It is an old book, but good: A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute.
I recently read a good autobiography called Letters from Belsen 1945 by Muriel Knox Doherty who was an Australian nurse who assisted with one of the biggest medical reliefs in history.
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Budgerigars are a native Australian bird. I once read that the word budgerigar was an Australian Aboriginal word for 'tastes good' but I think that may have been a joke. The original native bird is green. They still live in large flocks in country Australia.
No, he was British, although he did explore Australia (which may count as him being an Australian explorer depending on how you read the question).
150 years of Australian Rules
I have just read around 20,000
"G'day" IS Australian slang - it's short for "Good Day."
The Real Australian Outback has a lot of information about traveling in Australia. Lonely Planet also has a lot of information and travel tips from its writers.
The bear is not an Australian animal. Most read 'koala bear', right? But it is just 'koala'.
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