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No we are not Austria, and definitely not in Europe. Yes, we are the big blob in the middle of nowhere. We are also the only Nation that is a continent - go figure. We're THAT big. I read somewhere you can fit every person in the world in here - giving them an acre each - and still leave Queensland empty... Some of our cattle stations (ranches) are bigger than entire Nations. We're THAT big. But there's so few of us in all this space! Averaged out, there are 3 people for every square kilometre of land. A mere 26 million of us, hugging the coastline mostly. The rest (the biggest part of this big blob) is empty. The kind of emptiness where your nearest neighbour is hundreds if not thousands of kilometres away. People have been known to veer off a dusty dirt-packed 'highway'... never to be seen again. We also eat our 'Coat of Arms'... Oh and we export camels because someone once thought it was a good idea to introduce them to this big blob and just let them run loose in the outback. What does this tell you? And don't get me started on our 'thing' for BIG THINGS... I've been inside the Big Pineapple, and seen the big 'rabbit-proof fence' and even the big potato. We have a big - a really big rock - right in the middle too, though this one was here way before our 'thing' emerged...
SOME FACTS FIRST
