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1 Australia. 2 Fiji. 3 New Zealand. 4 See also. ... Statistics are drawn from Australian government records of ... Name Number of people Origin 1: Smith: 114,997 ...
Australian masculine given names (1 P) Pages in category "Australian given names" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
1 Australian Capital Territory. 2 New South Wales. 3 Northern Territory. 4 Queensland. 5 South Australia. 6 Tasmania. 7 Victoria. 8 Western ... the Geographical Names ...
This name is one of the names used on the widely used Aboriginal Australia Map, David Horton (ed.), 1994 published in The Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia by AIATSIS. Early versions of the map also divided Australia into 18 regions (Southwest, Northwest, Desert, Kimberley, Fitzmaurice, North, Arnhem, Gulf, West Cape, Torres Strait, East ...
The name Australia was specifically applied to the continent for the first time in 1794. [5] The name Australia (pronounced / ə ˈ s t r eɪ l i ə / in Australian English [6]) is derived from the Latin australis, meaning ' southern ', and specifically from the hypothetical Terra Australis postulated in pre-modern geography.
For the purposes of Australian (and joint Australia-New Zealand) intergovernmental bodies, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are treated as if they were states. Each state has a governor , appointed by the monarch (currently King Charles III ), which by convention he does on the advice of the state premier. [ 50 ]
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Aboriginal names of suburbs of Brisbane, derived from the Turrbal language. Place names in Australia have names originating in the Australian Aboriginal languages for three main reasons: [citation needed] Historically, European explorers and surveyors may have asked local Aboriginal people the name of a place, and named it accordingly.