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Weird thing being Australian - we don't think it's huge. We think nothing of driving 12 hours to get from Sydney to Gold Coast etc. We are SO used to driving long distances and FLYING long distances. Just second nature to us.
@@hellabella8295 They do have a 200 year head start on us, but NSW's GDP is bigger than France's, and they are wingeing about the proposal they retire at 65. Our time will come, we will become a Superpower, if we can keep China out, they want our resources, many as yet untapped.
That is so true! I have an Indian mate who hates flying and the length of flights he avoids sounds like nothing to me. He would actually avoid travelling and holidaying because a 14 hour flight is torture for him. It takes me almost a full day flying to Europe from Sydney and I'd do it, no sweat. And even driving from Sydney to Melbourne to visit family for a holiday was something we'd do yearly. It's around a 10 hour drive, and you just do it.
Lol Tasmania, you called it an 'island thing on the bottom'......it is a state of Australia y'all!!! So funny. The often forgotten state of Australia?? Hello to all in Tassie, where I lived for several years, hoping you are all well!!!......💌
Don't worry guys, we're used to being forgotten :') I love inspecting maps in fiction to see if they remembered it, always exciting when it's actually there
This is so well researched... The platypus doesn't have a toxic bite. The male platypus has a poison spur on it's back legs. Egg laying mammals are refered to as monotremes. There are, in fact, three species of monotremes. The Platypus (ornithorhynchus anatinus) The Spiny Ant Eater (Echidna) The Easter Bunny. Two of these are native only to Australia.
I was once working in the UK and a colleague was telling me his wife and he were about to visit friends in Australia. I asked what their plans were. He said, "Well, we land in Perth in the morning, so we'll hire a car, visit friends in Adelaide for morning tea. Have lunch with other friends in Melbourne and perhaps afternoon tea or dinner with friends in Brisbane. Maybe on the second day we'll visit Eyre's Rock and the Great Barrier Reef." I had to burst his bubble. I just had to.
You have to realize americans get very little education he also had to look up what a Dingo is. But it made me laugh as well. I'm waiting to see his reaction when I told him a platapus is a mammal that lays eggs and to check out the Lyer bird I AM CANADIAN Lol Isn' t a kangaroo just an up hill haggis that came to Ozz from Scotland?
They missed it altogether in the video, and I haven't noticed anyone else here mention the Australian drop bears, which surprises me. They're found all over the country and can be a quite serious hazard to unwary visitors since they have a habit of dropping out the trees onto passers-by. Some are very large, and heavy! However, this only happens mainly around twilight, so you really only have to be careful for an hour or so after sunset.
@Black Sheep Biker Did you hear, they've named a subspecies they've identified in the Northern Territory Ursa australis tombolus s/sp 'Freddie Mercury' on account of its very prominent front teeth? Makes it sound cute, but you wouldn't wanna get bitten by one! (They carry a lot of diseases, apparently, transmitted through their bite.) :-)
@@the_person_in_the_photo Little? Some sub-species are a fair size, when full-grown. And, as Black Sheep Biker has pointed out, there's nothing little about their teeth! :-p
The "bitten by a platypus" bit annoyed me because it's a spur on the hind legs of males that distributes the venom. If I remember correctly, it was thought that the platypus was fake and that they'd just sewn together different animals for publicity reasons after being to a newly discovered land. I still find that hilarious 😂
Lol when you hear there is an egg laying mammal that has a duck bill and webbed feet and primarily lives underwater you would think it’s fake too, imagine hearing about a bird who gives birth to live young and produces milk and lives underground and you would get the same result, it would be unbelievable til you see it
I know this is an old video, but it's worth a mention. In 2023, QANTAS was rated the safest airline on the world and has won that title 8 times in the last 10 years.
Well done Ryan educating yourself. Been to the US 6 times and found many citizens there did not seem to know much about the world outside their country. I blame that on the media that seems very country-centric.
It never ceases to amaze me how Americans know so little about the rest of the world. I can't imagine what's taught in U.S. schools. Highway number one circumnavigates Australia, NOT how its referenced in the vid, as wheel spokes. Kangaroos cant walk backwards, but they can lie down and wriggle, so your kangaroo idea is flawed. Aus has about the same population as Texas, but is the size of the U.S. (less Alaska) Do you know there were boats before ancient Egypt times? Camels can swim, but to swim across the Indian ocean might be a stretch. And yes, Oz is very livable. We might have snakes, spiders and crocs, but no assault rifles. 😒
Camel's were imported to Australia for travel across the desert, they didn't magically disappear after the car took over. They run wild and make babies, we have no use for them so we export them back to where they came from.
