ABSTRACT
Australia is a country of sparse population. Roughly the same size as the United States at 2,966,368 square miles, it averages only five people per square mile. Eighty percent of the population live in the cities. The main six centres of population being Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and Canberra which account for about 10 million of the country's 16 million inhabitants (National Geographic, 1988). In comparison, the population of the USA in 1997 was estimated to be 260 million.
