Aussie Answers Web’s Most Searched Questions about Australia 🇦🇺 

The soil in the Australian outback is red because of the high iron content

"If you want to be Australian and consider yourself Australian you are Australian." Me in my head: WE ARE ONE BUT WE ARE MANY AND FROM ALL THE LANDS ON EARTH WE COME. WE SHARE A DREAM AND SING WITH ONE VOICE. I AM, YOU ARE, WE ARE AUSTRALIAN. Sorry couldn't help myself. :)

Australian is certainly more about who you are on the inside, than how you look on the outside.

Australia’s netflix used to have a very limited library on Netflix when it was first introduced compared to America for example. Nowadays they have a huge selection on Netflix.

I’m Australian but watching this just made me realise how confusing our country is sometimes

He answered all the questions in the best way he can undoubtedly....

When I went to Germany, a shop owner asked my family where we were from. We responded with “Australia,” to which she said “oh, you don’t look Australian at all!” This is because we are Chinese-Australian... but we are all Australian citizens. I feel as though many foreigners perceive Australians as white people wearing singlets who say “g’day mate” to others 24/7.

"Are Australian's friendly?" Based on his answer and my experience as a Canadian, it sounds like Australian's are just warm Canadians

I think the "are australians asain" question was more about how Australia is occasionally considered to be in South-East Asia so could Australians technically be classified as Asians? That's how I interpreted the question anyway. P.S. green and gold are our national colours because they are the colours of our national plant, the Golden Wattle

I was told the Green and Gold colours were representative of the wattle tree

New Zealand is two islands! The Kiwis watching this will be freaking out 😅 And PLEASE know that the vast majority of Aussies do NOT wear hats with corks 😅

I enjoy watching these vids, especially when Walter is in them. I'm an Aussie too and he does a decent job explaining us to the rest of the world. If these had been made before I married my American husband, I could have made him watch this stuff and understand that "being pissed" is a good thing 😉 😂 Please do an episode on colloquial slang.

Just a brief history lesson about the Australian accent, it was “created” I guess you could say, by the first children born the colonies. Because the convicts were from all over Britain which already had hundreds of different accents the children would pick up bits and pieces of the different accents and it eventually over time formed into one accent. It also has influence from Aboriginal Australians and Americans. So yeah it was formed by bits and pieces of different British accents and slowly became its own thing.

1:40 There is a UN convention about definition of island and continent. We promised to call Greenland as largest island and Austrailia as smallest continent.

American guy: America is surrounded by water so isn’t America an island??? Canada & Mexico have left the chat

I'm Indonesian living in Australia, and yes Australians are really nice. Walking in the park and they tend to say hello or as simple as say good morning. It's not rare as well you'll have small talk with them on the tram or train or bus :)

You’re a fair dinkum Aussie mate, proud & educated & I must say this channel is brilliant 🍻🇦🇺👍

As an Australian with Tasmanian Indigenous heritage I love how Walter stated we have many different languages. Each different tribe area is a different country with a different language/dialect (how Koreans have different dialects for different areas) We don't refer to ourselves as Aboriginals though, it depends what part of the Australia you are from.....These are some of our names for our areas.. A couple of examples are, Tasmania - Palawa(me) ..NSW & VIC - Koori ...QLD, North West NSW - Murri and many more, its all easily found in a google search. I can't learn my own dialect as all full blood Palawa's are deceased and the language lost (we are trying to recover it from old recordings) We also have 3 flags, please don't forget Torres Straight Island peoples (native Indigenous from the Torres Straights Islands (Also Mer Islanders and Murray Islanders) Walter is a fantastic representation of our country and I feel very proud every time he is on! Subscribing to him now : D This has been a fantastic series, all the guests are so lovely and Billy is a wonderful host... P.S I'm trying to learn Korean language (Hangul) and its really fun!

