General News
23 January, 2026
Did you know?
Did you know these fun facts about our beautiful country?
Australia is the only country in the world that covers an entire continent.
Australia is the only continent in the world with no active volcanoes.
Population is estimated to be 27.6 million
Australia’s Great Artesian Basin is the largest groundwater source in the world.
Australia has around 600 national parks.
Uluru (or Ayers Rock) the largest monolith (a single rock) in the world, standing a massive 335 metres tall.
There are around 100 venomous snake species, with 12 considered potentially lethal to humans, including the world’s deadliest, the Inland Taipan.
Australia has the world’s most venomous spider, the Sydney funnel-web, and the most venomous jellyfish, the box jellyfish.
Australia is home to the longest fence in the world, the 5,614km Dingo Fence.
Australia’s Eyre Highway’s famous 146km straight road stretch on the Nullarbor Plain is the second longest in the world.
Around 80% of our wildlife is endemic to Australia, meaning it can only be found here.
K’gari, formerly known as Fraser Island, is the largest sand island in the world.
The Australian Alps get more snow than the Swiss Alps.
Around 90% of Australians live on the coast.
Australia was the second country in the world to give women the right to vote and the first to grant women the right to stand for federal parliament, both in 1902.
Around one-third of Australians come from another country.
Both kangaroos and emus lack the ability to walk backwards which is why they were chosen for Australia’s coat of arms – to symbolise a country always moving forward.
