As an Australian this was an interesting introduction but I would remind you that Australia is so much more than desert. We have over 10 amazing ski resorts, we have tropical rainforests, tropical beaches, pink lakes, stunning coast lines.
The irony of this reaction is that Australia is currently going through some of its worst floods on records. We live in a very wild, extreme country and we love it
There is a famous poem called My Country and one stanza of it is " I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror - The wide brown land for me!"
You forgot to finish it correctly, When we were in 2nd grade we had to finish it by saying "By Dorothea McKellar" :P it's not complete until you say that
@@Envy_May We never did that Our format was, You'd stand in front of the class (or you'd do it as a class) You'd say MY COUNTRY then I love a sunburnt country.... etc etc then you say BY DOROTHEA MCKELLAR we always said it last
My wife is Indonesian born and bred. She had lived in Sydney for several years before coming to Darwin to live with me. When our son was about 12 months old we drove to Perth for my sisters wedding. Took about 5 days, around 4,000km (approx 2,500 miles). We followed the coast road along WA. Every day, in fact all the way, he kept telling me how shocked she was at how big Australia is. And empty. "You could put whole cities here". I'm like, yeah, nah. It's a bit too dry and hot. Nothing really grows well. A good trip but, I've done it heaps before, bus car and bike. The bike was in summer, that was hard, in full leathers at around 43°C (100F)
Years ago, my family went on a drive from Perth to Sydney for Christmas. My Dad has remodelled an old bus to be outfitted with hardy cabinets (with a sink) and beds in the back. It took us over a week of driving flat-out every day, because my Dad was a road-trip champion who never seemed to get tired. The biggest stretch of road and biggest worry was the Nullarbor, which has Australia's longest straight road at 1675km long, plus the Nullarbor itself is around 200,000 km². Nullarbor directly translates into "no tree land". It's nothing but sparce dry bush and shallow, loamy red dirt, and since it was November that we crossed it that meant it was getting into Summer so it was even hotter than usual! We were lucky the bus's engine didn't explode and fry us, especially since it was located in a block between the front seating! And we had to cross the damn thing _twice!_ Once to get to Sydney and once to get home! Now, if some nutbag wanted to live out there they could certainly try, but I'm pretty sure they'd end up a bleached skeleton by the end of the year!
I live in the Newcastle/Central Coast region of NSW. I have family that live in Germany. Years ago my cousin, her husband and their friends came over to travel over Australia. My father told them we would meet them at Sydney airport and take them home to our place. We drove in our car and they drove in their rented 7 seater. We had my cousin's husband in our car. He kept on asking us how far it was because we were driving for such a long time. We told him it was a couple of hours from Sydney to Newcastle. He wanted to know in Kms but we didn't really know because we measure distances by the time it takes rather than kms. When you see the map of Australia, the distance from Sydney to Newcastle looks minute until you drive it. He said if he'd know it was going to be that far, he wouldn't have asked us to meet them. It takes roughly 2 hours to get from Sydney to Newcastle and it's about 170 kms. Great scenery though because it partly goes along the coast road.
One of the weirdest things recently about being an Australian is that I've only recently had to learn about dealing with mould. I grew up with consecutive Ill-Nino events leading to bushfires and multiple droughts. Now we are having consecutive La-Ninia making heavy rainfall and flooding a thing. When I was younger dealing with mould just wasn't a thing because it was way too dry to be a massive issue. Used to be able to store unused furniture in the garage without much fear of anything but dust. Now, stuff it just getting destroyed by it.
@Kendall Drury One of the biggest reasons for the hideous amount of mould that is gathering in people's homes is that most modern Aussie buildings don't have top of wall vents to enable the excess moisture from steam when cooking or bathing escape, especially during winter when you are likely to keep most (if not all) windows and doors closed. The moisture gathers on the surface and there's no escape for it, it is then met with the moist air from human and other species respiration which causes the bacterial build-up. I have found the most effective way to annihilate it is to mix undiluted white vinegar with a certain proprietary brand of mould killer and a similar amount of domestic. Shake the mixture up in a spray bottle and spray the surface, with a reasonable amount of most, less if your walls aren't brick or concrete, then sponge thoroughly, rinse the sponge and keep wiping (about four times in total, don't add more product). Ventilate the area well as the fumes from the preparation can be deadly, but effective. The fumes take about three days to dissipate.
The best that will actually kill Mould is Therapeutic Grade Essential Oil..Clove.. You can also defuse and take internally..as Mould does get into the body...Has be Therapeutic Grade..
Great video 😁 I'm Australian and I love that you have taken interest in our country and don't worry about people complaining about pronunciations I think you did great
What a wonderful video. I was born in 1944 after the War and many people came out from Europe. Many displaced persons, they had nothing worked like mad, brought their children up and became citizens of Australia. They brought their customs, language, songs and food. Our diet was very boring. Fresh fruit and vegetables, fresh meat but….boring. The dishes from Europe were mind boggling. Then, in the seventies the Vietnamese came with their food, other Asian countries…..it was heaven. All these people helped to build our country up in many ways, not only economically but it enriched our way of life. I will always be greatfull for these people coming to my country. They have made Australia what it is today.
I am Australian and I lived in the outback for about 7 years, in a town of about 40 people. Our town water came from underground, someone else mentioned the great artesian basin. We all had water tanks as well. Around us were many large properties most of them grazed sheep but there were also cattle properties. Our town had a small shop attached to the caravan park and a well used pub but to do a complete grocery shop there was a larger but still small town just 200km down a red dirt road. Our town also had a school, I was the teacher/principal. We used to joke that it rained 5 days a year for no less than 10 minutes each day. But at the moment November 2022 it is flooded and for weeks you could only get there by helicopter.
I is “funny” how people can say the yanks don’t know fuck all about Australia, when in fact just like the yanks Australians know fuck all about their own countrymen geography probably less than their overseas counterparts.
It might sound odd to people from overseas but most people in Australia are happy with the way it is setup and we don't really need any more people. We have enough resources to sustain ourselves and our future generations but we have to look after our agricultural industry and keep it free from diseases that exist most other places and salinity. I grew up on a beef farm in Western Australia that was highly, highly productive with green grass growing like crazy for much of the year. Much of Asia lives off our produce. A lot of these videos give people from overseas a lot of misconceptions about Australia by concentrating on certain facts, then the same people come to visit and don't pack winter coats etc. and get a shock when they find out how cold and wet it can get in places, just as an example. Our alpine ski region is also said to compete with Switzerland for snow cover. Another thing that tends to happen is that videos on Australia tend to be made by people from overseas and emphasise Sydney as the only city to visit, the Opera House as the only site of importance, or Bondi Beach as the only beach, when there's way more interesting places to go. Its a bit like the wildlife videos concentrate on kangaroos, koalas, crocodiles, snakes and spiders. They forget we have emus, cassowarys, wombats, platapus, echidnas, quokkas, numbats, flying foxes, tawny frogmouths, kookaburras, cockatoos, rosellas etc. and that's just the tip of the biodiversity iceberg. Yes, some of our wild life is deadly but that is WAY overblown. Ethnically speaking, Australia had a British mono-culture until after World War 2, due to the White Australia Policy that excluded people of other ethnicities, including parts of Europe. It has become more multi-cultural since, but Charles is still our King under a constitutional monarchy and the Union Jack is still prominent on our flag. Our parliament, laws and institutions are established very similarly to the way they are in Britain and we have our own case law but judges will sometimes still refer to legal precedents in the UK when making judgements. We're still very close to Britain but we have our own culture and we absorb a lot of American tv etc., so we kind of have the best of both worlds, even though we are miles away. Essentially you might not know much about us yet but we know lots about you. All the English shows you react to all the time are screened in Australia on tv constantly. There are a few million British migrants and a lot of white people who have escaped racist oppression and crime in former British colonies such as Zimbabwe and South Africa to setup successful lives here. In terms of food options, it is about as diverse as it gets, owing to immigration and a willingness to try new things. We also have tropical and temperate regions for growing most varieties of fruit and vegetables. Our closest rivalries in sport tend to be with England but we truly punch above our weight if you notice we tend to finish around 4th-5th at the Olympics most of the time. The difference between us and the USA when it comes to WW2 was that we entered the war from day 1 with the rest of the British Commonwealth and we were the only country left that was actively fighting the Japanese in the south of Asia on our own with our brothers from New Zealand. It took a few years for Pearl Harbour to trigger a response from the USA and the Aussies were doing it tough there for a while. After Pearl Harbour, the Americans top brass and much of its forces regrouped in the safety of Australia before commencing the assault. The latter half of the 20th century saw a number of things separate Australia a bit more from the UK to align a little more to the US, with the UK joining the European Union and Australia joining the Vietnam War and ANZUS Treaty, as geopolitics came into play and colonial power waned. Australia now has some US military bases, a space industry, and joint intelligence installations that are worth looking into. With Brexit, I am hoping Australia and the UK can move closer together on a number of things but we are open for business and do heaps of trade with China, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia etc. We have a rocky relationship with China despite them being our number 1 trading partner, as the whole communism thing is still a bit messed up. Its weird but we need each other. China has tried to interfere in our politics and other institutions like universities by buying people off but it is not something the average citizen will stand for and we have to stick up for Taiwan and against Chinese efforts to take ownership of the South China Sea. People in Britain and politicians are starting to renew interest in the opportunity that still exists in this part of the world. I still don't think people from overseas have a proper handle on the importance of our mineral wealth, but there are also a lot of woke people in Sydney and Melbourne lately for example, who somehow have a habit of forgetting this too. Mining actually made Melbourne the richest city in the world in the late 1800s for quite a while. Looking forward to more Australian content and discovery.
@@ShadowEevee_117 yeah, just got a bit tired of all the misconceptions about Australia peddled by people who don’t even live here, so I thought I’d set things straight as I picked up on things that were said or alluded to 🤔
Tasmania is also experiencing the flooding, while Western Australia is still on year round water restrictions. I can't remember when WA didn't have water restrictions.
Good to see a young man with a balanced view point. Your knowledge of your own cultural history was impressive but unfortunately lacking in the youth of today. Well done
Thank you, it’s wonderful to see you asking questions and sharing the answers. I really hope you don’t get any negativity. Keep asking the questions and stay positive.
Being a farmer in Australia is definitely hard. I’ve met guys who say they’re having the best yield in years, and then next week the whole crops been destroyed because of massive rainfall 😢 he decided to sell his farm
The whole crops have also failed to thrive due to year after year of drought. Driving from Perth to the Eastern Goldfields you can see whole properties where the crops have been ploughed in because they just haven't thrived.
We've got the problem of salt in the soil on some of our family farms (maternal side) because of the rising water table due to overuse over a vast area. Rain is pretty hit or miss and definitely not a lot unfortunately, then again my sisters farms are getting hit by the flooding Murray and 3 years ago my fathers family's previous farm was burnt almost to the ground due to bushfires, agriculture is not easy in a lot of places here.
Im surprised that the history of Australia's discovery didnt even mention Captain Dirk Hartog who was also dutch. He landed on Australia in 1606 before the other dutch ship
Rain? Never heard of it! Interesting fact: The land east of The Great Dividing Range is not part of the larger land mass, it is geologically completely different, being ocean floor originally and gradually pushed up against the continent. You can find the rarest and most valuable Black Opal just west of this phenomena running north to south if you know where to look!
