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travel advice

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cinemas & bookshops in Australia

If you are an ESL teacher living and working abroad, finding reading material in English or a cinema showing films in English can sometimes be difficult. To help you, we are compiling a directory of English language bookshops and cinemas worldwide.

English language bookshops in Australia
English language cinemas in Australia

travel guides & language books for Australia

Live and Work in Australia and New Zealand
Covers employment options featuring indispensable regional employment guides and directories of major employers. Includes essential information on the customs, laws and regulations and way of life that will be encountered. It also includes personal histories of people who have made the move, and how they adapted to a new way of life.
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Down Under
For a start, there's the oddly nasty fauna and flora. Barely a page of Down Under is without its lovingly detailed list of lethal antipodean critters: sociopathic jellyfish, homicidal crocs, toilet-dwelling death-spiders, murderous shrubs (yes, shrubs). Bryson's absorbing and informative portrait is of a terrain so intractably vast, a land so climatically extreme, it seems expressly designed to daunt and torment humankind.
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map & facts

Australia Day, 26 January (1788)
International dialing code: 61
Population: 19,913,144
Language: English
Government: democratic, federal-state system recognizing the British monarch as sovereign
Religion: Anglican 26.1%, Roman Catholic 26%, other Christian 24.3%, non-Christian 11%, other 12.6%
Climate: generally arid to semiarid; temperate in south and east; tropical in north
Map of Australia

The CIA World Factbook

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