Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. With an area of 7,617,930 km², Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a biologically megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with deserts in the center, tropical rainforests in the northeast, and mountain ranges in the southeast. Canberra is the nation's capital, while its most populous city and financial center is Sydney.
Geographical type: Territory
Latitude: 27° S — Longitude: 133° E
Area: 7,692,024 km²
ISO 3166-2 code: AU
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Measures of Freedom
2016: Status: Free, Aggregate Score: 98, Political Rights: 1, Civil Liberties: 1
2019: 8.84, Rank: 8, Personal Freedom: 9.3, Economic Freedom: 8.2
2014: 7.93, Rank: 10
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Bibliographical essay covering the people and radical movements that influenced Tucker in his founding and publishing of Liberty, its major themes and contributors
Provides various examples of "free speech zone" incidents as well as reactions in the U.S. and overseas
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