Brit Reacts To 15 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT AUSTRALIA!
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- Brit Reacts To 15 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT AUSTRALIA!
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Bob Hawke wasn’t Australia’s longest serving Prime Minster. He served almost eight years. John Howard served almost 12 years, and Sir Robert Menzies 18 years.
I think that most Australians live within 100 klms of the coast👍
Yeah they served a corporation run by the UN. 'The Commonwealth of Australia Corporation' listed on the stock exchange and they were CEO's. They didn't serve the people of Australia. They were Freemason filth = cabal/illuminati/Khazarian Mafia/Zionist Jews/Nazis.
Correct ! Menzies is the longest serving Prime Minister 18 yrs Plus 165 days Second was John Howard at 11 years and Bob Hawke clocked up 8 years.
Check your facts
Correct - that was a BAD slip up!
John Howard served longer than he deserved
When I came to Australia in 1975, it was a 38 hour journey. Best place in the world in my humble opinion. I consider myself a very lucky man to be a part of such a wonderful experience of living as a citizen.
Canberra is the capital because Melbourne and Sydney wanted to be the capital but as a compromise the capital was placed halfway between the two cities
And destroying a perfectly good paddock in the process.
Yeah Melbourne had the money and Sydney had the history
Not quite right - the location was to be land ceded from NSW and at least 100 miles from Sydney.; it is considerably closer to Sydney than to Melbourne. Being located well inland from the coast and at an elevation of nearly 600m, the climate is very warm in summer, and decidedly chilly in winter
Same reason Washington in the District of Columbia is the capital instead of New York or Los Angeles.
My memory is that California and Los Angeles did not become part of the US until 60 or more years after the Revolution.@@daciousinoz6028
When people mention how empty and deserty Australia is, it sometime seems like we must cling to life in a desert. In fact, 6.55% of Australia is areable land, which is an area of 499,000 sq km, bigger than many countries. We not only produce enough food for own needs but we also supply foods like grains and meats to many other countries.
Only an American would say 100,000 metres instead of 100 kilometres 🤣Yes, filling the interior with solar panels would be a good idea but the limiting factor is then having to build power lines over thousands of kilometres to transmit the power to where it is needed. Farmers have found that sheep and solar farms work well together. The sheep can eat the grass to keep it short and the panels can provide shade for the sheep in the heat of summer. Even in times of drought, condensation that forms on the panels at night drips onto the ground causing strips of grass to grow.
No solar panels are not a good idea. You will know later when the new world starts up and we all get free energy.
Central Australia is a desert ergo how could the panels be kept clean from heaps of dust covering the solar panels when there’s no water to wash them clean ? It doesn’t sound viable to me
😂 100,000 metres🤣 ugh, really?!
As for major cities on the coast... could it be that to import/export you need to use Shipping 🤔
Doh! Yeah💡
Yeah - great ides when you have 100 sheep. Try doing solar when you've got 5000 - 10 000! It's bullshit!
the main reason is most of our politicians are owned by the fossil fuel industry .
The Greeks came because they were hard working, specialising in fruit and veg and building. We love them. X
But also because they were mostly white.
Particularly Con Dikaletus. 😎
One of the best allies the Aussies had .
Yes we do and their food😋
The fun part about the plane trip is if you're coming to Sydney (say) from the UK. You see that you are finally over Australia on the in-flight map and think "WooHoo! Home!" .... and then realise you have about 8 ours still to go before you land.
Yep!! Isn’t that the truth. 🙃
that’s when you realise just how big Australia is.
whoops! "hours"
There’s nothing better than listening to a non Aussie explain Australia
…and get it wrong 😂
I squime when foreigners try and say "G-day mate".@@miniveedub
Well nothing funnier anyway.
p.s. Long distance travel is like childbirth. Once it's over you forget about it and you're even prepared to do it again. Australians are great travellers, and **nowhere** is close to us. I've been to Europe 10 times and the U.S. 5 times on hols, not to mention lots of Asia and the Pacific. Long haul flights aren't much fun but don't let that deter you!
Yep, I can confirm that Box Jellyfish definitely kill more people than our Drop Bear species she included lol .... OMG, give me a break!
Go into the water without a guide?
You mean not without your pantihose.
Box jellyfish are only a problem in summer in far north Queensland.
