Australia's Changing Identity Speech

Good Morning, I'm Shelby Butler and today I'm going to be talking about the land down under and the changing identity of this land. Australia is one of the world’s oldest lands. It is also the 6th largest country in the world! Australia is one of the driest countries with the least rainfall and having just 6% of the land mass worthy to farm on. Distances across Australia are broad and guests are often amazed at the size of the country and how long it takes to travel from one city to another city. Australia stretches around 4000 kilometres from east to west and close to 3700 kilometres from north to south. It takes around five hours to fly from Sydney to Perth which is longer than most. National day, which is more commonly known as Australia

Our total population in 1901 was less than 4 million people and now there is just over 23.5 million, there is one birth in every 1 minute and 43 seconds. At the start of the century, almost half the population lived on rural properties or in small towns (less than 3,000 people). This number has fallen to 18% since 1996. Australia has gone from a situation in which there were 111 men to every 100 women, but now there are 99, in which 25.0% of women working outside the home has ascended to 54.4%, from when women had 3.8 children on average to an average now that is much lower,1.7%. These and many more changes have been a result of the social, political and economic changes that has swept Australia over the last century. A baby girl born at the time of Federation could expect to live up and including the age of 59, while her peer later in the century was expected to have 23 years which made them to the age of 82 . This change has been improved by only a few small jobs - improved sanitation, better diets, improved therapeutic measures, advances in drug therapy and many more. more than 100 out of every 1,000 babies born, died before their first birthday, mostly because of their mothers health and respect while