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land. The crawl, the fastest stroke in swim- 

 ming, was introduced from Australia, and one 

 variety of it is still known as the Australian 

 crawl. 



Before the War of the.Nations Australia sent 

 the United States only eight to eighteen per 

 cent of the latter's imported first-class wool, 

 less than either Argentina or Great Britain. 

 In 1915, however, Australia led all with 66,- 

 000,000 pounds, thirty per cent of the total. 



Consult Eraser's The Making of. a Nation; 

 Lloyd's Newest England (Australia and New 

 Rowland's The New Nation. 



Related Subject*. The reader who wishes to 

 acquaint himself more fully with conditions in 

 Australia will find the following articles helpful : 



CITIES AND TOWNS 



Adelaide Melbourne 



Ballarat Newcastle 



Brisbane Perth 



Hobart Sydney 



COAST WATERS 



Botany Bay Indian Ocean 



Coral Sea Pacific Ocean 



Great Australian Bight 



New Guinea 



Cooper's Creek 



Lachlan 



New South Wales 

 Northern Territory 

 Queensland 

 South Australia 



ISLANDS 



Norfolk Island 

 Tasmania 



RIVERS 

 Murray 

 Murrumbidgee 



STATES 



Tasmania 

 Victoria 

 Western Australia 



PECULIAR ANIMALS 



Btadtoool 



Bower Bird 



Cassowary 



Dingo 



Duck-billed Platypus 



ina 



Kmu 



Kangaroo 

 Lyre Bird 

 Opossum 

 Parrot 



SW:IM 



Tasmanlan Wolf 

 Wombat 



A .11 i;i 



r. iMiixjo 

 is.ittli- Tr-o 



Copper 



Gold 



Olive 



PLANT Lira 



Eucalyptus 

 Myrtle 



LOADING PRODUCTS 



Sheep 

 Silver 

 Sugar Cane 

 Wheat 



AUSTRALIAN, aw* tray ' li an, BALLOT, a 

 system of voting whose essential features are 

 absolute secrecy in the expression of tin 

 voter's choice, and the use of official printed 

 ballots supplied by the state, provincial or 



local authorities. It was first used in Aus- 

 tralia in 1856 and has since spread to prac- 

 tically all the civilized nations of the world. 

 Before the introduction of the Australian sys- 



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AUSTRALIAN BALLOT IN THE UNITED 

 STATES 



Part of Republican and Democratic columns ; 

 other columns for minor political parties, if any, 

 would appear at right. 



tern it was customary for each candidate to 

 have his own ballots printed, and to distrib- 

 ute them to the voters before they entered 

 the polling place. Under this system bribery 

 and fraud were common. Dishonest politi- 

 cians were often bold enough to bribe voters 

 and follow them to the ballot box to see that 

 the vote paid for was actually cast. 



Under the Australian system the ballots are 

 furnished by tin- p>vrrnment. They are de- 

 livered in sealed packages to the judges of 

 n shortly before the opening of the polls. 

 When the polls are closed every ballot must 

 be accounted for, whether used for voting, 

 or spoiled, or still clean and unmarked. 



Marking the Ballot. In the system as pro- 

 1 in the United States the names of the 

 candidates for office arc arranged in columns 

 under the heading of their respective parties. 

 It is customary to place all the candidates of 

 each party in the order of the importance of 

 office. Thus, in a state election, first 