As one of the apparently invisable non-existent 4M people who live in rural and regional areas I'd like to point out that we produce 100% of Australia's meat, grain, milk, fruit, vegetables and other agricultural produucts. - Coles and Woolies don't grow the stuff!
Spot on! The way some of these narrators describe the country they make it sound like a giant sandpit surrounded by people clinging to the coastline. Anyone who has travelled throughout this country knows that’s just not true.
Great to see Drop Bears back on the Dangerous Animals List! Yep, turn the middle of Australia into a massive solar farm - you little beauty! Um, any idea of the logistics involved with that and I guess we could always rely on the massive storms to clean the panels? And Errol Flynn from Tasmaina should be on the actor list.
Hi Kabir. I'm one of the "not many people" who live in Canberra.
The reason there aren't many people (there are about 400,000) is that there was no city at all until about 100 years ago (the "city" was proclaimed in 1913, but the population was zero. the population was big enough to support the functions of Parliament by 1927, so that was when Parliament moved here).
When the six colonies voted to federate in 1901 to create one country, there were two obvious candidates: Sydney and Melbourne. Their two respective colonies (New South Wales and Victoria) just could not agree on letting "the other one" become the permanent capital, so all six colonies agreed on the following: One) a NEW permanent capital would be in New South Wales, but far enough away from Sydney so that Sydney could not exert undue economic influence, and Two) Melbourne would get to be the capital until the permanent one was built. SO: Melbourne was the capital city until 1927, when The Duke of York (aka King George VI, aka the Queen's dad) opened what is now Old Parliament House in Canberra.
It was a slow start (my parents met in Canberra in 1937, when the population - and remember this was the capital city of an independent country - was 9,000).
World War II slowed things down a LOT, and it wasn't until the 1950's that serious efforts were made to move most of the bureaucracy and the "National Institutions" (National Library, High Court etc) up from Melbourne, where some of them had been since 1901. Most of Canberra is the product of the 50s, 60s and 70s.
The story is a typical Australian compromise (our Constitution took years for the colonies to haggle their way to becoming states in an "indissoluble Commonwealth"; they could not easily agree on ANYTHING). The fun part is that nowadays, instead of Sydney and Melbourne hating each other, now the whole country hates Canberra 🙂
UPDATE: Oh bugger, lots of other people below have already said basically the same thing, with different details. Oh well, when I take that amount of trouble over a comment I refuse to delete it, dammit!
If its any consolation, yours was the first i saw and only one i read.
@@yzskick Thanks, it is actually a huge consolation! I appreciate your taking the trouble to tell me 🙂
There is a minimum of 250 indigenous language groups and some linguists say up to 360. On top of that there are about 800 different dialects.
Kabir, Australia is an island almost the size of the US, so we are surrounded by ocean. The only things stopping us from having 100% beach, are the dense bushlands, the inaccessible cliffs and rugged terrain that prevents beach access.
Bob Hawke is definitely NOT our longest serving PM! Where on earth did she find that statistic, TikTok?
Canberra and the Australian Capital Territory were created because of the arguments between Melbourne Sydney and Brisbane over which one of those cities should become the capital city of Australia. At the time, they all had similar populations, but none of them were very friendly to each other. Because none of them trusted each other, it was decided to create an entirely new city and territory just for the purpose of governing the country. The housing prices do differ massively in each city and the most expensive cities to live in are Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Personally, I live in Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia and it is relatively cheap compared to other cities. Currently, I rent a 3 bedroom house on a quarter acre block 2 minutes walk from a large shopping centre and public transport hub for $250 per week. The public transport system in Adelaide is so good that you can easily get around the city without a car and in most cases it is quicker and cheaper to use public transport. To properly understand Australia and the Australian people, you must think of each state as being different countries because they all have different sayings, traditions and idiosyncrasies. Because of the vast distances and low population, each capital city has developed in isolation. Most Australian states are bigger than the majority of European countries and each state was originally settled by people from different ethnic backgrounds. The best thing about Australia for me is the variety of different foods that are available because of the variety of different people from different countries that now call Australia home.
@michaelrogers2080 Even Adelaide argued that it should be the capital of Australia because it was the only Australian capital city that was planned out from the start and was founded by free settlers rather than convicts. It was because of the arguing that it was decided to create Canberra and yes the arguments are fully documented and include newspaper headlines stating each cities clames as to why they should be the capital.
