Why 95% of Australia is Empty REACTION
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Why 95% of Australia is Empty REACTION
This was a very interesting video to watch. It gave me a much better understanding of not only Australian geography but Australian history and current life. What did you think about this? Something I am interested in finding out about is what life is like for the small number of people who live in the desolate regions of Australia? Has anyone lived there or know anyone who has? Or are there any good videos describing life there that you could recommend? Thanks!!
Pfft climate change..
I was born in a small town called Wickham in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
At the time it housed 2,000 people.
It's a town that was created to house all the workers for a mining company.
Western Australia is known for Iron Ore and other minerals.
Wickham was built in the 70's and the workers worked at Cape Lambert.
This is where the giant ships from a lot of countries, come and load up to take Iron Ore to make steel.
All of the houses (Unless you were a government worker) not sure if it's changed, were fitted with air-conditioning and solar hot water systems. The temperature can get up to 50°C +, and the schools were air-conditioning as well.
It was a fantastic place to live, red soil, spinifex, flat land, some hills. But then, the red soil and spinifex, turn into sand dunes and they go for kilometres, the sand is pure white and the ocean is clear as glass.
The houses are built with steel due to the yearly cyclone's, some get up to category 5.
No crocodiles are in the area, surprisingly as it is just below the Kimberley region, there are sharks though.
Great places to see are Point Sampson, Cossack, Roebourne, Karratha, Dampier, Port Headland, Broome and more.
Also look at the Staircase to the moon.
@@whiteangel256 Hi there, I used to live and work in Karratha 20 years ago. And you are correct, the Pilbara region is a beautiful area of Australia. I fell in love with the red soil, and the mountains of red rock. Spent many a weekend Point Samson (great fish and chips). Visited all those place more than once. If I got the chance, I'd move back to Karratha, no worries.
Hi there I also lived in Karratha for about a year and my dad lived their years earlier. I left because the cyclones were not fun for me. Although there is a thing called cyclone parties where you get hammered till the cyclone passes through. But really there is each city in the Pilbara and just read dirt between and the heat makes it feel more desolate. With nearly no trees or any clouds for most of the year It makes you more disconnected with nature rather than the opposite being true even though in some ways you could not be any further from civilization.
@@Atlas99973 Yep, the parties, that's a keen tradition. I loved the isolation. So different from the normal routine back down south. There were heaps of chicks ready and willing to find a man. I loved the beaches and the warm water. Mud crabbing and fishing, was always great way to spend a day. Yeah, I had an absolute blast living in Karratha.
I went back to Karratha (just for the day) while driving around Australia. Hadn't changed all that much. I live there again.
Immigrated to Australia from Scotland 56 years ago. Have had the best life. I can’t speak for anyone else but I love Australia not perfect by any means but doesn’t try to be. It’s really hard to explain how life is here it’s just different and far more take ppl as you find them. That didn’t mean we don’t have problems but I just think overall it’s a good place to live. Climate is a bit unusual and wish indigenous ppl had a better time. Hopefully we are working on this. As I say just speaking for myself.
pretty much speaking for me too, well said.
Awesome, thanks for sharing that. It is great to hear you have had a great life in Australia. In my brief trip there I really felt so comfortable and that it would be a great place to live. I feel like it must be one of the best places in the world to raise a family.
@@MertAus it is I have done that and have grandchildren having the best life.
You summed us up well mate and yes hopefully the indigenous referendum will win :)
Good job Matt
England fits into Australia 31 1/2 times. People do live in the red centre. I lived in the desert for four years because that is where my husband was sent to work. My daughter went to the biggest area school with 2,500 students. Opal towns like Coober Pedy mostly build their homes underground and there are some mansions down there.
Three years ago we had El Niño and we lived in a fire storm where it was like night time for a month. Four times we were told to evacuate but all roads were cut by fire, we only had the ocean to walk into. We were so lucky because every time the wind changed direction and saved us. We are now in our third year of La Niña and we have floods every where even the desert. One farmers land has been underwater for 21 months. Another farmer was helping a neighbour move his cattle to higher ground. When he got home all but his house was underwater, he couldn’t see any cattle. Then his wife told him to come with her. The cattle had opened the gate to the yard at the back of his house. They were all there on the verandah and in the garden. Then we have really good people and truck drivers that bring free feed.
I still wouldn’t live anywhere else. We have space, our Country is so beautiful, we are isolated but we travel a lot and we don’t feel isolated. My house is at the beach in the tropics, we are good.
Our Indigenous people have been here for 65,000 years. We should have been owned by Spain or Portugal but they didn’t like it either.
I was born in Sydney, I live in QLD but most of my life and my heart belongs to Melbourne. All of my children except one still live there. Melbourne didn’t win World’s Most Livable City 7 years running for nothing and the City is amazing, the Culture, the night life, down every alley has a treasure like top restaurants. You can ride around the City for free all day getting on and off a tram to see it all. It is only two hours from ski resorts in Winter.
