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A regionalisation of Australia is a system by which Australia is divided into regions. There are a great many different regionalisations, created for a range of purposes, including political, administrative, statistical and biological.
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, [17] is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. [18] It is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country.
The thylacine died out in New Guinea and mainland Australia around 3,600–3,200 years ago, prior to the arrival of Europeans, possibly because of the introduction of the dingo, whose earliest record dates to around the same time, but which never reached Tasmania. Prior to European settlement, around 5,000 remained in the wild on Tasmania.
Services Australia, formerly the Department of Human Services and before that the Department of Social Security, is an executive agency of the Australian Government, responsible for delivering a range of welfare payments, health insurance payments, child support payments and other support services to eligible Australian citizens and permanent ...
Central Australia, also sometimes referred to as the Red Centre, is an inexactly defined region associated with the geographic centre of Australia. In its narrowest sense it describes a region that is limited to the town of Alice Springs and its immediate surrounds including the MacDonnell Ranges .
There is only one major railway line linking the eastern states to Western Australia, the Trans-Australian Railway, which opened in 1917. There is only one major highway linking the eastern states to Western Australia, the Eyre Highway which opened in 1942. Since the 1980s, various governments have proposed building a high-speed rail in ...
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Tasman Cargo Airlines Pty. Limited is an Australian cargo airline with the head office in Sydney, Australia.It operates scheduled international cargo services on behalf of DHL and ad hoc domestic and international cargo charters.