@michaelrogers2080 Brisbane wasn't, at least seriously, as far as I am aware. But there was a lot of argument over where the capital would be, Sydney - the senior city, or Melbourne - the slightly bigger/richer (because gold) city. Neither Sydney nor Melbourne would agree to the other being declared the capital. The compromise was that parliament would sit in Melbourne until a dedicated city was built, but that the site would be in New South Wales and at least 100 miles away from Sydney. Nor could it be located on the coast (source - National Museum of Australia) BTW New South Wales and New Zealand (because they could join the Australian Federation) were never members of the Federal Council of Australasia, and South Australia only for a short period. The Council was dissolved in 1889 and was generally considered a failure, although it did pave the way for the Australasian Federal Conventions.
Never heard of #14 about the weird laws. I've never seen a taxi with a hay bale in the boot and loud pub music is a tradition in Melbourne particularly on the weekends. They may have been on the books in past but are definitely not enforced now. ... Oh, I wear my pink hotpants on a sunday just to be a radical. 😂
Funny that she thinks those laws are strange when in Alabama it’s against the law to carry any ice cream cone in your back pocket amongst other weird and wacky US laws. Every country has them.
No, the railway line is not 478 kms long, add the zero.
Bob drank the beer in 12 seconds.... 8:05
Perth has the 2nd highest population of Brits outside the UK 😉
It wasn't explained well. There's a stretch of railway that is dead straight for 478 kms. It's overall distance is 4,352 kms.
Did she seriously include drop bears in her list of dangerous animals?
Big killer mate.
Being a born and Aussie bred lad for 50 years young, I had a lot of details for each number but have decided to summerise instead. Firstly, why at the start reference 'big knife and big digeridoo' that's a Croc Dundee thing, and there are big digeridoos. Secondly, what's the narrators obsession with metres, get with the Kilometres, there's a reason for Kilo. Bob Hawke, what a legend! (Kabir, yt bob hawke press joke lol). Oh wow, animals that only exist in Australia must be the rarest on Earth, what a flog! There's a reason a lot of Aussies will take this sort of '15 things you didn't know about Australia' with a grain of salt; firstly it's done by a yank that's probably never visited and secondly it's just click bait crap! The laws she mentioned are myths and old wives tales, get a grip narrator. Great reaction to a pathetic list.
There are solar farms in the open spaces. Problems: huge cost in maintaining infrastructure, including panels and wires to link to power grid. No nearby workforce. Damaged by hailstones. Dust storms & sand can cover panels. How to clean them regularly without wasting water. Disposal of damaged solar panel components does not currently include recycling so they end up in landfill, leaching toxins into soil and groundwater.
The Great Northern Brewing Co Super Crisp Lager is the No1 selling beer her in Aus. It is a 3.5% alc Volume (7 proof). It is 0.9 Standard drinks
Kabir, when you get on the plane for Aus, make sure you are extremely tired so you sleep most of the way. Some flights have a stopover in Dubai, KL or Singapore to break the monotony.
Most of us live within 100klm from the coast, that doesn't mean outside that is unlivable. Greater Sydney taking in the suburbs is a lot bigger than 25klm . It goes from Syd centre west 60 klm, 40klm north and 60klm south. This is all serviced by electric trains and busses. There is still plenty of space but we are encroaching on quality farmland if we don't tear up more native bushland. Sydney keeps expanding west and south west. As for the point system that changes constantly, right now we need builders, Drs, Nurses to name a few. This changes as the needs change. But once you're in you will pretty much get perm residency.
There's a little over half a million people living in the ACT in which Canberra is the capital. Melbourne was originally the country's capital. Then rivalry with Sydney, and in the end a purpose built city with some land around it, was constructed somewhat between Melbourne and Sydney.
@michaelrogers2080 Sydney did have the Garden Palace, but it burnt down on 22 September 1882.
Distance from the coast - the figure given is an average, not what the limit is everywhere. Down much of the east of the country, farming country extends 300 km inland, more in many places
I have lived in Australia all my life and this is the first time I’ve ever heard any of those weird laws!
Melbourne has the 3rd largest Greek speaking population on the planet after Athens and Thessaloniki. There was a large migrant intake from Italy and Greece after WW2. If you don't have any Greek friends in Melbourne then you probably don't know anyone. 😀
Melbourne's population is now officially 130,000 more than Sydney's due to expansion of the metropolitan area "swallowing up" previously external places like Melton. After WW2 Australia encouraged (and funded) immigration from southern Europe, including Poms, Italians and Greeks. It was believed that we needed to increase our population as a strategic defence initiative.
