I was recently reading that now the federal government has decided to abolish temporary protection visas, there is a push to settle refugees in rural and regional areas as they may in fact prefer to live in an area that is more similar to where they came from. I think it's a great idea as long as the support networks and infrastructure are in place to help them settle in and find work, housing etc.
Appreciate your reaction to this B.S.England never sent murderers, they were executed, this dude knows nothing about Aussie history or present day life…love your content Kaitlyn
Don't forget when you increase the size of the urban areas, you reduce the size of your arrable farm land. Plus you also reduce the water for farming, manufacturing and people.
As an Australian, born and bred here, I've never thought of a global power at all. If anything, I've always thought of us, in terms of global powers, as an insignificant gnat on a global scale.
@@bena8121 we could. But we suffer from the Aussie cringe - our politicians on both sides are conservative and don't invest in big ideas any more, and the majority of the population like it that way. It's kind of weird.
Economically and socially we rank fairly well, but if we’re talking about foreign policy and military power and the ability to project those I never have thought we’re a global power. Prior to 1942, our foreign and military policy was set by the British (empire and all that). From 1942 due to the Japanese war by alliance with the US and that’s where remain today to the great displeasure of the Chinese. Having just returned home from traveling overall I am glad I live here.
We could easily be contenders on the world stage, because of what we have, from a mineral and intellectual perspective, but unfortunately, not because of who we are as a whole. Our Pollies are useless self serving scumbags who can't make a decision to save themselves and always want to "Cowtow" to the leaders of the other Western nations. Melbourne doesn't actually use a drop of the desalinated water provided from Wonthaggi, in fact it has never provided much in the way of any usable water since being built. I was a part of that particular build, I live locally, and it's only there for when the powers that be decide that a Nuclear power plant is to be built. FYI, if we're ever in drought conditions, not a drop is provided to the farmers in the region. The land it was built on usually flooded and was under a meter of fresh water every year before the build and could have provided oodles of supply without the build. We never question the powers that be collectively and so it goes, we just deal with what we've been told to do, because we cant be stuffed arguing with it. Our laid back nature is a blessing and a curse at the same time.
Australia also had an industry problem 1939, when UK production was being redirected for internal defence, and US production was not ramped up. We where able to rapidly gear up in ship building, aircraft and tank manufacture. We rapidly dropped the capacity after the war. Where it is a problem today is the machining needed to be a manufacturing power will need to be bootstrapped up from a low level. Another problem is the skill pools are far different as Australia is a 1st world service economy and skills are focused on service like Banking, Tourism and Hospitality, as mining and agriculture does not need that much labour for the returns we get exporting the resulting materials. It is rather complex ...
Unfortunately a lot of the videos narrated by foreigners are inaccurate or totally inaccurate! That’s why I switch off to them, but the beauty of your reaction is that as the perspective of a new migrant you understand now the actuality of life in Australia. Also if you’re looking for really good snowfields in OZ, you’d be best to come down to Victoria. There’s heaps of places such as thredbo, falls creek and mt hotham to name a few. Keep learning Kaitlyn, you’re doing well 😃👍
I am sick of hearing about our vicious animals. America has got a lot of vicious animals, do you just forget about them. Our animals stay away from us, only dangerous when frightened. Yours are more aggressive and bigger.
@@JohnH1 you have 🦈, alligators, rattle snakes, grizzly 🐻, just to name a few. Saw something on u tube, mother taking a picture of her daughter, first day of school, with a rattle snake hanging from the tree. Good one
Kaitlyn, I didn't like the video but I loved your comments. it sounds like you are becoming more Australian every day - Bless you for sticking up for your adopted country. Judging by all the comments thus far, everyone seems to agree wholeheartedly with your reactions. I mean, the stereotypes of Australia are really starting to wear pretty thin. Perhaps the authors of these videos should actually come here and see the country for themselves before rambling on about stuff that's so inaccurate. For instance, Australia has had its coldest January for 21 years and the nationally-averaged rainfall was 25% above the 1961-1990 average at 582.2 mm, which makes 2022 the ninth-wettest year on record for Australia. If you went to Alice Springs today (well, maybe not at the moment because of all the social unrest) you would not believe how lush and green it is there this summer. And it's actually snowing in the high country in NSW and Victoria today. It may be the driest inhabited continent on the planet (well, Antarctic is very dry too and can be classed as a desert), and has lots of dry, desert areas, but it is simply wrong to think that the majority of the Australian interior is just desert. In fact only 18 percent is classed as desert. This is based on the amount of annual precipitation. But even in dry regions there is still water - it is just that is all underground. In fact, Australia has the largest groundwater aquifer on the planet - The Great Artesian Basin - which covers It covers 1.7 million square kilometres, equivalent to about a quarter of the entire country and 7 times the area of the UK.
Hi Kaitlyn, I'm Queensland born and raised, I've only ever seen Crocs once. It was at a Crocodile Park and it wasn't my idea to visit. I was a teenager sightseeing with my family and wasn't really given a choice. We don't see them in The Atherton Tablelands, but down the mountain range in Cairns there have been occasional Croc sightings. If that happens people call the authorities, who catch them and send them to Crocodile Farms. I wouldn't worry too much about seeing Crocs in the wild up here.
The reality of 1901 is NOT that Australia was given any rights, it was, until then an amalgam of independent states that were already independent, but in 1901 all these states came together to become one country!
Dear Kaitlyn, the raw materials Australia exports are unique, the first five largest uranium miners are Australian, Coal? Australian coal is rather unique, you must understand that Australia is the oldest land rising above the sea, which means that the coal is older and different, it is THERMAL coal and the ONLY coal on earth that delivers steel to a higher quality, it is the worlds largest producer of LNG, of Lithium and it made scram jets work when the US could not. On the Gobal Wealth list Credit Suisee has three matrix for wealth and on 2 out of the 3 Australia ranks number one and number two and on the third matrix is in the top . I suggest you explore this more.
He wasn't contradicting himself as much as he was referencing aomething he hadn't explained. The future of Australia is heavily focusing on improving water and environmental change to inland regions. When the desalination issues are eventually worked out there is huge potential for Australia remembering Australia was covered in inland sea once and still has the waterways to supply it though they are currently dry. In a future where water can safely be delivered to the ancient water systems things could change. Australia has the space and even on the coastal regions there is a lot of coastline that is largely uninhabited by large populations and as populations grow and demand increases more larger cities will evolve around the countries to support them. As for cringe, welcome to being an aussie watching foreign content about us on the net lol
Quite a few US Americans have poor reaction vids to Australia, without ever having been here! We should start a Channel of Reactions to US clickbait reactions to Australia.
You and your crocs, lol! I lived in Qld for the first 21 years of my life and never saw a crocodile, except maybe once at a wildlife park from a safe distance 😅 The cockroaches and mozzies, on the other hand, were omnipresent in summer and so annoying 😅 BTW love that you rolled your eyes at the clichès the narrator trotted out! You're getting more Australian by the day.
