Cars in a funeral procession here will generally have their headlights on. As far as I know it's illegal to break into or interrupt a funeral procession (at least it was in NSW when I got my driver's licence 50+ years ago).
It used to be as you describe, but younger drivers in funeral processions don't seem to have had this explained to them - there aren't many funeral processions these days to get practice, i guess.
You still see it in smaller towns, here the funeral director will get out and stop traffic at intersections while the procession goes through, for larger funerals, they sometimes use the police to do it. But because it isn't taught in the licence process, the knowledge of what to do can be lost when it's not passed down form generation to generation.
In the old days you use to have your headlights on and follow on. Going through red lights etc having the right of way. I still think the rights remain. But just no longer followed. I think it’s due mainly to ignorance not disrespect. As for the bugs and spiders don’t feel guilty. Thong the lot loll especially red backs ( shiver).
We have our headlights on and ppl are respectful here and don’t generally push in. You make us sound so bad! I’ve been to two funerals this year and one we had Harleys that blocked the traffic for us at lights and roundabouts and the other we just had our headlights on and no one pushed in or cut us off
Also another tradition when someone dies at home. The funeral home will pick up the deceased in a hearse naturally. One of the funeral directors will walk ahead of the hearse until the hearse is out of sight (normally to the end of the street). It's good manners for any oncoming vehicles to pull over and allow the hearse to pass. Following vehicles should never overtake the hearse.
Acknowledging the local Aboriginal people in meetings and formal events is something that, in my experience, has only entered the cultural mainstream in the last 5-10 years. I believe it's also fairly common now in Canada to acknowledge First Nations in a similar fashion. I'm sure it will eventually become common in the US too.
I enjoyed 2 years in Seattle when I was in the Royal Australian Navy in 1984, onwards. My most embarrassing culture shock was the first morning breakfast at our hotel where we were staying at, was having to ask the waitress what hash browns were! Good memories of a lovely Country. All the best down here!
To do a video on indigenous culture here, you need to know roughly how it works. That is to say, some believe that it was just one race of people scattered about Australia, which it isn't. Different nations have differing cultures, beliefs & systems. In the western Sydney area it is dharug/Darug land. Head west over the mountains from Sydney & it is Wiradjuri (my mob). Look up the aboriginal nations map, there were/are over 250 nations. I'd suggest getting in contact with the local land council for where you live (now called Deerubbin local land council). I am still learning about my mob as my grandfather was displaced (part of what is termed the stolen generation), so I never got to know all about the culture, traditions & systems in place. It is a big learning experience & one I have no doubt I will still be learning about until the day I return to the dreaming. Yiradhu marang mudyi (Good day friend in Wiradjuri). I can't speak the language but I have been trying to learn it for some time now. As for billboards, the one that you may have seen, that has become somewhat famous is the MacDonalds sign heading into Yass. It has the golden arches M followed by Yass, so in effect it says MYass. Oh, and out of interest, do you know why it is called Blacktown?
@@jadecawdellsmith4009 it was technically considered a "residential school" for education. Which is a polite way of saying a place where indigenous children were removed from their families & "re-educated". The original site was the corner of Rooty Hill Rd Nth & Richmond Rd. The "school" was where the fenced off area is. You can tell the place as there is still an old silo at the bottom of the site.
@@CraigWilsonAust u confirmed what I'd suspected but didn't know the exact location & like u I have a similar story regarding the Stolen Generation. My father was adopted & lost all connection to his people,land & culture & I've seen how he has suffered. And trans generational trauma exists from these experiences. I may have grown up around Blacktown nsw with no real knowledge of my culture or connection to my aboriginality but I'm making up for it now. About 13yrs ago I moved to an extremely remote community in FNQ (PORMPURAAW)& its been 1 of the best decisions I've made. I cannot tell u how much I have learned & I'm learning more every day,wether that's language, relationship with land, how to hunt & gather etc etc. It's a fantastic experience. I hope on ur journey into discovering more about ur own mob u get as much out of it as I have. And yes the Macca's Yass sign is a good giggle
@@jadecawdellsmith4009 I am in contact with elders within my mob, in fact for the last couple of years I have assisted one of the NFP's as the flora officer (volunteer). Fortunately there is a dictionary app for the Wiradjuri language, so that is helping with my study. I find it intriguing that while the storyline vary, some have very obvious similarities. Look up the Seven Sisters as an example. The story changes between nations yet it is a very similar story. All the best in your endeavours.
