This is Australia by M. Sasek

Sasek swings Down Under, arriving not in chains, as the first British colonists did, but in a Quantas big bird which - unlike the Australian penguin and emu - flies very well indeed.
Australia was the first continent to be formeed, and the last to be found by Europeans, perhaps because it's the smallest (Australians prefer to think of it as the world's largest island).
It is home to some of the world's most fascinating animals and birds - kangaroo, wombat, koala, kookapurra, echidna - and most independent, hospitable people.
Sasek wings his readers to Sidney, with its famour bridge and space-age Opera House. Later you see bustling, up-to-date Melobourne; explore the colonial charms of Adleaide; visit the semi-tropical Brisbane, and Canberra, a garden city planted around a parliament house, Darwing with its many aborigines, lovely Hobart in Tasmania, mineral-rich Perth and Alice Springs, where the annual regatte goes on even when the Todd River runs dry. Ind this fabulous country of desert and golden beaches, cowboys are called stockment and Christmas is a summer festival.

This is Australia!