Australasia is a region of Oceania: Australia, New Zealand, the island of New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term was coined by Charles de Brosses in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes (1756). He derived it from the Latin for "south of Asia" and differentiated the area from Polynesia (to the east) and the southeast Pacific (Magellanica). It is also distinct from Micronesia (to the northeast). It with India sits on a plate called the Indo-Australian Plate.
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While Australia is a highly secular country, with the national census recording the number of Christians going from 96.1% in 1901 to 63.9% in 2006, Christianity is still the most widely adopted religion in Australia, according to the five yearly census. Christian organisations are leading non-government providers of education, health and welfare services in Australia. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.
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