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Over 24 million people now live in Australia, spread over almost 7.7 million square kilometres.
We have an abundance of golden sandy beaches and beautiful Australian landscapes offering everything from lush rainforests to mountains and deserts.
Australia is the world’s largest island and the smallest continent on Earth.
As we celebrate Australia Day on January 26, there is so much to recognise and appreciate about being an Australian.
From the East to West coast, an aeroplane flight will take you under five hours to arrive.
Driving around the coastline of our amazing country without stopping, will take you a fortnight on average to complete by car.
Our animals and wildlife are unique to our continent and cannot be found anywhere else in the world. This includes koalas, kangaroos, wombats, the platypus and echidnas.
Flora unique only to Australia include the eucalyptus tree.
Eucalyptus serve as shelter for many species of native Australian animals and birds and gum leaves are the only food eaten by koalas.
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Australia is the only place in the world that you will still find a lung fish still around from the Triassic period 350 million years ago.
We have our own slang and lingo, which we all recognise and can relate to.
Phrases such as fair dinkum, bloody oath mate, I’m full as a goog or chockers, g’day and ooroo are known to all Aussie’s despite what part of Australia you choose to reside.
We know what smoko is and we all eat sangas for lunch. Most of us will admit to ‘chucking a sickie’ and catching up with mates after not seeing them for ‘yonks’ happens all the time.
We all head to the servo to fill up the with pettie, we pay our rego and buy our grog from the bottlo.
As an Australian, you pack your grundies and your cossies and chuck your bags in the boot.
Heading to places like the Gong or the Gabba to watch some sport and and if you want to gamble you go to Bris Vegas.
We wear thongs of two varieties and throw snags on the barbie, spray to keep the mozzies away and crack a slab of icy tinnies from our eskies on the weekend.
You can be employed as a chippy, a brickie or a journo, a muso or a truckie. An ambo, a copper, a sparky or tradie.
Aussie’s, offer mates rates and say ‘sweet as’ when somethings goes our way.
Driving Dato’s, Holdens and Fords there’s some rivalry there too. Utes, 4x4’s and or a combie for your crew.
We are ‘blokes’ and ‘sheilas, I’m proud to say.
These are the things I will treasure this national Australia Day.