Could you give me any info about australia?

	Could you give me any info about australia? Im doing a country report on australia. i am making a powerpoint about each of the following topics: 1. cost of living...(i.e food, gas, electric, housing) 2. culture and leisure...( what do they do for fun i.e. pro sports recreational activities, language, music, holidays, food, dance) 3. Economy...( jobs, money, how us dollar compares to their currency, gdp, export of imports, what they manufacture of make) 4. enviroment...( pollution? clean? hows the air) 5. freedom...(what rights the ppl have, evil dictactor of can do whatever they want) 6. health...(life expectancy, medicare, hospitals, nutrition) 7. infrastructure...( technology- such as cell phone service, channels of tv, internet) 8. Safety & Risk...(crime rate, police, safety in cities) 9. climate...(weather, does it snow?, seasons, avg temp) 10. Overall Quality of Life... could you rate australia as a star rating (1-10) I have never been to australia but would like to go so anything would be very helpful thanks! Asked By: cranberry - 1/3/2009

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Australia is a huge country the same size as Continental USA. I come from NSW, so my answers will mostly be relative to that. Where I can elaborate more I will. You have asked way to many questions, most which require a detailed answer. 1. Depending on where you live, i.e city vs country make a big difference. You can generally rent a place in the outskirts or a regional city in NSW for $300 + up to $1000 for inner city per week. I live in a household with 3 adults. Our mortgage is a minimum repayment of $1500 a month, based on a loan of $200,000. Our food is approx $100 - $150 per week, our bills are quarterly. Water $200 - $230, Electricity $400 - $600 (in summer, using air con and running a pool), Gas $150 - $200. Phone is now monthly around $60 plus mobile phone, two prepaid and one billed to work. 2. Yep we do all that, in NSW we following the NRL (rugby league) and have one team in the AFL (Aussie rules, VIC based). We also have olympians in various sports. We enjoy swimming, playing a game of cricket, throwing a footy. Club footy and cricket, etc.. Lots of sports. We enjoy heading to the beach, having a bbq and socialising with friends. We have nightclubs and pubs for dancing, some people take dance classes. We often have music on the background while we do things. We enjoy both domestic holidays such as a trip to Queensland or Victoria and international such as UK and Europe, US, Bali, etc.. 3. Australia is suffering for the same problems the rest of the world is, though we are not in a recession as yet and are not likely too. Because of this our unemployment has rised, but Australia still hold the lowest unemployment rate in the western world. The Australian dollar is buying approx 70 cents US. It was at 90-98 cents back in Sept. GDP I learnt in school but don't remember. Our major exports are minerals such as iron ore, coal, fuel, etc.. Here is a bit of a list http://www.dfat.gov.au/aib/trade_investment.html 4. They say our cities have air pollution and while I come from a regional coastal town, I have never noticed it.. I can breathe beautiful fresh air. We are a pretty clean and environmentally friendly country. I live near the steel works and unless I'm walking through it you don't notice it. 5. Men and Women have equal rights. We can vote and drink after 18. Drive alone after 17 (this varies from state to state), freedom of speech. We have equal employment opportunities. Ethical Practices. All the usual. 6. We have one of the best FREE health care systems in the world, if not the best. We have Medicare for all residents and citizens. We have an average life expectancy for a 1st world country. We have some people aged over 100. From looking at death notices in the local paper, most seem to pass away in their late 80s. Our hospitals, while people complain are the best in the world. Some hospitals have had occurances with waiting times as they are understaffed due to the long hours and strain on staff. We have many public and private hospitals. We have one called RPA, which is shown as a tv show on some patients. We all eat pretty well. I don't think there are many starving but there are some homeless. We battle the common eating disorders from anorexia to obesity. We have been recently named as the most overweight country. Overweight include 1kg over weight, but not the most Obese country, American own that. We don't have any 200kgs plus people. 7. We are growing in technology but are slightly behind the rest of the world. Most of our technology is imported. We have mobile phones, not a cellular network, with coverage over 99?f Australia, most of which is inhabitable. We have 15 free TV channels and may pay tv companies offering the range like the US. Our Broadband is where we are behind, our speeds and affordability is still lacking but it is being worked on. 8. We have all your normal emergency services Police, Fire and Ambulance, via 000, as well as extended services such as Police Rescue. In emergency situations I have found they take less then 15mins to arrive. We have a relativly low crime rate esp. compared to the UK and US. We have little violence, terroism threats and guns are illegal. I feel completly safe walking alone in the city as a 22 year old female. Most of our crime involves alcohol or drugs. 9. Our seasons are opposite to the northern hemisphere. Summer - 1 Dec - Feb 28/29 Autumn - 1 Mar - 31 May Winter - 1 June - 31 Aug Spring - 1 Sept - 30 Nov We have a couple of snow resorts, some around Thredbo near Canberra in NSW and some in Victoria around Mt Buller. A lot of this snow is man made but we do get snow storms there in winter. We have had the rare snow in other regional areas such as the blue mountains. One year a regional victorian town had snow at xmas, in the middle of summer!! But that is extremly rare. Here are some average temps. Sydney - http://www.sydney.com.au/weather.htm Melbourne - http://www.melbourne.com.au/climate.htm Brisbane - http://www.brisbane-australia.com/brisbane-weather.html Adelaide - http://www.weatherzone.com.au/climate/station.jsp?lt=site&lc=23090 Canberra - http://www.weatherzone.com.au/climate/station.jsp?lt=site&lc=70014 Perth - http://www.weatherzone.com.au/climate/station.jsp?lt=site&lc=9225 Darwin - http://www.weatherzone.com.au/climate/station.jsp?lt=site&lc=14015 10. 10/10. I love living in Australia, would never live anywhere else. Our only negative is the distance to overseas holiday spots, but its a positive too. I hope this helps with your project, feel free to email me if you have any questions. Answered By: Mel - 1/3/2009

