Okay, but that doesn't change the fact that in Australia there are 48 million kangaroos and in Uruguay there are 3,457,480 inhabitants, so if kangaroos decide to invade Uruguay, each Uruguayan will have to fight 14 kangaroos.
As a Kiwi I've always referred to Australia as the USA to our Canada. They are unbelievably powerful and honestly I think we're just happy to get along with them, for the most part.
Hey brother or sister, an aussie here, yeah our country's are pretty tight, and we (as the person a bit above me said) are very happy to be friends with you kiwis!
Important think to note about Australia is while much of the country can be mostly dry at times on the surface, it also has the worlds largest aquapher called the Great Artesian basin, it covers 1.7 million square kilometers, the state of NSW alone has over 5000 million mega litres in aquaphers, even the city of Sydney has an 141 square Km aquifer under it. Australia tends not to use its underground water to the same extent other countries, but it is nice to know it's available if needed.
thing is, while we under-use our bore resources and whatnot but we cant fall in the trap of west USA which have basically used their entire aquifer on farming in sub-desert climates and is facing a massive watershortage.
@Peepee Train if we can work around not using the aquapher, we shouldn't, think of it as a water bank, only to be used when it is absolutely necessary...
Not to mention we also don't have large desalination plants in use. Nations States like Israel for instance which have very little arable land and water basins have relied on desalination for water security, Australia has a few desalination plants but very few for the size of its population, if we did decide to use them as well as pipeline desalinated water across the country, it would very easily solve our water problem, we would never run out of water. In addition, we could manufacture man-made dams and catchments like other countries have, as when we do have big rain periods we could harvest enough water to survive through the dry periods. As for power, same thing on one side you have the "we can't use coal" and on the other you have the "we can't use renewables" camps. What we could do is use nuclear energy but it's currently banned and considering Australia has very strict standards for storage of nuclear material and plenty of inarable land to stick it in, it's really a no brainer for energy, we also have high reserves of uranium to us, but again the environmentalists will be up in arms. The problem we have really as a country is poor leadership and we're too focused on mining rather than creating infrastructure or cities. All the infrastructure we create is usually toll roads and highways or stadiums for cities, not pipelines or dams for catchments in rural areas. Or we create massive suburbs on the fringes of the cities and just have massive city expansion or urban sprawl. Our manufacturing is all pretty much gone too, car companies like Ford, Holden, Toyota all gone and moved their manufacturing overseas. Steel plants used to be big industry here but wages, electricity prices and other regulations made it expensive to produce steel here, so expensive that companies just ship the iron to another country from Australia and make it there. Power is getting more expensive for environmental concerns/reasons making industry just more expensive in general compared to other countries where electricity is far cheaper. Anything we do create now also has big budget blow outs or never meet deadlines like the Snow Hydro 2.0 or Melbourne's highway systems. We're just not a serious country anymore. We had a golden age between 1980-2008.
YEAH, 🤣surprised you can't hear them laughing their heads off at such a stupid headline. Anyone who has spent any time in our Military, KNOWS the joke this stament is, and the joke is on all Australians who believe it.
As an Aussie our current main concerns are housing (which is further exasperated by foreign and local investors), water security as you said, rising inflation and interest (making houses even more expensive) and debt. Last few administrations sucked up insane amounts of debt.
Housing is going to be tight for another 4-5 years. Huge immigration doesn’t help, especially for rental properties. Investors need to build more rentals (short and long term) as well. It’s less appealing for someone to lay down $$$$ for an uncertain future with successive governments changing tax laws on each other though. And for owner occupiers, it takes 1.5 years to build, and prices can’t be locked in due to inflation and scarcity of tradies. Plus the cost of land and build is likely to be higher than the banks valuation of the property. Such are the times we are living in. Zoning by local councils has a lot to answer for too. Careful to blame investors though.
@@yesiasked I didn’t say no immigration. I said the 4 years supply in 1 year when Australia was already 1-2 years behind building supply of houses makes houses more expensive to rent and buy
Australia has a massive case of imposter syndrome, due to its penal colony history and it's wealth now being pretty much entirely generated from digging holes in the ground, as explained in the video
@@Aussieboy329 we are a country of 25 million, in a land mass the size of the Continental United States which has a population of 320million in same space. Yes we are mineral rich, but that is often a curse than a blessing, when look at pretty much any country with resource boon. But yet we thrive, we strive to be the best we can be in all things. Our economy is robust, yea we get a lot from resource industries, but not beholden to it. We kick ass in sports at world level. Most of us look good in speedos 😛, and besides some hiccups we seems to have acquitted ourself well diplomatically and militarily. We punch well above our weight
As a rural Australian living in semi-desert land, I appreciate you for mentioning us and our land, we never get any mentions, it’s only the cities, but the people here are lovely and hard-working, the land is absolutely stunning, the animals are fascinating, the freedom is impeccable etc. I would hate to live in the city.
i appreciate you guys so much i live in melbourne so it's definitely noisier, but travelling up to places in rural victoria like echuca and stuff just humbles me can't even imagine the semi-desert and desert lands, so respect
Can we seriously put an end to the country/bush-v-city divide? It's a little boring. City people appreciate rural areas. We appreciate how important it is to have food security and agriculture. Fun fact for you though, just saying: agriculture contributes 3% of our GDP. Industry contributes 25%. But services, including financial services, contribute 65% of our GDP. And almost ALL activity in the financial services is in the cities. Your welcome! Also, you don't mind if we dig another big hole out over there somewhere do you? Thanks, we really appreciate it!!!
@Whack A … I was talking about how much I love where I live and everything it entails, I wasn’t making a thorough essay of the pros and cons of “rural vs city dwelling”, I would prefer to live rural, that doesn’t automatically mean I have some obscure competitive hatred for the city, I KNOW very well the benefits of the city, and the cons of living rural, it’s simply personal preference. You don’t need to write an economical spreadsheet on the superiority of cities and the shittiness of rural areas. It’s a personal opinion, not a competition. Chill out.
As a Brazilian myself living in Stray for 4 years now, there isn’t a single day that I am not amazed with how most things just work in here. I love the country, love the opportunities, love most Aussies. Just the food isn’t as good as ours but I can live without it 😂. And for my Tassie mates, your country🤭 is beautifully breathtaking. I enjoyed each second that I spent in there ❤️.
True. If you want a really good Australian steak you need to go to Thailand or other Asian nations that import Aussie meat and seafood. Same goes with our prawns and lobsters. All the best stuff is sold off overseas.
O que o pessoal fala dos animais é só piada ou o bixo pega mesmo? Eu tenho um cagaço com aranha se algum dia eu tiver a chance de ir pra Australia eu vo ficar pensando nisso kkkkkk
Aussie here, we may not be in a "recession" as such but we're bloody well heading towards one. Our inflation went up the wazoo a few months ago, shit's bad. Also we did used to have a massive manufacturing industry but it's all gone now and we mostly just sell food and raw minerals
But we had a recession during the lockdowns in 2020. True, now we have record low unemployment, but that is partly because lockdowns made many older folk realise that retirement wasn't so bad...
@@concept5631 prolly some Russian propaganda to recruit more cannon fodder--er--I mean, soldiers. Sad what’s become of the “2nd strongest military in the world”😩
The reason we don't make steal is that our wages are too high and our currency too valuable to make it competitive in international markets. We used to have a large steel industry before we got rich, particularly in the city of Newcastle. But as wages went up we ended up just selling iron to China and buying back their steel. Hope this was helpful :)
No the reason we don’t manufacture steel here is because the bloody Kennett and Howard Governments sold off all our assets overseas and stopped us being self sufficient
Our first challenge is having enough people to work in specific industries. We have a worker shortage across all industries. Secondly we have almost no housing available, housing costs are unaffordable for someone working in retail or hospitality.
