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My parents decided to migrate, in the early 1959s. They had a choice between the USA, Venezuela, or Australia, and I thank my lucky stars that Australia came up first.
Your parents definitely made the best choice ya lucky buggar, my ancestor never had that choice but I am still glad that I am a 5th generation Aussie
Thanks God
Missing from the history of Australia's wealth growth, is the wool industry: The expression was hat 'Australia rode on the sheep's back'.. at one stage we were the largest wool exporter in the world.. prior to the mining boom, we exported wool, grain, dairy products.. even in the 1950's we were still considered 'wealthy'..
I believe at one stage, we wre the food bowl to the world for abt 100 years. Not so much now.
Not completely true the people that sheared the sheep rode bicycles around to different farms, so really it was riding the bicycles that made our earlier wealth
That was before synthetic fibres took over.
@@deanhurley311no. It’s true. It was ‘a pound for a pound’. My family is pastoral. There has been a sheep station in our family for 190 yrs.
I’m in OZ I buy some gear from the USA, the exchange rates shows we’re not wealthy.
Ryan, modern refrigeration is an Aussie invention from 1854 (they used ammonia as the first refrigerant) and was developed to make ice for ships so they could get Aussie beef to Europe.
It was actually Lamb.
It was originally to cool beer.
Ammonia still used to today where a massive amount of refrigeration is required, like an abattoir.
The car radio was also invented in Australia, but still can't find an FM station in most parts of the country
@@stuarthancock571my high school was adjacent to the Shepparton Preserving Company Fruit canning plant. I remember one perhaps 2 massive ammonia leaks affecting the school in the period 1964 to 1969.
Yes you can take cruises from America to Australia. The most common are repositioning cruises from Vancouver or LA where they are moving the ship to Australia for a new season. But you can also find them coming from San Fran, Honolulu or even New York or Miami via the Panama Canal.
My neighbors are taking a cruise in January, leaving San Diego > Hawaii > South Pacific islands > New Zealand > Australia (sailing all the way around the continent!!) > back to San Diego. Leaving January, back in April.
@@vinsgraphicsWe did that cruise, well from Hawaii onwards. It was great.
6:05 this is the Richmond Bridge in Tasmania built by convicts one of the oldest (colonial era) sandstone bridges in Australia. The grass looks English because it is. The whole area was landscaped by the convicts and English trees and grass were planted. When you drive through the area it's like a small burst of English countryside.
I'm hearing you, as an Aboriginal /convict Tasmanian descendent I wish the rest of the world would go away, we held the most amazing OLYMPIC GAMES IN THE WORLD, try to dispute that!!! fact!!!!
Here’s a trick.
We Aussies always act laid back, she’ll be right, no worries. Not lazy, but relaxed.
And yet. If you look at the cities, miles of roads, miles of railways, fences, dams, power stations, cables for tv, power, phone, telegraph lines across the continent. All built within the last 200 years or so.
And by not many of us.
Seems like SOMEBODY has been working hard.
Hey, are you pointing out the fact that certain other people that had (by their count) 65,000 years didn't achieve as much?
@@awoodward37Didn't achieve anything of value at all.
Well the aboriginals lived in hundreds of tiny nations, these nations were some of the lease developed and poorest of the planet for the last thousands of years in regards to resources and technology in use in comparison to other places internationally.
The concept of a United continent operating as a single country, advanced enough to rival Europa itself, is something that could only be achieved by an external force uniting the place.
Out of all the options for colonising forces from Eurasia, the British were one of the best both in treatment of natives, aspiration to spawn new parliamentary nations, and even developing infrastructure across their colonies. Not to mention being the first place to push against slavery both in and beyond it’s borders.
The aboriginals were barely in the Stone Age, but here long enough to develop an interesting culture and history worthy of preservation, but they also scorched the continent causing more environmental loss (poorly timed arrival millennia’s compared to shifting climates of the time) than Europeans have so far although it’s a close tie and that’s not counting time differences.
Regardless unification of the continent, and in turn the arrival of the British, was logically one of the best if not the best thing that could have happened, still alternative paths following British arrival would have been better but that’s besides the point.
Don’t bother shitting on the fact I wrote an essay, just felt like it, not that invested and more so rambling on this interesting topic
@@PCLoadLetter Who didn't achive anything, me or the people that lived here for (a claimed) 65,000 years?
People tend to think that Australia's wealth started with the 19th century gold rushes, and there is some truth in that, but the gold coincided with other mining booms, including lead and silver. But often forgotten was the development of refrigerated shipping in which clipper ships could sell meat in London for lower prices than European local cost of production. This started the long term food-rush in which Australia and New Zealand became major food exporting nations.
