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24315 pts · July 10, 2012


8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Melbourne's population density is lower and at basically the same population, Houston's density is even lower again (and larger population).

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You're probably thinking of Jervis Bay Territory, which is basically Canberra's sea port.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's because Australia invented polymer bank notes. Several other countries including Canada use our technology for their own bank notes.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Yeah, I think that was in Kazakhstan

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's probably the most tired and overdone 'joke' Imgur has. It was vaguely amusing the first couple of times years ago, now it's just sad.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This is Australia and it looks like it might be a Toyota Aurion. Not sure if it is sold outside AU, is larger than US Camry/Corolla.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's a signalised intersection, the police car had a green light. U-turn at an intersection gives way to all other traffic (in VIC).

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You're kidding yourself if you expect 421 athletes taken from 24 million people to be equivalent to 550 athletes taken from 320 million.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 7

He's also been caught doping multiple times, it's not a good look.

9 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

These guys kick like mules. Lots of technique, like a soccer player, but the individuals are much bigger and stronger than soccer players.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Australia actually

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Australia

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

First thing I thought of too, came looking to see if someone else had the same idea. Thanks for the laugh!

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Seems like Australia and NZ carried the team more than any other non-European western country, on a per capita basis, in both wars.

10 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

As an Australian, we also just call it hockey. The other one is ice hockey to us.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I personally prefer Australian Football, but preference is always going to be pretty subjective.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

In fairness, left/right driving is split about 35/65 by population, while 95% of the population has adopted metric. Apples & oranges...

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Nowhere near enough AFL on Imgur

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Probably not. Australia owns the technology/patents and I can't see the US paying Australia to print American money, or lease the tech.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Actually, no, Australia invented the polymer banknote technology and leased it to other countries (including Canada) to use as well.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

It's exceedingly good for mining. The population is indeed low, but that will probably change over time, there's plenty of useful land.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yep WA is about 4x the size of Texas, bigger than most countries just on its own.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

As an Australian...you're way off mate

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

(2/2) Presumably other agricultural activities which don’t necessarily require arable land (eg cattle/sheep) are more common here

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

(1/2) That may be true, though Australia's agricultural output is nearly twice that of Canada's with only 10% more arable land.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Something like that, I'm not really sure! Australia had 477,000 square km of arable land in 2011, Canada 430,000 (6th and 7th in the world)

10 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

It's not that bad, we have more land suitable for agriculture than Canada, despite being smaller in overall landmass. It's not *all* desert.

10 years ago | Likes 77 Dislikes 0

I think that statistic is mislabeled, I recall seeing the birthrate at being ~4 per second with ~2 deaths per sec, ~200k increase per day

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0