my father was born in australia.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Australia (, ), officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It is the largest country in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country by total area. The neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor to the north; the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east. Australia's capital is Canberra, and its largest urban area is Sydney. For about 50,000 years before the first British settlement in the late 18th century, Australia was inhabited by indigenous Australians, who spoke languages classifiable into roughly 250 groups. After the European discovery of the continent by Dutch explorers in 1606, Australia's eastern half was claimed by Great Britain in 1770 and initially settled through penal transportation to the colony of New South Wales from 26 January 1788. The population grew steadily in subsequent decades, and by the 1850s most of the continent had been explored and an additional five self-governing crown colonies established. On 1 January 1901, the six colonies federated, forming the Commonwealth of Australia.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "My mother was born in Australia, near Sidney"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "That's awesome!  That's the largest island continent - its big!  Its the 6th largest country"}, {"role": "user", "content": "However, I grew up in Canada and don't know much about Australia."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Until the British settled it, the indigenous Australians spoke more than 250 languages"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Really, that's quite impressive that there is so many languages. What is the precentage of indigenous Australians today?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I don't know but the population shrunk from 1.25 million in 1788 to 50k in 1930 - mainly due to diseases like smallpox"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I guess it's pretty similar to what happened to the Natives in North America. Does Australia have programs to support them? Canada does"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I am not sure.  They were decreasing so much in the early 1900s people thought they would go extinct"}]