Example sentences for: australia

How can you use “australia” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • “Uncertainty didn't used to be dealt with at all in formulating fishery management advice,” confirms Keith Sainsbury, a marine ecologist with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) (Clayton, South Victoria, Australia), adding that its absence gave rise to an awful lot of troubles.

  • VOC ships under the command of Abel Tasman landed in Australia some 150 years before Captain Cook.

  • An opinion poll published Monday in the Guardian of London found, surprisingly, that a large proportion of Britons think Australia should ditch the monarchy: Forty percent said it should become a republic and 34 percent that it should keep the queen as its head of state.

  • Tuesday was "National Sorry Day" in Australia, but not in Japan, which, despite Emperor Akihito's state visit to Britain this week, could not bring itself to apologize unequivocally for the Japanese atrocities inflicted on British POWs in Burma during World War II.

  • While remarking that Australia had played "a commendably sensible diplomatic role throughout the latest troubles," the Financial Times of London said Monday in an editorial that "[t]he venture has also exposed latent resentment of the potential leadership of Australia in the region," particularly from Malaysia, which has refused to take part in the peacekeeping force under Australian command.


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