America is big enough to be able to ignore the rest of the world and not care. It's only when you visit America that you find out how insulated they are from the rest of the world...
Camels were brought to Australia by Afghans many years ago for work in the outback, with the camels they brought over they also had their own Afghan handlers. When the camels were not used so much many were let loose and they multiplied like rabbits, maybe not in the same position but they multiplied a lot over the years
You're doing good mate, not many Americans come close to properly pronouncing Aussie slang or even regular English words with an Aussie accent. Don't let the sh#t stirrers convince you otherwise, you're doing great.
There are also about 250,000 people of Maltese ancestry living in australia ( a large influx came from Egypt and settled after the Suez crisis they were settled mainly in Melbourne ) with Malta itself only having a population of around 550,000
The national highway is so long because it essentially circles Australia near or not too far from the coast. It basically goes through all capital cities of Australia and though they tend to each have different names they all are part of the national highway hence why the distance is longer that the diameter of the earth once you add all the lengths together to get the total length. Melbourne was actually founded by two Tasmanians, Batman and Fawkner. Separately. Female kangaroos have three Vag1na, and often have one baby in the oven, one older one in the pouch and one already out of the pouch but still needing milk. Australia and it's territories do have active volcanos, one is on Heard Island deep in the southern Indians ocean between Australia mainland and Africa Qantas is one of the oldest airlines in the world and has an excellent safety record with no crashed in it's over one hundred years history
fun fact in australia if an aussie comes across a snake, spider or anything dangerous we will ignore it but when we come across an magpie or mozzie we will run for our lives
Australia's population is 26 million as of the beginning of 2022. That video was created a number of years ago. Americans are very shocked when you find out how large Australia is. Qantas is safest airline in the world and it is also one of the oldest. Most of Australia is a desert and it doesn't treat fools lightly. Aussies are taught at a young age "DON"T screw with the wildlife."
30% of Australia is only desert. But if you put that in context of land mass. It still swallow Europe. Not all Australian population live around the coast. Many people still live inland but not in the central centre as its a dry red desert there. The state of Victoria and NSW and Queensland has large towns all over the state not just on its coast. As they made out Australia is in this video. And I have seen a kangaroo jump backwards many times. So I don't know where they got that one from
Add.: One of our UNESCO sites is the stone homes and aquaculture systems at Budj Bim. They're some of the oldest remaining human constructions in the world at >6,600yo, and among the world's most extensive aquaculture systems to this day. (For context, the Cairn of Barnenez, which is usually 2nd place on "oldest constructions" lists online, is 6,800yo. For some reason, they always forget about us!)
I actually have been in a situation you described with a Kangaroo. I live on a farm in the bush, and have many Roo's hanging out on my property, and 2 of them are super friendly and have been around since they were joeys. One night I woke up to hearing noises in my hallway just outside my room, I went out to see what was going on and one of them I named Rudy was hoping up towards my bedroom. I had to usher him back outside, but yeah there is no going backwards for them, they just try to turn around , or hop and spin at the same time. I had to pick this guy up and turn him around... he was super friendly though, I wouldnt recommend it otherwise
Whoa. I'm English but spent a month touring Oz by motorbike in 2015. I saw a few grey kangaroos and they're mean looking. I would have locked myself in my bedroom and called the RSPCA or the Army
One of the very annoying things about this video (apart from the misinformation) was that every time he mentioned the unusual animals it showed a picture of African animals not Australian animals!
While respecting that I’m still fallible, and would still be making videos from a place of relative ignorance, I’m still sure I could research and make a video about Namibia or Mongolia or Kiribati without using images of wildlife from the wrong continent. Maybe I’d mispronounce the name of the capital, or not fully understand a particular cultural practice, but some of the errors in this video are egregious
They forgot to mention the dropbear fence, and the kangaroo-snake fence, which are two other fences that are right next to the dingo fence, but because they're designed to keep out these other two dangerous creatures, they're a different design. So what you have are three fences right next to each other, of varying heights and made of different materials, each to keep out a specific potentially deadly animal. The things we Aussies have to put up with! Like people that can't say "emu".
I used to work as a concierge in a 5star hotel, I had Americans ask about day trips, from Melbourne, to the Great Barrier Reef, Uluru and Tasmania. Had to try explain that it would be like a day trip from Miami to Boston or to Kansas...they couldn't believe how far it was...
