The enormous size of Australia compared with most other puny countries was demonstrated in this illustration from a 1930s Australasian Advertisers' Manual and Newspaper Directory. Why you could fit Serbia into Tasmania and have enough room left over to conduct Tasmanian tiger shooting safaris . Our resident geologist has a rare collection of rocks which he claims show how Australia was shaped over aeons . He is also seeing a phrenologist on a regular basis .
Way, way , way back, the huge Aussie mass was looking like an ANZAC biscuit ,a sunburnt one at that. Cape York was being slowly extruded on the right ; what became Tasmania seems situated off what evolved into modern Western Australia. Long before the dinosaurs were clobbered by space junk , the profile below,wrong way round, was starting to look somewhat like the rocky nation we know today- threatened by our own junk, climate change , pollution, acidification of the seas , wars , tyrants and despots .
Billions of years ago , Bondi was just a mass of uncomfortable boulders , below . Several ice ages, massive tectonic movements , tidal action, solar winds and abrasive Sydney shock jocks eventually reduced the rocks and minds of listeners to tiny granules of sand , causing an invasion of Irish backpackers and cockroach races projected daily on the Sydney Opera House .
