What’s Unique About Australia?
For our task we have to come up with ten things that are unique about Australia. Here are my ten things with a little 1 sentence.
1 Kangaroo Meat - Do you know that kangaroo Meat is exported to 55 countrys.
2 Australian Football League - There is 16 teams and they play with oval ball.
3 Sir Donald Bradman - At the end of his cricket carrer he had an average of 99.94 maximum is 100.00.
4 Australia is the biggest island - Australia is the only single country continent.
5 Shane Warne - The Australian spin bowler of all time.
6 Kangaroos - One of the two animals on the Coat Of Arms.
7 Aborigional Art - They are very clever Artists and with the resources they had.
8 Fluoro vests - The vests are used by workman to be able to see them.
9 G’day - A Australian slangword to say have a good day. Plus click on the link for Aus slang words.
10 Kookaburra - A Australian bird that makes alot of noise but is very interesting.
October 20th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Hi Luke. I like your list - it looks like you have a lot of original ideas that I didn’t see on other lists. I was just reading a book in our library (in Virginia, USA) today and read something about how there are laws in certain areas of Australia where you cannot sell kangaroo meat. Is this true?
October 22nd, 2008 at 11:43 am
Hi Luke, Nice blog. I’d be interested to know what a Kookaburra sounds like, any way you could find a sound file and upload it? Check out my
October 27th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Elizabeth: Yes you can sell it at the supermartet but not off the street.
October 27th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
To Mr McDonald I found a website with the sound.
http://teachit.acreekps.vic.edu.au/animals/kookaburra.htm