Love your channel and I am so glad that you have moved to our country. I enjoy all of your videos. You seem to be adapting well. Keep up the great work.
no that's an old myth about the white tail spiders, it's been debunked. From wiki... "Although ulcers and necrosis have been attributed to the bites, a scientific study by Isbister and Gray (2003) showed they had other causes, mostly infections. A study of 130 white-tailed spider bites found no necrotic ulcers or confirmed infections."
@@DaveWhoa You're intellectually dishonest if you ignore the fact that whitetail toxins prevent the body from fighting these infections. it's like saying a komodo dragon bite being toxic is an "old myth" bacteria still kills. I can name scores of patients who experienced ulcers from the FOUR SPOT WHITETAIL
We don't use hazard lights for funerals, but usually, headlights would be turned on for following the hearse. I'm not sure what/if any road rules are these days in regards to funeral processions but I have seen older Gentlemen remove their hats as a procession passes. * Just checked and it is illegal to interrupt a funeral procession.
Kaitlin, as far as the housing prices go, we are in a colossal bubble, along the lines of what Japan experienced in the late 80's. It will (eventually) go the same way here, in my view.
Only in the capitals and coastal town. The media tells people they must live in the most expensive cities to have any kind of life. It’s all lies and plenty of people are realising and moving to regional areas and buying houses for a quarter of what they pay on the coast.
You pay for where you live unfortunately……when people think of Australia they think SYDNEY…….. it would be good to do a comparison of house prices from all over Australia. The further north you go the more realistic the house prices become as with the more inland you go I guess. 🦋
Acknowledgement of country is relatively new, maybe the last 10-15 years or so it has been the norm. The differences in wording would be if you know exactly what land you're on depending where you are. Sydney is Eora Nation and the people are Gadigal. (although there are several clans that make up Eora Nation, Sydney CBD is generally considered Gadigal) Welcome to Country should only be delivered by Traditional Owners/Custodians of the land on which the event takes place.
Re the NBN. It’s a government funded broadband network which was paid for by taxpayers. The idea was to let people all over Australia, no matter where you live access to broadband services. Even in the middle of nowhere, if you live there, you get the NBN. The government had to do it as it was not economical for a private company to do it due to low population especially in the areas where fast broadband is the most expensive to connect up. The NBN is the resold through Telstra, Optus, Vodafone, TPG and countless other RSP’s (retail service providers). It’s the same as electricity in Australia. One or two companies own the power lines and poles etc in each area and you chose which reseller you want to connect to and where you get the best deal. The NBN was supposed to be optical fibre to the home. Really fast, and world class. Unfortunately the Liberal (The Liberal government here are a conservative government (like the Republicans) - different to what “Liberal” means in the Us!) government at the time decided to go cheap and nasty and changed the technology for a vast majority of connections to fibre to the node instead of fibre to the home. This means the NBN is fibre (and very fast speed) to a box up the road and then delivered through really old tech copper wire phone lines to the home. This means the connections are often slow and unreliable. It turns out if the government at the time had done it fibre to the home across the board it would have actually been cheaper in the long run. Now the NBN is a patchwork of technologies (wireless, FTTN ANF FTTH) having to be upgraded across the country which is costing a fortune. It should have been done properly in the first place. Your channel is great! Keep up the good work! Craig - Geelong - VIC.
This description of NBN is spot on. This is the inevitable outcome of conservative politicians who have no interest in better serving the needs of the whole population but just their wealthy supporters. Would rather use government revenues (our taxes) to subsidise the fossil fuel industry.
@@openminded5393 Malcolm Turnbull isn't a conservative, a conservative would have allowed technology and private companies to build it over time, understanding that you make decision about where you live and to try to connect everyone from city to regions to the same network was never going to work. But this is what the left wanted so that's what we got. A conservative never touched it. Lol
the only reason it's trash is because the government didn't want to invest in fibre optic cabling and tried to rely on the existing copper wire network. Because of all its faults it's usually nicknamed "No Bloody Network".
The fiscal year in the UK starts and ends in April, I guess countries everywhere have their different reasons. The NBN is the national infrastructure, it's a government commissioned project. The plan is for one big network that everyone can use, instead of each ISP needing to build their own systems. Companies like Telstra, Optus etc. will team up with it, then supply the internet service to you and use the NBN to do it. The whole thing is still being built around the country so the NBN Co. manages the construction and connections to your home.
I’ve only experienced one funeral procession where it wasn’t interrupted and that was only because we got a police escort and green lights the entire way. Other than that every other funeral procession i’ve just followed normal traffic rules. Didn’t even know it was a thing to not interrupt.