Hi I'm a Aboriginal woman from Perth Western Australia and my people are the Noongah people of the South West region of Western Australia and I just wanted to say that Aboriginal people have been trading with Indonesia and some other parts of Asia as the Sea Cucumber is a delicacy and they've been cumn here since before Colonization♥️🖤💛 Also China ALWAYS NEEDS OUR IRON ORE...
He is right-ish, as while we make rice with the least amount water, it is still heavily exported and draws a lot of water from irrigation systems. And of cause Australia never became independent, the closest is the Commonwealth of Australia Act of 1988, where the last appeals to the crown (Privy Council) was removed.
Australia doesn't really want to be a global power in the traditional sense. We'd much rather set up all sorts of odd partnerships and network like crazy because we're a trading nation and wars and other disagreements tend to get in the way of selling and buying. For example, Australia has a number of free trade treaties (including PAFTA, signed in 2020 with Peru). My favourite is MIKTA - a joint agreement between Mexico, Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, Türkiye and Australia. PS Consider moving to the Whitsundays. Lots of jobs, relatively cheap housing, the crocodiles mostly keep to themselves and we have fewer cyclones than Florida has hurricanes.
He doesn't understand negative gearing at all. You dont buy a property to see it go down in value. Negative gearing is offsetting the rental income against the outlay of mortgage etc. If the outgoings are greater than the income, the net loss can be used to reduce the tax payable on other earnings. Mum and Dad investors can reduce their tax bill from their wages if they hold a job for instance.
Hi Kaitlyn yes Perth housing is a lot cheaper than Sydney / Melbourne. Unless things have changed over the last few years as I have spent time over there for work the general cost of living in food etc is a lot higher so you need to way all that up.
Hey Kaitlyn, we're much more friendly and welcoming in Brisbane than Sydney. You would probably make a lot more friends up here than you will down there.
13:14 that's the fun thing about raw materials, you can store them. But export heavy countries do get hit when a global recession does happen. 15:08 no that's the worse idea He forgot the issues with solar and wind. It doesn't work.
Storage takes up space that costs $$$ so not very practical if trying to store millions of tonnes. I've had solar panels for decades my power bills are typically 1/3 to 1/2 of my neighbours who have similar homes with the same or lower electrical consumption, solar absolute works. The only time they stop is at night but luckily in 1859 a bloke called Gaston Planté invented a thing called the lead acid battery maybe you have heard of them?
Putting it very simply only population and high wages are the real things stopping us being in the top tier. We have the brains, economics, stable in demand resources to be exactly where others have been.
The Adelaide prices are true, our house went up in value in the last 4 years from $450,000 to $850,000 and rents unfortunately went up a whole heap too. Also, even though the market has gone crazy there too (I believe) but Hobart is still the cheapest capital.
No crocs in south east QLD (well unless you're scared of the croc's you wear on your feet 🤣) but Western Australia crocs too (maybe even more of them) but again only in the northern parts, basically north of the 27ºS latitude line is where you'll find crocs.
Hi Kaitlyn - re snow -i grew up in the central west of NSW and towns like Orange ( especially Mt Canobolas) and Oberon snow every winter - worth a road trip 😃
Being scared of crocodiles is wise in my view. They don’t tend to move far out of the tropics. You won’t find them in the waterways of Brisbane for example, nor Alice Springs, nor really south of Karratha on the west coast.The colony of Western Australia and the Western Australia Act 1829 was not related to the colony or government of NSW. There’s this idea that all settlements were the result of expansion from NSW. Federation was the result of multiple self governing independent colonies federating to form a commonwealth. Western Australia is isolated in some ways, rarely get snow anywhere here and it’s cheaper to fly to Melbourne via Indonesia from Perth than it is to fly direct sometimes but the Perth greater metropolitan area is far more relaxed than the major east Coast settlements apart from Hobart and the economy is probably the strongest in the country. Very good bang for buck relative to other capital cities. No idea what the appeal of Sydney is for most people but for you Kaitlyn, work, family, friends are already established and it is closer to proper snowfields than anything in the west. If the pace, vibe and affordability of where you live now is to your liking, there’s probably no point in moving to Perth.
It snowed up in the hills today, smack bang in the middle of Summer. Yeah, that's pretty rare though. I love how you have become so defensive of Oz. And yes we agree with you. But you gotta relax and embrace the stereotypes. We know they are not true but we laugh at them and even perpetuate the myths so that we sound more exciting than a big flat sand dune fringed by crystal clear waters in a near perfect temperature range.
All good. This guy was an idiot but chill. As an Aussie we can recognise he is an idiot and say we don’t give a F. 😂. But I love your defence of your new home. Love to see your experiences.
@Kaitlyn Amanda (oops tagging not working again) yep he was annoying & wrong about a lot of things. I live in a town with a never ending water supply. An extinct volcano supply's our water, so no, not everywhere is DRY AS!. Anyway, a very late "welcome to the country to ya m8" 😀
I agree Kaitlyn. Australia is and will remain a regional power never a world power, We have influence but on a less than global scale. Australia provides financial aid to many close neighboring Countries so we are regarded as the wealthiest in our region but world power? No never. Personally I don't care I just want us to be a good and fair narion. Mind you I am happy and feel safer we are aligned with the USA,
The devil is in the detail and it seemed he couldn’t be bothered actually researching that. Things like wet and dry seasons. If I lived in Darwin or Far North Queensland, I would have a wet and dry. Live anywhere else, rain comes according to seasons in that location. Perth, for example gets their rain in Winter. About 1000km North of Perth you actually get the ‘windy season’ (a real thing). I can’t remember the brush off about Perth but the implication was that it’s isolation makes it boring and not worth visiting or talking about. I know I am a parochial Western Australian but we have places like Albany and Esperance on the Southern Ocean with winds coming straight from Antarctica and bloody cold, massive Karri forests, up to arguably one of the best winery regions in the world in Margaret River and up a couple of thousand km to the Kimberley region. One of the stereotypes is that Australians all go the beach because it’s so hot. I think winter you need to go to the snow fields and to Tassie and Esperance and Canberra to show Australia doesn’t just get bloody hot but gets bloody cold.
I agree, details are important. In regard to the 'Big Wet' and 'Big Dry' I think he was getting the terminology of the wet (monsoon) season and the dry season of northern Australia mixed up with the effects of the La Nina and El Nino weather patterns, which form in the Pacific Ocean and dictate dry years or wet years (ie. wetter or dryer than average.) for eastern Australia. Since last year the weather in eastern Australia has been wetter than average, due to the El Nino.
Perth was a free settlement 1829 (although technically Albany was first but was an outpost of Sydney 1826). No convicts in the first 2 decades. Then only a few years before that stopped. Then the video went downhill from there. Solar needs cool weather as the higher the temp the less the energy made.
i dunno if my hearing is goin' or what but i swear our nationality changed in this video at (timestamp) 10:14. Accent aside, he did say Austrians .... didn't he? (that is all, lol)
Don't let the having no friends and family be an excuse for you not to move and live in another part of Australia. We left everyone and everything and have moved around different parts of Australia. I got to learn about parts of our nation, we wouldn't normally. We are on the last move, hopefully and have found our area.....you meet new people, they become your family...unless you are like us, living a very quiet, peaceful life, stress free....knew the cities becoming unaffordable in the 90s so we left. We live in a life we can afford debt free.Got to appreciate and it also makes or breaks your family, my family here, are close...and not so close....you learn to appreciate what family and friends really mean. If you want to go to Perth, go for it. BTW New Zealand and the Pacific rely upon Australia for food...particularly fruits and vegetables they can't grow there.
