Not hilarious when you watch the beaches disappear because native vegetation WAS holding the sand in place and stopping erosion. This has been here in Australia for decades. If you chop down a tree for a view then council will erect an enormous sign blocking your view more. .
I saw one in NSW recently in the paper where someone had cut down old trees for a harbour view and the council erected a dirty great red sign on scaffolding to ensure whoever it was wouldn get that view. Good on 'em I reckon.
You can no longer see more than 20 feet from the lookout on Willans Hill in Wagga. Get caught cutting down all the suckers that have grown and now completely obscure the view and you will earn yourself a trip to court. It used to be a nice spot to take lunch and look at the Blue Mountains off in the distance. Not anymore.
You can cut down tree's on your property, but you still have to get council approval for some of them. If it's a tree of significance then it's a hard no
Rabbits: we know because we gave them myxomatosis and collected the bodies to be burned. They were devouring every plant, leaving nothing for our native wildlife so something had to be done. We also built a rabbit proof fence to protect farmers and their land.
And then when they became immune to myxo, we got them with calici. The Spanish weren't too happy with us about that, 'cos rabbits are native there, and don't get out of control
6:36 My dad rode one of these roads across the Nullarbor on his push bike last year. Rode from Perth to Sydney and raised money for kids cancer. We met him at the Nullarbor roadhouse, and he, on the way, met the French man who was soon to beat the world record for running from one side of Australia to the other (Sydney to Perth). It’s scary how flat and remote the land is - only shrubs, no hills, one road in a straight line, no houses or anything. Was so much fun though. He rode it in 3 wks and rides between two of the capital cities every year for the charity towards kids cancer, and this year is Perth to Darwin. Great vid btw ❤
About 1856 my G G Grandfather walked from Fremantle to Adelaide with 2 mates across the Nullarbor, they almost died from lack of water and food. Then he continued walking to Portland. Something like 2500 miles.
The first sign is on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, where sand erosion is a big problem. Same applies to lots of other coastal areas. Native vegetation helps combat this, so the local govt's actions here are entirely appropriate.
Absoluletly Fiona, and given 85% of Aussies live close to the coast it makes sense for us to police erosion or our own habitat would be endangered. Companies and individuals who deliberately remove trees and native bushes should pay massive fines, more than the threatened $10,000. I wonder how often they actually pay the fine?
If you live in a "Green wedge" in some cities you have to obtain permission to cut down native trees on your own property. This is a good regulation as it keeps the natural flora alive in the suburbs which brings in the native birds and bees.
Like me that's where we choose to live so we should accept that's what happens when we choose to make our home in fire risk locations. Humans should never be given priority over the native environment ever. Native animals don't cut down our homes because they want to grow a new home where ours is. Be nice to see though. @@Hochspitz
Harbour views are so expensive and sought after that some will pay anything to have a better view, or resale value! As with greedy builders, they just pay a fine, and do not replace them! 🤨
@@Hochspitz I don't think a massive bushfire is going to burn down the middle suburbs of Melbourne. Green wedges are there for a purpose, if you can't see or accept that then maybe you should re-evaluate your concept of an Aussie suburb.
Naah - people don't die on the Nullabor highway: its pretty busy. You can flag someone down. Travel 500m off the highway, however, and twist your ankle or get bitten by something …
Halloween is getting popular in my town but we leave our lights off and pretend we are not home and they don’t bother us. The kids are taught not to bother houses with no lights on. A few years back they really annoyed me ringing my doorbell every few minutes and some one complained on our community page so they put reminders up each year for the kids to just go to the houses with decorations.
The Nullabor is no joke. it's 1200km with only 1 stop in the middle that's open all the time and not seasonal like the other stops. no phone reception unless your within 10km of any of the random points along it. the price of fuel/food/drinks is almost half again the price anywhere else. it's so dangerous they close the highway if it reaches 49*c. there are parts of the highway that have been widened so that medical aircraft can land and take off safely if something happens. if you ever want to visit it. make sure you take a vehicle that can handle driving on sand as otherwise you won't be able to get off the road into any of the tourist spots.
Fun fact: Rabbit fur is used in Akubra hats. When all the rabbits were so successfully decimated by the mixomatosis virus, the Akubra company had to import rabbit fur .
If it's a native tree that's sick and needs taking down, it's still a hard no and will then expect you to just cop it when it falls and breaks anything 😒 all the red tape around sick native trees is ridiculous
That plant is commonly called gympie gympie or a stinging tree and there are videos on youtube of people deliberately stinging themselves with it and documenting the results. It doesn't look like a fun time.
I remember when I was a young nurse and went to broken Hill, I decided to come back through Ivanhoe . So here I am in a little car in the middle of nowhere. Where I come to a stop as they were thousand I mean thousand of rabbits on the road. I stopped. Honk the horn they tried to move but theybwere so many of them they couldn't. I didn't know what to do. I saw the sun was coming down, and I had to keep going. I couldn't just stay here in the middle of nothing. So I just drove slowly and kept thinkg when I heard the pop. They are ok they just jumping and hitting themselves but they are ok. Ofcourse kept driving never looked back. The distance of all these Ra bits were about 200m long , bizarre
the stinging plant mentioned is the gympie-gympie there is a RUclips video by fact fiend 'Gympie-Gympie - The Plant That Makes You Kill Yourself (Our Most Painful Experiences)' i thought it was interesting and you might like it.
Though I wouldn’t post a sign or turn away kids from my door, I also don’t understand Australians getting into Halloween. It’s a recent thing driven, I suspect, by our extreme consumption of American TV shows. Another one that annoys me is “Black Friday Sales” which has absolutely NOTHING to do with Australia! What next? We start celebrating “Thanksgiving” and “Independence Day”? Why don’t we just apply to become the 51st state of the US?!?!?! Bugs the crap out of me! 🤬
a recent thing? im almost 35 and i was Trick or Treating when i was a kid, you sound like the most grumpy Karen around, do you even realize how many aussie traditions are NOT AUSTRALIAN, pull your head outa your ass and let the kids have fun and feel included in some culture that doesnt involve what you like
Um, the Nullabor sign is not referring to what you call gas. It is referring to gas for food cooking because you could be stuck there for a while if something happens to your vehicle. What you call gas, we call petrol.