A relative from England asked if he could take him to see where people lived underground and dug for opals if we weren’t busy one day! We are in Melbourne!!!!
A relative in England asked my folks if they could pick them up from the airport if they nabbed the bargain flight to Perth. Our reply was ummmm no. We’re in Melbourne 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I met some Americans overseas and they told me planned to come to Australia the following year for 2 weeks. I asked which part they were going to visit and they replied, all of it!
“Are we not counting that one part that’s separated? It’s own little island.” As a Tasmanian, I lost it at that bit 😂 Don’t worry, many people don’t count Tasmania. We get forgotten and left off of Australian maps all the time 😂
Don't worry Andrew ,it's a very beautiful "island"state,very picturesque ,diverse,there's snow ,little wineries, magnificent rivers & bush,even surprised me with underground caves down in Hastings, mainland Oz wouldn't be the same without "little ol"Tassie . I'm originally from Vic ,now up North in Qld. 🤗 Tasmania counts!
If you come North, you'll see a Golden Orb Weaving Spider. I rang the museum when one moved onto my laundry got onto the arachnologist who assured me that all spiders are venomous but only two have a biting record and no one has died since they came up with an antivenin. The interstate flights using recycled cooking oil is garbage, that's diesel engines and is not suitable for flight.
Dingo fence was built to try keep the predatory dingos out of the southern/eastern pastural regions that had sheep. Dingos were killing them at a fast rate, so the fence was built and is still maintained to this day.
@@jackymossman6383 Different fence mate. There is the dog fence, And the rabbit proof fence. Dog fence runs through parts of the Eastern States. The rabbit proof fence cuts off the bottom corner of West Australia
The reason that Australia is a really safe country (even with the snakes and spiders) is that we have free healthcare and it is coded into us what to do when you see a snake or spider.
Ya but foreigners don't get free health Care n am homeless n my aunt that's lived there 20 years still don't got her aussie status cuase there hella shady on that
Australia also invented WiFi :) The CSIRO invents a whole lot of stuff that's really cool. The CSIRO is a government organisation that does research and development. Camels in Australia were brought over and then allowed to become wild, I think they escaped then formed a group after their escape. Yeah, I moved to Aus from the USA in 2005 and have no intention of moving back. I love it here.
Yeah, a friend of mine was part of the group of CSIRO scientists who just invented drought resistant wheat by putting the genes from a native drought tolerant plant
Okay just saying he left out so many awesome facts, like Australia invented wifi, the pace maker, goon bags, eskys, fridges, penicillin also made google maps and the flight recorder known as the black box, ultrasound scanner, the electric drill and many many more items this is all i could think of the top of my head lol
When I was at school, I had to learn the capital city of each USA state and most European countries. I also read about other cultures so traveling was rewarding for me not mysterious. How could you not know that Australia's land mass almost matches the US?
My dad's generation had to do that, too- be able to name the world's capitals. And their flags. When he joined the navy, flags & pennants became more important, he could rattle off every ship's flag he saw in a busy harbour. It's great general knowledge and encourages you to learn more about the world.
You overthink things way too much.. but also, yes we may have venomous snakes etc, but Australia is “liveable” because overall it has good living conditions, for example access to healthcare, education, infrastructure, general stability… and the lack of mass shootings
RE: Languages and dialects; we have over 300 Indigenous nations, and over 800 Indigenous languages and dialects, incl. sign languages and dialects. Then we have the hundreds of introduced languages of international origin on top of all that. We learn a minimum of two languages in primary school, and more in high school. English is compulsory; the others vary by school, and incl.: Arabic, Auslan, Mandarin, French, German, HIndi, Bahasa Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Modern Greek, Classical Greek, Latin, Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese, and 24 Indigenous languages (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander; though some of us take/took South Sea Islander languages as electives), which are usually localised or regionalised.
Australia is very multicultural..many people have immigrated here especially from Europe and Asia over the decades. Which adds so much more diversity to our culture..especially in the way of cuisine.
I used to work at the Sheraton Hotel in Perth, for a while. We used to get SO fed up with American tourists telling us how BIG Texas is, everything's BIG in Texas and so on and on and on. One day I'd had enough and told this guy that Texas fits into the Australian State of Western Australia 3.5 times. 11 times into the whole of Australia. Its true! THAT shut him up!
