It is great to see the face behind the pleasent voice. An impartial (as always) video on the expansion of Russia would be great, though I guess complicated.
Missing the cartoon thumbnail. Please keep the face during videos, even if as an icon in the corner if showing animations or maps. Keep the face thumbnail for the milestone videos.
@@General.Knowledgeyou should make a video about like Russian subdivisions explaining them and maybe like talking about the mergers of the former administrative regions like koryakia and taymyria they’re obscure but
You cannot conceive of how empty Western Australia is until you travel in it. There is a track called the Canning Stock Route which goes for 2,000 km between two small towns (about the distance between Edinburgh and Istanbul). It takes 3 weeks to travel the track, and there is one tiny indigenous community about 1,000 km in where you can get fuel. You transit three separate deserts while travelling the route. You can spend all three weeks without seeing a single other vehicle.
It takes days to cross the Nullabor by train and ore and goods trains go from the Pilbara to Melbourne constantly. The Indian Pacific has to go into crossing sidings to let them pass. There are only two stops between Adelaide and Perth, both in the never-never. Wonderful trip by luxury train.
@@Marinefan4000 tbf thats bc our outbreaks kept becoming serious and out of control and that was mostly Melbourne the funniest part was a former politician and current business manager suing the Western Australian government for the lockdowns and claiming it was a breach of human rights to which he lost
@@paintingdreams290 because NSW and Vic did all the heavy lifting on managing returning nationals, hence they had all the issues. WA stuck it's head in the sand and treated it as not my problem....
@@scooter2099 Thing is though; they could actually get away with it since it was, for the most part, not their problem. Look at the migration data of 2018-2019 before Covid isn't a factor: NSW and VIC comprise over 60% of all migration to and from the county, with QLD solidly in 3rd. Add in the worldwide limitation on international flights in general: and it makes absolute sense why WA didn't need to really take part in the management since very few people where pushing to get into that part of the country. (Also; be honest: NSW did alright; but Victorians REALLY did not make things easy on themselves throughout the lockdowns with all those damn protests they ended up holding)
@@R.c.475 I mean, we receive less equalization per capita than the Maritime provinces, Alberta's oil industry alone receives more money than our equalization and the money spent on doubling the ministries is 2 billions higher.
In Canada, Newfoundland/ Labrador was independent until 1949; Québec is a distinct society and has already had at least two independence referenda; Alberta, in the West, is more likely to seek independence than BC because the province is fairly wealthy (tar sands) and more conservative (read anti-immigrant) than most of the rest of the country.
Western Australian here, there are some people pushing for “waxit” but they were mostly ignored and I haven’t heard of it since 2020. we do have a lot of our own resources but it’s mostly just mining stuff such as iron, we rely on the east coast for a lot of our food and some other supplies, that’s why we suffered shortages during the floods in the east that broke the railroads. Hope this helps :)
Of course the other thing is we have a huge, sparsely populated coastline that would be impossible to defend, if necessary, without the rest of Australia.
Before federation in 1901, the Australian "colonies" were *functionally independent* countries as Britain had given them complete self rule long before then. So saying that they were 'just colonies', is simplifying things. In effect the choice was to remain a number of small countries or unite to become one large one.
I didn't know this! Thanks for the correction. It's interesting to think about that, was there ever a possibility of each of them moving on to be their own country?
@@General.Knowledge One of them did. There were seven self governing Australian colonies and only six voted to federate, but New Zealand chose not to. The Australian constitution still has a clause that allows New Zealand to join if they want to.
@@Dave_SissonThe discussion continued long enough that the “04” Australian telephone area code was reserved for New Zealand (and three quarters of a century later used for mobile phone number assignment). It was actually a very close run thing that Western Australia joined the Australian commonwealth. The deciding votes to join the commonwealth in the first place came from the Gold Fields region and only just passed in July 1900 just in time to join the new federation which became effective in January 1901.
@@General.Knowledge Western Australia were the last to agree. Section 26 of the constitution below allows for a Federation with or without WA. New Zealand was involved in some earlier conferences (Fiji attended one as well) discussing federation but decided not to join. The British Parliament left open the option when they passed the Constitution Act but they never made it into the constitution itself. WA hadn't made a decision at the time the Constutution Act was passed hence the two options for the first Parliament. 26. Representatives in first Parliament Notwithstanding anything in section twenty-four, the number of members to be chosen in each State at the first election shall be as follows: New South Wales......... twenty-three; Victoria..................... twenty; Queensland................ eight; South Australia............ six; Tasmania................... five; AUSTRALIA’S CONSTITUTION 12 Provided that if Western Australia is an Original State, the numbers shall be as follows: New South Wales......... twenty-six; Victoria..................... twenty-three; Queensland................ nine; South Australia............ seven; Western Australia......... five; Tasmania................... five.
I'm from BC and I think the concept of Cascadia is fascinating. Between tourism, film, lumber, tech, produce, hydro electricity, among other industries in the Cascadia region there's some pretty solid building blocks for a distinct nation. I also think it's funny you opted for BC and not Quebec who actually have a long running and serious separatist movement
@@General.Knowledge No. At least not in my lifetime. BC contains Canada's west coast ports. As such BC has a big economic interest in remaining part of Canada. BC is essential to Canada's trade with Asia. This is a good partnership. On the flip side I don't think the USA has a history of letting regions go. The state of Washington and the province of BC get along fine, as is, despite cultural differences. This does not mean residents some how don't have patriotism to the nations they reside in. I would not be interested in giving up my identity as Canadian! I have lived half my life in BC but grew up in Alberta.
This is a cool topic. I think another one you could cover well is “why __ is a country”. Basically talking about a few countries who struggle to run themselves that are small and next to more prosperous nations. Why aren’t they just a part of that nation? I find myself thinking this pretty often when I study the globe.
It's a interesting topic, one that I had put thought into. There are other content creators that had talk around the topic, but it will be really interesting to see how he does explain it in this Ytb channel. 🙂
A good example are Lesotho, Botswana and Eswatini - all ex-British colonies that are ethnically part of South Africa. The original British plan was to integrate these three African kingdoms into SA, which already contained several other kingdoms. But it's a long (and interesting) story....
