NOUN
- a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony
How To Use Commonwealth of Australia In A Sentence
- With the outbreak of war the new Commonwealth of Australia found itself willingly at war for the empire.
- The Commonwealth of Australia is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the world"s smallest continent and a number of islands in the Southern, Indian and Pacific Oceans.
- Agreeing on this bush village becoming a capital took time after the six colonies, on deciding to federate, founded the Commonwealth of Australia on January 1, 1901.
- In 1901 the six colonies were federated as self-governing states to form the Commonwealth of Australia.
