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	..:: Australia ::..
		Among well-known Australian fauna are the monotremes (the platypus and the echidna); a host of marsupials, including the kangaroo, the koala, and the wombat; the saltwater and freshwater crocodiles; and birds such as the emu and the kookaburra.
		Approximately 58% of Australians between the ages of 25 and 64 have vocational or tertiary qualifications, and the tertiary graduation rate of 49% is the highest among OECD countries.
		Australian English is a major variety of the language; its grammar and spelling are largely based on those of British English, overlaid with a rich vernacular of unique lexical items and phrases, some of which have found their way into standard English.
	www.alexanderkrivonosov.com /intro/creative/australia (1773 words)

	Megafauna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Megafauna are the large animals of any particular region or time.
		Generally a "large animal" is defined as one weighing over 100 pounds (45 kg), though the threshold may range from 10 pounds (5 kg) up to 1 ton (1 metric tonne).
		Environmental activists are aware of this effect, and use the extra leverage provided by a charismatic species to achieve more subtle and far-reaching goals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Megafauna (387 words)

	Megafauna
		Megafauna animals are generally K-strategists, with great longevity, slow population growth rates, low death rates, and few or no natural predators capable of killing adults.
		Many species of megafauna have become extinct within the last million years, and, although some biologists dispute it, human hunting is often cited as the cause.
		Research published in 2006 on the wooly mammoth, for example, indicates that this was the probable cause of their extinction, as opposed to excessive hunting by humans.
	articles.gourt.com /en/megafauna (417 words)

	Australian megafauna - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Australian megafauna is a term used to describe a number of comparatively large animal species in Australia.
		It is hypothesized that the arrival of Aborigines (around 48-60 thousand years ago) and their hunting and landscape-changing use of fire may have contributed to the disappearance of the megafauna.
		Australian megafauna, Extinct Australian megafauna: pre-1788, Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, References, Lists of animals and Extinct Australian animals.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Australian_megafauna (1053 words)

	Encyclopedia: Australian megafauna (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Australian Constitution originally did not permit indigenous people to be counted in the census (except under the category, 'Flora and Fauna'), thereby effectively denying their right to vote.
		The Australian Aboriginal population is for the most part urbanised, but a substantial number live in settlements (often located on the site of former church missions) in what are often remote areas of rural Australia.
		In 1992, the Australian High Court handed down its decision in the Mabo Case, declaring the previous legal concept of terra nullius to be invalid.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Australian-megafauna (2169 words)

	Aboriginal Australians - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Issues of reconciliation between the white majority population and Aboriginal people figure prominently in Australian public life today. Nevertheless, compared to the Australian population as a whole, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people today continue to suffer disproportionately from serious social problems such as poverty, unemployment, lack of education, substandard housing, and poor health.
		The victory of the Australian Labor Party in the 1972 federal elections, after 23 years of conservative rule, led to a transformation in government relations with Aboriginal groups.
		In 1966, at the same time as the Yolngu were seeking control of their land, Gurindji workers at the Wave Hill cattle station in the Northern Territory went on strike for equal wages with white stockmen and better working conditions.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761572789__1/Aboriginal_Australians.html (7515 words)

	Death of the Megafauna - Features - The Lab - Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Gateway to Science (Site not responding. Last check: )
		There are many theories as to why the megafauna became extinct, but two simplistic and hotly-contested ones are the 'blitzkrieg' model, and climatic change.
		Some scientists believe that the extinction of the megafauna in Australia was either caused by a 'blitzkrieg' of human-induced extinction, or through disruption of the ecosystem by humans.
		This infers that Australian Aborigines were the reason for the demise of the megafauna.
	www.abc.gov.au /science/features/megafauna/default.htm (1066 words)

	Bunyip - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The bunyip ("devil" or "spirit") is a mythical creature from Australian Aboriginal mythology.
		The expression 'why search for the bunyip?' emerged from repeated attempts by Australian adventurers to capture or sight the bunyip, the phrase indicating that a proposed course of action is fruitless or impossible.
		Although no documented physical evidence of bunyips has been found, it has been suggested that tales of bunyips could be Aboriginal memories of the diprotodon, or other extinct Australian megafauna which became extinct some 50,000 years ago.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bunyip (641 words)

	Dingo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is commonly described as an Australian wild dog, but is not restricted to Australia, nor did it originate there.
		It was only partly successful: Dingos can still be found in parts of the southern states to this day, and although the fence helped reduce losses of sheep to predators, this was counterbalanced by increased pasture competition from rabbits and kangaroos.
		By the early 1990s, about a third of all wild Dingos in the south-east of the continent were hybrids, and although the process of interbreeding is less advanced in more remote areas, the extinction of the subspecies in the wild is considered inevitable.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dingo (1115 words)