GK seems to have a lot of talents. In this iteration he does a great job of presenting - and even this old skool bloke thinks he looks very telegenic! In his previous videos we got superb drawings. But for both styles we get brilliantly researched and presented videos. Personally I'd like to see a bit of both styles.
I did hear that Greenland does have a draft constitution, but as you said, given the lenience of Denmark, I don't see Greenlandic Independence being rushed compared to other independence movements.
I live in Greenland, and the biggest danger to the country is essentially a ‘Dexit’. It ould wreck havoc on the economy. Unfortunately some people here care more about nationalist rhetoric than substantive change for the country.
I think Kalaallit Nunaat independence is on the constitutional agenda but with no specific timeline. But I think 2 factors have an effect of speeding it up: 1) Global warming is thought to be making access to buried natural resources easier. and 2) The prospect of the European Union membership (in Kalaallit Nunaat's case, rejoining the EU). The EU takes some of the sting out of independence from Denmark because they would remain linked and integrated, but on different terms. Also the EU can provide the stabilising force and safety net for poorer countries where now they can be partners/members rather than colonial subjects. As a Canadian I would LOVE to see Kalaallit Nunaat join Canada, but I don't think that would be the people's of the island's choice (to replace Copenhagen for Ottawa). It would be exciting to have it as an independent Inuit majority neighbour and ally though.
@@kf9346 I also don't see them replacing Copenhagen with Washington D.C., though someone still dreaming. Do Greenlanders want to join the EU or better question would the EU allow Greenland to join? I ask as someone who has had debates with people regarding Armenia joining.
@@joshuawells835 Good point. My comment wasn't meant to suggest Kalaallit Nunaat wanted to rejoin the EU or not, but that the option to rejoin gives makes it easier to move the independence time frame up. I think the EU would be a general benefit for them as it is for the Balkans and post Soviets, but I imagine Greenlanders would have the same issues re fisheries as Iceland and Norway. As for would the EU wanting to take in Kalaallit Nunaat, I don't see why not, they were part of the EU before and the island is strategically and resource important, with the added bonus of a low population, meaning not a big strain on the EU's budget to bring the standard of living up to self-sufficiency (as opposed to a Poland or Romania). I would imagine, in this era, with EU experience and not wanting go backwards on standards of living, that an independent Kalaallit Nunaat (as with Scotland or .the Faroes) would all do so with the intention of joining/rejoining/remaining in both the EU and NATO. The future for most European countries is the EU, whether they see it or want it now or not, it's just a matter of time before they make membership domestic policy. (Sorry for the lengthy response).
There is a Portuguese link in the positioning of the Western Australian border - or so the story goes (unconfirmed). Britain was a traditional ally of Portugal and was aware of the Treaty of Zaragoza between Spain and Portugal that "divided the new world" along a specific line of longitude. When Britain claimed the land of "New South Wales", it only claimed the area of the continent that was East of the treaty line out of respect for Portugal technically having the prior claim. The British later established the Swan River colony (present day Perth) out of concern the France might muscle in. During the debate between the colonies about Federation, one of the deals struck to entice Western Australia to join was the commitment to build a transcontinental railway line linking Perth to the Eastern states. It was a tough job given the vast amount of arid territory it had to cross.
Watching you since before you reached 100k.. Because of you I got to know a lot about world demography history and geography.. I hope you keep on thriving in the future and keep on inspiring others. REGARDS A citizen of INDIA
Lately, many UA-camrs, specially geography youtubers that I watch, are showing their faces on the videos. I like they are looking to new ways to connect with their viewers (I thought maybe it's because they ran out of visuals to put over their voice-offs 😅)
Also for Western Aus - it's one of the hottest and driest places in the world and yet it was settled by people from basically the coldest and dampest place in the world. If the colonists had been from the middle east and had the climate survival knowhow (not to mention the oil money to back extensive mining operations) then WA might have ended up as a superpower for all we know
The vote to join the Federation was basically the result of miners arriving from Victoria for the gold rush around 1895. Had Paddy Hannan not found the gold in Kalgoorlie for another 10 years, it would have been a separate country.
Glad to see you showing your face! Not that it matters, your videos are great with or without, but it's nice to put a face to your voice! Continue assim, trabalho impecável!
Idk if you've ever had the feeling that "this youtuber and I would totally be friends" but I think we'd be friends lol. I've seen 90% of your videos and it's all the same stuff I think about.
I’d be very interested in the Russia video! Manifest Destiny in the US is talked about quite a lot, so it would be interesting to see a video and learn about how a similar movement of expansion was also, in many ways, potentially different 😁
New Zealand and Fiji were asked to join the federation before Western Australia, because it was easier in 1900 to sail from Sydney/Melbourne/Brisbane to Auckland and Suva than to travel by land or sea to Perth.
Western Australia is inhabitable in the bottom section, and uninhabitable in the rest. It looks really big, but the usable space is so limited that it might as well not be there. When mapping Australia's population, our country looks like 4 islands. There's the east coast section with most of Victoria, eastern NSW and southern QLD. There's Tasmania, which is actually an island. There's Adelaide. And there's Perth. Population density is very low, but population concentration is very high.
Hello General Knowledge! You do this videos quite well! There was never really any significant desire for an independent BC. Cascadia is a natural region. Just that. There are many regions or provinces that cross national borders but have some natural of cultural similarity that makes them a region or a province.
Not sure why British Columbia was chosen for this video as Nunavit is over twice its size as well as two other Canadian and three other Australian provinces, states and territories and Alaska being larger. Amazing just how small Texas is in the global context.
This was an interesting video. I agree with others that a Russian expansion video would be fascinating, especially since some of the easternmost moves involved some notable conflicts. 😊 I'd love to see some of your drawings included in with other map sources and your direct presentation.
Since a lot of people are discussing your appearance and ethnicity, I suggest you make a video about the particularities of the DNA of some countries that are unique cases like Portugal in which the A25-B18-DR15 gene is only found in Portugal, but also in populations of Brazil and the United States.