Plus Greece was collapsing after WWII They migrated in droves to Melbourne, Australia.
HUGE ERROR ALERT - Bob Hawke was NOT the longest serving PM, not even the 2nd longest. The longest was Sir Robert Menzies 18 yrs 163 days followed bu John Howard 11 yrs 267 days and the Bob Hawke 8 yrs 284 days. If they can't get these basic facts right, how can anything else they say be trusted.
Xactly
Why isn't Sydney the capitol? Sydney-Melbourne rivalry, a compromise had to happen.
Wasn't Canberra designed by an American?
It certainly was.
@@gregmccallum3124 You appear to be replying to me and I wonder why? Whilst I am fully aware that Walter Burley Griffin designed Canberra that doesn't seem to have any significance to the question, I am just trying to clear up any confusion. If you were just adding extra information that's fine but I still don't see why it was added to my reply?
@michaelrogers2080 Yes we all know that, what has that got to do with my comment?
Bob Hawke's beer record was a "Yard Glass".
It is a skill to even drink it without wearing it.
You will understand if you see one.
And he did it in England while studying at Oxford.
We have a huge shortage of sane, common sense politicians.
Your government has abandoned Julian Assange.
They have.
Australia is highly conservative.
By accepting the AUKUS alliance Australia has agreed to transfer the greatest wealth ever in its history.
Australia has literally paid for increased servitude to American interests.
Assange isn't the first Australian to be abandoned to curry favour with the Americans, simply the most famous.
Australians have a colonised mentality.
Not an independent thought to be found.
Who's sane and of common sense when they aspire to become a politician? Well, for the paycheck I suppose.
We have no sane politicians.they all suck up to Klaus Schwab.
True, but not quite in the US league - they take insane politicians to a whole new level, especially on the far right...
Great channel Kabir!
Mel Gibson isn't from Australia, but New York, USA. His family moved to Australia because his father needed a job and he wanted to save his sons from getting drafted into the Vietnam War.
Although Nicole Kidman's parents are from Australia, she was born in Hawaii because her parents were studying in the US when she was born.
You may be interested to know about Mel Gibson’s paternal grandmother, Eva Mylott. Wikipedia has a page about her plus a photo. Eva was a protégé of Dame Nellie Melba who took her to London and she became a successful opera singer. She grew up on the far south coast of NSW (Tuross Head near Moruya). Her Mylott relatives owned the local bakery in Moruya and the Gibson family used to come for holidays. Mel’s dad was Hutton Gibson and Eva Mylott was his mother. He was an Australian citizen by descent which is why he was able to move to Australia with his family. If you ever watched quiz shows in the 1970s onwards you’d remember Hutton Gibson as possibly the most successful quiz champion at that time. Happy reading!
Just a quick tip if you’re coming to Australia…Do yourself a favor and have a stopover for a couple of days ie: Singapore.
I have family and friends in the UK, Europe and the US…that I visit regularly.
I will never do 24 hour plus straight flights anymore!
Because of the rivalry between Sydney and Melbourne they made a capital in between the two cities
G'day Mate! OK back before Federation those in Sydney wouldn't accept Melbourne as the capitol and vice-versa so the compromise was to locate a new site more than 200 miles from Sydney...Hence Canberra...According to "Tourism Australia" there are over 11,000 beaches in Australia with the longest being The Coorong at 194 kms long... Bob Hawke is the third longest serving Prime Minister after Sir Robert Menzies and John Howard...BTW Bob Hawke does hold the record for drinking a yard of ale in 11 seconds not 12! Cheers!
the city beachs are crowded..east coast is good..lots of gorgeous little towns
Box jellyfish is only a problem up around the mid to north Queensland coast. Signs will be in place advising you to be cautious in most tourist areas up there. They used to say that you could wear pantyhose to protect yourself or a wet suit, not sure if this is still the case that these items offer protection. Small population for a big country: I think taking all things into consideration, our governments do a tremendous job in providing, infrastructure, services etc considering our small population = less taxes etc.
At the time of Australia's federation New South Wales had more people Melbourne was a booming state with a gold rush, they argued about where the capital should be, the answer was Canberra in half way between Sydney and Melbourne
Sydney & Melbourne both wanted to be the Capital City.
