History of Australia had always been extra ordinary. Tourist have great interest in the culture and tradition and the geographical history of the Australia. Australia is the smallest continent and but the largest country in the world. It is present between the pacific and Indian ocean. The capital of Australia is Canberra. It is present between the most important economic and cultures cities Sydney and Melbourne. The population of Australia was recorded almost four million in 1901.
Population and Religion:
In the history of Australia population of Australia in 1901 was recorded as four million peoples. And the population in that time is increased about 25,902,749 individuals. In 1911 the population in urban cities increased from 60% to 90%. The fertility rate decreased from 3.1 to 1.8 per women. Living age increased by 25 years since 1900.
Migration of peoples from overseas has great contribution in increasing the population of Australia. In the past the average age of the young peoples had age only 22 years and the aged person could be 65 or over. But as the facilities gets better and possibilities of better treatment is creasing now the people can live long and healthy life. The religion of the Australia after a survey showed that Australian itself has no religion but has the population of peoples belonging to different religions like Islam, Buddhists and Hindus. In the 2016 survey showed that about 30.1% had no religion, 52.1% Australian were Christian, 8.2% of population followed other religion and remaining 90.6% didn’t answer.
Languages:
In the history of Australia, Australian people mostly known as bilingual because they can speak two languages fluently. Australia has a sign language which is known as ‘Auslan’ which is the main language of deaf peoples. Although 70.7% of population speaks English. But remaining used different languages
Mandarin (2.5%), Arabic (1.4%), Cantonese (1.2%), Vietnamese (1.2%), Italian (1.2%), Greek (1.0%), Hindi (0.7%), Spanish (0.6%), Punjabi (0.6%) but these languages are mostly used in home.
Aborigines:
In the prehistory of Australia humans arrived Australia 30,000 years ago. And the descendants of Australia are known as aborigines . These were the peoples who used fire to clean up the bushes and attack animals instead of cultivating lands. And the most of the peoples thought that due to activities of aborigines most of the land of Australia got barren.
Australia Culture and Traditions:
The culture of the Australian is mostly inspired by the British. They speak English that has accent and spelling related to Britain spellings rather than American spelling. The Australians also called as ‘kangaroo’ because there found so much kangaroo in the Australia. The dresses of Australia peoples are different from different places and occasion e.g for swimming, surfing, and beach. Women styles is mostly related to Indonesia and men wears long sleeve tops and hats from sun protection.
It is the culture of the Australian peoples to used hands for greetings and their usually introduce their first name on first meetings. It is also abandoned to talk about personal matter if you already met before. In Australia art, painting, theater, dance and craft has its own recognition. Sydney Opera House, Queenslander are some of the famous architect of Australia.