There has been a secessionist movement in Western Australia since day one of Australia's federation. While it does have mineral resources, it doesn't have enough water and population to succeed in the long term. The Eastern states sometimes want it to go away as well!
Actually before day one. It only voted to join the federation 18 months after the rest of the Australian colonies and only then by the small margin from around Kalgoorlie. The sweetener was building a transcontinental railroad (and the highway that supported it) through Kalgoorlie.
@allangibson8494 They also brought in a lot of workers from over east mainly to kalgoorlie, which helped with the vote. Many of whom would complain to their kids that they voted wrong later on in life.
The eastern states don't want western Australia to brake away, because it would be such a massive hit to the Australian economy. The whole point of WA leaving is about money the Goldfields of Western Australia is were the succession movement started, they literally brought in more minners from over east to change the vote in the Goldfields many of them later on in life said they regreted voting to join Australia, as mentioned due to economic reasons and become just like the people they were sent to replace basically. I'd suggest you look at what states don't have enough water because it's not actually Western Australia, not to mention who are the states with server drought the most.... because it's not Western Australia either.... Western Australia is also the farthest state from other nations and its other states capitals. Hence, its population is small. If you have a bigger population to start with, you attract more people. Western Australia has a major agricultural sector it's one of the top dogs in Australia, its the biggest wheat producer in Australia as well as one of the top barley, conola, meat, wool ect, and that's not going to change due to geography and climate....
The Greenland independence movement is a complex and fascinating topic, because in 100 years Greenland is going to be one of the most resource-rich areas of the world.
My idea would be a DSS (Domestic/Dependent Sovereign State). I will use Greenland & Denmark to illustrate how it works. Denmark would basically agree to recognize Greenland’s absolute sovereignty over all affairs confined to Greenland’s borders and territorial waters. This means that citizens of Greenland are exempt from paying taxes to Denmark or following Danish laws within Greenland. The defense of Greenland would be provided by 2 groups. The first is entirely under Greenland’s control and financed by them. It would be called something like the Greenland Coast Guard. The other group is controlled and financed by the Danish government. It would be a subsidiary of the Danish military called the Greenland Defense Force. The government of Denmark could change Greenland for their services with the amount being moderated based on how much Greenland contributed initially. (For example citizens of Greenland could serve in the Danish military in the Greenland Defense Force.) For all matters that extend beyond Greenland’s borders and territorial waters, Greenland surrenders all sovereignty to the Danish government with the exception of foreign trade. Foreign trade could be either under the Danish government control or the Greenland government control depending on whether Greenland and their trading partner established a trade agreement complete with Trade Missions between them. If there is such an arrangement then Greenland retains sovereignty over trade relations with said country. If there is no such arrangement then Denmark retains sovereignty. Passports would be issued by the Danish government and list the Greenland citizen as a Danish national.
You've obviously thought this through in great detail. Have you studied the present devolution of powers? I'd be interested to know how much your ideas vary from the current situation on the ground in Greenland. The main thing to remember is that with such a small population, Greenlanders do not have much institutional capacity. This can be a problem (as with many small island nations). Ironically, here in Africa, the country with the smallest territory and population is the most successful.
I like the Drawing/Painting and wouldn't call it Deformed, lol. As a Cartoon Artist, I know that the little wobblyness of one's hand only adds Charm and Personality to a Drawing/Painting. When it's Perfectly Straight, it looks like a Robot. Of course, in the opposing Philosopy, if it's Perfectly Wobbly it looks to Human. Like Human Child. But I think a Good Work of Art hits the Middle Mark of Straight, but slightly wobbly. GOOD WORK! :D Oh yeah, and the video too! ;P
For those who keep banging on about how they did not realise what he looked like, some of us who lived in Europe and dealt with overseas students knew exactly what he looked like. He reminds me of a student I use to know.
west australian here! while the waxit (yes that’s what it’s ended up being known as) movement is very small now you have all the right points and arguments for it to happen! people come from all over the world for the opportunity to work in WA mining and live in WA in general, if it wasn’t for those mining companies paying next to nothing on tax and being able to sell sometimes 50% of mined ore and gas without paying any royalties, western australia could easily be one of the largest economies in the world. there’s a lot more that goes into it but WA could easily be independent.
Hello from Western Australia 😊 WA has always considered itself ‘not quite Australia’ and thinks that the rest of the country just wants WA’s money (it’s a very wealthy part of the country). During the pandemic too, it really felt like its own country. If you ask someone over the age of about 70, they often support independence but they grew up in a time when going to Melbourne took just as long as going overseas. Now we can fly to Melbourne in a few hours and young people would never want to leave Australia.
@@jessbellis9510 Building cities, railways, cross-nation roads etc in WA mostly to ship goods there. None of that came cheap but it was for the whole nation. Now you don't want to contribute or if you do, you want to whine about how unfair it is. You make me sick. Greedy arseholes.
Yay, thanks for including BC and the Cascadia movement over the way-overdone topic of Quebec, like I was expecting. The main reason that BC’s separate identity has been chipped away is both migration from other parts of Canada, bringing more “normal Canadians” into the province, and loads of immigration from Asia. So most of the population today doesn’t have very deep roots. A similar process has happened in Washington State, which together puts a bit of a damper on the Cascadia movement, even though the regions have traditionally had much more in common with each other than their broader countries.
Hi, I preferred your content from before with the drawings, I feel like it helped visualize things much better, I think you appearing in the video makes it much closer as a viewer, but all the geography info is a bit lost like this. All said love your content!
Actually in Western Australia’s case it has a bigger population than quite a number of other countries - but not a big enough population to secure it against its greedy neighbours without help. Iceland was in a similar position but reversed when its parent country Denmark was annexed by Germany (followed by Britain occupying Iceland and then handing it to the then “neutral” United States (which was how Iceland (and Greenland) wound up with massive US airbases in it afterwards). Iceland voted to be permanently independent from Denmark on 17 June 1944 (facilitated by Denmark not having much say in its own affairs at the time).
