Australians are an inventive lot. Small population and large country has probably been the main driver. A non-exhaustive list of Australian inventions is:
The stump-jump plough,The Combine Harvester,The Self-Propelled Rotary Hoe, Permaculture,Dynamic Lifter fertiliser,The Box Kite, The Sarich Engine, Wave Piercing Catamaran, The 'Diff' (differential gears),The 'Ute' , Black Box Flight Recorder,Inflatable Aircraft Escape Slide & Raft, Variable Ratio Rack & Pinion Steering,Premix cement truck?, Hyshot Scramjet Engine, Hills Hoist,The Electric Drill,Kiwi Shoe Polish,The Two Stroke Lawn Mower, Latex Gloves, The notepad,Telephane,The Record Changer,Aerogard Insect Repellent,garage roller door,Pre-paid Postage, Xerox Photocopying, Polymer Bank Notes,Blast Glass,Refrigeration,Vegemite,Wine Cask,Zip Instant Boiling Water Heater,Electronic Pacemaker, physiotherapy, life saving application of penicillin,lithium treatment,The Bionic Ear, Aspro,Begg Orthodontics , Relenza, Spray-on-skin, Discovery of the Helicobacter pylori bacterium which causes stomach ulcers and gastritis, world's first vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, the Reverse Kangaroo (or 'Reverse Kanga')
etc etc etc
if interested, spend a few mins at
http://www.whitehat.com.au/Australia/Inventions/InventionsA.html
ps. for those unfamiliar with the Reverse Kanga,
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=reverse+kanga
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