What visitors don’t know is the kindness that happens there. Everywhere has homeless people but it is worse since Covid. Melbourne has always had a bus parked in the City three days a week. It is filled with showers, personal items and clothing for free. We have an alley nearby that has a really great cafe. My youngest daughter goes there a lot and I saw this cafe on TV. It was getting cold so they were getting the word out that anyone who couldn’t afford it could eat free. The people who use that cafe pay for two cups of coffee or soup with bread but only take one. Then they write what is paid for on a post it note and stick it to the wall. There are hundreds on the walls, it looks like wallpaper. I asked my daughter if she ever went there. She told me if they got a little closer to the wall I would have recognised her writing all over she always buys soup, bread and coffee so she gives a full meal and she loves that cafe. She was adopted from Korea as a newborn, she only knows how to be kind and she owns all of our hearts. I am happy knowing she grew up learning about Melbourne, the best parts of it.
Wow what an absolutely fantastic comment. Thank you very much for it. It was rally fascinating to read. It is very interesting to hear about life in red centre. It is so far removed from anywhere I have lived before so to hear your perspective was great. Although it sounds quite scary during El Nino and with the fire storms. I hope it can get better soon and life can go back to relative normality for you.
Melbourne is the only place I have been in Australia and as you mention it is just an amazing place. I loved my trip there. I never knew about the charitable side that you mention but it is very heartwarming to hear and to see people caring for each other like that is such a nice thing to hear.
I'm the same, born and raised in Sydney and now live in regional Victoria, but since my children moved to Melbourne years ago I have developed a real affection for it.
Our dirt is literally older than dirt up the top end.🤣 Two main differences I notice when travelling. Aussies have a totally different concept of how far we're prepared to travel. Most of us would think nothing of driving 400 to 500 km for a long weekend, like, that's nothing to us.
And as someone pointed out earlier, our definition of personal space is completely different, we maintain a fair distance between each other and most will easily wait for the next lift if there's more than a few people in it.
Those are two things that are the complete opposite in Asia. People in my office would literally look at me in shock when I told them I wanted to walk 20 minutes to get lunch never mind travel hundreds of km. And personal space is almost non existent. Trying to get the train in rush hour in Shanghai was like a sport and then when I got on the train there was people pressed against me at all sides.
@@MertAusI literally drove 500km (total) the other day into and out of Perth for a specialist appointment. The city people don't get it, country people, it's a necessity.
Personal Space is a conditioned thing. We do seem to enjoy not rubbing shoulders. That lift comment is so true compared to those old movies where people keep squeezing in. What a horror situation for this Aussie. 🇦🇺👍🏼👏🏼
@@deborahduthie4519 yup, I'm getting out if it's more than say 5 people! Lol
The fact that Australia is so far away from most of the world is one of the facts that I love my country 🇦🇺
My Country
The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded lanes.
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins,
Strong love of grey-blue distance
Brown streams and soft dim skies
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!
A stark white ring-barked forest
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon.
Green tangle of the brushes,
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops
And ferns the warm dark soil.
Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When sick at heart, around us,
We see the cattle die -
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady, soaking rain.
Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the Rainbow Gold,
For flood and fire and famine,
She pays us back threefold -
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.
An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land -
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand -
Though earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.
-- Dorothea Mackellar
Beautiful!!
Thanks, I'm crying ❤️
Thank you very much for this poem. So very generous of you to write it out in full. You’re a gem.🇦🇺👏🏼
Thank you for your sensitivity in this video. Some answers to your questions: We get used to things being spacious. We like large-ish blocks of land, large-ish houses and an above average personal space compared to people in some other areas of the world. Australians usually keep at least a metre between one another in queues and conversations, and people tend not to touch one another much unless they are close friends, and shake hands or just greet strangers. Water conservation has always been a huge part of Aussie life - we have ads about turning off the tap while brushing teeth, our toilets have only a small amount of water in the bowl, and they operate with two flush choices - half (#1s) and full (#2s). We have water restrictions at various times - bans on washing cars at home, on sprinklers watering lawns. New build dwellings have mandatory tanks that collect rainwater. This is then filtered but not treated (clean, but not potable) and then used in toilets and laundries, switching to mains water when the tank water runs out. The continent Australia is the land mass that includes Australia and many islands connected by submerged land, so New Guinea is part of the continent of Australia, but New Zealand is not, because it bridges the Australian and Pacific tectonic plates. For the most part, people from different cultures live very comfortably side by side, but we have pockets of issues - southern Sydney suburbs have two immigrant cultures where there is currrently a lot of tension; Melbourne has one immigrant population where some of the youth are causing gang issues. Australia has been called the 'canary of climate change' - effects showing up here first. Bush fires have always been an issue, but none anywhere near the scale of what is called the Black Summer Fires of July 2019 to March 2020. These resulted from exceptionally high temperatures and years of repeated drought. Across Australia, 18 million hectares burned (an area larger than Portugal); smoke caused 450 deaths, and there were 26 fatalities directly caused by the fires. The estimate from WWF is that more than a billion animals perished. A video worth watching, a compilation of photos taken by photojournalists, shows the human story of the fires. ruclips.net/video/LENuACsejws/видео.html.