Thanks, you do a top job with these vids :) This sounds like one of those, what folks think of the US vids, you presented, a ripe one there. Perhaps he should market his elastic, the stretch would never wear out. :). Plenty of places to live, check out wiki on Aust Towns (Toowoomba is OK, even Canberra, it can snow there).
China rely on our mining as our coal is the best quality. Such as China is the main country for production of goods for the rest of the world than they need Australia for mining both for its power stations to create power to keep producing. We hold a very strategic position in the world economy. Also we still have ample gas reserves too that hasn't been touched. With out Australia the rest of the world suffers both with food and production of our materials.
You American is rubbing off and the Aussie is starting to show through! 🤣 The look on your face and the tone! I could almost hear you thinking "Strewth, what a dropkick!"
I've seen this video before & you did a good job getting through it. There are much better videos that show how reliant China is on Australian resources even after they stopped trying to buy things like Coal. Or the more critical resources found in Australian needed for future energy production. Lived in Vic, Qld and now NSW. Except I moved away from the cities after moving back from NZ. There are actually nice regional cities - climate wise always ones that a much higher than sea level. Do miss some aspects of being in a bigger city but an added bonus of where I am now - I could afford my first home at a reasonable cost.
Hey nice job kiddo, watching you turn into one of us is priceless. Anyways, the commodities markets don't work as you see it ( at around 13.10 on) , there is no chance of being left holding the bag on anything we mine unless the whole world stops buying, not any particular customer or country. For example, when the recent issues flared with China, much song and dance was made about cutting of imports of our raw materials. In the case of non- ferrous metals, so everything but iron, we simply sold the same materials to other miners around the world and they on-sold the same. The trade was not interrupted, nor were the cash flows at all. So our annoying little friend with the video here did get his claim right, he just completely missed proving his point at all. We hold the controlling productive capacity of most industrial primary materials in the world, i.e. we can starve or crash markets at will with production variation. We are often not the largest but withdrawal or sever changes in our outputs can and do drive markets.
As other's have said, the narrator is annoying. Love the way you've settled in and found the simpler, "real" Australia. Your hubby must be a nice bloke with a decent head and heart. Best wishes for your journey. (If to hike dirty rock n roll and nice, genuine people, Newtown/Marrickville is good). Hi from Melbourne
This guy was all over the place with his arguments. With the exception of the US, Australia’s trade to GDP ration is much less than other Western economies. This means Oz is not as exposed to the World economy as places like Canada, UK and France.
Having had the privilege of living in most Cities in Aus, I'd say that you don't need to worry too much about crocs in Queesnland, Cairns and further North I'd start getting a little concerned but generally it's the Kimberley WA and the NT you have to watch yourself. Not going to comment on the video, that was just cringey and I'm glad you recognised that, and you wonder why Aussies think most Americans are stupid....
Despite this video, Australia has an outsized global power compared to it's population, and just won a trade war with China. The USA is definitely still the top military power, but many other nations wield 'soft' power and trade power that the USA doesn't' always win. (See the EU excluding USA food trade because of higher EU food safety standards.) In the case of Australia VS China, the Australian Prime Minister was the only national leader who came out and questioned publicly whether Covid-19 escaped from the Wuhan lab. In retaliation the Chinese government refused entry to Australian coal ships and stopped buying coal from Australia. Since there were temporarily no other customers for that coal, and no cost effective place to store it, dozens, maybe a hundred coal cargo ships sat outside China's main port for one to two years each, manned by stranded crews during covid. China couldn't get replacement coal from anywhere else. It had recently closed down it's dirtiest coal mines, where inferior coal that produced more CO2 and pollution than Australian coal was dug up. It had to reopen those mines, and the difference was still not enough. Both it's economy and people were suffering from not enough electricity. After a couple of years, China caved. But by then Australia had found buyers for the coal. The majority of it went to India. China started importing Australian coal again, but not before completely exhausting it's own coal reserves. This trade war is part of why CO2 plunged during the first two years of Covid. Australia's placement on the Earth means it supplies the satellite uplinks for the USA military forces for half the globe, being the only reliably friendly region until Europe. I'm pretty sure a lot of the Pine Gap functionality has moved to a newer, still secret location, but information on the history of Pine Gap is pretty interesting. Australia is the only nation that has joined every war the USA has gone into post WW2. Our economy is larger than our population would indicate because of a continent's worth of primary resources to only 26m people. And we seem to wield some nebulous power based on most countries having a pretty good relationship... or at least having no historical problems or rivalries with us. I think it helps in some cases we're an english speaking nation when the US, the Commonwealth, and Western Europeans speak a lot of English. Sadly, for being the biggest nation in the Pacific region, we have an extremely mixed record amongst Pacific Island nations. Sometimes we've come through with aid in emergencies. But Australian Governments have NOT been good Climate Change neighbours, and has blanket banned people seeking refugee status here if their island is overwhelmed by sea water... which some already have. New Zealand is the good neighbour taking in Climate Change refugees.
Couple of things. Firstly, in terms of being a Global Power, as an Australian, I have no interest in that, but Australia and Russia's Economies are very similarly sized. We're both 15 odd Trillion Dollar GDP's. Russia is/was a few billion more, before the Ukraine War. Russia is only a Global Power because of the Weapons left behind from the USSR, and the fact they spend nothing on improving Quality of Life for their people. Secondly, off the top of my head I could easily name 4 towns in Western Australia that could support a Million plus populations. My brother believes our State Government should change its Home Town every 3 years and build new Infrastructure wherever it moves to, in order to disperse the population out of Perth. It's not entirely a bad idea.
Yes Kaitlyn this clip is annoying. Plenty of inaccurate information such investors benefit from house prices falling with negative gearing? Negative gearing is the loss of income from interest payments of a loan being more than the rent received. That loss can be deducted from personal income, a tax deduction. House prices have risen due to cheap credit, house grants and massive fiscal stimulus as well as international investment and immigration. Demand is highest in Sydney due to work opportunities, lifestyle, infrastructure and climate. Basically population live where there is water, infrastructure and the climate is milder. There is major capacity for growth along the eastern seaboard but most still want to live in Sydney for the above reasons. More are moving to SE Queensland due to better affordability and warmer climate. The big dry and big wet applies to the tropics only. Most the NT coast, NW W.A. and different parts of the Queensland coast. China relies on Australia's iron ore for their infrastructure (it's made into steel). Even when metal prices are lower, Australia's exchange rate is lower to the $US which most commodities are priced in. At US60c = $A1, that equates to 1.66 times more in $A's so that provides a buffer in part to lower commodity prices.. Australia's economy is much smaller than the US. GDP is 23 T compared to Australia's 1.55 T so it's nowhere near being a world economic powerhouse.
