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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.