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Noun: Commonwealth of Australia
  1. A nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony
    - Australia, Oz

Type of: country, land, state

Part of: Australia, British Commonwealth, Commonwealth, Commonwealth of Nations, Oz

Encyclopedia: Commonwealth of Australia