Little Known Australia Statistics

Put on your learning caps. Here are some cold hard stats comin' at ya.

Locally Made TV Shows
By law, free-to-air channels in Australia must show a minimum of 55 percent Australian made content.
Quality shows like Down In The Coongabongaloo and the sitcom Mumble the Punchline dominate the ratings.

Highest and Lowest Temperatures
Australia’s highest temperature, 51 degrees C (123 degrees F), was recorded at Oodnadatta, South Australia in 1960. The lowest temperature was minus 23 degrees C (minus 9 degrees F) measured high in the mountains at Charlotte Pass, New South Wales. I'm pretty sure that first one is made up because everyone who would have been there to record it would surely be a liquid now. And minus 9 is the lowest? Ever? People from Michigan would be looking for a barbecue.

Prisons and Prisoners
Despite the country's outlaw beginnings, only around 115 Australians per 100,000 of population are in jail. This compares with other 1st world countries such as: The USA 700 or The UK 141. To be fair however 81 of those UK prisoners just live in tract homes in Geelong or as the Brits call it; Cell Block G.

Fat Kids

In Australia an estimated 20-25% of Australian children are overweight or obese. The proportion of overweight or obese children in Australian is increasing at an accelerating rate. The US planned to send government appointed experts to consult on the problem but all of them are either dead of heart disease or too fat to squeeze through the airplane door.


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