These Maps Show Australia WINNING At Life... 

The bridge counts as contact.

Im 60 and live in Melbourne and I didnt know that either

48 no idea, crazy. Also shocked Perth being further north than Sydney.

Same, 68….

Same age and first time hearing that as well . Bet you could win a trivia night with that fact .

Great suggestion . We owe the new Guineans a lot for the help they gave our soldiers in ww2

I used to have a book about the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels but it got mislaid and I have been trying for years to get another copy. So far I have had no success☹️☹️

Nice comment. Australia and PNG definitely have a very close association. My family lived there when my father was in the air force back in the late 1950s. Regarding the Fuzzy Wuzzies, I would definitely not refer to them as "infamous". As you are no doubt aware they were actually referred to as Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels, and for good reason. They carried stretchers, stores and wounded diggers (soldiers) directly on their shoulders over some of the toughest terrain in the world. Without them the Kokoda campaign would have been a hell of a lot more difficult. Two of my uncles fought in New Guinea in WWII and were always quick to praise them for what they did for them. In 2009 the Australian government began awarding the 'Fuzzy Wuzzy Commemorative Medallion' to living Papua New Guineans who helped the Australian war effort. It is generally acknowledged by Australian veterans that the recognition was too little and too late. Nevertheless we will always be in their debt.

I dont know if you saw the life expectancy map but PNG was lit red. I would question the links to Australia is as cordial as some might think. A lot has happened with China's entrenchment within the PNG economy, infrastructure since the World Bank/IMF tried to gain softpower and debt trap Pacific Nations. Now the Bank of China is the largest donor to PNG. and most of the Pacific. They even sent Carrol Keneddy to no avail.

@@MowMowMowDiittyMow there’s a difference between political machinations and how we the people think of each other. PNG politicians have a lot of high level corruption happening but we don’t blame the PNG people for anything

It's not a 12 hour drive across Victoria...

Another fun fact Western Austrailia is 50% larger in area compared to Alaska.

im from qld, been to every state except nt, thought tassie was the coolest, then went back and re -explored QLD , hands down the NO.1 place in the world

Yeah sorry I gotta agree with MrGut here... 24hours if you travel at 40kms an hour or something! I'm Adelaide and Sydney is like 15-18 hours depending on stops....

@@MrGutfeeling gang gang bra

Compulsory super is a nice idea in theory, maybe, but it's a scam and pretty horrendous not having access to the money YOU EARNED.

Super is not really helpful to the majority of people. Most workers would be better off having that money in their wages to live on. It is mostly a tax dodge for the wealthy and a wage suppression tool.

@@MrGutfeelingSorry you feel that way I know that in retirement without super I would be well and truly ft.

@@MrGutfeeling Yeah, that's bs. In Germany we have something like that too: "Social insurance" which is retirement ensurance, health insurance (insurance company of your choice, unless you opt for private insurance which is similar to the US system) and unemployment insurance. Those are paid more than 50% percent by the employer actually and it covers everything. It is deducted from your earnings before you receive it, followed by taxes which are also deducted from your income beforehand. You get it all listed every month and it's taken care of by the financial departement of the employer. What you receive in the end is all yours then. We don't have to put money aside for all that, cause it's all taken care of already. The money we get is ours to spend however we want, be it rent, mortgage for a house, car, additional insurances (some are mandatory like car insurance). We don't have to take care of taxes when we are employed. It's different when you are self employed of course, and i was for many years and let me tell you: Doing my taxes and insurances myself took SO MUCH TIME of my life, even having an insurance agency and a tax advisor technically doing it for me. It also took so much of my nerves. Not to mention, the knowledge that all the money i earned is NOT all mine to spend as i please or as i need or reinvest in my business, that sucked so much. Now i'm employed again, and the amount of free time and leisure i have now is still amazing to me. And the fact that, if i get seriously ill i just give my employer a call, go see the next doctor and can stay at home without having to worry for my income or finances makes it so much easier to recover (cause in Germany, health insurances actually do what they're paid for no matter which one, they cover all your medical costs and when you stay at home due to sickness or injury, you still get fully paid. So, what's the horrendous scam here?).

@@dianacasey6002 Yes. Very few people (especially low to middle income earners) would have the capacity or self discipline to save a large sum for retirement. Super makes a comfortable retirement for many people a reality.