'Convict' is the word you are looking for. England started sending their convicts to Australia when America wouldn't take them anymore.
Yes, but Americans don't seem to be aware of that.
not all of Australia's first settlers were covicts. Some were brought in as labourers and were paid a very small amount to come. Also, not just from England, but all over the UK, and in particular from Scotland during the Highland clearances.
Only 20 percent of Australian settlers were convicts. About a third of those were Irish and many of those were political prisoners or just people with trades, falsely convicted to force them to go to build the colony. Many other convicts crimes were so minor that today they'd get a fine.
My ancestors were free settlers from the UK who went to South Australia- the only non convict colony in Australia. One of my ancestors came out in 1836 one of the very first European settlers in SA.
It’s a great place to live too, just being able to watch a sunrise, walk along the beach regularly. We can grow our own vegetables at home too. Many of us also spend time giving back to society as volunteers too. I enjoyed watching this.
It's not a great place, it's just better than living in many other countries, which isn't saying much.
I think it's live beef exports. That's how you stop the meat going bad 😂
Yep, that is accurate, live animal export is big business.. Whoever reads this, please use caution if you Google it, the videos and documentaries are confronting.
Live export has been banned in Australia for as long as I remember, I think I was in highschool when it was banned, I'll google it and get back to you
Yeah I was wrong lol. We only prevent sheep being shipped during northern hemisphere summer. I feel so lied to lol. (But I was the one lying I guess)
@@hilliard665 All good. There have certainly been "pauses" and bans, so it's not really a clear-cut issue. Thanks for being polite and researching! Given that this is the internet, those two things are so very, very rare.
@@hilliard665 Beef cattle live export is also banned, Only cattle & sheep for breading is still exported live.
You can cruise, Seattle >Honolulu>New Zealand>Sydney...a transpacific crossing. Takes about 19 days.
That's faster than I would expect. I would have thought close to a month, which I personally find too long for a cruise.
@@Krenisphia You're probably right. 19 days from Honolulu. I'm currently waiting for a ship to come over for the Australian cruising season.
Cruising is a great way to travel… so many options 🚢
You must come to Sydney to visit…. Come on down 💗
Agile?? Wth does that even mean?
One of the reasons that Aussie real estate is so expensive is that we have only five big cities with more than 1 million inhabitants - Sydney, Melbourne (both 5 million +), Brisbane and Perth (2 million +) and Adelaide (1 million +). These cities are dominated by single family dwellings on their own lots (with the 1/4 acre (1,011sqm) being the traditionally desired size), with a US-style suburban model preferred in the post WW2 era. This used up a lot of accessible land in a short period of time as these five Australian cities grew rapidly in the postwar era and large swathes are still held in single family dwellings, with a lot of resistance from existing landowners to more intensive forms of housing in much of these areas.
The lack of medium-sized cities in Australia (between 100,000 and 1,000,000 people) means that there are often not many alternatives for people to move away from the big five cities and still find suitable employment and more reasonably priced homes. There are only three cities in Australia between 1 million and 500,000 - Gold Coast, Newcastle-Maitland and Canberra-Queanbeyan (just sneaking in this year), and only another 12 cities with more than 100,000 people. Of those 15 cities between 100,000 and 1 million, five of them are within 100km (62 miles) of one of the big five - Newcastle and Wollongong are close to Sydney; Gold Coast, and Sunshine Coast are close to Brisbane; and Geelong is close to Melbourne, with these places often acting as an extension of the bigger cities' housing markets.
So most Australians are competing for a house within 50km of the big five city centres, which is also where most of the new migrants tend to arrive as well, creating intense competition bidding up house prices. The fact that most of the decision making is concentrated in eight capital cities due to our large state and territory sizes has stifled the development of other centres, with only Queensland having cities more than 100,000 people more than 1,000km from the state capital. The lack of fast rail connections also means that places outside the 1-2 hour driving radius of the big cities are less attractive. So we have made a rod for our own backs with our settlement patterns, ironically creating a lack of space in the sixth largest country on earth!
With the discovery of working from home being a productive form of employment in a lot of sectors, Melbournians have found that housing is less than half the price and education for their children is also cheaper but comparable to private schools in Melbourne within Ballarat. We now have a burgeoning population and have over 100,000 people living here. More and more move here every day. Also it is a faster commute to Melbourne city from Ballarat than it is from some of the suburbs.
It's IMMIGRATION. Simple supply and demand. Also allowing non citizens to buy land.
