Australia

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**System of Government** 1. The main government in Australia is **Federal parliamentary democracy that means there the same as Canada.** 2.The other main Government in Australia is **constitutional monarchy that means that they have a king and a Queen.**
 * The name of my country is Australia and it is its own continent.**

Three interesting facts

1. After immigration, you need to spend two years as a permanent resident in Australia before you can apply for Australian Citizenship. 2. Australia’s main natural hazards are cyclones (hurricanes), drought and forest fires. The biggest killer of all has been heat waves. 3. Australia has the lowest precipitation of any of the world’s inhabited continents. (Antarctica gets less.) 70 percent of Australia gets less than 500 mm (20 inches) of rainfall per year.

**Main resource**
 * It is estimated that Australia has 24 billion tons of coal reserves, over one-quarter of which (6 billion tons) is anthracite or black coal deposited in Permian sediments in the Sydney Basin of New South Wales and in Queensland. Brown coal suitable for electricity production in found in Victoria. Australia meets its domestic coal consumption needs with its own reserves and exports the surplus.**

Description of government 1.Legislature: The Legislature makes the laws, and supervises the activities of the other two arms with a view to changing the laws when appropriate. 2. Executive: The Sovereign, whose executive power is exercisable by the Governor-General, the Prime Minister, Ministers and their Departments 3.Judiciary: The Judiciary hears cases arising from the administration of the law. []

Barter and Trade: Was usually between either complete strangers or would-be enemies. While one-to-one bartering is practiced between individuals and businesses on an informal basis, organized barter exchanges have developed to conduct third party bartering. Austrailia is number six in the world on the life index. On the happiness index its 102. The present monarch is Elizabeth the second. []=