| AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT STATS: |
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Capital city
Canberra |
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Corruption
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8.8 |
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[9th of 160]
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Parliamentary seats > Female
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22% |
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[17th of 143]
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Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament > %
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24.7 %
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[36th of 174]
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Start-up procedures to register a business > number
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2
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[170th of 171]
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Status
federal democracy |
Suffrage
18 years of age; universal and compulsory |
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Time required to build a warehouse > days
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140 days
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[124th of 168]
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Time required to enforce a contract > days
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181 days
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[166th of 171]
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Time required to register property > days
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5 days
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[158th of 167]
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Time required to start a business > days
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2 days
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[171st of 171]
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Time to prepare and pay taxes > hours
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107 hours
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[145th of 169]
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Time to resolve insolvency > years
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1 years
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[144th of 151]
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Total businesses registered > number
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3,162,025
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[6th of 71]
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Trademarks, nonresidents
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16,007
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[8th of 99]
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Trademarks, residents
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37,202
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[8th of 98]
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Transnational Issues > Disputes > International
East Timor and Australia agreed in 2005 to defer the disputed portion of the boundary for fifty years and to split hydrocarbon revenues evenly outside the Joint Petroleum Development Area covered by the 2002 Timor Sea Treaty; East Timor dispute hampers creation of a revised maritime boundary with Indonesia in the Timor Sea; Indonesian groups challenge Australia's claim to Ashmore and Cartier Islands; Australia closed parts of the Ashmore and Cartier Reserve to Indonesian traditional fishing and placed restrictions on certain catch; regional states continue to express concern over Australia's 2004 declaration of a 1,000-nautical mile-wide maritime identification zone; Australia asserts land and maritime claims to Antarctica (see Antarctica); in 2004 Australia submitted its claims to UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) to extend its continental margins covering over 3.37 million square kilometers or roughly thirty percent of its claimed exclusive economic zone; since 2003, Australian Defense Force leads the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI) to maintain civil and political order and reinforce regional security |
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UN membership date
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1 Nov. 1945 |
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United Nations mission
Http://www.australiaun.org
http://www.dfat.gov.au/ |
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Washington, D.C. embassies > Neighborhood
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Embassy Row |
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