The Australian outback tends to have red soil mostly because Australia is such an old continent so our soils tend to contain a lot more iron oxides (rust) than normal, this is also why we have some of the world's largest iron ore deposits

안녕하세요 코지티비 월터 입니다! 다들 영상 잘 봐주세요! 호주를 대표해서 열심히 대답했어요 코리안빌리 지지해주세요!! Hi guys! Walter here! Enjoy the video! I did my best to represent Australia! Support Korean Billy!

nice answers! and as someone born and raised in Australia to immigrant parents, I 100% agree that it makes me no less and no more Australian than any other person living here :)

As a Brazilian I’m really confused whenever an Australian team is playing bc I always think it’s Brazil there lol

Finally Walter is getting the spotlight! Hehehe. Love thisss! I can listen to him talk all day. 😅

The fly sound effect is so realistic that I just turn my head around. 😂 3:13

i am aboriginal and my teacher told me why we have the accent, so basically aboriginal peoples had to learn english and because they had an accent and the white peoples kinda just picked it up and it didactic really change from the aboriginal accent, im not sure how accurate this is buttt its just what my aboriginal educational culture program thing told me

I'm an Australian and I was brought up knowing Australia is the largest island and smallest continent. But, since Australia is classified as a continent then it cannot hold the title of the largest island so Greenland (which is four times smaller than Australia) was dubbed the largest country. Oceania is a region not a continent.

There are always lot of things to learn about Australia. It is never ending........ HI Chantelle and John. Great to see you guys here.

Hi there, I'm An Jun Gyu, a high school 2nd grade student, and I've been self-quarantining & practicing social distancing for about 2 months. So, where're you quarantined & how've you been? Mine was fantastic. Are you hard these days? Same. Mood. This video about the aussie answere web's most searched questions about Australia was really legit! I haven't even thought about "straya". Aww, you're such a cutie, Walter. So stay healthy & thx for uploading these videos! I love you so much!

Australians always give good vibes, idk if its the accent but they seem very chill and drama-free if that makes sense

Definitely Australian if your born there or as Walter was brought up here l believe your Australian

6.20 mark - Chantelle from South Africa "No, in sport they're our hated rivals". Hsss...we love you too! Hahaha :). Great comment, Chantelle, you made me laugh :)

