I think as an Australian we take it for granted. We LOVE being Australian, it’s only after watching videos like yours that I realise how damn lucky I am to be Australian. We have our fair share of amazing bands, surfers , actors, and a beautiful country. We have the oldest recorded indigenous peoples with an amazing history and stories to tell. We have snowy mountains , tropical beaches, barren hot deserts , amazing beaches, interesting people. I love being an Australian 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
I've been to Australia only once in my life, in 2002. Participating to the Gay Games in Sydney, Down Under. For three weeks only. But to be honest, the dream of my life has come true. Being on the most interesting continent of mother Earth, meeting the nicest people on the planet, and having the best time of my life, I will think of this experience for the rest of my life! My German heart is beating for Australia 😍🤩👍
Australia has about 1 million wild camels, one of the largest national herds of dromedaries in the world. Australia exports camels to various middle eastern countries including Saudi Arabia, UAE and others as well as Brunei, Malaysia with some going to the USA for tourist purposes. Peace out.
i think we have the Second largest camel population in the world other than Saudi Arabia. I always laughed that we have become quite the camel breeder, but then a good chunk of our country is absolutely perfect for them to thrive.
Australia is also unique in that no hoofed animals ever evolved there and all of the many delicately balanced ecosystems developed without any deer, horses, cattle, donkeys, goats and sheep being present. No hoofed mammal ever set foot (or hoof?) on Australian soil until the First Fleet arrived in 1778.
@@bernadettelanders7306 Did you notice the year 1778 that was 2 year after the US war of independence which lead the British to colonise Australia thank US. Pease out.
The Australian camel arrived due to the need for inland transportation across desert environments. Afghan peoples were also part of this influx, hence the name of the "Ghan" for the train that runs from Adelaide through Alice Springs to Darwin. Further, the pure strains of Australian camels have been lost to the Arab world due to interbreeding etc, and thus the Australian camel has become a much sought after genetic donor to the Arabian world.
G'day, if you want to go from the city to the outback you had better be ready for a road trip.There will most likley be 1000km+ (600miles) to drive. The Camels are an introduced species used for transport. When they became redundent for that job many were released to fend for themselves. Now Australia is regarded as having the best dromadary population in the world.
Australia has 8222 islands and Australia has five major downhill ski resorts. Yes it snows in Aus too. And Rain Forests as well. Yes we’ve got it all. I think of it here as having nearly every type of vegetation in one country 😊
You can always spot the Aussie at any airport. If we've been overseas for a while and this plays all the Aussie's will be singing it with tears running down our faces. It's one of our unofficial anthems. Love from Aus ❤
i used to live in the bush and our shopping was done with our rifles or bows cos we'd get fresh goat, pig, rabbit, yabbies, or in the paddock lamb, beef, roo, chooks, eggs, ducks and whatever we grew. Alsao on our land we had dams, creeks, a well that never ran dry next to the house, 6 rain water tanks n it was so peaceful but where we were located was at the end of a certain valley system that the airforce used to use as low level training n our farmhouse was the marker that indicated the turning point n quite often they do some aerobatics over us n we had all types of aircraft
Camels were first introduced into Australia in the 1840's to assist in the exploration of inland Australia. Between 1840 and 1907, between 10,000 and 20,000 camels were imported from India with an estimated 50-65% landed in South Australia. There are actually now, more camels in Australia than there are in Arabia. In fact we export breeding stock camels to Arabia. There are around 750,000 camels roaming wild in the outback. ----------------- You mentioned our beaches.....well, this might surprise you... Australia has almost 12,000 beaches along its 60,000km (37,282mi) coastline. If you visited one per day, it would take more than 32 years to see them all!
We brought camels from the middle east to transport goods in the outback. Once automobiles, like trucks , came into play, the camels were released to roam freely.
Kangaroos are mainly in rural areas and the outback, but the ones that live on the outskirts of cities like Sydney sometime end up venturing into the outer suburbs as their grazing habitat/grassy areas are replaced by housing developments. Also when we went through the super hot period in late 2019 - early 2020 (when there were a lot of bushfires), Kangaroos went further into the cities searching for water. So yeah, we do have them in and around the cities, too.
Yeah they live on every golf course as part of it. Like, you gotta play the ball where it lays, and they'll cop a ball and not even notice, so they're juat added traps.
The song in the background is Great Southern Land, a 1982 track by Aussie band Icehouse. It's considered a classic because it evokes the remoteness, harshness and beauty of our country.
The camels are on Cable Beach, Broome, Western Australia. The camels are from the Afghans, who brought them to Australia in the 1800s as working animals. They went wild, and are feral in some areas. Kangaroos can be found in many areas of Australia. There are large groups of them at Pinnaroo Cemetery, just north of Perth, for instance. If there is native bushland suitable for them, they can be there, even close to suburbs. The (smaller) grey kangaroo prefers the cooler bushland of the south and coastal areas, whereas the (larger) red kangaroo is adapted to the central desert areas.
We are also the number one exporter of camels to the Arab nations. The climate being so harsh here and the animals adapted so well to the point that when they're sold to Arab owners, when they do go to the Arab deserts, it's almost like a luxurious Far North Queensland holiday for them.🏝 The Australian camels handle the Arab desert climates so much better.
