Okay, but that doesn't change the fact that in Australia there are 48 million kangaroos and in Uruguay there are 3,457,480 inhabitants, so if kangaroos decide to invade Uruguay, each Uruguayan will have to fight 14 kangaroos.
As a Kiwi I've always referred to Australia as the USA to our Canada. They are unbelievably powerful and honestly I think we're just happy to get along with them, for the most part.
Hey brother or sister, an aussie here, yeah our country's are pretty tight, and we (as the person a bit above me said) are very happy to be friends with you kiwis!
Important think to note about Australia is while much of the country can be mostly dry at times on the surface, it also has the worlds largest aquapher called the Great Artesian basin, it covers 1.7 million square kilometers, the state of NSW alone has over 5000 million mega litres in aquaphers, even the city of Sydney has an 141 square Km aquifer under it. Australia tends not to use its underground water to the same extent other countries, but it is nice to know it's available if needed.
thing is, while we under-use our bore resources and whatnot but we cant fall in the trap of west USA which have basically used their entire aquifer on farming in sub-desert climates and is facing a massive watershortage.
@Peepee Train if we can work around not using the aquapher, we shouldn't, think of it as a water bank, only to be used when it is absolutely necessary...
Not to mention we also don't have large desalination plants in use. Nations States like Israel for instance which have very little arable land and water basins have relied on desalination for water security, Australia has a few desalination plants but very few for the size of its population, if we did decide to use them as well as pipeline desalinated water across the country, it would very easily solve our water problem, we would never run out of water. In addition, we could manufacture man-made dams and catchments like other countries have, as when we do have big rain periods we could harvest enough water to survive through the dry periods. As for power, same thing on one side you have the "we can't use coal" and on the other you have the "we can't use renewables" camps. What we could do is use nuclear energy but it's currently banned and considering Australia has very strict standards for storage of nuclear material and plenty of inarable land to stick it in, it's really a no brainer for energy, we also have high reserves of uranium to us, but again the environmentalists will be up in arms. The problem we have really as a country is poor leadership and we're too focused on mining rather than creating infrastructure or cities. All the infrastructure we create is usually toll roads and highways or stadiums for cities, not pipelines or dams for catchments in rural areas. Or we create massive suburbs on the fringes of the cities and just have massive city expansion or urban sprawl. Our manufacturing is all pretty much gone too, car companies like Ford, Holden, Toyota all gone and moved their manufacturing overseas. Steel plants used to be big industry here but wages, electricity prices and other regulations made it expensive to produce steel here, so expensive that companies just ship the iron to another country from Australia and make it there. Power is getting more expensive for environmental concerns/reasons making industry just more expensive in general compared to other countries where electricity is far cheaper. Anything we do create now also has big budget blow outs or never meet deadlines like the Snow Hydro 2.0 or Melbourne's highway systems. We're just not a serious country anymore. We had a golden age between 1980-2008.
YEAH, 🤣surprised you can't hear them laughing their heads off at such a stupid headline. Anyone who has spent any time in our Military, KNOWS the joke this stament is, and the joke is on all Australians who believe it.
australia is basically just if someone took a European power, gave them a continent that’s mostly desert, and slapped them off the coast from indonesia
Australia has a massive case of imposter syndrome, due to its penal colony history and it's wealth now being pretty much entirely generated from digging holes in the ground, as explained in the video
@@Aussieboy329 we are a country of 25 million, in a land mass the size of the Continental United States which has a population of 320million in same space. Yes we are mineral rich, but that is often a curse than a blessing, when look at pretty much any country with resource boon. But yet we thrive, we strive to be the best we can be in all things. Our economy is robust, yea we get a lot from resource industries, but not beholden to it. We kick ass in sports at world level. Most of us look good in speedos 😛, and besides some hiccups we seems to have acquitted ourself well diplomatically and militarily. We punch well above our weight
As a rural Australian living in semi-desert land, I appreciate you for mentioning us and our land, we never get any mentions, it’s only the cities, but the people here are lovely and hard-working, the land is absolutely stunning, the animals are fascinating, the freedom is impeccable etc. I would hate to live in the city.
