People think Aborigines started living in
Australia more than forty thousand years
ago.
The English explorer Captain Cook visited
Australia in the eighteenth
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Australia is enormous and it takes fifty hours
to drive non-stop from Sydney to Perth.
That's more than two ?
It takes
five
to fly from Sydney to
Perth. There are around twenty-one
people in Australia. The
hottest
in Australia are
December, January and February. There was
a big party in Sydney on 31st December
1999, to celebrate the new
In 2000, Sydney was the home of the
Olympic Games for two
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