Camels were bought to Australia from the middle east in the 1920s with Afghan camel trainers to help cross the country and build roads. But then cars and trucks were invented, they didn't need the camels anymore and rather than put them down they let them go. Now they're breeding out of control in the outback without any predators. Same with feral horses and donkeys.
You don't have to go outback to have what you enjoy - beaches, rivers, native wildlife, bushwalking tracks - you only have to travel a few hours from any city. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't go outback, because it is awesome.
Icehouse were a great Australian band. Lead vocalist IVA Davies, is a composer, multi instrumentalist and producer who also had one of the best mullets ever!!! Seriously though, well worth travelling down that rabbit hole.l remember that when they put out there final album, everyone was referring to it as the Iceperson album, because Iva was so sick of the infighting in the band, he went into his home studio, layed down the vocals, played all the instruments himself and released it as Icehouse!
@@kane29842Oops yep good catch! A reformed version is playing now . If you wanna tackle the "who is Icehouse?" question, be my guest, l'm staying well away from that one!!!😂🤣
Yes it's no a promotional clip about Australia AKA the greatsouthern land. It's music video of Great Southern Land by Icehouse in the 80's. The Songs about Australia and video clip showcase places in Australia. That’s why it's not in HD. There was no HD in 1982 when the music video was made.
As a few have said before this is Icehouse with their hit song Great Southern Land, the singer is Iva Davies and where he sings "you walk alone like a primitive man" Primitive Man is the name of the album that the song comes from. You would love it down under mate
You're right, Australia gives us everything we could ever need. I remember in the 1980s I was getting a recorded holiday marketing phone call about twice a week. It went on for around a month and I got tired of it and finally hit hash to speak to someone (back then you paid for international calls bigtime). I said to the gentleman who answered that I wanted the calls to stop and he tried to sell me on a trip to Florida. I got annoyed and said, "You could not pay me to go to the US." There was a stunned silence, and then he said in this sad, little-boy voice, "Why not?" I said, "I live in Australia, why would I go anywhere else?" There was another silence and he said, "I see what you mean." No more marketing calls. :)
North Queensland is for you CV. Fishing, outback, Great Barrier Reef, quiet, laid back……no need for moonshine when you’ve got Bundy Rum and Great Northern. Claiming you as a Queenslander!
@@grahamejohn6847 😆 they were mountain peaks poking out from underneath. I won’t tell you I replayed it 3 or 4 times before commenting because I was starting to doubt myself. 😏 Damn, did I just type that out loud?
Hey CV. Nobody lives in the outback! It’s dry red rock and totally uninhabitable! Australia is as big as the US so we have everything- rainforests and tropics in the north, mountains and ski resorts (lots of snow!) in the south, rugged ranges and gorges in the west and beaches everywhere, more camels than the Middle East. Cities aren’t what you think either. Most of us don’t live in the downtown skyscraper area we live out in the suburbs. I’m in Sydney but surrounded by “forests”, national parks, farms with horses and cows, wildlife everywhere. Ps we don’t have AFL stadiums 😂 they’re cricket stadiums
@@j-1159 lol yeh I guess the definition is broad and debatable. To me the outback is the red desert or any remote semi arid region of the country but definitely not the areas he pointed out.. eg the Great Ocean Road 😂 I got the impression he thought we just had the city and the outback.
Many of us have lived or still live in the red centre. Both of my sons are honourary members of different Indigenous people for helping them. My eldest son and his wife were the only medical on 3 missions for years. He went back on his own when Covid arrived and kept them all Covid safe. He and his wife were also the only Medical team on the Polar Cap taking care of the most Northern Inuits in the world. Real Doctors go where they are needed. Canada put the Inuits there to stop another Country claiming it. The desert is very beautiful. One night years ago it snowed there, I thought I was going nuts when it started until I saw everyone around me looking up. It is the first place I ever saw spear lightning going into the ground around us. After one night of rain, the next morning all of the red sand is wildflowers. One afternoon I was waiting for my daughter, I was on the grass in the middle of the road and I looked up. I thought the locals will think I am losing it because I lay down on the grass on my back. There were at least 100 Eagles riding the thermals in a spiral. They went from tiny to big the closer they got, it was amazing and so peaceful. I stayed there for 15 minutes and I thought I should move. When I stood up every local I knew was lying all around me. I reminded them of the things they forgot to stop and see. The closest place to us was a 7 hour drive with no phone working until you got there. The school I was picking my daughter up from had 2,500 students from birth to TAFE. Not so empty out there and you missed all of that.
