Military manpower - military age: 17 years of age
Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 4,963,948 (2000 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15-49: 4,282,821 (2000 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 135,434 (2000 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $6.9 billion (FY98/99)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 1.9% (FY98/99)
@Australia:Transnational Issues
Disputes - international: territorial claim in Antarctica (Australian
Antarctic Territory)
Illicit drugs: Tasmania is one of the world's major suppliers of licit opiate products; government maintains strict controls over areas of opium poppy cultivation and output of poppy straw concentrate
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