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    Feb 24, 2021 3 minutes

    Questions

    1What is Australia’s national floral emblem?

    2 What is the name of Australia’s heaviest flightless bird?

    3 What physical features in New South Wales are called Oaky, Oban, Orara and Oxley?

    4 Mt Ossa is the highest point in which state?

    5 In which WA Aboriginal language are there four words for “we”: ngali for “we two including you”; ngaliju for “we two excluding you”; nganthurru for “we all including you”; and nganthurraju for “we all excluding you”?

    6 Who was the first Australian to climb all 14 of the “eightthousanders”?

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