100 WILD FACTS about AUSTRALIA you NEVER KNEW 

And Emu!

3 / 4 not bad for a yank

Seamus Kane That’s close enough for a pass. Septics always give it a crack.

OceanBlue if you were Australian, you would instinctually pronounce ‘melbourne’ as ‘melbin’ because of our accent. The way Melbourne is spelt is how it’s pronounced to us. There’s a world outside the US and not everyone has an American accent smh.

OceanBlue : Through Trough Tough Tongue Brought Taught Taut Light Lite ...do I need to continue? I was simply having a jab, just because it’s funny. Language is flexible and very much regional - welcome to dialect. Also, some French is English, and some English is French.

Even Australians get confused on that

@@newshound2521 not the educated ones

Newshound Only some get confused. Those who are better educated know the difference.

Also it's all to do with where they landed. Who would think Australia looked good if you landed on one of the deserts on the western coast.

Same with Australia Day. Nothing to do with cook or the first fleet years later. Australia Day called invasion day is totally incorrect. Federation day was the states coming together as a national whole. Lol you pronounce things is quiet off still lol. Frazer island not frasser. So on. Love watch ya videos it entertaining when I'm just killing time. :-)

Well that make two of us

More like 3 of us

Gotta fourth on that one

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@OceanBlue No, but I think that more people who aren't Australian should know more about how integral Indigenous people are to our history, as it's often passed over.

@OceanBlue I was only thanking Tristan for including it. And I think it's something that everyone should at least be aware of/contribute to in some small way, regardless of race. Again, I'm just thanking him.

Now ain’t this comment true

There are a lot of Actual Australians who don't know it too, or don't know the full extent.

Also the Queen of England died a few hundred years ago and the Queen of the UK has zero power in Australia. Only the Queen of Australia can sack the Australian Government

Seems most of the folk not understanding the constitution are called politicians. They think it makes good toilet paper.

I think you are overlooking the bit in §61 after "and". It says that the executive powers are vested in the Queen, but exercised by the G-G as her representative. §58 says that the "Governor-General, according to his discretion" may grant or refuse the Royal Assent; it does not allow the Queen to do that herself unless the G-G reserves the law for her Pleasure. Furthermore, the veto rights in §59 apply only to acts that the G-G has reserved for the Queen's pleasure. If the G-G grants Royal Assent in the first instance ("according to his discretion") the Queen does not get to veto the act afterwards.

I don't have a clue how/why I discovered Tristans adventures in Oz (RU-vid algorithms?) ... but he's a fast learner and good communicator. That's an exploitable talent he should embrace. $0.02 from an old bloke with kids a similar age.

Capt. James Cook was mortally stabbed on the Sandwich islands, which yes later became the dependency and later state of Hawaii (hence a Union Jack on their state flag)

The Queen of the Commonwealth although technically can "dissolve parliament", that is cause an election for every seat in both houses through what is called Double Dissolution... in 1975 she did not actually do so, her Vice-regal appointee did... kind of her agent or vice-president, called Governor General... his name was Sir John Kerr.

Active volcanoes are subjective, but the last was Tower Hill in Victoria, a little inland between Port Fairy and Warrnambool

Nine of the top ten venomous snakes, five of which you can easily find in cities....

Our Wi-Fi is fine. The probem is the fixed-line connections that are the backhaul for the Wi-Fi.

@@achiruel I will never forgive the Liberals and right wing media for lying and saying that FTTN tech would be '''faster cheaper sooner'' when actually it is slower speeds, costs more and has taken longer to build. They sabotaged our internet infrastructure just to help their mate Murdoch.

@@pronumeral1446 Also, as an attempt to nobble Turnbull.

My internet in inner Melbourne gives 93 Mbps all day long unlimited data for $69 mth?

@@neild3074 it's a big country, not everywhere is the same.

And you wouldn't massacre one by BBQ ing it.

Also I'd never heard of them being barbecued before - until that Paul hogan advert. Here in Aust we barbecued snags chops steaks and even onion, but never an actual prawn. A prawn cocktail might have been served at an outdoor event, but those prawns were steamed not cooked on the actual barbecue.

Mel Bourne. you’ve never bbg a prawn ? Try it one day ,they are very tasty

@@rhodes1948 I have had them. It wasn't a thing in 1984 though.

@@rhodes1948 Only one i ever had was overcooked to heck.

Soft soy boys were invented there too

@@vladnychyk4900 Lol!

Is it?

@@TristanKuhn Yes, it is. (Not a bad thing!)

@@TristanKuhn you said bahbie not barrrrrbie

No lolololololll

No, his accent isn't changing at all. He says Melbourne as I guess Australian's pronounce it and he said "baarbie" like it was said in the advertisement.

Give him a break.