@@cryptoskid117 I stand corrected, I didn't realise that the stations had been sold off. And to correct my original statement, it wasn't one station, it was several that basically adjoined each other controlled by one conglomerate, and was taught to us at school as being one property instead of one holding, the total holdings was just under the size of Texas. The total holdings at one stage by just one part of the conglomerate was around 3% of Oz at around 230,000sqkm. Currently the largest holder of land in Oz is Gina Reinhart with 92,000sqkm, but not in one property. So yeah, apologies, times have change, and now I'm up to date.
And yet the GDP of Texas is higher than all of Australia combined. Texans aren't flaunting it. Americans love Australians. That's a fact. No need to get sour about what they don't know that they don't know. Sounds like they were just trying to make friendly conversation.
😂😂😂😂 I'm in Perth. I remember the big potato fiasco of the time. Tony ?, a farmer, who founded and owns Spudshed got in trouble with the Potato Board, right in the beginning of starting his business, for having too large a potato supply (his shop is called SPUDSHED ffs, what did they think he was selling?). It ended up in court. In typical Govt Dept style, he was told he would have to destroy a huge amount of his supply...he basically told them to shove it, he would not sell them, but would not destroy them either. He was all over the news and people backed him because we all agreed with him that it would be a huge amount of unnecessary waste. He ended up giving them away. If you went to the shop and bought anything you got a 4kg bag of potatoes, if you bought a weeks shopping, you could walk away with two/three 4kg bags. Great marketing strategy, his business boomed and there was NOTHING the Potato Board could do about it because they weren't being sold😂😂😂😂😂 What a legend!! Tony basically became a local celebrity, overnight, most noted for his workshirt, shorts and eyebrows🤣🤣👍👍🇭🇲🇭🇲 He's still on tele advertising Spudshed, showing off his grandkids🤣🤣🤣
One thing that USA Americans & South Americans took from here are eucalyptus trees because they're very hardy & good for building purposes. Peru is full of them because their native trees break unexpectedly. Btw we call them gum trees, yep just gum trees because I guess of the sap. This is where eucalyptus oil comes from.
They're also grown in Spain.. hence the wild fires in California and Spain recently, as for falling branches there are not called Widow makers for nothing, they also have a tendency to topple over in high winds. Personally I wouldn't have one anywhere near my house although they do look good in a forest.
12:18 When he says that if you combine all the sails of the opera house you would create a perfect sphere, he was talking about each SIDE of the pointed sections being a separate sail ... so 9 sections equals 18 sails, which when combined create a perfect sphere. Basically you split each section down the spine then fold both sides 90 degrees so the two front edges meet to create one smoothly curved surface
Glad your checking out Australia,its a awesome home to us Aussies. Come on down under,you will love it. But yes its huge, very diverse in its land and cultures and a wonderful place to be. As a Aussie ,loved your video.
Almost all the undiscovered species in Australia are insects and spiders, but there are fish still being discovered along with frogs and turtles, and even plants. For some strange reason Australia has this label of "the most of" certain things like 1500 species of Ants almost half what exists in the whole word. The most parrot species, the most reptile species. It has 8.3% of the worlds bird species also.