	The Epoch Times \| What Killed Australia’s Megafauna?
		Australian “megafauna” included 2-meter-tall kangaroos, massive wombats, 2-ton bear-like marsupials, giant iguanas, ferocious “marsupial lions”, and huge flightless birds.
		Other evidence suggests that most of the megafauna had already disappeared before the arrival of humans, with megafauna in Tasmania already extinct by the time humans arrived there 31,000 years ago.
		The debate cannot be resolved until new techniques are applied to accurately place the last occurrences of megafauna and the arrival of humans in Australia, requiring further collaboration between the scientific disciplines.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/5-4-24/28063.html (385 words)

	Aboriginal Australians - MSN Encarta
		Indigenous Australians are descendants of the first known human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands.
		Australian Aborigines (æbəˈɹɪdʒɪni (help · info), aka Aboriginal Australians) are a class of peoples who are identified by Australian law as being members of a race...
		Common plant foods included many kinds of acacia seeds, solanums (a type of wild tomato), an indigenous variety of sweet potato, and the seeds of common grasses.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572789_2/Aboriginal_Australians.html (1558 words)

	Australian Yowie Research
		The bunyip ("devil" or "spirit") is a mythical creature from Australian Aboriginal mythology.
		The expression 'why search for the bunyip?' emerged from repeated attempts by Australian adventurers to capture or sight the bunyip, the phrase indicating that a proposed course of action is fruitless or impossible.
		Although no documented physical evidence of bunyips has been found, it has been suggested that tales of bunyips could be Aboriginal memories of the diprotodon, or other extinct Australian megafauna which became extinct some 50,000 years ago.
	www.yowiehunters.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=899&Itemid=60 (422 words)

	Extinction of Australian Megafauna (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Megafauna were a suite of large animals that disappeared towards the close of the Pleistocene and include the hippopotamus-sized Diprotodon and Zygomaturus, the giant kangaroo Procoptodon, the marsupial lion Thylacoleo, and the large flightless bird Genyornis.
		Flannery speculated that the megafaunal extinctions were the result of a 'blitzkrieg': overhunting by early human colonisers combined with fire-stick farming practises which changed the ecology of the continent so dramatically that many larger marsupial species were driven to extinction.
		This included Cuddie Springs, where megafauna remains are found in physical association with flaked stone tools over a number of stratigraphic horizons, and dated from about 27,000 to 36,000 years ago (Field and Dodson, 1999; Field et al., 2001).
	wwwrses.anu.edu.au /environment/eePages/eeDating/Megafauna_info.html (645 words)

	Indigenous Australians - Wikivisual
		Indigenous Australians were given the right to vote in Commonwealth elections in Australia in November 1963, and in state elections shortly after, with the last state to do this being Queensland in 1965.
		Fire-stick farming, identified by Australian archeologist Rhys Jones in 1969, is the practice of using fire to regularly burn vegetation to facilitate hunting and to change the composition of plant and animal species in an area.
		As at June 2001, the Australian Bureau of Statistics estimated the total resident indigenous population to be 458,520 (2.4% of Australia's total), 90% of whom identified as Aboriginal, 6% Torres Strait Islander and the remaining 4% being of dual Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parentage.
	en.wikivisual.com /index.php/Australian_Aborigine (7988 words)

	biology - Australian Aborigine
		In 1992, the Australian High Court handed down its decision in the Mabo Case, declaring the previous legal concept of terra nullius to be invalid.
		In 1999 a referendum was held to change the Australian Constitution to include a preamble that, amongst other topics, recognised the occupation of Australia by Indigenous Australians prior to British Settlement.
		This referendum was defeated by a huge majority, though the recognition of indigenous Australians in the preamble was not a major issue in the preamble referendum discussion, and the preamble question attracted secondary attention compared to the question of becoming a republic (see republicanism in Australia) for more details on the 1999 referendum).
	www.biologydaily.com /biology/Australian_Aborigine (2234 words)

	Drop bear - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		A drop bear (or dropbear) is a large cryptid Australian marsupial supposedly related to the koala.
		Drop bear mythology may have its origins with the Phascolarctos stirtoni or the carnivorous Phascolarctos involus, which belong to a group of extinct animals known as Australian megafauna.
		Some cryptozoologists have suggested that there may also be a connection to the extinct thylacoleo, which is thought to have been an arboreal predator that may well have ambushed prey by dropping on it from overhead branches.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Drop_bear (593 words)

	Unique Facts about Oceania: Australian Aborigines
		A general impression in white Australian and overseas society that Aboriginals are primarily desert-dwellers is in fact false: the regions of heaviest population were the same temperate coastal regions that are currently the most heavily populated.
		Australian independence from Britain changed little in the relationship between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians.
		The Australian Constitution originally did not permit indigenous people to be counted in the census (except under the category, 'Flora and Fauna'), thereby effectively denying their right to vote.
	www.sheppardsoftware.com /Oceaniaweb/factfile/Unique-facts-Oceania16.htm (1652 words)