Walter has done an awesome job answering these. I thought I could shed some additional light though. - island? Australia has always been informally called the island continent. But most geographers state this is mutually exclusive. Therefore if Australia is a continent, it's not an island and visa versa. It's considered by most to be the smallest continent. But if it were an island, it would be the largest (roughly 3.6 times larger than Greenland), - Aussie Netflix bad? Every country has varied Netflix content. Australia's are familiar with US and UK content and annoyed in the occasion that a particular title cannot be found domestically. In terms of number of titles, Japan reigns supreme having the highest number of titles available (a lot of foreign content plus Japanese titles unique to Japan). Australia has the 6th highest number of titles globally, however this still puts it behind other English speaking countries such as US, UK, Canada and Ireland. - Soil red? Unique animals? A side note before the explanation. The Australian outback is actually very old. It was the first major landmass to break away from Gondwana in the Jurassic period over 145 million years ago (every other continent other than Antartica was more or less connected by land bridges, even post cretaceous period. This is said to contribute heavily to the unique flora and fauna. However it also contributes to the soil. The surface soil of the outback millions of years old, being older than even the deepest layers of the Grand Canyon. It's relatively unchanged and untouched from ice ages and geological movement. The red comes from iron oxides and is unfortunately not fertile enough for regular crops. - Are Australians Asian? Interesting question. Australia is one of the most culturally diverse countries. Australia has one of the highest rates of foreign born (almost double the percentage as the US). Sydney and Melbourne have not only the highest rates of foreign born (Sydney is 44%), but are considered among the most culturally diverse. In the early 90's, the Prime Minister at the time (Paul Keating) suggested that Australia needed to move focus away from its British past and look forwards to Asia for growth. Although Australia is close to Asia and in terms of trade, Australia has considered itself as part of an Asian trading bloc. The change of focus helped the country maintain the longest period of GDP growth of any developed nation (30 years - only just coming to an end due to bushfires and covid-19). The Asian focus has led to languages being taught in schools shifting away from European to Asian languages. After English, 3 of the 4 most spoke languages spoken in Australia are Asian languages. Australian universities have the highest rates for foreign students with almost all of them coming from Asian countries (education is 3rd largest industry). Australia is the number one destination for Chinese emigrants, with Sydney and Melbourne being the two main cities for Chinese millionaires as well. From 2003 to 2017, China invested more money in Australia year on year than any other country (that investment has slowly moved to the US, but not dramatically). Australia has become more Asian as a result of these changes. Sydney is 28% Asian in ancestry as of the last census, but is is growing at a faster rate than any other ethnic group. Cities that are similar would be Vancouver and the Bay Area. Friendly? Yes. Although I will add that Australian tend to lack a filter. This means that opinions also bubble to the surface and are expressed more readily - including the bad opinions. Thankfully one thing that has slowly changed is that with a more diverse range of people has come exposure and an understanding. Australia has come a long way from the very curated immigration policies of the White Australia policy. And with an understanding and exposure comes a reduction in racism. However racists and sexists exist everywhere in the world. The Australian ones though speak their mind due to the lack of a filter, and as a result there is more noise from those who are racists whereas in some other countries there is a mix of the vocal, and those who speak under their breath. It's nasty regardless and everyone of this mind should seek to understand others. Why do Australians sounds like they do? Linguists aren't completely sure, but there are theories. The one I like the most also explains why regions far from each other sound the same. British penal colonies existed in many areas, separated be distances far enough they never came together. But one thing was common among them - they were full of many different types of accents and people from all over the British Isle. There was in-fighting and in a way to lessen this, be understood or not be recognised as coming from a region, would flatten their accents. This flattened accent would be passed onto children and the next generations. Once colonies were joined by road, and the new Australians spoke with one another it was noted the accents were similar. The Australian accent would have evolved and become more complex over the next century as the accents in the US did (which was 100 years ahead in terms of colonisation). However with the introduction of the radio, TV and internet the "young" Australian accent will be affected by immigration and globalisation in a way the US accent never did. Meat? I don't think the smell is.a thing. But Australians are the biggest meat eaters per capita (just ahead of the US). Australians are the biggest lamb eaters per capita and is the biggest exporter of beef globally (when both frozen and fresh are combined). It has been fairly easy to grow this export with Australia being one of the few exporting countries that has remained free of disease. Billy, thank you for your wonderful content. This and all of your other videos are extremely informative and enjoyable.

Fun fact: Quokka mother’s throw their young at pray when attacked save themselves

The green and yellow is a representation of wattle.

The Australian comes mostly from Cockney English and Irish as these were the accents of the early convicts that arrived.

This guys seems like he had enough of “Are you? You don’t look like?!” When he says that he is Australian, I truly understand him.

I think Walter really hit the nail on the head when he spoke about being an Australian. I sometimes wonder at the sheer multi-cultural mess that is Australia. I grew up in a small town and we did wave at cars passing and we did hang out with the other kids in our street and we did have barbecues with our neighbours. I would like to think that on a large scale that Australians as a whole are FRIENDLY however not everyone and not all the time. There are obviously going to be exceptions. I grew up with the "treat someone like you want to be treated" mentality and I think that that's the best way to describe how Australia is. We try to accept different cultures and different languages and convey that Australia is a fun safe place to visit and live. (Well not at the moment with the virus but you know what I mean). I was talking to a Korean I met recently who has been in Australia for 10 years and he said when he first arrived everyone was very helpful toward him. Taking him to where he needed to go, helping him get his footing but now with everyone glued to their phones it's hard to approach people or even need to. I think that slowly the culture of the friendly Australian is being diminished because we don't need to be friendly with our neighbours or with strangers to find where we need to go or to meet people. This does make me sad. As always, I really enjoyed this episode and as an Australian I found it interesting to hear Walters point of view on Australia's most googled questions. It definitely got me thinking. Thanks for the good content :)

finally been waiting for this. love this ozzie guy!

Thank you to the young man from Australia! It was very interesting and answers delivered by a wonderful young man with a great voice.

Loving the videos guys. Keep them coming!