i appreciate you guys so much i live in melbourne so it's definitely noisier, but travelling up to places in rural victoria like echuca and stuff just humbles me can't even imagine the semi-desert and desert lands, so respect
Can we seriously put an end to the country/bush-v-city divide? It's a little boring. City people appreciate rural areas. We appreciate how important it is to have food security and agriculture. Fun fact for you though, just saying: agriculture contributes 3% of our GDP. Industry contributes 25%. But services, including financial services, contribute 65% of our GDP. And almost ALL activity in the financial services is in the cities. Your welcome! Also, you don't mind if we dig another big hole out over there somewhere do you? Thanks, we really appreciate it!!!
@Whack A … I was talking about how much I love where I live and everything it entails, I wasn’t making a thorough essay of the pros and cons of “rural vs city dwelling”, I would prefer to live rural, that doesn’t automatically mean I have some obscure competitive hatred for the city, I KNOW very well the benefits of the city, and the cons of living rural, it’s simply personal preference. You don’t need to write an economical spreadsheet on the superiority of cities and the shittiness of rural areas. It’s a personal opinion, not a competition. Chill out.
As an Aussie our current main concerns are housing (which is further exasperated by foreign and local investors), water security as you said, rising inflation and interest (making houses even more expensive) and debt. Last few administrations sucked up insane amounts of debt.
Housing is going to be tight for another 4-5 years. Huge immigration doesn’t help, especially for rental properties. Investors need to build more rentals (short and long term) as well. It’s less appealing for someone to lay down $$$$ for an uncertain future with successive governments changing tax laws on each other though. And for owner occupiers, it takes 1.5 years to build, and prices can’t be locked in due to inflation and scarcity of tradies. Plus the cost of land and build is likely to be higher than the banks valuation of the property. Such are the times we are living in. Zoning by local councils has a lot to answer for too. Careful to blame investors though.
@@yesiasked I didn’t say no immigration. I said the 4 years supply in 1 year when Australia was already 1-2 years behind building supply of houses makes houses more expensive to rent and buy
Aussie here, we may not be in a "recession" as such but we're bloody well heading towards one. Our inflation went up the wazoo a few months ago, shit's bad. Also we did used to have a massive manufacturing industry but it's all gone now and we mostly just sell food and raw minerals
But we had a recession during the lockdowns in 2020. True, now we have record low unemployment, but that is partly because lockdowns made many older folk realise that retirement wasn't so bad...
As a Brazilian myself living in Stray for 4 years now, there isn’t a single day that I am not amazed with how most things just work in here. I love the country, love the opportunities, love most Aussies. Just the food isn’t as good as ours but I can live without it 😂. And for my Tassie mates, your country🤭 is beautifully breathtaking. I enjoyed each second that I spent in there ❤️.
True. If you want a really good Australian steak you need to go to Thailand or other Asian nations that import Aussie meat and seafood. Same goes with our prawns and lobsters. All the best stuff is sold off overseas.
O que o pessoal fala dos animais é só piada ou o bixo pega mesmo? Eu tenho um cagaço com aranha se algum dia eu tiver a chance de ir pra Australia eu vo ficar pensando nisso kkkkkk
@@concept5631 prolly some Russian propaganda to recruit more cannon fodder--er--I mean, soldiers. Sad what’s become of the “2nd strongest military in the world”😩
The reason we don't make steal is that our wages are too high and our currency too valuable to make it competitive in international markets. We used to have a large steel industry before we got rich, particularly in the city of Newcastle. But as wages went up we ended up just selling iron to China and buying back their steel. Hope this was helpful :)
No the reason we don’t manufacture steel here is because the bloody Kennett and Howard Governments sold off all our assets overseas and stopped us being self sufficient
To be honest Perth's isolation turned it into one of the nicest Australian Cities. There's a reason everyone in Adelaide has a moderate to high hatred of the east coast but not the west coast.