Spot on about the mountains, less so the rain. Most of the east has been underwater for a large part of this year, way more rain than anybody expected.
What's this "first settlement was around about Sydney"? It was exactly at Sydney. The First Fleet anchored in Botany Bay first, then decided to go north to find a better harbour. They sailed into Port Jackson and settled at Sydney cove. Which is the centre of Sydney today.
Mate, as an Australian, I'm thoroughly enjoying your reaction vids and I'm already looking forward to your next one - keep up the good work - subscribed.
Fun Fact. Perth is the most isolated city in the world. Also the lack of water is the biggest reason why everyone is on the coast. There is a big mining town that gets it water from 600km away. Also major ecological mismanagement has broken alot of the natural water distribution, which doesn't help the water issue at all
I'm an Aussie, this video is a small part of our vastness different parts of Australia are amazing. But farming on or near the coast lines and inland are everywhere. Green and lush plenty of water. Look up Mt Tamborine and the gold coast in Oueensland. The scenic Rim is beautiful.
Climate in Australia has fluctuated for thousands of years 50.000 the country was once covered in forest and grassland but the continent started to dry out
It's funny when Americans don't Much about Australia. We might Be a small population but we Are not poor. Our GDP is nearly As big as Russia, who think their A world power.
one more minor thing that ultimately adds up with everything else is that they failed to mention, is that also exasperating the rainfall issue, is that there are not many broad leaf plants in Australia. Broad leaf plants have a greater ability to suck in moisture and cause rainfall. Most Australian plants are narrow leaf and are not as good at causing rainfall. And native grasses are very sporadic, scant and very thinned out. Also very delicate and die off easily. They also failed to mention that the Murray Darling system was dammed up by the government for a Hydro plant. And also greedy international farmers built their own rivers to syphon off from the main system which caused massive dry spells for everyone else and parts of the natural river system to dry up and die off. Previously despite the rare rainfall, it ran just fine with the seasons and was healthy before they screwed it up.
I've lived in the outback for well over ten years of my life. While the majority of the population lurks around the coast the vast majority of the few people who live in the central regions tend to live around the half dozen or so major highways or single large river. I lived in a place for three years that had 14 people living there permanently. I could have walked out my back door and the next thing I'd have hit was the west australian coast about 2000 kilometres away. We used to do a round trip of 300 kilometres to get pizza. We've had tourists miss the only sealed turn and end up 1000 kms in the wrong direction looking for a large rock. Good times
Great choice for the first vid on this channel Joel. Very informative indeed. Some very surprising figures of which I had no clue. I'm very much looking forward to what's to come.
Nice one, Joel! Heard about the floods from my pal in Maitland. he tells me - 'Well the floods are back with vengeance Most of NSW, and the border towns in QLD and Victoria have been under water for some time as the slow moving water makes its way to sea.' All the best for those that are suffering there right now. Hope things get better soon. D
Thank you. Yeah some of Victoria has flooding at the moment. Bit it's worse for New South Wales and Queensland as they've already had a couple floods in recent times
I wouldn’t say most of NSW is under water. There are a few regions in northern nsw flooding at the moment but the rest of the state is fine. It’s been extremely hot in Sydney this week.
@@travisgrant5608 Nothing to do with climate change. It's a prolonged La Nina which brings the excessive rainfall and floods. It will revert to El Nino and the land will be suffering from drought as it was a few years back.
My youngest is living in Bathurst NSW Australia right now. He was there for six months just before covid hit. His elder brother has been as well bit he stayed in Melbourne Victoria. They lived and worked there but the main reason they went was down to sport. They are both minor county cricketers and went over there to experience life in another country and play the sport they love. It helps that we Brits have a lot in common values and language wise which makes living there easier, but different enough given where they are near Asia. They have loved the life out there. I was offered the same chance when i was 23 but id just got married so didnt go, and now cant due to health reasons.
Great video and i learned a lot from it. As an Australian, probably the biggest issue with anyone moving here at the moment would be the severe lack of housing to either rent or buy.
As an Aussie from Melbourne I love your videos (although I admit this is my second one I've watched haha you'll get my subscription 😂) When I read the title I said to myself “because there's a huge bloody desert in the middle of it” lol 🤣 I love Australia because it feels like every country on Earth put into one and the people are super chill. We have snowy alps, vast desert, rainforests, plains, mountains, more beaches than any other country in the world, caves, reefs, modern sprawling cities and small country towns, rolling hills like parts of England and more!
Shout out to you too bro! I drove from Brisbane to Perth and back again (East Coast to West Coast). It took me about 5 days. I had to avoid massive wild boars, huge kangaroos that tower over the size of the car, camels and these massive birds called wedge tailed eagles. Although I did hit one of them. It luckily bounced off my windscreen but gave me and my dog a massive shock. The outback is crazy dude. But you should so do it sometime!
The Murray River Has a Fish called the "Murray Cod" and the largest ever landed was six feet long. The largest spotted was about Eight feet long. Murry River Crayfish is Delisious. Cod melts in your mouth. And the river has some of the largest Carp ever caught in the world. I personally landed a Carp over 1 metres long
Looking into the two top choices, Sydney is mostly along an American style city while Melbourne is more European. Although both are very much into outdoor activities Melbourne prides itself on the arts and sport.
I’m glad you didn’t go into animals. Some people get a little freaked out when they find out on a list of poisons animals we can proudly say we have the position of 1 through to ten covered 😅
The other major issue we have is "The Tyranny of Distance" It takes a day to travel between the closest cities. Transporting anything to anywhere is a major logistical nightmare! Trains miles long, Road trains (Semi-trailers with up to 6 trailers), back in the 1800s there were paddle boats on the "Murray Darling" and finally in the 1900s ships and planes. But if you do not have a car then you are restricted to the cities inner suburbs.
As a south Australian who was born in the early 80's all through my schooling years till 2000 immigration was very low. We had maybe a handful of immigrants in the entirety of the schools i went to. Wasn't till i left and around mid 2000's i really noticed migrants. Mainly a boom of Asian and Indians in the 00s that would start a life here. Later after/during the Middle Eastern wars around 2010 we started seeing many Middle Easterners settling here. Before that in the 90's it was the odd few English, Germans, Italians and Greeks you would usually see at school. Nowadays we are starting to see more Africans making their way here and still a solid amount of Middle Easterners. Having said all that it's a touchy subject here, as we have had many cultural clashes around the country.
Ten years of Abbott's toxicity and crony capitalist mass migration has ruined this country We've lost our national identity and there's no common sense anymore I live in _Skidknee_ where it's a expensive hot mess tourist trap overcrowded and neglected The public infrastructure isn't keeping up with demand yet at the same time it's overdeveloped with shopping malls, stadiums, tollways, and high rise units (yet more hot mess to be neglected and forgotten about for the next new shiny trinket) Half the population are immigrants, I feel like a token white guy and a stranger in the land I was born in There's no common sense anymore I'm X Gen and MIA
@@pomsrcadventures8482 I'm a 7th generation Australian, at what point can I call home "home"? Using your logic aboriginals are "immigrants" too, they can account for 40,000 to 80,000 years, who owned the land for the 4 billion years before that? The original aboriginals travelled down to Australia and kicked out the locals and called it their own just like the English settlers did. Stop living in the past and grow up! Aboriginals certainly had a better go at it than my German ancestors did with the Romans for 1000's of years.
I'm from rural South Australia and I went to school with and associated with lots of Aboriginals as well as Italian immigrants, turkish, chinese, sri lankan, germans (of course), greeks, filipinos. A family member grew up in the Adelaide Hills, but he never came across an Aboriginal til he was an adult. As I got older teens and onwards there seemed to be a racial distinction that I witnessed and I had a hard time grappling with it, because I didn't see the distinction and it was constantly pointed out to me - I grew up with 'everyone's family is different no better or worse (unless abusive) than anyone elses' - now it's not politically correct, its too woke! The pendulum always swings one way or another to the extreme. I was racially profiled in India, thought to be Brazilian in Central America and told to go back to my own country in Australia. I am 'white' with a complete mongrel ancestry that centres in Europe, so i don't actually know where I'm supposed to go back too.
A cattle Station Anna Creek covers 9,140 square miles, which is almost the size of Vermont. The size of Texas is 268,596 square miles, South Australia is 380,048 sq mi. Once you drive north or west of Port Augusta, there is not much to see and very few people until you reach Perth or Alice Springs
I was in South Australia this week and went to the Murray River which is currently in flooded and has broken its bank. Quite the site and it hasn’t peaked yet.
Thank you so much for a super choice for a continental beginning of your vlog. I've been around for a while and I learned an awful lot about Australia that I never had heard before.
My parents were farmers, and were about to emigrate under the Assisted Passage Scheme, (£10 poms) but took the tenancy of a dairy farm in Hertfordshire instead. I occasionally wonder what would have happened to us in Aus. This is a good start to your new channel Joel, good luck. T
My parents sold their small farm In the 60s in Herefordshire and came To Western Australia as ten pound Poms. They bought a dairy farm And had sons and grandchildren Who had farms too.
@@martinjenkins6467 I remember finding a booklet with details about the Bunbury region. A few years ago, we sold our farm. It was turned into a golf course, so I found a job in marketing, which took me all around the UK, and parts of Europe too.
Climate change wise we're being hit with three events that have kept the entire east coast flooded for most of this year: The Indian Ocean Dipole, we are currently in our 3rd La Niña event in a row and on top of that the Antarctic stratospheric polar vortex is feeding into SE Australia. It's a little wet here and because of that food costs are soaring right now. Glad you liked that video. It does explain us very well. 👍
My sons in Bathurst right now since Jan and its been rainy and cold ever since. Whilst the uk has been warm and dry! I do remind him he should of stayed home lol. Love the country and wish i could visit.
@@main3182 No, the issue is that most of the rain falls along the east coast because of the fold mountain ranges near the coast and the very flat centre. So more rain is just more rain where it usually rains, which leads to floods in the green areas while there is still drought in the centre and west.
@@main3182 we have a bit of a problem with political parties blocking attempts to build dams to irrigate central and southern Australia. All the northern tropical monsoon rains flood and then flush straight out to sea. One of our most brilliant (Bradfield) engineers drew up plans to pipe water from the north to the south in the early 1900s but by the time equipment made it feasible politics intervened. It took 15 years & many $millions in the courts for our last Indian owned mine to be allowed to proceed to help lift India out of poverty.
@@ladymanners618 ive heard the economics of the idea dont work out. the calculations were based on a evaporation rate of germany, which is much colder and is thus not representative of australian evaporation rates.
Great introduction to a great Country. I come from a country a closest neighbour to Australia which is called Papua New Guinea. Australia has always been a big brother to us whose citizen fought with other allied forces ( US, Britain) against the Japanese soldiers during second world war in the harsh jungles of Papua New Guinea tracking the Kokoda trail alongside the wazzy wazzy angles ( local carriers for the wounded soldiers). Thankyou Australia and other allied forces for the sacrafice you made. Apart from that, Australia has always been the largest Aid donour country to Papua New Guinea. Our countrys' independence was given to us freely from the Australian Government with no blood shed. Thankyou Australia you will always be our " WANTOK' ( brother).
