Perhaps because of this geographic isolation, Australians have become one of the most innovative and technologically advanced people in the world.
Australia is a progressive society in technological terms and one of the world leaders in IT and Computer services industries.
With 70.2% of the population using the internet Australia has one of the highest percentage of internet users in the world. http://www.internetworldstats.com/dsl.htm
The USA is 69.2%, UK 62.3%, China 10.4% and India 3.5%.
Australia has the second highest use of PC’s in the world
Australia has reached 100% penetration of mobile phones, one of the first countries to do so.