I lived in both Esperance and Derby (sth east coast WA / far north top of the kimberley's) got family at Nulligine and Mullewa, so yeah, lots of us do live in the outback
Nah Kangaroos are everywhere man. Like the stereotype that we ride kangaroos and they just hop down city streets is a slight exaggeration but they inhabit basically the whole continent, with the exception of the driest harshest bits of desert, and the very centre of cities. But they exist right up to the outskirts of cities. You could almost make the distinction that if there’s no kangaroos you’re in the “inner suburbs” but anyone living in the “outer suburbs” probably lives not too far from where you can reliably see kangaroos, even if that place is a golf course or something
@@CVTECK1 they're everywhere, mate. Whenever I leave the house I see Roo's lol. I've currently got a bunch of Blue Tongues (lizards) sunning themselves in my backyard, had a Bush Turkey break into my house yesterday because the little bugger saw a packet of Dorito's on my kitchen table and she's addicted to them (she breaks into the local shop just to steal Dorito's), and I had to pick up a snake to stop it going into my dining room last night (it's my resident Coastal Python, they're harmless, so it's no biggie.) The wildlife is just a part of us, we love and respect our Aussie creatures. Oh! If you're mind-blown seeing Roo's on the beach, wait until you see Koalas body surfing. They're actually really good at it, and love a surf in the ocean lol.
Yes it's beautiful here. I'm a country girl and not into the city too. I have a Canadian hubby and l have traveled across the country with him. He loves it here. He was a city slicker but not now. We live on a beautiful country range and he thinks it's bliss.
@@CVTECK1 there's just nothing like it is there. I think personally it's the way we were meant to live. Nothing pretty abt a concrete jungle😛. Nature is just perfect and untouched. 🌲🌱🌿🌴🌾🌵🌼🐛🦋🐝🐞
kangaroos are kinda like deer in the US, you don't see them everywhere but they can be found sometimes in the suburbs, they love Golf courses (lots of grass to eat and water to drink.)
This song was used in an Aussie movie "Young Einstein" (imagine Albert Einstein being born in Tasmania, Australia). If you want to start a movie reaction channel, or just in your own time, check this out... it *is* a little out there, but fun. The music clip "Young Einstein soundtrack by Ice House"
Man, I used to be obsessed with Young Einstein when I was a kid... for some reason. Never forget him crossing the ocean in the rowboat to this song at the end! 😁
A brilliant, but under rated film by many. Those that got it, thought it was brilliant. I told a friend about it, and she was totally gobsmacked that, not only I knew of it, but loved it and the soundtrack.
In the outback, you need to have spare stuff - food, water, petrol and tyres, etc. to get yourself out of trouble. Protect yourself from the sun too. There may not be much water in the dry season, and too much mud or floods in the wet, if you're not in the middle of a 7 year or longer drought. Where you see nice wide rivers in the Top End, you need to be quick to get your barramundi past the local crocs, learn how to spot them, they submerge silently without a ripple. They roar like bulls at night, so if there are no cattle in acres, no sleeping on the ground under the milky way in croc country. A driz-a-bone coat can be handy on a horse.
Some great scenery, great soundtrack, great sports..we do have it all..the lucky country for sure! It is a great video to promote tourism. And yes beach cricket every Christmas holidays was a must. And you regularly get kangaroos in the outer suburbs of major cities, I think roos outnumber people by 2 to 1! They are everywhere!!
I hope we have water mate otherwise 25 million of us Aussies would have major issues 🤣. Also considering the states of Victoria, Tassie, NSW & Qld are all flooded. Apart from that we are the driest inhabitant country in the world & mainly struggle with droughts
We have more camels than Saudi Arabia. They came out when in the 19th century they were needed as transporting goods inland and that was when the Afghan Cameleers came out and stayed. When rail crossings were erected north to south, east to west in time, they were not needed and were let loose. Thing was, the outback is just the right terrain for these animals and they multiplied. Now there are heaps of them. We export ours to the Middle East.
Hi there...What you thought were kangaroos on the beach, they would be wallabies that are generally smaller than roos. The 1980s song Great Southern land was by a group called Icehouse.
You just made the best advert for a awesome holiday in Australia. I love the country too but you have to make sure you have a river close by for fishing of course and to cool of because it gets pretty hot, especially in Queensland, where I grew up. Always on acreage. Peace and quiet and relaxing at night under the stars by the fire with a nice drink. Ahhh, good memories, good times. Much love from Queensland Australia 🦘💜
The music is by Ice House Great Southern Land from the mid 1980's Kangaroos fight in front yards in the outer suburbs of the city's in particular. western Sydney
I'd like to thank my great great great great grandfather for stealing 5lbs of tapioca and coming to Australia as a convict. So proud of my convict heritage
Kangaroo's on the beach are in my neck of the woods "Esperance WA" - Esperance has Cape Le Grande national park, and at the end of the park is both Lucky Bay and Wiley Beach, which is where the roo's come down onto the beach and drink the fresh water seeping out of the rocks. They're so used to humans now, they just ignore you, but in saying that, you have to be careful that you don't leave your car or caravan doors open, coz the young roos are quite nosy, so every now and then a tourist has to turn around and take the roo back to the beach, yeah not kidding lol
We have about 1 million or more wild camels, some end up as pet food, many are exported to the middle east. This video also misses the Australian Alps which gets more snow each year than the Swiss Alps.
Someone told me about the snow I believe it shows it for 3 sec in the video and I thought it was sand lol. Camels end as pet food oh I didn't know that
You get Kangaroos in the cities too. Especially in the capital Canberra. Had the privilege to see this band Icehouse in Canberra recently. Sounded awesome.
