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STAT	Australia	New Zealand
Daylight Savings Time end date	First Sunday April	First Sunday April
Daylight Savings Time start date	First Sunday October	Last Sunday September
First human settlement > Date	48,000 BP	1250–1300 AD
First human settlement > Notes	The oldest human skeletal remains are the 40,000-year-old Lake Mungo remains in New South Wales, but human ornaments discovered at Devil's Lair in Western Australia have been dated to 48,000 BP. Ochre fragments at Malakunanja II in Northern Territory are dated to ca. 45,000 BP.	Though some researchers suggest settlements as early as 50–150 AD, that later went extinct, it is generally accepted that the islands were permanently settled by Eastern Polynesians (the ancestors of the Māori ) who arrived about 1250–1300 AD.
First human settlement > Place	Devil's Lair	Wairau Bar
Full name	Commonwealth of Australia	New Zealand
Land border length	0.0 Ranked 191st.	0.0 Ranked 180th.
National anthems	Advance Australia Fair	God Defend New Zealand
National tree	Golden Wattle	Silver fern
Overview	<p>Australia ranks as one of the best places to live in the world by all indices of income, human development, healthcare and civil rights. The sixth-largest country in the world by land mass, its comparatively small population is concentrated in the highly-urbanised east of the Australian continent. </p> <p>The political entity that is modern Australia began to come into being with the arrival of British settlers in 1788. Many of the first settlers were convicts, but freemen started to arrive in increasing numbers after the discovery of gold in the mid-19th century. </p> <p>Aboriginal Australians, who had inhabited the continent for tens of thousands of years prior to British colonisation, numbered a few hundred thousand. Two centuries of discrimination and expropriation cut their population drastically, and now they make up less than 3% of Australia&#039;s approximately 23 million people.</p><br> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-15674351">Full Article</a>	<p>New Zealand is a wealthy Pacific nation dominated by two cultural groups: New Zealanders of European descent; and the Maori, the descendants of Polynesian settlers. </p> <p>It is made up of two main islands and numerous smaller ones: the North Island (known as Te Ika-a-Maui in Maori) is the more populous of the two, and is separated by the Cook Strait from the somewhat larger but much less populated South Island (or Te Waipounamu).</p> <p>Agriculture is the economic mainstay, but manufacturing and tourism are important and there is a world-class film industry. </p><br> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15357770">Full Article</a>

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