@@allangibson8494 Yes, it's an interesting story. I don't think many people realise how small the Icelandic population is - to this day - by European standards, given the size of the territory.
It was easier to focus on the content when I didn't know you were so good-looking. The video is kind of distractive now ^^ Anyway, very interesting as always :)
The mock WA flag on the thumbnail is a really good design. Although one very important detail is wrong - the colours. Blue is very much NOT a WA colour. This same design, swapping the blue out , for yellow in, would be an awesome and authentic WA flag.
@@grantadam7674 I guess I must not be Australian. This argument would suggest that NSW colours are Red and White. WA colours have always been black and yellow!
@@Wide-eyed-stare no don't say that I had my tongue firmly planted in my cheek. NSW for instance, in sporting terms, are the blues. Yeah, saw the WA boys in their yellow and black.I am an advocate for WA and SA setting up their own country because I don't believe there is enough recognition for anything west of the eastern SA border.
Western Australia couldn't become a separate country for military reasons. It would need to have it's own Army, Navy and Airforce to defend itself against invasion from China, Indonesia, Malaysia or India. It literally doesn't have the manpower or money to do it. It is a rich and very attractive target for it's neighbours.
A suggestion : the evolution of the borders of Russia. There was a moment on TV, which would have been funny if it was not about the war in Ukraine, when Putin was shown a map from a scholar. This map showed that in the Nteenth century, Ukraine was not a country. I've been told that this map is well known and that on this map, Saint-Petersbourg isn't in Russia... I think this should make interresting material for a video.
Greenlanders have been dependent on the motherland forever. Now that a financial opportunity comes along, I think it “rich” that they now want independence.
I'd like to see a video where the economy of a state/province would be bigger than a country. For example, if California became its own country, it would be somewhere around the 5th largest economy. I think just ahead or just behind Germany.
It is not correct to say the British organized Federation in Australia. They certainly favored it, but it was a homegrown movement and the people of each colony voted to join. They were self-governing, like the American colonies before the Revolution.
This is the first time I’ve seen your face and it feels like when you find out as a kid that cartoons aren’t real people and I don’t know how I feel about this
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*Okay it seems a lot of you want the Siberian conquest video! I'll get started working on it!*
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sounds like a really entertaining video, Thank you
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Am I the only one who didn't know what General Knowledge looked like?
Lately, possibly. In general, no.
He just started the face in video thing like last week.
Why did I think he was scandinavian
Yes, you're the only one.
His voice definitely don’t match his body.
It is great to see the face behind the pleasent voice. An impartial (as always) video on the expansion of Russia would be great, though I guess complicated.
Thanks! I think so too, I'll add it to my list.
Missing the cartoon thumbnail. Please keep the face during videos, even if as an icon in the corner if showing animations or maps. Keep the face thumbnail for the milestone videos.
@@General.Knowledgeyou should make a video about like Russian subdivisions explaining them and maybe like talking about the mergers of the former administrative regions like koryakia and taymyria they’re obscure but
@@General.Knowledge Quebec would have been a better example for Canada.
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You cannot conceive of how empty Western Australia is until you travel in it. There is a track called the Canning Stock Route which goes for 2,000 km between two small towns (about the distance between Edinburgh and Istanbul). It takes 3 weeks to travel the track, and there is one tiny indigenous community about 1,000 km in where you can get fuel. You transit three separate deserts while travelling the route. You can spend all three weeks without seeing a single other vehicle.
Exactly. Americans always go on about how big Texas is and WA is 3.5 times bigger but with a minuscule fraction of the population.
In Canada, British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec are all larger than Texas.
How quick would you die trying that in a Tesla lol.
It takes days to cross the Nullabor by train and ore and goods trains go from the Pilbara to Melbourne constantly. The Indian Pacific has to go into crossing sidings to let them pass.
There are only two stops between Adelaide and Perth, both in the never-never.
Wonderful trip by luxury train.
@@heronimousbrapson863Only two states smaller than Texas in Australia.
The idea of Western Australia breaking away does raise its head every now and then. I think the last time was during COVID.
They were a bit North Korea with their border shutdowns, weren’t they.
@@Marinefan4000 tbf thats bc our outbreaks kept becoming serious and out of control and that was mostly Melbourne the funniest part was a former politician and current business manager suing the Western Australian government for the lockdowns and claiming it was a breach of human rights to which he lost
@@paintingdreams290 because NSW and Vic did all the heavy lifting on managing returning nationals, hence they had all the issues. WA stuck it's head in the sand and treated it as not my problem....
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@@scooter2099 Thing is though; they could actually get away with it since it was, for the most part, not their problem.
Look at the migration data of 2018-2019 before Covid isn't a factor: NSW and VIC comprise over 60% of all migration to and from the county, with QLD solidly in 3rd. Add in the worldwide limitation on international flights in general: and it makes absolute sense why WA didn't need to really take part in the management since very few people where pushing to get into that part of the country.
(Also; be honest: NSW did alright; but Victorians REALLY did not make things easy on themselves throughout the lockdowns with all those damn protests they ended up holding)
I think the province of Quebec in Canada would have been one to look at seeing as it's had a history of independence movements over the years.
Quebec doesn't want to leave. They would fall apart without all the tax dollars they get. The rest of canada, however, wants them to leave.
@@R.c.475idk dog, those referendum results are pretty damn convincing
I thought that there had been a referendum, but it was deflated @R.c.475
@@R.c.475 I mean, we receive less equalization per capita than the Maritime provinces, Alberta's oil industry alone receives more money than our equalization and the money spent on doubling the ministries is 2 billions higher.
@@samueljourneault7507oil subsidies are given out mainly by provincial governments, not the federal government.
In Canada, Newfoundland/ Labrador was independent until 1949; Québec is a distinct society and has already had at least two independence referenda; Alberta, in the West, is more likely to seek independence than BC because the province is fairly wealthy (tar sands) and more conservative (read anti-immigrant) than most of the rest of the country.
