Climate and vegetation in Australia

Because of the size of Australia, the climate varies widely. The greater part of the continent is desert or semi arid, leaving the corners and border of Australia being either temperate, grassland, subtropical, tropical, and very little being equatorial.

Australians native vegetation is one of the richest and most fundamental elements on our natural heritage. Our ancient soils, shelters, wildlife, streams, wetlands, coastlines, etc, are all sustained and nourished by our native vegetation.
Different regions receive the same amount of hours per day, but this does not mean that they receive the same amount of sunshine. Major vegetation types in Australia include woodland and shrub land. The rest of Australia vegetation is herb land, scrub and heath, and open forest. There is also very small amount of closed forest found along the east coast boarder of Queensland, NSW, Victoria, and also around both east and west parts of Tasmania.