Those little dots allows them to move through the water without making a ripple in water If you noticed no water movement until they poked out the water Because it got to shallow to hide in and why you have to be careful in certain parts of the country They're so smart that people was camping next to river for a week and a croc been watching their routine Then when had a chance came up into the camp to try to get someone during the night They are the ultimate predator as able to go land and water
Mum told us about the stinging tree, even the dead leaves can and will sting you. The antidote is the cungevoi lily, which lives in the rainforest as well. The sap, takes out some of the spines which just look fluffy on the heartshaped leaves.
I've heard that travelers in the rainforest have used the large, soft, heart shaped leaves to wipe their bums after relieving themselves while on hiking and camping trips and suffered severe pain for years. Apparently, you should use masking or gaffer tape to pull the hair-like stingers out.
The crocodile must have been annoyed to hear prey waiting and only find a drongo with a plastic bucket! Halloween is a community street event here, not random door knocking and mass sweets! 😄
Only DEVELOPERS ARE ALLOWED IN SUTHERLAND SHIRE TO GET RID OF GUM TREES IN MY CUL DE SAC Both previous home owners tried to be allowed to take down a gum tree but each time they were denied but as soon as this home was sold to Developer before they even destroyed the home MAYBE IT REQUIRES A BROWN PAPER BAG FULL OF CASH 💵 IT IS THE ONLY ANSWER I CAN UP WITH 👿👿👿👿👿👿👿
How did they know there was 10 billion rabbits? They sent around government surveyors who spoke to each male rabbit and asked how large their family was.
Actually researchers do a grid of an area. Then monitor the numbers on each grid. Some areas are more populated than others. Then they use a map to definite the population density of each grid square. Easy. Oh and do you know that a rabbit eats the same amount of grass and vegetation each day that a sheep eats. That is why the farmers loathe them. Everyone needs to watch the movie Rabbit proof fence which is not about the rabbits but shows the length of the fence.
Halloween isn’t originally American. *Halloween had its origins in Scotland and Ireland thousands of years ago as the festival of Samhuinn - marking summer's end. When the Scots emigrated to America during the Highland Clearances, they took their Halloween traditions with them.
@@Fiona-zc6oz Yeah. But must be recently. There was no Halloween when my children were little. But my grandchildren are into Halloween. Many countries adapt so many things from other countries, it’s been going on for centuries. Personally I’m not into Halloween at all, but try and stop the young generation here in Australia from enjoying Halloween , we’ve got no hope lol. I just might wear a bit of my Scottish Stuart heritage tartan for Halloween 😂
It's actually a Druid Festival, All Hallows Eve, a celebration of your loved ones returning temporarily to greet you from the after life! An open portal to the soul with fire, dancing and dreams! 🙋
@@jenniferharrison8915 Druids from where originally? Druids were an important part of ancient Scottish society, serving as spiritual leaders and advisors to kings and chieftains.
@@bernadettelanders7306 Druids were for all the Celts! They also held Spring Harvest festivals, separately, where lovers were encouraged to join, mate and celebrate nature's fertility - not welcome the dead!
Sometimes referred to as the ‘suicide plant’ because of its excruciating sting, the Gympie-Gympie plant (Dendrocnide moroides), most common in Queensland.
Halloween has gotten a bit more popular here because of the US influence on social and other media. The shops now sell a small selection of halloween stuff. A lot of people hate that it has entered our culture. I don't have a problem with it. As far as I am concerned anything that brings a bit more fun and joy into the world these days is not a bad thing. You can easily put up a sign that says you are not participating without being nasty. We always buy lollies just in case but live in an area where there is not a lot of children.
The gas for the remote zone is referring to the gas you use for cooking in caravans (trailers) or your camping stove. The sign is for a general store so they don't sell petrol (the gas you are thinking of).
Sadly there are some homeowners who live across the road from water views and hate the idea of having natural bush land between them and a clear view. Many times trees have been poisoned so they can have their views and/or increase the values of their properties when going to sell them.N0t fair on Nature so Councils have taken to putting up high signs where residents have killed off trees. Serves them right. Now what they see is a HUGE sign where there used to be trees.
We can't chop trees down on our property if they are significant trees three metres around in SA it's month thousand dollar fine .in Australia that is.
Australia here…. One time my husband asked the trick or treats kids if they wanted a trick! They said no… They came back & threw eggs & trashed our front yard! Hence we Do Not do Halloween!
The "Dendroncnide moroides" plant from Eastern Queensland was new to me. Funny because I live in Eastern Queensland and that is apparently where it grows. ( And that's funny because the eastern Queensland coastline goes for more than 4300 miles*yep miles - 6300 ish Kms.
They are rainforest plants. Pretty sure there is one at Maiala on top of Mt Glorious, Brisbane Forest Park. Are not popular as street or garden planting for some reason.
Null-ahh-bore ... Nullabor. When I was 13 my parents moved us from Sydney to Perth... one side of the country to the other.. & we drove over the old Nullabor Road.. which was the highway at that stage. It was the beginning of 1974. It took us the whole day to drive from the town of Ceduna, in South Australia, to the West Australian border... approx 480k's. It was gravel (dirt) road the whole way & no shops etc. The sign may have been from somewhere further north in a more remote area where there's bugger all between places.
Yep we didn't have enough fake, trashy commercial holidays here in Australia so we adopted Halloween also.. Its for the Kids of course.. and Coles and Woolies to sell more plastic crap
If we can import cultural artefacts from the USA like MAGA, giant f-off utes, climate change denial, anti-vaxxing, christian nationalism and tipping, we can import something fun like halloween.
I live in a designated green zone, semi rural outer Melbourne suburb where we couldn't even cut down a tree on our own property without special permission, which was not granted for a massive gum tree located just a metre or so away from the house and which frequently dropped very large branches onto the roof, often causing significant damage that cost a lot to repair. And then massive bush fires happened, I don't know why my house was spared, sheer luck when so many others didn't. The law was changed and I could cut down that dangerous tree. It's still a green zone and still filled with native flora and fauna...with modified, sensible restrictions where I can decide what is a danger to my life and home.
People who want to do the Halloween thing, usually decorate their front fences/gardens so kids can see where they will be welcome. They don't go to houses that aren't decorated, as a rule. Some suburbs also have a web page that will list addresses of participants too.
to cross the Nullabor - you are required to carry 25 litres of water PER PERSON in the vehicle. i have made this trip x3 - and that is really the LEAST amount you should carry for each.