We use to have Funerals drive with parking lights on and in procession! and most car have day light running lights now. But driving through Red lights, was stopped when there were some accidents at lights. Mardi Gras is to remember the 78 Rights March, Now a celebration! You can buy houses in towns other than Sydney or Melbourne. Or wait for interest rates to go up to 7-10%. Banks will be selling foreclosures at 50cents on the Dollar. 🧡 Welcome to OZ
Going to NSW from any other state in the country is a culture shock. Squashing red back spiders with your thong is a very Australian way to deal with them, totally acceptable 👍the ones to be careful of over there are the funnel web and trap door.
@@nickt6965. Thong has always been about straps on footwear, Indian sandals, JC sandals, etc, until the modern invention of clothing that involved narrow strips of fabric - probably originally for (ahem) exotic dancers. Underwear is usually not mentioned in public so when one says thongs (plural) in public it means footwear.
Wow you nailed it, in regards to aboriginal and TI culture even the maroi peoples. That's what I love about Australia. We all try our best to be better and wiser then the generations before. Take nothing but photos and leave nothing but footprints. Oh and on the bugs situation, I hate and run for my life when those huge flying roaches are around. Lol don't stress about the red backs, there only in because of all the rain.
I'm with you Kaitlyn, any red back spider in my house has a death wish. House prices at the moment are rediclously high, here in Adelaide average is around $300,000 -$500,000. I don't use NBN, instead I use Telstra mobile internet, works really well - no problems (yet). Love your videos. If you are going to touch on Indigenous topics please consult with culturally aware people eg S.A. museum can provide a great deal of information ( unfortunately politics can taint understanding). All the best👍
This was an interesting broadcast today! :-) Until I was in my 20s, funeral vehicles travelled in 'procession' with their lights on, and were identifiable. I think more funerals were local in cemeteries then. Nowadays, more often funerals are a bit distant and folks are cremated or buried in lawn cemeteries which are distant from their homes, so a 'procession' would be impractical for travelling all together across a big distance. I suspect that's why the practice stopped. I wonder if anyone else remembers that? (This was in NSW, mostly country areas but have also seen in the city).
The financial year thing is so you can do your taxes without all the extra hassle of Christmas time, either one of those on their own is enough. It's ok to knock off a Redback, they can give you a nasty bite but others like the big, scary but harmless Huntsman, you catch in a jar/glass and release it in the front/back yard (on a plant is good) they also are good insect hunters. In South Oz we drive in a funeral with our lights on and often people on the street will remove their hat as you pass (but that sadly has fallen away over the last few decades).
I’ve been working down in Windsor where the floods were on the hawksbury river recently and the flies have been shocking. I literally had 20 in my car yesterday was still trying to get some out today. And I’m with you on the roach thing. I can deal with spiders snakes and other bugs but roaches … no! If I see one in my flat, it has seconds to live lol
End of financial year, you have to remember in the Southern Hemisphere our summer is at the start of each year, and businesses close and go on longer holidays/ vacations. So it's easier to have it during winter months. It's a fiscal year.
I just found your channel Kaitlyn, Thank you. I came here from New Zealand with my wife and 18 month old son in 1981. I want to let you know that after all this time, I am still hearing new words regularly. Spiders: You have adapted to the hazards of Australian wildlife a lot faster than I did. I am still not prepared to trust my judgement about whether a spider is dangerous or not. I treat them all as lethal and that will do me. I'm not interested in making friends with spiders. Funerals: I think the way Americans do funeral processions is a lot more respectful than how we do it. I think it's a pity we dont have a procession like that.
Ironically the largest and scariest looking spider, the huntsman, is the least lethal and usually pretty timid. And beneficially they often eat other venomous spiders. So they’re alright. (Whilst they are considered a venomous species, their fangs are actually too narrow to deliver the venom properly to humans. So their bites just cause annoying symptoms at worst.)
I'm with you on the roaches. I hate the damn things and venomous spiders also die on sight. Spiders are safe outside but if they come inside, they don't get welcomed lol.
l see a big black spider and l want to paint it white, no other colours in my life, l have to paint it white. l watch it thrash around, in its final death throes, l have my can of Mortein, everywhere l gooooooooooo.
thats the unspoken arrangement we have with the spiders. its nothing new, they know when they're somewhere they shouldnt be, at which point all bets are off haha
Melbourne here, I think roaches are a Sydney thing, everyone comments on them there, yet I hardly see one here at all. It's the impression I get, maybe a climate thing.
Funeral processions used to all have their headlights on, but now so many cars have their headlights on all the time, it doesn't stand out. They are not that common, usually just for Italian funerals, or someone who had lots of money or influence. All of the funerals I have been to, the service and burial or cremation were held at the same place, so you would walk behind the hearse.