Sydney is much older than upstart Melbourne but as it started as a penal colony, the Melbournites wanted to be the top, having been settled later by free settlers and had a boom from the Gold Rush at nearby Ballara & Bendigo.
Government decided to create new Capital Territory about midway between Sydney and Melbourne but gave Melbourne first go at being the official Capital city, until Canberra was built in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) on land cut out of NSW.
Get up and walk around when you’re on a plane, also keep yourself amused and entertained as well as rested by napping with ear plugs in. You may need to keep swallowing to pop your ear pressure, but that’s OK. When I flew to Frankfurt from Sydney, it took 26 hours including a stop in Singapore where we were allowed to get off the plane and stay within the airport, with shops and eateries open at 5am to cater for us!
To come here for a job. We need plenty of people for different areas. We need brick layers, construction, mechanics, doctors, nurses, teachers, police, firemen aswell. I think just before xmas in WA we enrolled like 120 new police officers from a different country. Currently we majorly need teachers, for schools and to teach trades. Half of the building industry has been at a stand still for the last 3 years, no staff, timber price has tripled. Plenty of home building companies have collapsed, leaving alot of houses and apartments in standstill for years. We have fire engines laying dormant as noone to service and fix them. People enrolling to teach or were teachers has dropped by a 3rd. All you need to do is contact the Australian Embassy in your own country and theyll tell ya what we need, whether you'd qualify.
The best quirky places to visit is away from the coast, go inland. The coast is like America with Australian accent, so it’s best to travel inland.
I live in new south Wales. and I only drink coopers original pale ale
Australia has 8,222 islands within its maritime borders.
Much of central Australia has cattle & sheep stations larger than many European countries. So no, it will not be covered with solar panels.
Give me a heads up when you visit Gold Coast, Queensland 😀 Happy to show you around.
Australia is a CONTINENT rather than just an ISLAND.
There are some HUGE solar installations in country areas in Australia. generating enough solar power to supply whole communities. Commercial buildings too are often built with solar panels.
Plus many suburban homes have solar panels on the roof. This can result in electricity fully paid for via the solar panels. Or even a CREDIT balance if the home owner generates more electricity from their solar panels than they actually use.
Australia seeks police, nurses, yes doctors. but many people with trades skills are in short supply too.
And yes the creator of the youtube effort is incorrect - because Robert Menzies was the longest serving Prime Minister.
canberra is halfway between sydney and melbourne, it solved the issue of which one should be capital....neither just meet halfway in a town with a name that means tits in aboriginal.
The weird laws bit: One of our laws that still exist today, from a time long past. It is that if you ride a horse to the pub & if there is nowhere to hitch up the horse. By law the publican, owner or manager has to hold your horse, until you ready to leave. If you get pulled over by the police on your horse drunken, you can be charged for drinking & driving (tech riding). You can also be charged for drinking & driving on stuff like ride-on lawnmowers, bikes & golf-carts.
Your answer to point nine is sport. Greece and Australia are the only two countries to participate in every single Olympic Games
World War II forced many Europeans to leave, and so Greeks and Italians came here because of the opportunities for them to work here at those things they do best, because our climate is great for wine grapes, olives, citrus and fishing.
After WWII there was a great influx of migrants from Europe to start new lives in Australia. A large amount of Greeks chose to settle in the one place, Melbourne. There were heaps of Italians and others from Europe too, but apart from the British, the main influx came from Greece.
Some of the big properties in the outback of Australia are bigger than many countries in the world, and can be run by as little as 8 people.
There was a big rivalry between Victoria & New South Wales so they compromised by carving out a bit of NSW as the ACT (Australian Capitol Territory} Canberra
It used to be illegal for taxi drivers in Melbourne to drive around without a hay bale in the boot. The law was a throwback to when taxis were horse-drawn and it was a requirement to have food onboard for livestock. They don't carry hay anymore. The pink hot pants thing is completely untrue.
With the railways, what she meant was the longest straight stretch.
Cambera is the capital city of Australia because there has always been a rivalry between Sydney and Melbourne. No one could decide between the 2 cities which would be the Capital. It was also decided that it would be considered more favourable to base the Capital in NSW or Victoria, so they formed a territory and built Cambera.
Please cite the actual laws about pink hot pants, hay carrying taxis and loud music bans. There are music / sound restrictions before 7am -after 10pm Mon-Thurs, 7am - 11pm Friday, 9am - 11pm Sat, 9am - 10pm Sun That seems reasonable enough to me
Another correction:
“Numerous venomous species of jellyfish occur in Australian waters, including the box jellyfish and Irukandji Jellyfish. Box jellyfish are believed to have caused at least 69 deaths since record keeping began in 1883.”