Yeah man! We DO have it all…❤ It makes my heart sing to hear people appreciate how incredible this country is…thank you. BTW, you can have the country life right next to a city….it’s that wonderful.
They have done a new updated video for this. You can’t stand on those. It’s the three sisters West of Sydney in Blue Mountains NSW. We exported camels to the Middle East
In the early days Afghani cameliers provided the outback with the supplies the people needed. They were the only way that supplies made it to so much of the country. It was they that brought the camels to Australia and now we export them to the Arab linds because they are relatively desease free. Camel dairy's are even starting up over here.There are over 200 different type of kangaroo in Oz, from the little potoroo not much bigger than a rabbit to the Plains kangaroo that the red males can stand over 6ft tall.
We have more camels in australia than anywhere elss in the world. Introduced species from ehen people were exploring the desert. And you can get kangaroos in the suburbs.
Yeah kangaroos on the beach - Cape Hillsborough Mackay North Queensland - kangaroos on the beach - in the water or under the trees in the shade. Kangaroos happy to interact with you.
We are not known as The Lucky Country for nothing. Palm tree islands, deserts, snow covered mountains, foamy waves meeting white sand, in fact anything you can imagine, we have. You gotta come visit. This is your open invitation. I promise you won't regret it or forget it...
The Aphganies, introduced the camels into Australia in the 1800's, and when trains and cars became oopular, the camels were released, and boy they adjusted very well, and because they aren't native they are consideded to be pests
Ice House was a popular band in the eighties. The biggest problem is to see all these places you must travel long distances. As for camels they are not native animals early explorers released them.
Camels where introduced into the country by Afghanistan trader's. In the 19th century. we now have one of the largest camel population in the world, I think I read somewhere.
I read that the camels were brought to Australia for the moving of goods years ago in the hot and dry interior that they are used to overseas. The Afghan people came to Australia to as they knew how to work with them.
I think as an Australian we take it for granted. We LOVE being Australian, it’s only after watching videos like yours that I realise how damn lucky I am to be Australian. We have our fair share of amazing bands, surfers , actors, and a beautiful country. We have the oldest recorded indigenous peoples with an amazing history and stories to tell. We have snowy mountains , tropical beaches, barren hot deserts , amazing beaches, interesting people. I love being an Australian 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Always have gratitude for our incredible fortunes ❤🇦🇺
Yea mate good call , I’m one of those who lives on tropical beach’s up in Cairns , & it’s not over rated
I've been to Australia only once in my life, in 2002. Participating to the Gay Games in Sydney, Down Under. For three weeks only. But to be honest, the dream of my life has come true. Being on the most interesting continent of mother Earth, meeting the nicest people on the planet, and having the best time of my life, I will think of this experience for the rest of my life! My German heart is beating for Australia 😍🤩👍
We live in paradise, sometimes it's so good we have to be reminded
Me too mate ❤
The song is "Great Southern Land" by the band " Icehouse" it was a pretty big hit back in the eighties . ( probably why the video is lo-def )
Great song
That wasn't the original video for that song, though.
& their Original band name was The Flowers :) he's NOT listening to the lyrics in this tune tho... & so he's missing the whole point !
The one the says new video is much better quality sound and a lot more pictures really lovely
It starred in Young Einstein, with Yahoo Serious. A brilliant film.
Great Southern Land by Icehouse
Australia has about 1 million wild camels, one of the largest national herds of dromedaries in the world. Australia exports camels to various middle eastern countries including Saudi Arabia, UAE and others as well as Brunei, Malaysia with some going to the USA for tourist purposes. Peace out.
i think we have the Second largest camel population in the world other than Saudi Arabia. I always laughed that we have become quite the camel breeder, but then a good chunk of our country is absolutely perfect for them to thrive.
Australia is also unique in that no hoofed animals ever evolved there and all of the many delicately balanced ecosystems developed without any deer, horses, cattle, donkeys, goats and sheep being present. No hoofed mammal ever set foot (or hoof?) on Australian soil until the First Fleet arrived in 1778.
@@bernadettelanders7306 Did you notice the year 1778 that was 2 year after the US war of independence which lead the British to colonise Australia thank US. Pease out.
The Australian camel arrived due to the need for inland transportation across desert environments. Afghan peoples were also part of this influx, hence the name of the "Ghan" for the train that runs from Adelaide through Alice Springs to Darwin. Further, the pure strains of Australian camels have been lost to the Arab world due to interbreeding etc, and thus the Australian camel has become a much sought after genetic donor to the Arabian world.
@@bernadettelanders7306 First Fleet arrived in 1788, not 1778
We literally do have it all. Best country to live in
The band is "icehouse" lead singer is Iva Davey's and you will love Western Australia the most by the sounds of it.
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Great song
G'day, if you want to go from the city to the outback you had better be ready for a road trip.There will most likley be 1000km+ (600miles) to drive.
The Camels are an introduced species used for transport. When they became redundent for that job many were released to fend for themselves. Now Australia is regarded as having the best dromadary population in the world.
Australia has the largest population of feral/wild camels in the world.
Australia has 8222 islands and Australia has five major downhill ski resorts. Yes it snows in Aus too. And Rain Forests as well.