I used to live in Sydney years ago and left because I simply could not afford it. And that was years ago, I can't imagine how tough it must be now. I'm in the outer suburbs of Perth, and my house was valued just today at $420k. That's still a lot for a small house on a tiny block but compared to Sydney it's cheap as chips. Come over here and buy instead :)
love skinks...we have two kinds in our garden black ones with a green stripe...and pale grey ones with a yellow stripe...they compete for sunny spots and we often watch them while we are having our morning coffee and laugh at the little wars going on in the garden..
Must vary in different parts of Australia. Definitely drive with headlights on, especially in smaller cities and towns. Towns without traffic lights easier to stay grouped. Everybody should know where the cemetery is so, no problem. Generally wait at the cemetery for everybody to arrive as not everybody may have joined the procession.
Just discovered your channel, I really like your open and honest outlook on all things Oz! Funeral processions in general aren’t as popular here I think. I always wondered about how in movies there’s always people standing graveside but here we mostly have it in a funeral home or church and then the hearse leaves and that’s it, we stay there for a wake or go to another venue. I’ve been to about 20 funerals and have never been in a procession. And that’s interesting about tax season, is the business year the same as the calendar year over there? Our school year is the same as the calendar year though. 😜 Looking forward to your vids!
It depends if your being cremated or buried, if cremated it's at the funeral parlour, if burial the service is in church or funeral parlour depending if your religious or not then there us the procession and graveside burial. It's illegal to break into a procession,no flags are required as it's obvious it is a funeral, the procession is usually a lot slower, all cars following have their headlights on. As for cost of homes, maybe venture away from Sydney and Melbourne, the average home in Perth is $650K and in the outer suburbs of Perth is around $$350K and if you've not owned shine before look into the First Home Buyers Scheme where the government subsidies your first home purchase with the purchaser required to have 5% deposit you'll also get a Stamp Duty exemption, First Home Buyers Bonus which is $20k in WA, and if you purchase through an agent, you get your first full year Land and Water Rates Rebated.
You're right that Sydney home prices are stupidly expensive , but it's worth noting that Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane are also listed in the Top 10 Most Livable Cities list (Wellington and Auckland also made the cut, good onya NZ!). Now this doesn't excuse the prices, that was caused by Negative Gearing from the 80's (?), in what seemed a great idea back then for the economy, but this is the end result. Also, I'm pretty sure that those prices are an average across the board, so yes, it accounts for the 3 bed 2 bath homes, that's not the average for just homes like those, it is also inflated by the super priced mansions in Double Bay etc.
NBN is a Federal Company/Service owns the phone/data lines which are than able to be used by any telecommunications company so we have a wider variety of Providers of Phone & Internet! NBN is meant to connect 95+ percent of Australia People the few that can not get phone/data cables run to them due to cost use Satellites Services!
In Queensland people used to wait for a funeral to pass but as traffic grew it seems that it became too disruptive to hold up traffic for long funeral processions. Most people would be expected to know how to get to the cemetary. Or if its a cremation the service is often held on site,
NBN is so we just have one lot of cables and not each Company running the own cables in the ground also if your Provider goes bankrupt or closes you just get moved to a different carrier and don’t have to worry about paying for new cables to be run to your house or living in an area where no carrier feels it’s cost-effective to run cables so you miss out
If a funeral procession is behind you or going past you it is polite and standard procedure to pull over and put on your parking lights until they pass.
I have always thought a funeral procession still has to abide by the traffic rules hence stopping at traffic lights but usually cars put their head lights on so people know you are in that cavalcade. Only a very important funeral,would have the traffic lights turned off or allowed to continue straight through
Oh yes our NBN was actually going to be fibre optic to the house. When the LNP took office they balked at the cost so it’s fibre to the node copper to the house
And the incoming Prime Minister at the time (Tony Abbott) was dismissive of the value of high speed Internet and saw it as a waste of money that would only be used by online gamers. He probably wanted telegram delivery to make a comeback instead.
1) locally we use the whole word i.e cockroach not 'roach' 2) A "Welcome to Country" is an acknowledgement of all the native nations of Australia. Generally , the acknowledgement of Moari people , probably would be as visitors. 3) Not all homes in Sydney are worth $1 million dollars.i.e Western Suburbs. The further out of the capital cities the cheaper the home is.