Hi. ON maps of Australia,There are sometimes rivers and creeks shown...The Problem??They may not flow with water for 2 years ,or 10 years...So,not just desert...but a lack of water... yes,we are having inland flooding now-but that is very rare..
Joel, my father was a veteran of WW2. He was stationed in Darwin when it was bombed. Needless to say, it is period of his life he never really spoke about. The war took its toll on him, and also my mother who I lost in 2005. I was my father's full-time carer for over 12 years. Perhaps the more poignant of battles he was to face in his life took him from me on August 20th, when he died in may arms at hospital, aged 99 years. He had dementia. As a relative newcomer to your ItsJps channel - only in recent weeks really - I have found solace there as I am sure I will here at this new channel. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for that! God bless you!
Congratulations on the first post on the new channel Joel and you picked a truly fascinating one , great stuff! I think a look at the food side of things would be really interesting with all the Asian fusion influences mixing with the traditional cuisine.
Hi mate. Been watching your videos for near a year now. It was great you got to visit the UK. Watching this video today was strange listening him talk about how dry Australia is. Currently the Murray Darling basin he spoke about has been in flood for nearly 3 months. Parts of Queensland and New South Wales have have have had some towns and cities flood 4 times this year alone so people of those areas have either not been able to return home or even start recovering or rebuilding their homes. This was the first time I had seen this particular video so it was very interesting to me as well. I live in Adelaide with a population of 3 million people in the whole state. South Australia is know the be the driest capital in the driest state on the driest continent. Our summer temperatures can reach 47 degrees Celsius. One video that does get a lot of interest is about out bank notes. I’m a silly old fart so I don’t know how to link it. But it could be one to look up. Oh by the way it’s time for a shave lol. Keep up the great work..
What a fascinating video. Very enjoyable. Lots of Brits emigrate ‘down under’ to both Australia & New Zealand. In fact, there is a TV programme in the UK called ‘Wanted Down Under’ where Brits get to test out what it would be like to emigrate to Australia or New Zealand before deciding to go or stay in the UK. Worth a watch if you’re interested.
Also, it's Anna Creek Station very rarely do we see a Station in Australia called a Ranch, I think there might be a few but that's not how an Aussie would see it. They're either sheep or cattle stations, when they're big enough, and there's some big ones out there. Isolated, drifting all alone...just the way I like it. Plus, you might drive for 2 days across the US for Thanksgiving or Christmas to visit family, but a 13-15 hour flight (from LAX of course) is just way too far, although I enjoy flying so I'm not fussed.
The hottest recorded years and summers in Oz go way back before 2005. The 1890's, the 1920's, the 1940's and the 1970's all recorded much hotter and more persistent drought and heat than anything in the 2000's. Also, Chinese owned cotton farms expanded in the 1980's, taking huge amounts of water from the Darling river system and the western rivers, exacerbating low river levels downstream towards the Murray. ps: You might like to tell Lake Erie in the US to give back the water to Lake Eyre (pronounced ''air)
Surely Australia has produced more in depth documentaries on itself than anything America has ever done on us. You should broaden your horizons if this is the best write up of our country you've ever seen. It was a good summary, but glosses over most of the details people consider important to our national identity.
Australia is an awesome country. A lot of visitors are stuned by distances we travel. 3+ hours for a day trip to the nearest big town. Some of us live near small towns, with a post office, pub and supermarket is all that's there.
Hey I'm proudly Aussie. It's sweet to watch your face react. I've never been overseas but I've heard Australians are very very friendly, compared with other countries. Like, to strangers and staff at the shops etc. We don't have a tipping culture so perhaps that contributes to the general egalitarianism. For context I'm from western Sydney which is suburban. 1 hour drive to sydney cbd, and I live with traffic noise and barking dogs and lawn mowers etc. 🤷♀️
Americans often say our restaurant service is bad when they come here, it's hard not to want to explain that you get good service everywhere as long as you're polite. In America, people in service jobs, even retail, bend over backwards to demonstrate that they're serving you and it's kind of disturbing. You know they don't want to act that way, but they know that if they don't they won't get a tip. You would have tipped them for just doing their job, but you end up tipping AND feeling guilty. Our system is better, I wouldn't want to swap.
I've heard people call Australians rude for not being polite, but what they actually mean is we don't usually treat anyone as being "above" us. Everyone deserves basic human respect, but if a boss or family member or Prime Minister is being a dickhead, most Aussies will call that person a dickhead to their face and just... continue on life as normal afterwards! If anyone wants a level of respect beyond just "basic" then they need to prove they're capable and worthy of it, no matter their position. Still, it's apparently pretty bizarre to a lot of outsiders that we don't often have any set cultural default reverence for those in positions of power, so it leads to a lot of misunderstandings. This doesn't apply to racism though. Racism is a whole different beast that throws the idea of basic human respect right out the fuckin' window before any interaction has even occured.
Lots of fascinating new information: I didn't know about the Dividing Range of mountains, or the weird tropical rainfall pattern of the northern coast. My brother travelled in Australia in his gap year between school and university. When he travelled to Uluru, he photographed a truck of people travelling the other way because it was the first other people he had seen in four hours of driving.
I grew up on the northern side of the great dividing range but now live on the southern side. It always amazes me how different the weather conditions can be between the two even though they’re only a few hundred kilometres apart
A great start to the new channel Joel with a fascinating and high quality documentary. It Kept me engaged all the way through and I too learned so much about Australia. Thanks. Other possible countries/areas to discover could be Brazil, Italy, Spain and Scandinavia.
Cool. Haha, who was your favourite of Gary, George, Matt (the judges) ? I watched season 1 , parts of some other seasons but not really any of season 3+ haha (maybe because I can't cook or appreciate finer foods lol)
I live in South Australia which is said to be the driest state on the driest continent in the world. We used to get about 600 mm or about 2 foot of rain a year, but because of global warming it seems to be reducing to around 400 mm a year or approximately 1 1/3 of a foot of rain a year
Interesting and as an Australian I learned something too! But one criticism -- his pronunciation of place names is sometimes really bad. The big clanger was Lake Eyre which he called Lake Erie! It is pronounced Lake Air!
I would love you all who are commenting on his pronunciation of Australian and English works I would love to hear you guys pronounce Maori 🤣😂 Leave him alone 🙏🧡
Hi from Melbourne Victoria, (Australia) I learnt a few things too despite being born and living here h whole life! I reckon judging by the love you're getting from the comments here you would definately have a few places to stay when U come visit us :) coz U know you're gonna :)
Great start for your new channel Joel. A wonderful start to the day for me. I've cousins in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Brisbane, but they weren't hand-chosen by the finest legal minds in the British Empire!!🤣
I have two sets of family in Australia - From my dad's side, my 3rd x great granduncle was sent there as a convict in 1831, he was pardoned a few years later, married a local woman and stayed. Then in the 70s my aunt, uncle and cousins emigrated - they were known as £10 Poms, even though they paid £75 each passage.
Im Australian . My great great grandfather was a redcoat that fought against the miners in Ballarat . My grandfather and mother were 10 pound Poms from the Lakes district.
I’m from Brisbane but now living in Perth. This is just a small portion of Australia’s information. The east coast goes through elnino and La Niña weather patterns. Currently it’s a 3rd year lanina causing widespread flooding. It’ll revert to elnino within the next couple of years. Brisbane/Queensland is very tropical in its climate. this video left off Darwin and Hobart in which they’re also major cities in Australia. Smaller then the top 5 but landmarks to the states/territories. Also the bushfires here are needed (and normal) and help make some plants grow. They’re made worse but there being no back burning.
Australia is definitely a fascinating country and it really baffles me how there are more people in England alone than in the entire country/continent of Australia, that fact really had my mind blown! My aunt and uncle lived in Sidney with their kids in the mid-90's and I remember being so jealous of them and wanting to visit them but that sadly never happened. Great start of your new channel and I'm excited to see what comes next! :)
You have to also remember the USA by comparison is over 200 years infront of Australia. Australia compered to the USA at the same age had a population of about 10million more. Australia at the moment produces enough food for about 80million people a year.
Also, Cook landed in The town of 1770 before making land in Botnay Bay. Which is about 1600km north of Sydney. There was also a huge inland sea at one point called the Devonian which you can go see the ancient reef systems
There's a RUclips channel I watch of a couple from England that recently visited Australia. I remember them saying Adelaide was the most like home. I've seen a few Americans react to this video. It always annoys me that the narrator pretty much forgets about Tasmania. Tasmania is a state of Australia, not just an island off the coast. It's major city is Hobart. Oh and I agree with the other comment. Check out Kinda Australian. And check out Ashleigh Fay's channel. Ashleigh is an American living in Tasmania.
We should put Rob and Charlie onto this channel because this post is incredibly detailed and informative compared with some of their posts about Australia. Their visit was awesome and I can barely wait to meet them again in person, next year
Tasmania is the most like the UK, not Adelaide!! I recently had a friend visit us here in Tasmania and she commented that Tasmania is incredibly like Scotland- she should know her Mum and Dad are both Scottish and she has spent a lot of time there….
Great honest reaction mate, as an Aussie that sits well.. Good luck with the channel, if you do get to Oz Bendigo Central Victoria has plenty of pubs with cold beer, I will get you a couple : )
If you want to visit Australia, makes sure you have some time as there is so much to do and of course you've now seen how far away things can be (4hrs from Perth to Sydney). If you do Sydney, you could also do New Zealand (highly recommended and my most favourite place on earth) as it's only a couple hours or so flight time from Sydney
It’s great that you’re educating yourself and others to our wonderful country! And also remember our country is much younger than the US and was only settled by Europeans 250 years ago although our indigenous peoples have been here for 1,000s of years. Thanks for posting the video .. very interesting for this Aussie!
Technically we've only been a country for a little over 100 years, and have only had the Australian regular Army Corp since the late 1940's, so we are still very much a baby.
right now we are going through la nina, which brings more rain, so at the moment vast areas of the murray-darling river system are experiencing the worst floods in several decades. Victoria and NSW are the worst affected where all that fertile land and food is grown
The floods brought about by La Nina are heartbreaking. I don't know which is worse: the floods brought by La Nina or the droughts brought by El Nino. Nothing to do with climate change BTW.
@@xXSinForLifeXx I obviously don't know where you live, but if you don't live in Australia google the floods on the east coast of Australia happening now. Third lot of floods in less than two years (from memory).
@@monique8641 I live in Australia and have been isolated due to both floods and fire. I'm saying I would take floods over fire. When the fire was right at my doorstep and we had no where to go I was much more scared for my life versus being flooded in. I remeber during the fires the sky was red for days and you ash was everywhere even inside. I could see the flames 2 stories high from my backyard.
@@xXSinForLifeXx I'm so sorry you've been hit by both floods and fire and after reading what you wrote, I guess floods are the best of a bad situation. I live in the west and in the cool season, they do burnoffs which tend to blanket much of the south of the state with smoke - making life difficult for people with breathing difficulties. We usually have the normal amount of bushfires - the worst in recent history being in 2016 when the town of Yarloop was completely destroyed. I don't think we're likely to have flooding problems here. I don't recall a year when we weren't subject to water restrictions.