The tree vandalism one... it reminded me of how my grandparents' neighbors keep going into their property to poison the trees on their land just so they could get more sunlight. The previous owner did tell my grandparents about the neighbors, also they love blasting loud music around 9-10 in the afternoon 🇳🇿 New Zealand
The Gympie Gympie plant, or Stinging Nettle is what we call it here, and it only grows in a specific region in North Queensland where I grew up, stories about it will scare you to the point you don't touch any plant in Australia
The trees people are poisoning or cutting down are usually on the coast on reserves o in public parks. Most trees on the coast are left there to help prevent erosion . Rich people with beach front properties are known for using the old copper nail trick
If the tree is on your property and within 10 meters of your house you can remove it no questions asked. Shrubs that are within fifty meters can be removed as well , as long as it's on your property (Fire reg). Those trees in the photos are on public land.
Those signs for trees cut down is ingenious. It has stopped this practice. And if you see this sign, whilst walking along the foreshore you can look up and see the house that is the likely culprit.
As a nipper, going to Broken Hill was sketchy as!! Inland had an overly wet winter (for once) bunnies were in plague proportions.. So many dead rabbits on the road the old man had to slow down on bends, the EH wd slide!! And bugga Halloween!!
Hey Ryan from South Australia. Amazing things that are apparently bad 🌲 where I rent have over grown trees on footpath and the next door neighbour's tree over the drive way
My parents, sister and brother drove across the Nullarbor in the early 70’s. They had Xmas day on the side of the road, my mum had cooked a proper English Xmas feast before they set off.
Halloween - the last place I lived before I moved back home - the neighbourhood had a school and lots of small kids, so what they did was to put out a pumpkin/light out on your front gate if you were handing out candy, so the kids (with parents) would only visit those houses, and not bother the others. I think that is a great idea, as then only participating people will be visited.
@ryanreaction just letting you know if you're interested, the Australian Rules Football League Grand Final is on Saturday afternoon Melbourne time, 28th September. The equivalent of your Superbowl.
6:45 I don't even know what they mean by Gas to be honest, maybe they mean petrol and are appealing to american tourists or something. ANYBODY in the comments know what they mean? Let me know, I'm curious too!
Mate.. please. We are all hunters in the outback. How do you think we drop 100kg boar? With a stick? And there is more blkmarket stuff on the coast than there is out ere. All the crims have them. Its getting pretty serious lately. We still have them. Just about every bloke out here owns them. You just need a license.
@@mackash Where are we talking though? I don't want specifics, I don't want your to out your location or anything, but I assumed the clip he was responding to was inside an urban center, unless I am mistaken I don't think, even with a license, you can just carry around guns in the streets of a major city in Australia. Of course, I could be mistaken, I live Northish QLD, in the Townsville area, quite rural, haven't seen any type of firearm since probably the 90s, and it was a pellet rifle, not a full on gun. So yeah, colour me ignorant XD
There are more guns registered here now than before the gun control laws came into effect. We don't have concealed or open carry but I don't guarantee what is or isn't hiding in a ute.
Yeah grows in rainforest ,usually where there is a gap in the canopy where a big tree has come down. Very painfull ,even if you just lightly brush against a leaf.
Most Queenslanders colloquially call this plant Gympie Gympie. The local Aboriginals of the Sunshine Coast and Gympie region (Queensland) called this plant 'gimpi-gimpi' (which means "stinging tree"). The town of Nashville was renamed in 1868 to Gympie - which is from that Aboriginal word gimpi-gimpi.
We call that plant Gympie -Gympie here. It's native to my region. In primary school when we went on school camps or excursions we were taught to identify this plant and avoid it at all costs. We were even told people could die from it. Still scares me that I might run into it 😅
The Nullabor Plain is the area between Adelaide on the central southern end of Australia to Perth in the west of Australia. It is essentially a massive flat plain and one of the world's longest train journeys goes through there - the Indian Pacific. It is not pronounced as NEWlabor, but think NULL - as in DULL.
A rabbit proof fence was built in WA and the rabbits died against the fence as the rest climbed over the dead bodies. There were mountains of rabbit bodies. We also have a dingo fence in south east Aus. There is a true story on 3 aboriginal girls who walked almost the entire distance of the rabbit fence to get back home after being taken by the government. A movie was made about this. The longest fence in the world can refer to: The Dingo Fence of south-east Australia, 5,614 km (3,488 mi) finished in 1885. The Rabbit-proof fence of Western Australia, 3,253 km (2,021 mi), completed in 1907. We took a photo of us standing against the dingo fence last August. The government still maintains it and where it crosses private property the owners keep up the fence but get subsidised.
We live in an out Eastern suburb in Melbourne and you have to obtain a permit to cut down any native trees & even a dead tree needs permission. So just because it's on your property means nothing. Many areas have vegetation overlays. I'm also pretty sure 1 million of those rabbits live around where we live.
Where I live you need a council permit to cut down any tree on your own property if it has a diameter of more than 10cm (4inches). Most council zones have similar regulations.
Gas would be what you guys call propane bottles & first aid kit. They're 2 different things, in that 1000 km stretch there is very likely more servos but it's unlikely they'll have a good range of food supplies, some may just have drinks & light snacks like packets of chips etc, so it's wise to make sure you got your supplies first!
Nullabor Plain - the last shop for 1000km. Not a lie. I have done the drive, both ways. You need jerry cans for fuel because you can't make it on a single tank. You need to pull over and refuel yourself. If you are driving, it's about 16 HOURS OF DRIVING between petrol stations. All ya'll that think there are towns there, do the drive yourself and let us all know how you go. Unless the Wedgetail eagles picks your bones clean.
In Australia there are often Tree Preservation Orders that prohibit removing trees even on your property without council approval. Usually for native trees but eucalyptus trees can be huge & drop big branches from hidden rot. Need to be inspected.