@@sirwahthemonke no way in hell are you assuming that a fucking Z means he supports Russia? Please don't tell me that's what you're doing here, God please no
To be honest Perth's isolation turned it into one of the nicest Australian Cities. There's a reason everyone in Adelaide has a moderate to high hatred of the east coast but not the west coast.
In a few short simple steps I have a proposal that will close the divide between east and west Australia Firstly, that we rename and merge WA,SA and the NT into a mega state and just call it the desert. Maybe they can figure out a better name but clearly they haven't in over 100 years. Reissue the police with mad max style uniforms and vehicles. Next all Australian children are to be sent away to grow up in the desert unsupervised, those that survive to 18 can return to the east.
Negative gearing isn't about the value of a property, it allows you to treat an investment property like a business and deduct expenses (mostly mortgage interest) against your taxable personal income. Negative gearing is where the expenses of the investment property are greater than the income so you pay net lower tax. You can't do it for your residence though. You can also make your investment property part of your low-tax retirement fund. The right loves it because it enriches their base and supposedly increases housing supply, the left dislikes it because it is an expensive subsidy for investors and supposedly drives house price inflation. There's 15m taxpayers of which 2m have rental properties and 1m have negative gearing. Of the 1m, 9 in 10 have one investment property, the other 10% 2 or more. Those numbers, despite being a small minority of overall electors (16.4m), mean it is hard to campaign against the system because it immediately alienates 1 million voters, mostly right voters, but enough independent and left voters to make a difference. Labor lost an election in 2019 where it campaigned against this system but won this year's election after it dropped that policy. Although it was only one issue among many, of course.
Fun fact about Australian housing. If you put a solar panel on your home you energy bill would be reduced and if you have enough solar panels the power plant will start paying you for power so have fun with that fact.
"Fun fact about Australian housing. If you put a solar panel on your home you energy bill would be reduced and if you have enough solar panels the power plant will start paying you for power so have fun with that fact." You guys believe the wildest stuff Sure they do that but when you need energy they charge heaps When you supply it they give you bugger all Peak hour prices We are being led into price gouging nonsense
australia is basically just if someone took a European power, gave them a continent that’s mostly desert, and slapped them off the coast from indonesia
Australia has it in spades in primary industries (mining + agriculture) and tertiary industries (services). Apart from water, it's Achilles' heel is secondary industries (manufacturing). Human capital is too expensive here due to strong labour laws and high minimum wage (can't exploit workers like you can in underdeveloped countries). Hence, it's cheaper to export the raw material overseas, process them into usable commodities, and import them back. If Australia wants to be self-sufficient, they need to build up its secondary industries (local manufacturing).
Which is only possible by establishing high levels of automation from the start. If we had cheaper energy and solved our water supply issues with more advanced desalination technology, we could make a ridiculous amount of money.
@@namanish450 i feel like the fact that most of the country by area is desert and semidesert you could just go with 100% solar based desalination and turn the brine into salt. Basically use concentrated solar to generate electricity and use that to power desalination plants and dump the brine is classic evaporation basins uses to harvest salt since the dawn of time. And with a large enough resevoir it should be reasonable to only run the desalination plants durring the day while the sun is shining. (I have a theory about making an "open cycle" con solar desalination plant but am unsure of its economic feasibility)
Our cattle station is entirely powered by solar panels with lithium battery banks, can go multiple days without sunlight before the backup generator kicks in, even the remote water mills are solar powered pumps. The work vehicles are the only thing burning fuel now.
When it's more expensive for properties to run power lines than put in solar, the logical decision is solar. However, the way our energy economics are being destroyed, that economic decision, to put solar into your remote property, will prove even more beneficial, in the coming few years.
@@savagegfry problem with solar is they break down very quickly due to converting solar into heat then into power which degrades the hell out of components and the hotter s place gets the more the battery is more likely to swell or explode great for a time but not sustainable financially or resource wise
That won't stop government closing you down. According to the dill pickles at the WEF/UN all of those cattle burping and farting are destroying the planet don't you know. Farmers in the Netherlands tried to go green and use the best sustainable farming practices and latest technology too. All that led to was the government wanting to close 3000 + of their farms down. So all of your good work will go unrewarded once the government comes to close down your cattle station. Same thing is happening in NZ with their dairy industry.
@@LegendOfTheFLame393why not just get one of your really drunk mates and make them push a little wheel round and round to make energy, done jt before and it powered a piece of paper
Fun fact: the Brits tried and failed set up a penal colony in the Cape Colony in South Africa in 1849. When the colony's government found out, they tried to ask the Westminister parliament to cancel the policy, but by then it was too late - a ship full of convicts - mostly Irish women and children - were already on its way. Along the way, the ship also picked up petty convicts who had previously been sent to Barbados. By the time the ship arrived in Table Bay in Cape Town, the mayor organized a riot to prevent the convicts from being offloaded. The riot lasted for a hundred days and the convicts who were forced to remain on board the ship suffered because of the siege. Eventually, the Governor Sir Harry Smith was able to convince the Secretary for the Colonies Henry Gray the 3rd to send the ship off to Van Diemen's Land instead.
@@greysonholtz because he is telling a story and that is what was said. Henry Grey would not have said send them to Australia. Quotes can break all rules of English as your typing what was said. Cause your right..no one says Van Diemen’s land anymore. Not even this guy👆
@@greysonholtz I'm aware. I used the name that was used at the time, rather than the name we use today. Otherwise I'd be anachronistic. You should note I also used the term 'Cape Colony' - rather than 'Western Cape'. Same reason it is inaccurate to say "In 1619, some of the first African slaves landed in the USA" because the USA didn't exist then. Rather, it is more accurate to say "In 1619, some of the first African slaves landed in Jameston in the Virginia Colony (which was later incorporated in the USA)".
Fantastic video! Only flaw is that you failed to mention that like the middle east, water desalination plants have taken off in a big way - Perth was first in 2006. If you combine this with limitless renewable energy in the future that challenge should be largely solved. The housing aspect - particularly negative gearing - is a massive problem. Like many US cities, nearly all Australian cities can't build enough affordable housing, while a small percentage of the population own several.
South America, Africa, and the rest of South East Asia/Oceania will be relatively untouched. They will have to struggle with the winter. Much of their population will survive compared to Northern Latitudes.
@@jasonhaven7170 Bro... the UK is a nuclear power. They're 100% getting wiped off the face of the earth. Ireland is close enough, and far north enough, that they would face immense struggles in the fallout.
@@IC3XR i mean you shot a few thousand rounds killed about 10 emus then left before they retaliated >.>, which there push back i hear claimed 1 farmer 3 tractors a drop bear, summoned a plunge of toads, and they dropped Side 2 (wonder who will get this reference)
@@zetaking2909 the Australian government, after witnessing the colossal fuckup, issued farmers a bounty for emu culling. Farmers slaughtered 57,000 emus, the farmers made some $, and fence technology improved. You = 🤡
Like dollaroo? Jeez I know there is some slang like lobster for a twenty or pineapple for a fifty but I never heard anyone use it. dollaroo? Never even heard of it. There's more slang about cigarettes than money. A ciggy, a fag, a durrie, a smoke, a rollie, even a bumper.
@@James-wq7su if only our natural resources were nationalised or majority controlled by the Commonwealth of Australia, instead of these private conglomerates who get government subsidies for continuous "growth".
They actually came extremely close in 2020 to having another recession in Australia due to the pandemic but it somehow didn’t happen even though the government thought it would most likely happen at the time!
Government gave everyone money. Kept ppl in their homes largely and kept them employed (largely), but the consequence of shutting down the economy and pumping money to everyone is inflation and an economy that needs time to correct itself
I live in Perth, because we're far smaller than other cities like Sydney or Melbourne, it's a lot calmer, but we often are affected by things that don't affect the east coast because there's such an enormous distance between the two sides of the country
Such as being called at bloody half past 5 in the morning by my insurance company who happen to be based over East. Bloody hated that, problem is they just don't think that there's a three hour difference.
