The Commonwealth of Australia is a federal province within the Commonwealth of Nations. Its districts are the continent of Australia, the island of Tasmania and a figure of smaller islands. It has an country of about eight million square kilometers.
The continent of Australia is largely a great field with mountains in the E and south-east. The western portion of the continent forms a tableland which occupies half of the continent. Australia ‘s greatest rivers are the Murray and the Darling. Australia has several different climatic parts, from warm to semitropical and tropical.
There are five large metropoliss in Australia: Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane. Each metropolis is the capital of the province in which it is situated. Most of the mills are concentrated in or around the large metropoliss. They produce goods for the motor-car, machine-building, vesture and nutrient industries. Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth are the state ‘s chief ports. Agribusiness is the chief business in Australia. Wheat and suga
R are the chief agricultural harvests, fruit-growing is besides extremely developed. Australia is celebrated for its sheep. The great sheep-farms, called sheep-stations are found in many parts of the state.
Today there are about 15 million people in Australia, most of them are of British beginning. There are now merely 40000 full natives in the state.
The Commonwealth of Australia is a autonomous federal province. Formally the caput of the province is the King or Queen of England represented by the Governor-General. The Commonwealth of Australia consists of six provinces and two districts: the Federal Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. The Capital Territory is the land around the Federal Capital, Canberra. Australia has a parliament in each province and the Federal Parliament of the Commonwealth at Canberra. The Federal Parliament consists of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The federal authorities of the state is headed by the Prime Minister, normally the leader of the party which has the bulk.