There’s a story of a bloke that got into major contact with that plant,apparently he couldn’t move or talk but totally conscious,they started to revive him etc,to freaky for a plant
the rabbit problem has been famous for centuries. Arthur C Clark wrote a story as early as 1950 about a pair of australian scientists trying an experiment with rabbits in a balloon: "as scientists, they'd be happy if the rabbits came back alive, and as Australians they'd be just as happy if the rabbits came back dead". there's a few species that as a country we hate on principle, but rabbits have a consistent place of dishonor at or near the top of the list. right there with the cane toad, (just as quick to breed, plus poisonous)
The right to disconnect applies to businesses with 15 or more employees from 26 August and to employers with fewer than 15 employees 12 months later. Great move by the Fair Work Commission introducing a law while saying that they won't be able to decide how it will apply and can't issue guidelines until they have dealt with disputes about how the right works. Two cases I know of so far. A Dairy Farmer tried to contact an employee to come in after another employee didn't turn up for his shift and didn't let her know. The other employee didn't answer phone calls, emails or texts and then bitched when he missed out on the shift. Another farmer couldn't contact an employee to let him know a flash flood was heading his way - he lost a vehicle and a lot of gear. Don't have a problem with disconnecting in principle but there are a lot of issues that need to be considered.
Hopefully an employee would know if their boss is only likely to ring/text for good reasons. My daughter has been called in for extra shifts a few times. I wonder if employers will try to get people to sign contracts that allow it, anyway
Gympie-Gympie you definitely do not want to be in the same room Ryan.Even if you don’t touch it fine fibres from the plant Can feel the surrounding air causing nosebleeds eye irritation as well as skin. Animals have even had to be put down after running into the plant.
@@firebrand2619 Is that really true about the fine fibres getting in your respiratory system ? I' ve been very close to them many times in areas with large numbers of them in the immediate vicinity and never experienced any respiratory issues. Ive hung out in the SEQ bushwalking community off and on for almost 60 years and never met anyone who has claimed to have experienced respiratory problems related to the tree. Admittedly its always been in a forest environment. Nobody I know or place I've been has them in a small enclosed space ,like a room. Its said by some that even dead leaves fallen on the rainforest floor can still sting you. Ive never tested that as I've been stung enough times to see any value in trying to confirm it one way or another, but surely if they dislodged from the leaf that easily then dead or detatched leaves would lose their potency very quickly. Are you sure this isnt one of those urban myths?
The Stinging Nettle is native to FNQ (Far North Queensland) from around Cairns towards the Daintree Ancient Rainforest up further north. Apparently it holds 13 different neuro-toxins. Aboriginal clans in the area found a certain tree nut that could be boiled into a paste which would offer pain relief.
Halloween, which directly stems from Irish, Scottish and British folk customs, was celebrated as the Druids' autumn festival. The Druids, who were an order of priests during the third century BC, celebrated this holiday on Oct. 31 (which they recognized as the end of summer), to honor Samhain, the lord of death.
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Not hilarious when you watch the beaches disappear because native vegetation WAS holding the sand in place and stopping erosion. This has been here in Australia for decades. If you chop down a tree for a view then council will erect an enormous sign blocking your view more. .
I'd PMSL if a home owner illegally poisoned a tree for their view, then Mother Nature responded by eroding their house right into the ocean.
I saw one in NSW recently in the paper where someone had cut down old trees for a harbour view and the council erected a dirty great red sign on scaffolding to ensure whoever it was wouldn get that view. Good on 'em I reckon.
You can no longer see more than 20 feet from the lookout on Willans Hill in Wagga. Get caught cutting down all the suckers that have grown and now completely obscure the view and you will earn yourself a trip to court. It used to be a nice spot to take lunch and look at the Blue Mountains off in the distance. Not anymore.
You can cut down tree's on your property, but you still have to get council approval for some of them. If it's a tree of significance then it's a hard no
Most local councils have standard tree preservation clauses.
Unless you are a developer; then strip that land naked
meh got struck by lightning and burnt down officer.
Our property has a 150 year old oak tree which has Heritage Protection. I can’t imagine anyone cutting it down it is truly beautiful. 🇦🇺
@@Jen-eo1fh how many wine barrels is that?
Rabbits: we know because we gave them myxomatosis and collected the bodies to be burned. They were devouring every plant, leaving nothing for our native wildlife so something had to be done. We also built a rabbit proof fence to protect farmers and their land.
And then when they became immune to myxo, we got them with calici. The Spanish weren't too happy with us about that, 'cos rabbits are native there, and don't get out of control
@@IanM-id8or Unfortunately, they got way out of control here.
During the depression in the 1930s, a lot of families in Australia survived on rabbits for food.
6:36
My dad rode one of these roads across the Nullarbor on his push bike last year. Rode from Perth to Sydney and raised money for kids cancer. We met him at the Nullarbor roadhouse, and he, on the way, met the French man who was soon to beat the world record for running from one side of Australia to the other (Sydney to Perth). It’s scary how flat and remote the land is - only shrubs, no hills, one road in a straight line, no houses or anything. Was so much fun though.
He rode it in 3 wks and rides between two of the capital cities every year for the charity towards kids cancer, and this year is Perth to Darwin.
Great vid btw ❤
I’m pretty sure I can remember him being on TV News here in Sydney for a few days before he arrived here.Great effort.👍
@@johnlaine2654 that’s awesome! ✨❤️
Your dad is a superhero. He should wear a cape. Please tell him Australia appreciates him
@@IanM-id8or ❤️❤️❤️
About 1856 my G G Grandfather walked from Fremantle to Adelaide with 2 mates across the Nullarbor, they almost died from lack of water and food. Then he continued walking to Portland. Something like 2500 miles.
The first sign is on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, where sand erosion is a big problem. Same applies to lots of other coastal areas. Native vegetation helps combat this, so the local govt's actions here are entirely appropriate.
Absoluletly Fiona, and given 85% of Aussies live close to the coast it makes sense for us to police erosion or our own habitat would be endangered. Companies and individuals who deliberately remove trees and native bushes should pay massive fines, more than the threatened $10,000. I wonder how often they actually pay the fine?
If you live in a "Green wedge" in some cities you have to obtain permission to cut down native trees on your own property.
This is a good regulation as it keeps the natural flora alive in the suburbs which brings in the native birds and bees.
Until a massive bush fire comes along which has happened to me twice. Common sense should prevail.
