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Also known as: Commonwealth of Australia
Written by
W.D.L. Ride
Visiting Fellow, Australian National University, Canberra. Head, School of Applied Science, Canberra College of Advanced Education, 1982–87. Author of A Guide to the Native Mammals of Australia.
W.D.L. Ride,
Joseph Michael Powell
Professor of Geography, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia. Author of An Historical Geography of Modern Australia and others.
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