It warms my heart how much you love Australia 😊
yeah me to , hope he hates 45 ,
@@duncanyourmate2433 Ah. Very likely
I am blessed to be Australian - greatest country in the World, Work, Live & Play 🐊🌞🐑🏖🎶❤️🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
It is ok if you have money, but scratch the surface and its 3rd world in some places, my wife and I earn a good income, have a couple of investments and good super, but I personally can't wait until I can retire to South East Asia,
well said. @@Colincarpenter2
Hi Ryan, sadly the "beef" is exported live. The Argyle mine is one of Australia's bigger diamond mines. When you stopped and commented on the grass, that grass was in front of Richmond Bridge, the oldest bridge in Australia and it's in Richmond Tasmania, built by convicts, well worth a visit. And yes it is possible to take a cruise from Australia to America, many cruises go to Hawaii. Yes, we have a stock market, The ASX, Australian Stock Exchange. Love your vids, keep up the good work. Peter
There is a stock market in Australia, primarily centred around the Australian Securities Exchange [ASX], an Australian public company that operates Australia's primary securities exchange. The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) has responsibility for the supervision of real-time trading on Australia's domestic licensed financial markets and the supervision of the conduct by participants (including the relationship between participants and their clients) on those markets. ASIC also supervises ASX's own compliance as a public company with ASX Listing Rules. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has oversight of the ASX's clearing and settlement facilities for financial system stability. There's a lot more to it than that but that's pretty much the basis on which stock markets and trade operate in Australia. My knowledge is limited on this subject, and I might be getting it wrong, but I believe that's how it goes. People more knowledgeable than me feel free to correct ad nauseum... ^_^.
As someone that was born and raised in Australia and still live here…. In my opinion ot was the miners and the immigrants that built much of this wealth. Miners - extracting the resources we export and Immigrants - after coming in the masses across the 50s 60s and 70s, these hard working people built a lot of the infrastructure, buildings and run much of the restaurants and cafes.
But that also requires capital. Miners and Immigrants helped fuel the economy that capitalists kickstarted with their personal wealth.
@@MrNintoku absolutely, couldn’t agree more. But capitalist funds can only go so far if they don’t have the manpower to perform the physical tasks. Sadly in most cases those people were not of free will. In those I’ve listed, most were. These people were just trying to create better lives for their families so in turn those wages were used buying property and assets and stayed in Australia…. Leading to more growth and development.
The Irish, Scottish & English community’s in the convict days but mostly in the 1850’s to 1900 built the sandstone & bluestone buildings in the city’s & towns that we still see today, they built the roads, cleared land, felled trees with axes, built sewer lines, roads, pubs, Quarrys, sawmills, market gardens, dams etc.
That was hard yakka because they started from nothing, when a lot of ethnics came here in the 1950’s and onwards, they rolled up their sleeves and built too but they had it easy compared to the first lot.
And the current lot of migrants just want handouts, a dole check.
Immigrants? So everybody except Aboriginals? To be fair I don't think hunters and gatherers should be expected to build cities.
Convicts and early settlers did most the hard work of working the land and building the infrastructure. New Zealand even built many of its early buildings using wood logged from Tasmanian trees by convicts using just handsaws and metals mined by convicts and early settlers. The 50s, 60s and 70s immigrants had it much easier.
I think Ryan needs to look into "Vivid Sydney" for the answer on how they were lighting the buildings.
In the early years, Australia became wealthy from gold and 'off the sheeps back'. Starting with just 6 prized Spanish merino sheep and sucessful cross breeding, Australia produced the finest wool in the world which was highly sought after in Europe. Our wool is still the finest, going head to head with NZ.
The road you appreciate as an American is our Inner City Bypass in Brisbane. Connects multiple roads and tunnels to avoid going through the city when you want to transit.
There’s a reason we’re called the lucky country. We’ve experienced a lot of peace and prosperity compared to many other countries
The bloke who coined the phrase, lucky country, was actually meaning "dumb luck".
I still feel lucky to be here though
@@davefenton102 well it's not really through any great effort on our part. Luck is luck though
These felons as you are saying, were mostly accused of things like stealing a load of bread for their family.
My 4th and 5th great grandfathers were black convicts that came here in 1788 on the First Fleet...One born in the Caribbean, who came via England, the other from Stonington, Connecticut....The 'crimes' they were convicted of were stealing a watch, and a piece of clothing, which was about the level of the so called crimes for which most convicts were sent to the colonies for life...fortunately both of them were able to free themselves, and became constables, my 5th great grandfathers daughter marrying my 4th great grandfather, and our families going on to having around 25,000 living ancestors.
My Great Grandfather hailed from St Thomas Virgin Islands which were under British rule back then. With a surname of Boyle (irish). My Great Grandmother was from Buckinghamshire England. Can trace her line back to the 17th century which has been fun.