Hi Kaitlyn. I subbed when you first started posting, and I've enjoyed your journey here in Oz. My puppy loves Kangaroo. When he was young and silly, he chased the mob of roos that graze in the paddocks opposite my house. I freaked, but no way was he listening to my yells because he's a Border Collie and thought they were like sheep, and needed to be rounded up. The silly mutt could've been killed. Roos can be nasty. After he ran for an hour, and came back looking happy with himself, he got sent to the doghouse. Now every time he sees those roos, he looks at me in hope, but I shake my head NO! and he pouts. It's not every country that eats it's national emblem. Lol. Yeah, it's hard to understand the cost of houses when we have such incredible expanses of open flat land. I was working under a car once, and a redback dropped into my hair. That was a brown moment. Loving you vids. Cheers.
Under a car sounds like Redback country. But on the back of a kitchen door? A Golden Orb perhaps but I am not buying into Redbacks in the open. Dark moist places. Mine live in the kitchen Exhaust and stay happy munching on flies
Our local primary school was renovated and a new kind of insulated ceiling was installed. It turned out to be ideal redback habitat. They were dropping down onto the kids in the middle of class. Now the ceilings, and under the seats everywhere, get sprayed during every school holiday break.
@@chriswatson1698 @Chris Watson if you live in a humid area, I can see that possibility. Insulation trapping the moisture and maybe a cockroach diet. Down south under the building water mains tap is a prime location. I still can't visualise a Redback, in the open, back of a door. Maybe towels and robes would give it the cover? Much like the underseat of the toilet. Kaitlyn should do a reaction video to "Redback on the toilet seat". Slim Dusty version?
Hi Kaitlyn, our culture is 60,000 years old, they are the beautiful indigenous people here first,and their passion for the Dreamtime, the original Australians.
@4:50 I grew up in Sydney. Roaches and commute time are the two reasons I will never return. @9:10 NBN, etc - what people forget or perhaps don't seem to appreciate is that internet connectivity involves physical wires in the ground on public land. It doesn't happen by magic. Someone has to own and maintain those wires - the actual copper and/or glass fiber.
The only thing I'd comment on is , as you point out the ridiculous house prices here in Australia I'm frowned apon for saying it but you'll find that a huge factor in the jump of house prices is the influx of Asian speculators into the country . It doesn't matter what price a house goes for it will be sold , and often by a party from Asia. If they can afford it good luck to them . Every one gets their neck in a knot because foreigners are buying up the housing stock but they can't move the house or land back to their own country and meanwhile.they are paying land rates and taxes which all helps the economy .you could , if your profession allows , consider moving out of the city for a more affordable town or city , Newcastle or Wollongong for example , where the average house prices are a whole lot lower for example my home , in Sydney would easily sell for upwards of 2 million , but here in Newcastle has been valued at around 750 thousand which is still staggering as it initially cost only 10 thousand to build back in 1969 I guess it would be hard to move from the action of a big city but the 600 thousand citizens that call the Hunter Valley home have managed to have a great lifestyle and enjoy all the benefits of the city in what's really a big country town . At least you would have one less thing to worry about and you could spend more time enjoying the Aussie lifestyle .I enjoy your show stay safe and happy
Whilst this comment about foreign investors was certainly a major driving factor of the last housing boom that ended in 2018, it really isn’t the case for the current one. Also, Sydney is a special case (and not in a good way). Since around the 1990s it’s prices have been totally out of kilter with the rest of Australia with some very rare exceptions. The current boom has more to do with historic low home loan interest rates and chronic irrational FOMO, which I suspect will cause serious problem for buyers who have overextended themselves if/when the market retreats.
You do realise that house prices double about every 7 to 10 years. The other factor you haven't mentioned is the negative gearing for investment property.
On the skink, I found out recently that we have a blue-tongue living in our carport. Our carport is full of my brother Noddy's stuff, stacked on some wooden pallets, so the Lizard is probably in amongst the pallets. Blue-tongues grow to around 30cm (1 foot) in length. They are also harmless pest-eaters.
Yeah I have this impression people from other countries think national animals are sacred, and all respect, a lot are because they are endangered, but Australia eats it's whole Coat of Arms - that is to say kangaroo meat, emu meat, and wattleseed products do exist on the market. Kangaroo is the most common native meat, having a small section in supermarket meat departments. Emu is more speciality and wattle tends to pop up in "Bush Foods" products, but not with the ubiquity of macadamias.
from what i've experienced with the few funerals i've been too, we all just made our own way to the cementary. not in a line or togther, we just left the church and got to the cementary when we could.
NBN was supposed to be the National Government providing fibre network to cover all of Australia and every Australian. Later Governments cut the funding and it has dragged on for years. So the network itself is built by a Government-funded business, and then to connect to it you need to join a carrier, like you have a mobile phone carrier to connect you to the mobile/cell network.