Great reaction video, Ryan. The source video has some dodgy info. Some corrections/explanations: - Yes, Melbourne has the largest population of people of Greek heritage outside Greece in the world (in fact, I think it is the third largest Greek city including those that are actually in Greece, after Athens and Thessaloniki). Most came out after WWII. We had a large immigration of people displaced from the war, including Greeks, Italians, Yugoslavians. There have been several waves of migrants, often related to wars, including Vietnamese in the 1970s and Sudanese more recently. There have always been migrants just seeking a better life from the UK, New Zealand, China and India. 26% of Australians were born overseas and 50% have at least one parent who was born overseas. - Highway 1 is not a load of highways crisscrossing the interior, as shown in the video, but a road that circumnavigates the nations (i.e. a circuit running along the coast, more or less) - The dingo fence is to keep dingoes (native dogs) out of the farms of southeastern Australia. Dingoes have a predilection for killing sheep - Yes, only 25 million people live in Australia, which is a bit smaller than the contiguous 48 states. The population density is 3 people per km^2 (9 per mi^2), the third least densely populated nation in the world (after Mongolia and Namibia). - If you put a kangaroo in a narrow hallway with an advancing end wall, it would kick down the wall. - Yes, we do have lots of land words ending in ie or y, such as bicky (biscuit), chippy (carpenter), bricky (bricklayer), sparky (electrician), footy (football - Rugby/rugby league in QLD, NWS and ACT and Aussie rules elsewhere), barbie (barbecue), bookie (bookmaker), as well as o, such as smoko (work break), compo (workers' compensation), ambo (ambulance officer). - Yes, Australia is a big wool exporter. They used to say that Australia rode on the sheep's back, suggesting that a large amount of export income came from wool. However, more recently export income comes more from iron ore and coal exports as well as eduction (foreign school and university students - dropped a lot in the last couple of years due to COVID restrictions). - Yes, marsupials, such as kangaroos, wallabies, koalas and wombats give birth to tiny babies that then mature by suckling in the pouch. - Camels were used to transport goods across the interior in the 1800s. They fared a lot better than horses in the arid conditions. They were led by Afghans. But they couldn't compete once the railways came and were let loose and bred like crazy. They are the largest herds of wild camels in the world. It is true that they are highly valued in the middle east and are exported there. By the way, Australia also bizarrely exports sand to Saudi Arabia, but of the special properties which make it ideal for sandblasting and construction. Talk about selling coal to Newcastle. - The sails of the Opera House are each a segment of the same diameter sphere. Think about cutting up an orange peel. There will be points. The rationale is that it is more efficient to use moulds with the same shape than having curving shapes that are all different. I don't think that is the same as saying that if you put them all together you would get a sphere, though. - In addition to having the oldest fossils in the world, Australia has some "living fossils" - stromatolites. These are structures made from bacteria that look like stones. They live in shallow pools on the Western Australian coast. There are fossil stromatolites that are 3.7 million years old. - I think it is ridiculous to say that only 25% of Australia's species have been discovered. How do "they" know that there are three times as many undiscovered as discovered species if they haven't been discovered yet? - There is some truth to saying that poisonous spiders wear signs. One of them is the redback spider which has a red steak on its back. - Although everyone knows that there are many venomous animals, the animals that kill most people are horses, cows and dogs (www.ncis.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/NCIS-fact-sheet-Animal-related-deaths.pdf). There were no confirmed deaths from spiders. - The "one part that is separated" is Tasmania, the smallest state, which is a beautiful place with lots of national parks. - Qantas has trialled using a mixture of conventional jet fuel and biofuels in an effort to improve its sustainability record. That has not impacted on its impeccable safety record (www.airlineratings.com/ratings/qantas/). Qantas is famous for its safety record, which even made it to the silver screen in Rain Man, when Dustin Hoffman's character refused to fly on any other airline because he knew that they had never crashed.
Awesome description of a Kangaroo’s attitude. Yes it would stand on its tail and kick down that wall. Then it would move forward. Hint don’t f*** with a kangaroo.
Yes there have been human deaths from both Red Backs and Australia's most deadly spider the Sydney Funnel Web. Last death was from a Funnel Web in 1979. Red Back anti-vemon developed in 1956 and the Funnel Web anti-venom in 1980
•If you thought Australia was about a quarter the size of the US, that's even smaller than our state of Western Australia which is 1/3 the landmass of Australia and 3.9 times bigger than Texas. •Yes we do have deadly spiders, snakes etc but most live in the bush and tend to be scared of humans. •If you cut up an orange into different segments and bend the two points of a segment in, it would be like the point on our Opera House sails. •Emu is pronounced Eem-you •That little island down under Downunder is Tasmania and a state of Australia, it would not be included in the vertical measurement because the ocean separates it from the mainland, so technically not one whole land measure. •Qantas uses recycled cooking oil to fly it's planes internally, not overseas at this stage. It's also the oldest airline in the world and holds the World Aviation Industry safest airline record. •Kangaroos can have one baby in the pouch and one in the womb at the same time, and during drought, can suspend the growth of the one in the womb safely, and Kangaroos CAN NOT walk backwards however, they're pretty quick at literally hopping up, balancing on their tail, while they turn their body 180° and hop off in the direction they came from! You can't fool a roo! •Giant animals in Australia watch: Muttaburrasaurus: life in Gondwana on Norman Yeend's YT channel. •How WW1 ended? watch: John Monash the Australian Corps and WW1 on The History Guy's YT channel.
