New South Wales and Queensland are the rugby states; Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia and the Northern Territory are strongholds of Australian rules football.

新南威尔士和昆士兰是橄榄球之邦；维多利亚、南澳大利亚、塔斯马尼亚、西澳大利亚和北领地则是澳式足球的根据地。

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Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia and the Northern Territory are strongholds of Australian rules football.

维多利亚、南澳大利亚、塔斯马尼亚、西澳大利亚和北领地则是澳式足球的根据地。

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The remote Kimberley region in Western Australia features dramatic landscapes filled with river gorges and sandstone formations that were featured in the 2008 film Australia.

西澳遥远的金伯利地区有着引人注目的地貌特色，充满了江河峡谷和砂岩地层，它们在2008年的电影 澳大利亚中占据了重要地位。

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Earlier this year, a professor at the University of Western Australia commented on the overuse of glyphosate.

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For much of the past century there were average global increases of 1.7 millimeters a year, but that rate doubled between 1993 and 2007.(мظ) Some regions, notably Western Australia have suffered more than others, partly,scientists say, because of how gravitational pull affects tides.

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There are two other species of wombat, the common (or bare-nosed) wombat, which is not endangered and is found on the southeastern coast of Australia (in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania) and the southern hairy nosed wombat, which is endangered and is found in arid, sandy pockets in the southern part of Australia (in South Australia and Western Australia).

BBC: Protecting a wombat species that is as fast as Usain Bolt

Australia is a federal state, and most such decisions are made not by the federal government but by those of the six states (New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania) and the two territories (the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory, around Canberra).

ECONOMIST: The limits to growth

Camels roam freely across an area of 3.3 million sq km (1.3 million sq miles) encompassing the states of Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland, as well as the Northern Territory.

BBC: Australia, home to the world's largest camel herd