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Officialy Australia still is the "Commonwealth of Australia". There has never been a time at which Australia's official name has stopped being the Commonwealth of Australia
Australia is completely independent. Although Australia is a commonwealth country, and was originally colonised by England, it is completely independent now, and has been since Match 1986, when the Australia Acts came into effect.
Once ... the 2004 Summer Games in Athens as a member of Australia's gymnastics team.
Australia has never hosted the Winter Olympics. It's difficult to host the Winter Olympics in the Southern Hemisphere because it is summer when the games are traditionally played (February)
The mainland of Australia is believed to have been inhabited for anywhere up to 42,000 years. However, the continent only became known as "Australia" in 1824. Australia as a country did not exist until Federation of the colonies, which occurred on 1 January 1901, with the establishment of the first Federal Constitution. On this date, the Commonwealth of Australia was born. It is, of course, not known when the continent of Australia began to separate from Antarctica. It had been part of the Gondwana supercontinent.