How great that you've been able to track your family so well. I've got a Chinese ancestor who came here and the various weird name changes has made it very difficult . It's amazing that with all the adversity before those that came before us,they flourished and let us live in the "lucky country ".🙋
@@heatheryoung2712 my 4th great grandfather was born in St Thomas as well!
And I have traced my ancestors this far, back to the 1600s..Its a huge job, but very satisfying when you do make the connections, and often you have trodden the same path
@lynnmoses3563 That's great Lynn.
We should maybe compare notes sometime. Do you know how your family members got to Australia.?
Australians are not rich. Australia’s economy is “rich”. With the select few who actually have wealth.
no, Australians are not rich, but we do benefit,from having a strong economy
We are rich compared to the majority of Earth's inhabitants.
Glad I am one of those select few, grovel before me peasant.
@@vtbn53 Bahahahahah. Pissa!
Wealth was defined as the value of a household’s financial and real assets - including real estate and super - minus any debt. By this definition, superannuation and houses prices make average Australian the richest person in the world by invisible wealth. In fact Australians collected a higher median wealth per adult than anywhere else in the world at $US273,900 ($A390,870) followed by Belgium.
Every time my partner watches one of your videos she says "Someone needs to tell him 'Happy Arvo' is not a thing" :)
Exactly. Nobody in Australia says "happy arvo", but I'm sure that's been pointed out to Ryan before.
It's Ryan's unique greeting.
It is now!😊
Cruise ships travel to Australia from the northern hemisphere in October when our weather is just entering summer as you enter winter. So Ryan, it wasn’t a silly question.
That Seekers refrain at the end though - “I am Australian” 😂❤😂
‘And from all the world we come ‘
5:58 that, if I'm not mistaken, is a picture of Richmond Bridge, the oldest bridge in Australia, built about 200 years ago.
Indeed it is, in the town of Richmond, known for the Richmond Gaol. Which housed Ikey Solomon- the real life crim from Bryce Courtney's "The Potato Factory' and the inspo for 'Oliver Twist's' Fagan! Gorgeous place, visited just in March.
Yes, and Tasmania still has its beautiful Convict built buildings!
@@jenniferharrison8915 I tell ya, my history brain completely nerded right out when I was there in March. Best week I've ever had in Australia. Gotta get back, there's far too much I missed!
@@becsterbrisbane6275 You do! Tasmania is uniquely very historic and very modern, and very aware of their whole environment! It also has abundant and amazing gourmet food, and the cleanest air and water in the world! 😍
We have had the same waves of immigration that the US has had...the Irish, Italians, Greeks, so the effect of the convicts that started up the country has been well and truly diluted. Note... Refridgeration was invented specifically to make transport of our produce to Great Britain possible and we export meat to America.
Even the transportation of convicts from England is a migration we have in common with USA. It is no coincidence the first fleet carrying convicts landed in Aus in 1788. What happened in the previous decade? Oh yes something something 1776 to 1783. Transportation to the american colonies as a punishment was used between 1717 and 1776.
How ignorant do you have to be to think the British settlers were more than a small part convicts.
As a 5th generation Australian (my earliest ancestor born here was my great-great grandfather who was the son of a convict) I know I'm extremely privileged to be born here.
Wr love our Botanical gardens. Our trees and plants are mostly unique to Australia plus we still brought nearly every kind of tree and plant out with us from all over the world.
Most of us don't come from convicts. Most of us immigrated here. Beef and sheep often get sent live, not already killed. Often, they don't survive the trip. 😢 Yes we have huge stock markets.
Yes, the only exception is Tasmania where approximately 75% of the population have at least one convict in their tree. I have 9, hoping to find a tenth!
I come from at least one convict. The piece of shit stole a handkerchief.
From an Aussie, unfortunately the wealth of the country is total different to the wealth of the average person and the struggles that they have, even for the people that have worked hard all their life.
Australia has the 9th most equal distribution of wealth in the world. And 3 of the countries that have a better wealth distribution are very poor, so in other words their citizens are equally poor. There are 5 countries that are wealthy and spread their wealth better than us. The average Australian is wealthy compared to the rest of the world. We just have some people who complain all the time and are never grateful.
The average wealth is very deceptive. We are the wealthiest based on median wealth which is basically the "average" bloke. If you haven't traveled you may not realise just how wealthy you are. Look at the large sums we give to the dole bludgers.
I bought a massionette in Adelaide 4.4 km from the CBD, *on the tramline in 1996 for 100k so that was a thing .. the biggest driver of prices in Adelaide has been all these home renovations shows with houses from Sydney where garage-size places cost a million dollars
I’ve lived in three countries my daughters lived in the US, UK and Australia QLD. We have no doubts from our experience that Australia is the overall wealthiest for the middle class and the easiest to economically move up in. In saying that - don’t expect to make it by paying mega rents in a maga city in the wealthiest suburb in an average job go to the regions first save then move. Australia wins every time this way
Less middle class in australia than usa moron . Usa home ownership 70% lefty
Not a stupid question. You can indeed cruise from long beach California to Sydney. Via several Pacific islands. .
