With so much desert you wouldn't expect
Australia to have a great range of plant life... well not
true- Australia has over 25,000 species of plant life that's
some 8000 more species that have been found in the entire
European continent.
Amazing Fact No. 8
Australia is surrounded by some of the
best beaches in the world, but in 1838 it was declared
illegal to swim at public beaches during the day. This law
was enforced until 1902.
Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke, liked a beer in his
younger days
Did you know?
So the story goes, the plans for a
railway station in Bombay mixed up with Melbourne by
a London architect to Melbourne's Flinders Street
Station was built of Bombay's blueprints
Amazing Fact No. 9
Everyone knows Australia was
started as a convict settlement but most people
would find it hard to believe that the first
Australian Police force -was made up of 12 of the
most well behaved Convicts.
Amazing Fact No. 10
One of our more memorable Prime
Ministers Bob Hawke who was in office during much of
the 1980's was immortalised by the Guinness
Book of Records for sculling 2.5 pints of beer
in 11 seconds back in 1954.
Amazing Fact No. 11.
Australia may be the smallest,
flattest, and driest inhabited continent in the
world. It is the only country which is also a whole
continent.
Amazing Fact No. 12
When a specimen of our much
loved platypus was to England for the first time
many believed the Australians had played a joke by
sewing the bill of a duck onto a rat and that the
animal was not real.
Amazing Fact No. 13
In 1983, the yacht "Australia
II" ended the Americans 132 year dominance of the
America's cup yacht race. The whole country
celebrated and then time Prime Minister Bob Hawke
(see earlier story) proclaimed " Anyone who sacks a
bloke because he doesn't turn up for work today is a
bum"