Up until around 10 Years ago, China was our biggest Trade Partner. Especially with Coal & Iron Ore. For some reason the previous Government started pushing away from China as a major Buyer & then with the advent of Covid, The relationship badly deteriorated & China Banned Australian Imports, which caused major Export problems. Fortunately, over the last few months, the Chinese have re-opened their importing agreements with Australia. Also under the previous Australian Government, an agreement was made with the Trump Administration to stop the Chinese Imports. After the Election, the Current Australian Government reintroduced the Chinese Imports which was an agreement made with China. The current Australian & US Governments agreed to stop the Previous Aus/US China agreement. In doing this, the Australian/US relationship remains strong.
China stopped importing certain things from Australia because we asked for an investigation into the Wuhan lab at the UN. The current government took a knee to their masters in China. Something the previous government refused to do. By not taking a knee we were forced to find different customers in places like India and Indonesia meaning we aren’t dependent on China. We now have a much more diverse customer base and have much less dependence on China putting us in a better position of negotiation. We now have exports to GB and the EU as well. All labor did was beg for forgiveness from their masters.
@@fugawiaus Read up on this, because your information is extremely wrong. It started much earlier than Covid. The reasons were much more political. But, my information is completely accurate. Having been involved in the processes at the time, I am very confident in the facts. But we are in a very good position now, with ALL out Trade Partners.
Australia was one of the worlds biggest steel producers but due to the Australian dollar, government interference in the US steel market and cheaper production in China many of Australian steel plants closed down. Those are not coming back anytime soon. Lithium batteries or Hydrogen fuel are better future products to focus on then steel.
I came off a Market Garden the Govenment wanted us to Buy our Water from the Mighty Murray River how can a farmer tell how much Water he is going to need for his Vegetables.😂.
Your spot on with what you said about the narrator, those so called jokes got really sad really quickly and his ridiculously simplified version of Australia's history was his best joke
This is a weird video. There are some accurate points . The rest is just cringey. Perth is a beautiful city. But VERY remote. It's cheaper for Sydneysiders to holiday in Thailand rather than go to Perth. Our great asset is our good international relations with our neighbours.
Having gone back over the video, I am now of the opinion that this was put together by the Chinese government to discredit Australia. If China's economy continues on it's current trajectory i.e. downwards, countries like Indonesia and Australia could pose a serious challenge their influence in the region.
Think you’re onto something with your comment. The speaker was trying to convince his audience he was American but only after listening for a short amount of time I didn’t believe he was. He was bad at pronouncing a couple of words, in particular Australia and since I watch/listen to a lot of Asian content on streaming platforms and reading your comment I thought yeah you could be right. Sorry sweetheart could only manage about 2 minutes.
Thanks for doing this video and I have a funny feeling that he has never been to Australia and I really enjoyed your USA tax video it was a jaw dropping stuff. To think that your paying tax here and then paying tax to a country that you're not living in and you can't get out of it.
Move to the Gold Coast Kaitlyn. We’re a really friendly people, except for some of us on the roads. You’ll make friends easily if you can take a joke and give it back. I know if I saw you I’d sing out and wave. You seem genuine to me.
That video is wrong on so many levels, agriculture especially. He even stuffed up the water cycles, because he simply doesn’t understand it. Australian farmers understand it. Riddle me this? Regional Australian farmers generally pass on their properties to the next generation. It’s not uncommon for landholdings to be held in one family for over a hundred years, if not longer. There are good times and bad, there is dry and wet. They plan for it (things such as succession planning exist). You may get massive income, or you may get zero income for years on end. Farming in Australia is all about long term planning. Only idiot farmers go broke, and most farmers aren’t idiots. It’s a generational career. It’s never about what’s happening at “work” in 3 weeks time, it’s about what’s happening in 3 years time. Dry times are a preparation for the good times. Having everything in order. The fencing. The dams. The machinery. The finance. The stock and the seed and feed. Farmers are futurists in many respects. Long term, not short term.
whoever made this video (a yanki as usual) forgot two things which will chance the world's industry. LITHIUM AND RARE EARTH. however we always forget that Australia floats on water. i.e. the great artesian bore. Thank for showing kATE. have a good day btw its rainining cold n miserible in Melbourne
Yep, it's a silly video. Australia will never be a major power which is fine by me. We could be a more egalitarian country a smarter country a country that rewards innovation and hard work without leaving behind the elderly and the poor.
Sorry, can't finish this. Animals: Not as dangerous as a 6 year old with a gun at school. Economy. To small to be thought of as a global power. Your own comments are from experience and some of the faces you pulled were priceless.
1:34 "Oh God, this guy's gonna be so annoying to listen to for the rest of the video."
I love how _Australian_ you're becoming.
You're definitely far and few between mate, most Aussies take the piss 💀
Fuck no, this guy is really funny - and its simplified but not horribly innacurate.
Perth, good choice. Housing much more affordable. Good public transport, weather, beaches, sports and lots of jobs. I’m sure you would both be happy.
I was recently reading that now the federal government has decided to abolish temporary protection visas, there is a push to settle refugees in rural and regional areas as they may in fact prefer to live in an area that is more similar to where they came from. I think it's a great idea as long as the support networks and infrastructure are in place to help them settle in and find work, housing etc.
Appreciate your reaction to this B.S.England never sent murderers, they were executed, this dude knows nothing about Aussie history or present day life…love your content Kaitlyn
Totally agree with your opinion on this video.
Thanks for the reaction Kaitlyn.
I think this bloke should have gone to Specsavers, before doing his research for the video.
Amazing how effective is Spekkies advertising/propaganda.
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Don't forget when you increase the size of the urban areas, you reduce the size of your arrable farm land. Plus you also reduce the water for farming, manufacturing and people.
As an Australian, I generally play into the stereotypes. That’s how drop bears were invented.
Perfect Aussie attitude, cheers! 😀
Usually the drop bear jokes comes from drop-kick people
@FC way to be serious like the Germans and the British 😐
At least he didn't try to do an Australian accent.
Oh, that would have been the icing on the cake.
As an Australian, born and bred here, I've never thought of a global power at all. If anything, I've always thought of us, in terms of global powers, as an insignificant gnat on a global scale.
@@bena8121 we could. But we suffer from the Aussie cringe - our politicians on both sides are conservative and don't invest in big ideas any more, and the majority of the population like it that way.
It's kind of weird.
Economically and socially we rank fairly well, but if we’re talking about foreign policy and military power and the ability to project those I never have thought we’re a global power. Prior to 1942, our foreign and military policy was set by the British (empire and all that). From 1942 due to the Japanese war by alliance with the US and that’s where remain today to the great displeasure of the Chinese. Having just returned home from traveling overall I am glad I live here.