The current King of England went to college here too, Prince Charles back then.
There is no current king of England, there hasn't been one since 1702.
@@vtbn53 whatever idiot. It’s pretty obvious they’re referring to King Charles, he went to school in Australia for a time. Simple.
Yes you can cruise from the USA to Australia, Ryan. There's a 26 day cruise from LA to Sydney on Princess Cruises with stops along the way in Hawaii, Tahiti, Pago Pago and NZ, among many others. Many of them leave from Hawaii to Australia.
I bought a rack of Australian lamb chops from a butcher in Baltimore to cook for a friend who hadn’t had lamb since moving back to the States.
And its all thanks to 1776 and England needed a new place to establish a colony so thanks America. Peace out.
The "Monarchy" needed a new place for their convict peasants. Due to overcrowding! 🇦🇺👍
You can cruise anywhere in the world & many cruise lines service Australia.
*tries to book a cruise to Mongolia* LIES!!!!
Yes, it is possible to cruise from the US to Australia Seattle to Sydney via Hawaii and Tahiti pick up in either Seattle or Honolulu. From Honolulu, it is 18 days in duration listed as 19 days as you cross the international dateline and gain a day.
Hello Ryan.. YES you can cruise from west coast USA to Australia in the correct season. Holland America leaves from San Diego and/ or Seattle and transverses the Pacific Ocean via Hawaii and several other Pacific Island groups, before arriving in Sydney and can also stay on to New Zealand.
I'm sure other cruise lines do this also.
It's great..
Always love your Aussie reactions mate 👍🏻
Only a small minority of people here can trace family back to convict settlers. I have ancestors who arrived here on the first fleet. That’s on my mother’s side but on my father’s side they immigrated here from England in 1886. They paid their own way to settle in Melbourne because they saw the possibilities for a better future here. 😊 I have a copy of the court records for my ancestor who was convicted for stealing 2 handkerchiefs and an apron from the neighbour’s clothes line and was sentenced to seven years in Australia. He came to Sydney but was then sent to Norfolk Island because he had ship building experience. He became the master builder on N.I. And once he was released he moved back to Sydney and became a master builder there.
And 40% of stupid Aussies think Australia isn't your home ..I Voted NO to division 🇦🇺
Interesting family history and now people get away with murder, how things have changed. Many of those so called convicts were just trying to survive, life was harsh back then for all walks of life.
@@bronwyn6415it had nothing to do with the justice system and everything to do with the fact that England's cities couldn't cope with the number of poor people who would come in from the villages. They had to move big sections of the poor population on, so they made up a reasons to send them to the colonies. Colonies. They also needed to populate the colonies and get the colonies making money for them
I guess they were the lucky ones.@@sophitsa79
Ryan mate, you do so many reaction clips to Australia, it's clear that you love the place, so you absolutely should come to visit and really experience it 😊 ❤.
Ryan did you know that a lot of the convicts that where sent to Australia, were converted for stealing a loaf of bread.
Have you checked out the bombing of Darwin in WWII?
"Convicts"!
The lit up buildings is a Event every year called VIVID it is beautiful to walk around and see all buildings around Circular Quay lit up .
Hi Ryan. I am new to your channel but love it and your family. That park you said looks like it could be a golf course is The Royal Botanic Gardens, it was the site of our first farms of the First Fleet in 1788 and the part of the harbour on which it sits is known as Farm Cove with the Opera House on its Western Side. The buildings are lit up because every year in or around Autumn/Winter, we have a festival of lights called Vivid. They light up the buildings throughout the city and Botanic Gardens, it's just beautiful. Thank you again for your channel.
I have four degrees in including as Masters and a PhD and 20 years of professional experience but I still can't get a job after losing my last one two years ago. Yeah, Australia really is struggling to find highly skilled workers but prefers overseas talent. It has bring in more skilled migrants to make up for the huge brain drain that is happening again in the post COVID era. I would leave myself but I am considered too old for most employers Yes, ageism is rife in this country, too. I am what you called the highly educated poor. Australia is indeed rich but poverty has simply moved up the educational scale.
I hear you and I understand having experienced it myself over the past 15 years. Once you are over 50 you become invisible to employers. Such a wasted opportunity to ignore so much accumulated knowledge.
At 71, I turn down work a couple of times every fortnight. One or two days each fortnight, at $88 per hour, is enough to get by quite comfortably.