Thank you so much for your comment. I really appreciate it and I really learned so much from it. It gives me a far better understanding of Australia to compliment the video itself. Thay is really sad about the forest fires and Australia being the 'canary of climate change', especially with the loss of so many human and animal lives. It breaks my heart.
There is actually snow on Mount Buller in Victoria, right now. Good grief…..it’s summer!!! It also snowed on Boxing Day in Tasmania once. Crazy stuff!!!
It's because of the volcano's that have erupted in previous months. They predicted the countries in the Southern Hemisphere would experience unusual cold weather for this summer.
Wow that is interesting haha. Summertime snow is something I don't think I have even seen in Scotland.
Driving in a motor home up the dry centre, was breathtaking. Hour after hour day after day , hardly seeing anything more than termite mounds and red dirt and bright blue sky. I loved the vast feeling of solitude.
That sounds like an amazing experience. Having only lived in busy Asian cities for the last 10 years, that solitude sounds like absolute bliss to me.
Thanks for your reactions Matt. Thanks for the interest you have in our great country. I see you have reacted to some Aussie songs including "I was only 19", "Help", and "You're the voice". This one is Australia's unofficial national anthem and I have never met anyone that is not moved by it. The Seekers - I Am Australian: Special Farewell Performance (all 5 verses)
Thank you very much and for the suggestion. That song is definitely on my list. I will make a reaction soon. Thanks!!
@@MertAus The song is a potted history of Australia. Would you like an explanation of what the lyrics mean before you watch, or would you prefer to experience it all new?
Personally , I love the multicultural aspect of Victoria ( Melbourne). My family came from Germany in 1960.
Yeah those multi cultural gangs roaming Melbourne are great
I'm from Qld originally but have been in Melbourne for 25 years. It's a terrific city; more progressive & multicultural than a lot of other places.
Why are women obsessed with diversity lmao?
That was a really good presentation.
On population, First World countries generally have negative population growth through births and deaths. Australia is no exception. Australia uses migration to increase its population steadily, with the top 5 countries of origin being UK, China, India, Philippines, and New Zealand.
Too rapid population growth through migration could lead to all sorts of instability.
Edit: yes multiculturalism works very well on the whole.
That is true. It seems like Australia is very adept at using migration to increase it's population. It does seem like Australia is much better at the integration side of things for the migrants who come to Australia compared to UK.
It doesn't feel 'empty' in the larger capital cities - especially at rush hour, lol! That said, if you travel a couple of hours from any big population centre and into what we call 'the bush', or even further into the outback, it feels wonderfully spacious, like you can actually breathe. I love our wide open skies 🥰
I'm 7th generation Australian and I'll say it feels uncrowded, in Perth anyway. No population pressures. I've driven across the Nullarbor three times and out there, you crest a rise and you can see forever, no people, that's a great feeling.
I've also travelled through Java and wow, everywhere you look, you see people!
But with air travel and reliable cars, I enjoy the sense of spaciousness. Wouldn't swap it.
It’s an ancient land. It’s all on one tectonic plate, so no new upthrust zones creating mountains. Uluṟu is actually a sedimentary rock. Everything around it eroded away over millennia.
we are currently in the la nina - which is why we have had the floods
And why perth gets very little rain and very hot summers
Yeah some people have mentioned that and it sounds very scary. I never knew anything about it but thanks for letting me know. I am going to do some reading on it now.
I’m born and bred in Australia. I haven’t done much travelling but there’s no need to… I already live in the best country in the world! 🙏🏼❤️
In my experience legal immigration isn’t a big issue in australia. Probably because so many people are either recent immigrants themselves or descended from comparatively recent immigrants. Neither my mother or father, for instance, were born in australia. I’m 34 and my brother, sister and I were the first generation of our family to be born here.
Also, whilst there is definitely an Australian “state of mind” or “attitude” there isn’t a really deep Australian culture that’s independent of the origin nations of its people - with the exception of indigenous Australians obviously. Like there isn’t Australian cuisine - but we all grow up here eating Italian, Greek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Indian, middle eastern food all the time and that’s entirely normal.
Basically, I think for the most part we grow up with a sense that cultural differences aren’t strange or confusing but rather just part of the tapestry of the country.
I really like that. There are other countries that are diverse but Australia just seems to do it best. It seems like people are happy to celebrate their heritage but also just as proud to be Australian. I think that is something that can sometimes be missing with a lot of people in the US or UK.
A former Australian Prime Minister (Paul Keating) said Australia was located at the arse end of the world. Probably right; apart from flying to NZ, we are a long, long haul flight to our nearest neighbour.
When I was young we had extreme water restrictions, from the time I was 5 years old (in the year 2000) to about the time I was 17 years old we weren’t even allowed to water our gardens or grass on our property, we were told to only take showers that didn’t exceed 4 minutes and even had timers in our showers (we also kept buckets in our showers to save some water to use it later). I remember around the time that I was 12 there was so much rain that the football field at my school flooded and all the children lost their minds (I had never seen so much rain/ water in my life so you can imagine how confused /excited I was), even the teachers ran outside to play in the water that the ground couldn’t take in.