"The land down under" **thinking of the song**

3:13 that buzzing gave me anxiety rip earphone users lmao

Love this episode!👏🏼

I enjoy each and every video, nice work.great and thoughtful answers by Walter, especially the last one. We need such thoughtfulness in the biased world we've now

I was pretty sure I was taught that Australia is an island and a continent :/

Depends on where in the world you are whether Australia is considered a continent or not. Some places refer to Oceania as a continent instead.

Listening to this makes me extra proud to be Australian. I love how our people are so diverse. We benefit in many ways from our cultural breadth. Thank you so much for this entertaining vid. ❤️

9:25 as far as i am aware the accent actually originated from a period of history in Australia where essentially everyone was drunk at all times, and that slurred drunken british accent essentially just became the norm of our accent.

Farscape is Australian and it is one of my favourite TV shows of all time! Please check it out if you like 90's/00's science fiction!

I’ve never been to ‘straya’, but I’m eagerly want to visit there someday. The culture mixed up with UK&US seems to be attractive cuz I’m a korean who have spent whole my life in one of the monocultural countries in the world.

Love this kind of contents nowadays xdxd thx billy!!

Awesome content, as always! I enjoyed watching :)

Heard about the old 'go back to ya own country' even being thrown at indigenous australians of all people... some people have no brain I swear

8:19 Walter really looking like a quokka lol

I’m from the UK and grew up watching Neighbors, Home and Away, Sons and Daughters, flying Drs and I’m sure there was another but can’t think. I loved them!

I was explaining this to a friend recently! If you feel like you're Australian, if Australia feels like your home, you are Australian.

Walter !! Haha your description of what makes someone Australian started making me sing, I am Australian. And then I remembered being one of the kids in the Qantas ad campaign and how we always had to stand social distancing in wide open spaces 😂😂😂 here’s a link to qantas ad with social distancing Choir kids lol ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JOvte02_2xw.html

@10:37 cue the American disappointed that the Australian didn't say "on the barbie' xD

We spent our 5 weeks' honeymoon in Australia, and while the flies were annoying, the Aussie mates were the friendliest people ever! We had such a wonderful time!

I had the opportunity to go to Perth, Australia for my mum's wedding about six or so years ago and it's one of my best experiences to this day! I mean, sure I shared a toilet cubicle with a black widow and had to walk under a huge golden orb web but at the same time I got to see some huge beetles, stroked a bird moth with some local kids, stroked a Koala and had a lovely time chatting with the locals so even with my fear of spiders I'd definitely go back if I had the chance!

When i was in school Australia was considered an island continent.

The Australian accent arose from the influence of English and Scottish, like New Zealand and South Africa (who can sound similar with some words) but with a large dose of Irish thrown in. It is the latter influence that really set the Australian accent apart imo.

You guys have a really really interesting videos. i enjoyed with it a lot. I am happy to come across your channel :)))

At 8:18 you'll need that cute "quokka sign" if you forgot its name and Aussies would definitely know what you're referring to 😂😅

I used to live in australia for many years, I like to keep huntsmans running around in my house because they feed on all the insects in the house and they are harmless to human.

Pork is being electrocuted rather to the traditional way of slaughtering and releasing of blood. The blood in the dead meat makes the pork stinks and less tender!! (For chicken too) My friends will sometimes go for muslim-certified/asian factory chicken so to get rid of the smell at the initial stage. If not, they will cook the meat in spices before using it! Red meat is fine though, cos it's meant to go w the blood

I used to live in Australia. I can say that 100% of the time I've seen a car stopped on the road, there had always been someone else there who'd stopped to help.

As the Australian song goes "we are one, but we are many and from all the lands on earth we come, we share a dream and sing in one voice, I am, you are, we are Australian" i think that best describes us.

i’ve never been this early

Australia has almost the same land mass as the USA idk why people think it's small

Love ur videos sooooo much with these sweet people❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

When I was younger, my mom always used to watch McLeod's Daughters and Home and Away. Those are always the two Australian TV shows that come to mind first.

