2025年1月10日 星期五

50項不為人知的澳洲事實(三之三)

 


 

35.  Australia is home to the longest fence in the world, the Dingo Fence. Originally built to keep dingos away from fertile land, the fence is now 5,614 km long

澳洲建有世界上的防野犬的欄杆,有5,614公里長。

 

36.  The Australian dollar is considered to be the most advanced currency in the world – its waterproof, made of polymer and notoriously hard to counterfeit

澳洲幣值是全球最先進的紙幣:防水、聚合物製造、極難偽造。

 

37.  Australia is the only continent covered by a single country

澳洲是唯一只有一個國家的陸洲。

 

38.  The world's oldest fossil was discovered in Australia – 3.4 billion years old

世界最古老的化石是在澳洲發現-34億年前的生物。

 

39.  Australia has around 600 varieties of eucalypt trees

澳洲有約六百種的桉樹。

 

40.  Australia was one of the founding members of the United Nations

澳洲是聯合國的創辦成員之一。

 

41.  Stonemasons in Australia instituted the 8-hour working day back in 1856

澳洲的磚石工組織於1856年已實施每天工作八小時。

 

42.  In Aboriginal culture women are not allowed to play the didgeridoo

澳洲的土著文化是不容許女士玩土著的吹管樂器 didgerido

 

43.  The venom of the elusive platypus can kill a small dog

難以埔捉的鴨嘴獸的毒液可以殺死一隻小狗。

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44.  Australia's most deadly marine animal is the Box Jellyfish and is responsible for more deaths per year than snakes, sharks and saltwater crocodiles

澳洲最致命的海上動物是箱形水母,殺害的數目較蛇、鯊魚及淡水鱷魚為高。

 

45.  The only two mammals in the world that lay eggs are found in Australia – the echidna and platypus

世界上可產疍的兩種哺乳動物-針鼴及鴨嘴獸只在澳洲發現。

 

46.  Before the arrival of humans, Australia was home to megafauna, three-metre tall kangaroos, seven-metre long goanna's, horse-sized ducks and a marsupial lion the size of a leopard

未有人類前,澳洲住有超大動物、三米高的袋鼠、七米長的巨蜥、馬體型的鴨、

豹體型的有袋動物。

 

47.  Both kangaroos and emus lack the ability to walk backwards. This was the reason they were chosen for Australia's coat of arms – to symbolise a country always moving forward

 

澳洲的標緻:袋鼠及鴯鶓是不能倒行,代表了澳洲是永遠向前進展的國家

 

48. The termite mounds that can be found in Australia are the tallest animal-made structures on earth

      澳洲可以找到的白蟻墩是地球上最高的動物興建的物體。

 

49. Australia is home to more than 1,500 species of spiders

     澳洲住有超過一千五百種蜘蛛。

 

50. The Great Victoria Desert is bigger than the whole of the United Kingdom

      維多利亞大沙漠的面積大過整個英聯邦帝國。

 

2025年1月7日 星期二

50項不為人知的澳洲事實(三之二)

 


 

18.  AFL invented to keep cricketers fit in the off season, there are claims that the game may have been influenced by Indigenous Australians

澳洲板球會發明保持板球員全年最佳狀態,有申稱板球是受澳洲土著所影响。

 

19.  The world's largest rock is not actually Uluru, but Mount Augustus in Western Australia and actually twice the size of Uluru

世界最大的石非烏魯魯,而是大兩倍位於西澳的Augustus山。

 

20.  Australia is the 6th largest country in the world

澳洲是世界第六大國家。

 

21.  There are 1 million camels that roam wild in Australia's deserts, the largest number of purebred camels in the world, they are exported to the Middle East

澳洲沙漠有一百萬駱駝,是世界最多純種駱駝,由中東傳入。

 

22.  You can fly from Perth to Melbourne faster than you can fly from one end of Western Australia to the other

由珀斯飛往墨爾本是快過由澳洲西部飛往澳洲東部

 

23.  There are over 60 different types of kangaroos and a baby kangaroo when born is only about two centimeters long

有多過60種類別的袋鼠,而出生的袋鼠只有二公分長。

 

24.  Aboriginal culture is the oldest on Earth – it is estimated that the continent's original inhabitants, the aboriginal people, have been in Australia for between 40,000-60,000 years

澳洲的土著文化是地球最古老的文化,估計澳洲的土著居澳已有40,000-60,000年。

 

25.  Australia has 19 World Heritage Listed sites

澳洲有 19個世界文化遺產組織列出的遺址。

 

 

26.  91% of the country is covered by native vegetation

百分之九十一的地是是原植物產地。

 

27.  33% of Australians were born in another country

百分之三十三的澳洲人是在其他國家出生。

 

28.  Over 300 different languages and dialects are spoken in Australia including 45 Indigenous languages. In fact, 21% of Australians don't speak English at home!