In a few short simple steps I have a proposal that will close the divide between east and west Australia Firstly, that we rename and merge WA,SA and the NT into a mega state and just call it the desert. Maybe they can figure out a better name but clearly they haven't in over 100 years. Reissue the police with mad max style uniforms and vehicles. Next all Australian children are to be sent away to grow up in the desert unsupervised, those that survive to 18 can return to the east.
Our first challenge is having enough people to work in specific industries. We have a worker shortage across all industries. Secondly we have almost no housing available, housing costs are unaffordable for someone working in retail or hospitality.
@@sirwahthemonke no way in hell are you assuming that a fucking Z means he supports Russia? Please don't tell me that's what you're doing here, God please no
Negative gearing isn't about the value of a property, it allows you to treat an investment property like a business and deduct expenses (mostly mortgage interest) against your taxable personal income. Negative gearing is where the expenses of the investment property are greater than the income so you pay net lower tax. You can't do it for your residence though. You can also make your investment property part of your low-tax retirement fund. The right loves it because it enriches their base and supposedly increases housing supply, the left dislikes it because it is an expensive subsidy for investors and supposedly drives house price inflation. There's 15m taxpayers of which 2m have rental properties and 1m have negative gearing. Of the 1m, 9 in 10 have one investment property, the other 10% 2 or more. Those numbers, despite being a small minority of overall electors (16.4m), mean it is hard to campaign against the system because it immediately alienates 1 million voters, mostly right voters, but enough independent and left voters to make a difference. Labor lost an election in 2019 where it campaigned against this system but won this year's election after it dropped that policy. Although it was only one issue among many, of course.
Fun fact about Australian housing. If you put a solar panel on your home you energy bill would be reduced and if you have enough solar panels the power plant will start paying you for power so have fun with that fact.
"Fun fact about Australian housing. If you put a solar panel on your home you energy bill would be reduced and if you have enough solar panels the power plant will start paying you for power so have fun with that fact." You guys believe the wildest stuff Sure they do that but when you need energy they charge heaps When you supply it they give you bugger all Peak hour prices We are being led into price gouging nonsense
Australia has it in spades in primary industries (mining + agriculture) and tertiary industries (services). Apart from water, it's Achilles' heel is secondary industries (manufacturing). Human capital is too expensive here due to strong labour laws and high minimum wage (can't exploit workers like you can in underdeveloped countries). Hence, it's cheaper to export the raw material overseas, process them into usable commodities, and import them back. If Australia wants to be self-sufficient, they need to build up its secondary industries (local manufacturing).
Which is only possible by establishing high levels of automation from the start. If we had cheaper energy and solved our water supply issues with more advanced desalination technology, we could make a ridiculous amount of money.
@@namanish450 i feel like the fact that most of the country by area is desert and semidesert you could just go with 100% solar based desalination and turn the brine into salt. Basically use concentrated solar to generate electricity and use that to power desalination plants and dump the brine is classic evaporation basins uses to harvest salt since the dawn of time. And with a large enough resevoir it should be reasonable to only run the desalination plants durring the day while the sun is shining. (I have a theory about making an "open cycle" con solar desalination plant but am unsure of its economic feasibility)
The big corporations just want more profit australia made many things in the 1960s 1970s but australian government signed the Lima declaration in 1973 ensuring are manufacturing got relocated to china and elsewhere in the third world
@@James-wq7su if only our natural resources were nationalised or majority controlled by the Commonwealth of Australia, instead of these private conglomerates who get government subsidies for continuous "growth".
Our cattle station is entirely powered by solar panels with lithium battery banks, can go multiple days without sunlight before the backup generator kicks in, even the remote water mills are solar powered pumps. The work vehicles are the only thing burning fuel now.
When it's more expensive for properties to run power lines than put in solar, the logical decision is solar. However, the way our energy economics are being destroyed, that economic decision, to put solar into your remote property, will prove even more beneficial, in the coming few years.