IOW: It's a clusterf**k. Which we all knew it would be as soon as the Libs decided to mangle the end-to-end fibre into a pastiche of 100yo copper ends with fibre middles.
Billboards ate banned in Canberra... some politicians park large trucks with signs to circumvent those laws. The funeral procession was a things some years back , before cars had hazzard lights the headlight s were just on.
Regarding funerals. Most funerals here are held in chapels at the cemetery so no procession. I have been to several funerals in Sydney and all of them were held at the cemetery.
NBN Co. is a government owned corporation established to roll out a national fibre optic broadband network. They are the wholesaler of bandwidth to the retail suppliers (Telstra, Optus, Dodo, etc).
The USA… Grizzlies,Wolf packs,Mountain lions,Rattlers,Alligators,crazies with assault weapons…in Sydney…’watch out it’s a skink,RUN !! 😝🙋♂️👍 Also losing the funeral procession gives you the automatic right to go straight to the pub…no?
i am from the uk but lived in central sydney for 4 months , i was in hyde ark at dusk , looked up and saw what i thought were huge birds , i was shocked to discover they were fruit bats, something i would never see here , also like you i was always saying that i used to see the sides of roads moving or pavement , it was the bugs ,dont get me started on how big the cockroaches are , one came flying through my window and landed on my chest i screamed the house down lol, i could go on and on , also the food in the supermarkets is so expensive. saying all of this sydney is the best city in the world .
Lol all Foreigners make the same mistake and live in Melbourne or Sydney. 2 most expensive places in Australia. Realise why more Southerners move to Brisbane and rest of QLD. cheaper on everything.
Here in Melbourne we don't get red back spiders, I've seen one roach in 60 years and I've seen 3 gecko's since 1959 when we arrived in Australia. It all depends where you live and not just about Sydney where you have drawn your conclusions from.
Yes we do get red back spiders in Melbourne, I’ve had one in my house and they tend to hang around man made structures. Especially building debris and old cars in backyards. Cockroaches are more prominent in Sydney but it’s not unheard of in Melbourne either.
Flies are much less numerous now than they were 20 years ago. The fly problem was caused by importing cows. The local dung beetles couldn't deal with big sloppy dung piles. They were evolved to deal with the dry pellets left by kangaroos and wallabies.
NSW used to use the exactly same procedure for funeral processions, minus the flags and the hazard lights. There was no such thing as hazard lights for a long time,.
Tax time. It runs from July to June because the seasons are inverted. Thus agricultural businesses, also tourism operators, can match the costs of the season with the income from the same harvest.
I'm surprised that you haven't mentioned the Funnel Web Spiders that you get in Sydney Now THEY are scary! I have a few Redback families living in the shed Live and let live Also Regarding funeral processions That is something that used to be common but I think it died out in the 70s Life just got busier I suppose But it is something that we did do. But not really anymore
Hi. Those little lizards (skinks) are known as drop tail lizards as they will lose their tails which keep wiggling to distract you , if you try catch them. The tails just grow back
Here in Perth the market is nothing like Sydney. I bought my house in 2001 for less than $100k. My house is now worth around $350k. It’s a fairly humble 3 bed, 2 bath house with 2 car garage on a 700m2 block built in the mid 70’s.
Hi Kaitlin, without being horrible, are you aware that the word "learning" on your intro is spelt wrong? Also, we call our roaches cockies. Re the housing market - yes, it's pathetic, especially in Sydney. You could always buy outside of the city and rent it out. That way at least you have a foot in the market. Most Aussies think there is still far too much advertising on the side of the road. In the past, people always put their lights on in a funeral procession, and no one would ever break into that line. It's changed recently, which is rather sad.
The house prices get lower the further you get away from the city,as a example I live 25 mins by bus or train to my capital city,the suburb I live,we have a house with yard,cost to buy around 800,000.but you can get luxury town houses for 460 000.with a decent size yard.
Try finding an accountant or Tax agent in January to do your income tax. As December is such a busy period for a lot of industries (tourism, retail, hospitality) and its our major Summer Holiday season, hence they agreed that businesses did not need the extra burden of filing their company taxes In January. Hence, the business financial year is June, so it was natural for the personal income tax year to follow suite.
In the process of moving offer there. With an immigration consulting company, but I would love to pick your brain some time with visa and moving questions.
I thought you were joking about the house price in Sydney. But, I live in a regional town and a good late model home is about $500,000. Looking at real estate online, I see houses for sale at $4.5 million dollars. Being Sydney, the average resident there would be earning high wages. In my town, a bar owner had a house valued around $1.6 million. It might be worth more. But, his place is one of the upper limits of house prices.
