We bet you didnt know these facts about Australia!!

Are you aware of these facts about Australia?

Know them before you land there!

• The only nation-continent of 20 million people in the world.
• Australia was the second country in the world to give women the right to vote in 1902.
• The wattle was adopted as the national floral emblem in 1912.

•  The first Australian Friendly Society with the motto of 'Advance Australia' was the Australian Natives' Association (ANA) formed in Victoria in 1871.The world's highest proportion of migrant settlers in a developed nation with over 25% of Australians born in another country.

• Today's Australia is very multicultural with Indigenous peoples and migrants from some 200 countries.
•  The first Australian of the Year award was awarded to Professor Macfarlane Burnet who had won the Nobel Prize in the same year of 1960 for his groundbreaking physiology research.
• It has 16 world heritage listed sites including historic townships, cities and landscapes.
• While 1988 was named a 'Year of Mourning' for Aboriginals, it was also regarded as a celebration of survival where the Aboriginal community staged a 5 kilometer march for "Freedom, Justice and Hope" in Sydney.
•  It is believe that the Aboriginal game of Mangrook inspired the rules for Australian Football, while invented in Sydney became popular in Victoria.
• Australia Day today is a celebration of diversity and tolerance in Australian society, embracing all ethnic backgrounds, racial differences and political viewpoints.
•  Kangaroo meat can be purchased from the supermarket, butcher and available on restaurant menus as a leaner and healthier alternative to beef or lamb with a 1-2 percent fat content.
•  Canberra was selected as the capital because Sydney and Melbourne could not stop arguing which city should be the capital of Australia.
  
•  Melbourne topped 140 rivals to be crowned the world's most liveable city 2 years in a row since 2011. 
• The only place in the world where you can still find the lung fish which is a living fossil from the Triassic period 350 million years ago.80 percent of Australians believe Australia has a strong culture and identity characterized by being down to earth, mateship, honesty, sports and multiculturalism based on research organized by the Australia Day Council of NSW in 2008.