@@savagegfry problem with solar is they break down very quickly due to converting solar into heat then into power which degrades the hell out of components and the hotter s place gets the more the battery is more likely to swell or explode great for a time but not sustainable financially or resource wise
That won't stop government closing you down. According to the dill pickles at the WEF/UN all of those cattle burping and farting are destroying the planet don't you know. Farmers in the Netherlands tried to go green and use the best sustainable farming practices and latest technology too. All that led to was the government wanting to close 3000 + of their farms down. So all of your good work will go unrewarded once the government comes to close down your cattle station. Same thing is happening in NZ with their dairy industry.
@@LegendOfTheFLame393why not just get one of your really drunk mates and make them push a little wheel round and round to make energy, done jt before and it powered a piece of paper
Like dollaroo? Jeez I know there is some slang like lobster for a twenty or pineapple for a fifty but I never heard anyone use it. dollaroo? Never even heard of it. There's more slang about cigarettes than money. A ciggy, a fag, a durrie, a smoke, a rollie, even a bumper.
@@IC3XR i mean you shot a few thousand rounds killed about 10 emus then left before they retaliated >.>, which there push back i hear claimed 1 farmer 3 tractors a drop bear, summoned a plunge of toads, and they dropped Side 2 (wonder who will get this reference)
@@zetaking2909 the Australian government, after witnessing the colossal fuckup, issued farmers a bounty for emu culling. Farmers slaughtered 57,000 emus, the farmers made some $, and fence technology improved. You = 🤡
As an Aussie, I can say I never heard anyone say Dollarydoos. Also as far as economic history goes we didn't simply start digging, after the gold rush Australia was built on the sheeps back until recent history when mining took over. Negative gearing is more a way to treat an investment property as a business and claim the cost of a loss against any revenue you may receive. And water, although sparse in some areas, is abundant in the top end, we just need a way to capture and transfer it to the areas that need it. Apart from that pretty entertaining.
Well there is water down south the government just fucked up dirt and plant laws so the water pools up (and floods) or soaks into the ground/gets wasted
South America, Africa, and the rest of South East Asia/Oceania will be relatively untouched. They will have to struggle with the winter. Much of their population will survive compared to Northern Latitudes.
@@jasonhaven7170 Bro... the UK is a nuclear power. They're 100% getting wiped off the face of the earth. Ireland is close enough, and far north enough, that they would face immense struggles in the fallout.
A lot of people don’t realise this but the symbol of Australia should be a rabbit. There’s actually 4 of them for every kangaroo and 300 for every emu, and same goes with cane toads
Fun fact. Perth is closer to south east Asia then the east coast of Australia. It’s easier (and cheaper) to go to New Zealand from Sydney. Also, a lot of what you have said about our culture Im pretty sure you got from the Simpsons
This is true. Honestly, if you ask anyone here, it’s probably more likely they’ve visited Bali in Indonesia than anywhere in the country outside of Western Australia
@Yoda on Fire Are you saying that for the memes? h0ser's theory on us losing our water for food exports is *absolutely absurd!* We have groundwater here!
As an Australian I can definitely say you summed us up well. Although our housing prices are rediculous at least we can generate a tonne of mining for our pals
Fun fact: the Brits tried and failed set up a penal colony in the Cape Colony in South Africa in 1849. When the colony's government found out, they tried to ask the Westminister parliament to cancel the policy, but by then it was too late - a ship full of convicts - mostly Irish women and children - were already on its way. Along the way, the ship also picked up petty convicts who had previously been sent to Barbados. By the time the ship arrived in Table Bay in Cape Town, the mayor organized a riot to prevent the convicts from being offloaded. The riot lasted for a hundred days and the convicts who were forced to remain on board the ship suffered because of the siege. Eventually, the Governor Sir Harry Smith was able to convince the Secretary for the Colonies Henry Gray the 3rd to send the ship off to Van Diemen's Land instead.