The NBN is responsible for the connection to the home for everyone. It was supposed to be FttP to almost every home in the country. Really remote people would be either Fixed Wireless or Satellite. But when the LNP took power in 2013, they have a pathelogical hatred for anything Labor proposes... so they decided they could do it 'cheaper' by changing the technology for most homes to FttN which is much less suitable for the 21st Century as it relies on the old Copper telephone wires most homes have from their old landline phones. And the copper lines are really old and need to be replaced anyway. So, their 'cheaper' option has cost more, took longer to complete than the original Fibre Optic cable FttP of Labor... many homes have to be redone and upgraded to FttP because of the failing copper wire. Oh... and when they took over... the LNP also said (this is absolutely true) that we 'don't need fast internet speeds'. Then along came the pandemic, and people working and studying from home... Clearly we DO need fast internet speeds. So that is the potted story of the NBN.
@@Robert-cu9bm What a moronic statement. But typical of the ignorance of the LNP supporter. No. The Internet was not ‘better’ before. But you are just too stupid to remember.
Re Tax Season in Oz: Since a lot of people would be on summer vacation - perhaps at a caravan park or interstate - at the end of the year, including tax office staff, tax season is in the middle of winter, like USA, when everyone is at home.
My wife would take to a redback with a flamethrower if we had one! 😆 I usually leave them alone. The reality is that redback bites while painful rarely require anti-venom treatment. It’s the funnel webs which are the problem. Whether roos are a pest depends on the variant of kangaroo and where you live - kangaroo dog food originates from licensed hunting. Sydney house prices have skyrocketed in the last 20 years and I agree are totally ridiculous (and we own one of them but were very lucky with our timing!). Getting into Sydney property these days usually requires starting out somewhere else! Oh and your “gidday” is progressing well - you’ll have to drop the “Kinda” in your RU-vid name soon! 😀
Not too bad, skin swells, looks like the skin of an orange, sweats, and is quite painful. Not deadly, unless you are allergic to bites. I am allergic, I hit first and ask questions later. Thank god for good old Aussie thongs.
If you ever work out the NBN or Telstra do a vid and let the rest of us know. Ha you think thats weird (Tax year) in the UK is April 5th one year to April 4th the following year. Probably someone needed a holiday here in our (well Yours too now) Summer.
Starts on the 6th finishes on the 5th. And that's because they didn't want to lose tax money, I think it was something to do with when they changed calendar.
The NBN is the network which connects to the internet. Telstra is Australia's largest telecommunications company. They're pretty good for your phone service, but as far as fixed internet is concerned, you're better off with companies such as iiNet, Internode or TPG. Housing prices in Sydney are ridiculously expensive. Melbourne is nearly as bad. Try moving to Brisbane, Adelaide or Perth, and you'll find the houses are much more affordable.
Move over to Melbourne housing here does not cost $1.6 million - check out the suburb of Tarneit VIC 3029 - you can buy a 4 bedroom house with 2 bathrooms for around $550,000 to $650,000
Remember snoozing in Litchfield national park in NT, lots of flies, and about 3 skinks on me catching them. That redback was fair game, they set up a web and stay there catching roaches but if wandering around the house nope. Sydney housing prices have always scared me, cheaper here in Adelaide but rising fast, currently average under $600k average.
Agreed - calendar year would be easier for tax. But financial year is simply that. At least school years are in the calendar year, which is easy to figure out
i do admit as an aussie born you are so right broadband is crap but overall the lifestyle when i was growing up in Australia is fantastic i hope you enjoy the lifestyle what Australia has to offer you and yes there is challenges you have to face but you can over come them :)
Hi Kaitlin, for some reason the vehicle funeral procession in Australia has virtually died out, if you will forgive the pun. It was common prior to about 1960 but rare now.
That might have just been the one funeral. What you described has happened at other Australian funerals I've been at. We do use hazzard lights. Also you did the right thing to kill the spider. I don't know where there would be spider centers.
There is actually a good logic to the tax year here...Middle of winter there are no big purchases to be made, not many are on holiday etc, so it's a more manageable time to pay tax than Dec. In the US people are home in Dec, so it's not so big an issue. Here, December is both Christmas as well as holiday time, so expenses are high. Probably not the historical reason, but a valid reason. Interestingly the Japan financial year ends at the end of March
How you feel about the whole calendar year being easier for tax is how I've always thought about the school system. I get it's a season thing but always sounds odd to me that it wouldn't start at the beginning of the year.