There has to be at least 40 million snakes here. I ended up putting crim safe screens in just to keep out the rats and snakes. Even then I left one of the screen doors open for like 15mins and a damn carpet snake decided to vacation in my bedroom, my dog woke me up growling at it... it was trying to strangle his chicken toy. Pretty sure its the same one that keeps trying to get into the house. Last time I saw it he was going from window to window trying to get in. Then there was the time a goanna surprised us as we were making the bed one time, we lifted the pillows to shake them and out pops this freakin huge goanna. Or the time the dog was barking at the mat outside the back door, we pulled it up to discover a whole nest of red belly blacks. Its fun living in the bush.
QANTAS is literally one of the safest airline carriers in the world. They only use the eco-fuel for interstate flights, not international ones. Kudos to them for thinking about the environment. And obviously, if they are still one of the safest airlines in the world, it's working.
"Readers familiar with aviation safety and its history will perhaps be unsurprised to see Australian flag carrier Qantas come out on top. The airline, whose name is an acronym for its former moniker of Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services, is well known the world over for having an impressive safety record"
I remember when Dustin Hoffman in “Rain Man” delivered that statistic about which airline had the best safety record. There was an immediate increase in Qantas ticket sales! 😆
QANTAS' rep for safety and service had dropped to all time lows during the leadership of their last dodgy CEO (recently gone). We were so proud of that excellence, but sadly that is a thing of the past.
@@claudiag8097QANTAS certainly decayed over the years. From being an airline with the 2nd youngest fleet, a great safety record and well-trained cabin staff to.... what it is now. I wish we were back near the top in reputation, but I offer a couple of excuses- small airlines covering vast distances struggle to raise capital in the way larger ones covering (relatively) smaller distances can. Hence older planes, scrimping on maintenance. And the most patient, calm, well-trained crew in the world would struggle to deal with the ever-more-entitled passengers of today. We're becoming a nation of Karens.
A dingo is a native dog. Though not really genetically related to canines. They can attack people, mainly because some people are too stupid to realise that they're not your family pet and don't feed them.
Oh by the way, a lot of our 'beaches' can't be reached because of the terrain. Us Aussies think that Bondi beach is one of the WORST of our beaches. There's so much of our country that is uninhabitable, plus there are still places here that have never been stepped on by humans.
I loved how they mentioned the pink lakes of Western Australia. We have pink lakes in other states especially South Australia. Lake Hellier and Lake Alexandrina a couple. The camels were introduced to Australia in the 1800s because it was near on impossible to transport anything across the centre of Australia due to the heat which was perfect for camels. To this day we have a train that goes from Adelaide to Darwin that is called the Ghan which is named after the people from Afghanistan who came over with the camels and worked on the camel trains.
Hey! You want to go on a train trip!? An Orient Express train trip! ? There is a train called the Ghan! It's a luxury train. Takes 3 day to go from the south of Australia to the north. They stop and take you to the good places to go on the way. I'm not a tour operator. My extended family come from the "muleteers". From Chile, helping early South Australian mining and settling!
With regards to the camels they thought the camels would do better in the desert. They tried the same thing here in Arizona, also mainly a desert. The camels didn't take but boy do we have lots of horses that were introduced by Columbus. Come to my surpise to find out that donkeys are actually African and not native to the Americas either but they are all around Mexico and the southern deserts of the USA. Arizona even has a town with a donkey for the mayor! (Oatman, AZ)
In 1984 a group of Australian Aboriginal people living a traditional nomadic life were encountered in the heart of the Gibson desert in Western Australia. They had been unaware of the arrival of Europeans on the continent, let alone cars - or even clothes.23
Unless you come to Australia you might not get it. But to us Australians it all makes sense. Remember Australia is a tropical country typically tropical countries have a lot of undiscovered plant, species ect...
They're NOT called Ee-moos ... it's eem-yoos. Geez. Also, that 'little state' (Tasmania) is actually about the size of Ireland, Switzerland or the state of West Virginia in the USA. And Qantas is one of the safest airlines in the world.
@@coradesune7537 okay but the correct way to pronounce it is emyoo as it’s a native Australian animal therefore the Australian way is right and the American way is just wrong it’s not different because of accents it’s just wrong
The kangaroos sort of lean back on the tail and spin , it’s really cool to watch. Just saw it in my garden, a mum and Joey went down the wrong path, mum had to react fast to get away. Never felt threatened by one.
@@soils1111 I think Thessaloniki now has that honour, with Melbourne in third place. And with over a third of Aussies claiming Irish decent, and Melbourne a greater percentage than any other Australian city, we could well give Dublin, Liverpool and Boston a run for their money there too.