That's only 1 ranch that's crazy in size ... Australia has the best beef IMO 💯❤️🇦🇺🤙

My great uncle purchased river downs in mid 80's after packer was refused by NT government to purchase than holmes a court took over by the end 80's

My Mum's first job at 17 was as a governess on VRD.

​@@leemasters3592How interesting!

Well bigger than Texas? I mean Texas is a cute little state but big it's not.

lol, that is pure western thought pattern right there. imagine your car, nah wont change the oil, will drive it hard, skids, burnouts, just rip it up mate.. mechanic will sort it, "car will last forever" - yeah nah US government subsidised the corn industry, corn fructose was the result, from food to fuel Americans eat sugar and this is why they are mind fkd (erratic) and unhealthy. example their bread is not bread, it is cake with 6 times the sugar of an Australian loaf.

I am 75, an Aussie and have travelled the world and also travelled around Australia. We are so lucky here and our standard of living is high compared to a lot of countries.

It's not "luck" mate, it is a function of what we and our forebears BUILT.

​@@cranegantry868Yes, it seems that whoever is running the shop has intentionally burnt it down as core upton & law lesnass has skyrock etd over past 3weeks(as an observation) & yis bein allowd to take over noticable change 6-10yrs ago Some say money laund ring is driving up house prices & prices in general. imag8tn is prob bringn in bad washin . it was always gunna hapin -the players have been installed the fuse was lit yrs ago powdrkeig has xplodid.. i apologise if this makes no sense at all its been made impossible to speak

It's great unless you are young and want to buy a place to live, then it isn't so great. I'm happy to live in Australia, but we really need to solve this problem ASAP.

Let’s not get too carried away with the rose coloured glasses. We have problems and issues just like any other country.

Cape York where nobody lives yet there's a corruption issue there. How does a Cape York lawyer.. Noel Pearson gather in excess off 120m $$

Did a road trip across Queensland. It was brutal. Thats when I discovered they have signs with riddles along the road as you get closer to Brisbane with the answers 10km down the road on another sign. All in an amusing attempt to keep people alive.

Brisbane is closer to Melbourne than it is to Cairns.

@@JohnFromAccounting Correct. That’s another fact I used to point out to Victorian friends when I arrived in Melbourne.

Mt Isa has its own special language 😅

American have more wealth middle class

American niddle class is shrinking as is the case world wide, mainly due to neo con and neo libs policies, who also want to eliminate super. Which on average by your mid 60's will give you about a quarter of a mill on retirement in Aussie dollars.

@@banta-pd8zj middle class has only shrunk 10% since the 70s , which is better than northern Europen & Australia middle class decline

Thanks coopsnz, trouble is that a decline in the middle class does not equal a decline in the underclass, exactly the opposite, that's where most of those exiting the middle class end up going. It's not good.

@@banta-pd8zj that what socalism policy creates, you need more capitalism policy for middle class to grow thom hartmen full of shit

You beat me to it 🙂

It’s not nearly as egalitarian as it used to be unfortunately. I’ve seen huge changes in the joint in my 60 years on earth, and not changes for the better…but, that being said, there’s absolutely no other place on earth I’d rather be. It’s a fantastic country compared to some other first world countries, that’s for sure.

@@virginiaviola5097 I wouldnt live anywhere else either.

that's non stop with out sleeping for the people about to say that's not far

I recently just looked at doing a trip from Sydney to Broome. Google maps told me it would take 56 hours without stops. I know there are flights there but even they take 5.5 hours and cost over $1000 return. Then I looked at activities. I'd need to budget more than $300 per day with most 'excursions' costing from $90-400, and that's for only one person and doesn't yet include meals or accommodation. I changed my mind, very quickly.

I'm about to do Brisbane to Perth in a truck. Super keen

Sydney to Perth drive 3 days with nothing to see except desert and stops over night.

Melbourne to Sydney is @ 11-12 hours straight through. Australia is only marginally and I mean marginally, barely perceptibly smaller than the USA. So a coastal run from the Canadian border to either the Mexican border or the tip of mainland Florida and everything in between…..except Australia is an island, we don’t share a border with any other country and for the most part the country is very, very scarcely populated. Inland from the coastal areas is almost entirely desert.