@@SugmaDick That's a good point. I work in finance and probably made some of those calls and rightfully got told off for doing so. It is not that we don't know, it is either we don't care and/or we may only have a mobile number and assume you are not in WA(if we dont check or know your address). In regards to call centres and whatnot some companies close their phone lines at 7 or 8pm to specifically cater for WA but probably an equal amount don't. Personally, I feel like WA would be better off having some of their financial services done in Perth instead of the East Coast. Like the big banks, insurance companies and superannuation companies should set up offices in Perth specifically for people in WA. If WA ever does want to succeed from the rest of Australia(being a bunch of rich bogans) then you would probably want to starting running your own financial services institutes rather than finding yourself cut off financially.
@@EatMyShortsAU we DID used to have our own banks, now they have all been folded into, or are owned by, the big 4 🫤 We do still have some insurance companies WA based.... but as with everything if they want to make more money they need more people to join them so up sticks and move interstate, merge with other companies Aus wide, or are just sold off, forgetting we exist!
@@Shado_wolf I just left w.a for Qld..the only state with more money and better infrastructure is nsw. W.A still owns the TAB I believe..I hope they never let that go. No other states seem to benefit from royalties to region..w.a schools roads everything is better funded. The rail system in Perth is leaps ahead of others as far as train stations go they do not look like vast steel industrial areas you see in Sydney. I did not realise how behind the other states are. Sydney is the only place I see money spent like W.A does.
@@adamhastie5718no no no, don't you know we are Wait Awhile 🙄🤨 our transperh system USED to be one of the best and cheapest in the world in terms of our population size and distances we can travel on it. Don't know how it rates these days but with a 2 zone cap I'd say it's still one of the cheapest. I love Perth, I'm not a city person so it's about as big of a city I think I could handle, but there isn't much we don't have!! A new theme park would be nice but Adventure World is so much better than it was when I was growing up so that's ok.
Fun fact. Perth is closer to south east Asia then the east coast of Australia. It’s easier (and cheaper) to go to New Zealand from Sydney. Also, a lot of what you have said about our culture Im pretty sure you got from the Simpsons
This is true. Honestly, if you ask anyone here, it’s probably more likely they’ve visited Bali in Indonesia than anywhere in the country outside of Western Australia
@Yoda on Fire Are you saying that for the memes? h0ser's theory on us losing our water for food exports is *absolutely absurd!* We have groundwater here!
As an Aussie, I can say I never heard anyone say Dollarydoos. Also as far as economic history goes we didn't simply start digging, after the gold rush Australia was built on the sheeps back until recent history when mining took over. Negative gearing is more a way to treat an investment property as a business and claim the cost of a loss against any revenue you may receive. And water, although sparse in some areas, is abundant in the top end, we just need a way to capture and transfer it to the areas that need it. Apart from that pretty entertaining.
Well there is water down south the government just fucked up dirt and plant laws so the water pools up (and floods) or soaks into the ground/gets wasted
Remarkable how H0ser, who shitposts, does a more accurate summary of Australian demography and economy than a lot of so called political channels and he did it as a foreigner. What non Australian ever mentions negative gearing?
The water situation isn't actually that bad. As a farmer myself it forces growers to become ultra efficient or go out of business. Even in dry times there can be enough. Probably could do with less water intensive crops like almonds but hey if that's what city consumers want and will pay for, we can grow it.
I'm glad that our cattle station in the Kimberely sits ontop of a massive underground basin. More water than we could ever need 25m below our feet. We only do cattle though so don't need much but apparently we could change to irrigation across the whole station and our neighbours and still have enough.
Watching all your videos on other countries makes me glad to be Australian. I'm not one to feel much national pride or anything, but we're a stable country sitting on a fuckton of resources. Sure we have problems but comparitively less problems than a lot of places. Almost every other video I've watched on this channel focuses on wars, famines, aging populations etc so having expensive houses is definitely first world problem vibes. Time are tougher post-covid but we came through it a lot better than most countries. I don't understand the housing market much but as I understand it our housing prices are mostly because we cant build houses fast enough to meet demand due to everyone wanting to live in standalone houses & also immigration. Also weird fact, even though Perth only has a population of 2-odd million we're the longest city in the world ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) because we simultaneously all want to live in the city (80% of Western Australia lives in Perth) yet all want to live on the coast & all want to own our own house (i.e not apartments etc) so we just keep? building more suburbs up & down the coast??
A friend had American visitors & took them to the outback, they saw the super giant windmills & asked are they for oil ? He replied no, it gets so hot out here we install them to keep the cows cool hahahahah. They loved their visit & went home with a new myth to spread across America hahahah.
*Australia is basically the West Coast. miles upon miles of dry, hot, barren desert but the coasts have some of the best weather, beautiful beaches, and best soil for agriculture*
Honestly I find the tableland/ highland regions of NSW, southern QLD, and the Adelaide Hills to have the best climates. Look up places like Orange, NSW, Toowoomba, QLD, and Sterling, SA on Wikipedia and go to the "Climate" chapters. Also our inland is where all our food comes from unless you are talking about centre to northern QLD.
@@TenOrbital yep too right mate but without the endless miles of homelessness seen everywhere in every major city, the racial tensions, rampant crime, urban decay, & let's not forget the unchecked anarchy... Chaz etc. We have little bits of most of this but nothing on the scale one sees in Cal.
A lot of people don’t realise this but the symbol of Australia should be a rabbit. There’s actually 4 of them for every kangaroo and 300 for every emu, and same goes with cane toads
As an Australian, to me it seems to me that it's not like that we're going to rise up, but just that the other superpowers of the world are going to sink to our level
@@Joker-no1uh The United States doesn't even have to lower its GDP for its economy to eventually suffer, just has to continue incurring debt at the same rate it is now and the majority of that GDP is going to become worthless. US current debt to GDP ratio is 120% Australia's is not even 60%. 🤣
@@niccijay4683 High debt isn't necessarily a bad thing, if it was the US wouldve collapsed into economic chaos decades ago, in the meantime my relatives who just moved there a year ago are living a neat life.
1 thing you missed in terms of our water is the abundant amount of underground springs in this country, growing up we had 6 or more in our suburb and 2-3 of em met in a big pool under our backyard, which was both cool as shit and shithouse as it sometimes rose up enough to soak our lawns from underneath, even formed its own little pond that we walled off
@@trevor623 Much better than 20+yrs old books with less info than a 5min video. Edit: Just check all geo textbooks i used to learn (excluding uni), only four pages about Oceania, let alone Australia.
As an Australian, I would like to add something, One of the biggest issues I see with my country is the lack of ambition, From what I see day to day, People have no ambition, And of course there are people like that across the world, But especially in Australia, There is a lack of desire.People live to watch the Reality Drama on a Friday, Or the Cricket on a Saturday, Not to do anything of any significant purpose, People live....Just to live. If it makes any sense.
ive felt that too but i didnt know if it was an australian thing. it could be a reason as to why our media is piss poor and our biggest media company is one thats federally funded and managed, and the entire world sources its info on australian culture from the simpsons
I remember around 2000-2010, it didn’t rain a single drop in Sydney, you would get a fine for washing your car or watering your garden. It’s ok though, we’ve seen the biggest floods in 100 years this year.
In regards to steel production we actually did produce large quantities to be used both domestically and sold overseas. Unfortunately over the past couple of decades it’s production domestically has all but ceased due to corruption and various other things
fun fact about 10:23. South Australia already operated on 100% renewable energy and a few months ago had to shut down some of the wind/solar farms due to too much energy on the grid. (a storm took out the main lines sending excess energy to other states)
@@Vandelberger They do, but they are heavily reliant on renewables, and they're a big power importer: it's why when the electrical interconnect between South Australia and Victoria was knocked out in a storm a while back, Adelaide (their capital) instantly went dark. In fact, the way @icer1249 is phrasing it, it sounds like he's falling for some sort of political propaganda that spun it exactly the opposite of how it happened (South Australia has been governed by a leftist party for 16 of the last 20 years).
