Australia is a quite big country and the area is seventeen times bigger than Sweden’s, although there are only three times as many inhabitants as in Sweden. And just about three percent of those are indigenous peoples, called Aborigines. When the european colonizers first arrived, some time in the seventeenth century, the country had been inhabited for thousand of years by people who had moved there from Southeast Asia. The British settlers exposed the Aborigines for brutal and degrading treatment and that continued nearly until the present day. Today, Australia is a modern industrial and service society with the world’s highest level of immigration, mainly from Asia and the Pacific. But still the Aborigines are living in difficult conditions and the attempts to integrate them to the modern society has failed. Politically, the country has a prime minister and a parliament but it’s an federal state where the states have quite much self-employment. And did you know it’s an monarki? The monarch is Great Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, which is left since Australia was a british colony. The country has also been a close ally of the United States since the Second World War.
Because of it’s size the climate and nature is very different over the country. There are both rainforest and deserts but also temperate climate with quite good agricultural possibilities. Australia is also known for the great number of exotic wildlife, for example I think all of you have heard about koalas and kangaroos, right? And that’s one of my and Emma’s goals; to see wild koalas and kangaroos! Haha, as you probably have figured out by now both Emma and I love animals and are crazy in seeing them in the wild. //AK
Because of it’s size the climate and nature is very different over the country. There are both rainforest and deserts but also temperate climate with quite good agricultural possibilities. Australia is also known for the great number of exotic wildlife, for example I think all of you have heard about koalas and kangaroos, right? And that’s one of my and Emma’s goals; to see wild koalas and kangaroos! Haha, as you probably have figured out by now both Emma and I love animals and are crazy in seeing them in the wild. //AK