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Australia has only ever had one "official" name, and that is its current name: The Commonwealth of Australia, which was adopted on 1 January 1901, at Federation.

As a continent, the name "Australia" was adopted in 1824, but this did not refer to the country, as Australia was not yet a country, but a group of colonies occupying the same continent.

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