Like me that's where we choose to live so we should accept that's what happens when we choose to make our home in fire risk locations. Humans should never be given priority over the native environment ever. Native animals don't cut down our homes because they want to grow a new home where ours is. Be nice to see though. @@Hochspitz
Harbour views are so expensive and sought after that some will pay anything to have a better view, or resale value! As with greedy builders, they just pay a fine, and do not replace them! 🤨
@@Hochspitz I don't think a massive bushfire is going to burn down the middle suburbs of Melbourne. Green wedges are there for a purpose, if you can't see or accept that then maybe you should re-evaluate your concept of an Aussie suburb.
Naah - people don't die on the Nullabor highway: its pretty busy. You can flag someone down.
Travel 500m off the highway, however, and twist your ankle or get bitten by something …
@PaulMurrayCanberra Americans will think you mean 500 miles, I think they are the only country still uses yards and inches.
Halloween is getting popular in my town but we leave our lights off and pretend we are not home and they don’t bother us. The kids are taught not to bother houses with no lights on. A few years back they really annoyed me ringing my doorbell every few minutes and some one complained on our community page so they put reminders up each year for the kids to just go to the houses with decorations.
The native vegetation holds the dunes together so it is essential to leave them as is.
The Nullabor is no joke.
it's 1200km with only 1 stop in the middle that's open all the time and not seasonal like the other stops.
no phone reception unless your within 10km of any of the random points along it.
the price of fuel/food/drinks is almost half again the price anywhere else.
it's so dangerous they close the highway if it reaches 49*c.
there are parts of the highway that have been widened so that medical aircraft can land and take off safely if something happens.
if you ever want to visit it. make sure you take a vehicle that can handle driving on sand as otherwise you won't be able to get off the road into any of the tourist spots.
Fun fact: Rabbit fur is used in Akubra hats. When all the rabbits were so successfully decimated by the mixomatosis virus, the Akubra company had to import rabbit fur .
Actually, mixamatosis controlled them, but kalesi virus killed them off.
You need council permits to chop down trees on your own property in Australia yes small plants no problem but big trees you do
If it's a native tree that's sick and needs taking down, it's still a hard no and will then expect you to just cop it when it falls and breaks anything 😒 all the red tape around sick native trees is ridiculous
@@Linda-bg5vd you've got a council full of property developers, cos that is not the norm for regular councils.
I remember whole paddocks getting up and running. The rabbits were that thick b4 poisoning started.
Myxomatosis first then Calicivirus did the job on the rabbits.
That plant is commonly called gympie gympie or a stinging tree and there are videos on youtube of people deliberately stinging themselves with it and documenting the results. It doesn't look like a fun time.
YEP. I'VE BEEN STUNG. YOU REALLY NEED TO BE STUNG, TO REALISE, YOU SHOULD NEVER GET STUNG
Yep. Friggin painful
There's a story of a colonial era soldier using it as toilet paper. He ended up turning his gun on himself to escape the pain.
Hurts like an SOB. Fun fact, I live in Gympie. 😂
I remember when I was a young nurse and went to broken Hill, I decided to come back through Ivanhoe . So here I am in a little car in the middle of nowhere. Where I come to a stop as they were thousand I mean thousand of rabbits on the road. I stopped. Honk the horn they tried to move but theybwere so many of them they couldn't. I didn't know what to do. I saw the sun was coming down, and I had to keep going. I couldn't just stay here in the middle of nothing. So I just drove slowly and kept thinkg when I heard the pop. They are ok they just jumping and hitting themselves but they are ok. Ofcourse kept driving never looked back. The distance of all these Ra bits were about 200m long , bizarre
I like the comment to the 12ft croc clip - "Don't mess with me, I've got a stick and a plastic bucket!" :)
Sticks are deadly.. and don’t get me started on the danger of plastic buckets. Deadly to crocs. You should try it.
All you need is a slipper and it becomes an Avengers level threat
the stinging plant mentioned is the gympie-gympie there is a RUclips video by fact fiend 'Gympie-Gympie - The Plant That Makes You Kill Yourself (Our Most Painful Experiences)' i thought it was interesting and you might like it.
That's why up in the Northern Territory most open area water is off limit because of crocodiles
We have to get approval to remove a tree on our own block in Queanbeyan NSW
Same in Vic
Tree preservation orders are sometimes necessary. Anything that produces oxygen is kind of important to our way of life.
@@adriancampbell6924And also consumes carbon dioxide in the photosynthesis process. So kinda useful in this day and age.
Same in Queensland
Though I wouldn’t post a sign or turn away kids from my door, I also don’t understand Australians getting into Halloween. It’s a recent thing driven, I suspect, by our extreme consumption of American TV shows. Another one that annoys me is “Black Friday Sales” which has absolutely NOTHING to do with Australia! What next? We start celebrating “Thanksgiving” and “Independence Day”? Why don’t we just apply to become the 51st state of the US?!?!?! Bugs the crap out of me! 🤬
So true
Driven by commercialism, it is not our culture.
Halloween is originally Scottish. The Scots took it to America.
100% agree with you.
a recent thing? im almost 35 and i was Trick or Treating when i was a kid, you sound like the most grumpy Karen around, do you even realize how many aussie traditions are NOT AUSTRALIAN, pull your head outa your ass and let the kids have fun and feel included in some culture that doesnt involve what you like
Um, the Nullabor sign is not referring to what you call gas. It is referring to gas for food cooking because you could be stuck there for a while if something happens to your vehicle. What you call gas, we call petrol.
Those little dots allows them to move through the water without making a ripple in water
If you noticed no water movement until they poked out the water
Because it got to shallow to hide in and why you have to be careful in certain parts of the country
They're so smart that people was camping next to river for a week and a croc been watching their routine
Then when had a chance came up into the camp to try to get someone during the night
They are the ultimate predator as able to go land and water
Only in the far north though
America ... The country of Halloween Extortion!
Ryan - flat out trolling us now with "emoo". 😅
Sickening
Mum told us about the stinging tree, even the dead leaves can and will sting you. The antidote is the cungevoi lily, which lives in the rainforest as well. The sap, takes out some of the spines which just look fluffy on the heartshaped leaves.
I've heard that travelers in the rainforest have used the large, soft, heart shaped leaves to wipe their bums after relieving themselves while on hiking and camping trips and suffered severe pain for years. Apparently, you should use masking or gaffer tape to pull the hair-like stingers out.