_"I was adopted so I have Australian parents, so I have an Australian citizenship.... _*_and the most Austrahlyun accent evah!!!!_*

Actually New Zealand is now recognised to be on the continent of Zealandia :)

wow you guys are funny and interesting ,in each video i keep on learning something, keep the good work....

Fun fact: there is no universal agreement as to how many continents there are in the world, as well as if Australia is a continent or just part of a bigger continent -- Oceania. It really depends in which country you were born in. There is the four-continent division and it can to up to the seven-continent division.

Pretty sure they asked if Australia is asian because we are part of Australasia. Not a race thing because yes, you are 100% Aussie :).

I don't know how does "why are some australians so racist" not come up lmfao. that's the most searched one I believe

Bondi rescue is my most favorite tv show from straya🌹🌹🌹

I like this guy, his responses are perfect. I would have exploded 😂😂

Australia and New Zealand is is part of Austrilasia which is apart of Oceania which also includes Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia

*_Which country are you from and how do you pronounce the letter Z?_* : as *Zed* or *Zee* Im from South Africa and we pronounce the letter Z as *Zed*

I'm glad Walter is the spokesperson for Australia in these videos. I couldn't think of anyone better.

Kiwi here! New Zealand is an island technically. Split into 3 main islands, North Island, South Island and Stewart Island. We have a few smaller islands dotted around as well (Christmas island, Waiheke islands, Campbell islands ect. Too many to list!! Seriously, google it.) The maori folklaw around the main island formation (Please correct me if I'm wrong bc I'm pakeha and its been years since I heard it) Maui and his brothers were in a maori kanu (Waka) and Maui fished up the North island!

Wtf I’m Aussie and I know we are a continent but aren’t we still an island? We’re surrounded by water we are technically an island

Australia has the largest average house size in the world, even larger than the USA.

Awesome episode guys xoxo

I love learning about other cultures. I am Scottish and love your content

People ask the dumbest questions. "Is Australia a language?" Really??? Do you speak English, can you understand what there saying? Then NO it's the English language with a different dialect and accent omg!

I've been to Australia recently and what I noticed is that nearly all australian men had a pretty deep voice compared to the Europeans I know... Do you have any idea why it is like that?

Hahaha. Such an American thing to say, “is there a special seasoning?” Aussies use on pork! Obsessed with “seasoning”!

I live in The Atherton Tablelands, Far North Queensland, Australia. It's up a Mountain Rage behind Cairns, Some view it as a Hidden Gem. Too Many Tourism Guideline People Ignore Us, But Not All. We have Red Soil, Because There's a lot of Long Extinct Volcanoes. It's Great For Growing A Lot Of Different Crops. We have a lot of Rolling Hills, Rainforest and Waterfalls. Without the extreme heat and humidity of the Coastal Areas. Some of My Family came of The Christmas Holidays in Our Summer. They had a Great Time, and then they went to Port Douglas. One of My Relatives told Me They Wished They'd Stayed In The Atherton Tablelands. There's A Good Reason Aussies Wait Until Winter To Visit The Far North Queensland Coast. They basically have 2 seasons Summer 9 Months Of The Year and a Mild Comfortable Winter. You can still go swimming in Their Winter!

5:43 racism on Australia is a big problem especially when youre talking different language on public🤦🏻‍♂

Ok, you need to warn us when your gonna put A FRICKING GIANT SPIDER ON THE SCREEN! just saying...

Like this guy!!! He s representing aussie! Honest guy

Haha before corona I remember coming from our volleyball games me and my friends we were waving to random ppl at 7-8 pm most ppl waved back which was nice

Walter: *i believe Australia is a continent or an island because we don’t border anything other than sea* John: *Is ThE UsA A CoNtiNeNt Or An IsLaNd? NoT ThAt We BoRdEr CaNaDa Or MeXiCo*

You had some really weird takes on some of these questions. The question was, for example, "are australians asian" i.e. is Australia considered a part of Asia, not 'are Asians living in Australia considered really Australian?'

항상 명쾌하고 재밌는 설명 감사 드립니다! Very interesting!

Shes spot on about the sports thing we dont wanna hear about it if its not springboks or proteas