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{{quote|In summer the bushfires rage and rage<br />

And rage and rage on such beautiful days<br />

And we fight them with water that runs through the cracks<br />

Water we're desperately trying to save|[[The Cat Empire]], "Wine Song"}}

Not [[New Zealand]], the one next to it. Its formal name is the Commonwealth of '''Australia'''.

** [[G Day'day, Mate]] (Aussie Slang)

* [[Main/Australian Attitudes|Australian Attitudes]]

** [[Tall Poppy Syndrome]]

* [[Useful Notes/Christmas in Australia]]

* [[Useful Notes/First Australians|First Australians]] (Indigenous Australians)

* [[Those WhoveWho've Come Across the Seas]] (Multiculturalism)

** [[Rugby Union]]

** It's amazing how often police reports give an unidentified suspect's height as 183 &nbsp;cm. {{spoiler|That's six feet, to the nearest centimetre.}}

[[File:Flag_of_AustraliaFlag of Australia.svg|thumb|It has the Southern Cross on it]]

This is the Australian national flag -- firstflag—first adopted in 1901, modified a few times after that, then finally made properly official in its present form in 1954. It is a defaced version of the United Kingdom's "blue ensign" flag (flown at sea by ships in public service), which looks the same but without the stars. The national flag of New Zealand, as well as all of Australia's state flags, are also based on the blue ensign.<ref>Originally, there were actually two versions of the Australian flag: the blue one we know today, and a version with a red background based on the UK's ''red'' ensign -- and, by law, Parliament House flew the blue version while ''everywhere'' else on land flew the red version. In 1954 the blue version was made the sole official flag because [[Red Scare|the colour red had gained certain unwelcome connotations]].</ref>

* The Commonwealth Star is present on the Australian flag where the NZ flag has a bankblank field. It's the large, white, seven-pointed star beneath the Union Jack, with the seven points standing for the six states plus the territories. <ref>Interestingly, it used to have six points before Australia acquired the Territory of Papua (now southern Papua New Guinea) in 1906.</ref>

** 1:# The Australian Flag has five stars, the New Zealand Flag only has four (omitting Epsilon Crucis in the middle).

** 2:# The stars are white on the Australian flag, and red with a white outline on the NZ flag. [[Blatant Lies|This is because New Zealand is communist.]]

** 3:# The NZ flag has all the stars with five points; the Australian flag has all the stars with seven points except for Epsilon Crucis, which has five. <ref>Originally the Australian flag had all five stars with different numbers of points (ranging in size from five to nine points) depending on their apparent magnitude within the constellation, but in 1903 this was standardised to the four biggest stars all having seven.</ref>

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