	Australian Megafauna - What happened ? - Above Top Secret Conspiracy Community
		Smith says the new dates pointed to a third theory - the "slow burn" - in which the megafauna was gradually wiped out by man changing the landscape plus climate changes.
		They found an astonishing collection of megafauna fossils, including partial skull fragments of a horned kangaroo, and the first complete skeletons of the thylacoleo, a giant marsupial lion.
		The 2003 dig uncovered two complete horned kangaroo skulls and their partial skeletons, as well as two more thylacoleo skeletons and fossils of three species that the team believes are new to science.
	www.abovetopsecret.com /forum/thread9188/pg (785 words)

	Australian Aborigine - Art History Online Reference and Guide (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In present-day Victoria, for example, there were two separate communities with an economy based on fish-farming in complex and extensive irrigated pond systems; one on the Murray River in the state's north, the other in the south-west near Hamilton, which traded with other groups from as far away as the Melbourne area.
		The Australian Constitution originally did not permit Aborigines to be counted in the census, thereby effectively denying their right to vote.
		The health and economic difficulties facing both groups are substantial (for instance, life expectancy of Aboriginal people is often 20 years shorter than the wider Australian population, and alcoholism is a serious issue) and the root causes are poverty, grog and the brutality of individuals towards one another.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Australian_Aborigine (2250 words)

	John Hawks Anthropology Weblog : What happened to the Australian megafauna?
		But before the arrival of humans, the Australian fauna was even more extensive for the inclusion of many kinds of very large animals, or megafauna.
		Although prolonged persistence of the megafauna after human arrival certainly does not rule out a role for humans in their extinction, it does demonstrate that the extinction of the megafauna occurred over a time scale of many thousands of years.
		However, sites other than Cuddie Springs have yielded megafauna remains that are significantly younger than 46.5 ka, and an increasing body of evidence attests to the onset of climatic instability in Australia from ~50 ka, culminating in full glacial conditions as early as 30 ka.
	johnhawks.net /weblog/reviews/archaeology/upper/australian_megafauna_trueman_2005.html (908 words)

	Australian Wildlife Feature Story - The Fossils of Riversleigh (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The most spectacular of these discoveries was made at Riversleigh, an isolated cattle station in the far north-west of Queensland.
		Here, Professor Michael Archer and a team of researchers from the University of New South Wales and other Australian institutions are resurrecting the bones of a vast array of vertebrate animals entombed in deposits of freshwater limestone.
		Here are preserved representatives of the marsupial megafauna, giant kangaroos and bullock-sized browsers, all extinct by seventeen thousand years ago.
	www.australianwildlife.com.au /features/riversleigh.htm (1605 words)

	FOUR MONTHS IN AUSTRALIA- A Study of National Parks, Animals, and Species (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The isolation created by the separation of the Australian continent from Antarctica and all other landmasses led to the independent evolution of animals and plants in Australia resulting in the development of a unique flora and fauna.
		Both were excellent zoos that gave me an opportunity to see Australian wildlife but I found the wildlife sanctuaries that I visited to be more informative in terms of habitat and life history information associated with a particular animal.
		I went to the South Australian Museum in Adelaide, the Australian Museum in Sydney, and the Queensland Museum in Brisbane.
	anztravel.com /itin/sAndJ4MonthsInAU.html (12562 words)

	Radio Australia - News - Australian government says mandatory detention a necessary deterrent (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The family of Australian resident Cornelia Rau has made a submission to an official inquiry into her wrongful detention.
		She was held in a Queensland jail, before being transferred to a South Australian immigration detention centre.
		The Australian government recently revealed that up to 200 people may have been wrongfully detained by immigration authorities.
	www.radioaustralia.net.au /news/stories/s1379808.htm (551 words)

	Megadig:what's it all about?
		Megafauna were very large animals that once lived in Australia.
		Megafauna is made up of the word mega which comes from a Greek word, megas, that means large, and fauna which comes from Latin and means animal life.
		Because of this, Australian animals were unique and Australian megafauna fossils are not found anywhere else in the world.
	amol.org.au /discovernet/alcoota/about.asp (315 words)

	About Australian Aboriginal Culture - the world's longest continuous culture?
		Australian Aboriginal culture can claim to be the oldest continuous living culture on the planet.
		The current Australian Government has refused to make a formal apology over the 'Stolen Generation' (in contrast to President Clinton's apology for the historical wrong of fl slavery, and successive Australian Governments' demands for the Japanese to give a full apology for crimes committed during World War 2).
		This second dispossession of Aboriginal Australians - in favour of big mining and pastoral interests - is a blemish on recent Australian history.
	www.didjshop.com /shop1/AbCulturecart.html (1087 words)

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