Australia Topic
The Australian Open is one of the four major tennis tournaments
played in the world each year.
Economy
Australia is leading producer of coal, copper, gold, silver, iron ore, managanese,
nicker, tin.
Mineral resources are: lead, zinc, bauxite, natural gas, petroleum, uranium,
diamonds.
Agriculture:
10% of cropland is irrigated
5% of workers are farmers
highly mechanized farms
Leading farm products: wool, wheat, sugar cane, cattle, meat, carves, fairy products,
fruit(grapes, pineapples, bananas, apples, pears).
Others are: barley, rice, oats, cotton, chicken and eggs, sheep and lambs.
Manufacturing.
Iron and steel production
Factory machinery
Farm machinery
Construction equipment
Consumer goods
Household articles
Processed food
Politics
The official name of Australia is The Commonwealth of Australia. The federation was
formed in 1901.
The political system is a federation of six states (Queensland, New South Wales,