Alberta is similar to Western Australia in that respect.
Western Australian here, there are some people pushing for “waxit” but they were mostly ignored and I haven’t heard of it since 2020. we do have a lot of our own resources but it’s mostly just mining stuff such as iron, we rely on the east coast for a lot of our food and some other supplies, that’s why we suffered shortages during the floods in the east that broke the railroads. Hope this helps :)
Of course the other thing is we have a huge, sparsely populated coastline that would be impossible to defend, if necessary, without the rest of Australia.
I think it gets raised from time to time when WA feels it isn't getting its fair share of the GST distribution from Canberra.
Before federation in 1901, the Australian "colonies" were *functionally independent* countries as Britain had given them complete self rule long before then. So saying that they were 'just colonies', is simplifying things. In effect the choice was to remain a number of small countries or unite to become one large one.
I didn't know this! Thanks for the correction. It's interesting to think about that, was there ever a possibility of each of them moving on to be their own country?
@@General.Knowledge One of them did. There were seven self governing Australian colonies and only six voted to federate, but New Zealand chose not to. The Australian constitution still has a clause that allows New Zealand to join if they want to.
Geelong australia here
@@Dave_SissonThe discussion continued long enough that the “04” Australian telephone area code was reserved for New Zealand (and three quarters of a century later used for mobile phone number assignment).
It was actually a very close run thing that Western Australia joined the Australian commonwealth.
The deciding votes to join the commonwealth in the first place came from the Gold Fields region and only just passed in July 1900 just in time to join the new federation which became effective in January 1901.
@@General.Knowledge Western Australia were the last to agree. Section 26 of the constitution below allows for a Federation with or without WA. New Zealand was involved in some earlier conferences (Fiji attended one as well) discussing federation but decided not to join. The British Parliament left open the option when they passed the Constitution Act but they never made it into the constitution itself. WA hadn't made a decision at the time the Constutution Act was passed hence the two options for the first Parliament.
26. Representatives in first Parliament
Notwithstanding anything in section twenty-four, the number of members to be chosen in each State at the first
election shall be as follows:
New South Wales......... twenty-three;
Victoria..................... twenty;
Queensland................ eight;
South Australia............ six;
Tasmania................... five;
AUSTRALIA’S CONSTITUTION 12
Provided that if Western Australia is an Original State, the numbers shall be as follows:
New South Wales......... twenty-six;
Victoria..................... twenty-three;
Queensland................ nine;
South Australia............ seven;
Western Australia......... five;
Tasmania................... five.
In Canada, there is a strong independence movement in Quebec; two referenda have been held toward this objective. Both were narrowly defeated.
I'm from BC and I think the concept of Cascadia is fascinating. Between tourism, film, lumber, tech, produce, hydro electricity, among other industries in the Cascadia region there's some pretty solid building blocks for a distinct nation.
I also think it's funny you opted for BC and not Quebec who actually have a long running and serious separatist movement
Québec always gets all the attention! I thought BC deserved it here lol. Do you think Cascadia is at all possible to happen?
@@General.Knowledge No. At least not in my lifetime. BC contains Canada's west coast ports. As such BC has a big economic interest in remaining part of Canada. BC is essential to Canada's trade with Asia. This is a good partnership.
On the flip side I don't think the USA has a history of letting regions go.
The state of Washington and the province of BC get along fine, as is, despite cultural differences. This does not mean residents some how don't have patriotism to the nations they reside in. I would not be interested in giving up my identity as Canadian! I have lived half my life in BC but grew up in Alberta.
This is a cool topic. I think another one you could cover well is “why __ is a country”. Basically talking about a few countries who struggle to run themselves that are small and next to more prosperous nations. Why aren’t they just a part of that nation? I find myself thinking this pretty often when I study the globe.
Great idea! Thank you.
yeah sth like Nauru
It's a interesting topic, one that I had put thought into.
There are other content creators that had talk around the topic, but it will be really interesting to see how he does explain it in this Ytb channel. 🙂
A good example are Lesotho, Botswana and Eswatini - all ex-British colonies that are ethnically part of South Africa. The original British plan was to integrate these three African kingdoms into SA, which already contained several other kingdoms. But it's a long (and interesting) story....
@@caeruleusvm7621 enclaves are definitely weird
Good looking Guy who knows his stuff and has a pleasant voice whilst speaking
Love it!!
GK seems to have a lot of talents. In this iteration he does a great job of presenting - and even this old skool bloke thinks he looks very telegenic! In his previous videos we got superb drawings. But for both styles we get brilliantly researched and presented videos.
Personally I'd like to see a bit of both styles.
Ahaha thank you!
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I did hear that Greenland does have a draft constitution, but as you said, given the lenience of Denmark, I don't see Greenlandic Independence being rushed compared to other independence movements.
Agree, it will happen when it needs to happen. By the time being is gonna remain as a danish territory.
I live in Greenland, and the biggest danger to the country is essentially a ‘Dexit’. It ould wreck havoc on the economy. Unfortunately some people here care more about nationalist rhetoric than substantive change for the country.
I think Kalaallit Nunaat independence is on the constitutional agenda but with no specific timeline. But I think 2 factors have an effect of speeding it up: 1) Global warming is thought to be making access to buried natural resources easier. and 2) The prospect of the European Union membership (in Kalaallit Nunaat's case, rejoining the EU). The EU takes some of the sting out of independence from Denmark because they would remain linked and integrated, but on different terms. Also the EU can provide the stabilising force and safety net for poorer countries where now they can be partners/members rather than colonial subjects.
As a Canadian I would LOVE to see Kalaallit Nunaat join Canada, but I don't think that would be the people's of the island's choice (to replace Copenhagen for Ottawa). It would be exciting to have it as an independent Inuit majority neighbour and ally though.
@@kf9346 I also don't see them replacing Copenhagen with Washington D.C., though someone still dreaming. Do Greenlanders want to join the EU or better question would the EU allow Greenland to join? I ask as someone who has had debates with people regarding Armenia joining.