Yes it has , I'm presuming you have paid your Uni Fees (might be impertinent ,no offence)ageism is crazy , if you cant MMA fight & code at the same time , they dont want to know , I believe both sexes should be able to nominate age , Census excluded
Fairly sure the only reason for inflation in Australia is corporate profits. The working poor are paying the corporate profits. Coles and Woolies are the duopoly that ensures the poor pay.
I’ve been watching your videos for a long time and didn’t realise I wasn’t subscribed- I am now!
Having lived in the UK for 15 years and AUS for 10 I enjoy noting the differences between the two and love videos like this.
Yes, people take cruises from America to Australia all the time.
The buildings being lit up is a festival that is held in Sydney in May and June (end of autumn / early winter), which is a low-tourist season to encourage people to still visit Sydney when it's cold and often rainy. It is called Vivid Sydney. They project light installations onto buildings, including the Opera House, put lights onto the ferries and onto the Harbour Bridge, have musical and performing arts performances throughout the city and it's pretty spectacular. The building shown here is the Museum of Contemporary Arts (MCA), which sits on the foreshore of Circular Quay, which is the main ferry terminal. If the camera were to turn around and face the other direction, you would see the Opera House. I would encourage you to do a video on Vivid Sydney. It's one of my favourite festivals that is run in Sydney. It's a night photographers dream!
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When a country sends everyone that didn't like "playing by the rules" to another land, you end up with a place full of people that go as far as possible!
More than that, many of these people were survivors of some of the worst living conditions humanity has endured in its history, means they were cunning and resourceful too.
That park that is "good enough to be a golf course" is actually the Sydney Botanic Gardens ......... completely free to visit it / walk through it. It's very close to the Central Business District (CBD) and adjoins/starts just to one side of the Sydney Opera House & the NSW Government House.
Although most of the states started off as convict settlements. Much of the imagination to the states and later Australia (only a country in 1901) came with the gold rush, which directly followed the American gold rush, then after the two World Wars
Yes, there are relocation cruises from the US to Australia, both from New York and Hawaii.
Im certainly not rich my sister might be but im not
Yes , I know that feeling , did sharing make it to 21st century
I like your videos because I find out a lot about my own country! It is true we are fortunate in many ways but certainly the current cost of living is biting hard for those average home owners with large mortgages. Still, I wouldn't live anywhere else.
Ryan- to answer your question about exporting beef ... The first attempt to export frozen meat to England was made by James Harrison, (an Australian) who had invented the world’s first commercial ice-making plant. In 1872-3, he had exhibited “fresh meat frozen and packed as if for a voyage” at the Melbourne Exhibition and shown that it could be maintained in a frozen condition for long enough to be shipped to England.🦘🦘🦘
Kimberley diamonds are coloured pink, whiskey, gold etc.
I love being an Aussie
I am 🙌 😇 🙏
Our convict beginnings were not because England had no room left for criminals.
The settling of the continent was driven by geo-politics, in particular getting there before the French.
The risks were enormous, akin to starting a colony on the moon, so the sending of convicts meant that a high rate of attrition was no big deal.
Against all odds those immigrants sowed the seed for the nation that Australia has become.
It was also because they couldn't continue to send their convicts to USA after they lost the civil war.
Except the moon didn't already have people there who needed to be removed.
The word you're looking for is "men and women convicted to sentences of seven to twelve YEARS... usually for meaningless reasons. ... Australia is NOT the only country begun that way: the US started with "indentured" servants who were usually guilty of having debts they couldn't pay off, and this was before slavery.
One of the reasons that Australia was selected for a penal colony in the first place was that, after the American War of Independence in 1776, the new nation of the USA would no longer take British convicts.
An indenture is something you sell yourself into, in exchange for cash up front. Want to bring your dirt-poor family to the new world? OK, here's how you can pay for it.
I know Australia's natural resource and wool production played a huge part in the economic success of the country. However, the egalitarian nature of the society also played a part and played a part in reducing crime rates. They adopted a policy of compulsory and free education for all children whether free settler, convict or convict's children. This meant that just about everyone could read and write and everyone got a fair go.
England sent her convicts to the US before the war of independence. Then they needed somewhere else after losing the war; the floating hulk ships ( prisons) on the Thames were full along with land prisons.
With people who stole bread to feed their kids or even who had just been caught speaking Irish.😅
I wish we were all rich, we are like the rest of the world, only the top 1% have all the wealth. To me being rich means having the money on hand to buy what I need when I need, to pay the bills on time/ before time, but that isn't what most of us are like.
Australia a high tax country , usa has 70% home ownership and Australia 10% less
Depends on one's definition of rich and poor. I'd rather be poor in Australia than poor in an African country. A poor person in Australia still has a mobile phone, flat screen TV and can buy domino's pizza and gets social security from the government. A poor person in Africa drinks water out of a hole in the ground and gets no help from their government.
