Does Australia exist or is it a just a hoax?

This is the question winding Australians up after Swedish Facebook personality Shelley Floryd announced she refuses to believe the world's sixth-largest country exists.

An army of barely-literate Aussies have been hammering on their keyboards in response to her comments.

"Australia is not real. It's a hoax, made for us to believe that Britain moved over their criminals to someplace. In reality, all these criminals were loaded off the ships into the waters, drowning before they could see land ever again," she says.

"The things these "Australian" says to be doing, all these swear words and actions based on alcoholism, MDMA and bad decisions, are all ways to distract you from the ugly truth that is one of the greatest genocides in history."