You should visit Australia one day, Joel. I am sure you would love it here. That said, I have not seen all that much of Australia myself. I have been a resident of Sydney all my life, and I have only ever visited Brisbane and Melbourne all but too briefly. Gotta get out and about a bit myself! Australia! It's neat shape, yes? Blessings!
I am working for the Australian Government atm, I can tell you, most of the the problem we consider when developing these massive empty areas is water. Sure we have km's of empty space but if you can't have water security its not viable.
I learned a lot about Australia with you in that reaction. There is now a curiosity in me about what the effect would be of leveling sections of the Eastern Range to allow the air to start passing over central Australia. All but impossible, I know, but it still makes me wonder...
Forget 50km from the coast, I'm more than 50km from the nearest major highway, which itself is more than 300km inland. I'm just over the wrong side of the divide, which also means we don't get enough bush/brushland to be seriously concerned about fires. It also means our hospital is frequently without a doctor, and the wait for an appointment with a GP can be more than 2 months, except for 6 months every 2 years or so when we get registrars assigned here.
Great video - one interesting fact regarding water . Australia has the largest and deepest artesian basin (underground water) in the world called the Great Artesian Basin located in it's interior estimated to contain more than 3 times the volume of water as contained in all the Great Lakes (Lake Michigan etc) combined !!
Great video mate...Melbourne is pronounced as Melbun and Aussie pronounced as ozzie. Cheers, Steve from Melbourne. One thing the announcer forgot to mention, is the eastern part of Australia is experiencing floods courtesy of La Niña weather pattern, and farmers do cope very well to more than produce enough food for us with some left over to export... So it's not as bad as the announcer makes out. 👍🤗
I work a lot of my time in the middle part!! 2 weeks ago we drove 8 hours on Monday to go to see clients for the next few days then drive back to Alice Springs another 8 hours. Love the middle and the north of our nation
We even named a mountain. Mt Disappointment 😂 We are currently enduring a la niña year. Meaning way too much rain along the eastern coast. Basically where most of the cities are. Definitely where I am in Melbourne.
To sum up, there’s a big chunk of Australia’s North/West that is absolutely unliveable, unless you’re super hardcore and make a living off whatever rare commodity that land does have to offer. Driving through the country across the Nullarbor is a beautiful indication of the different landscapes, and why we’re so densely populated. Highly recommend!
New estates that are being opened up in the urban areas, the land size for each individual plot is only roughly around 520 square yards so there is only enough room for a house and a very small yard. I guess with the information I gleaned from this amazing video, it makes sense to keep everyone in a smaller area. A lot of immigrants came over after the war and a lot of them were employed for the Snowy Mountains Scheme which was a huge dam built in the Snowy Mountains on the East Coast of Southern Australia which further slowed down the water going into the Murray/Darling Rivers. A lot of people who were tradies (tradesmen and women) from different countries were brought over to help build Australia and settled all over the country. It's sort been in waves of different cultures throughout the last 150 years. Lots of Europeans like Italians, Greeks, Germans etc. Then came the Chinese. Then when we had the Vietnam war, we had lots of Vietnamese refugees. We had a lot of Middle Eastern people coming over. Now we have a lot of Indians coming over. In the larger cities, there is a huge diversity of Asians. At least from what I can see. Before that, Australia was very much an English orientated country. All the migrants have changed the face of Australia. Especially in the towns and also the cuisine has changed enormously. We went from stodgy English food to multi cultural foods. Australia didn't see fast foods until the 70s and I think the first fast food joint was Kentucky Fried Chicken. At least around the Sydney area anyway from memory. I can only comment for the western parts of the Sydney area where I grew up. We are still pretty much behind the rest of the world. Especially in technology. It's also true about the El Nino and La Nina phenomenons. We have just had the most rain over the last year that I have ever seen. We had months of rain from La Nina along with the Indian Ocean Dipole causing massive flooding in places that haven't seen rain in literally months and months that has only just now in the last 3 or 4 weeks slowed to normal rainfall patterns. But it seems we will be in for more rain in the coming months. At least in our local area. But Australia is still a really great country to live in. I don't want to be anywhere else. I really liked this video because I actually learned a lot myself.
You might have considered that Australia was backward a generation ago,but you still produced some mighty fine product.Our family had a Melbourne assembled HG Holden 253,4speed manual,that performed faultlessly.Much the same automatic vehicle was driven as taxis and gave sterling service and proved easy to maintain.Alas,times change and this period of Aussie proud self reliance has been lost
@@stephenbrockett710 Yes there were lots of things that were invented that the rest of the world is using now. The main thing I am complaining about is the internet speed. The stupidity of the Liberal government in keeping the copper wiring instead of changing it all to optic fibres. Millions of dollars to change things up and millions of dollars to try and fix what they fkd up. Amazing. Ah yes. The good old Holden. That has now sadly passed into history as well. We have a Commodore at the moment and will only have parts for it up until possibly 2035 because they only have parts and maintenance for 25 years after the initial manufacture of that particular model. I was gutted when I heard that Holden had ceased their operations. Australia has been sold overseas a bit at a time. Still, Australia is still the best country in my opinion. I still wouldn't thank you if you gave me a ticket to live abroad.
I love Australia. My parents and sister live in Perth, Western Australia. Many Scots and Irish (and their descendants) live there and as such you will find many Scots and Irish bars. Also there are Highland Games, Burns Suppers, Ceilidh’s, Pipe Bands, and butcher shops which produce Scottish Lorne sausage, Scotch pies and of course, Haggis.
As a Perth local, I can vouch for this, my grandad and grandma are from Manchester England, my great grandparents on my mother's side are Irish and my father's side is Scotish (did I spell it right??) A bit further back (at minimum 3 or 4 generations) If you ever travel to Perth check out durty Nellie's, a hidden away pub in Perth that has amazing food and somehow survived covid thus far
A few inaccuracies in this documentary. The aboriginal people arrived at least 70,000 years ago. They also showed a North American opossum, not an Australian possum.
Its interesting how despite the massive amount of eastern Europeans I never really met many. But when I was in western Melbourne it was amazing how diverse it was. Such a European vibe will small groups of men chatting and babushkas hanging about 😂
One thing to consider is each state is quite different as well, all having their own accents and look. I have noticed that Perth, has much more red-haired northern european looking people, where Sydney/Melbourne has more brow-haired Italian/Lebanese, for example. I moved here from New Zealand in 2004, and found back then that there were MUCH less people of diverse color and culture, and racism was slightly worse. Today, 2022, I find it not so noticeable at all. I think, as a guess, Australians in general don't mind "some" cultural diversity, they seem to actually rather like it, but ARE afraid of cultural and religious take-over, which I suppose most countries are. After all, it is literally a part of greater Asia, with nothing else nearby.
wow, you left out Perth.....the remotest city (furthest from another city, Adelaide is 1300 miles away) in the world. We are 2000 miles west of Sydney...so like (almost) Miami to LA. Population of Perth is 2million. If you walk down through the centre of Perth on a sunday morning you may only see a handful of people. Perth itself though does cover about 2500 sq miles. Sorry if I go on about Perth but it's my adopted homeland.
Ever heard of the Empty quarter where you might see the occasion oasis, 35% of Australia gets so little rain that it is practically desert. Then there are a lot of mining area for gold and or opals then there are 10 of the worlds most dead snakes and a bunch of the deadliest spiders too, most of Tasmania is national park and quite a few other sections too. They are of course non-indigenous statistic. 18:36 almost halfway through and while it has mentioned the Murry darling is our main fresh water system it still hasn't mentioned the high salinity of most of the river that isn't part of the GDR. which is anothe part of the problem because the WHO has recognised that within the next thirty years that river system is in danger of becoming unpottable, which means it will be unsafe to drink from it even with filtration.
Just a heads up - the animal at 20:49 is an American opossum, NOT an Australian possum! While it is true that the opossum is a marsupial, it has never lived in Australia and is very distantly indeed related to Australian possums...
As an Australian this was an interesting introduction but I would remind you that Australia is so much more than desert. We have over 10 amazing ski resorts, we have tropical rainforests, tropical beaches, pink lakes, stunning coast lines.
Australia is a stunning place to live. We have some excellent mountain ranges to go hiking through.
u forgot to mention fosters
@@redf7209 we don’t drink Fosters in Australia
@@Dr_KAP because you know what is in it?😀
@@redf7209 it’s disgusting
The irony of this reaction is that Australia is currently going through some of its worst floods on records. We live in a very wild, extreme country and we love it
Just a prolonged La Nina. It will revert to El Nino and the farmers will be struggling with the droughts again.
Do we love it? I certainly don’t.
Yeah I don't love it, I'd rather live in Europe any day.
@@MicBain It's relatively easy for an Australian to emigrate to Europe, so, feel free
@@monique8641 it's not just the La Nina, it's strongly influenced this year by the Honga Tonga volcano
A man owned a petrol station in the Australian outback,when he put it up for sale and was asked why."I've had seven customers this week.Too busy"
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Lol.
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Love it Helen Bailey
Stop it..😅
There is a famous poem called My Country and one stanza of it is
" I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!"
You forgot to finish it correctly, When we were in 2nd grade we had to finish it by saying
"By Dorothea McKellar" :P
it's not complete until you say that
Oh YES!! Didn’t we ALL used to learn THAT at school!! 👏👏👏🇦🇺💕
Yes!!! Brought me back to primary school.
I live that poem
@@martinkuliza whaaat in eisteddfods you say the poet's name after the title, before you start the poem lol
@@Envy_May
We never did that
Our format was, You'd stand in front of the class (or you'd do it as a class)
You'd say
MY COUNTRY
then
I love a sunburnt country.... etc etc
then you say
BY DOROTHEA MCKELLAR
we always said it last
Australia has some of the best food in the world because everyone that came here from all the different corners also brought their mum
Amen to that.
True and I can't wait til 2050 when we have 30 million people
coming from Asia I disapprove....
Even the convicts?! 😲
@@dreadpiratebob645 and dads. My dad bought different food to the table other than the traditional meat, spuds & 3 veg
My wife is Indonesian born and bred. She had lived in Sydney for several years before coming to Darwin to live with me. When our son was about 12 months old we drove to Perth for my sisters wedding. Took about 5 days, around 4,000km (approx 2,500 miles). We followed the coast road along WA. Every day, in fact all the way, he kept telling me how shocked she was at how big Australia is. And empty. "You could put whole cities here". I'm like, yeah, nah. It's a bit too dry and hot. Nothing really grows well. A good trip but, I've done it heaps before, bus car and bike. The bike was in summer, that was hard, in full leathers at around 43°C (100F)
Years ago, my family went on a drive from Perth to Sydney for Christmas. My Dad has remodelled an old bus to be outfitted with hardy cabinets (with a sink) and beds in the back. It took us over a week of driving flat-out every day, because my Dad was a road-trip champion who never seemed to get tired.
The biggest stretch of road and biggest worry was the Nullarbor, which has Australia's longest straight road at 1675km long, plus the Nullarbor itself is around 200,000 km². Nullarbor directly translates into "no tree land". It's nothing but sparce dry bush and shallow, loamy red dirt, and since it was November that we crossed it that meant it was getting into Summer so it was even hotter than usual! We were lucky the bus's engine didn't explode and fry us, especially since it was located in a block between the front seating! And we had to cross the damn thing _twice!_ Once to get to Sydney and once to get home!