Yes, I was just about to say that. What's more the sacked Prime Minister was correct when he said at the time "Nothing will save the Governor General." He was persona non grata from that moment on. Even today we have a race condition where The Prime Minister and the Governer General can sack each other, the one that moves first wins. However, our constitution has been corrected so that a rogue Premier can no longer fill a casual vacancy in the Senate with a stooge or someone from another party in order to destabilise or otherwise change the balance of numbers in the Senate which was the root cause of the 1975 dismissal.

And she is not the ‘Queen of England’ in this country. She is the ‘Queen of Australia’. In New Zealand, she is the ‘Queen of New Zealand’ and in Canada she is the ‘Queen of Canada’. She holds these (and other titles) simultaneously. The Governor General is her representative in Australia.

AussieRagdoll The sooner she is not the queen of Australia the better, as far as I am concerned....

Clive Webb What? You want someone like Trump in charge? Look at the disaster that is #ScumMo.... No thanks.

@@aussieragdoll4840 To suggest that I would prefer a person as morally bankrupt as President Trump to be Australian head of state is really quite insulting. However, you don’t know me, so will not take your comment to heart. It never ceases to amaze me that many people in today’s world see only the extremes as the answer to the question. “It’s either the distant, out of touch with her subjects, Queen Elizabeth II or it the foul minded, smash them in the face, self-promoting, self -centred President Trump. There is a middle ground… I believe that the Australian head of state should be a non-political person who genuinely has the country and its people in their heart, a person who serves with dignity, President Trump or a person with his traits, in my opinion, does not fall into this category. I believe that my country, is more than capable of selecting its own head of state. He or she should be a person that knows our character and unique culture. A person who comes from us and resides in the country. Queen Elizabeth II has spent approx. less than four month in total, in Australia in sixty five years. I doubt, it can honestly be said that she knows the people or their plight. The Australian head of state should firstly be an Australian who dedicates their undivided time to Australia, who’s attention is not split between Australia and 53 other countries as with Queen Elizabeth II. This person should be a person who’s character is beyond reproach, a person that is intelligence and displays empathy, charity to the exclusion of all other countries. For example, a person like the 26th Governor General of Australia, General Sir Peter Cosgrove. Australia has citizens of great character that can fulfill the role of head of state, to suggest otherwise would be an insult to the county...

Everyone's different.

Too bad the same can’t be said about Emu

OceanBlue we speak Australian English not English English

OceanBlue mate shut up welcome to australia mate piss of to ya cold Island in Europe

Melbourne Transport Productions Lol you watch Tristan too?

OceanBlue shut up

S1ipperyJim bro u have 110 k sub and average 200 views

it was once the richest city in the world

Before federation in 1901 (federation) each of the states were a seperate British colony with their own laws , government, armies, stamps and taxes. In many ways each colony was considered a seperate country in the British Empire. This is why the colony of New Zealand was also considered for federation and why western Australia also considered remaining their own country instead of federating.

@@josiahwilkes2013 Indeed they where acting like six separate countries

Can't even spell Indigenous correctly...Must be really really close to your heart. Like chaser.

Michael Pilling they were glorified cavemen. It would have revealed nothing

You are correct but I also don't want to use the word "internet" because that would imply cellular data (which is good here). Data is another way to get internet.

@@TristanKuhn Cellular uses mobile data.

@@TristanKuhn That doesn't really make sense because its slow regardless for wired ethernet and wifi. You could use the word broadband if you don't want to use internet. WiFi is not slow its the internet that is slow.

@@TristanKuhn Was bugging the heck out of me whenever you said WiFi was slow as well... i kept thinking... how could the WiFi be slower than anywhere else, just buy a better WiFi router and your WiFi would be faster, your internet connection speed might still be slow as heck but your WiFi can be as fast as anywhere else in the world.... Just say Broadband and Mobile Broadband, or Internet and Mobile Internet, or Fixed Internet and 4G e.t.c Its actually something that annoys me, so many people call their mobile internet WiFi, then also call their home internet WiFi and also public WiFi hotspot internet WiFi, and then get confused between all the different connections, or wonder why they get given incorrect information on how to fix their "slow WiFi". If you speak to a large audience its even more important to get terms right otherwise you just legitimise the bad labelling of tech and perpetuate the misconceptions and make things more confusing than they need to be. (yes i work in IT, yes this makes me more grouchy about these things than most people... i don't care its still a real problem, and I'm sick of having to deal with it)

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Estelle Melodi Mitchell Tristan for prime minister! He gets my vote 😇

Thanks!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Actually no... the Queen has no power in Australia. This was removed by the introduction of the Australia Act. The Queen is no more than a figurehead. The Governor General has the power to remove Government, which he did with the sacking of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. The position of the Governor General is that of a figurehead of law, merely being the custodian of the Constitution. .

