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The Whitehaven beach is ranked among the best beaches in Australia. Its location is one of nature's most remarkable gifts, with the breathtaking beauty of the Great Barrier Reef.

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Vivid Sydney is a 23-day festival of light, music and ideas. Vivid Sydney features many of the world's most important creative industry forums, a mesmerizing free public exhibition of outdoor lighting sculptures and installations and a cutting-edge contemporary music program.

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an Valley vineyards
wander the nearby city of Fremantle's  streets and Perth city centre's museum

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Fraser Island.
This beautiful island, which is located in Queensland, boasts rainforests, sand dunes, more than 100 freshwater lakes and pretty colored sand cliffs. Fraser Island, which is just a short ferry trip from Hervey Bay, is also considered to be the largest sand island in the world. This island boasts another unusual claim to fame — its dingoes are considered to be some of the most pure in all of Australia, as they have not had as many chances to crossbreed with dogs as their mainland cousins have had.

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Interesting link
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/category/au

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Australia 2016 Roadtrip Queensland, Northern, South and East Coast Drone (4K)

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25 Days, 12600 Km trip with a camper van in Australia. Filmed in 4K 🖥 Equipment: DJI Phantom 4 DJI Osmo Sony a6300 Sony Zeiss 16-70mm F4 Sony 35mm F1.8 Zhiyun Crane 3 Gimbal GoPro 5 Black Music: "The Spectacular Quiet" by Lights & Motion

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One of the indigenous animals of Australia, the Koala.(One of the cutest ones as well!)

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Sugar cane production is a major industry in Australia.

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Sugar manufacturing is one of the nation's biggest rural industries.

Australia's sugar mills are found along eastern coastline, from Mossman in far north Queensland to Grafton in northern New South Wales

Eight companies own and run 24 sugar mills

Mills purchase around 380,000 hectares of sugarcane - or 35 million tonnes of cane - from over 4000 farms each year

Mills make around 4.5 million tonnes of raw sugar each year

95% of Australia's raw sugar is produced in Queensland, and

Up to 85% of the total raw sugar produced is exported, primarily to South Korea, Indonesia and Japan.

Major products

Mills crush the sugarcane to extract a sweet juice. The juice is crystallised and washed to produce raw sugar. Sugar refineries then buy the raw sugar and melt, purify and recrystallise it to produce white sugar. Refiners also make other types of sugar, mainly for use by food and drink manufacturers.

Approximately 85% of the raw sugar produced in Queensland is exported, generating up to $2.0 billion in export earnings for Queensland.

Sugar mills also produce one (1) million tonnes of molasses (a sweet treacle that is mostly used for stockfeed) and 10 million tonnes of bagasse or fibre per year. Bagasse is used to fuel the boilers that co-generate steam and electricity.

Green energy

Sugar mills are almost self-sufficient in energy.

Bagasse, the fibrous cane stalk that remains once the sugar juice has been extracted, is burnt in a boiler to co-generate electricity and steam to drive mill operations

Mills only need to use half of the renewable electricity they generate (around 500 GWh) for their operations so the rest can be exported to the national electricity network

By using renewable electricity, the sugar industry is able to reduce Australia's greenhouse gas emissions by over 1.5 million tonnes each year.

Employment

Over 4,500 people work in Australia's sugar mills. and a total of 22,000 or more are employed in the sugar industry as a whole. Jobs range from boiler-makers, mechanics and cane train drivers and many local businesses also provide goods and services to maintain the mills. The industry also employs cane growers and farm workers.

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Raw Sugar Industry Overview - Australian Sugar Milling Council

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Sugar manufacturing and the associated co-generation of electricity from cane waste, contributes over $4 billion to the economy. Australia's 24 sugar mills manufacture over 4.5 million tonnes of raw sugar per year. Around 85% is exported primarily to South Korea, Indonesia and Japan

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One of the most luxurious trains worldwide!

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Why are Australian bank notes superior than any other...

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Australian Bank Notes are the Best in the World

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Proof that Australian bank notes are the best in the world because they are sized according to a log scale. Also, they are water-proof. I compare Australian, Canadian, UK and USA bank notes in an unbiased competition to see which is the best.

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One of the oldest human tribes to have survived and one of incredibly interesting culture, as well!

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Australian Aboriginal peoples, one of the two distinct groups of Indigenous peoples of Australia, the other being the Torres Strait Islander peoples.

