Australia
Australia
A Country, An Island And A Continent
This is official
7,713,360 Square Kilometres or 2,987,145 Square Miles which makes it the biggest Island in the world
A population of 19.1 Million People and a population density of 2 persons per square kilometres or 5.2 Persons per square Mile
This is unofficial
Looking at those figures, you wouldn't see your neighbours to often and mowing your backyard would take a week. But fortunately it isn't so. Australians love each other so much that we stay together as close as possible. So close, that our biggest cities like Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Canberra contain 10.4 million leaving 7.7 million scattered through the rest of the country's 7,713,000 Square Kilometres. Working on those figures, we have 1 person per square kilometre and suddenly your backyard is twice the size and mowing your backyard takes a fortnight (2weeks). As we have lots more of large, medium and small towns which are home to another 7 million people, this is an educated guess only, that leaves approximately 700 000 people to populate 7.6 million square kilometres. So the unofficial population density is 0.1 person per square kilometre and no I am not going to work out how long it would take to mowe your backyard. The point of the story is, that even with 19 million people living here our country is virtually empty. So if you ever think of coming here, bring your mower.
With a country of this size and huge coastline of 36,735 Kilometres (I wonder how long it took to measure this) we have not got the resources and manpower to patrol our coastline efficiently, so our air force came up with the idea of painting our planes a bright colour. The reason behind this is, even if we can't see all of our enemies, at least they can see us.
Everybody has heard of plastic money. They all refer to Visa or Master card. But as far as I'm concerned we are the only country to have the real thing. It is made from polymer, which is some sort of plastic. You can spit on it, wash it (a new type of money laundering is appearing) or even p... on it. Who could ask for more???
Now that Australia has committed itself again, this cartoon just about sums it up
Australia the story continues
