Native people first arrived in Australia around 1770. Later, convicts were sent from England and Ireland to Australia as punishment. Some key facts about Australian animals include that kangaroos and emus cannot walk backwards, male kangaroos can leap over 9 meters, and the smallest is the musky rat-kangaroo. Hardiness was needed for the tough pioneer lifestyle in Australia. Sydney opera house is a famous landmark. Wombats leave square-shaped dung to help them find their way home through smell.

3.  Native people = the
aboriginals

4.  Arrived at the east coast
of Australia 1770
 Convicts from England
and Ireland.

5. Ayers Rock in the outback

7. Kangaroo and
Koala

8. The Emu and
the platypus

9. the Emu and the
kangaroo – share an
interesting fact: neither
can walk backwards.

12. The males can leap over 9 metres in one
leap.
Males grow up to a body length of 1.4 metres
long and weigh up to 85 kilograms

13. The smallest kangaroo is the musky
rat-kangaroo, with an average length
of 23 centimetres. The musky rat
kangaroo lives in the dampest parts of
the tropical rainforests in north
Queensland.

14. Hard men and
women in a
tough country

15. Oats

16. Oats
=Havre

17. Barley

18. Barley
=Korn

19. Corn /
maize

21. Sydney opera
house

28. Criminals convicted of serious
crimes were not sent to Australia.
Those convicted of crimes like
murder and rape were given the
death sentence in England.

29. There are more sheep than people
in Australia.

30. After Athens, Melbourne is
home to the second largest
population of Greeks in
the world.
In 2007, it was
estimated that 22 %
of living Australians
had a convict
ancestor.

31. The fastest growing tree in the
world is the Australian
Eucalyptus, which can grow up
to 10 metres in one year.

32. The Wombat has
square poop
Wombats poop on top of rocks and logs
near their burrows; not so much to keep
intruders away, but to remind wombats
how to get home. It seems they have
terrible eyesight but an excellent sense of
smell.

33. Another animal found
only in Australia, the
Tasmanian Devil, can
also eat almost a third
of its body weight in
one go.