It has long been conventionally held that Australia is the only continent where the entire Indigenous population maintained a single kind of adaptation- hunting and gathering-into modern times. Some scholars now argue, however, that there is evidence of the early practice of both agriculture and aquaculture by Aboriginal peoples. This finding raises questions regarding the traditional viewpoint that presents Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islander peoples as perhaps unique in the degree of contrast between the complexity of their social organization and religious life and the relative simplicity of their material technologies. (For a discussion of the names given to the Indigenous peoples of Australia, see Researcher's Note: Britannica usage standards: Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia.)

Prehistory

It is generally held that Australian Aboriginal peoples originally came from Asia via insular Southeast Asia (now Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, and the Philippines) and have been in Australia for at least 45,000-50,000 years. On the basis of research at the Nauwalabila I and Madjedbebe archaeological sites in the Northern Territory, however, some scientists have claimed that early humans arrived considerably sooner, perhaps as early as 65,000 to 80,000 years ago. That conclusion is consistent with the argument made by some scholars that the migration of anatomically modern humans out of Africa and adjacent areas of Southwest Asia to South and Southeast Asia along the so-called Southern Route predated migration to Europe. Other scholars question the earlier dating of human arrival in Australia, which is based on the use of optically stimulated luminescence (measurement of the last time the sand in question was exposed to sunlight), because the Northern Territory sites are in areas of termite activity, which can displace artifacts downward to older levels.

In either case, the first settlement would have occurred during an era of lowered sea levels, when there were more-coextensive land bridges between Asia and Australia. Watercraft must have been used for some passages, however, such as those between Bali and Lombok and between Timor and Greater Australia, because they entail distances greater than 120 miles (200 km). This is the earliest confirmed seafaring in the world. By about 35,000 years ago all of the continent had been occupied, including the southwest and southeast corners ( Tasmania became an island when sea levels rose sometime between 13,500 and 8,000 years ago, thus isolating Aboriginal people who lived there from the mainland) as well as the highlands of the island of New Guinea. Archaeological evidence suggests that occupation of the interior of Australia by Aboriginal peoples during the harsh climatic regime of the last glacial maximum (between 30,000 and 18,000 years ago) was highly dynamic, and all arid landscapes were permanently occupied only roughly 10,000 years ago.

The dingo, a type of wild dog, appeared in Australia only 5,000 to 3,000 years ago, which postdates the time that Aboriginal people began hafting small stone implements into composite tools some 8,000 years ago. Whereas the dingo was introduced from Southeast Asia, the small implements appear to be independent inventions from within Australia. Within the past 1,500-3,000 years, other important changes occurred at the general continental level: population increases, the exploitation of new habitats, more efficient resource exploitation, and an increase in the exchange of valued items over wide areas.

There is evidence for complex social behaviours much earlier, however, including cremation before 40,000 years ago, personal ornamentation (shell beads) by 30,000 years ago, and long-distance trade in objects before 10,000 years ago. It has not yet been ascertained whether there were single or multiple waves of migration into Australia, although recent genetic evidence indicates multiple donor groups, whether from a single heterogeneous migration or multiple waves. While there is no doubt that only anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) have ever occupied Australia, skulls found in the southeast suggest to some the existence of two distinct physical types. However, most now accept that there was a wide range of variation in pre-European populations. It has also been argued that one group on the Murray River practiced a form of cosmetic cranial deformation that led to their different appearance. Some have posited that Aboriginal cultures have one of the longest deep-time chronologies of any groups on Earth.

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Australian Aboriginal peoples | History, Facts, & Culture

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Survey of the history, society, and culture of the Australian Aboriginal peoples, who are one of the two distinct Indigenous cultural groups of Australia. It is generally held that they originally came from Asia via insular Southeast Asia and have been in Australia for at least 45,000-50,000 years.

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If you would like to learn more about Australia's indigenous tribes...

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Australia is also a major hub for scientists from all over the globe.

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Ms Kylie Walker, CEO of Science & Technology Australia, has been named the Chair of the Australian National Commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). Taking up the four-year role from today, Ms Walker will work with the National Commission to advance Australia's priorities and interests as a UNESCO member state, [...]

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The country has some wonderful writers as well (some of which have been given many awards)!

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Police Force as a Corrupt Breeze by Shane Jesse Christmass; False Nostalgia by Aden Rolfe

Police Force as a Corrupt Breeze by Shane Jesse Christmass; False Nostalgia by Aden Rolfe
Shane Jesse Christmass' novel, Police Force as a Corrupt Breeze, projects itself in neon across a slippery temporality. It's a world where there are "portals to the afterlife opening in the Middle East". The streets are littered with "Holograms of Lindsay Lohan's autopsy. Pipettes of poisonous bacteria and Dilaterol" and there is "a beheading in times square, during the intermission of the Lion King". It is wild, flickering prose, cutting easily between news feeds, gifs, 1970s sci-fi and cop movies.