QANTAS is the safest and one of the oldest Airlines anywhere. They have never lost a plane which is why John Travolta bought one of their big planes and became a top QANTAS pilot. He came back regularly to take his updated exams and keep his flight hours up, we often didn’t know he was our Captain on those flights but every now and then he would appear after landing for fun. His late wife Kelly Preston went to school in Adelaide and grew up here. She may have been born in Hawaii but she was an Aussie. We are getting close to 26 million people and we like space to move around in. Italians should be on that list of most people too. Maybe if an American hadn’t have made that video? We just love it when someone from another Country tells us about ourselves. Sarcasm is our second language. We have over 100,000 camels that roam free in our desert. They are now in plague proportions and coming into outback towns. People have to stay inside until they leave, about 2 days. They break off the top of taps and drink the towns water supply. Camels were used to settle the outback and were bought from overseas. When they were finished with them they were set free. Now we sell many back to the original Countries they came from because we have the only disease free camels in the world. They will still have to cull them. We don’t like it when people ignore the State of Tasmania. Or leave it off a map, it is very beautiful. It is also the place the only mass shooting was and why no one can have a gun now. Unless you are a farmer or a Police Officer. In my State the Police didn’t have guns for many years, not until someone killed some Police Officers. They can still only shoot to kill, not wound. Then they are guilty until proven innocent of murder. So they had better have lots of proof there was no other way out. My sister did not use her gun once in her Police career. I have watched a Kangaroo give birth and they are smaller than gummy bears. A female can have two others in her pouch of different ages while having a third. The eldest is usually ready to leave and she has to sometimes show it the way out. Those little pink babies have to make their way through the fur from ground level, all the way to the top of the pouch by itself. Then inside and find the one spare milk nipple where it is attached until it is big enough with fur to put it’s head outside. They don’t all make it up to the top and it looks like hard work when you are so tiny. The Mama Kangaroo does remain still until it gets there.
Mama roo also licks a pathway up her fur to show the baby the way. Roo joeys are born only partly gestated and actually do the majority of their developing in the pouch, not the uterus.....hence the size.
The little island is called Tasmania (Tas or Tassie for short). A lot of people think you can get around it a day, but to truly see the whole state you need months here. Honestly I have lived in Tassie for 37 of my 39 years, and still haven't seen most of it.
The full story of Australian beach bathing starts with it being illegal and a journalist taking offense at this. So he went swimming one weekend and took offense that he wasn't arrested. Next week he wrote the story of how the police failed in their duty and that next weekend he would be back so be there or be prepared to cop another serve. The police were there and asked the journalist to come with them, but he wasn't under arrest. The police commissioner met and decided that police would not arrest people swimming preferring to arrest rapists and murderers. This started Australia's love of the beach and a cottage industry of council rules, regulations and fines over what could and couldn't be worn on the beach. This ended in the '70's when women were finally allowed to bathe topless, a practice that has stopped due to skin cancer caused by the damaged ozone layer. Which is just one more reason why we all need to save our environment.
As others have said, I'll also join the chorus - as an Australian - QANTAS is the premium airline as well as most prolific for flights all over Australia even to remote parts of the nation (aka 'rural Australia').
Plus, QANTAS has never had a fatal jet airliner crash. And, the "used cooking oil" fuel the video was talking about is Sustainable Aviation Biofuel and is progressively taking over from traditional petroleum based aviation fuel all over the world.
I live at the base of Mt Disappointment and I can tell you right now, it’s no disappointment. The bush fires, storms, overflowing waterfalls and deadly snakes and spiders that mountain produces is insane. Amazing place to hike tho!
The word 'selfie' was only founded in 2002, when an Australian man, Nathan Hope, got drunk at his 21st birthday and posted a picture of his stitched lip with the caption “sorry about the focus, it was a selfie”
Heya Ryan, I have always loved telling Americans when I was a taxi driver in the 90's that Australia was in fact the same size as America. The reaction was so priceless 🤣🤣🤣
I’ll give you another one, the real name of Melbourne is Naram and the reason it’s not called Batmania is because John Batman was a Aboriginal murderer and his brother was a genocidal manic who butchered Aboriginals into extinction in Tasmania.
Not quite true, The Natives were moved to an Island off the coast of Tasmania there was 3 major tribes in that population who all had blood feuds. The Aboriginal's actually committed most of the slaughter them selves. The English assumed that they were all one Tribe and not separate tribes. It is true that they very quickly found this out and did nothing to separate them though.