澳洲有超過三百種語言,包括45種土著方言,百分之21澳洲人在家中不說英語。

 

29.  WA is home to what is believed to be the oldest evidence of life on Earth – the Stromatolites

西澳相信是地球上最早有生命的地方,即叠層石。

 

30.  Australia is the only continent in the world without an active volcano

澳洲是世界上唯一沒有活火山的陸洲。

 

31.  In Australia, sheep out number people 2.5 to 1 (in 2020)

澳洲的羊數目是人的2.5倍。

 

32.  Australia was the second country in the world to give women the right to vote in 1902

澳洲是世界第二個國家於1902年給予女性投票權。

 

33.  Per capita, Australians spend more money on gambling than any other nation, with over 80 percent of Australian adults engaging in gambling of some kind

澳洲人均賭博消費是全球之冠,百分之80的澳洲成人是有賭博活動。

 

34.  Canberra was selected as the capital because Sydney and Melbourne could not stop arguing which city should be the capital

坎培拉被選為首都因為悉尼及墨尓本不停爭議誰才是首都之選。

2025年1月4日 星期六

50項不為人知的澳洲事實(三之一)

 


 

1.     The Australian Alps get more snow than the Swiss Alps

澳洲的亞爾卑斯山脈多雪過瑞士的亞爾卑斯山脈

 

2.    90% of Australians live on the coast

百分之九十的澳洲人住近海岸

 

3.    Tasmania has the cleanest air in the world

塔斯馬尼亞是全世界空氣最清新的地方

 

4.   The Great Barrier Reef is the largest ecosystem in the world. It is made up of nearly 3,000 individual reefs and can be seen from space

大堡礁是全世界最大的生化系統內有近三千個獨立及在太空可看見的礁脈

 

5.    Australia has over 60 separate wine regions

澳洲有超過六十個不同的葡萄種植區

 

6.    Kgari Island is the largest sand island in the world

Kgari 島是世界上最大的沙島

 

7.    The Indian Pacific train has the longest straight section of train track in the world

橫跨太平洋及印度洋的火車是世界上最長的直路軌段

 

8.    The Great Ocean Road is the world's largest war memorial

大洋道是世界上最大的戰爭紀念館

 

9.    80% of Australian animals are unique to Australia

八成的澳洲動物只在澳洲出沒

 

10. 5 km of Uluru is underground

烏魯魯有五公里是在地底

 

11.  Australia has the world's longest golf course measuring more than 1,350 kms long

澳洲有全世界最長的高爾夫球場其里里總長度超1.350公里

 

12. Australia is home to 21 of the world's 25 most venomous snakes

全世界最毒的25種蛇21種居住在澳洲

 

13. Perth is the only city in the world which can have aircraft land in its CBD

珀斯是全世界唯一可以在它的商業核心區停泊飛機

 

14. Mainland Australia is bigger than we realise, it's almost the same size as mainland USA.

澳洲的內陸區面積和美國相約

 

15. The largest cattle station in the world is located in Australia, Anna Creek Ranch in South Australia and it's bigger than Israel

南澳的Anna Creek Ranch 是全世界最大的牧場其面積大過以色列

 

16. The first Police Force in Australia was made up of the most well-behaved convicts

澳洲第一批警察是由行為最良好的囚犯組成

 

17. It would take around 29 years to visit one new Aussie beach every day there are 10,685 of them!

澳洲有10,685個沙灘要花29年才方可每天探視一沙灘

 

 

 

2025年1月1日 星期三

兒童禁用社交平台

 


澳洲工黨這打算把這項法案於今年年底前通過成為法律。屆時,社交平台如FacebookInstagramTikTokSnapchat等,將有負責確保不到法定年齡的人士不能開設或持有帳戶,否則將被視為違法,可能會被處以最高 5000 萬元的罰款。  YouTube預計也被納入法案規限範圍。而匿名網上論壇如4chanReddit可能無法受規管,因為不需要用戶註冊帳戶。而即時通訊程式如WhatsApp、網上遊戲、提供「健康和教育支持」的服務平台,則不在此限。

 

預計所有想使用受影響平台的澳洲人都要進行年齡驗證,但目前未知用戶需要提交哪些數據。政府已表示,可能需要收集、使用和披露額外的個人資訊。但當局排除實施強制性的數碼身份證,反對黨也對此設立紅線。



聯邦通訊部長強調,改革是為了保護年輕人,讓家長知道政府是支持他們。「立法將確保將保護(年輕人)的責任交給社交平台,而不是父母或兒童。」相反地,有140名專家發出公開信,指禁令是糾枉過正。澳洲人權委員會也表示,考慮到相關法例有可能嚴重干預兒童和青少年的權利,它對該禁令持「嚴重保留」態度,建議採取責任(duty of care)模式來處理。

 

很佩服澳洲政府的勇氣,嘗試成為全球首個立法禁止兒童使用社交媒體的政府。 現今社交媒體滲透入社會所有階層,但其登出的內容多是失實、八卦、作偽、訛傳的無實際意義訊息,有的更是製造混亂及詐騙錢財的信息,而覧閱羣眾卻是無責任及發噏風地討論,除了浪費時間在閱讀無益的資訊外,兒童更被這類不良訊息引導致錯誤思惟及影響其健康成長的過程。 什麽干預兒童的權利是不正確的,因兒童在現今法例下也被禁買烟酒,目的就是要保障兒童的健康,而非剝奪其人權。禁止兒童使用社交媒體亦如是,旨在保障兒童的身心發展。

 

這法例在執行時也將會困難重重,因兒童可以借用成人(如其父、母、兄、長)的社會媒體帳號流覽社交媒體,而政府亦無從監察。