@@greysonholtz because he is telling a story and that is what was said. Henry Grey would not have said send them to Australia. Quotes can break all rules of English as your typing what was said. Cause your right..no one says Van Diemen’s land anymore. Not even this guy👆
@@greysonholtz I'm aware. I used the name that was used at the time, rather than the name we use today. Otherwise I'd be anachronistic. You should note I also used the term 'Cape Colony' - rather than 'Western Cape'. Same reason it is inaccurate to say "In 1619, some of the first African slaves landed in the USA" because the USA didn't exist then. Rather, it is more accurate to say "In 1619, some of the first African slaves landed in Jameston in the Virginia Colony (which was later incorporated in the USA)".
@@trevor623 Much better than 20+yrs old books with less info than a 5min video. Edit: Just check all geo textbooks i used to learn (excluding uni), only four pages about Oceania, let alone Australia.
Remarkable how H0ser, who shitposts, does a more accurate summary of Australian demography and economy than a lot of so called political channels and he did it as a foreigner. What non Australian ever mentions negative gearing?
I live in Perth, because we're far smaller than other cities like Sydney or Melbourne, it's a lot calmer, but we often are affected by things that don't affect the east coast because there's such an enormous distance between the two sides of the country
Such as being called at bloody half past 5 in the morning by my insurance company who happen to be based over East. Bloody hated that, problem is they just don't think that there's a three hour difference.
@@SugmaDick That's a good point. I work in finance and probably made some of those calls and rightfully got told off for doing so. It is not that we don't know, it is either we don't care and/or we may only have a mobile number and assume you are not in WA(if we dont check or know your address). In regards to call centres and whatnot some companies close their phone lines at 7 or 8pm to specifically cater for WA but probably an equal amount don't. Personally, I feel like WA would be better off having some of their financial services done in Perth instead of the East Coast. Like the big banks, insurance companies and superannuation companies should set up offices in Perth specifically for people in WA. If WA ever does want to succeed from the rest of Australia(being a bunch of rich bogans) then you would probably want to starting running your own financial services institutes rather than finding yourself cut off financially.
@@EatMyShortsAU we DID used to have our own banks, now they have all been folded into, or are owned by, the big 4 🫤 We do still have some insurance companies WA based.... but as with everything if they want to make more money they need more people to join them so up sticks and move interstate, merge with other companies Aus wide, or are just sold off, forgetting we exist!
@@Shado_wolf I just left w.a for Qld..the only state with more money and better infrastructure is nsw. W.A still owns the TAB I believe..I hope they never let that go. No other states seem to benefit from royalties to region..w.a schools roads everything is better funded. The rail system in Perth is leaps ahead of others as far as train stations go they do not look like vast steel industrial areas you see in Sydney. I did not realise how behind the other states are. Sydney is the only place I see money spent like W.A does.
@@adamhastie5718no no no, don't you know we are Wait Awhile 🙄🤨 our transperh system USED to be one of the best and cheapest in the world in terms of our population size and distances we can travel on it. Don't know how it rates these days but with a 2 zone cap I'd say it's still one of the cheapest. I love Perth, I'm not a city person so it's about as big of a city I think I could handle, but there isn't much we don't have!! A new theme park would be nice but Adventure World is so much better than it was when I was growing up so that's ok.
Best way to summon australians is to literally just mention our country ahaha. Well done on the video mate - usually it's just a big ole heap of secondhand embarrassment when someone posts about us but this went alright. tiptop work 👍
A friend had American visitors & took them to the outback, they saw the super giant windmills & asked are they for oil ? He replied no, it gets so hot out here we install them to keep the cows cool hahahahah. They loved their visit & went home with a new myth to spread across America hahahah.
They actually came extremely close in 2020 to having another recession in Australia due to the pandemic but it somehow didn’t happen even though the government thought it would most likely happen at the time!
Government gave everyone money. Kept ppl in their homes largely and kept them employed (largely), but the consequence of shutting down the economy and pumping money to everyone is inflation and an economy that needs time to correct itself
The water situation isn't actually that bad. As a farmer myself it forces growers to become ultra efficient or go out of business. Even in dry times there can be enough. Probably could do with less water intensive crops like almonds but hey if that's what city consumers want and will pay for, we can grow it.