@@joshuawells835 Good point. My comment wasn't meant to suggest Kalaallit Nunaat wanted to rejoin the EU or not, but that the option to rejoin gives makes it easier to move the independence time frame up. I think the EU would be a general benefit for them as it is for the Balkans and post Soviets, but I imagine Greenlanders would have the same issues re fisheries as Iceland and Norway. As for would the EU wanting to take in Kalaallit Nunaat, I don't see why not, they were part of the EU before and the island is strategically and resource important, with the added bonus of a low population, meaning not a big strain on the EU's budget to bring the standard of living up to self-sufficiency (as opposed to a Poland or Romania).
I would imagine, in this era, with EU experience and not wanting go backwards on standards of living, that an independent Kalaallit Nunaat (as with Scotland or .the Faroes) would all do so with the intention of joining/rejoining/remaining in both the EU and NATO. The future for most European countries is the EU, whether they see it or want it now or not, it's just a matter of time before they make membership domestic policy. (Sorry for the lengthy response).
There is a Portuguese link in the positioning of the Western Australian border - or so the story goes (unconfirmed). Britain was a traditional ally of Portugal and was aware of the Treaty of Zaragoza between Spain and Portugal that "divided the new world" along a specific line of longitude.
When Britain claimed the land of "New South Wales", it only claimed the area of the continent that was East of the treaty line out of respect for Portugal technically having the prior claim. The British later established the Swan River colony (present day Perth) out of concern the France might muscle in.
During the debate between the colonies about Federation, one of the deals struck to entice Western Australia to join was the commitment to build a transcontinental railway line linking Perth to the Eastern states. It was a tough job given the vast amount of arid territory it had to cross.
Watching you since before you reached 100k..
Because of you I got to know a lot about world demography history and geography..
I hope you keep on thriving in the future and keep on inspiring others.
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Well researched video and well made drawing!
Great video, love the new setup and the Moomin mug is the best 😅
I like other people are wondering why British Columbia included when it’s not even the biggest in Canada it’s the fifth biggest subdivision of Canada
He did mention this in the video
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Lately, many UA-camrs, specially geography youtubers that I watch, are showing their faces on the videos. I like they are looking to new ways to connect with their viewers (I thought maybe it's because they ran out of visuals to put over their voice-offs 😅)
Also for Western Aus - it's one of the hottest and driest places in the world and yet it was settled by people from basically the coldest and dampest place in the world. If the colonists had been from the middle east and had the climate survival knowhow (not to mention the oil money to back extensive mining operations) then WA might have ended up as a superpower for all we know
The vote to join the Federation was basically the result of miners arriving from Victoria for the gold rush around 1895. Had Paddy Hannan not found the gold in Kalgoorlie for another 10 years, it would have been a separate country.
They extract billions worth of materials from the ground every year. It's a lot like the Near East.
Yeah but the southwest actually has a pretty great climate
@@shamicentertainment1262 To damn cold for me, anything further South than Rocking ham is to cold.
@@jamesmatheson5115 haha. I think anything north of Rockingham is too hot for me. I don’t mind the cold, easy to rug up
Glad to see you showing your face! Not that it matters, your videos are great with or without, but it's nice to put a face to your voice! Continue assim, trabalho impecável!
I already loved the content, the voice, now I love THE MAN. damn Mr. GK….🔥🔥🔥
I would love the russian conquest video
Love your channel ❤
Thank you! :)
Hi Gil! This was an excellent video.
Thank you!
He is so cute, my goodness
Idk if you've ever had the feeling that "this youtuber and I would totally be friends" but I think we'd be friends lol. I've seen 90% of your videos and it's all the same stuff I think about.
Ahaha nice! I think most of us here would get along!
There is a spectre looming over the internet - the spectre of Parasociality
Damn never seen bros face before. He’s got an awesome beard.
Have you done a video on different countries calendars? Like Ethiopia, ROC (Taiwan), Japan, etc.? That could be cool.
I’d be very interested in the Russia video! Manifest Destiny in the US is talked about quite a lot, so it would be interesting to see a video and learn about how a similar movement of expansion was also, in many ways, potentially different 😁
Coverage of the Russian American colonial empire would need to be included (including their bases in Alaska, Hawaii and California).
New Zealand and Fiji were asked to join the federation before Western Australia, because it was easier in 1900 to sail from Sydney/Melbourne/Brisbane to Auckland and Suva than to travel by land or sea to Perth.
Western Australia is inhabitable in the bottom section, and uninhabitable in the rest. It looks really big, but the usable space is so limited that it might as well not be there. When mapping Australia's population, our country looks like 4 islands. There's the east coast section with most of Victoria, eastern NSW and southern QLD. There's Tasmania, which is actually an island. There's Adelaide. And there's Perth. Population density is very low, but population concentration is very high.
Comment for support, enjoyed it as always!
A vid about Russian expansion would be fascinating, Newfoundland and its attempt at independence is an interesting story too.
Great topic, awesomely explained as usual! I for one would love a video on Russia expantion on Siberia!
Sending love and best wishes from England. You are and shall always be our oldest ally.
Absolutely love your videos!! ❤❤
Hello General Knowledge! You do this videos quite well! There was never really any significant desire for an independent BC. Cascadia is a natural region. Just that. There are many regions or provinces that cross national borders but have some natural of cultural similarity that makes them a region or a province.
Great video! Please do a part two; I would love to learn about Borneo Malaysia.
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The video was about large subdivisions of countries. Why would Scotland be included?
@@jsworpin It's also about areas that have had an independent flair.
Scotland literally sold itself into the United Kingdom
England is a bigger subdivision
love the video, would be great to see you do the one on Russia's colonisation too.
Cascadia would be really cool. I always liked this idea.
Please make the Russia video! That would be very interseting!
I remember that Yakutia is it own region in the game Risk - and a very important to rule Asia
Not sure why British Columbia was chosen for this video as Nunavit is over twice its size as well as two other Canadian and three other Australian provinces, states and territories and Alaska being larger. Amazing just how small Texas is in the global context.