Now, if some nutbag wanted to live out there they could certainly try, but I'm pretty sure they'd end up a bleached skeleton by the end of the year!
I live in the Newcastle/Central Coast region of NSW. I have family that live in Germany. Years ago my cousin, her husband and their friends came over to travel over Australia. My father told them we would meet them at Sydney airport and take them home to our place. We drove in our car and they drove in their rented 7 seater. We had my cousin's husband in our car. He kept on asking us how far it was because we were driving for such a long time. We told him it was a couple of hours from Sydney to Newcastle. He wanted to know in Kms but we didn't really know because we measure distances by the time it takes rather than kms. When you see the map of Australia, the distance from Sydney to Newcastle looks minute until you drive it. He said if he'd know it was going to be that far, he wouldn't have asked us to meet them. It takes roughly 2 hours to get from Sydney to Newcastle and it's about 170 kms. Great scenery though because it partly goes along the coast road.
Ypive never even travelled Australia stfu
One of the weirdest things recently about being an Australian is that I've only recently had to learn about dealing with mould. I grew up with consecutive Ill-Nino events leading to bushfires and multiple droughts. Now we are having consecutive La-Ninia making heavy rainfall and flooding a thing. When I was younger dealing with mould just wasn't a thing because it was way too dry to be a massive issue. Used to be able to store unused furniture in the garage without much fear of anything but dust. Now, stuff it just getting destroyed by it.
It's actually really affected my mental health. It had been so hard to deal with.
Depends on what part of Australia you're from i guess, I've had to deal with mould most of my life
@Kendall Drury One of the biggest reasons for the hideous amount of mould that is gathering in people's homes is that most modern Aussie buildings don't have top of wall vents to enable the excess moisture from steam when cooking or bathing escape, especially during winter when you are likely to keep most (if not all) windows and doors closed. The moisture gathers on the surface and there's no escape for it, it is then met with the moist air from human and other species respiration which causes the bacterial build-up.
I have found the most effective way to annihilate it is to mix undiluted white vinegar with a certain proprietary brand of mould killer and a similar amount of domestic. Shake the mixture up in a spray bottle and spray the surface, with a reasonable amount of most, less if your walls aren't brick or concrete, then sponge thoroughly, rinse the sponge and keep wiping (about four times in total, don't add more product). Ventilate the area well as the fumes from the preparation can be deadly, but effective. The fumes take about three days to dissipate.
@@melissabarrett9750 - *"a similar amount of domestic"*
Do you mean "a similar amount of Domestos", by any chance?
The best that will actually kill Mould is Therapeutic Grade Essential Oil..Clove..
You can also defuse and take internally..as Mould does get into the body...Has be Therapeutic Grade..
Great video 😁 I'm Australian and I love that you have taken interest in our country and don't worry about people complaining about pronunciations I think you did great
What a wonderful video. I was born in 1944 after the War and many people came out from Europe. Many displaced persons, they had nothing worked like mad, brought their children up and became citizens of Australia. They brought their customs, language, songs and food. Our diet was very boring. Fresh fruit and vegetables, fresh meat but….boring. The dishes from Europe were mind boggling. Then, in the seventies the Vietnamese came with their food, other Asian countries…..it was heaven. All these people helped to build our country up in many ways, not only economically but it enriched our way of life. I will always be greatfull for these people coming to my country. They have made Australia what it is today.
I am Australian and I lived in the outback for about 7 years, in a town of about 40 people. Our town water came from underground, someone else mentioned the great artesian basin. We all had water tanks as well. Around us were many large properties most of them grazed sheep but there were also cattle properties. Our town had a small shop attached to the caravan park and a well used pub but to do a complete grocery shop there was a larger but still small town just 200km down a red dirt road. Our town also had a school, I was the teacher/principal. We used to joke that it rained 5 days a year for no less than 10 minutes each day. But at the moment November 2022 it is flooded and for weeks you could only get there by helicopter.
Town didnt happen to be Wanaaring did it? In North West NSW
@@codywolter8342 You know Wanaaring, did you live there?
No no, im a shearer, done a bit of shearing up at thurloo downs and a few stations around there.
I is “funny” how people can say the yanks don’t know fuck all about Australia, when in fact just like the yanks Australians know fuck all about their own countrymen geography probably less than their overseas counterparts.
@@thedoctor2102 you're an idiot if you believe this video.
It might sound odd to people from overseas but most people in Australia are happy with the way it is setup and we don't really need any more people. We have enough resources to sustain ourselves and our future generations but we have to look after our agricultural industry and keep it free from diseases that exist most other places and salinity. I grew up on a beef farm in Western Australia that was highly, highly productive with green grass growing like crazy for much of the year. Much of Asia lives off our produce. A lot of these videos give people from overseas a lot of misconceptions about Australia by concentrating on certain facts, then the same people come to visit and don't pack winter coats etc. and get a shock when they find out how cold and wet it can get in places, just as an example. Our alpine ski region is also said to compete with Switzerland for snow cover. Another thing that tends to happen is that videos on Australia tend to be made by people from overseas and emphasise Sydney as the only city to visit, the Opera House as the only site of importance, or Bondi Beach as the only beach, when there's way more interesting places to go. Its a bit like the wildlife videos concentrate on kangaroos, koalas, crocodiles, snakes and spiders. They forget we have emus, cassowarys, wombats, platapus, echidnas, quokkas, numbats, flying foxes, tawny frogmouths, kookaburras, cockatoos, rosellas etc. and that's just the tip of the biodiversity iceberg. Yes, some of our wild life is deadly but that is WAY overblown. Ethnically speaking, Australia had a British mono-culture until after World War 2, due to the White Australia Policy that excluded people of other ethnicities, including parts of Europe. It has become more multi-cultural since, but Charles is still our King under a constitutional monarchy and the Union Jack is still prominent on our flag. Our parliament, laws and institutions are established very similarly to the way they are in Britain and we have our own case law but judges will sometimes still refer to legal precedents in the UK when making judgements. We're still very close to Britain but we have our own culture and we absorb a lot of American tv etc., so we kind of have the best of both worlds, even though we are miles away. Essentially you might not know much about us yet but we know lots about you. All the English shows you react to all the time are screened in Australia on tv constantly. There are a few million British migrants and a lot of white people who have escaped racist oppression and crime in former British colonies such as Zimbabwe and South Africa to setup successful lives here. In terms of food options, it is about as diverse as it gets, owing to immigration and a willingness to try new things. We also have tropical and temperate regions for growing most varieties of fruit and vegetables. Our closest rivalries in sport tend to be with England but we truly punch above our weight if you notice we tend to finish around 4th-5th at the Olympics most of the time. The difference between us and the USA when it comes to WW2 was that we entered the war from day 1 with the rest of the British Commonwealth and we were the only country left that was actively fighting the Japanese in the south of Asia on our own with our brothers from New Zealand. It took a few years for Pearl Harbour to trigger a response from the USA and the Aussies were doing it tough there for a while. After Pearl Harbour, the Americans top brass and much of its forces regrouped in the safety of Australia before commencing the assault. The latter half of the 20th century saw a number of things separate Australia a bit more from the UK to align a little more to the US, with the UK joining the European Union and Australia joining the Vietnam War and ANZUS Treaty, as geopolitics came into play and colonial power waned. Australia now has some US military bases, a space industry, and joint intelligence installations that are worth looking into. With Brexit, I am hoping Australia and the UK can move closer together on a number of things but we are open for business and do heaps of trade with China, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia etc. We have a rocky relationship with China despite them being our number 1 trading partner, as the whole communism thing is still a bit messed up. Its weird but we need each other. China has tried to interfere in our politics and other institutions like universities by buying people off but it is not something the average citizen will stand for and we have to stick up for Taiwan and against Chinese efforts to take ownership of the South China Sea. People in Britain and politicians are starting to renew interest in the opportunity that still exists in this part of the world. I still don't think people from overseas have a proper handle on the importance of our mineral wealth, but there are also a lot of woke people in Sydney and Melbourne lately for example, who somehow have a habit of forgetting this too. Mining actually made Melbourne the richest city in the world in the late 1800s for quite a while. Looking forward to more Australian content and discovery.
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Australia 🇦🇺 fuck ye
u wrote a whole essay but yea its great how it is :D
@@ShadowEevee_117 yeah, just got a bit tired of all the misconceptions about Australia peddled by people who don’t even live here, so I thought I’d set things straight as I picked up on things that were said or alluded to 🤔
Wow, as an Aussie thank you that was so informative and I learnt a lot from your comment ❤️
Much of New South Wales, Victoria and now South Australia are presently experiencing severe once in lifetime, record breaking, floods right now.
Tasmania is also experiencing the flooding, while Western Australia is still on year round water restrictions. I can't remember when WA didn't have water restrictions.
Good to see a young man with a balanced view point. Your knowledge of your own cultural history was impressive but unfortunately lacking in the youth of today. Well done
Thank you, it’s wonderful to see you asking questions and sharing the answers. I really hope you don’t get any negativity. Keep asking the questions and stay positive.
Being a farmer in Australia is definitely hard. I’ve met guys who say they’re having the best yield in years, and then next week the whole crops been destroyed because of massive rainfall 😢 he decided to sell his farm
Yeah, either you have little to no rain or a crapload of it
The whole crops have also failed to thrive due to year after year of drought. Driving from Perth to the Eastern Goldfields you can see whole properties where the crops have been ploughed in because they just haven't thrived.
We've got the problem of salt in the soil on some of our family farms (maternal side) because of the rising water table due to overuse over a vast area. Rain is pretty hit or miss and definitely not a lot unfortunately, then again my sisters farms are getting hit by the flooding Murray and 3 years ago my fathers family's previous farm was burnt almost to the ground due to bushfires, agriculture is not easy in a lot of places here.
Yep . Was one in SA. Winter crop ( grain) only it’s the rainy season
Im surprised that the history of Australia's discovery didnt even mention Captain Dirk Hartog who was also dutch. He landed on Australia in 1606 before the other dutch ship
Rain? Never heard of it!
Interesting fact: The land east of The Great Dividing Range is not part of the larger land mass, it is geologically completely different, being ocean floor originally and gradually pushed up against the continent.
You can find the rarest and most valuable Black Opal just west of this phenomena running north to south if you know where to look!
Spot on about the mountains, less so the rain. Most of the east has been underwater for a large part of this year, way more rain than anybody expected.
Wow, I didn't know that, very interesting, I need to learn more about that now.
What's this "first settlement was around about Sydney"? It was exactly at Sydney. The First Fleet anchored in Botany Bay first, then decided to go north to find a better harbour. They sailed into Port Jackson and settled at Sydney cove. Which is the centre of Sydney today.
Mate, as an Australian, I'm thoroughly enjoying your reaction vids and I'm already looking forward to your next one - keep up the good work - subscribed.
Fun Fact. Perth is the most isolated city in the world. Also the lack of water is the biggest reason why everyone is on the coast. There is a big mining town that gets it water from 600km away. Also major ecological mismanagement has broken alot of the natural water distribution, which doesn't help the water issue at all
I'm an Aussie, this video is a small part of our vastness different parts of Australia are amazing. But farming on or near the coast lines and inland are everywhere. Green and lush plenty of water. Look up Mt Tamborine and the gold coast in Oueensland. The scenic Rim is beautiful.