Even now when it rains my family and I are excited, we are some of the lucky people in Australia, we live in the south east that receives much more rain than other places in Australia.
Even if we don’t receive much rain I still feel lucky to be a part of our lucky country.
Having been born in Brisbane -now living an hour from Melbourne, I have always felt blessed to have been born as an indigenous Australian & living in this paradise on earth.
Naturally, any doco on Australia generalises & exaggerates.
It is much better here than that documentary suggests. We can adapt to anything really. I personally collect all rainwater in our HUGE water tank - enough for 5 years for us, keeping our small acreage on a plateau of The Great Dividing Range, vibrant & green, for our horses & for fighting bushfires. It is a charmed life.
I've spent time in the dry outback, the lush tropics, coral reefs, sandy islands, beaches, rainforests & stunning multicultural cities.
Come to live here for a couple of months or years & you'll not want to leave...besides, we need your taxes!
xx Linda
I live in Adelaide, the state is bigger than the whole of the UK but with a population of 1.4M people, I guess we are just use to the population density, it's kinda nice!
I was actually disappointed to hear we produce so many almonds. Not only are they the most bland and boring tasting nut, they require about 12 liters of water to produce 1 nut. California is also experiencing this.
You may understand this stance describing Australia by Dorothy MacKellar "I love a sunburnt country/A land of sweeping plains,/Of ragged mountain ranges,/Of droughts and flooding rains." Immigration: Australian's are now one of the most welcoming people's on earth. Live and let live is mainly our mantra. Thanks for the Labor government's policy change in the early 1970's. Laid back and friendly is how most people find us and it equates to what it is to live here or be an Australian
We live near the coastline because that's where
the soil and rain are- suitable for agrarian work. Also we like the beaches. Cheers :)
They're called cattle stations, not ranches.
A lot of weird pronunciation too.
Managing our water is a huge problem in Australia, since we generally get little rainfall in a lot of the country (the last couple of years being an exception). A lot of Aussies in suburban and country areas have their own rain tanks on their properties and the Murray Darling River system is in a very great deal of trouble. Thanks for your interest in our beautiful country.
G'day, after just watching your reaction to this ,and the peice on the Murray darling basin ..check out Today's Murray River , Major flooding, thousands of people displaced. Approaching Historic Record floods... Hope all in the river areas get the support they need . Check Mannum township.
I live in one of those “ uninhabited” places, it’s amazing. There is around 860 people in my town but I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. It feels like you have the world to yourself but driving to get something like pizza takes an hour. My town spans an area larger than Wales. Cows & sheep far outweigh the human population. I live on the back side of the Great Dividing range where our highest mountain is. If I drive an hour or 2 west from here it’s desert but where I am is green rolling hills and mountains where it snows in winter. Also he forgot to mention our capital city Canberra and the multitude of decently populated regional cities like Wagga, Goulburn, Newcastle & Port Macquarie.
3:29 I visit the uk a few times a year - australia feels very busy until you spend a few days in London 😂😂
I'm more than happy living with the other 15% that don't live 50k from the coast : )
I live in mid North NSW and for us we are feeling climate change. We have gone from the worst drought in recorded history to 9 floods (flooding into people's homes) in the last 12 months. It's when talking to the old farmers who say themselves something is not right with the weather. These extremes have had huge impacts economically and mentally. People are moving away especially professionals like health care worker and teachers as well as those looking for work else where.
That is really sad to hear. I hope something can be done to reverse or slow the current climate change. Reading the comments it seems like Australia is really being hit hard by it. I hope everything gets better for you.
And the state of Tasmania is effectively an extension of the Great Dividing Range - there just happens to have been a very low plain that flooded when sea levels rose all those millennia ago (Bass Strait)
We get seasons here too. They’re a bit mixed up at the moment but they’ll come right after too long.🇦🇺👏🏼
Living in Melbourne it feels like living in any other city tbh. However when you go camping or go on a roadtrip you realise pretty quickly that the land between cities is very sparsely populated. Victoria is a bit of an exception as the land is much more fertile and the small towns are more economically viable.
Only difference about Victoria compared to other states is we have a Dictator running the state
When I visited Melbourne we actually attended a wedding a couple of hours away from the city and we hired a car to drive there. It was a really beautiful drive and was nice to see outside of the city also. Would love to experience camping there sometime
Talk about our climate and rainfall is totally skewed lately (January 2023). Floods all over the SE and east. Worst floods ever in the top of WA. It'll take years to rebuild infrastructure and roads, IF we get the chance.
Another point, don't assume that the interior is empty. People live there, just not many. Many people love it.
These videos concentrate on big cities as the only place to be. Probably due to this American video perspective where everyone thinks you have to live in big cities. In reality the other areas of Australia are probably the most beautiful and natural that you will find anywhere. I did a one year trip around Australia and I prefer the sensational areas of Australia's less populated areas and heritage listed locations than any cities in Australia. Yes they are remote and less populated areas but are absolutely beautiful and wonderful. A city is a city and they are all the same and people are fascinated by buildings, restaurants and nightlife. Those who have spent time in remote Australian locations will know where I'm coming from. There more to life than cities and Australia has locations that you fall in love with. Diverse, rugged, waterfalls, rivers, stunning landscapes, tropical, arid, snow covered (Australia gets more annual snow than the Swiss alps) and locations that have been formed over millions of years. It has the best that the world has to offer.