@@happycamper897 the governor General should get rid of Scott Morrison.

I could be mistaken but doesn't the Queen appoint and delegate her powers to the Governor General? So even though he technically has the power to fire the government the queen is the one to give him that power?

@@TristanKuhn THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT IS ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE... THE GOVERNOR GENERAL IS APPOINTED BY THE PRIME MINISTER AS A FIGURE HEAD TO MAINTAIN THE CONSTITUTION. THE QUEEN HAS NO LEGAL AUTHORITY OR POWER IN AUSTRALIA.

@@TristanKuhn The role of the Queen in Australia today is nothing more than a figure head to wave hello, open a bridge or building and to approve certain awards and medals.

Glad you enjoyed it!

There's no official correct pronunciation of Melbourne.

@@stupendous1068 disagree.

@@stupendous1068 yes, the other pronunciation for Melbourne, is 'shithole'

Thank you! Glad you like them

Thank you

Thanks for the suggestion. If i'm being honest, I still don't fully understand AFL rules so I would not be the best person for that video. Maybe once I learn more

AFL, otherwise known as gayfl is NOT our national sport. It is a shitorian sport, invented for the soft soyboys in Victoria that couldn't handle contact sports

@@vladnychyk4900 That's incredibly insensitive, given Tristan's sexual orientation. AFL has the 4th highest weekly attendance of any sport in the world (36,000 vs NRL 16,000), so objectively, it IS Australia's national sport (which I didn't even claim in my comment, by the way).

There is an AFL RU-vid video that explains the game pretty well (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XMZYZcoAcU0.html). Maybe you could do a reaction video?

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Haha that's a good comparison

LNP tight arses

ee-moo is correct. Find me any other Aboriginal word ending with the "you" sound.

They already piled on him after the previous video with his first 50 facts 😆 Re pronunciation of "emu" by Australians - if there is one widely accepted pronunciation, then linguistically, that is correct regardless of the origins of the word. And people in other countries can't determine what is correct pronunciation in Australia, especially when talking about a creature that is native to Australia.

and since then some of the power that was executed was taken away from the governor general thanks to this act. And I am not sure if the governor general has that power any more.

And plastic.

@A A actually you do say Aboriginals... with a capital A. That denotes you are talking about the Aboriginal Australians not a native people from any country.

@A A search youtube for: "Aboriginals" site:.gov.au

Except the Internet

I've tried that and love it! Tim Tam slams are the best

Thanks. Not the second part?

@@TristanKuhn no baha both parts of course, i will definitely be tuning in for more videos

Glad you enjoyed it

Tristan Kuhn ..I enjoy all your videos ..

It was also to get rid of the Constitutional arrangement that allowed 'state governments' to continue to prevent Aboriginals from voting - the arrangement was originally designed to enfranchise, but did not succeed in doing so.

CH3353N1NJ45 Couldn’t vote in federal elections until 1967 either.

@@wattlebough It's a lot more complicated than that. The rights of Aboriginal people to vote in federal elections (unless they personally had previously voted in a colonial election in their state) were stripped away by the Commonwealth Franchise Act (1902) and the Commonwealth Electoral Act (1918), but most had their right restored by amendments to the Commonwealth Electoral Act in 1949 (affecting those with the legal right to vote in state elections), and all Aboriginal people had their right to vote in federal elections restored by amendments to the Commonwealth Electoral Act in 1962. What the 1967 referendum did was to include Aboriginal people in the census, and to give the Commonwealth the exclusive right to make race laws. That made state laws that discriminated on the basis of race unconstitutional, with the effect of restoring Aboriginal people's right to vote in *state* elections (where they didn't already have it).

Australian citizenship did not exist until 1949. Prior to that date, we were British Subjects and had British passports, Any British subject (including NZ, Canada etc) who lived in Australia for the two years prior to 1949 (or were serving in the Australian military forces) were automatically granted Australian citizenship at that time. I know, because my Canadian born mother gained her Australian citizenship that way.

he has it written down

I don't haha. Made a list

I'd love to walk on the london bridge. Still pretty to look at though

Now that's crazy

I learned about that fact when doing my research but I learned when looking into it more that it's actually a myth. No aboriginal language has anything close to "kangaroo" for "I don't understand"

They didn't answer, "I don't understand," they answered with "gangarru" which in their language was their word for a grey kangaroo.

@@TristanKuhn So it's an oft repeated urban legend. Didn't know that!

@@RandomStuff-he7lu !Oh!

I had no idea what a "clapper-board" was until you described it haha

Tristan Kuhn yeah, it’s a really obscure Australian fact. Another one is that the first feature length film was shot in Australia. It was about Ned Kelly.