- It is the 6th largest country in the world, occupying an entire continent of some 7.6 million square kilometres.
- It has the world's 3rd largest ocean territory, spanning three oceans and covering around 12 million square kilometres.
- Vegetation covers nearly 7 million square kilometres or 91 percent of Australia.
- The largest Greek population in the world beside Athens in Greece can be found in Melbourne Victoria.
- Most of Australia's exotic flora and fauna cannot be found anywhere else in the world.
- The Indigenous 'Dream Time' is the foundation for tens of thousands of years of spiritual aboriginal art, traditions, legends, myths, folklore and culture.
- The only nation-continent of 20 million people in the world.
- The first Australian Friendly Society with the motto of 'Advance Australia' was the Australian Natives' Association (ANA) formed in Victoria in 1871.
- More than 80 percent of Australians live within 100 kilometres of the coast making Australia one of the world's most urbanised coastal dwelling populations.
- Melbourne was called batmania before it was called melbourne.
- Australia was inhabited by indigenous people for about 50,000 years before the British came.
- Australia has the world's 12th-largest economy and it had the world's 5th-highest per-capita income in 2014.
- Australia has the second-highest human development index in the world, which measures quality of life, health, education and economic freedom.
- In Australia, there are more kangaroos than people.
- Australia is the world's sixth-largestcountry by total area.
- Australia has over 10,000 beaches. You could visit a new beach every day for over 27 years.