Australian Crossword Puzzle

The largest coral reef in the world, about 2,010 km (1,250 mi) long, off the northeast coast of Australia. The reef provides habitat for a wide range of marine life.
An arm of the southwest Pacific Ocean bounded by northeast Australia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. It was the scene of a US World War II naval victory in May 1942.
A monolithic sandstone formation, 863 m (2,831 ft) high, of central Australia. Ayers Rock is considered sacred by the Aboriginal peoples in the region.
An arid region of south-central Australia sloping to the Nullarbor Plain on the south.
The act or process of establishing a colony or colonies.
Originating, growing, or produced in a certain place or region.
Native people of Australia.
This is the pattern where people live.
a process which provides private individuals an opportunity to influence public decisions and has long been a component of the democratic decision-making process.
Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives.
government by a body of cabinet ministers who are chosen from and responsible to the legislature and act as advisers to a nominal chief of state.
The existence of a constitution—which may be a legal instrument or merely a set of fixed norms or principles generally accepted as the fundamental law of the polity—that effectively controls the exercise of political power.
It is the process by which the six separate British self-governing colonies of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia agreed to unite and form the Commonwealth of Australia, establishing a system of federalism in Australia.
An economic system that allows for the simultaneous operation of publicly and privately owned enterprises.
A term used to describe the foundation of the present economic system. When products and goods are exchanged for other products or services, the result is a trade.
Import policies reflected in tariffs and other import charges, quotas, import licensing, customs practices, standards, testing, labeling, and various types of certification.
A list or system of duties imposed by a government on imported or exported goods.
(Economics) naturally occurring materials such as coal, fertile land, etc, that can be used by man.