Yes we’ve got it all. I think of it here as having nearly every type of vegetation in one country 😊
This song came out in the early 80s. I was in high school. This is one of my formative musical influences!
You can always spot the Aussie at any airport. If we've been overseas for a while and this plays all the Aussie's will be singing it with tears running down our faces. It's one of our unofficial anthems. Love from Aus ❤
i used to live in the bush and our shopping was done with our rifles or bows cos we'd get fresh goat, pig, rabbit, yabbies, or in the paddock lamb, beef, roo, chooks, eggs, ducks and whatever we grew. Alsao on our land we had dams, creeks, a well that never ran dry next to the house, 6 rain water tanks n it was so peaceful but where we were located was at the end of a certain valley system that the airforce used to use as low level training n our farmhouse was the marker that indicated the turning point n quite often they do some aerobatics over us n we had all types of aircraft
Camels were first introduced into Australia in the 1840's to assist in the exploration of inland Australia. Between 1840 and 1907, between 10,000 and 20,000 camels were imported from India with an estimated 50-65% landed in South Australia.
There are actually now, more camels in Australia than there are in Arabia.
In fact we export breeding stock camels to Arabia.
There are around 750,000 camels roaming wild in the outback.
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You mentioned our beaches.....well, this might surprise you...
Australia has almost 12,000 beaches along its 60,000km (37,282mi) coastline. If you visited one per day, it would take more than 32 years to see them all!
Great Southern Land, by Icehouse, was released in August 1982, so it's over 40 years old.
We brought camels from the middle east to transport goods in the outback. Once automobiles, like trucks , came into play, the camels were released to roam freely.
Kangaroos are mainly in rural areas and the outback, but the ones that live on the outskirts of cities like Sydney sometime end up venturing into the outer suburbs as their grazing habitat/grassy areas are replaced by housing developments. Also when we went through the super hot period in late 2019 - early 2020 (when there were a lot of bushfires), Kangaroos went further into the cities searching for water. So yeah, we do have them in and around the cities, too.
Yeah they live on every golf course as part of it. Like, you gotta play the ball where it lays, and they'll cop a ball and not even notice, so they're juat added traps.
The rock - Uluru - is like a glacier, only 10% above ground, the other 90% underground.
Iceberg*
The song in the background is Great Southern Land, a 1982 track by Aussie band Icehouse. It's considered a classic because it evokes the remoteness, harshness and beauty of our country.
The song is Great Southern Land by Icehouse
The camels are on Cable Beach, Broome, Western Australia. The camels are from the Afghans, who brought them to Australia in the 1800s as working animals. They went wild, and are feral in some areas.
Kangaroos can be found in many areas of Australia. There are large groups of them at Pinnaroo Cemetery, just north of Perth, for instance. If there is native bushland suitable for them, they can be there, even close to suburbs. The (smaller) grey kangaroo prefers the cooler bushland of the south and coastal areas, whereas the (larger) red kangaroo is adapted to the central desert areas.
There are camels in much of the Outback, not just Cable Beach.
We are also the number one exporter of camels to the Arab nations. The climate being so harsh here and the animals adapted so well to the point that when they're sold to Arab owners, when they do go to the Arab deserts, it's almost like a luxurious Far North Queensland holiday for them.🏝 The Australian camels handle the Arab desert climates so much better.
Camels were bought to Australia from the middle east in the 1920s with Afghan camel trainers to help cross the country and build roads. But then cars and trucks were invented, they didn't need the camels anymore and rather than put them down they let them go. Now they're breeding out of control in the outback without any predators. Same with feral horses and donkeys.
You don't have to go outback to have what you enjoy - beaches, rivers, native wildlife, bushwalking tracks - you only have to travel a few hours from any city. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't go outback, because it is awesome.
Sounds great!
The song is Great Southern Land by Icehouse. Glad you like it.
Icehouse were a great Australian band. Lead vocalist IVA Davies, is a composer, multi instrumentalist and producer who also had one of the best mullets ever!!! Seriously though, well worth travelling down that rabbit hole.l remember that when they put out there final album, everyone was referring to it as the Iceperson album, because Iva was so sick of the infighting in the band, he went into his home studio, layed down the vocals, played all the instruments himself and released it as Icehouse!
Icehouse ARE a great Australian band. They're still around
@@kane29842Oops yep good catch!
A reformed version is playing now . If you wanna tackle the "who is Icehouse?" question, be my guest, l'm staying well away from that one!!!😂🤣
Iva's 'Electric Blue' mullet is magnificent.