Wow that sounds fantastic. Doing a 1 year trip around Australia sounds like an amazing experience and I am sure you seen so many beautiful sights. I would love to do something like that one day.
MSTV, fun fact: Australia has more yearly snowfall than Switzerland, due to precipitation and that Switzerland is landlocked.
I live about 200ks inland on The Great Dividing Range at about 1000m above sea level. Compared to most of Australia we have a European climate although warmer. I live in a small town which is quite and has plenty of space. It's pretty bloody good up here - the air is fresh and its one of the safest places on the planet. I fail to understand why most Australians prefer to be cooped up in noisy, filthy, crowded and overpriced cities.
In the 90's I was on my own running a 74000 hectare sheep property. The closest person lived 28km's away and I could go up to a month not seeing another person, or even speaking to another human. I was 134km's from the nearest town on dead straight dirt roads, had to rely on tank water for the entire property as well as two 5000l diesel tanks and one 5000l petrol tank with my own private virtual petrol station. I once had to radio (no phone out there) for a fuel run just to get into town at the end of the month. Baked in summer at a constant 40°+, froze on winter nights and constantly cursed watching any rain loads virtually skirt around the property but loved being out there. Endless land that goes forever, walking out each morning to roos and emus, stepping over the resident king browns and stumpy tails and sitting on the verandah shooting rabbits for the dogs. Gunfire? Ha, who's going to hear that?
Complete freedom, to a point but I had to work hard to have that freedom. Would do it all again if I could.
Sounds like my kind of heaven!
I've lived all over Australia, and I've traveled the whole country a couple of times. Everywhere you go, no matter what road you take, you will see other people. On a trip from Perth to Darwin, you might only see a fuel stop, or another car every few hours, but there are people all over Australia, all the time. Just not many of them. If you take a trip using the inland highways from Brisbane, to Sydney, then to Melbourne, then on to Adelaide, and finally Perth, you will be shocked at how few people live outside the big cities. There are 29 people live in my little town. If I invite all my kids and their families, from their town, to a BBQ at my house, it doubles the size of my town. I see 1 car a day on the road outside my house, it's the farmer next door, who goes everyday to check on his sheep and his chickens.
It's a lovely way to live. Peaceful and quite.
72% arid land, low rainfall desert like conditions. Inhospitable.
No water, no life....
I was born in a small town called Wickham in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
At the time it housed 2,000 people.
It's a town that was created to house all the workers for a mining company.
Western Australia is known for Iron Ore and other minerals.
Wickham was built in the 70's and the workers worked at Cape Lambert.
This is where the giant ships from a lot of countries, come and load up to take Iron Ore to make steel.
All of the houses (Unless you were a government worker) not sure if it's changed, were fitted with air-conditioning and solar hot water systems. The temperature can get up to 50°C +, and the schools were air-conditioning as well.
It was a fantastic place to live, red soil, spinifex, flat land, some hills. But then, the red soil and spinifex, turn into sand dunes and they go for kilometres, the sand is pure white and the ocean is clear as glass.
The houses are built with steel due to the yearly cyclone's, some get up to category 5.
No crocodiles are in the area, surprisingly as it is just below the Kimberley region, there are sharks though.
Great places to see are Point Sampson, Cossack, Roebourne, Karratha, Dampier, Port Headland, Broome and more.
Also look at the Staircase to the moon.
He's american, can't pronounce aboriginal words to save his life. He knows about ranches, we have none of them, we have small and vast cattle stations. We also have industrial use of the river flow, being taken out, by the victorian gozv't permits, so a lot of NSW cannot grow food, for lack of water.
Aus is not as empty as the big-wigs in the south-east would like to think. There are towns right in the middle, and native territories all through the desert. They allowed big companies to use all the water or poison it, then were unhappy to be found out, the locals were suffering, because it wasn't really as empty as they'd so fondly thought. Now they have to negotiate with the locals. In WA they pumped water up from underground basins, for so long the salt that came with it destrayed huge swathes of growing land. A local farmer came up with an invention, to spread clay and stop the erosion of loose soil, eventually helping soil to be healed from excess salt etc. The regular soil is too fragile to cope properly with hooved livestoct. Native animals have no hooves. The poms introduced pigeons, rabbits and foxes, to over-run the place, and so they could hunt when they wanted. Bad idea. We also got their rats and mice from ships, we had our own already The explorers who perished exploring the deserts, didn't take their camels home either, those at least do not destroy the soil. They thrived, went feral, so now we sell them to Arabia.
My country
By Dorothea McKellar
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!
Lovely!!
Aboriginals own more than 50% of the land in Australia yet 95% choose to live in cities as part of society, just something not many people are aware of.
