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Australian units of measurement
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In the colonial period, the colonists used the units of measurement of the United Kingdom, formalised as imperial units in 1824. Metrication in Australia began in 1970 and was completed in 1988. Colonial units and metrication Australian colonists brought with them and continued to use the units of measurement of England, which became the statutory units of the states and Commonwealth of Astralia. In 1970, the Metric Conversion Act was passed, establishing the Metric Conversion Board and beginning the process of metrication in Australia. Aboriginal measurement It has been suggested that the Australian aborigines could not count or had no words in their language for time but this is a misconception. They were able to count and used symbols on message sticks to communicate and make agreements. Their language tended to be qualitative rather than quantitative but their natural units would be terms such as moons and seasons when measuring time, and camps and middens when meaasuring distance. Colloquial Australians have also used beer as an informal measure of distance — a six-pack being the distance in which a passenger would consume six bottles of beer. Bull's roar is considered the distance which a bull roar can be heard by implicating a larger distance or nowhere near. Another similar unit is bee's dick.<ref name="aw" /> 
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