We could easily be contenders on the world stage, because of what we have, from a mineral and intellectual perspective, but unfortunately, not because of who we are as a whole. Our Pollies are useless self serving scumbags who can't make a decision to save themselves and always want to "Cowtow" to the leaders of the other Western nations. Melbourne doesn't actually use a drop of the desalinated water provided from Wonthaggi, in fact it has never provided much in the way of any usable water since being built. I was a part of that particular build, I live locally, and it's only there for when the powers that be decide that a Nuclear power plant is to be built. FYI, if we're ever in drought conditions, not a drop is provided to the farmers in the region. The land it was built on usually flooded and was under a meter of fresh water every year before the build and could have provided oodles of supply without the build. We never question the powers that be collectively and so it goes, we just deal with what we've been told to do, because we cant be stuffed arguing with it. Our laid back nature is a blessing and a curse at the same time.
Australia 🇦🇺 doesn't have a great relationship with China 🇨🇳 I don't think we would be on the ccp side !
Australian capital cities are growing upwards rather than outward.
Australia also had an industry problem 1939, when UK production was being redirected for internal defence, and US production was not ramped up. We where able to rapidly gear up in ship building, aircraft and tank manufacture. We rapidly dropped the capacity after the war. Where it is a problem today is the machining needed to be a manufacturing power will need to be bootstrapped up from a low level. Another problem is the skill pools are far different as Australia is a 1st world service economy and skills are focused on service like Banking, Tourism and Hospitality, as mining and agriculture does not need that much labour for the returns we get exporting the resulting materials. It is rather complex ...
Unfortunately a lot of the videos narrated by foreigners are inaccurate or totally inaccurate! That’s why I switch off to them, but the beauty of your reaction is that as the perspective of a new migrant you understand now the actuality of life in Australia.
Also if you’re looking for really good snowfields in OZ, you’d be best to come down to Victoria. There’s heaps of places such as thredbo, falls creek and mt hotham to name a few.
Keep learning Kaitlyn, you’re doing well 😃👍
I am sick of hearing about our vicious animals. America has got a lot of vicious animals, do you just forget about them. Our animals stay away from us, only dangerous when frightened. Yours are more aggressive and bigger.
Thredbo is in NSW.
@@suenichol6554 Crocodiles, Bull Sharks, Kangaroos yes they will a do attack people, Magpies stop being so thin-skinned.
@@fugawiaus you’re right. I was more thinking along the lines of where I’ve been! 😂
Thanks for correcting! 😉👍
@@JohnH1 you have 🦈, alligators, rattle snakes, grizzly 🐻, just to name a few. Saw something on u tube, mother taking a picture of her daughter, first day of school, with a rattle snake hanging from the tree. Good one
Move to the Sunshine Coast Kaitlin. Has everything and still within a drive to NSW and Vic.
Kaitlyn, I didn't like the video but I loved your comments. it sounds like you are becoming more Australian every day - Bless you for sticking up for your adopted country. Judging by all the comments thus far, everyone seems to agree wholeheartedly with your reactions. I mean, the stereotypes of Australia are really starting to wear pretty thin. Perhaps the authors of these videos should actually come here and see the country for themselves before rambling on about stuff that's so inaccurate. For instance, Australia has had its coldest January for 21 years and the nationally-averaged rainfall was 25% above the 1961-1990 average at 582.2 mm, which makes 2022 the ninth-wettest year on record for Australia. If you went to Alice Springs today (well, maybe not at the moment because of all the social unrest) you would not believe how lush and green it is there this summer. And it's actually snowing in the high country in NSW and Victoria today. It may be the driest inhabited continent on the planet (well, Antarctic is very dry too and can be classed as a desert), and has lots of dry, desert areas, but it is simply wrong to think that the majority of the Australian interior is just desert. In fact only 18 percent is classed as desert. This is based on the amount of annual precipitation. But even in dry regions there is still water - it is just that is all underground. In fact, Australia has the largest groundwater aquifer on the planet - The Great Artesian Basin - which covers It covers 1.7 million square kilometres, equivalent to about a quarter of the entire country and 7 times the area of the UK.
Your knowledge of Australian history is really impressive.
Hi Kaitlyn, I'm Queensland born and raised, I've only ever seen Crocs once. It was at a Crocodile Park and it wasn't my idea to visit. I was a teenager sightseeing with my family and wasn't really given a choice. We don't see them in The Atherton Tablelands, but down the mountain range in Cairns there have been occasional Croc sightings. If that happens people call the authorities, who catch them and send them to Crocodile Farms. I wouldn't worry too much about seeing Crocs in the wild up here.
7:46 DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE?! oT
The reality of 1901 is NOT that Australia was given any rights, it was, until then an amalgam of independent states that were already independent, but in 1901 all these states came together to become one country!
You're awesome Kaitlyn!
Dear Kaitlyn, the raw materials Australia exports are unique, the first five largest uranium miners are Australian, Coal? Australian coal is rather unique, you must understand that Australia is the oldest land rising above the sea, which means that the coal is older and different, it is THERMAL coal and the ONLY coal on earth that delivers steel to a higher quality, it is the worlds largest producer of LNG, of Lithium and it made scram jets work when the US could not. On the Gobal Wealth list Credit Suisee has three matrix for wealth and on 2 out of the 3 Australia ranks number one and number two and on the third matrix is in the top . I suggest you explore this more.
He wasn't contradicting himself as much as he was referencing aomething he hadn't explained. The future of Australia is heavily focusing on improving water and environmental change to inland regions. When the desalination issues are eventually worked out there is huge potential for Australia remembering Australia was covered in inland sea once and still has the waterways to supply it though they are currently dry. In a future where water can safely be delivered to the ancient water systems things could change. Australia has the space and even on the coastal regions there is a lot of coastline that is largely uninhabited by large populations and as populations grow and demand increases more larger cities will evolve around the countries to support them. As for cringe, welcome to being an aussie watching foreign content about us on the net lol
Australia is a regional power in the Pacific along with NZ as we are the 2 biggest nations in the area
You are deluded
He's over the top!
Quite a few US Americans have poor reaction vids to Australia, without ever having been here! We should start a Channel of Reactions to US clickbait reactions to Australia.
I believe that channel is called Isaac Butterfield.
Snowing at the snowies today . Road trip with hubby this weekend? ,go catch some summer fun!
You and your crocs, lol! I lived in Qld for the first 21 years of my life and never saw a crocodile, except maybe once at a wildlife park from a safe distance 😅 The cockroaches and mozzies, on the other hand, were omnipresent in summer and so annoying 😅 BTW love that you rolled your eyes at the clichès the narrator trotted out! You're getting more Australian by the day.
Hi I'm a Aboriginal woman from Perth Western Australia and my people are the Noongah people of the South West region of Western Australia and I just wanted to say that Aboriginal people have been trading with Indonesia and some other parts of Asia as the Sea Cucumber is a delicacy and they've been cumn here since before Colonization♥️🖤💛 Also China ALWAYS NEEDS OUR IRON ORE...
Water may be taken into consideration but it's still being exported wholesale and the traded cash won't sate anyone's thirst.
Alfalfa for example.
He is right-ish, as while we make rice with the least amount water, it is still heavily exported and draws a lot of water from irrigation systems.
