Across
- 3. natural resource of Australia, has the chemical symbol U
- 5. British sport that is also commonly practiced in Australia
- 7. world's largest reef system
- 8. a duty formerly asserted by white people to manage the affairs of nonwhite people whom they believed to be less developed
- 10. Leader of the Australian Government
- 14. a large area of flat unforested grassland
- 15. event around 1851 when people hoped to get rich by obtaining a certain mineral
- 16. Polynesian sport often practiced in Australia
- 17. also known as Ayer's Rock, a sacred place to the Pitjantjatjara/Anangu
Down
- 1. nearly uninhabitable area that covers most of Australia
- 2. position of the one who represents the British monarch in Australia
- 4. from here water runs down to the west to the Murray-Darling Basin
- 6. novel by Bruce Chatwin from 1987
- 9. State where Sydney is located
- 11. last name of the writer of 'the Secret River'
- 12. place where little to no vegetation can grow
- 13. Australia's capital city