To clarify, Australia is the largest exporter of Camel Meat, Australian Camels are meatier than Middle Eastern Camels. Edit: The older known direct ancestor to horses, was indeed, Duck-Sized.
I live in Australia and the fact about Qantas even though it sounds so sketchy Qantas was actually one of the safest airlines and has never had a jet engine crash 🎉
Im actually from Australia, and thast tiny island is Tasmania it broke off from the country lots of yeass ago. We still count it apart of Australia. I used to live in Melbourne but not anymore. And one day America will learn how to say emu properly
I love your surprise at the size of Australia, it is common for many people including Australians. I once lived in northern Queensland (Queensland is a state of Aus in the top right corner) and was visited by a cousin from England who wanted to go to the barrier reef one day and then visit my relations in Sydney the next. It took a map and an airline schedule to convince them that is something you just didn't do (Sydney was 2700 kms from my house and the reef was an 8-10 trip in a boat). We lived in a state where if we wanted to visit our state capital it would be 14 hours non stop driving at 60mph to get there (Texas would be the second or third smallest state if it was in Aust). My daughter lives in a community (SE of Charleville) of
My fathers family are from Miles QLD. He and I went there to see them a number of years back and they talked about going "down the road" to Chinchilla (50km away). A 1 hour round trip was "down the road" to them. Blew me away as someone who's lived in a city all their lives.
@@SleakaJ Yeah, when I visited my daughter she suggested we go for a swim at a pool in the next small town across from them (100kms away) as her town pool was out of order and the temp was 40 degrees. I commented that was a long way to go for a swim. Her reply without even drawing breath - "stop thinking like a city person"
I know this scenario. We had an auntie, who visited us from England when we lived in Adelaide. She thought we could spend a weekend seeing Ayer’s Rock in the Northern Territory. Overseas people have no comprehension of the size of our country.
My mum drove from Innisfail (near Cairns) to Rockhampton and it took 12-13 hours one way. Then we drove all the way back the next day. My friends in SA asked me if we managed to get to Brisbane. I said nowhere close. You'd be surprised how many people in other states don't realise how far away Cairns is from Brisbane.
1 thing wrong with the original video, is that the venom of a platypus isn't in its bite. Its from a spur on its leg (Fun fact: they don't have nipples, and the milk is secreted through the skin. I think that may also be true of the echidna too) FYI Deadly venomous snakes are found everywhere in Australia. I live in inner city Melbourne and had a Tiger Snake come to within 3 foot of my bare feet only 2 months ago. The dingo fence was built to protect livestock. There was also the "Rabbit proof fence" after the introduction of rabbits proved to be an environmental disaster and reaching plague numbers (one of our many environmental f*ups)
Yet I live in Brisbane and have only seen a tree snake and a carpet python goes to show ‘yes we have them’ but your not likely to see them a lot, not like Americans think we have to shake them out of our shoes every morning
the camels were bought to Australia to cross the desert. when rail lines went in they were set loose and thrived. nowadays they are the source of the highest quality and undiseased camels in the world
Our second smallest, Victoria, is about the size of the United Kingdom or a little smaller than California. Tasmania, the smallest state is about the same size as Ireland, Switzerland or the state of West Virginia in the USA and roughly twice the size of Taiwan.
The Greeks from what I remember came here for fishing. The Aussies weren't utilising a lot of the seafood like sardines, pilchards, squid etc. From what I understand a lot of Mediterranean immigrants expanded the fishing industry here
A lot of Greece and Italian migrants moved to Australia after world war two The dingo was literally to keep wild dogs ( dingos) getting into the more populated farming land
As an Australian, I feel Australia is misunderstood by a lot of other countries, particularly America, but I am very glad we are isolated (geographically) from other major countries, I'm quite happy with my fairy bread, Bunnings sausage sizzle and bogans. America can keep their thanksgiving and shitty laws over their side of the world
I think you missed the bit at 4:05 Ryan. There is one single property in Oz that can easily contain the whole country of South Korea. (South Korea can fit into the whole of Australia 75 times.) The largest property is in South Australia. Anna Creek Station has an area of 23,677 km2 (9,142 sq mi; 5,851,000 acres) which is slightly larger than Israel. It is 8,000 km2 (2,000,000 acres; 3,100 sq mi) larger than its nearest rival, Alexandria Station in the country's Northern Territory.