And of cause Australia never became independent, the closest is the Commonwealth of Australia Act of 1988, where the last appeals to the crown (Privy Council) was removed.
Australia doesn't really want to be a global power in the traditional sense. We'd much rather set up all sorts of odd partnerships and network like crazy because we're a trading nation and wars and other disagreements tend to get in the way of selling and buying. For example, Australia has a number of free trade treaties (including PAFTA, signed in 2020 with Peru). My favourite is MIKTA - a joint agreement between Mexico, Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, Türkiye and Australia. PS Consider moving to the Whitsundays. Lots of jobs, relatively cheap housing, the crocodiles mostly keep to themselves and we have fewer cyclones than Florida has hurricanes.
He doesn't understand negative gearing at all. You dont buy a property to see it go down in value. Negative gearing is offsetting the rental income against the outlay of mortgage etc. If the outgoings are greater than the income, the net loss can be used to reduce the tax payable on other earnings. Mum and Dad investors can reduce their tax bill from their wages if they hold a job for instance.
Hi Kaitlyn yes Perth housing is a lot cheaper than Sydney / Melbourne. Unless things have changed over the last few years as I have spent time over there for work the general cost of living in food etc is a lot higher so you need to way all that up.
Hey Kaitlyn, we're much more friendly and welcoming in Brisbane than Sydney. You would probably make a lot more friends up here than you will down there.
Hey Kaitlyn, I've lived in Darwin for over 30 years now, I can count on one hand how many times I've seen a croc 'in the wild'.
13:14 that's the fun thing about raw materials, you can store them.
But export heavy countries do get hit when a global recession does happen.
15:08 no that's the worse idea
He forgot the issues with solar and wind. It doesn't work.
Storage takes up space that costs $$$ so not very practical if trying to store millions of tonnes. I've had solar panels for decades my power bills are typically 1/3 to 1/2 of my neighbours who have similar homes with the same or lower electrical consumption, solar absolute works. The only time they stop is at night but luckily in 1859 a bloke called Gaston Planté invented a thing called the lead acid battery maybe you have heard of them?
Putting it very simply only population and high wages are the real things stopping us being in the top tier. We have the brains, economics, stable in demand resources to be exactly where others have been.
The Adelaide prices are true, our house went up in value in the last 4 years from $450,000 to $850,000 and rents unfortunately went up a whole heap too.
Also, even though the market has gone crazy there too (I believe) but Hobart is still the cheapest capital.
No crocs in south east QLD (well unless you're scared of the croc's you wear on your feet 🤣) but Western Australia crocs too (maybe even more of them) but again only in the northern parts, basically north of the 27ºS latitude line is where you'll find crocs.
Hi Kaitlyn - re snow -i grew up in the central west of NSW and towns like Orange ( especially Mt Canobolas) and Oberon snow every winter - worth a road trip 😃
Haha Kaitlyn defending Australia from the cringe in this video 😄
Sure u can find friends in Perth if u move there we r very friendly people
Being scared of crocodiles is wise in my view. They don’t tend to move far out of the tropics. You won’t find them in the waterways of Brisbane for example, nor Alice Springs, nor really south of Karratha on the west coast.The colony of Western Australia and the Western Australia Act 1829 was not related to the colony or government of NSW.
There’s this idea that all settlements were the result of expansion from NSW. Federation was the result of multiple self governing independent colonies federating to form a commonwealth.
Western Australia is isolated in some ways, rarely get snow anywhere here and it’s cheaper to fly to Melbourne via Indonesia from Perth than it is to fly direct sometimes but the Perth greater metropolitan area is far more relaxed than the major east Coast settlements apart from Hobart and the economy is probably the strongest in the country. Very good bang for buck relative to other capital cities. No idea what the appeal of Sydney is for most people but for you Kaitlyn, work, family, friends are already established and it is closer to proper snowfields than anything in the west. If the pace, vibe and affordability of where you live now is to your liking, there’s probably no point in moving to Perth.
Brisbane suburbs just 15minutes from the beach for me.
It snowed up in the hills today, smack bang in the middle of Summer. Yeah, that's pretty rare though.
I love how you have become so defensive of Oz. And yes we agree with you.
But you gotta relax and embrace the stereotypes. We know they are not true but we laugh at them and even perpetuate the myths so that we sound more exciting than a big flat sand dune fringed by crystal clear waters in a near perfect temperature range.
All good. This guy was an idiot but chill. As an Aussie we can recognise he is an idiot and say we don’t give a F. 😂. But I love your defence of your new home. Love to see your experiences.
@Kaitlyn Amanda (oops tagging not working again) yep he was annoying & wrong about a lot of things. I live in a town with a never ending water supply. An extinct volcano supply's our water, so no, not everywhere is DRY AS!. Anyway, a very late "welcome to the country to ya m8" 😀
I agree Kaitlyn. Australia is and will remain a regional power never a world power, We have influence but on a less than global scale. Australia provides financial aid to many close neighboring Countries so we are regarded as the wealthiest in our region but world power? No never. Personally I don't care I just want us to be a good and fair narion. Mind you I am happy and feel safer we are aligned with the USA,
Your right I can’t watch it.
Groundhog Day today……any chance the cat saw it’s own shadow ?
I liked The Guy!!
Clever Funny Informative Smart & Smart Arse - he did a good job. Thanks for posting the vid.
The devil is in the detail and it seemed he couldn’t be bothered actually researching that. Things like wet and dry seasons. If I lived in Darwin or Far North Queensland, I would have a wet and dry. Live anywhere else, rain comes according to seasons in that location. Perth, for example gets their rain in Winter. About 1000km North of Perth you actually get the ‘windy season’ (a real thing). I can’t remember the brush off about Perth but the implication was that it’s isolation makes it boring and not worth visiting or talking about. I know I am a parochial Western Australian but we have places like Albany and Esperance on the Southern Ocean with winds coming straight from Antarctica and bloody cold, massive Karri forests, up to arguably one of the best winery regions in the world in Margaret River and up a couple of thousand km to the Kimberley region. One of the stereotypes is that Australians all go the beach because it’s so hot. I think winter you need to go to the snow fields and to Tassie and Esperance and Canberra to show Australia doesn’t just get bloody hot but gets bloody cold.
I agree, details are important. In regard to the 'Big Wet' and 'Big Dry' I think he was getting the terminology of the wet (monsoon) season and the dry season of northern Australia mixed up with the effects of the La Nina and El Nino weather patterns, which form in the Pacific Ocean and dictate dry years or wet years (ie. wetter or dryer than average.) for eastern Australia. Since last year the weather in eastern Australia has been wetter than average, due to the El Nino.
Perth was a free settlement 1829 (although technically Albany was first but was an outpost of Sydney 1826). No convicts in the first 2 decades. Then only a few years before that stopped. Then the video went downhill from there.
Solar needs cool weather as the higher the temp the less the energy made.
Don't you mean 1829???
@@optimusmaximus9646 Thank you. yes and corrected
@@stewartc4558 No problem. I remember the 150th anniversary in 1979 when I was at high school.