Climate in Australia has fluctuated for thousands of years 50.000 the country was once covered in forest and grassland but the continent started to dry out
Yes all this is true and it is just the way we like it. 26 million is just enough people.
It's funny when Americans don't
Much about Australia. We might
Be a small population but we
Are not poor. Our GDP is nearly
As big as Russia, who think their
A world power.
I live in the middle of Australia and just love it here a pity we don’t have a casino here that would draw more people to our desert land
I think we have about 5,000,000 too many, given the density of population in the cities
Low population but we punch well above our weight.
And don't leave out the little blob down the bottom .. Tasmania, that Australia shat out! 😂 So hi from Tassie.
one more minor thing that ultimately adds up with everything else is that they failed to mention, is that also exasperating the rainfall issue, is that there are not many broad leaf plants in Australia. Broad leaf plants have a greater ability to suck in moisture and cause rainfall. Most Australian plants are narrow leaf and are not as good at causing rainfall. And native grasses are very sporadic, scant and very thinned out. Also very delicate and die off easily.
They also failed to mention that the Murray Darling system was dammed up by the government for a Hydro plant. And also greedy international farmers built their own rivers to syphon off from the main system which caused massive dry spells for everyone else and parts of the natural river system to dry up and die off.
Previously despite the rare rainfall, it ran just fine with the seasons and was healthy before they screwed it up.
Don't forget the massive irrigation, man made lakes and towns in NSW/VIC that sucked the river dry decades ago.
Love your channel, your comments are really intelligent and your such a lovely person to watch. Thanks for your hard work and for entertaining us 🇦🇺
I've lived in the outback for well over ten years of my life.
While the majority of the population lurks around the coast the vast majority of the few people who live in the central regions tend to live around the half dozen or so major highways or single large river.
I lived in a place for three years that had 14 people living there permanently. I could have walked out my back door and the next thing I'd have hit was the west australian coast about 2000 kilometres away.
We used to do a round trip of 300 kilometres to get pizza.
We've had tourists miss the only sealed turn and end up 1000 kms in the wrong direction looking for a large rock.
Good times
300 k for a pizza. That's a bit too far. Ill stick to the Coast. :D
Great choice for the first vid on this channel Joel. Very informative indeed. Some very surprising figures of which I had no clue.
I'm very much looking forward to what's to come.
Nice one, Joel!
Heard about the floods from my pal in Maitland. he tells me - 'Well the floods are back with vengeance
Most of NSW, and the border towns in QLD and Victoria have been under water for some time as the slow moving water makes its way to sea.'
All the best for those that are suffering there right now. Hope things get better soon. D
Thank you. Yeah some of Victoria has flooding at the moment. Bit it's worse for New South Wales and Queensland as they've already had a couple floods in recent times
Climate change ... 🤔
many floods this year.
I wouldn’t say most of NSW is under water. There are a few regions in northern nsw flooding at the moment but the rest of the state is fine. It’s been extremely hot in Sydney this week.
@@travisgrant5608 Nothing to do with climate change. It's a prolonged La Nina which brings the excessive rainfall and floods. It will revert to El Nino and the land will be suffering from drought as it was a few years back.
My youngest is living in Bathurst NSW Australia right now. He was there for six months just before covid hit. His elder brother has been as well bit he stayed in Melbourne Victoria. They lived and worked there but the main reason they went was down to sport. They are both minor county cricketers and went over there to experience life in another country and play the sport they love. It helps that we Brits have a lot in common values and language wise which makes living there easier, but different enough given where they are near Asia. They have loved the life out there. I was offered the same chance when i was 23 but id just got married so didnt go, and now cant due to health reasons.
Cool they're in Bathurst and Melbourne
Great video and i learned a lot from it. As an Australian, probably the biggest issue with anyone moving here at the moment would be the severe lack of housing to either rent or buy.
As an Aussie from Melbourne I love your videos (although I admit this is my second one I've watched haha you'll get my subscription 😂)
When I read the title I said to myself “because there's a huge bloody desert in the middle of it” lol 🤣
I love Australia because it feels like every country on Earth put into one and the people are super chill.
We have snowy alps, vast desert, rainforests, plains, mountains, more beaches than any other country in the world, caves, reefs, modern sprawling cities and small country towns, rolling hills like parts of England and more!
Shout out to you too bro! I drove from Brisbane to Perth and back again (East Coast to West Coast). It took me about 5 days. I had to avoid massive wild boars, huge kangaroos that tower over the size of the car, camels and these massive birds called wedge tailed eagles. Although I did hit one of them. It luckily bounced off my windscreen but gave me and my dog a massive shock. The outback is crazy dude. But you should so do it sometime!
The Murray River Has a Fish called the "Murray Cod" and the largest ever landed was six feet long. The largest spotted was about Eight feet long. Murry River Crayfish is Delisious. Cod melts in your mouth. And the river has some of the largest Carp ever caught in the world. I personally landed a Carp over 1 metres long
Looking into the two top choices, Sydney is mostly along an American style city while Melbourne is more European. Although both are very much into outdoor activities Melbourne prides itself on the arts and sport.
AUSTRALIA IS SO.MUCH MORE THAN SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE IMAGINE THAT
I’m glad you didn’t go into animals. Some people get a little freaked out when they find out on a list of poisons animals we can proudly say we have the position of 1 through to ten covered 😅
Yep, you have to be real careful of those Aussie drop bears when walking at night in the bush...
Yea but a broom will take most of em out.
Just another Aussie chiming in to say I learned quite a bit watching this video. Thanks for the upload!
The other major issue we have is "The Tyranny of Distance"
It takes a day to travel between the closest cities.
Transporting anything to anywhere is a major logistical nightmare!
Trains miles long, Road trains (Semi-trailers with up to 6 trailers), back in the 1800s there were paddle boats on the "Murray Darling" and finally in the 1900s ships and planes.
But if you do not have a car then you are restricted to the cities inner suburbs.
As a south Australian who was born in the early 80's all through my schooling years till 2000 immigration was very low. We had maybe a handful of immigrants in the entirety of the schools i went to. Wasn't till i left and around mid 2000's i really noticed migrants. Mainly a boom of Asian and Indians in the 00s that would start a life here. Later after/during the Middle Eastern wars around 2010 we started seeing many Middle Easterners settling here. Before that in the 90's it was the odd few English, Germans, Italians and Greeks you would usually see at school. Nowadays we are starting to see more Africans making their way here and still a solid amount of Middle Easterners. Having said all that it's a touchy subject here, as we have had many cultural clashes around the country.
Ten years of Abbott's toxicity and crony capitalist mass migration has ruined this country
We've lost our national identity and there's no common sense anymore
I live in _Skidknee_ where it's a expensive hot mess tourist trap overcrowded and neglected
The public infrastructure isn't keeping up with demand yet at the same time it's overdeveloped with shopping malls, stadiums, tollways, and high rise units (yet more hot mess to be neglected and forgotten about for the next new shiny trinket)
Half the population are immigrants, I feel like a token white guy and a stranger in the land I was born in
There's no common sense anymore
I'm X Gen and MIA
@@PeterKnagge agreed, bring back WAP
Not sure what you are talking about if your not aboriginal your an immigrant. Where were your relatives from?
@@pomsrcadventures8482 I'm a 7th generation Australian, at what point can I call home "home"?
Using your logic aboriginals are "immigrants" too, they can account for 40,000 to 80,000 years, who owned the land for the 4 billion years before that? The original aboriginals travelled down to Australia and kicked out the locals and called it their own just like the English settlers did.
Stop living in the past and grow up!
Aboriginals certainly had a better go at it than my German ancestors did with the Romans for 1000's of years.
I'm from rural South Australia and I went to school with and associated with lots of Aboriginals as well as Italian immigrants, turkish, chinese, sri lankan, germans (of course), greeks, filipinos. A family member grew up in the Adelaide Hills, but he never came across an Aboriginal til he was an adult. As I got older teens and onwards there seemed to be a racial distinction that I witnessed and I had a hard time grappling with it, because I didn't see the distinction and it was constantly pointed out to me - I grew up with 'everyone's family is different no better or worse (unless abusive) than anyone elses' - now it's not politically correct, its too woke! The pendulum always swings one way or another to the extreme. I was racially profiled in India, thought to be Brazilian in Central America and told to go back to my own country in Australia. I am 'white' with a complete mongrel ancestry that centres in Europe, so i don't actually know where I'm supposed to go back too.
A cattle Station Anna Creek covers 9,140 square miles, which is almost the size of Vermont. The size of Texas is 268,596 square miles, South Australia is 380,048 sq mi. Once you drive north or west of Port Augusta, there is not much to see and very few people until you reach Perth or Alice Springs
I'd disagree - there is a lot to see and experience and wonderful colourful people in towns that dot the map along the way.
I was in South Australia this week and went to the Murray River which is currently in flooded and has broken its bank. Quite the site and it hasn’t peaked yet.
I'm not looking forward to the influx of more snakes trying to find drier ground nor the mosquitoes coming with the waters.
Thank you so much for a super choice for a continental beginning of your vlog. I've been around for a while and I learned an awful lot about Australia that I never had heard before.
My parents were farmers, and were about to emigrate under the Assisted Passage Scheme, (£10 poms) but took the tenancy of a dairy farm in Hertfordshire instead. I occasionally wonder what would have happened to us in Aus. This is a good start to your new channel Joel, good luck. T
My parents sold their small farm
In the 60s in Herefordshire and came
To Western Australia as ten pound
Poms. They bought a dairy farm
And had sons and grandchildren
Who had farms too.
@@martinjenkins6467 I remember finding a booklet with details about the Bunbury region. A few years ago, we sold our farm. It was turned into a golf course, so I found a job in marketing, which took me all around the UK, and parts of Europe too.
Climate change wise we're being hit with three events that have kept the entire east coast flooded for most of this year: The Indian Ocean Dipole, we are currently in our 3rd La Niña event in a row and on top of that the Antarctic stratospheric polar vortex is feeding into SE Australia. It's a little wet here and because of that food costs are soaring right now. Glad you liked that video. It does explain us very well. 👍
My sons in Bathurst right now since Jan and its been rainy and cold ever since. Whilst the uk has been warm and dry! I do remind him he should of stayed home lol. Love the country and wish i could visit.
@@main3182 No, the issue is that most of the rain falls along the east coast because of the fold mountain ranges near the coast and the very flat centre. So more rain is just more rain where it usually rains, which leads to floods in the green areas while there is still drought in the centre and west.
@@main3182 we have a bit of a problem with political parties blocking attempts to build dams to irrigate central and southern Australia. All the northern tropical monsoon rains flood and then flush straight out to sea. One of our most brilliant (Bradfield) engineers drew up plans to pipe water from the north to the south in the early 1900s but by the time equipment made it feasible politics intervened. It took 15 years & many $millions in the courts for our last Indian owned mine to be allowed to proceed to help lift India out of poverty.
@@ladymanners618 ive heard the economics of the idea dont work out. the calculations were based on a evaporation rate of germany, which is much colder and is thus not representative of australian evaporation rates.
