Australian state - one of the states constituting Australiaprovince, state - the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation; "his state is in the deep south" Australia, Commonwealth of Australia - a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony Victoria - a state in southeastern Australia Tasmania - an Australian state on the island of Tasmania |