Covid had a massive Greed side effect
It’s pretty horrible how they export beef from Australia, it’s by ship and it’s called live export. Will leave it there for you to think about
I love your channel mate, it's refreshing to see an American, keen to learn about Australian culture.
Re your Q about cruising to Australia from America. Yes you can! Carnival, Princess, P & O, Royal Caribbean all depart Aust in Apr/May and head to Hawaii, Seattle, Vancouver to head up to Alaska for their season. Ships leave America for Australia in Aug/Sep each year and head to Australia, often going via Hawaii, Tahiti and the Sth Pacific. We have cruises over to ALaska twice and an extra trip just to Hawaii. It’s a lot of fun for 3 or 4 weeks!
If you want to develop a successful country, step 1 is to populate it with convicts.
Many having been 'shamefully' convicted, and transported from an earlier (inhuman) historic era !!!
They certainly have INCENTIVE to do better! 😁😁
So richhh??😂😂😂😂 most people are struggling to keep food on the table and a roof over their head,,,
No they are not. You are listening to scare mongering. Yes SOME people (very small amount) are struggling -
But compared to America…….. pffttt please
We have the doll here, or CentreLink if you need its actual name. If you're poor it's because you're either too lazy to get a job to use the government handouts responsibly or you aren't yet a citizen in which its a very different story.
@@scarneo5949 try paying rent, feeding 3 kids, power etc( all of which prices have risen by 30+ %) on a minimum wage,,,ya knob
Yes I went to live in Florida when I was 7, 1963.. we went by ship, directly ....
Thoroughly enjoyed this one, Thank you 🇦🇺🇺🇸
Oh Ryan, our idiot prime minister just wasted 400000000 on bs, love your show ❤
We may rich in resources, but we are certainly not rich in intelligence as can be seen by the whole world with the ignorant uninformed, scared nuff nuffs voting NO on the weekend.
Wow, are calling people who voted no stupid.
Yep we are
I proudly and Happily voted NO to racism,,, all Aussies should be treated equally, regardless of skin colour, or race,,, and before you reply, you should know that I'm 1/4 blackfella😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂 Cry me a river. Over 60 percent think otherwise.
It's called Democracy you Wombat
7:38 yes, you can actually, it takes about a month to make the trip between Sydney and Seattle or Vancouver going east, or you can go Sydney to New York via Asia, Middle East, through the Suez Canal, and Europe, that will take 70 days.
Your video reminds me how lucky I am to be an Australian. We are definitely rich in beauty and our quality of life. 🇦🇺 🪃
America is very beautiful, too. The architecture is extraordinary. And most Americans have such big open hearts, with a child-like innocence. 💜
I’m American and l moved to Australia and l was shocked by the culture shocks😊
The first company founded in NSW was The Bank of NSW (now Westpac) in 1817. From the 1850s, numerous stock exchanges were formed in cities such a Melbourne, Bendigo and Ballarat. Early share trading began in 1828. The ASX (Australian Stock Exchange) was created by the merger of the Australian Stock Exchange & the Sydney Futures Exchange in 2006, now one of the world’s top-10 listed exchange groups. Yes tourism is an export (industry). Advertising overseas, airline ticket sales, hotels / motels, BnB etc, tour bus companies, tourist destinations and hospitality venues all generate income for us - plus tax revenue. International tourists spend around $12.7billion here in 2022.
A large amount of real estate in Australia is Asian owned, a lot of the street signs in some major cities are in English and Chinese.
so what , we tax the vacant , lets start on churches
yes you can cruise from the US to Aus
My convict ancestors became famous pioneers of the early cattle industry in NSW..
so you do realise they massacred , ppl , Govenor Macarthur Ordered first nations ppl killings
The whole convict settlement thing tends to be somewhat overstated - yes the original settlements like Sydney and Hobart were convict-driven, but within a short amount of time the number of convicts were overtaken by free settlers - especially after gold was discovered. Some colonies (later states) like South Australia were chartered settlements that never had convicts and others such as Victoria and Queensland only had a small amount of convicts for a short amount of time, with those convicts removed to elsewhere when the Port Phillip (Melbourne) and Moreton Bay (Brisbane) districts were opened up for free settlement. You only find large numbers of people with convict ancestry in New South Wales, Tasmania and to a lesser extent Western Australia (who held onto transportation of convicts as a labour source longer than the rest of the country). All this means that the number of Australians with convict ancestry is around 20% and falling, given the amount of immigration in the past few decades. Even by the 1850's, free settlers from the UK, Europe and elsewhere had outstripped those of convict origins. For years the 'convict stain' was seen as a shameful thing, but these days it is a source of pride for those who have convict ancestry as they can trace their family's climb up through the generations and many are quite wealthy today, as emancipated convicts often secured large landholdings in the early 19th century, with their heirs benefitting substantially.
