When it comes to Australia, it is not officially a continent. It has to be joined with Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands and then it becomes
Oceania (Australasia is Aussie, NZ, and PNG). I'm not sure how it all works, but trust me; New Zealand has different flora, fauna, AND animals (we have a flightless ground-burrowing parrot

) from the rest of the world. We're not a continent because we are not big enough. The official continents are:
North America
South America
Europe
Asia
Africa
Oceania
Antarctica
-Penguin