Yep, Gimpi trees that grows in Qld coastal rainforest. Most painfull stinging vegetation on the planet.
ouch
The crocodile must have been annoyed to hear prey waiting and only find a drongo with a plastic bucket! Halloween is a community street event here, not random door knocking and mass sweets! 😄
Same in my town. It's great!
@@esmeraldagreengate4354 I agree, it's much safer and the kids still have the costume experience!
Only DEVELOPERS ARE ALLOWED IN SUTHERLAND SHIRE TO GET RID OF GUM TREES IN MY CUL DE SAC Both previous home owners tried to be allowed to take down a gum tree but each time they were denied but as soon as this home was sold to Developer before they even destroyed the home MAYBE IT REQUIRES A BROWN PAPER BAG FULL OF CASH 💵 IT IS THE ONLY ANSWER I CAN UP WITH 👿👿👿👿👿👿👿
Unfortunately, Australia has plenty of invasive plants as well as invasive animals.😢
How did they know there was 10 billion rabbits?
They sent around government surveyors who spoke to each male rabbit and asked how large their family was.
@@DavidWren-u3k census data lol
Actually researchers do a grid of an area. Then monitor the numbers on each grid. Some areas are more populated than others. Then they use a map to definite the population density of each grid square. Easy. Oh and do you know that a rabbit eats the same amount of grass and vegetation each day that a sheep eats. That is why the farmers loathe them. Everyone needs to watch the movie Rabbit proof fence which is not about the rabbits but shows the length of the fence.
Halloween isn’t originally American.
*Halloween had its origins in Scotland and Ireland thousands of years ago as the festival of Samhuinn - marking summer's end. When the Scots emigrated to America during the Highland Clearances, they took their Halloween traditions with them.
Yes but Australia adopted the American commercialisation and version of it
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Yeah. But must be recently. There was no Halloween when my children were little. But my grandchildren are into Halloween. Many countries adapt so many things from other countries, it’s been going on for centuries. Personally I’m not into Halloween at all, but try and stop the young generation here in Australia from enjoying Halloween , we’ve got no hope lol.
I just might wear a bit of my Scottish Stuart heritage tartan for Halloween 😂
It's actually a Druid Festival, All Hallows Eve, a celebration of your loved ones returning temporarily to greet you from the after life! An open portal to the soul with fire, dancing and dreams! 🙋
@@jenniferharrison8915
Druids from where originally?
Druids were an important part of ancient Scottish society, serving as spiritual leaders and advisors to kings and chieftains.
@@bernadettelanders7306 Druids were for all the Celts! They also held Spring Harvest festivals, separately, where lovers were encouraged to join, mate and celebrate nature's fertility - not welcome the dead!
That tree is also called the Gympie Gympie tree and occurs in south east Qld rainforests. I've seen them, but never touched them.
Yes, I saw my first on in the Bunya mountains. I had never heard of them until then.
My dad stung me on the leg when I was a kid at the Bunya Mts. A very painful lesson. Hated him for ages but all good now.
Crcocdile armour is osteoderms which is scales of bone embebbed in its hide
Like a ZIlla Beast?
Ryan, you need to check out the tongue eating louse. It literally replaces the tongue of a fish. It’s gross 😊
Sometimes referred to as the ‘suicide plant’ because of its excruciating sting, the Gympie-Gympie plant (Dendrocnide moroides), most common in Queensland.
Halloween has gotten a bit more popular here because of the US influence on social and other media. The shops now sell a small selection of halloween stuff. A lot of people hate that it has entered our culture. I don't have a problem with it. As far as I am concerned anything that brings a bit more fun and joy into the world these days is not a bad thing. You can easily put up a sign that says you are not participating without being nasty. We always buy lollies just in case but live in an area where there is not a lot of children.
The gas for the remote zone is referring to the gas you use for cooking in caravans (trailers) or your camping stove.
The sign is for a general store so they don't sell petrol (the gas you are thinking of).
Yanks tend to have a SINGLE meaning for words…. Any more and they start to hyperventilate .
Sadly there are some homeowners who live across the road from water views and hate the idea of having natural bush land between them and a clear view. Many times trees have been poisoned so they can have their views and/or increase the values of their properties when going to sell them.N0t fair on Nature so Councils have taken to putting up high signs where residents have killed off trees. Serves them right. Now what they see is a HUGE sign where there used to be trees.
Especially New Australians! 😠
We can't chop trees down on our property if they are significant trees three metres around in SA it's month thousand dollar fine .in Australia that is.
Much the same rule here in Sydney.
Regarding the dreaded Gympie Gympie plant - there was a guy who used the leaves for toilet paper. He ended up unaliving himself to end the agony
In Australia if you die trying to cross long distances due to lack of good preparation it's called "Doing a perish".
I thought it was natural selection😂
Tourist culling 😂
Australia here….
One time my husband asked the trick or treats kids if they wanted a trick!
They said no…
They came back & threw eggs & trashed our front yard!
Hence we Do Not do Halloween!
😂😂😂😂 I had the issue with someone taking all the candy too.
The stinging tree is also know as dead man's toilet paper.
The "Dendroncnide moroides" plant from Eastern Queensland was new to me. Funny because I live in Eastern Queensland and that is apparently where it grows. ( And that's funny because the eastern Queensland coastline goes for more than 4300 miles*yep miles - 6300 ish Kms.
They thrive in the Bunya mountains.
They are rainforest plants. Pretty sure there is one at Maiala on top of Mt Glorious, Brisbane Forest Park. Are not popular as street or garden planting for some reason.
I always thought Nullarbor was an Aboriginal word but it's Latin for 'no tree'.
Yeah, I remember reading the same a long time ago, but I’m told it’s also an aboriginal word.Not sayin I’m right about that.
The Aboriginal word was Oondiri (waterless). Nullabor is Latin from Null (no) and Arbor (tree).
Null-ahh-bore ... Nullabor. When I was 13 my parents moved us from Sydney to Perth... one side of the country to the other.. & we drove over the old Nullabor Road.. which was the highway at that stage. It was the beginning of 1974. It took us the whole day to drive from the town of Ceduna, in South Australia, to the West Australian border... approx 480k's. It was gravel (dirt) road the whole way & no shops etc. The sign may have been from somewhere further north in a more remote area where there's bugger all between places.