Most of the heavy rainfall has actually been due to normal climate conditions and even the Tongan volcano
Great introduction to a great Country. I come from a country a closest neighbour to Australia which is called Papua New Guinea. Australia has always been a big brother to us whose citizen fought with other allied forces ( US, Britain) against the Japanese soldiers during second world war in the harsh jungles of Papua New Guinea tracking the Kokoda trail alongside the wazzy wazzy angles ( local carriers for the wounded soldiers). Thankyou Australia and other allied forces for the sacrafice you made. Apart from that, Australia has always been the largest Aid donour country to Papua New Guinea. Our countrys' independence was given to us freely from the Australian Government with no blood shed. Thankyou Australia you will always be our " WANTOK' ( brother).
In Australia, we call them "Fuzzy Wuzzy angels"
Just shows what a good reactor you are JP.
Just over 3K subscribers on this channel, and this is only your first video.
Come and visit us next Joel, you'll love it matey...! Don't be concerned about the distance, it's worth it bud. (great new channel BTW!)
I'm hoping Jps and Suitemates might visit in 2024
As I'm hoping in 2023 they visit Ireland Wales Scotland
@@adrianhempfing2042 No problem with that,🤕 suggestion, all in due course 😉😉👍
Hi. ON maps of Australia,There are sometimes rivers and creeks shown...The Problem??They may not flow with water for 2 years ,or 10 years...So,not just desert...but a lack of water...
yes,we are having inland flooding now-but that is very rare..
Joel, my father was a veteran of WW2. He was stationed in Darwin when it was bombed. Needless to say, it is period of his life he never really spoke about. The war took its toll on him, and also my mother who I lost in 2005. I was my father's full-time carer for over 12 years. Perhaps the more poignant of battles he was to face in his life took him from me on August 20th, when he died in may arms at hospital, aged 99 years. He had dementia. As a relative newcomer to your ItsJps channel - only in recent weeks really - I have found solace there as I am sure I will here at this new channel. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for that! God bless you!
sorry to hear Phillip :( I hope he is in a better place now RIP
@@MoreJps Thank you, Joel! Means the world! Blessings!
Sorry to hear about your father. But thankful for his service. I lived in darwin for a while. until I lived there I knew little about the bombing.
Congratulations on the first post on the new channel Joel and you picked a truly fascinating one , great stuff! I think a look at the food side of things would be really interesting with all the Asian fusion influences mixing with the traditional cuisine.
Hi mate. Been watching your videos for near a year now. It was great you got to visit the UK. Watching this video today was strange listening him talk about how dry Australia is. Currently the Murray Darling basin he spoke about has been in flood for nearly 3 months. Parts of Queensland and New South Wales have have have had some towns and cities flood 4 times this year alone so people of those areas have either not been able to return home or even start recovering or rebuilding their homes. This was the first time I had seen this particular video so it was very interesting to me as well. I live in Adelaide with a population of 3 million people in the whole state. South Australia is know the be the driest capital in the driest state on the driest continent. Our summer temperatures can reach 47 degrees Celsius. One video that does get a lot of interest is about out bank notes. I’m a silly old fart so I don’t know how to link it. But it could be one to look up. Oh by the way it’s time for a shave lol. Keep up the great work..
Thanks for that choice of video. I learned a lot about Australia that was new to me.
What a fascinating video. Very enjoyable. Lots of Brits emigrate ‘down under’ to both Australia & New Zealand. In fact, there is a TV programme in the UK called ‘Wanted Down Under’ where Brits get to test out what it would be like to emigrate to Australia or New Zealand before deciding to go or stay in the UK. Worth a watch if you’re interested.
I’d love to see that show. Thanks
Also, it's Anna Creek Station very rarely do we see a Station in Australia called a Ranch, I think there might be a few but that's not how an Aussie would see it. They're either sheep or cattle stations, when they're big enough, and there's some big ones out there. Isolated, drifting all alone...just the way I like it. Plus, you might drive for 2 days across the US for Thanksgiving or Christmas to visit family, but a 13-15 hour flight (from LAX of course) is just way too far, although I enjoy flying so I'm not fussed.
The hottest recorded years and summers in Oz go way back before 2005. The 1890's, the 1920's, the 1940's and the 1970's all recorded much hotter and more persistent drought and heat than anything in the 2000's.
Also, Chinese owned cotton farms expanded in the 1980's, taking huge amounts of water from the Darling river system and the western rivers, exacerbating low river levels downstream towards the Murray.
ps: You might like to tell Lake Erie in the US to give back the water to Lake Eyre (pronounced ''air)
As an Australian, this is the best I've seen so far on our beautiful country.thankyou
Surely Australia has produced more in depth documentaries on itself than anything America has ever done on us. You should broaden your horizons if this is the best write up of our country you've ever seen.
It was a good summary, but glosses over most of the details people consider important to our national identity.
Australia is an awesome country. A lot of visitors are stuned by distances we travel. 3+ hours for a day trip to the nearest big town. Some of us live near small towns, with a post office, pub and supermarket is all that's there.
I grew up in Newman WA and it wasn’t unusual to drive 4 hours to port hedland to get some maccas :’)
Hey I'm proudly Aussie. It's sweet to watch your face react. I've never been overseas but I've heard Australians are very very friendly, compared with other countries. Like, to strangers and staff at the shops etc. We don't have a tipping culture so perhaps that contributes to the general egalitarianism. For context I'm from western Sydney which is suburban. 1 hour drive to sydney cbd, and I live with traffic noise and barking dogs and lawn mowers etc. 🤷♀️
Americans often say our restaurant service is bad when they come here, it's hard not to want to explain that you get good service everywhere as long as you're polite. In America, people in service jobs, even retail, bend over backwards to demonstrate that they're serving you and it's kind of disturbing. You know they don't want to act that way, but they know that if they don't they won't get a tip. You would have tipped them for just doing their job, but you end up tipping AND feeling guilty.
Our system is better, I wouldn't want to swap.
I've heard people call Australians rude for not being polite, but what they actually mean is we don't usually treat anyone as being "above" us. Everyone deserves basic human respect, but if a boss or family member or Prime Minister is being a dickhead, most Aussies will call that person a dickhead to their face and just... continue on life as normal afterwards! If anyone wants a level of respect beyond just "basic" then they need to prove they're capable and worthy of it, no matter their position. Still, it's apparently pretty bizarre to a lot of outsiders that we don't often have any set cultural default reverence for those in positions of power, so it leads to a lot of misunderstandings.
This doesn't apply to racism though. Racism is a whole different beast that throws the idea of basic human respect right out the fuckin' window before any interaction has even occured.
Lots of fascinating new information: I didn't know about the Dividing Range of mountains, or the weird tropical rainfall pattern of the northern coast. My brother travelled in Australia in his gap year between school and university. When he travelled to Uluru, he photographed a truck of people travelling the other way because it was the first other people he had seen in four hours of driving.
I grew up on the northern side of the great dividing range but now live on the southern side. It always amazes me how different the weather conditions can be between the two even though they’re only a few hundred kilometres apart
A great start to the new channel Joel with a fascinating and high quality documentary. It Kept me engaged all the way through and I too learned so much about Australia. Thanks. Other possible countries/areas to discover could be Brazil, Italy, Spain and Scandinavia.
I may have already mentioned this but we had to study Australia in our Geography Class. Also, it’s an interesting place to learn about.
Have you visited Australia before ? If not I hope you do
@@adrianhempfing2042 I was supposed to, but no, I haven’t. Biggest fan of OG Masterchef Australia.
Cool. Haha, who was your favourite of Gary, George, Matt (the judges) ?
I watched season 1 , parts of some other seasons but not really any of season 3+ haha
(maybe because I can't cook or appreciate finer foods lol)
I live in South Australia which is said to be the driest state on the driest continent in the world. We used to get about 600 mm or about 2 foot of rain a year, but because of global warming it seems to be reducing to around 400 mm a year or approximately 1 1/3 of a foot of rain a year
Great that you have set up this channel 😁 I look forward to going on your travels with you
As a immigrant of 43 yrs, I really enjoyed watching this, learnt a little bit more
Interesting and as an Australian I learned something too! But one criticism -- his pronunciation of place names is sometimes really bad. The big clanger was Lake Eyre which he called Lake Erie! It is pronounced Lake Air!
Calm down it’s just a word. Here in Britain Joel’s been savaging our place names consistently.
We do have some funny pronunciation of places, especially Melbourne, which overseas people say technicall correctly but Aussies say more like Mel-burn
I would love you all who are commenting on his pronunciation of Australian and English works I would love to hear you guys pronounce Maori 🤣😂 Leave him alone 🙏🧡
I definitely couldn't get Maori correct
@Aussie Pom I didn’t know that.
Hi from Melbourne Victoria, (Australia) I learnt a few things too despite being born and living here h whole life! I reckon judging by the love you're getting from the comments here you would definately have a few places to stay when U come visit us :) coz U know you're gonna :)
Great start for your new channel Joel. A wonderful start to the day for me. I've cousins in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Brisbane, but they weren't hand-chosen by the finest legal minds in the British Empire!!🤣
There is more useful information in this than we learned at school when I went(60's and 70's for me).Thank you.
I have two sets of family in Australia - From my dad's side, my 3rd x great granduncle was sent there as a convict in 1831, he was pardoned a few years later, married a local woman and stayed. Then in the 70s my aunt, uncle and cousins emigrated - they were known as £10 Poms, even though they paid £75 each passage.
Cool you have aussie family. I hope you might visit some day if you haven't before
Im Australian . My great great grandfather was a redcoat that fought against the miners in Ballarat . My grandfather and mother were 10 pound Poms from the Lakes district.
I’m from Brisbane but now living in Perth. This is just a small portion of Australia’s information. The east coast goes through elnino and La Niña weather patterns. Currently it’s a 3rd year lanina causing widespread flooding. It’ll revert to elnino within the next couple of years. Brisbane/Queensland is very tropical in its climate. this video left off Darwin and Hobart in which they’re also major cities in Australia. Smaller then the top 5 but landmarks to the states/territories. Also the bushfires here are needed (and normal) and help make some plants grow. They’re made worse but there being no back burning.
I’d also like to note we have some of the worlds most deadliest animals. Don’t go swimming up north unless you want to get eaten by a croc
Australia is definitely a fascinating country and it really baffles me how there are more people in England alone than in the entire country/continent of Australia, that fact really had my mind blown! My aunt and uncle lived in Sidney with their kids in the mid-90's and I remember being so jealous of them and wanting to visit them but that sadly never happened. Great start of your new channel and I'm excited to see what comes next! :)
You have to also remember the USA by comparison is over 200 years infront of Australia.
Australia compered to the USA at the same age had a population of about 10million more.
Australia at the moment produces enough food for about 80million people a year.
Also, Cook landed in The town of 1770 before making land in Botnay Bay. Which is about 1600km north of Sydney. There was also a huge inland sea at one point called the Devonian which you can go see the ancient reef systems
There's a RUclips channel I watch of a couple from England that recently visited Australia. I remember them saying Adelaide was the most like home.
I've seen a few Americans react to this video. It always annoys me that the narrator pretty much forgets about Tasmania. Tasmania is a state of Australia, not just an island off the coast. It's major city is Hobart.