@@optimusmaximus9646 was in University
Rural Australia is great. You big city folk don't know what you are missing.
i dunno if my hearing is goin' or what but i swear our nationality changed in this video at (timestamp) 10:14. Accent aside, he did say Austrians .... didn't he? (that is all, lol)
stay in sydney, it's the transport hub for trucks in australia
Don't let the having no friends and family be an excuse for you not to move and live in another part of Australia. We left everyone and everything and have moved around different parts of Australia. I got to learn about parts of our nation, we wouldn't normally. We are on the last move, hopefully and have found our area.....you meet new people, they become your family...unless you are like us, living a very quiet, peaceful life, stress free....knew the cities becoming unaffordable in the 90s so we left. We live in a life we can afford debt free.Got to appreciate and it also makes or breaks your family, my family here, are close...and not so close....you learn to appreciate what family and friends really mean. If you want to go to Perth, go for it. BTW New Zealand and the Pacific rely upon Australia for food...particularly fruits and vegetables they can't grow there.
Thanks, you do a top job with these vids :) This sounds like one of those, what folks think of the US vids, you presented, a ripe one there. Perhaps he should market his elastic, the stretch would never wear out. :). Plenty of places to live, check out wiki on Aust Towns (Toowoomba is OK, even Canberra, it can snow there).
Once we learn how to put back the great inland sea with wave machines, we’ll have Sydney in the outback!
China rely on our mining as our coal is the best quality. Such as China is the main country for production of goods for the rest of the world than they need Australia for mining both for its power stations to create power to keep producing.
We hold a very strategic position in the world economy. Also we still have ample gas reserves too that hasn't been touched.
With out Australia the rest of the world suffers both with food and production of our materials.
You American is rubbing off and the Aussie is starting to show through! 🤣 The look on your face and the tone! I could almost hear you thinking "Strewth, what a dropkick!"
Move to Brisbane only an hour flight from Sydney cheaper housing and beautiful scenery.
I've seen this video before & you did a good job getting through it. There are much better videos that show how reliant China is on Australian resources even after they stopped trying to buy things like Coal. Or the more critical resources found in Australian needed for future energy production.
Lived in Vic, Qld and now NSW. Except I moved away from the cities after moving back from NZ. There are actually nice regional cities - climate wise always ones that a much higher than sea level. Do miss some aspects of being in a bigger city but an added bonus of where I am now - I could afford my first home at a reasonable cost.
Perhaps have weekend fly--aways around Australia until you and Mark find your dream location Kaitlyn 👍🎉⚡✨🐝🌞🌲
Hey nice job kiddo, watching you turn into one of us is priceless. Anyways, the commodities markets don't work as you see it ( at around 13.10 on) , there is no chance of being left holding the bag on anything we mine unless the whole world stops buying, not any particular customer or country.
For example, when the recent issues flared with China, much song and dance was made about cutting of imports of our raw materials. In the case of non- ferrous metals, so everything but iron, we simply sold the same materials to other miners around the world and they on-sold the same. The trade was not interrupted, nor were the cash flows at all.
So our annoying little friend with the video here did get his claim right, he just completely missed proving his point at all. We hold the controlling productive capacity of most industrial primary materials in the world, i.e. we can starve or crash markets at will with production variation. We are often not the largest but withdrawal or sever changes in our outputs can and do drive markets.
As other's have said, the narrator is annoying.
Love the way you've settled in and found the simpler, "real" Australia. Your hubby must be a nice bloke with a decent head and heart.
Best wishes for your journey.
(If to hike dirty rock n roll and nice, genuine people, Newtown/Marrickville is good).
Hi from Melbourne
This guy was all over the place with his arguments. With the exception of the US, Australia’s trade to GDP ration is much less than other Western economies. This means Oz is not as exposed to the World economy as places like Canada, UK and France.
Do you know that it has actually snowed at Uluru.
Having had the privilege of living in most Cities in Aus, I'd say that you don't need to worry too much about crocs in Queesnland, Cairns and further North I'd start getting a little concerned but generally it's the Kimberley WA and the NT you have to watch yourself. Not going to comment on the video, that was just cringey and I'm glad you recognised that, and you wonder why Aussies think most Americans are stupid....
Despite this video, Australia has an outsized global power compared to it's population, and just won a trade war with China. The USA is definitely still the top military power, but many other nations wield 'soft' power and trade power that the USA doesn't' always win. (See the EU excluding USA food trade because of higher EU food safety standards.)
In the case of Australia VS China, the Australian Prime Minister was the only national leader who came out and questioned publicly whether Covid-19 escaped from the Wuhan lab. In retaliation the Chinese government refused entry to Australian coal ships and stopped buying coal from Australia. Since there were temporarily no other customers for that coal, and no cost effective place to store it, dozens, maybe a hundred coal cargo ships sat outside China's main port for one to two years each, manned by stranded crews during covid.
China couldn't get replacement coal from anywhere else. It had recently closed down it's dirtiest coal mines, where inferior coal that produced more CO2 and pollution than Australian coal was dug up. It had to reopen those mines, and the difference was still not enough. Both it's economy and people were suffering from not enough electricity. After a couple of years, China caved. But by then Australia had found buyers for the coal. The majority of it went to India. China started importing Australian coal again, but not before completely exhausting it's own coal reserves. This trade war is part of why CO2 plunged during the first two years of Covid.
Australia's placement on the Earth means it supplies the satellite uplinks for the USA military forces for half the globe, being the only reliably friendly region until Europe. I'm pretty sure a lot of the Pine Gap functionality has moved to a newer, still secret location, but information on the history of Pine Gap is pretty interesting.
Australia is the only nation that has joined every war the USA has gone into post WW2.
Our economy is larger than our population would indicate because of a continent's worth of primary resources to only 26m people.
And we seem to wield some nebulous power based on most countries having a pretty good relationship... or at least having no historical problems or rivalries with us. I think it helps in some cases we're an english speaking nation when the US, the Commonwealth, and Western Europeans speak a lot of English.
Sadly, for being the biggest nation in the Pacific region, we have an extremely mixed record amongst Pacific Island nations. Sometimes we've come through with aid in emergencies. But Australian Governments have NOT been good Climate Change neighbours, and has blanket banned people seeking refugee status here if their island is overwhelmed by sea water... which some already have. New Zealand is the good neighbour taking in Climate Change refugees.
Couple of things. Firstly, in terms of being a Global Power, as an Australian, I have no interest in that, but Australia and Russia's Economies are very similarly sized. We're both 15 odd Trillion Dollar GDP's. Russia is/was a few billion more, before the Ukraine War. Russia is only a Global Power because of the Weapons left behind from the USSR, and the fact they spend nothing on improving Quality of Life for their people. Secondly, off the top of my head I could easily name 4 towns in Western Australia that could support a Million plus populations. My brother believes our State Government should change its Home Town every 3 years and build new Infrastructure wherever it moves to, in order to disperse the population out of Perth. It's not entirely a bad idea.