There have been 83 shark attacks in that same period but not all of them were fatal, and some just went missing; 13 fatal funnel web spider bites, and 11 fatal crocodile attacks since 1985, but there have been no deaths in Australia from a confirmed spider bite since 1979, and drop bears are an Aussie joke on tourists, so NOT a legitimate statistic! Her statistics are way off yet again. She needs to stop watching TikTok videos! ROTFL!
I think you will find it is closer to 10 Thousand beaches. If you visit a new beach every day, it will take you about 30 years to visit every beach.
Size wise, as for an example, I live in Brisbane, Queensland my mum lives in a small town in Central Queensland. Driving 100klm ph, it will still take 11hrs to get there, and that is only getting towards the centre of the state
Solar panels are not indestructible. They require regular maintenance and cleaning - especially if they are in harsh exterior conditions. While placing solar farms in the outback may seem like a "no-brainer". The cost of the infrastructure to transmit the power the long distances is prohibitive. There is also no supporting infrastructure for construction crews and maintenance workers including water, food, shelter, etc - these would be on going costs. These are just a few reasons that the interior of Australia isn't covered in solar farms.
Sydney, Melbourne or any other of the state capitals couldn't decide which to be capital because it was thought the chosen city would be favoured ahead of the others in all aspects...so a planned new city was established.
Keep in mind that before federation, each state was essentially a separate country...that's why each state still has strong powers on how things run.
For instance South Australia (when it was still a colony) was the first place women gained the right to vote in 1894, whereas Australia when it federated, South Australian politicians influenced the framing of the Australian constitution to ensure women would not be deprived of their rights.
Because South Australia was to be transitioning from a colony to a state, it lost it's place as the first "country" where women gained the right to vote and stand in federal elections.
Simply put, because each state was autonomous and separate, it was best to create a new capital to remove some bias to certain states.
One big problem with the solar panel idea is that you need to have someone cleaning the panels. Another is that you need to have clean water to do that cleaning with and yet another is that you need to be able to transmit that power to the places it's needed. We've had people suggest copper wires. There are not enough copper deposits in the country to do that, and besides, even if there was, the amount of environmental damage it would do makes it prohibitive. Fibre optics is another suggestion. Again, finding enough silica to make the glass fibres would destroy every beach in Australia, and you still wouldn't have enough. Some have suggested microwave transmission. Microwave transmission has only a very short reach. So, not enough resources to build all the relay stations required. Besides, the amount of power lost upon each retransmission at each relay, would mean you would have very little by the time it got to where it was needed. If you can come up with a more practical idea, let us know. As you can see, we have thought about this a lot!
It's a typical Greenie idea that is complete and utter shite. I was going to say just like all the rest of their brainwaves but you can see there's a major problem with that word as there's need to be a brain in there somewhere to wave. I'm sure that all the people I know who have 5000 to 10 000 sheep would be happy to have somone put up solar panels to shade the. P.S. - how dare you use logic in your comments!😄
The amount of solar panels needed to make it viable would be too expansive to supply to make it work. The cost of installation makes it prohibitive. Transporting enough panels into remote areas would be too expensive. And that is not to mention that putting in solar generation infrastructure takes up huge amounts of land which is invariably habitat for many endangered plants and animals.
Solar is being built but it still has to be built close enough to the power grid...the power grid of the east coast does not join with the Northern Territory or Western Australia...any settlement between has to have its own wind, solar or generator.
There was or is (not sure if it is still happening) a scheme to build huge solar arrays in the Northern Territory and connect it to Singapore by undersea cable so Singapore can lower its emissions.
South Australia is already 70% or more renewables but because it still has gas backup our power prices are linked to world gas prices.
But our state government is heading to 500% renewables within the next few years so we can export power to the eastern states and have plenty unused power to process commercial quantities of hydrogen at new plants in Whyalla
There was a fight between Sydney and Melbourne as to who would be the capital and Canberra was chosen because it was on between.
