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Australia real estate investment information
for beach area property in Australia including New South
Wales real estate, Tasmania real estate, Queensland real
estate, Northern Australia real estate, Victoria real
estate, South Australia real estate and Western Australia
real estate. Scroll down for more information about Australia.
Every month over 5,000 men, women and children receive
an Australia Visa and permanently Migrate to Australia
under the Skilled Immigration category, the Family Immigration
category and the Special category combined. They come
here to begin a new and prosperous life. There are also
over 150,000 new jobs advertised in Australia every week.
If
you come to Australia to visit, as a tourist, for short-term
study or for pre-arranged medical consultation or treatment
then you can apply for a Tourist or Visitors visa in your
overseas country. Tourist Visas cost AUD$20 if you apply
from overseas and they last for 3 months. They can normally
be renewed in Australia, providing you can support yourself
without work. There is no permission to work on a Tourist
Visa.
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Australia
consists of 6 states and 2 territories; Australian Capital Territory,
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia,
Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia. The capital of Australia
is Canberra. Australia is a democratic, federal-state system
recognizing the British monarch as sovereign.
Australia
is the world's smallest continent but sixth-largest country;
population concentrated along the eastern and southeastern coasts;
regular, tropical, invigorating, sea breeze known as "the Doctor"
occurs along the west coast in the summer.
Australia has a prosperous Western-style capitalist economy,
with a per capita GDP on par with the four dominant West European
economies. Rising output in the domestic economy has been offsetting
the global slump, and business and consumer confidence remains
robust. Australia's emphasis on reforms is another key factor
behind the economy's strength. The impact of drought, weak foreign
demand, and strong import demand pushed the trade deficit up
to $14 billion in 2003 from $5 billion in 2002.
Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast
Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration
in the 17th century. No formal claims were made until 1770,
when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name of Great Britain.
Six colonies were created in the late 18th and 19th centuries;
they federated and became the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901.
The new country was able to take advantage of its natural resources
in order to rapidly develop its agricultural and manufacturing
industries and to make a major contribution to the British effort
in World Wars I and II. Long-term concerns include pollution,
particularly depletion of the ozone layer, and management and
conservation of coastal areas, especially the Great Barrier
Reef. A referendum to change Australia's status, from a commonwealth
headed by the British monarch to a republic, was defeated in
1999.
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