Melbourne is very multicultural. I think for the most part people live happily together here. Not to say there aren't some racists, every country is going to have those. For the most part we accept people who can take a joke, who are not stuck up, those tend to be the top yard sticks rather than skin colour. We are a country of immigrants probably more so than any other place.
What is it? Lack of water. Interesting to see the reasons why the interior misses out on the rain. And distance. So the huge stations (ranches) out there are huge because its so barren it takes a lot of space and sparse vegetation to sustain any stock. There are underground water aquifers and they are tapped for water bores for stock and people. But its costly to find a bore site, drill down tap the aquifer build the dam and install pump and troughs or whatever is best. Even then, its not like crystal clear mineral springs, the water can come out boiling hot or sulpherous or m8neral laden. So that has to be managed as well. And the stations are isolated. Hundreds of miles from anywhere. So to get the cattle to market theyre loaded on to road trains t- massive trucks with sometimes up to 4 x 2 level stock trailers check out vids on Australian trucks and road trains) for a gruelling trip on unpaved roads to the nearest saleyard. Not easy. Expensive. Not for every one. But some people wouldnt change it for quids. So populating central Australia,? Probably wont happen.
Plenty of damn rain these last 2 years thanks to La Nina...We are a land of flooding rains at times & drought....But in Sydney we have good weather most of the year. Well personally I couldn't imagine living anywhere else in the world & I don't think I am being biased....I don't know about climate change, regardless we need to clean the planet. In 1908 an Australian poet wrote this:
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of drought and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me! etc.
So over 100 years ago, we had scorching sun & flooding rains...climate change may or may not be true, but regardless, we must to do more to lessen our carbon footprint....
Our population grows because we allow around 250k immigrants per year. We don’t want to grow too quickly because we wouldn’t have the infrastructure. We grow at a maintainable rate so as not to overstretch resources.
I remember being in Scotland (pre smartphones) and planning to go to Pitlochry which was about two inches away on the map. In Australia, this can mean a 4-6 hour drive so we set off at the crack of dawn and were there by 8am.
My descendants migrated to Australia in the late 1800s from Scotland (and England, Malta and Wales; got mixed up once they got there). My great-grandfather was an Adam, descendent of the architect Adam clan. His daughter, my grandmother, broke the Adam name, at least in that branch.
That was a great video.
Thank you.
“Kind of scary” … yep!
I hope one day Australia actaully fixes itself with geography and other things like rain cause it makes me sad
In the 1960s, the population was around 10 mil. So in 60 years, the population has increased by 2.5 times, that's not constant.
Interesting to note that Australia is also a very young country, we haven't had hundreds of years of pastoralism and pre-industrial revolution devolpment, so of course our cities will be the densest parts.
That 50,000 years number could be off by over 100,000 years also.
Hi I’ve lived in Alice Springs in the middle 🎉 it’s a challenging town. High Indigenous population and alcohol And domestic violence is high which is very sad . It’s cold
in Winter as it’s desert country . Driving from
North to South very deserted and empty - long roads with little variety in flora. Only have SOS on your phones. There are a lot of camels in the centre and there is an annual
Camel race which is hilarious . The Todd River is often dry and there is a festival in the river bed each year which again is greatfun. There is a lot of Indig artwork supporting local communities. The school of the air comes Out of Alice and the flying Doctor service. Uluṟu (Ayers Rock) is 9:56 about 5 hour drive and a wonderful monolith to see. The town is supposed to run out of water in about 100 years. We drink bore water there which is not good. Cheers
Thanks Narelle for your comment and letting me know a bit more about life in the centre of Australia. It certainly sounds like a tough place to live actually although a camel race does sound like it could be entertaining.
You only feel a sense of space when you get out into the bush.
Living in Perth, there’s not much out there when you leave town. Mostly, we go to Bali for holidays because it’s cheaper and easier to get to than Melbourne Sydney.
Climate change has brought intensified fires (not according to deniers) and huge floods this year over east. Perth is facing lower rainfall.
I actually have some extended family in Perth and they really enjoy living there. Bali as a cheap holiday destination must be great. I went there a couple of years ago and it was really enjoyable. Will hopefully get back in the next 1-2 years.
Was that really a north American O'Possum shown after the tassie devil?
It doesn't feel empty because it's all I've ever known, It feels norma.
Thanks for shining a light on our beautiful Country/ Continent , I am actually in Brisbane, Queensland, AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺.
Answer= lack of water...Salty soil..Not conducive to plant growth etc
I live just outside of Melbourne city (take 15 minutes from my home to being in the city) my sister lives in a little town on the way to Adelaide 3 and a half hours from my house yet still in Victoria…it’s ridiculous crazy
I Live in Maylands , Adelaide. I can & do take my mini schnauzer for walks around the neighbourhood anytime from 3 - 5 am and on a VERY busy morning , I may get to see , 4 interstate trucks , 10 cars , and maybe , just maybe 2 other people, Oh , did I forget to mention , Maylands is only 5 km's from the centre of Adelaide City. I have no fear of anything happening to me , We dont think , theres someone , lets shoot the mother..