Sorry about the house prices, they're a bit excessive to me, even as a home own. Best advice, get the first homers grant and other government assistance, get into the market and use the built up equity to purchase the next one (start small). As for the tax period starting in July and ending in June, it so Christmas and the holidays were off set to the time tax returns were due. P.S. for tax, claim "any cost incurred from earning a living". Especially if you worked from home. I used to claim work uniform washing, or part there of and it was legal.👍
The NBN was borne out of a federal election promise by the Labor (yes, US spelling) going into the federal election of 2007. The won the election which started the process of planning a National Broadband network. The idea behind it was simple: * provide significantly faster speeds * use leverage of government and the economies of scale that provide to improve infrastructure for all Australia is such a large country (Australia is slightly larger than the US’s contiguous 48 states + DC) but had a population significantly less than the US. It’s not feasible for small internet service providers to roll out their own network. Telstra could but that would be like asking AT&T to roll out to all of the US for 15 times less customers. Labor’s vision was long term wanting to have a primarily fibre to to home network (something only a couple of cities in the US have achieved like Austin, TX with Google fiber) and they knew it would take 10+ years - something federal government never does because of short terms When the next election came, the conservative Liberal government (no, not an oxymoron) said the NBN plan was too big, too expensive, too slow - and as a result the network that eventually rolled out was far less advanced and in many cases still not solving the main issue - getting fast and affordable internet On the flip side, Australia has always been very advanced in mobile networks. It was the first country outside Europe to implement digital mobile (years ahead of Asia and the Americans), and pre 5G Australia has such a fast 4G network that the massive speed improvements gained in the US we’re not seen here, with 5G being in many tests, a downgrade. Australia has generally rated very well with mobile speeds (although countries are catching up and overtaking as 5G rollouts occur, particularly in small countries like UAE). But in fixed broadband, even though the NBN was intended to be a revolution, it’s left us with mediocre pockets and brilliant pockets (I personally get 850Mbs down so won’t complain, but my connection is not representative of the general population). What is good with NBN is that you can leave your service provider and switch knowing that your modem and connection can simply be taken over by another provider - very similar to the way gas or electricity providers can be chosen
I bought my first home about 6-7 years ago. Very thankful I did. It's also watching watching it jump in value every year. We're going to see interest rates jump this year, at least twice. That will hurt a lot of people and I expect many will have homes repossessed. Its sad for them but probably the perfect chance for people like you to get into the market. You should also start looking in South West Sydney - Campbelltown.. Suburbs like Ruse, Leumeah, Bradbury, etc. You will find something pretty good for under a million. Will probably add 15min travel to work but worth it imo.
Australia has so may bugs, beetles and flies that EVERY Australian house has fly wire screens on every window and door just like in Canada and the USA. You see very few bugs in most of Europe which is why it is so enjoyable to sit at outdoors bars and cafes in summer. The historical reason why the Australian financial years starts in July is because January is when we have summer holidays and no one wanted to spend the holidays finalizing annual financial accounts. In Some states ( Like NSW ) it is a traffic offence ( with demerit points and a fine ) to interrupt a funeral procession. Traditionally in Australia cars in a funeral possession just have their headlights on to indicate that they are in a procession.
Well welcome to Australia here we put our headlights on that's it and chase the leader and it's cheaper to live in the other 5 states than Sydney you will get used to the differences and most people here are friendly so good luck and enjoy the new things and sights you will see cheers
Hi, I live in Melbourne since 1975 and I saw my first red back about 30 years after I arrived to this wonderful country . . . and never again since !!! So . . . Regards
Regarding kangaroo per food Are you aware that in most parts of Australia Kangaroo is sold in restaurants as well as butchers and speciality shops It is the BEST meat! Delicious as well as one of the most healthiest and low in fat I know some people get funny about eating kangaroo ... yet don't think twice about eating Bessie the cow! Do yourself a favour and give it a go!
My peoples culture is very diverse and all are unique and differ from mob to mob. At one point we had 700 Languages before colonisation but now we only have 200-250 left and a good majority of them are at risk of going extinct and we also have at least 100 dormant languages just waiting to be revitalised. A good way to find out more about Indigenous Australian and Torres Strait Islander culture is at aiatsis they have some great resources. Also my people have been in Australia for 120 000 years and are the oldest continuous culture.
The housing bubble is ridiculous. When my brother and sister in law bought their house in Sydney it was $30k. The average wage at the time was $6k. If things had stayed in proportion then average wages would be $300k, and they DEFINITELY aren’t!
Red Backs are venomous - BUT the last time I did a first aid update the recommended treatment for a bite was "apply ice and observe". They hurt like all get out but unless you have an allergic reaction they wont kill you.