Fun fact: Although the US fluctuates bet. #2 and #3 in terms of number of international tourists, it is #1 (by a long way) in earnings from international tourists.
Hey Ryan, there was a video on how Australia was a lot like the US upside down. Can't remember the name but thought I would mention it. A cool observation. Sending my best wishes from New South Wales 👋🏻💞 🇦🇺
The Australian middle class, especially the silent majority, are largely comfortable socially and financially. The success of a country comes down to two things: 1. The size and prosperity of the middle class in determining spending and economic growth and 2. How its poorest citizen is treated. With universal healthcare and social security, Australians are among the most fortunate in the world. The standard of living is very good and notwithstanding some economic issues, most people are able to live in comfort if they properly budget.
The Australian middle class are well off , they pay the least per capita in Tax than many nations , stuff their superannuation (%14 Tax upon withdrawal)and as for income tax , many tax minimisation schemes border on avoidance , they buy real estate , negatively gear it and let the poor and the government, pay it off for them .Our poorest citizens are treated abhorrently , on unemployment benefit , they cannot afford rent ,let alone a mortgage , the best example is the failure of %60 of the population to back the referendum where First Nations people would of been recognised in the constitution ,and have 7 Advisory voices to the Parliament, let alone the massive overrepresentation of %50 of 3% of population in jails .Nothing from the 29 year old royal commission into Black Deaths in custody has been implemented .The middle classes kids buy houses, 1 at a time , thanks Dad for the Trust Fund ,the poor get turfed out along with the single mums ,Conservative Governments used to build public housing ,a much neglected area ,from Canberras inception , to the move from Melbourne was done on government housing , by mostly , (Melb>Can) Menzies .They dignity of the Public Service Must be re-instated ,the obsenities of contractors is breathtaking theft , PwC, when will accountability come again with the job.Medicare is dying the death of , 1000 cuts , Conservatives have Always hated it , yet it is too popular(so only 950 cuts) , when Privately insured go to public hospitals its to save /steal a buck so make them contribute based on their choice they are asked , but tick no),Private health Insurance (are taxpayer funded 30% & encourage overcharging ,Howards get by 30 yrs is blackmail, is only used by rich to queue jump public patients ) The real middle class is shrinking when USA sneezes we get a cold ,and a war
@@duncanyourmate2433middle class pay 50% taxes you ever owned a business 😂
Some convicts were sent to Australia for taking a loaf of bread. There is a mini series called " Against the wind" which follows a woman from Ireland through her life being sent to Australia and the history of things that happend within her life, servant, wife, mother.
Also things like the rum rebellion, eureka stockade etc. if you can find it it's really worth watching, i think your wife will like it to.
My little town once had the second largest stock exchanges in the world and a old mine down the road from my house extracted 21.4 (uk) tonnes of gold from it.
My grandfather remembers pallets of gold bars being wheeled through the bank.
Bendigo
The first version of Virginia, the Caroliners and Georgia convict settlement did out so well.
This video is a ray of sunshine! Brightening my day. _ "In the canvas of life, your actions are the strokes of success."
Australia invented commercial refrigeration and the first successful export of chilled beef was on a refrigerated ship in 1879. Argentina was quick to take advantage of refrigerated ships as they were closer to the European markets.
Commercial refrigeration was used worldwide to produce ice. This destroyed the export industry of natural ice from the USA and Canada.
We have the Australian Securities Exchange and internationally we are known as the All Ords, US being the Dow Jones, UK the FTSE, and Japan the Nikkei.
The Govt put up the cost of buying a house in WA in the early 2000's, to bring it in line with Eastern States property prices. My house went from being valued at $156,000 to $480,000 practically overnight (around 2-3 months). It levelled off at around $450,000. The housing market currently, has been dropping. If the Govt ever does that again, many people who are currently struggling to buy a house won't have a sh*tshow's chance in hell of buying a house here in the future. Eastern States prices are ridiculously high, as well as rents. That's why they're investing in WA and then charging huge amounts of rent to those already struggling. The friggin' State Govt should put a stop to it😡
🇦🇺 your a grouse bloke for a yank .🇺🇸🤣🥰 great content and interpretation of our bloody language ✌️ keep up the interesting peel the onion thing the see us for real just like you cobber -🎉
Yes you can take a cruise from US to Aus. I got on a cruise in Hawaii and came home by way of Bora Bora, Tahita, Fiji, Vanuatu, etc...
Those convicts weren't felons. They were entrepreneurs.