There's a cattle station in Australia that's 23,677km² (9,142mi²). That is bigger than Isreal, Jamaica, The Bahamas and Slovenia. It's also more than half the size of Denmark, Estonia, Belgium and Switzerland
As an Australian I can definitely say you summed us up well. Although our housing prices are rediculous at least we can generate a tonne of mining for our pals
This is one of the most brilliant and funny videos and it happens to be about economics! Hilarious and also very astute. Loving your work while nursing my crazy 2023 New Years Day hangover in Sydney 😍🤩😜
Sunny coast Qld Nambour Death valley It's good to see people poke Australia in any type of information or knowledge exploring Got a sub, good work mate
Okay. Been here most my life. 20% UK "The big wet and big dry." Guess what, you taught an Aussie about the place they have been living in. I never fucking knew this.
Thanks to your video I am now imagining a young Australian girl with body issues getting cheered up again because she remembers that her country has coal and money
Okay, but that doesn't change the fact that in Australia there are 48 million kangaroos and in Uruguay there are 3,457,480 inhabitants, so if kangaroos decide to invade Uruguay, each Uruguayan will have to fight 14 kangaroos.
that's a battle I'm not sure they're ready for....
Add emus for good measure.
@@h0ser they get to call themselves a Uruguayaning. They're ready for anything.
This comment is so early that it broke the laws of time
@@nick74u36 I just realized it now
The oldest joke in the book is telling foreigners “Australian slang” and just making up random shit that not a single Australian ever uses.
IKR
ye fr only those eshays do
lol.. did you understand any of the slang in this guys clip?
@@johney3734 yeah he did pretty well
I bet 10 dollaridoos that this statement is not true.
As a Kiwi I've always referred to Australia as the USA to our Canada. They are unbelievably powerful and honestly I think we're just happy to get along with them, for the most part.
Aussie here, we're happy to get along with yall too! We're basically brothers, even if we're at each other's throats occasionally.
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@@BananaTed it was anzac day 2 days ago btw so late lest we forget
@@Maxi25554same im a kiwi who lives in Australia in nz its really nice and over in perth i am running for my life from 12 magpies
Hey brother or sister, an aussie here, yeah our country's are pretty tight, and we (as the person a bit above me said) are very happy to be friends with you kiwis!
Important think to note about Australia is while much of the country can be mostly dry at times on the surface, it also has the worlds largest aquapher called the Great Artesian basin, it covers 1.7 million square kilometers, the state of NSW alone has over 5000 million mega litres in aquaphers, even the city of Sydney has an 141 square Km aquifer under it. Australia tends not to use its underground water to the same extent other countries, but it is nice to know it's available if needed.
thing is, while we under-use our bore resources and whatnot but we cant fall in the trap of west USA which have basically used their entire aquifer on farming in sub-desert climates and is facing a massive watershortage.
@Peepee Train if we can work around not using the aquapher, we shouldn't, think of it as a water bank, only to be used when it is absolutely necessary...
@@peepeetrain8755 yeah and aquifers take a longggg time to replenish too
Not to mention we also don't have large desalination plants in use. Nations States like Israel for instance which have very little arable land and water basins have relied on desalination for water security, Australia has a few desalination plants but very few for the size of its population, if we did decide to use them as well as pipeline desalinated water across the country, it would very easily solve our water problem, we would never run out of water. In addition, we could manufacture man-made dams and catchments like other countries have, as when we do have big rain periods we could harvest enough water to survive through the dry periods. As for power, same thing on one side you have the "we can't use coal" and on the other you have the "we can't use renewables" camps. What we could do is use nuclear energy but it's currently banned and considering Australia has very strict standards for storage of nuclear material and plenty of inarable land to stick it in, it's really a no brainer for energy, we also have high reserves of uranium to us, but again the environmentalists will be up in arms.
The problem we have really as a country is poor leadership and we're too focused on mining rather than creating infrastructure or cities. All the infrastructure we create is usually toll roads and highways or stadiums for cities, not pipelines or dams for catchments in rural areas. Or we create massive suburbs on the fringes of the cities and just have massive city expansion or urban sprawl. Our manufacturing is all pretty much gone too, car companies like Ford, Holden, Toyota all gone and moved their manufacturing overseas. Steel plants used to be big industry here but wages, electricity prices and other regulations made it expensive to produce steel here, so expensive that companies just ship the iron to another country from Australia and make it there. Power is getting more expensive for environmental concerns/reasons making industry just more expensive in general compared to other countries where electricity is far cheaper. Anything we do create now also has big budget blow outs or never meet deadlines like the Snow Hydro 2.0 or Melbourne's highway systems. We're just not a serious country anymore. We had a golden age between 1980-2008.
Got questions ask me thanks mate
As an Australian, I am glad to see Australia being talked about outside of Australia.
Why?
@@joeydebus1329 because no one ever mentions it
YEAH, 🤣surprised you can't hear them laughing their heads off at such a stupid headline. Anyone who has spent any time in our Military, KNOWS the joke this stament is, and the joke is on all Australians who believe it.
as a tasmanian, glad to see we're still being ignored and cut off of maps.
As an Australia, I am too. However I also admit we are the "Notice me Sempai" meme in country form.
As an Australian I love how Tasmania is just notably cut off all map images...
Tasmania?, never heard of him
Cries in Tasmanian 🥲
Fuck Tasmania lmao
We like to pretend they're not there
@@jobet981 And we like it that way
The “long dry” and “big wet” are actually called elnino and lanina, when Australia was on fire that was elnino, right now lanina and it’s flooding.
As an Aussie our current main concerns are housing (which is further exasperated by foreign and local investors), water security as you said, rising inflation and interest (making houses even more expensive) and debt. Last few administrations sucked up insane amounts of debt.
Housing is going to be tight for another 4-5 years. Huge immigration doesn’t help, especially for rental properties. Investors need to build more rentals (short and long term) as well. It’s less appealing for someone to lay down $$$$ for an uncertain future with successive governments changing tax laws on each other though. And for owner occupiers, it takes 1.5 years to build, and prices can’t be locked in due to inflation and scarcity of tradies. Plus the cost of land and build is likely to be higher than the banks valuation of the property. Such are the times we are living in. Zoning by local councils has a lot to answer for too. Careful to blame investors though.
@@bennyl7224 Australia cannot survive without even more immigration. It’s basically empty and needs more.
@@bennyl7224 The new stock immigrants from mainly Asia are more productive than the old stock immigrants from mainly Europe
@@yesiasked I didn’t say no immigration. I said the 4 years supply in 1 year when Australia was already 1-2 years behind building supply of houses makes houses more expensive to rent and buy
As an Aussie I’m happy to live in a country that’s closer to the big boy table than we have any right to be.
wdym by any right to be?
@Young minds podcast I think just clueless to it lol.
Australia has a massive case of imposter syndrome, due to its penal colony history and it's wealth now being pretty much entirely generated from digging holes in the ground, as explained in the video
@@neznet Quite wrong there, and this video is ridiculous, misses alot and he rambles like a moron, crapping on Australia he sounds xenophobic.
@@Aussieboy329 we are a country of 25 million, in a land mass the size of the Continental United States which has a population of 320million in same space.
Yes we are mineral rich, but that is often a curse than a blessing, when look at pretty much any country with resource boon.
But yet we thrive, we strive to be the best we can be in all things.
Our economy is robust, yea we get a lot from resource industries, but not beholden to it. We kick ass in sports at world level. Most of us look good in speedos 😛, and besides some hiccups we seems to have acquitted ourself well diplomatically and militarily.