10:44 Mt Solitary
I'm leaving Australia next year for a couple of reasons, but a huge one is the heat. I can't survive another summer here past this current one, which is apparently the hottest in 50 years. And it is a direct result of warmer ocean climate around Aus. I love Australia, but Get me out of here!!
Australia is the Australasian food bowl
I lived in Newman from ‘72 when we immigrated from the UK. I left Newman in 2006 for the big smoke of Perth, 12 hours drive, and it’s just not the same. Loved my time in the Pilbara. Long trips to get anywhere. Lol! But mostly the drives were to National Parks and well worth it. 🥰 Growing up in a mining town created new “families” for us all. The mine, Mt Whaleback, is the largest single open cut iron ore mine in the world. Once that red dirt is in your veins, you’re hooked!! 🥰🥰👍🏼 Thanks for a great reaction and for the immense interest in our beautiful country! Aussie, Aussie, Aussie … Oi, Oi, Oi. 👍🏼👍🏼😁😁🇦🇺🇦🇺
G'day Mate , I am one of the 3% as I live in the outback on the western downs in Queensland Australia , I live on my farm my closest neighbour is over 1 mile away the closest town is a hour and a half drive at 100 KPH / 60 MPH , I live 100% off grid like most farms out here , I live 10 hours drive from the east coast of Queensland the temperature here in the winter time it can get as low as -4°c / 28°f and in the summer the temp will get to 45°c / 115°f , I live by myself out here may see another person once or twice a month , I go into town once a month for supply's for the farm , I do have a roadhouse 20 Ks / 12 Miles away if I need fuel for the tractor and fencing supplies and other bits that the farm my need , I run meat Goats on my farm I have a Kelpie cattle dog that gives me a hand with the Goats , it's a good life , I get mail post twice a week satellite internet and HF radio if I need the Royal Flying Doctors as it's a hour and a half for a Amblance to get here and 40 minutes for the flying Doctors to get here , don't have to worry about snakes I have the 3 most deadliest snakes on my property but thay don't worry me I just take a wider path around them , I walk around my farm in shorts , singlets and thongs / flip flops as my normal clober I'm 61yo so I'm not a young buck and there always something to do at the moment I am pushing fire brakes in around the property for the summer season that starts next month that's about a week of tractor work and fix some fencing later
Australian population is governed by weather patterns . Main cities are centred on the coast as water is the problem Wet season is about December to March usually run by EL Nino (male system )a hot dry droughts pattern or La NIna (female system )wet heavy rain flooding on the oldest driest civilised continent where our mountains are worn down Those systems emanate from South America across pacific feeding the east coast areas but inside the country is a huge underground aquifer of which some of that water is hot mineralised sulphurous not always drinkable The presenter does waffle on a bit
I live in Melbourne and grew up with lots of Greek and Italian neighbours. It was great as a kid with good parents race was never an issue to any of us. There have been issues initially when the Vietnamese came over after the war. They tended to take over one suburb and live all in one area, same as the south Sudanese population who came recently, they take over areas of Melbourne. While I think most of us are ok with it it has caused problems of areas of Melbourne that are not as diverse as others. The inner suburbs are quite diverse and a great place to live the outer suburbs and lower socioeconomic areas are ok but like anywhere you just need to know your surroundings.
Hi my friend>>It is a beautiful thing to feel at one with the human creation...More mental space as well as Physical space to think,exist..contemplate..look at stars...And so much more..
When you are in the suburbs it's just like anywhere else (the Aussie version of it) but a short drive will usually have you in the bush and sparse people etc. I live in South Australia and so if I want to drive for about 6 hours or so I'm in the outback a few more hours and it's desert.
Climate change is already having effects, long droughts and the ensuing bush fires because of the dryness, then the last three years La Nina, so lots of floods across Queensland, NSW, Victoria and lesser flooding in SA along the Murry River as the flood waters travel down stream. This has meant a rise in food prices.
Our population only grows with immigration during all the covid stuff our population actually fell a little.
We are really still learning about the original Aussies, they suffered badly with colonialism and while there has been some improvements we still have a long road to travel. There is a new theory growing in strength that a large part of the world may have come out of Australia as Australian native (Koori) DNA has been found in the native populations of both North America and South America. Maybe one of the subs here can recommend a good video on our first people, I know you will find them fascinating.
Here's one that looks at their place in a modern context.
Ask us anything: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Link: ruclips.net/video/SHVbVBLlhCM/видео.html
Enjoy your channel mate, cheers.
Thanks for the comment Rob, I really appreciate it. A few people have mentioned the effect climate change is having on Australia and I am ashamed to say I never knew much about it. It sounds like a terrible situation and I just wish the best for Australia. Thanks for the information on the Aboriginal people. It is very interesting and I am definitely going to do some research and learn more about them. Thanks for the link. I will probably make a reaction to that soon actually, Cheers mate!
On climate change - it's resulted in extreme weather, with very big floods and more extreme fires. The fires aren't helped by the vast majority of native tree species requiring fire for propagation, and are naturally very flammable. Every town has a volunteer fire brigade equipt by the state government. I live in the outskirts of Melbourne, in one of the most fire prone areas of the world, and am a member of the local brigade. We're preparing for the summer fire season now, but it's been an extremely wet year, so the season is delayed. We've been deployed to help communities deal with the floods.