Yes it's no a promotional clip about Australia AKA the greatsouthern land. It's music video of Great Southern Land by Icehouse in the 80's. The Songs about Australia and video clip showcase places in Australia. That’s why it's not in HD. There was no HD in 1982 when the music video was made.
i wished it was you know but Beautiful is beautiful HD or not lol
As a few have said before this is Icehouse with their hit song Great Southern Land, the singer is Iva Davies and where he sings "you walk alone like a primitive man" Primitive Man is the name of the album that the song comes from. You would love it down under mate
There are 8222 Islands in Australia, also more than 12,000 beaches
You're right, Australia gives us everything we could ever need. I remember in the 1980s I was getting a recorded holiday marketing phone call about twice a week. It went on for around a month and I got tired of it and finally hit hash to speak to someone (back then you paid for international calls bigtime). I said to the gentleman who answered that I wanted the calls to stop and he tried to sell me on a trip to Florida. I got annoyed and said, "You could not pay me to go to the US." There was a stunned silence, and then he said in this sad, little-boy voice, "Why not?" I said, "I live in Australia, why would I go anywhere else?" There was another silence and he said, "I see what you mean." No more marketing calls. :)
North Queensland is for you CV. Fishing, outback, Great Barrier Reef, quiet, laid back……no need for moonshine when you’ve got Bundy Rum and Great Northern. Claiming you as a Queenslander!
Sounds great! one day
The only thing missing from that video was the snow in winter. Good reaction as usual mate.
Maybe you blinked? 2:03
@@ausmarkb Lol maybe but that was sand wasn't it?
@@grahamejohn6847 😆 they were mountain peaks poking out from underneath.
I won’t tell you I replayed it 3 or 4 times before commenting because I was starting to doubt myself. 😏
Damn, did I just type that out loud?
@@ausmarkb hahaha ok Mark thank you for showing me up for the blind old bugger I am
Oh yeah snow would been nice to see. I didn't think it even snow in Australia. Thanks John
Hey CV. Nobody lives in the outback! It’s dry red rock and totally uninhabitable! Australia is as big as the US so we have everything- rainforests and tropics in the north, mountains and ski resorts (lots of snow!) in the south, rugged ranges and gorges in the west and beaches everywhere, more camels than the Middle East. Cities aren’t what you think either. Most of us don’t live in the downtown skyscraper area we live out in the suburbs. I’m in Sydney but surrounded by “forests”, national parks, farms with horses and cows, wildlife everywhere. Ps we don’t have AFL stadiums 😂 they’re cricket stadiums
I live in the outback and it's absolutely beautiful 😍 ❤
@@j-1159 lol yeh I guess the definition is broad and debatable. To me the outback is the red desert or any remote semi arid region of the country but definitely not the areas he pointed out.. eg the Great Ocean Road 😂 I got the impression he thought we just had the city and the outback.
Many of us have lived or still live in the red centre. Both of my sons are honourary members of different Indigenous people for helping them. My eldest son and his wife were the only medical on 3 missions for years. He went back on his own when Covid arrived and kept them all Covid safe. He and his wife were also the only Medical team on the Polar Cap taking care of the most Northern Inuits in the world. Real Doctors go where they are needed. Canada put the Inuits there to stop another Country claiming it.
The desert is very beautiful. One night years ago it snowed there, I thought I was going nuts when it started until I saw everyone around me looking up. It is the first place I ever saw spear lightning going into the ground around us. After one night of rain, the next morning all of the red sand is wildflowers.
One afternoon I was waiting for my daughter, I was on the grass in the middle of the road and I looked up. I thought the locals will think I am losing it because I lay down on the grass on my back. There were at least 100 Eagles riding the thermals in a spiral. They went from tiny to big the closer they got, it was amazing and so peaceful. I stayed there for 15 minutes and I thought I should move. When I stood up every local I knew was lying all around me. I reminded them of the things they forgot to stop and see.
The closest place to us was a 7 hour drive with no phone working until you got there. The school I was picking my daughter up from had 2,500 students from birth to TAFE. Not so empty out there and you missed all of that.
I lived in Alice, don't tell me noone lives on the outback
I lived in both Esperance and Derby (sth east coast WA / far north top of the kimberley's) got family at Nulligine and Mullewa, so yeah, lots of us do live in the outback
I used to crank this song up on my sound system back in the day, shake the whole house with bass and feel the beat. Ah to be young again. Screw 2022.
Nah Kangaroos are everywhere man. Like the stereotype that we ride kangaroos and they just hop down city streets is a slight exaggeration but they inhabit basically the whole continent, with the exception of the driest harshest bits of desert, and the very centre of cities. But they exist right up to the outskirts of cities. You could almost make the distinction that if there’s no kangaroos you’re in the “inner suburbs” but anyone living in the “outer suburbs” probably lives not too far from where you can reliably see kangaroos, even if that place is a golf course or something
Kangaroos are in the suburbs aswell, not just the out back.
Oh I thought they would be better out in the outback. So they just hang around in most places
Had to dodge a couple in my street tonight. They are suburban too.
@@CVTECK1 they're everywhere, mate.
Whenever I leave the house I see Roo's lol.
I've currently got a bunch of Blue Tongues (lizards) sunning themselves in my backyard, had a Bush Turkey break into my house yesterday because the little bugger saw a packet of Dorito's on my kitchen table and she's addicted to them (she breaks into the local shop just to steal Dorito's), and I had to pick up a snake to stop it going into my dining room last night (it's my resident Coastal Python, they're harmless, so it's no biggie.)
The wildlife is just a part of us, we love and respect our Aussie creatures.
Oh! If you're mind-blown seeing Roo's on the beach, wait until you see Koalas body surfing.
They're actually really good at it, and love a surf in the ocean lol.
Suburbs are expanding into their habitat so they have no choice
From Australia with pride.
