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Australian homeroom is similar to the US concept but varies from school to school. Some schools do not have homeroom at all, and attendance and announcements are made during the first period of the school day in a "student bulletin", [ citation needed ] while other schools run a homeroom system which is identical to that run in American schools.
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Whilst it may be true that form groupings were used for some of the non-ability-setted classes, this is down to timetabling of each school and is not necessarily the case, at any rate it is a property of a form group and not the homeroom (or registration/tutorial time) and so was removed.
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] Australia has a total area of 7,688,287 km 2 (2,968,464 sq mi), making it the sixth-largest country in the world and the largest in Oceania .
Australian English is a major variety of the language with a distinctive accent and lexicon, [78] and differs slightly from other varieties of English in grammar and spelling. [79] General Australian serves as the standard dialect. At the 2021 census, English was the only language spoken in the home for 72% of the population.
English is the majority language of Australia today. Although English has no official legal status, it is the de facto official and national language. [2] [3] Australian English is a major variety of the language with a distinctive accent and lexicon, [4] and differs slightly from other varieties of English in grammar and spelling. [5]
English ancestry was reported by 6.6 million people (46%) in 1986, and 6.4 million (37%) in 2001. [28] While the English-born continue to be well-represented among immigrants to Australia, the overall decline of English immigration to Australia since the 1980s has meant that the English-born are declining as a proportion of immigrants to Australia.
In 1885, Naum Konxha settled in Brisbane, Queensland, becoming the first-recorded Albanian to settle in Australia. [8] [3] [9] Other Orthodox Christians from southern Albania followed; Spiro Jani to Queensland (1908), Kristo Zafiri and Dhimitër Ikonomi to Townsville (1913); these were followed by Jan Konomi (1914), and Vasil and Thomas Kasneci (1920).