I'm glad that our cattle station in the Kimberely sits ontop of a massive underground basin. More water than we could ever need 25m below our feet. We only do cattle though so don't need much but apparently we could change to irrigation across the whole station and our neighbours and still have enough.
As an Australian, I like how we aren’t overly noticed and how some people think we don’t exist because I have no fear of any wars coming here 😂 Regardless, thanks for doing the proper research. I approve of this video (and it even taught me a couple things that I didn’t know about my own country).
*Australia is basically the West Coast. miles upon miles of dry, hot, barren desert but the coasts have some of the best weather, beautiful beaches, and best soil for agriculture*
Honestly I find the tableland/ highland regions of NSW, southern QLD, and the Adelaide Hills to have the best climates. Look up places like Orange, NSW, Toowoomba, QLD, and Sterling, SA on Wikipedia and go to the "Climate" chapters. Also our inland is where all our food comes from unless you are talking about centre to northern QLD.
@@TenOrbital yep too right mate but without the endless miles of homelessness seen everywhere in every major city, the racial tensions, rampant crime, urban decay, & let's not forget the unchecked anarchy... Chaz etc. We have little bits of most of this but nothing on the scale one sees in Cal.
As an Australian, to me it seems to me that it's not like that we're going to rise up, but just that the other superpowers of the world are going to sink to our level
@@Joker-no1uh The United States doesn't even have to lower its GDP for its economy to eventually suffer, just has to continue incurring debt at the same rate it is now and the majority of that GDP is going to become worthless. US current debt to GDP ratio is 120% Australia's is not even 60%. 🤣
@@niccijay4683 High debt isn't necessarily a bad thing, if it was the US wouldve collapsed into economic chaos decades ago, in the meantime my relatives who just moved there a year ago are living a neat life.
Fantastic video! Only flaw is that you failed to mention that like the middle east, water desalination plants have taken off in a big way - Perth was first in 2006. If you combine this with limitless renewable energy in the future that challenge should be largely solved. The housing aspect - particularly negative gearing - is a massive problem. Like many US cities, nearly all Australian cities can't build enough affordable housing, while a small percentage of the population own several.
1 thing you missed in terms of our water is the abundant amount of underground springs in this country, growing up we had 6 or more in our suburb and 2-3 of em met in a big pool under our backyard, which was both cool as shit and shithouse as it sometimes rose up enough to soak our lawns from underneath, even formed its own little pond that we walled off
This is one of the most brilliant and funny videos and it happens to be about economics! Hilarious and also very astute. Loving your work while nursing my crazy 2023 New Years Day hangover in Sydney 😍🤩😜
the muray river dries up more than it did usually is because the nsw government allowed farmers (namely cotton farmers) to hold large amounts of water in storages, in northern nsw where the river starts. Australia has a pretty weird system where you basically bid on water, and foreigners are also allowed to bid on water for some reason. Just leads to a lot of regions downstream, especially southern nsw, in a constant state of drought or flood, no in between
Conservative governments especially Federal were responsible for the bidding on water etc.Thankfully voted out recently.Did untold damage in other areas.
it's not weird to bid on an economic resource owned by government. People bid for various mineral rights concessions all over the world. What is weird is that they let people steal so much of the water and allowed far to much water to be sold.
@@valdabaker428 What damage did it do? Bidding didn't cause people to take more water, the government letting too much be (legally and illegally) used did.
The Murray River does not start in northern NSW, you need to have facts before you type. The Darling starts there, to be exact 50km west of Brewarrina. The Murray starts on the NSW/VIC border in the snowy mountain region.
As an Aussie, what the heck is an Ohio? Isn't that a little state in the USA that no one actually knows anything about? Or was that the song sung by the Dwarfs in Snow White, Ohio, Ohio, it's off to work we go? Not sure?