Aden Rolfe's False Nostalgia defies expectations about what a book (particularly a first book) will be - it is a collection of poems - sometimes lyrical and sometimes straddling criticism and drama - complemented by essays, exploring memory and our very human ability to falsify it, alone or together, yearning for a past that never was.

Neither Rolfe nor Christmass could have known how well-suited their texts - in which nothing can be certain, although everything is vivid and compelling and might (though equally might not) mean something - would correspond to 2016. This year the world has been a rapid fire of unbelievable image- and sound-bites, and false nostalgia has ruled supreme. Rolfe's exploration of his title concept reads presciently in retrospect: "Practicing a memory can strengthen your belief in it", he writes. "That's how the fiction creeps in."

* Briohny Doyle is the author of The Island Will Sink

Talking to My Country by Stan Grant; Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner; The Curious Story of Malcolm Turnbull: The Incredible Shrinking Man in the Top Hat by Andrew P Street
Another great year for Australian books! An early highlight was Stan Grant's extraordinary Talking to My Country, which, for anyone who cares about creating an Australia that includes the original inhabitants of the land is, like the cover declares, "the book that every Australian should read". Taking as its starting point the shameful treatment of Adam Goodes, it is truly a book that will open your eyes to a history of Australia that has been whitewashed to the ongoing detriment of all us.

Helen Garner's Everywhere I Look is like having a backstage pass into the mind, notebooks and creative process of one of Australia's very best writers.

Hats off to Andrew P Street who manages to wring the humour from the tragic lack of true leadership that has plagued Australia in recent years in The Curious Story of Malcolm Turnbull: The Incredible Shrinking Man in the Top Hat (a fantastic follow up to last year's equally funny tragi-comedy, The Short and Excruciatingly Embarrassing Reign of Captain Abbott).

* Andy Griffiths is the author of The 78-Storey Treehouse, with Terry Denton

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Fine by Michelle Wright; The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
There are very few books that capture so many sides of Australian life as Michelle Wright's book, Fine. Her short stories based around a central theme offer something different every time. Fine is a beautiful collection of snatched glimpses that leaves me wishing for more.

Charlotte Wood's The Natural Way of Things still lingers with me months after reading. As disturbing as it is intriguing, it demands to be discussed and dissected in a bid to find answers for the questions it raises.

Hannah Kent
The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose; Skylarking by Kate Mildenhall; Dark Fires Shall Burn by Anna Westbrook; Fight Like a Girl by Clementine Ford

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One of my stand-out Australian reads from 2016 was undoubtedly The Museum of Modern Love by Tasmanian-based author Heather Rose. Rose has taken Serbian artist Marina Abramovic's well-known 2010 performance of The Artist is Present at MOMA and placed it at the heart of a novel about the strengths and frailties of human connection and love.

Set over the 736 hours Abramovic spent sitting silently behind a table in the New York museum's atrium, Rose explores the lives of the (fictional) characters who choose to sit opposite her, or who otherwise witness her performance, particularly that of Arky Levin, a composer whose wife is dying. Amidst these beautifully-drawn characters is Rose's fictionalised representation of Abramovic herself, contemplating art and its role and significance in her life. It is a glorious novel, meditative and special in a way that defies easy articulation.

This year was also very good for debut novels of Australian historical fiction. I particularly enjoyed Kate Mildenhall's Skylarking and Anna Westbrook's Dark Fires Shall Burn, both of which are based on true events.

Mildenhall's Skylarking is set in a small 1880s lighthouse community, following the intense friendship of two girls who live there, while Westbrook's takes place amidst the madams and criminals of 1940s Sydney, and yet both are remarkable for the way in which these settings are rendered, each in extraordinarily vivid detail. I hope that both Mildenhall and Westbrook continue to write: each clearly has an abundance of talent.

It is also worth mentioning that my current read is Clementine Ford's Fight Like a Girl. While I'm normally reluctant to comment on anything I haven't yet finished, I feel very confident in singing this title's praises. Ford's exploration of her experience "as a girl in this world" is wonderfully accessible, funny and personal. It is exactly the type of book I wish someone had put into my hands when I was fifteen and working out how to be: how to be a girl, how to be a woman, how to be a feminist, how to be heard.

* Hannah Kent is the author of The Good People

Melina Marchetta

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Reckoning by Magda Szubanski
Magda Szubanski's memoir, Reckoning, appealed to the genre-loving reader in me. It felt as if I was watching hundreds of movies; wartime espionage, the migrant's journey, the coming-of-age school saga, the uni student's journey at the height of 1970's feminism, and more. It was epic, but so uniquely Australian and despite our different upbringings, it felt personal. As if it was written specifically for that younger me who took forever to feel comfortable in her own skin, so she could take on the world.
* Melina Marchetta is the author of Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil
Martin McKenzie-Murray

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Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner
For years, Garner has offered me a model for journalism: a careful observer, she also tells us how those observations change her as well as the subjects of her gaze. Garner reveals her nervous system - but also the dubious games and improvisations of journalism.