We are BLESSED .
Yes it's beautiful here. I'm a country girl and not into the city too. I have a Canadian hubby and l have traveled across the country with him. He loves it here. He was a city slicker but not now. We live on a beautiful country range and he thinks it's bliss.
I love the country Rikki I like the calmness and I was born and Raised as a country kid. I can't do New York city it's to busy for me.
@@CVTECK1 there's just nothing like it is there. I think personally it's the way we were meant to live. Nothing pretty abt a concrete jungle😛. Nature is just perfect and untouched. 🌲🌱🌿🌴🌾🌵🌼🐛🦋🐝🐞
Wouldn't be a vacation...
It'd be Life Changing
Lol
Believe me, it is. In more ways than one!
kangaroos are kinda like deer in the US, you don't see them everywhere but they can be found sometimes in the suburbs, they love Golf courses (lots of grass to eat and water to drink.)
Perfect example Giant thanks.
This song was used in an Aussie movie "Young Einstein" (imagine Albert Einstein being born in Tasmania, Australia). If you want to start a movie reaction channel, or just in your own time, check this out... it *is* a little out there, but fun.
The music clip "Young Einstein soundtrack by Ice House"
Yahoo Serious played Young Einstein if I remember correctly. Also played lead role in Reckless Kelly. 🇦🇺
Man, I used to be obsessed with Young Einstein when I was a kid... for some reason. Never forget him crossing the ocean in the rowboat to this song at the end! 😁
A brilliant, but under rated film by many. Those that got it, thought it was brilliant. I told a friend about it, and she was totally gobsmacked that, not only I knew of it, but loved it and the soundtrack.
In the outback, you need to have spare stuff - food, water, petrol and tyres, etc. to get yourself out of trouble. Protect yourself from the sun too. There may not be much water in the dry season, and too much mud or floods in the wet, if you're not in the middle of a 7 year or longer drought. Where you see nice wide rivers in the Top End, you need to be quick to get your barramundi past the local crocs, learn how to spot them, they submerge silently without a ripple. They roar like bulls at night, so if there are no cattle in acres, no sleeping on the ground under the milky way in croc country. A driz-a-bone coat can be handy on a horse.
If you want HD. Check out other videos of Australia.
Some great scenery, great soundtrack, great sports..we do have it all..the lucky country for sure! It is a great video to promote tourism. And yes beach cricket every Christmas holidays was a must. And you regularly get kangaroos in the outer suburbs of major cities, I think roos outnumber people by 2 to 1! They are everywhere!!
Love Australia, but I'd posit you're lacking true alpine environments. NZ isn't far though.
Thank you very much!one day i'll come to visit Australia
I hope we have water mate otherwise 25 million of us Aussies would have major issues 🤣. Also considering the states of Victoria, Tassie, NSW & Qld are all flooded. Apart from that we are the driest inhabitant country in the world & mainly struggle with droughts
We have more camels than Saudi Arabia. They came out when in the 19th century they were needed as transporting goods inland and that was when the Afghan Cameleers came out and stayed. When rail crossings were erected north to south, east to west in time, they were not needed and were let loose. Thing was, the outback is just the right terrain for these animals and they multiplied. Now there are heaps of them. We export ours to the Middle East.
The Camels were brought over to help the early explorers in the outback.
Some people come to Australia and city hop and miss out on all the best parts.
yeah I would focus on the little things. I'm a simple man Speedy
Hi there...What you thought were kangaroos on the beach, they would be wallabies that are generally smaller than roos. The 1980s song Great Southern land was by a group called Icehouse.
This is not the original music video, which is available on RUclips! Just in case anyone wasn't aware!
I’m in the foothills/suburbs of Adelaide and have kangaroos living in the backyard. They sleep close too the creek for fresh water
We have snow in winter as well. They didnt show any in this tourist promotion video.
The irony is that most australians have never seen these places
Uluru (used to be known as Ayers Rock) is the world's largest monolith!
Great song and video showcasing our amazing country 🇦🇺💕🙋♀️
It really is!
I live in Melbourne. You only need to go 5 km outside the city to see kangaroos.
You just made the best advert for a awesome holiday in Australia. I love the country too but you have to make sure you have a river close by for fishing of course and to cool of because it gets pretty hot, especially in Queensland, where I grew up. Always on acreage. Peace and quiet and relaxing at night under the stars by the fire with a nice drink. Ahhh, good memories, good times. Much love from Queensland Australia 🦘💜
Paula I love the peace and quiet and fishing all day with some coffee or rum lol
Brilliant fishing down here mate.
Proper bangers.
I love fishing mate
The music is by Ice House Great Southern Land from the mid 1980's Kangaroos fight in front yards in the outer suburbs of the city's in particular. western Sydney
I'd like to thank my great great great great grandfather for stealing 5lbs of tapioca and coming to Australia as a convict. So proud of my convict heritage
The band is.... Icehouse.... Thanks mate 😃
You got it!
Yep, we have history all right. 60,000 years of history.
