This is thanks to their food – a leaf from eucalyptus tree – which contains a drug that makes them sleepy.
Eleven of the world’s top 15 poisonous snakes call Australia home, including the Fierce snake, Taipan snake and Brown snake, which are considered the world’s three most dangerous. Also some of the Australian spiders are very venomous and their bite is deadly.
Australia’s countryside can be divided into two main areas. One is the inner land that is very dry and sandy. Almost no vegetation grows here and very few people live in this area. Most of population is in the second area – along the shoreline, mostly on the east coast. Hard leafed evergreen plants like eucalyptus or palm trees dominate Australia’s vegetation. Rain Forests cover about 9% of the continent. The country is also well known for its beaches, which are very popular among Australians and foreign tourists. In Queensland, the most tropical part of Australia, is a set of coral reefs. It is called the Great Barrier Reef and is the biggest reef in the world. HISTORY

Australian history goes hand in hand with its original inhabitants who are called aborigines. Discoveries of aboriginal art indicate that they may have inhabited Australia for more than 176 000 years, and they had arrived by watercraft. The country has always been separated by at least sixty kilometres of water. The Sydney region, which local aborigines called Warrane, has been inhabited for at least 50 000 years. The west and north coasts of Australia were visited quite frequently by Europeans in the 17th century, but the east coast was first seen in 1770, when well known Captain James Cook came here, claimed the whole east coast for King George III and called it New South Wales.
In the beginning, the whole area was a colony where Great Britain would send its convicts. Free settlers did not begin arriving until 1793. Ever since then, the population of Australia has increased. Transportation of convicts stopped in 1840. Shortly afterwards Sydney was declared a city. In 1901 the six British colonies in Australia formed a federation to become the Commonwealth of Australia. Since that date, the period of modern development started. Sydney continued to grow and by 1925 became a metropolis of 1 million people. ABOUT CAPITALS

Canberra is the capital of Australia, with a population 307 700 people. The federal government is run from Canberra; the city was founded in 1928. The name of the city is an Aboriginal word meaning “Meeting Place”.
Sydney has a population of around 3,9 million people, is the capital city of New South Wales and the oldest city in Australia. In 1850, its first university was built. The shores of Sydney Harbour are 240 kilometres long.