We punch well above our weight
As a rural Australian living in semi-desert land, I appreciate you for mentioning us and our land, we never get any mentions, it’s only the cities, but the people here are lovely and hard-working, the land is absolutely stunning, the animals are fascinating, the freedom is impeccable etc. I would hate to live in the city.
Rural here, too. Left the big stink some two decades ago, neva goin' back!
i appreciate you guys so much
i live in melbourne so it's definitely noisier, but travelling up to places in rural victoria like echuca and stuff just humbles me
can't even imagine the semi-desert and desert lands, so respect
Can we seriously put an end to the country/bush-v-city divide? It's a little boring. City people appreciate rural areas. We appreciate how important it is to have food security and agriculture. Fun fact for you though, just saying: agriculture contributes 3% of our GDP. Industry contributes 25%. But services, including financial services, contribute 65% of our GDP. And almost ALL activity in the financial services is in the cities. Your welcome! Also, you don't mind if we dig another big hole out over there somewhere do you? Thanks, we really appreciate it!!!
@Whack A … I was talking about how much I love where I live and everything it entails, I wasn’t making a thorough essay of the pros and cons of “rural vs city dwelling”, I would prefer to live rural, that doesn’t automatically mean I have some obscure competitive hatred for the city, I KNOW very well the benefits of the city, and the cons of living rural, it’s simply personal preference.
You don’t need to write an economical spreadsheet on the superiority of cities and the shittiness of rural areas. It’s a personal opinion, not a competition.
Chill out.
@@anneofgreengables9096 truth
As a Brazilian myself living in Stray for 4 years now, there isn’t a single day that I am not amazed with how most things just work in here. I love the country, love the opportunities, love most Aussies. Just the food isn’t as good as ours but I can live without it 😂. And for my Tassie mates, your country🤭 is beautifully breathtaking. I enjoyed each second that I spent in there ❤️.
No, Aussie food is good... If it's Lebanese.
True. If you want a really good Australian steak you need to go to Thailand or other Asian nations that import Aussie meat and seafood. Same goes with our prawns and lobsters. All the best stuff is sold off overseas.
Couldn’t disagree more. Go to Melbourne, some of the best restaurants and food in the world.
Well Australia has a lot of good food from all across the world, especially in the major cities
O que o pessoal fala dos animais é só piada ou o bixo pega mesmo? Eu tenho um cagaço com aranha se algum dia eu tiver a chance de ir pra Australia eu vo ficar pensando nisso kkkkkk
I genuinely appreciate the thorough research that gets put into your videos and as an Aussie, I can confirm , it do be like that.
except for the emu war, he forgot our national animals war against us.
@@user-zu8wk3yo5owe don’t talk about that
If I had a penny for every time you missed out Tasmania on your map of Australia...
>tasmania
>a real place
pick one
We don't want those inbred bogans anyways. Maybe we'll accept them when they start using money instead of trading in cheese
We got rid of pennies decades ago.
you'd have a whole 10cents! (which is 10 to many) that's not counting the ones where Tasmania would be off screen, and does re-cont re-used maps
Tasmania's not a part of Australia bro. You must be thinking of New Zealand.
Aussie here, we may not be in a "recession" as such but we're bloody well heading towards one. Our inflation went up the wazoo a few months ago, shit's bad. Also we did used to have a massive manufacturing industry but it's all gone now and we mostly just sell food and raw minerals
Same with NZ.
Yeah, but compared to almost all other countries we doin alright
yeah id say were pretty fucked, ill never buy a house probably. its actually insane how quick our inflation is rising. scary stuff
Why is inflation rising?
But we had a recession during the lockdowns in 2020. True, now we have record low unemployment, but that is partly because lockdowns made many older folk realise that retirement wasn't so bad...
mate honestly a banger video. first time ive seen your channel and i was laughing and chuckling for the whole thing. how good keep it up!
I live in Australia and I found out more in this video than I knew myself, really good work king
Proud criminal descendant here. We have heaps of resources and a government that is prepared to throw it all away for shiny baubles.
As an Aussie I’m pretty sure recently on the news the government is doing something nuclear and also jazzing up the military
Hello, do you support a Creative society?
@@snowwolf7207 What's a "creative society"?
@@concept5631 prolly some Russian propaganda to recruit more cannon fodder--er--I mean, soldiers. Sad what’s become of the “2nd strongest military in the world”😩
@@abel_underwater They're barely the second best army in Ukraine.
I don't remember hearing anything about nuclear in the news, but I hope we do. With his much uranium we have it would be insanely cheap power.
Did you did some good research this is probably one of the best videos of someone explaining Australia cheers homie 😘
Lived here for my whole life and had no knowledge of some of this information. Awesome video
The reason we don't make steal is that our wages are too high and our currency too valuable to make it competitive in international markets. We used to have a large steel industry before we got rich, particularly in the city of Newcastle. But as wages went up we ended up just selling iron to China and buying back their steel. Hope this was helpful :)
No the reason we don’t manufacture steel here is because the bloody Kennett and Howard Governments sold off all our assets overseas and stopped us being self sufficient
We still make steel, although BlueScope is the only player there.
Check out "the Iron Boomerang". Great prospective project in the coming hard times
artificially inflated dollar by foreign players and unions destroyed our industry
@@VineFynn blue scope is owned by China.
Our first challenge is having enough people to work in specific industries. We have a worker shortage across all industries. Secondly we have almost no housing available, housing costs are unaffordable for someone working in retail or hospitality.
Hard to buy a house and and expensive rent. Surprised there are not more homeless
EDIT: Centrelink
Hey dude, not being disrespectful, but what does the Z in your pfp mean?
@@sirwahthemonke no way in hell are you assuming that a fucking Z means he supports Russia? Please don't tell me that's what you're doing here, God please no
More babies must be had
@Harry Groundwater that's if the skilled workers want to come back after what happened to them during covid lockdowns.
You got me with that clear beer joke. Good stuff my guy.
Pretty Good facts thank you for doing this video
To be honest Perth's isolation turned it into one of the nicest Australian Cities. There's a reason everyone in Adelaide has a moderate to high hatred of the east coast but not the west coast.
Adelaide is the arse crack of Australia
Maybe maralinga nuclear testing explain the strangeness of Adelaide population ,
Shhh, we don’t want those miserable Victorians knowing how good perth is!
In a few short simple steps I have a proposal that will close the divide between east and west Australia
Firstly, that we rename and merge WA,SA and the NT into a mega state and just call it the desert. Maybe they can figure out a better name but clearly they haven't in over 100 years.
Reissue the police with mad max style uniforms and vehicles.
Next all Australian children are to be sent away to grow up in the desert unsupervised, those that survive to 18 can return to the east.
@@Sam-zu8pc dam straight should be building a wall coast to coast keep the Mexican s on their own side
as a Brazilian, one of my life goals is to live and work in Australia one day! simply an amazing country
You will love it. If you want to enjoy the outdoors and have a good balance of life, Perth is an excellent choice.
It's kind of like Brazil except English speaking and fractionally less corrupt.
@@StephensCrazyHour MUCH less corrupt
By all means, come on over
@@gdklinger3882 whatever you do, don't move to Perth, they have big ants it's actually a hell hole
Absolutely hilarious. Subbed
Okay that transition to the sponsor massage is so darn smooth!
Negative gearing isn't about the value of a property, it allows you to treat an investment property like a business and deduct expenses (mostly mortgage interest) against your taxable personal income. Negative gearing is where the expenses of the investment property are greater than the income so you pay net lower tax. You can't do it for your residence though. You can also make your investment property part of your low-tax retirement fund.
The right loves it because it enriches their base and supposedly increases housing supply, the left dislikes it because it is an expensive subsidy for investors and supposedly drives house price inflation. There's 15m taxpayers of which 2m have rental properties and 1m have negative gearing. Of the 1m, 9 in 10 have one investment property, the other 10% 2 or more.