Kangaroo's on the beach are in my neck of the woods "Esperance WA" - Esperance has Cape Le Grande national park, and at the end of the park is both Lucky Bay and Wiley Beach, which is where the roo's come down onto the beach and drink the fresh water seeping out of the rocks. They're so used to humans now, they just ignore you, but in saying that, you have to be careful that you don't leave your car or caravan doors open, coz the young roos are quite nosy, so every now and then a tourist has to turn around and take the roo back to the beach, yeah not kidding lol
Fun fact - We have more camels than any other country. They are an introduced species, and I believe we even sell them to Arab countries..
Camels are running feral, and we also export camels to the middle eastern countries for racing, meat etc.
I figured it was the other way around with the camel's
We have about 1 million or more wild camels, some end up as pet food, many are exported to the middle east. This video also misses the Australian Alps which gets more snow each year than the Swiss Alps.
Someone told me about the snow I believe it shows it for 3 sec in the video and I thought it was sand lol. Camels end as pet food oh I didn't know that
You get Kangaroos in the cities too. Especially in the capital Canberra. Had the privilege to see this band Icehouse in Canberra recently. Sounded awesome.
Icehouse sings this.i was 15 May 16 years old now am 65 young.
Should be one of our choices for a new Anthem 💯🇦🇺
I love our glorious country.A very proud Aussie.❤❤❤❤❤
I am australian ive crossed it 3 times over my life sydey to Perth 3 times. Now I live in beautiful Queensland the weather is the best
Yeah man! We DO have it all…❤
It makes my heart sing to hear people appreciate how incredible this country is…thank you. BTW, you can have the country life right next to a city….it’s that wonderful.
There's around 40 kangaroo's on our local golf course and I live in a capital city
There is a new video out of Great Southern land
They have done a new updated video for this. You can’t stand on those. It’s the three sisters West of Sydney in Blue Mountains NSW.
We exported camels to the Middle East
In the early days Afghani cameliers provided the outback with the supplies the people needed. They were the only way that supplies made it to so much of the country. It was they that brought the camels to Australia and now we export them to the Arab linds because they are relatively desease free. Camel dairy's are even starting up over here.There are over 200 different type of kangaroo in Oz, from the little potoroo not much bigger than a rabbit to the Plains kangaroo that the red males can stand over 6ft tall.
It's not a rock it's a Monolith. The world's 2nd largest. The largest is Mt Augustus in W. A
We've got so many Camels over here as a introduced species that we actually sell their meat back too the middle east.
The song is Great Southern Land by ICEHOUSE, late 70s early 80s
Song is about 40 years old, so no 4kHD in those days lol
Haaaa
We have more camels in australia than anywhere elss in the world. Introduced species from ehen people were exploring the desert. And you can get kangaroos in the suburbs.
And fishing?
I got your Back...
Offshore,Swains Reef, Coral Trout( THE fish to enjoy!! ) , swag overnight on a sand reef then hit 'em early!
My kinda life Karl. Before moving to USA all I did was play football and fish all day
My kinda life Karl. Before moving to USA all I did was play football and fish all day
lol Camels, yes, there are many ferel ones, we even export camels overseas. Song id Great Southern Land by Icehouse. Kangaroos can be found all over
Yeah I found the song and I love it
The only thing it didn't show was the Australian alps with their snow. Otherwise, nice! I agree it would be better in higher quality tho!
Ohhhh, I could fish all day too. Love it.
You and me both!
*DUDE* 😂 Bloody kangaroos are everywhere
Lol
@@CVTECK1 They're near the coast outside of the cities.
The Murry River has Murry cod they can grow pritty big ..
What can I say, we like it
Yeah kangaroos on the beach - Cape Hillsborough Mackay North Queensland - kangaroos on the beach - in the water or under the trees in the shade. Kangaroos happy to interact with you.
It is Icehouse, Ivor Davis was Lead Singer
Yeah Mate. Australia has everything. It's even got NEWCASTLE.
And snowfields too. Nice reaction.
Not enough farming or Tasmania for me, but it was fairly inclusive and entertaining! I loved Icehouse, great tight melodic band! 😄👍
We live in literal paradise here man. Theres literally no reason not to be here.
We are not known as The Lucky Country for nothing. Palm tree islands, deserts, snow covered mountains, foamy waves meeting white sand, in fact anything you can imagine, we have. You gotta come visit. This is your open invitation. I promise you won't regret it or forget it...
The Aphganies, introduced the camels into Australia in the 1800's, and when trains and cars became oopular, the camels were released, and boy they adjusted very well, and because they aren't native they are consideded to be pests
We even have snow in three states, New South Wales, Victoria and the island state down the very bottom Tasmania.
Ice House was a popular band in the eighties.
The biggest problem is to see all these places you must travel long distances.
As for camels they are not native animals early explorers released them.
They where wallabies on the beach
This IS the updated hidef touristy video. It's not the og music video.
The whole world is a beautiful place 😊
You had me at fishing I’m going to subscribe now🎣🎣great fishing here in West Australia
No snow. We'll not much!.
Camels where introduced into the country by Afghanistan trader's. In the 19th century. we now have one of the largest camel population in the world, I think I read somewhere.
I read that the camels were brought to Australia for the moving of goods years ago in the hot and dry interior that they are used to overseas. The Afghan people came to Australia to as they knew how to work with them.