This was an interesting video. I agree with others that a Russian expansion video would be fascinating, especially since some of the easternmost moves involved some notable conflicts.
😊 I'd love to see some of your drawings included in with other map sources and your direct presentation.
Yes, as a Finn, I wanna see that expancion to east video 🎉
pls do a video about the russian conquering of siberia, realy nice topic
During the Covid era, all Australia's states closed their boarders. The last to reopen were Queensland and Western Australia.
Because due to the mining they were going flat out and prosperous
Since a lot of people are discussing your appearance and ethnicity, I suggest you make a video about the particularities of the DNA of some countries that are unique cases like Portugal in which the A25-B18-DR15 gene is only found in Portugal, but also in populations of Brazil and the United States.
Is that map where you compared Denmark to Africa an accessible website or was that a graphic you made?
hey general! Eu tenho uma pergunta, what is your political stand?
What's the map thing you were using show relative size?
Largest subdivision in terms of population will be a great video
There has been a secessionist movement in Western Australia since day one of Australia's federation. While it does have mineral resources, it doesn't have enough water and population to succeed in the long term. The Eastern states sometimes want it to go away as well!
Actually before day one. It only voted to join the federation 18 months after the rest of the Australian colonies and only then by the small margin from around Kalgoorlie.
The sweetener was building a transcontinental railroad (and the highway that supported it) through Kalgoorlie.
Well, great for Kalgoorlie.
Im quite glad WA decided to join Australia.
@allangibson8494 They also brought in a lot of workers from over east mainly to kalgoorlie, which helped with the vote.
Many of whom would complain to their kids that they voted wrong later on in life.
The eastern states don't want western Australia to brake away, because it would be such a massive hit to the Australian economy.
The whole point of WA leaving is about money the Goldfields of Western Australia is were the succession movement started, they literally brought in more minners from over east to change the vote in the Goldfields many of them later on in life said they regreted voting to join Australia, as mentioned due to economic reasons and become just like the people they were sent to replace basically.
I'd suggest you look at what states don't have enough water because it's not actually Western Australia, not to mention who are the states with server drought the most.... because it's not Western Australia either....
Western Australia is also the farthest state from other nations and its other states capitals. Hence, its population is small.
If you have a bigger population to start with, you attract more people.
Western Australia has a major agricultural sector it's one of the top dogs in Australia, its the biggest wheat producer in Australia as well as one of the top barley, conola, meat, wool ect, and that's not going to change due to geography and climate....
That is beautiful art. Amazing job.
Thank you!
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I'm surprised Cascadia made the list, but not Alaska
Alaska is literally a red state and is extremely patriotic
@@imreallyagoat Would anyone suppose BC is not patriotic?
@@peircedan No you don’t understand. Alaska is red neck and extremely conservative. Like they are loyal to the USA lmfao
Great video.
Wait Quebec looks larger than Bc?
it is larger
So is Nunavut and Ontario I know only one of those is a province but still Alaska would even make more sense
The Greenland independence movement is a complex and fascinating topic, because in 100 years Greenland is going to be one of the most resource-rich areas of the world.
Not really “going to be”. The resources have been there all along. They aren’t being added to the landmass over the next century. 😂
@@reddykilowattExactly. He makes it sound like the resources are going to fall out of the sky 😂
Not if it melts!
Damn after watching this channel for years I finally have a face to the guy who always tells me he will see me next time for more general knowledge 😯
My idea would be a DSS (Domestic/Dependent Sovereign State). I will use Greenland & Denmark to illustrate how it works.
Denmark would basically agree to recognize Greenland’s absolute sovereignty over all affairs confined to Greenland’s borders and territorial waters. This means that citizens of Greenland are exempt from paying taxes to Denmark or following Danish laws within Greenland. The defense of Greenland would be provided by 2 groups. The first is entirely under Greenland’s control and financed by them. It would be called something like the Greenland Coast Guard. The other group is controlled and financed by the Danish government. It would be a subsidiary of the Danish military called the Greenland Defense Force. The government of Denmark could change Greenland for their services with the amount being moderated based on how much Greenland contributed initially. (For example citizens of Greenland could serve in the Danish military in the Greenland Defense Force.)
For all matters that extend beyond Greenland’s borders and territorial waters, Greenland surrenders all sovereignty to the Danish government with the exception of foreign trade. Foreign trade could be either under the Danish government control or the Greenland government control depending on whether Greenland and their trading partner established a trade agreement complete with Trade Missions between them. If there is such an arrangement then Greenland retains sovereignty over trade relations with said country. If there is no such arrangement then Denmark retains sovereignty.
Passports would be issued by the Danish government and list the Greenland citizen as a Danish national.
You've obviously thought this through in great detail. Have you studied the present devolution of powers? I'd be interested to know how much your ideas vary from the current situation on the ground in Greenland. The main thing to remember is that with such a small population, Greenlanders do not have much institutional capacity. This can be a problem (as with many small island nations). Ironically, here in Africa, the country with the smallest territory and population is the most successful.
5:00, 10:33 : nice maps!
G'day from Bunbury, Western Australia 🇦🇺
I like the Drawing/Painting and wouldn't call it Deformed, lol. As a Cartoon Artist, I know that the little wobblyness of one's hand only adds Charm and Personality to a Drawing/Painting. When it's Perfectly Straight, it looks like a Robot. Of course, in the opposing Philosopy, if it's Perfectly Wobbly it looks to Human. Like Human Child. But I think a Good Work of Art hits the Middle Mark of Straight, but slightly wobbly. GOOD WORK! :D
Oh yeah, and the video too! ;P
For those who keep banging on about how they did not realise what he looked like, some of us who lived in Europe and dealt with overseas students knew exactly what he looked like. He reminds me of a student I use to know.
Great UA-cam channel
I would actually love to see a video on the eastward expansion of Russia! That’s a topic I haven’t seen covered in other places
Could you do a video about how you do some of the most common animations on the channel?
west australian here! while the waxit (yes that’s what it’s ended up being known as) movement is very small now you have all the right points and arguments for it to happen! people come from all over the world for the opportunity to work in WA mining and live in WA in general, if it wasn’t for those mining companies paying next to nothing on tax and being able to sell sometimes 50% of mined ore and gas without paying any royalties, western australia could easily be one of the largest economies in the world. there’s a lot more that goes into it but WA could easily be independent.