Those numbers, despite being a small minority of overall electors (16.4m), mean it is hard to campaign against the system because it immediately alienates 1 million voters, mostly right voters, but enough independent and left voters to make a difference. Labor lost an election in 2019 where it campaigned against this system but won this year's election after it dropped that policy. Although it was only one issue among many, of course.
Are you familiar with the Creative Society?
@@snowwolf7207 - after a bit of searching, yes I’m now aware of them and no I’m not interested.
@@snowwolf7207 Why do you feel the need to repeat yourself, repeat yourself, repeat yourself, repeat yourself .....
@@frenzalrhomb6919 Because I feel the need to spread the word.
@@frenzalrhomb6919 how often do you smoke a pack of cigarettes before midday?
Fun fact about Australian housing. If you put a solar panel on your home you energy bill would be reduced and if you have enough solar panels the power plant will start paying you for power so have fun with that fact.
Fun fact, no-one can afford to buy a house to put a solar panel on.
That’s a useless fucking fact. That’s in every western country even here in Canada
we installed solar panels and i cant remember the last time we paid any energy bills. They stopped sending us bills after we installed them.
Well u still needs to maintenance your battery 🔋
"Fun fact about Australian housing. If you put a solar panel on your home you energy bill would be reduced and if you have enough solar panels the power plant will start paying you for power so have fun with that fact."
You guys believe the wildest stuff
Sure they do that but when you need energy they charge heaps
When you supply it they give you bugger all
Peak hour prices
We are being led into price gouging nonsense
australia is basically just if someone took a European power, gave them a continent that’s mostly desert, and slapped them off the coast from indonesia
As an Australian, bloody great video mate!
Australia has it in spades in primary industries (mining + agriculture) and tertiary industries (services). Apart from water, it's Achilles' heel is secondary industries (manufacturing). Human capital is too expensive here due to strong labour laws and high minimum wage (can't exploit workers like you can in underdeveloped countries). Hence, it's cheaper to export the raw material overseas, process them into usable commodities, and import them back. If Australia wants to be self-sufficient, they need to build up its secondary industries (local manufacturing).
Which is only possible by establishing high levels of automation from the start. If we had cheaper energy and solved our water supply issues with more advanced desalination technology, we could make a ridiculous amount of money.
@@namanish450 i feel like the fact that most of the country by area is desert and semidesert you could just go with 100% solar based desalination and turn the brine into salt. Basically use concentrated solar to generate electricity and use that to power desalination plants and dump the brine is classic evaporation basins uses to harvest salt since the dawn of time. And with a large enough resevoir it should be reasonable to only run the desalination plants durring the day while the sun is shining. (I have a theory about making an "open cycle" con solar desalination plant but am unsure of its economic feasibility)
Our cattle station is entirely powered by solar panels with lithium battery banks, can go multiple days without sunlight before the backup generator kicks in, even the remote water mills are solar powered pumps.
The work vehicles are the only thing burning fuel now.
When it's more expensive for properties to run power lines than put in solar, the logical decision is solar. However, the way our energy economics are being destroyed, that economic decision, to put solar into your remote property, will prove even more beneficial, in the coming few years.
@@savagegfry problem with solar is they break down very quickly due to converting solar into heat then into power which degrades the hell out of components and the hotter s place gets the more the battery is more likely to swell or explode great for a time but not sustainable financially or resource wise
That won't stop government closing you down. According to the dill pickles at the WEF/UN all of those cattle burping and farting are destroying the planet don't you know. Farmers in the Netherlands tried to go green and use the best sustainable farming practices and latest technology too. All that led to was the government wanting to close 3000 + of their farms down. So all of your good work will go unrewarded once the government comes to close down your cattle station. Same thing is happening in NZ with their dairy industry.
@@LegendOfTheFLame393why not just get one of your really drunk mates and make them push a little wheel round and round to make energy, done jt before and it powered a piece of paper
Well as an Aussie I'm very happy you finally discussed about our country.
Who edits your videos?! It's brilliant
Fun fact: the Brits tried and failed set up a penal colony in the Cape Colony in South Africa in 1849. When the colony's government found out, they tried to ask the Westminister parliament to cancel the policy, but by then it was too late - a ship full of convicts - mostly Irish women and children - were already on its way. Along the way, the ship also picked up petty convicts who had previously been sent to Barbados. By the time the ship arrived in Table Bay in Cape Town, the mayor organized a riot to prevent the convicts from being offloaded. The riot lasted for a hundred days and the convicts who were forced to remain on board the ship suffered because of the siege. Eventually, the Governor Sir Harry Smith was able to convince the Secretary for the Colonies Henry Gray the 3rd to send the ship off to Van Diemen's Land instead.
Hello, do you support a Creative society?
I watched a movie Van Diemens land ...like all about Australia its about convicts but this time they turned cannibal
@@greysonholtz because he is telling a story and that is what was said. Henry Grey would not have said send them to Australia. Quotes can break all rules of English as your typing what was said. Cause your right..no one says Van Diemen’s land anymore. Not even this guy👆
@@greysonholtz I'm aware. I used the name that was used at the time, rather than the name we use today. Otherwise I'd be anachronistic. You should note I also used the term 'Cape Colony' - rather than 'Western Cape'. Same reason it is inaccurate to say "In 1619, some of the first African slaves landed in the USA" because the USA didn't exist then. Rather, it is more accurate to say "In 1619, some of the first African slaves landed in Jameston in the Virginia Colony (which was later incorporated in the USA)".
Best decision they ever made :D
Dude, as an Australian, I love when people mention our country. It it so small and never gets spoken of. Love it.
I wouldn’t say it’s small though, sure it’s unnoticed and has a low population. We live on the 6th largest country, but i get watcha mean
@@FortyFiveUltimate45 True. Are you Australian as well?
@@ewanwaugh5817 yeah
I feel like we get mentioned a lot, but only stereotypes. Nothing about the actual country
Coming to Australia this year for higher studies, can't wait to see the beautiful country and meet the amazing people there.
Fantastic video! Only flaw is that you failed to mention that like the middle east, water desalination plants have taken off in a big way - Perth was first in 2006. If you combine this with limitless renewable energy in the future that challenge should be largely solved.
The housing aspect - particularly negative gearing - is a massive problem. Like many US cities, nearly all Australian cities can't build enough affordable housing, while a small percentage of the population own several.
nice video mate
The most important thing you forgot is that, in the case of nuclear armageddon, Australia is the only country that will survive.
If there is nuclear armageddon no one would survive in the long run.
South America, Africa, and the rest of South East Asia/Oceania will be relatively untouched. They will have to struggle with the winter. Much of their population will survive compared to Northern Latitudes.
@@lif3andthings763 The UK and Ireland will be cool, too
@@jasonhaven7170the UK is a nuclear power so it will also probably be nuked
@@jasonhaven7170 Bro... the UK is a nuclear power. They're 100% getting wiped off the face of the earth. Ireland is close enough, and far north enough, that they would face immense struggles in the fallout.
Lucky the Emus are constantly bringing down the Australians from fully ruling the planet
yea poor aussys have lost 2 wars to them >.>, but hay look at how much free training there special forces get
Australia never even lost the “Emu War”, uneducated fools
IYKYK
@@IC3XR i mean you shot a few thousand rounds killed about 10 emus then left before they retaliated >.>, which there push back i hear claimed 1 farmer 3 tractors a drop bear, summoned a plunge of toads, and they dropped Side 2 (wonder who will get this reference)
LOL, as an Aussie, I am constantly amazed at the number of idiots that actually exist in this world.
@@zetaking2909 the Australian government, after witnessing the colossal fuckup, issued farmers a bounty for emu culling.
Farmers slaughtered 57,000 emus, the farmers made some $, and fence technology improved.