There was an argument between Sydney and Melbourne so they made the Capital halfway between the two cities although it is closer to Sydney, Canberra and the ACT is surrounded by New South Wales. Canberra is called the Bush Capital. I don't know about hard to get in there are plenty of Pizza drivers from the Subcontinent and Dole Bludgers from all over the world. Sydney is locked by the ocean to the east and the mountains 60 km to the west property is very expensive. Not enough homes are built to cover the needs 4,780 k Sydney to Perth on the train
The bale of hay law was introduced when taxis were carts pulled by horses.
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The other laws are ignored too except for the car key one
The opera house represent the sails of a ship.
With a teaching degree you would have no problem gaining entry to Australia...Victoria for example currently has some 800 teaching positions available
Melbourne was the capital but due to arguments about Sydney wanting to be the capital it was decided to move the capital to Canberra about half way in between.
Bob Hawk was the leader of Australian trade union movement.
Solar is huge in Australia. I get paid by the power company every month for electricity I sell back to the grid 😊
There was a solar farm out near Birdsville (I think) that's been abandoned due to maintenance costs, it doesn't take much wind to stir up the dust out there.
Australia is similar in size to the lower 48 states- excluding Alaska & Hawaii.
Kangaroos and Emus can go backwards. Very rarely do animals live up to their reputation.
Yep, I’ve seen Roos jump backwards
Coopers is the best..home brewed..more alchol in it..Tooheys or two..for the rest..if in Qld 4xxx
Canberra is the capital city of Australia, but also the capital city of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) which is a purpose-built city, designed to house Australia's capital. If that isn't enough to make sense.... at the time of its conception when Australia was formed in 1901, the two main separately-run colonies (of Sydney and Melbourne) were vying for the capital, and it made sense to them, to put the capital somewhere in between. In a foreshadowing of capital planning that is becoming more obvious in our time, governments do not like to be accountable, nor near, the major population centres. Canberra is inland, so cannot be accessed by sea, but also is well-protected against any potential Australian uprising against its British Commonwealth overlords, who can still sack the government here at their will (and have done so twice).
Around the time of Federation (1901) When they were deciding on where the Capital city should be, Sydney was the biggest city but Melbourne was the richest (because of the gold rush in the previous century) So each city had a really good case for being the Capital. So like any good parent dealing with bickering children, the decision was made to give it to neither of them but to build an entirely new city roughly equidistant between them. The city of Canberra was created to be the new nations Capital.
Sydney and Melbourne both wanted to be the capital of Australia, so they picked a point sorted of half way between the two. Neither we're happy do it was a good result
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Just to clear things up regarding Bob Hawke, his reputation is well-known for a "world record" allegedly achieved at Oxford University for a beer skol (scull) of a yard of ale in 11 seconds. The record is widely regarded as having been important to his career and ocker chic image.[26] An 2023 article in the Journal of Australian Studies concluded that Hawke's achievement was "possibly fabricated" and "cultural propaganda" designed to make Hawke appealing to unionised workers and nationalistic middle-class voters.[27] The article contends that "its location and time remain uncertain; there are no known witnesses; the field of competition was exclusive and with no scientific accountability; the record was first published in a beer pamphlet; and Hawke's recollections were unreliable." He was 24 while at Oxford.
Leave your politics out of it.
Most of what he did was an act to portray himself as a battler and friend of the working class. Probably spent more time having lunches with the Big End of town than at RSLs. Never had a proper job in his life. And he also owes me for 13 schooners he borrowed money off me to buy his shout at a convention on the Gold Coast 50 years ago when he'd "left his wallet in his room". Total bludger!
@@aaronbell2955 My politics? Where?
Long story short, Canberra is the capital because Melbourne and Sydney both wanted to be the capital, so they literally agreed to settle in the middle
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Sydney isn't the capital because Victoria declined to join the Federation if it were. Likewise, Melbourne isn't the capital because New South Wales declined to join if it were. Canberra was established as a compromise, enshrined as §125 of the Australian Constitution.
I think there are more like 11,000 beaches in Australia.
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She said 100,000 meters thats 100 klms that people live close to the coastline ...a walk on the beach is good for you 1st thing in the morning...mostly no rubbish on the beaches l go to at the great Ocean road...now and then maybe a thong or a straw or small plastic bag but you will struggle to find any rubbish ..even after all night and no one has picked the bits n peices up...only Tasmania is below Victoria and the great Ocean road then Antarctica and no rubbish there..
Here is another fun fact. Australia was joined to Lemuria at one point. Lemuria still exists, under the sea. This was in the days of Atlantis and Lemuria. Gene Decode talks about it in one of his latest interviews.
