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Travel Info I'm writing 10 interesting things about Australia and would like any suggestions? www.10interestingthings.com Travel Tips Australia is the smallest , flattest , driest inhabited continent in the world ! Is the only country that is also a whole continent !!The wombat deposits SQUARE POOS lol on logs ,rocks even upright sticks to mark its territory !!!Emus and Kangaroos cannot walk backwards and are on our coat of arms for that reason !!Australia's name comes from a Latin word Terra Australis Incognito which means Unknown southern land !Australia was founded by Convicts and has a homicide rate of 1.8 percent for 100,000 population , America which was founded by religion zealots has 6.3 percent / 100,000 which is 400% greater then Australia :)... It is estimated that 50% of Australians aged between 14- 19 are active cannabis users !!! The box Jelly fish is known as the worlds most venomous marine creature and has killed more Australians then sharks , crocodiles , and stone fish combined ( scary ) lol monotremes lay eggs and suckles its young , Australia has the only two that exist in the world :P platypus and the echidna!! the Australian Lyre bird can mimic the sounds of other birds calls and string the calls together to make a melody have been known to mimic cell phones too !!! there are my 10 lol hope it helps !!! Others It is big hot and full of poisonous snakes and crocks! Back in the 1950's a group of university artists decided that they would have an annual festival to promote the Arts. They decided to give it a really cool name for it and decided it should be Aboriginal. The went to an Aboriginal settlement on the outskirts of the city, one of the many that were run down because of government neglect and general apathy of the rest of society. The approached an Aboriginal leader and explained their mission. He replied, 'Moomba', and they retired back to theirt middle class suburbs gratefully and the annual arts festival has ever since been known as the 'Moomba Festival'. 'Moomba', in the elder's local dialect meant : 'Get stuff white man!' They didn't allow aborogines to vote until 1971!! yoursandmine05 is a wanker is all i can come up with (wombat crap is square)laughing at that too much to help you sorry In October 1984 a group of nine Aborigines was discovered in the forbidding Great Sandy Desert who still walked around naked and had never seen a car or shotgun before! They were in fact not lost at all but just living a nomadic lifestyle and surviving just fine. But their "discovery" was considered huge news in an age like 1984 where people considered the world explored and charted. During the 1950's the British were firing rockets from Woomera direction west and thought it was best to move the local Pintupi tribe Aborigines out of the area so they relocated them up to the Northern Territory and north west Western Australia. They did not fare well there and alcohol did its damage. But during the 1970s when Aborigines were given landrights they started making plans to return to their home lands and in 1981 the Pintupi traveled to Kintore near the Western Australia border to set up a community. Later they crossed the border as their actual homeland lay further west and so it happened that in 1984 when Pinta Pinta and his family were setting up a settlement at Winparrku that they were spotted by Piyiti and Warlimpirrnga, who were scared by their car, intrigued by their clothes, and angry about them invading their land. They met but initially did not know they all originated from the same tribe and there was a tense stand-off where they were frightened of eachother and a gunshot was fired. This caused the settlers to flee and, on a flat tyre, they drove 60 km. back to the others to tell them what they had seen, still thinking they had seen ghosts or scorcerers. Fortunately Freddy West Tjakamarra knew of a family that had never come in to let themselves be transported by the British and they felt sorry for 'the naked ones' as they called them and decided to look for them. It took them some time as the two had gone on the run north, having been vary scared by the shotgun, and they tried to hide their tracks. The trackers even stripped naked as they thought the group might be scared by clothed people. They started finding more tracks of another seven people and eventually they found an exhausted older woman hiding in the spinifex, with a man nearby ready to throw a spear. Finally as tensions settled the group was given the choice of coming in with them or staying there and they opted to come in. Most of them reluctantly climbed in the vehicle but several jogged behind the vehicles. The tiny settlement of Kiwirrkurra where they arrived was not exactly the highlight of civilization but still in comparison to their previous lifestyle there were many modern conveniences to discover, like matches, blankets, sugar, oranges, and within several days they all had colds and were coughing and sneezing. The group was actually under threat from inbreeding at that time as the genepool had run dangerously low being isolated all that time, normally Aborigines have a complicated skin classification system to avoid this. Some of them died in the next few years due to medical problems and some moved on to become well known artists. Outback Australian Bush Nurse who worked with surviving family member's of the "lost tribe" |
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