Climate change skeptics like to argue the points about increasing floods and fires, but all the modelling predicts them, and the reality on the ground backs up the models.
A couple of bushfire videos:
ruclips.net/video/bD5JHZjZaNI/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/8T_pBZenLi8/видео.html
Yes we are very multicultural, just my family my father was born in Scotland but my mothers family go back to the first fleet. My husbands mother and father were born in Italy.
I know it’s not the point of the video, but the pronunciation of some of the cities, the Pilbara in particular (which is absolutely beautiful btw), is hilarious 😂
YES there's just been a large river fresh water fish kill. From drought and pollution
Australia still has its fair share of racists. But the majority of the people aren’t racist and welcome immigrants to the country
While Australia is considered the dryest of all Continents and apart from the coastal areas where the majority of us live because most of the rest of the country is desert. Infact Australia has enough fresh water to cover the earths land mass to a depth of about 1/2 metre; Check out the 'Great Artesian Basin'
ruclips.net/video/VB4HFHDdzUc/видео.html
Climate change is going to raise temperatures on the east coast in summers to regularly hit 50C or more. Ocean rises will also affect the Australian coastal areas
I was born here in Australia and don't find it feeling empty...probably because that's what I'm used to. I think if I'd ever visited overseas to a normally populated country I'd feel like there were too many towns and cities close together.
I can't understand why we would want to increase the population we can hardly keep this population having power without constant blackouts across the country in summer. And in times of drought we have towns all over the country run out of water and have to truck water in
Exactly!
If we had a 90 million population we would only feed ourselves , if we didn't export food some other hungry countries would come to invade. We all live in areas where the food grows ,we can't keep building on farmland, the cities need to dense up.
When u live in the country it feels pretty empty
Explaining what it's like living in Australia as an immigrant is complex, I'm originally from NZ, so I was accepted without question, but people from more exotic backgrounds can get a hard time from some people.
There's sill racism floating around, it sucks, but at least it's getting better.
21 mins... That was a North American opossum... not one of ours!
We do have some rednecks. So many good people too. A lot of multicultural places too. 😊👍good onya mate
As a Queenslander this video is crab. We are different to another states as the population is not all located in Brisbane. We are the most decentral state.
Have always been a country of droughts and flooding rains
It feels pretty normal to us, but we do have huge separation with other states, to the point we debate the names of some things, I’m from Western Australia and for some reason everyone hates us (well most)
and absolutely we live happily together, but unfortunately there’s still quite a bit of racism
I'm from the bush, one of that crazy 15% who do not live 50km from a beach, for us out here yes it feels very spacious but normal. To me going to the city of Brisbane feels way overcrowded. No doubt it would feel empty to someone from Tokyo so perspective is everything. For us driving an hour out in the bush is seen as relatively short. Those towns are our neighbors.
Pil as in taking a pill, bara as burra
Pilbara region
Biggest cities are Karratha and Port headland.
The best beaches are in Western Australia, it also has Ningaloo Reef, it's straight off the Coast in some places you walk 4 steps into the water and your at the reef.
Bring a lot of sunscreen, hats and covers as the beaches are pure white and the water is so clear, that you can see your feet and all fish.
Is extremely easy, even for locals, to get massive sunburn and heatstroke.
The combination of white sand and clear water, is sun reflection. Burn from above and from the ground.
Ngurrangga Tours in the Pilbara is a great and local company.
Carry plenty of water and if you break down do not leave your vehicle.
More people go missing walking off, it is easier to find your vehicle than a person.
The Tablelands in North Queensland supply a good portion of the world's sugar and Bananas.
It's why when there are cyclones in the area, the world's sugar and banana prices are affected.
I just googled the places you mentioned and they are unbelievably stunning. Thank you so much for letting me know about them. Australia really has some unbelievably beautiful places
I once drove just over 1000 km through the Pilbara in WA and only passed two other cars, waved to both of them!
After this, re-listen to the words of I am Australian by the seekers. It'll make more sense.
When I lived in my Motorhome I once went 8 weeks in the centre without speaking to another human being lol was great
That does sound great haha.
If you live in the cities it feels crowded, if you live rural or outback if feels like you’re almost alone :)
Feeling like I'm almost alone actually sounds good to me haha
@@MertAus I live alone now and only see other people if I have to buy medicine or food once every two weeks lol
Ummm…..Hobart? Tasmanians do exist! This account ignores the large areas of arable and pastoral land in NSW, in Victoria and eastern Queensland, these are not shown in these maps. Large wheat, cotton, rice, rapeseed, barley fields, and sheep and cattle properties. There are lots of towns in these regions. However the majority of the country is a vast desert, with only vast cattle ranches and mines (mostly aluminium, iron, gold, copper and uranium).
Immigration and multi-culturalism is working fine in Australia. Many people I meet on a daily basis have come from all over the world and feel accepted and happy to be here. We used to be egalitarian and I still think we are. Tolerant of other cultures and religions.