You = 🤡
Can we just take a minute and appreciate how much of a well formulated video this was holy
One thing he got wrong was that he called the convicts murderers when they were just poor people stealing their food
Something endearing about being a hardworking roo & getting a proud thumbs up from a pug britain. Can''t believe u made me compliment the poms
As an Australian whenever I watch something about this place I hear words we apparently use but never heard them 😂
Like dollaroo? Jeez I know there is some slang like lobster for a twenty or pineapple for a fifty but I never heard anyone use it. dollaroo? Never even heard of it.
There's more slang about cigarettes than money. A ciggy, a fag, a durrie, a smoke, a rollie, even a bumper.
@@David_Beames a dart
@@David_Beames The only people using Dollarydoo are people using it ironically as a reference to The Simpsons.
@@TheMGSlow Is that where it comes from? Cheers.
@@TheMGSlow Or people who REALLY like bluey.
Coming from an Australian, this is a very good summary of our economy.
We have fucktons of water, the government is just to stupid to regulate it properly
@@Baller474 not this year
💀
He said energy is cheap lmao
@@James-wq7su if only our natural resources were nationalised or majority controlled by the Commonwealth of Australia, instead of these private conglomerates who get government subsidies for continuous "growth".
They actually came extremely close in 2020 to having another recession in Australia due to the pandemic but it somehow didn’t happen even though the government thought it would most likely happen at the time!
Government gave everyone money. Kept ppl in their homes largely and kept them employed (largely), but the consequence of shutting down the economy and pumping money to everyone is inflation and an economy that needs time to correct itself
Yes a cool video about Australia I remember the cyclone that happened a few years ago
I legitimately thought Australian English was called "Speakly" until I realised it was an ad. Nicely done.
actually he could be fined for not staying it was a ad right away
Just so we're clear. Australian is a hybrid of British *ehem* I mean. English and American (sometimes) mostly a hybrid of *ehem* English
I live in Perth, because we're far smaller than other cities like Sydney or Melbourne, it's a lot calmer, but we often are affected by things that don't affect the east coast because there's such an enormous distance between the two sides of the country
Such as being called at bloody half past 5 in the morning by my insurance company who happen to be based over East. Bloody hated that, problem is they just don't think that there's a three hour difference.
@@SugmaDick That's a good point. I work in finance and probably made some of those calls and rightfully got told off for doing so. It is not that we don't know, it is either we don't care and/or we may only have a mobile number and assume you are not in WA(if we dont check or know your address).
In regards to call centres and whatnot some companies close their phone lines at 7 or 8pm to specifically cater for WA but probably an equal amount don't.
Personally, I feel like WA would be better off having some of their financial services done in Perth instead of the East Coast. Like the big banks, insurance companies and superannuation companies should set up offices in Perth specifically for people in WA.
If WA ever does want to succeed from the rest of Australia(being a bunch of rich bogans) then you would probably want to starting running your own financial services institutes rather than finding yourself cut off financially.
@@EatMyShortsAU we DID used to have our own banks, now they have all been folded into, or are owned by, the big 4 🫤
We do still have some insurance companies WA based.... but as with everything if they want to make more money they need more people to join them so up sticks and move interstate, merge with other companies Aus wide, or are just sold off, forgetting we exist!
@@Shado_wolf I just left w.a for Qld..the only state with more money and better infrastructure is nsw. W.A still owns the TAB I believe..I hope they never let that go. No other states seem to benefit from royalties to region..w.a schools roads everything is better funded. The rail system in Perth is leaps ahead of others as far as train stations go they do not look like vast steel industrial areas you see in Sydney. I did not realise how behind the other states are. Sydney is the only place I see money spent like W.A does.
@@adamhastie5718no no no, don't you know we are Wait Awhile 🙄🤨 our transperh system USED to be one of the best and cheapest in the world in terms of our population size and distances we can travel on it. Don't know how it rates these days but with a 2 zone cap I'd say it's still one of the cheapest. I love Perth, I'm not a city person so it's about as big of a city I think I could handle, but there isn't much we don't have!! A new theme park would be nice but Adventure World is so much better than it was when I was growing up so that's ok.
absolutely engrossing video, the - lack of ice on the roads - joke had me subscribed
This is downright hilarious, and surprisingly accurate
Fun fact. Perth is closer to south east Asia then the east coast of Australia. It’s easier (and cheaper) to go to New Zealand from Sydney. Also, a lot of what you have said about our culture Im pretty sure you got from the Simpsons
Everything about our culture is pretty accurate though lets be honest.
@Yoda on Fire really? Where bouts are you?
This is true. Honestly, if you ask anyone here, it’s probably more likely they’ve visited Bali in Indonesia than anywhere in the country outside of Western Australia
@Yoda on Fire Are you saying that for the memes?
h0ser's theory on us losing our water for food exports is *absolutely absurd!*
We have groundwater here!
@Yoda on Fire no, just watch fat pizza. That's a good insight into Aussie culture. Edit: (well, at least West Sydney).
Nobody calls a dog a doggo in Australia 😂
Yeah nah a lot of people call em doggos
@@doggowhisperer6844 😳
I got a South Australia tourism ad at the start of this video
That was a smooth plug to speakly lmao, well done. Usually they are garbage
As an Aussie, I can say I never heard anyone say Dollarydoos. Also as far as economic history goes we didn't simply start digging, after the gold rush Australia was built on the sheeps back until recent history when mining took over. Negative gearing is more a way to treat an investment property as a business and claim the cost of a loss against any revenue you may receive. And water, although sparse in some areas, is abundant in the top end, we just need a way to capture and transfer it to the areas that need it. Apart from that pretty entertaining.
its a Dankpods reference as far as im aware. hes a tech UA-camr from Adelaide
@@Lift_CT it was also in the Australian show Bluey
i call them Bucks or Dollars
@@Pearll_. Yeah I my niece watches it on TV. The animators are fans of Dankpods
Well there is water down south the government just fucked up dirt and plant laws so the water pools up (and floods) or soaks into the ground/gets wasted
H0ser (now), Economics Explained and Mr. Mitchell History make the best Aussie politics content!!
Remarkable how H0ser, who shitposts, does a more accurate summary of Australian demography and economy than a lot of so called political channels and he did it as a foreigner.
What non Australian ever mentions negative gearing?
At least housing is cheaper than Hong Kong.
@@1mol831 slience
EE is terrible lol
FriendlyJordies would like a word.
At 2:52 the big mountain like thing is call uelawue
1:12 oh so you like 30+ degree weather daily 😂
Man releases a video about Australians when us Australians are asleep
The water situation isn't actually that bad. As a farmer myself it forces growers to become ultra efficient or go out of business. Even in dry times there can be enough. Probably could do with less water intensive crops like almonds but hey if that's what city consumers want and will pay for, we can grow it.
I'm glad that our cattle station in the Kimberely sits ontop of a massive underground basin. More water than we could ever need 25m below our feet. We only do cattle though so don't need much but apparently we could change to irrigation across the whole station and our neighbours and still have enough.
Well, you researched the heck out of this. One Aussie approval on this (except the end 😘)
"i'm so jealous of their weather"
- Me on the east coast victoria, sitting in the 36 degree weather while theres also a thunderstorm.
kill me rn pls
VICTORIA MENTIONED 🗣️🗣️🗣️
WTF IS A STABLE WEATHER SYSTEM 🗣️💪😤
@@FleshWizard69420 Imagine having stable weather it was over 35 degrees for 3 days :D
Walking 2 km in the mornin, rotting away at school, and then walking back 2 km in 30 degree heat made me lose 3 brain cells
Greetings from Canberra. That was a good summary of some of our main challenges and opportunities. Thanks Hoser 🙂
1:11 FYI we have odd weather in the south, think +30 one day and 16 the next. People have complained about this to me.