Oh and I agree with the other comment. Check out Kinda Australian. And check out Ashleigh Fay's channel. Ashleigh is an American living in Tasmania.
Don't worry Australians also forget about Tasmania.
We should put Rob and Charlie onto this channel because this post is incredibly detailed and informative compared with some of their posts about Australia. Their visit was awesome and I can barely wait to meet them again in person, next year
Tasmania is the most like the UK, not Adelaide!! I recently had a friend visit us here in Tasmania and she commented that Tasmania is incredibly like Scotland- she should know her Mum and Dad are both Scottish and she has spent a lot of time there….
Great honest reaction mate, as an Aussie that sits well.. Good luck with the channel, if you do get to Oz Bendigo Central Victoria has plenty of pubs with cold beer, I will get you a couple : )
If you want to visit Australia, makes sure you have some time as there is so much to do and of course you've now seen how far away things can be (4hrs from Perth to Sydney). If you do Sydney, you could also do New Zealand (highly recommended and my most favourite place on earth) as it's only a couple hours or so flight time from Sydney
It’s great that you’re educating yourself and others to our wonderful country! And also remember our country is much younger than the US and was only settled by Europeans 250 years ago although our indigenous peoples have been here for 1,000s of years. Thanks for posting the video .. very interesting for this Aussie!
Technically we've only been a country for a little over 100 years, and have only had the Australian regular Army Corp since the late 1940's, so we are still very much a baby.
@@helenlecornu1651 are you referring to Federation date?
@@kiley_fromaus9549 yep, before that we were individuals
right now we are going through la nina, which brings more rain, so at the moment vast areas of the murray-darling river system are experiencing the worst floods in several decades. Victoria and NSW are the worst affected where all that fertile land and food is grown
The floods brought about by La Nina are heartbreaking. I don't know which is worse: the floods brought by La Nina or the droughts brought by El Nino. Nothing to do with climate change BTW.
@@monique8641 I would take flood's over fire anyday.
@@xXSinForLifeXx I obviously don't know where you live, but if you don't live in Australia google the floods on the east coast of Australia happening now. Third lot of floods in less than two years (from memory).
@@monique8641 I live in Australia and have been isolated due to both floods and fire. I'm saying I would take floods over fire.
When the fire was right at my doorstep and we had no where to go I was much more scared for my life versus being flooded in.
I remeber during the fires the sky was red for days and you ash was everywhere even inside. I could see the flames 2 stories high from my backyard.
@@xXSinForLifeXx I'm so sorry you've been hit by both floods and fire and after reading what you wrote, I guess floods are the best of a bad situation. I live in the west and in the cool season, they do burnoffs which tend to blanket much of the south of the state with smoke - making life difficult for people with breathing difficulties. We usually have the normal amount of bushfires - the worst in recent history being in 2016 when the town of Yarloop was completely destroyed. I don't think we're likely to have flooding problems here. I don't recall a year when we weren't subject to water restrictions.
Thanks for the shout out to us Aussies. As a Sydneysider, I'm ashamed to admit that I've never visited any of out deserts!
You should visit Australia one day, Joel. I am sure you would love it here. That said, I have not seen all that much of Australia myself. I have been a resident of Sydney all my life, and I have only ever visited Brisbane and Melbourne all but too briefly. Gotta get out and about a bit myself! Australia! It's neat shape, yes? Blessings!
I am working for the Australian Government atm, I can tell you, most of the the problem we consider when developing these massive empty areas is water.
Sure we have km's of empty space but if you can't have water security its not viable.
No, those deadly animals are often in my backyard not just out in the desert.
Excellent reaction vid!👍🏻⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I learned a lot about Australia with you in that reaction. There is now a curiosity in me about what the effect would be of leveling sections of the Eastern Range to allow the air to start passing over central Australia. All but impossible, I know, but it still makes me wonder...
Forget 50km from the coast, I'm more than 50km from the nearest major highway, which itself is more than 300km inland. I'm just over the wrong side of the divide, which also means we don't get enough bush/brushland to be seriously concerned about fires. It also means our hospital is frequently without a doctor, and the wait for an appointment with a GP can be more than 2 months, except for 6 months every 2 years or so when we get registrars assigned here.
Great video - one interesting fact regarding water . Australia has the largest and deepest artesian basin (underground water) in the world called the Great Artesian Basin located in it's interior estimated to contain more than 3 times the volume of water as contained in all the Great Lakes (Lake Michigan etc) combined !!
I like your reactions. You don't talk over the video. Keep it up, mate!
Great video mate...Melbourne is pronounced as Melbun and Aussie pronounced as ozzie.
Cheers, Steve from Melbourne.
One thing the announcer forgot to mention, is the eastern part of Australia is experiencing floods courtesy of La Niña weather pattern, and farmers do cope very well to more than produce enough food for us with some left over to export...
So it's not as bad as the announcer makes out. 👍🤗
I work a lot of my time in the middle part!! 2 weeks ago we drove 8 hours on Monday to go to see clients for the next few days then drive back to Alice Springs another 8 hours. Love the middle and the north of our nation
We even named a mountain. Mt Disappointment 😂
We are currently enduring a la niña year. Meaning way too much rain along the eastern coast. Basically where most of the cities are. Definitely where I am in Melbourne.
To sum up, there’s a big chunk of Australia’s North/West that is absolutely unliveable, unless you’re super hardcore and make a living off whatever rare commodity that land does have to offer. Driving through the country across the Nullarbor is a beautiful indication of the different landscapes, and why we’re so densely populated. Highly recommend!
New estates that are being opened up in the urban areas, the land size for each individual plot is only roughly around 520 square yards so there is only enough room for a house and a very small yard. I guess with the information I gleaned from this amazing video, it makes sense to keep everyone in a smaller area. A lot of immigrants came over after the war and a lot of them were employed for the Snowy Mountains Scheme which was a huge dam built in the Snowy Mountains on the East Coast of Southern Australia which further slowed down the water going into the Murray/Darling Rivers. A lot of people who were tradies (tradesmen and women) from different countries were brought over to help build Australia and settled all over the country. It's sort been in waves of different cultures throughout the last 150 years. Lots of Europeans like Italians, Greeks, Germans etc. Then came the Chinese. Then when we had the Vietnam war, we had lots of Vietnamese refugees. We had a lot of Middle Eastern people coming over. Now we have a lot of Indians coming over. In the larger cities, there is a huge diversity of Asians. At least from what I can see. Before that, Australia was very much an English orientated country. All the migrants have changed the face of Australia. Especially in the towns and also the cuisine has changed enormously. We went from stodgy English food to multi cultural foods. Australia didn't see fast foods until the 70s and I think the first fast food joint was Kentucky Fried Chicken. At least around the Sydney area anyway from memory. I can only comment for the western parts of the Sydney area where I grew up. We are still pretty much behind the rest of the world. Especially in technology.
It's also true about the El Nino and La Nina phenomenons. We have just had the most rain over the last year that I have ever seen. We had months of rain from La Nina along with the Indian Ocean Dipole causing massive flooding in places that haven't seen rain in literally months and months that has only just now in the last 3 or 4 weeks slowed to normal rainfall patterns. But it seems we will be in for more rain in the coming months. At least in our local area. But Australia is still a really great country to live in. I don't want to be anywhere else.
I really liked this video because I actually learned a lot myself.
You might have considered that Australia was backward a generation ago,but you still produced some mighty fine product.Our family had a Melbourne assembled HG Holden 253,4speed manual,that performed faultlessly.Much the same automatic vehicle was driven as taxis and gave sterling service and proved easy to maintain.Alas,times change and this period of Aussie proud self reliance has been lost
@@stephenbrockett710 Yes there were lots of things that were invented that the rest of the world is using now. The main thing I am complaining about is the internet speed. The stupidity of the Liberal government in keeping the copper wiring instead of changing it all to optic fibres. Millions of dollars to change things up and millions of dollars to try and fix what they fkd up. Amazing.
Ah yes. The good old Holden. That has now sadly passed into history as well. We have a Commodore at the moment and will only have parts for it up until possibly 2035 because they only have parts and maintenance for 25 years after the initial manufacture of that particular model. I was gutted when I heard that Holden had ceased their operations. Australia has been sold overseas a bit at a time.
Still, Australia is still the best country in my opinion. I still wouldn't thank you if you gave me a ticket to live abroad.
G'day mate, loving your videos.
I love Australia. My parents and sister live in Perth, Western Australia. Many Scots and Irish (and their descendants) live there and as such you will find many Scots and Irish bars. Also there are Highland Games, Burns Suppers, Ceilidh’s, Pipe Bands, and butcher shops which produce Scottish Lorne sausage, Scotch pies and of course, Haggis.
As a Perth local, I can vouch for this, my grandad and grandma are from Manchester England, my great grandparents on my mother's side are Irish and my father's side is Scotish (did I spell it right??) A bit further back (at minimum 3 or 4 generations)
If you ever travel to Perth check out durty Nellie's, a hidden away pub in Perth that has amazing food and somehow survived covid thus far
@@vermillionthe_void1671 Hey thanks for the tip. I’ll check it out. I’m next over in February 👍😀
A few inaccuracies in this documentary. The aboriginal people arrived at least 70,000 years ago. They also showed a North American opossum, not an Australian possum.
Its interesting how despite the massive amount of eastern Europeans I never really met many. But when I was in western Melbourne it was amazing how diverse it was. Such a European vibe will small groups of men chatting and babushkas hanging about 😂
One thing to consider is each state is quite different as well, all having their own accents and look. I have noticed that Perth, has much more red-haired northern european looking people, where Sydney/Melbourne has more brow-haired Italian/Lebanese, for example.
I moved here from New Zealand in 2004, and found back then that there were MUCH less people of diverse color and culture, and racism was slightly worse. Today, 2022, I find it not so noticeable at all. I think, as a guess, Australians in general don't mind "some" cultural diversity, they seem to actually rather like it, but ARE afraid of cultural and religious take-over, which I suppose most countries are. After all, it is literally a part of greater Asia, with nothing else nearby.
wow, you left out Perth.....the remotest city (furthest from another city, Adelaide is 1300 miles away) in the world. We are 2000 miles west of Sydney...so like (almost) Miami to LA. Population of Perth is 2million. If you walk down through the centre of Perth on a sunday morning you may only see a handful of people. Perth itself though does cover about 2500 sq miles. Sorry if I go on about Perth but it's my adopted homeland.
We will get to Perth at some point so no worries!
Ever heard of the Empty quarter where you might see the occasion oasis, 35% of Australia gets so little rain that it is practically desert. Then there are a lot of mining area for gold and or opals then there are 10 of the worlds most dead snakes and a bunch of the deadliest spiders too, most of Tasmania is national park and quite a few other sections too. They are of course non-indigenous statistic. 18:36 almost halfway through and while it has mentioned the Murry darling is our main fresh water system it still hasn't mentioned the high salinity of most of the river that isn't part of the GDR. which is anothe part of the problem because the WHO has recognised that within the next thirty years that river system is in danger of becoming unpottable, which means it will be unsafe to drink from it even with filtration.
Australia is an example of the fact, that geography is everything.
Just a heads up - the animal at 20:49 is an American opossum, NOT an Australian possum! While it is true that the opossum is a marsupial, it has never lived in Australia and is very distantly indeed related to Australian possums...