commonwealth of australia

Noun commonwealth of australia has 1 sense

• commonwealth of australia(n = noun.location) australia - 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;
is a member of british commonwealth, commonwealth of nations, british empire
is a kind of country, land, state
has parts: australian capital, canberra, capital of australia, australian state, queensland, new south wales, victoria, tasmania, south australia, western australia, northern territory, norfolk island, nullarbor plain, gibson desert, great sandy desert, great victoria desert, simpson desert, australian alps, cape york, cape york peninsula, eyre, lake eyre, eyre peninsula, great australian bight, great barrier reef, eastern highlands, great dividing range, carpentaria, gulf of carpentaria, murray, murray river, murrumbidgee, murrumbidgee river, namoi, namoi river
is a part of australia