Watching all your videos on other countries makes me glad to be Australian. I'm not one to feel much national pride or anything, but we're a stable country sitting on a fuckton of resources. Sure we have problems but comparitively less problems than a lot of places. Almost every other video I've watched on this channel focuses on wars, famines, aging populations etc so having expensive houses is definitely first world problem vibes. Time are tougher post-covid but we came through it a lot better than most countries.
I don't understand the housing market much but as I understand it our housing prices are mostly because we cant build houses fast enough to meet demand due to everyone wanting to live in standalone houses & also immigration.
Also weird fact, even though Perth only has a population of 2-odd million we're the longest city in the world ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) because we simultaneously all want to live in the city (80% of Western Australia lives in Perth) yet all want to live on the coast & all want to own our own house (i.e not apartments etc) so we just keep? building more suburbs up & down the coast??
A friend had American visitors & took them to the outback, they saw the super giant windmills & asked are they for oil ? He replied no, it gets so hot out here we install them to keep the cows cool hahahahah. They loved their visit & went home with a new myth to spread across America hahahah.
This is legendary
*Australia is basically the West Coast. miles upon miles of dry, hot, barren desert but the coasts have some of the best weather, beautiful beaches, and best soil for agriculture*
Yep, Californian lifestyle for 9 of 10 Australians
@@TenOrbital aaaah fuck, this sucks.
Honestly I find the tableland/ highland regions of NSW, southern QLD, and the Adelaide Hills to have the best climates. Look up places like Orange, NSW, Toowoomba, QLD, and Sterling, SA on Wikipedia and go to the "Climate" chapters. Also our inland is where all our food comes from unless you are talking about centre to northern QLD.
pacific. ocean.
@@TenOrbital yep too right mate but without the endless miles of homelessness seen everywhere in every major city, the racial tensions, rampant crime, urban decay, & let's not forget the unchecked anarchy... Chaz etc. We have little bits of most of this but nothing on the scale one sees in Cal.
Growing up here, I loved our freedom. Now I have travelled across the land I am IN love with it. Such rare beauty. I’ll never leave.
A lot of people don’t realise this but the symbol of Australia should be a rabbit. There’s actually 4 of them for every kangaroo and 300 for every emu, and same goes with cane toads
As an Australian, to me it seems to me that it's not like that we're going to rise up, but just that the other superpowers of the world are going to sink to our level
The US would have to go from 21.3 trillion to 1.5 trillion in gdp.. I don't think that's going to happen
@@Joker-no1uh The United States doesn't even have to lower its GDP for its economy to eventually suffer, just has to continue incurring debt at the same rate it is now and the majority of that GDP is going to become worthless. US current debt to GDP ratio is 120% Australia's is not even 60%. 🤣
@@niccijay4683 High debt isn't necessarily a bad thing, if it was the US wouldve collapsed into economic chaos decades ago, in the meantime my relatives who just moved there a year ago are living a neat life.
@@niccijay4683that’s not how economics work
@willevensen7130 ahh really? Thanks for the ever so useful lesson in economics professor, I can see you really know your stuff. 🤣🤣
These videos are always so funny H0ser and help me learn just a bit about other countries and their situations. Nice stuff.
As an Australian I didn’t expect us to be talked about in this way
well done mate
This is a surprisingly well researched video. Thanks mate!
Not really as he didnt include tasmania at all really
1 thing you missed in terms of our water is the abundant amount of underground springs in this country, growing up we had 6 or more in our suburb and 2-3 of em met in a big pool under our backyard, which was both cool as shit and shithouse as it sometimes rose up enough to soak our lawns from underneath, even formed its own little pond that we walled off
1:15 yea that blares 30 degree heat onto us all summer
Just got back from a surf so can confirm this video is spot on.
I love how that watching this channel is actually much more informative to my geography class than the books
Um, what? Half of the information in this video is over exaggerated and/or wrong
@@trevor623 Much better than 20+yrs old books with less info than a 5min video.
Edit: Just check all geo textbooks i used to learn (excluding uni), only four pages about Oceania, let alone Australia.
i learnt all of this stuff in geography and economics maybe you need to pay more attention
@@trevor623 please give me some examples? Because I think that’s YOURE the one who’s wrong, and misrepresenting the video.
Australian here: there's spiders in 3/4 corners of the ceiling in my room and they eat the mozzies. gaaaaarn fellas
Seattle, WA and Perth, WA. Didn't know we were in the same state.
excellent vid
I'm an Aussie and I loved this!! Thanks for a great video🤙🇦🇺
Hey h0ser, really love your content
As an Australian, I would like to add something, One of the biggest issues I see with my country is the lack of ambition, From what I see day to day, People have no ambition, And of course there are people like that across the world, But especially in Australia, There is a lack of desire.People live to watch the Reality Drama on a Friday, Or the Cricket on a Saturday, Not to do anything of any significant purpose, People live....Just to live. If it makes any sense.
ive felt that too but i didnt know if it was an australian thing. it could be a reason as to why our media is piss poor and our biggest media company is one thats federally funded and managed, and the entire world sources its info on australian culture from the simpsons
should do a video on new zealands short yet rich history, pre and post colonisation
Very entertaining yet informative as usual, good job hOser
I remember around 2000-2010, it didn’t rain a single drop in Sydney, you would get a fine for washing your car or watering your garden. It’s ok though, we’ve seen the biggest floods in 100 years this year.
In regards to steel production we actually did produce large quantities to be used both domestically and sold overseas. Unfortunately over the past couple of decades it’s production domestically has all but ceased due to corruption and various other things
I work in IT and I'm impressed how many Australians I meet, in this field.
Yeah we're almost a service economy
Remember the Emus
I work in Finance and live in Sydney. You would be suprised at how many people I meet that works in this field.
fun fact about 10:23. South Australia already operated on 100% renewable energy and a few months ago had to shut down some of the wind/solar farms due to too much energy on the grid. (a storm took out the main lines sending excess energy to other states)
I thought they used coal/ natural gas. I remember this being an issue whenever nuclear energy is discussed.
@@Vandelberger
They do, but they are heavily reliant on renewables, and they're a big power importer: it's why when the electrical interconnect between South Australia and Victoria was knocked out in a storm a while back, Adelaide (their capital) instantly went dark.
In fact, the way @icer1249 is phrasing it, it sounds like he's falling for some sort of political propaganda that spun it exactly the opposite of how it happened (South Australia has been governed by a leftist party for 16 of the last 20 years).
@@Vandelberger I thought so too I tried to mention this and people said "what are you talking about"
@@greenoftreeblackofblue6625 yeah, the video literally mentioned coal and they definitely do.
@@Vandelberger yes, 10 years ago. They are majority renewables now, mainly via offshore wind actually.
There's a cattle station in Australia that's 23,677km² (9,142mi²). That is bigger than Isreal, Jamaica, The Bahamas and Slovenia. It's also more than half the size of Denmark, Estonia, Belgium and Switzerland
As an Australian I can definitely say you summed us up well. Although our housing prices are rediculous at least we can generate a tonne of mining for our pals
This is one of the most brilliant and funny videos and it happens to be about economics! Hilarious and also very astute. Loving your work while nursing my crazy 2023 New Years Day hangover in Sydney
😍🤩😜
i can very much agree with that, what did you drink ?
@@2007_Toyota_Yaris_ champagne, shiraz and vodka 😃
Amazing video, but why is nobody talking about how SMOOTH that ad transition was
Fantastic summary
Sunny coast Qld
Nambour
Death valley
It's good to see people poke Australia in any type of information or knowledge exploring
Got a sub, good work mate
Okay. Been here most my life. 20% UK
"The big wet and big dry."
Guess what, you taught an Aussie about the place they have been living in. I never fucking knew this.
4:50
Yeah na, yeahhh na? Yeah na.
thank you h0ser
Thanks to your video I am now imagining a young Australian girl with body issues getting cheered up again because she remembers that her country has coal and money
Good point.