I worked for Sunshine Coast Council for 22Years Parks and Gardens I left there 4 and half years ago
Yep we didn't have enough fake, trashy commercial holidays here in Australia so we adopted Halloween also.. Its for the Kids of course.. and Coles and Woolies to sell more plastic crap
It's such an ugly and hideous thing I think it's unsuitable for kids.
If we can import cultural artefacts from the USA like MAGA, giant f-off utes, climate change denial, anti-vaxxing, christian nationalism and tipping, we can import something fun like halloween.
8:00 Wife asks me, so where did my Mum go. Not sure love, she said she was going to empty a bucket in a stream....
Maybe she killed a Croc with her bucket and is now on the run from the law?
😂😂
I live in a designated green zone, semi rural outer Melbourne suburb where we couldn't even cut down a tree on our own property without special permission, which was not granted for a massive gum tree located just a metre or so away from the house and which frequently dropped very large branches onto the roof, often causing significant damage that cost a lot to repair. And then massive bush fires happened, I don't know why my house was spared, sheer luck when so many others didn't. The law was changed and I could cut down that dangerous tree. It's still a green zone and still filled with native flora and fauna...with modified, sensible restrictions where I can decide what is a danger to my life and home.
Gympie trees are no joke. Well, at least the leaves are.
People who want to do the Halloween thing, usually decorate their front fences/gardens so kids can see where they will be welcome. They don't go to houses that aren't decorated, as a rule. Some suburbs also have a web page that will list addresses of participants too.
to cross the Nullabor - you are required to carry 25 litres of water PER PERSON in the vehicle. i have made this trip x3 - and that is really the LEAST amount you should carry for each.
The tree vandalism one... it reminded me of how my grandparents' neighbors keep going into their property to poison the trees on their land just so they could get more sunlight. The previous owner did tell my grandparents about the neighbors, also they love blasting loud music around 9-10 in the afternoon
🇳🇿 New Zealand
the Nullabor sign reminds me of the song "last Chance Texaco"
Hahah Ryan, we have a way with words.
People poison trees to get views from their property’s because it adds another million to the value.
If you don't look at David Gulpilil , I'll be pissed off please. He was a great actor ❤
Australia is next level.
4 deserts in central Australia at the moment 😢😢
The Gympie Gympie plant, or Stinging Nettle is what we call it here, and it only grows in a specific region in North Queensland where I grew up, stories about it will scare you to the point you don't touch any plant in Australia
Things like Gympie Gympie tree, white back spider, wipe snake ..you just stay away from. Best advice I can give lol
The Halloween sign is fantastic
The trees people are poisoning or cutting down are usually on the coast on reserves o in public parks. Most trees on the coast are left there to help prevent erosion . Rich people with beach front properties are known for using the old copper nail trick
If the tree is on your property and within 10 meters of your house you can remove it no questions asked. Shrubs that are within fifty meters can be removed as well , as long as it's on your property (Fire reg).
Those trees in the photos are on public land.
Those signs for trees cut down is ingenious. It has stopped this practice. And if you see this sign, whilst walking along the foreshore you can look up and see the house that is the likely culprit.
As a nipper, going to Broken Hill was sketchy as!!
Inland had an overly wet winter (for once) bunnies were in plague proportions..
So many dead rabbits on the road the old man had to slow down on bends, the EH wd slide!!
And bugga Halloween!!
Hey Ryan from South Australia. Amazing things that are apparently bad 🌲 where I rent have over grown trees on footpath and the next door neighbour's tree over the drive way
You’re fast becoming my favourite American 😊
My parents, sister and brother drove across the Nullarbor in the early 70’s. They had Xmas day on the side of the road, my mum had cooked a proper English Xmas feast before they set off.
Yes, Australia has been contaminated by Halloween, it shits me too
Halloween - the last place I lived before I moved back home - the neighbourhood had a school and lots of small kids, so what they did was to put out a pumpkin/light out on your front gate if you were handing out candy, so the kids (with parents) would only visit those houses, and not bother the others.
I think that is a great idea, as then only participating people will be visited.
@ryanreaction just letting you know if you're interested, the Australian Rules Football League Grand Final is on Saturday afternoon Melbourne time, 28th September. The equivalent of your Superbowl.
The knobs on the back of a crocodile/alligator are called scutes! Same with a turtle shell. They have bones in them.
6:45 I don't even know what they mean by Gas to be honest, maybe they mean petrol and are appealing to american tourists or something. ANYBODY in the comments know what they mean? Let me know, I'm curious too!
For a gas camping stove or a standard gas bottle, very common.
I’m sure that sign refers to LPG for camp stoves
@@johnlaine2654That was my first thought. Cooking
12:10 "Someone might shoot you", with what though? XD I mean, military sure, but don't forget you're talking about Australia.
Mate.. please. We are all hunters in the outback. How do you think we drop 100kg boar? With a stick?
And there is more blkmarket stuff on the coast than there is out ere. All the crims have them. Its getting pretty serious lately.
We still have them. Just about every bloke out here owns them. You just need a license.
You should see the piles and piles of shotty shells at my local tip. Millions.
@@mackash Where are we talking though? I don't want specifics, I don't want your to out your location or anything, but I assumed the clip he was responding to was inside an urban center, unless I am mistaken I don't think, even with a license, you can just carry around guns in the streets of a major city in Australia. Of course, I could be mistaken, I live Northish QLD, in the Townsville area, quite rural, haven't seen any type of firearm since probably the 90s, and it was a pellet rifle, not a full on gun. So yeah, colour me ignorant XD
There are more guns registered here now than before the gun control laws came into effect. We don't have concealed or open carry but I don't guarantee what is or isn't hiding in a ute.
I've lived in Queensland all my life, this is the first I've heard about that plant. Cheers for the heads up mate
MAINLY IN RAINFOREST
Yeah grows in rainforest ,usually where there is a gap in the canopy where a big tree has come down. Very painfull ,even if you just lightly brush against a leaf.
Most Queenslanders colloquially call this plant Gympie Gympie. The local Aboriginals of the Sunshine Coast and Gympie region (Queensland) called this plant 'gimpi-gimpi' (which means "stinging tree").