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1. cost of living - well i'm in the Australian capital Territory (Canberra, ACT) and the cost of living various, but if you live in a moderate neighbourhood rent is about AU$380 a week for a 3 bedroom home, gas, electricity is about $340-500 per 3 months (this is dependant also on how many people and what time of the year) 2. culture and leisure...going to the cinema costs about $15 dollars for an adult, $12 for a student. Going out to pubs and such.. a Schooner of standard beer costs anywhere between $2.50 - $5.00, to play a game of pool it costs about $2. some nightclubs have a cover charge ranging from $2 - 25 with drinks costing no where below $5 dollars. IN the act there are many free things to do like go swimming in the lake, or go to the various museums, gallerys an memorials around town, being the countries capital city. hotels cost anywhere from $110 a night upwards to $1000. but you can get cheap accomodation in the city at the Hostel from $20 a night. Buses around town are fairly cheap at like $2 for an adult, $1.50 a student, or $6 all day pass which means you can catch as many buses as you like for 6 dollars. 3. Economy...well my job i make a minumum of $20 an hour up to $50 an hour. Which is pretty good in comparison to alot of places. I think the Aussie dollar is at about 68 US cents per dollar at the moment, but it has been up to 80 and as low as 45. 4. enviroment...act is pretty cool all round when it comes to the pollution and stuff, we dont have much at all, we promote public transport and our minister is pretty all for green green green. 5. freedom...Indigenous people don't have many rights, they live in 3rd world country conditions in many parts of australia, however the government and many people are trying to make the conditions better. Other than that, the rights are pretty good, however australians like to pretend they aren't racist, but many are closet racists, they don't like the fact that africans, chinese and such are refugees and in our country. So people can be racist, but pretend they arent... but just check out all the australian facebook groups dedicated to 'keeping australia white' which is pretty awful. However we do have discrimination laws, which are really good. 6. health..Indigenous life expectancy is 20 years sooner than White australians, so where white australians are for femals approx 75-80 years old, with indigenous people its hard to find many over 60 years old. 7. infrastructure...it's pretty okay, but not as good as america or england, and expensive. We have this thing called next g network with telstra and it costs me 90 dollars a month to have 5gb of wireless internet. which is spastic and expensive. 8. Safety & Risk...act is pretty safe, but that's because we have two sets of police, the ACT police and the AFP (Australian Federal Police) so you can't really escape them. 9. climate...it's cold in winter and hot in summer, windy in spring and autumn and that's it. 10. i'd give australia 10, there are so many things here to explore that australians dont explore coz they are too busy overseas so definetly a ten! You should check out the ACT website http://www.visitcanberra.com.au/ Source(s): http://www.australia.gov.au/ www.visitcanberra.com.au www.canberra.edu.au Answered By: g_grungequeen_q - 1/3/2009

If you know about Canada, then Australia is much the same as that except for the accents, the weather and the native animals. And to the first answer, no Australia is much smaller than north America, it's actually about the same size as the continental United States. EDIT: oh my god mel, give her best answer. EDIT: oh my got grunge, you guys put so much effort in, well, god work, I am just here because 'm bored.. Answered By: Iskandar - 1/3/2009

Wow thats a lot you want to know. I would suggest reading the answers here and doing a bit of searching elsewhere. Source(s): http://www.aussietravellersforum.com Answered By: scruff01 - 1/3/2009

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