Australia Detail

• Australia is home to the longest fence in the world. It is 5,614 km long, and was originally built to keep dingoes away from fertile land.
• Australia was one of the founding members of the United Nations.
• Melbourne is considered the sporting capital of the world, as it has more top level sport available for its citizens than anywhere else.
• Tasmania has the cleanest air in the world
• Australia is ranked second on the Human Development Index (based on life expectancy, income and education).
• Chilling out with a coffee is an easy must-do in Perth – after all it has more cafés per capita than any other city in the world!
•  Australia is home to the oldest rainforest in the world, The Daintree
• Western Australia has ridiculously beautiful beaches.
• More than 80 per cent of the plants, mammals, reptiles and frogs found in Australia are unique to the country/continent and are not found elsewhere in the world
• Kakadu National Park and Uluru are timeless, spiritual wonders. Stay awhile, explore deeply, and absorb their ancient wisdom

Australian Universities are divided into various groups as under:

The Group of Eight (go8) Universities

The Group of Eight (go8) markets itself as the group of ‘Australia’s Leading Universities’:

• The University of Adelaide
• The Australian National University
• The University of Melbourne
•  Monash University
• The University of New South Wales
• The University of Queensland
•  The University of Sydney
• The University of Western Australia

Each of these member universities is well regarded in a number of different areas and together they form a powerful bloc.

Innovative Research Universities (IRU)

Innovative Research Universities (IRU) is a group of six Australian universities that share a common mode of operation:

• Flinders University
• Griffith University
• La Trobe University
• Murdoch University
• James Cook University
• Charles Darwin University

Australian Technology Network (ATN)

The Australian Technology Network (ATN) is a coalition of five Australian universities that share a common focus on the practical application of tertiary studies and research:

• Curtin University of Technology
• University of South Australia
• RMIT University
• University of Technology Sydney
•  Queensland University of Technology

NGU (New Generation Universities)

The New Generation Universities (NGU) grouping was limited to institutions that had received university accreditation since 1970:

• Australian Catholic University
• Central Queensland University
• Edith Cowan University
• Southern Cross University
• Victoria University
• University of Ballarat
• University of Canberra
• University of Southern Queensland
• University of the Sunshine Coast
• University of Western Sydney

The Regional Universities Network (RUN)
The Regional Universities Network was formed in 2011 to take advantage of the regional focus of the minority Labor Government. The founding members of this grouping were:

• Central Queensland University
• Southern Cross University
• University of Ballarat
• University of New England
• University of Southern Queensland
• University of the Sunshine Coast

And Many More….