Yes Kaitlyn this clip is annoying. Plenty of inaccurate information such investors benefit from house prices falling with negative gearing? Negative gearing is the loss of income from interest payments of a loan being more than the rent received. That loss can be deducted from personal income, a tax deduction. House prices have risen due to cheap credit, house grants and massive fiscal stimulus as well as international investment and immigration. Demand is highest in Sydney due to work opportunities, lifestyle, infrastructure and climate.
Basically population live where there is water, infrastructure and the climate is milder. There is major capacity for growth along the eastern seaboard but most still want to live in Sydney for the above reasons. More are moving to SE Queensland due to better affordability and warmer climate.
The big dry and big wet applies to the tropics only. Most the NT coast, NW W.A. and different parts of the Queensland coast.
China relies on Australia's iron ore for their infrastructure (it's made into steel).
Even when metal prices are lower, Australia's exchange rate is lower to the $US which most commodities are priced in.
At US60c = $A1, that equates to 1.66 times more in $A's so that provides a buffer in part to lower commodity prices..
Australia's economy is much smaller than the US. GDP is 23 T compared to Australia's 1.55 T so it's nowhere near being a world economic powerhouse.
Up until around 10 Years ago, China was our biggest Trade Partner. Especially with Coal & Iron Ore. For some reason the previous Government started pushing away from China as a major Buyer & then with the advent of Covid, The relationship badly deteriorated & China Banned Australian Imports, which caused major Export problems. Fortunately, over the last few months, the Chinese have re-opened their importing agreements with Australia. Also under the previous Australian Government, an agreement was made with the Trump Administration to stop the Chinese Imports. After the Election, the Current Australian Government reintroduced the Chinese Imports which was an agreement made with China. The current Australian & US Governments agreed to stop the Previous Aus/US China agreement. In doing this, the Australian/US relationship remains strong.
China stopped importing certain things from Australia because we asked for an investigation into the Wuhan lab at the UN.
The current government took a knee to their masters in China. Something the previous government refused to do.
By not taking a knee we were forced to find different customers in places like India and Indonesia meaning we aren’t dependent on China.
We now have a much more diverse customer base and have much less dependence on China putting us in a better position of negotiation.
We now have exports to GB and the EU as well.
All labor did was beg for forgiveness from their masters.
@@fugawiaus Read up on this, because your information is extremely wrong. It started much earlier than Covid. The reasons were much more political. But, my information is completely accurate. Having been involved in the processes at the time, I am very confident in the facts. But we are in a very good position now, with ALL out Trade Partners.
Australia was one of the worlds biggest steel producers but due to the Australian dollar, government interference in the US steel market and cheaper production in China many of Australian steel plants closed down. Those are not coming back anytime soon. Lithium batteries or Hydrogen fuel are better future products to focus on then steel.
I came off a Market Garden the Govenment wanted us to Buy our Water from the Mighty Murray River how can a farmer tell how much Water he is going to need for his Vegetables.😂.
Even next doors dog had something to say about the cringe video. His jokes were really bad and was way off on some…. A lot of the so called facts.
Truth is northern qld has a tiny population and other then the great barrier reef there isn't much point going up there lol
Noticed no Tasmania on the maps , move to Perth !
Your spot on with what you said about the narrator, those so called jokes got really sad really quickly and his ridiculously simplified version of Australia's history was his best joke
when you see all the crap going on in the world I quite love living in Perth the most isolated capital city in the world!
This is a weird video. There are some accurate points . The rest is just cringey.
Perth is a beautiful city. But VERY remote. It's cheaper for Sydneysiders to holiday in Thailand rather than go to Perth.
Our great asset is our good international relations with our neighbours.
Having gone back over the video, I am now of the opinion that this was put together by the Chinese government to discredit Australia. If China's economy continues on it's current trajectory i.e. downwards, countries like Indonesia and Australia could pose a serious challenge their influence in the region.
Think you’re onto something with your comment. The speaker was trying to convince his audience he was American but only after listening for a short amount of time I didn’t believe he was. He was bad at pronouncing a couple of words, in particular Australia and since I watch/listen to a lot of Asian content on streaming platforms and reading your comment I thought yeah you could be right.
Sorry sweetheart could only manage about 2 minutes.
He seems to be one of your fellow colonials, only from Canada. No worldwide conspiracy needed.
We're not so much a global POWER as a global INFLUENCER.
This guy is full of it Kaitlyn. Your wasting your time with bloke mate!
Thanks for doing this video and I have a funny feeling that he has never been to Australia and I really enjoyed your USA tax video it was a jaw dropping stuff. To think that your paying tax here and then paying tax to a country that you're not living in and you can't get out of it.
Worked in the Middle East, I paid 0 tax, American mates paid tax.
Move to the Gold Coast Kaitlyn. We’re a really friendly people, except for some of us on the roads. You’ll make friends easily if you can take a joke and give it back. I know if I saw you I’d sing out and wave. You seem genuine to me.
That video is wrong on so many levels, agriculture especially. He even stuffed up the water cycles, because he simply doesn’t understand it. Australian farmers understand it.
Riddle me this? Regional Australian farmers generally pass on their properties to the next generation. It’s not uncommon for landholdings to be held in one family for over a hundred years, if not longer. There are good times and bad, there is dry and wet. They plan for it (things such as succession planning exist). You may get massive income, or you may get zero income for years on end. Farming in Australia is all about long term planning.
Only idiot farmers go broke, and most farmers aren’t idiots. It’s a generational career. It’s never about what’s happening at “work” in 3 weeks time, it’s about what’s happening in 3 years time. Dry times are a preparation for the good times. Having everything in order. The fencing. The dams. The machinery. The finance. The stock and the seed and feed.
Farmers are futurists in many respects. Long term, not short term.
Hell on earth is San Bernardino CA
And as for isolated, i would say Darwin is the most isolated capital in Australia.
I liked this other video lots more ‘Cold War: Could Australia be the new Taiwan?’. I agree this one was annoying.
Mpre people would need more water which we dont have.🇦🇺
whoever made this video (a yanki as usual) forgot two things which will chance the world's industry. LITHIUM AND RARE EARTH. however we always forget that Australia floats on water. i.e. the great artesian bore. Thank for showing kATE. have a good day btw its rainining cold n miserible in Melbourne
As long as you don't go north Maryborough you will be fine in Queensland for crocodiles
I’ll be friends with you… I’m only 15 mins away from Blacktown
Good onya, Shona!
Yep, it's a silly video. Australia will never be a major power which is fine by me. We could be a more egalitarian country a smarter country a country that rewards innovation and hard work without leaving behind the elderly and the poor.
Sorry, can't finish this. Animals: Not as dangerous as a 6 year old with a gun at school. Economy. To small to be thought of as a global power. Your own comments are from experience and some of the faces you pulled were priceless.
Australia has been pretty wet lately ..... catastrophically wet for some.
Cheers!
Australia should switch its trade-focus to India.
America is great. 2nd after Australia
These videos done by foriegners get pretty boring with their dramatsation of everything first few minutes is enough for me !
🤣 I love seeing you get uber cringe at this silly vid.
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