Hello from Western Australia 😊 WA has always considered itself ‘not quite Australia’ and thinks that the rest of the country just wants WA’s money (it’s a very wealthy part of the country). During the pandemic too, it really felt like its own country. If you ask someone over the age of about 70, they often support independence but they grew up in a time when going to Melbourne took just as long as going overseas. Now we can fly to Melbourne in a few hours and young people would never want to leave Australia.
Yes, completely ignoring that the eastern mainland states carried the economic costs of the whole of Australia for most of the 20th century.
@@adriancampbell6924 Ignoring that WA didn't have many economic costs then.
@@jessbellis9510 Building cities, railways, cross-nation roads etc in WA mostly to ship goods there. None of that came cheap but it was for the whole nation. Now you don't want to contribute or if you do, you want to whine about how unfair it is. You make me sick. Greedy arseholes.
Yay, thanks for including BC and the Cascadia movement over the way-overdone topic of Quebec, like I was expecting.
The main reason that BC’s separate identity has been chipped away is both migration from other parts of Canada, bringing more “normal Canadians” into the province, and loads of immigration from Asia. So most of the population today doesn’t have very deep roots. A similar process has happened in Washington State, which together puts a bit of a damper on the Cascadia movement, even though the regions have traditionally had much more in common with each other than their broader countries.
I think it is less a movement and more a hallucination of a movement. BC has an election coming up and this is not an election topic at all.
Hi, I preferred your content from before with the drawings, I feel like it helped visualize things much better, I think you appearing in the video makes it much closer as a viewer, but all the geography info is a bit lost like this.
All said love your content!
TLDR: Those large subdivisions are too small in population to be proper countries.
Also very cool to see General Knowledge do a face reveal.
Actually in Western Australia’s case it has a bigger population than quite a number of other countries - but not a big enough population to secure it against its greedy neighbours without help.
Iceland was in a similar position but reversed when its parent country Denmark was annexed by Germany (followed by Britain occupying Iceland and then handing it to the then “neutral” United States (which was how Iceland (and Greenland) wound up with massive US airbases in it afterwards). Iceland voted to be permanently independent from Denmark on 17 June 1944 (facilitated by Denmark not having much say in its own affairs at the time).
@@allangibson8494 Yes, it's an interesting story. I don't think many people realise how small the Icelandic population is - to this day - by European standards, given the size of the territory.
Thats not a real thing, there are countries with UN representation with 1 million and 2 million people in there
8:09, like WA wasnt?
This new format isn't giving what he thinks it's giving
Bro is majestic
As a West Aussie, I'm so happy to see some recognition and facts about my state. Thank you so much. 🥹
It was easier to focus on the content when I didn't know you were so good-looking. The video is kind of distractive now ^^ Anyway, very interesting as always :)
idk what i expected u to look like but u look good bro
The mock WA flag on the thumbnail is a really good design. Although one very important detail is wrong - the colours. Blue is very much NOT a WA colour. This same design, swapping the blue out , for yellow in, would be an awesome and authentic WA flag.
Yellow and blue, West Coast Eagles colours. This is probably lost on non Australian viewers.
@@grantadam7674 I guess I must not be Australian. This argument would suggest that NSW colours are Red and White. WA colours have always been black and yellow!
@@Wide-eyed-stare no don't say that I had my tongue firmly planted in my cheek. NSW for instance, in sporting terms, are the blues. Yeah, saw the WA boys in their yellow and black.I am an advocate for WA and SA setting up their own country because I don't believe there is enough recognition for anything west of the eastern SA border.
Western Australia couldn't become a separate country for military reasons. It would need to have it's own Army, Navy and Airforce to defend itself against invasion from China, Indonesia, Malaysia or India. It literally doesn't have the manpower or money to do it. It is a rich and very attractive target for it's neighbours.
Actually Yakutia wanted to be independent, and fought for it. It rebeled in 1920 and continued to fight for 5 years
A suggestion : the evolution of the borders of Russia. There was a moment on TV, which would have been funny if it was not about the war in Ukraine, when Putin was shown a map from a scholar. This map showed that in the Nteenth century, Ukraine was not a country. I've been told that this map is well known and that on this map, Saint-Petersbourg isn't in Russia... I think this should make interresting material for a video.
actually at that point St Petersburg just didnt exist
@@paintingdreams290 There was a Swedish fortress, but you are right, no city.
@@paintingdreams290 It's funny nevertheless
@@CyrilleParis agreed
Greenlanders have been dependent on the motherland forever. Now that a financial opportunity comes along, I think it “rich” that they now want independence.
It's funny because Greenland is an Island but the current queen on Denmark was born in Australia
In the island of Tasmania, right?
I had watched her video about geography and boundaries.
I'd like to see a video where the economy of a state/province would be bigger than a country. For example, if California became its own country, it would be somewhere around the 5th largest economy. I think just ahead or just behind Germany.
Both Western Australia & Queensland were both meant to be broken up into 3 states each!
Where are u from bro?
It is not correct to say the British organized Federation in Australia. They certainly favored it, but it was a homegrown movement and the people of each colony voted to join. They were self-governing, like the American colonies before the Revolution.
Please make that Wild East video!
Tibet and Xinjiang in China are both massive but perhaps the issue of their sovereignty is too controversial?
You want real sovereignty and controversy? Puerto Rico and Hawaii
This is the first time I’ve seen your face and it feels like when you find out as a kid that cartoons aren’t real people and I don’t know how I feel about this
Id love to see the "GDP" factor in these types of videos. (I know how much more work that is, but Im left wondering and looking it up by myself haha)
I'll make sure to add it next time!
Man I can’t get over how much of a snack this man is and yes I said snack.
Happy to see the handsome face behind the lovely beaitiful voice🥰🥰🥰