The town of Nashville was renamed in 1868 to Gympie - which is from that Aboriginal word gimpi-gimpi.
We call that plant Gympie -Gympie here. It's native to my region. In primary school when we went on school camps or excursions we were taught to identify this plant and avoid it at all costs. We were even told people could die from it. Still scares me that I might run into it 😅
The Nullabor Plain is the area between Adelaide on the central southern end of Australia to Perth in the west of Australia. It is essentially a massive flat plain and one of the world's longest train journeys goes through there - the Indian Pacific. It is not pronounced as NEWlabor, but think NULL - as in DULL.
every back yard needs a 20ft, salty in it.
Yep, makes a back yard bbq interesting.
Chuck ‘im a snag every so often.
solves the rabbit problem
A rabbit proof fence was built in WA and the rabbits died against the fence as the rest climbed over the dead bodies. There were mountains of rabbit bodies. We also have a dingo fence in south east Aus.
There is a true story on 3 aboriginal girls who walked almost the entire distance of the rabbit fence to get back home after being taken by the government. A movie was made about this.
The longest fence in the world can refer to: The Dingo Fence of south-east Australia, 5,614 km (3,488 mi) finished in 1885. The Rabbit-proof fence of Western Australia, 3,253 km (2,021 mi), completed in 1907.
We took a photo of us standing against the dingo fence last August. The government still maintains it and where it crosses private property the owners keep up the fence but get subsidised.
NULL- ARBOR meaning NO TREES! Vowel sound is ‘uh’ NOT ‘oo’ .
I think you may mean Null a bor
Arbor, as in ‘tree’
We live in an out Eastern suburb in Melbourne and you have to obtain a permit to cut down any native trees & even a dead tree needs permission. So just because it's on your property means nothing. Many areas have vegetation overlays. I'm also pretty sure 1 million of those rabbits live around where we live.
Where I live you need a council permit to cut down any tree on your own property if it has a diameter of more than 10cm (4inches). Most council zones have similar regulations.
Always 2 spare tyres too if your going on long treks,tyre repair kits and compressor a must.Its brutal
Make Australia a Halloween free zone..
Gas would be what you guys call propane bottles & first aid kit. They're 2 different things, in that 1000 km stretch there is very likely more servos but it's unlikely they'll have a good range of food supplies, some may just have drinks & light snacks like packets of chips etc, so it's wise to make sure you got your supplies first!
Nullabor Plain - the last shop for 1000km. Not a lie. I have done the drive, both ways. You need jerry cans for fuel because you can't make it on a single tank. You need to pull over and refuel yourself. If you are driving, it's about 16 HOURS OF DRIVING between petrol stations. All ya'll that think there are towns there, do the drive yourself and let us all know how you go. Unless the Wedgetail eagles picks your bones clean.
7:05 - Cities? Nah mate, tiny tiny tiny little towns.
In Australia there are often Tree Preservation Orders that prohibit removing trees even on your property without council approval. Usually for native trees but eucalyptus trees can be huge & drop big branches from hidden rot. Need to be inspected.
And that plant... one of our cutest animals, the Pademelon, eats it.
In Australia you are allowed to own property, but you're not allowed to do anything with your property without government approval.
Trees on private property are also protected in many areas of Australia
There’s a story of a bloke that got into major contact with that plant,apparently he couldn’t move or talk but totally conscious,they started to revive him etc,to freaky for a plant
the rabbit problem has been famous for centuries. Arthur C Clark wrote a story as early as 1950 about a pair of australian scientists trying an experiment with rabbits in a balloon:
"as scientists, they'd be happy if the rabbits came back alive, and as Australians they'd be just as happy if the rabbits came back dead".
there's a few species that as a country we hate on principle, but rabbits have a consistent place of dishonor at or near the top of the list. right there with the cane toad, (just as quick to breed, plus poisonous)
The right to disconnect applies to businesses with 15 or more employees from 26 August and to employers with fewer than 15 employees 12 months later. Great move by the Fair Work Commission introducing a law while saying that they won't be able to decide how it will apply and can't issue guidelines until they have dealt with disputes about how the right works. Two cases I know of so far. A Dairy Farmer tried to contact an employee to come in after another employee didn't turn up for his shift and didn't let her know. The other employee didn't answer phone calls, emails or texts and then bitched when he missed out on the shift. Another farmer couldn't contact an employee to let him know a flash flood was heading his way - he lost a vehicle and a lot of gear. Don't have a problem with disconnecting in principle but there are a lot of issues that need to be considered.
Hopefully an employee would know if their boss is only likely to ring/text for good reasons. My daughter has been called in for extra shifts a few times. I wonder if employers will try to get people to sign contracts that allow it, anyway
Thats the gympie gympie plant.
Gympie-Gympie you definitely do not want to be in the same room Ryan.Even if you don’t touch it fine fibres from the plant Can feel the surrounding air causing nosebleeds eye irritation as well as skin. Animals have even had to be put down after running into the plant.
@@firebrand2619 Is that really true about the fine fibres getting in your respiratory system ? I' ve been very close to them many times in areas with large numbers of them in the immediate vicinity and never experienced any respiratory issues. Ive hung out in the SEQ bushwalking community off and on for almost 60 years and never met anyone who has claimed to have experienced respiratory problems related to the tree. Admittedly its always been in a forest environment. Nobody I know or place I've been has them in a small enclosed space ,like a room. Its said by some that even dead leaves fallen on the rainforest floor can still sting you. Ive never tested that as I've been stung enough times to see any value in trying to confirm it one way or another, but surely if they dislodged from the leaf that easily then dead or detatched leaves would lose their potency very quickly. Are you sure this isnt one of those urban myths?
The Stinging Nettle is native to FNQ (Far North Queensland) from around Cairns towards the Daintree Ancient Rainforest up further north. Apparently it holds 13 different neuro-toxins.
Aboriginal clans in the area found a certain tree nut that could be boiled into a paste which would offer pain relief.
It occurs in wet sclerophyll forests down to the Scenic Rim and Northern Rivers in NSW.
Halloween, which directly stems from Irish, Scottish and British folk customs, was celebrated as the Druids' autumn festival. The Druids, who were an order of priests during the third century BC, celebrated this holiday on Oct. 31 (which they recognized as the end of summer), to honor Samhain, the lord of death.