JP/14/M04
JP/14/M04
Did you know that ...
* Like Indonesia, Australia has three time zones, namely NE/SE
(GMT+10), Central (GMT+9), and West (GMT+8),
* Australian approved investment in Indonesia has reached US$8.8
billion, mainly concentrated in coal and gold mining, making it
the ninth largest foreign investor (based on investment
approvals),
* Since the 1960s, many Aboriginal people, indigenous
Australians, have written and published poetry, novels and plays
in English as well as some indigenous languages. Writers include
Oodgeroo Nunukul, Gary Lee, Kevin Gilbert, Jack Davis, Roger
Bennett, Pat Torres and Bob Maza,
* Ernie Dingo, an Aboriginal actor, dancer, and comedian, played
a role in Crocodile Dundee II.
* Cloncurry in Queensland is the hottest place on the continent,
with the temperature sometimes reaching 53 degrees Celsius, and
Charlotte Pass in New South Wales is considered the coldest
place, with the lowest temperature of minus 23 degrees Celsius,
* According to the latest data, the number of mobile phone users
in Australia totals 8.19 million people,
* The secret ballot now used around the world was first
introduced in the Australian colony of Victoria in 1855,
* Of the 770 Australian reptiles, 685 are found nowhere else,
* Nine of the world's 10 most poisonous snakes are found in
Australia,
* All of the world's 10 most poisonous spiders are found in
Australia,
* The first words from an Australian language were written down
in 1770 by Captain Cook. They included kang-ooroo, the name for a
species of large black kangaroo,
* Almost 54 percent of the adult population own shares in
publicly listed companies, making Australia the largest share-
owning country in the world,
* Australia ranks second (to Japan) in the WHO's healthy life
expectancy rankings with the average life expectancy of between
55 and 76 for men and 59 and 82 for women,
* Australia has seen 5.7 million migrants arrive from over 140
countries, with more than 590,000 people arriving under
humanitarian programs. Today the overall population reaches 19.4
million people,
* Australia is the only nation on Earth to govern an entire
continent and is world number six in land area,
* Australian innovations and inventions include a radio telescope
capable of transmitting TV pictures of man's first steps on the
moon, pioneering work in microsurgery, the black box flight
recorder, the world's most efficient solar cells, and the world's
first nanomachine.