia in the
1600s.

18. Daisy Kadibil talks about her escape along the rabbit-
proof fence, 2009
Daisy Kadibil was a small child when she was taken
away from her family as part of the Stolen Generations.
She and her sisters, Molly and Gracie, used the rabbit-
proof fence to find their way back home to Jigalong
from Moore River Native Settlement north of Perth, a
journey of about 1600 kilometres. Molly’s daughter,
Doris Pilkington (Nugi Garimara), wrote Follow the
Rabbit-Proof Fence (1996) after several years of
interviewing her mother and Aunt Daisy. The book was
later made into Phillip Noyce’s award-winning
film Rabbit-Proof Fence(2002).
https://youtu.be/rF5y5nP8Pps