Everywhere I Look is a collection of Garner's essays and diary entries from the past 15 years. She writes on friendship, ageing, film and literature. In The Journey of the Stamp Animals, she writes of rediscovering a children's book that - many years earlier - had seemed so stuffed with illicit magic. Now an adult, this long dreamt-of book in her hands again, she finds the pleasure of having her memory - so often fickle and corruptible - vindicated. The book is as she remembered. It's a measure of Garner's talent that this small, obscure triumph carries the feeling of profundity.
* Martin McKenzie-Murray is the author of A Murder Without Motive: The Killing of Rebecca Ryle
Di Morrissey

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Position Doubtful by Kim Mahood
Kim Mahood writes like the artist she is: with perception, not only of memories, as she explores the years since her wonderful Craft for a Dry Lake, but she also paints the remote desert country of her childhood to a truthful reality.

For half of the year, she is based in familiar Tanami desert country, not far from the station where she grew up. She leaves her creative work and teaching in Canberra, to work in Mulan, a small Indigenous community in Western Australia, where she coordinates a large mapping project that records and unravels Aboriginal knowledge, together with the parallel work of visiting white academics, scientists, researchers and artists; a blending of knowledge, customs and cultures.

Mahood's observations of country are insightful. Her friendships, her heart and fine pen, are illuminating. Part memoir, part a need to remember women friends who have died, her clear-eyed understanding of the landscape and its people, is written with a raw honesty that marries the poet and the painter, and places us there, with her, to follow, learn and understand. A beautiful and valuable book.

* Di Morrissey is the author of A Distant Journey

Niki Savva

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Paul Keating: The Big-Picture Leader by Troy Bramston
Although I haven't finished reading it yet (it is 700 pages and only just released) Bramston's book is a comprehensive portrait of a compelling and complex personality. Paul Keating was many things. We loved him or hated him, or we loved him and hated him all at the same time. One thing he was not was boring.

Keating says the qualities successful politicians most need are courage and imagination. It's a timely reminder just what that combination can achieve. He also says - and it comes through vividly in Bramston's book - that he has the crazy gene. Those characteristics helped make him impossible to ignore or forget, and Bramston deserves credit for bringing him to life again.

* Niki Savva is the author of The Road to Ruin: H ow Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin Destroyed Their Own Government

Graeme Simsion

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Music and Freedom by Zoë Morrison; The Waiting Room and We're All Going to Die by Leah Kaminsky; Our Tiny Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan; Dead in the Water by Tania Chandler; Dangerous to Know by Anne Buist; True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt
Try Zoë Morrison's elegantly written and sometimes harrowing debut, Music and Freedom, and Leah Kaminsky's The Waiting Room - a "one day in the life" of a doctor during a terror alert in Israel, with echoes of the Holocaust.

For the light relief you'll need after those two, Toni Jordan is in that small group of novelists who can write smart, character- and situation-driven humour, which is to say laugh-out-loud comedy: take Our Tiny Useless Hearts to the beach.

Fellow RMIT graduate Tania Chandler followed last year's crime debut with Dead in the Water, and my partner Anne Buist backed up hers with Dangerous to Know - both sequels and both more assured than their well-received debuts.

Non-fiction: laughs and a surprising amount of painless education from David Hunt's True Girt. And Leah Kaminsky again: the wise, illuminating and possibly life-changing We're All Going to Die. We are, so get reading while you can.

* Graeme Simsion is the author of The Best of Adam Sharp

Maxine Beneba-Clarke
Portable Curiosities by Julie Koh; Music and Freedom by Zoë Morrison; Of Ashes and Rivers that Run to the Sea by Marie Munkara

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Julie Koh's satirical short fiction collection Portable Curiosities is cutting-edge writing in many ways. Zoë Morrison's prize-winning Music and Freedom is hauntingly dark, but exquisitely written; there are scenes from it that still won't leave me.

In Australian memoir, Marie Munkara's Of Ashes and Rivers that Run to the Sea is that funny-sad hybrid that makes your heart sing and hurt at the same time.
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* Maxine Beneba-Clarke is the author of The Hate Race

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The best Australian books of 2016: writers choose their favourites

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It is the largest collection of living creatures on the planet, it can even be seen from space! It has an area of 347,800 square kilometers!