Lemuria (land of the Lemurs, I guess) was a "theory" put forward before plate tectonics and changes in sea level were understood. Not to mention evolution. Go back 200 million years and all the continents were connected in a super-continent we call Pangaea. Much more impressive than Lemuria. What you seem to be referring to is what has been named Mauritia - a Precambrian micro-continent that was situated between India and Madagascar until their separation about 70 million years ago. It was part of Gondwana. Greater India separated from Antarctica/Australia early in the Cretaceous (130m years ago) and Antarctica separated from Australia at the end of the Palaeocene (53 m years ago). Australia would be full of placental mammals, or at least have a bigger % of them rather than marsupials, if it had remained connected to Asia.
Like the US, which is also a federation, it was decided the capital should not be in a state but in a territory of its own. That territory should be about half way between the two largest cities, Sydney and Melbourne. That physically placed it inside NSW.
Melbourne was the largest and richest city at the time of federation (1901) a consequence of several gold rushes in Victoria. It became the interim capital while Canberra was built and where the federal public service was based. It was not until the 1970s that the bureaucrats were ordered to move to the capital. Melbourne was also the first choice for British companies as their Australian HQ.
By the time the capital moved to Canberra in 1927 Sydney had passed Melbourne in size. Better climate, better lifestyle (all those ocean beaches), and spectacular scenery, it became the first choice for new settlers and new investors. Now the gap between Sydney and Melbourne is closing and Melbourne will be the bigger city again. Sydney is hemmed in by the sea on one side and national parks on the other three and is fast running out of room. Melbourne still has vast areas of flat featureless land for housing estates. Sydney can always go up, and that is the state government plan, but high-rise apartments are not the Australian way of life. So there had been a steady exodus from Sydney to regional areas and Queensland of those Australians who want to live in a traditional house with a yard. In their place are new arrivals for whom apartment living is both normal and preferred.
As someone born and raised in Sydney, I once loved the city. But it has become an alien place. We left 35 years ago. Never had the wealth needed to live in a desirable suburb. If I had to live far from the harbour and beaches, then I may as well live in a different place altogether with no crime, no traffic jams, no pollution and where I can be at work in minutes, not hours.
1: An American saying G'da 10:10 y Mate and thinking an Australian thinks they are being funny, is like Shrimp on the Barbie! Grrr!
2: Carlton Draught and Victorian Bitter are popular Beer's in Melbourne.
Bob Hawke was a Rhodes scholar when he broke the record from a yrad glass.
3: The Singapore government is planning a dolar farm in the north.
You number 2 explains a lot!
The Garn..across the island
Research revealed that the most outlandish or absurd alleged laws were often too good to be true. Accordingly, there is no existing law in Queensland that requires taxi cabs to carry hay bales in their trunks. Perhaps in the early days when farmers used horse and cart, but definitely not now.
They probably carried hay in their boots. What's a trunk?
@@warrenturner397Maybe the banana benders used elephants as taxis?
@@warrenturner397 Car boot, aka trunk.
Melbourne was the Capital and is actually the largest city by population. Canberra is a perfect Capital because it is purpose built to serve as the country's office. Bob Hawke was a Rhodes scholar so his beer drinking was not the reason he was elected. He had talents. We also have a smaller Greek population than New York but it was very friendly to 'white immigrants' due to racists policies that we are very ashamed of.
Sydney & Melbourne couldn't agree where the capital should be. Canberra, Australian Capital Territory was the compromise. Like Washington DC
The story I have been told:
When the capitol was chosen, Sydney was the largest city, but Melbourne was the wealthiest. To end the arguments about which should be the capitol, a special territory and city were formed and just shoved in the middle 😂
The Australian continent is flat this means when it rains in excess in the tropical north east the waters flows across the flood plains and the creeks and rivers and finally ends up in Lake Eyre
Taxis have to carry a bale of hay hahahaha dumbest thing I’ve heard
Australia doesnt have the 2nd highest Greek population...Melbourne does....Possibly because after the war assisted passage migrants were encouraged to come here..In 1949, the year of my birth, 49% of greek migrants settled in Melbourne...I remember travelling to Britain and those 24 hrs on the plane, Kabir! They were long....We'd be pleased to welcome you here when you come.....
The lady has mispronounce Canberra.
Her version is like Can Berra, where as most Australians pronounce it as Canbra, with the final A being short and abrupt.