18kg of apples

Is what the average New Zealander consumes. Apparently that's a lot more than Australia - over the ditch they only consume between 6 and 9kg per person. The NZ apple industry is out to change that...

1587758 km2

is the size of the Division of Durack, Western Australia, the largest Federal electorate in Australia. That's about 30% bigger than the whole of South Africa. Still not as big as the old electorate of Kalgoorlie (which has been abolished for the upcoming election) - it was about 2.3million km2, which is only marginally smaller than Algeria, the largest country in Africa.

Less than 1% of NZ students

Are home-schooled. Doesn't seem that way to us sometimes.
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