You just have to swim to reach it. More like, a very small piece of land got in the way of their water border. The who owns which part of Bass Strait.

The land mass was contiguous until the ice age ended, the ice melted, the sea level rose and the two were separated.

It was a surveying mistake. The border is there !

That's because of Cape York Peninsula and the overall shape of Queensland as a state. This means that there's a part of Queensland coastline that technically is 'west' rather than 'east'. So Cooktown is on the western coastline of Cape York Peninsula, as opposed to the eastern coastline.

Tell me you're stating the obvious by stating the obvious...@@lundi44

Same 56 yo Tasmanian. Never heard but technically just a pile of rocks.

It's on the stock-market-so when that goes down people lose money.

WOW! How interesting!!

Here's another one. NZ is a poor man's Canada..

I would say that having a university education can be detrimental in terms of pay / earning power in Australia. My perspective I have gone all the way with education to a PhD, that is at least 7-8 years of no pay while getting there. While I was doing my PhD others doing it with me sat down and we worked out that doing an apprenticeship would have been financially better as you get paid for those 7-8 years. I have now been working for 20 years. My own daughter who never finished university (she started 1 year but did not like it) has just got a traineeship with a mining company in WA. In 3 years, her wage will be higher than mine!!!

If you have a go at the right thing.

@@playlisttarmac I believe it's often a balance between job satisfaction and earning a large wage. Some people may be very happy to work in their chosen field for $80 000p.a., while others may earn twice that in a role they don't enjoy. Some are fortunate enough to earn big money and enjoy their job! Best wishes for the future.

@@11235but In one of our worst depressions, footballers used to hunt rabbits and sell them for enough money to feed their families. One of our teams is named after their sales call. Point is, if you're young and healthy, try any role (legal) and give it everything for a period. Sweat it. Every day manage your attitude. Read or watch motivational material. Play to your strengths, not your fantasies.

@@11235but Near the end of my working life. What I probably didn't make clear is, I believe in Australia it is easier to do well in life without being a highly educated professional than in the U.S. and other countries. Although it is getting harder. Cheers.

No, now living or dying in Australia depends on whether or not you have had the clot shot! So caring - so merciful!

Actually, our health care WITH free medical care costs Australia less per capita per year than the US health care. Not expensive at all.

@@michaelboyce7079 Oh, go take your crazies somewhere else.

Lucky we gave full immunity to the pharma companies and not the people taking it@@xymonau2468

My 80 year old aunt runs a cattle farm. She moves like a 40 year old. Active work keeps you young

My father in law lived to 105 and was fit as a fiddle till 99. He fell out of a tree once at 97, picked himself up grabbed his chainsaw again and climbed back up the ladder into the tree and went back to work.

I visited my grandparents as a kid, an elderly relative was visiting. I said hi aunty dot. Mum said hi aunty dot My grand dad said hi aunty dot. Aunty dot was sad, her friend slipped in the bathroom and broke her hip and dot he shouldnt be body surfing anymore.

Yes. It is really important to understand that. Once you survive childhood - your life expectancy is gong to be very similar to many more developed countries.

Thanks for clarity on that important point.

Maybe they should keep their children in good health and feed them. Simple.

@@majorlaff8682 lol yea very simple given they are living in third world poverty and have no money for food

Pretty sure that's why in the middle ages we think the average life was like 30-40 years but it's just all young kids and infants dying from diseases and what not

The concept of distance is usually aprefixed with the word "Tyrrany' . There are many Queenslanders who will do a roadtrip from wherever they may be to watch a game of footy. I guess like getting your passport stamped in Europe , more than 3 times or passing through half a dozen of the United States. 4870 Always was and always will be.

What the US calls a state we might say is a Shire or council region

Conversely , multiple U.S. states could house several European countries ...

@@Gordon_L Still tiny Australia has cattle farms that can house several European countries in them. Just cattle farms.

I met an English couple at Brunch in Sydney years ago who told me they were going to drive to Melbourne for Lunch till I explained its a 13 hour drive, No concept of the distances,

you have a problem here in Australia? Like I just fell over, recently stuffed my left knee left elbow straight in x-rays MRI to see that everything still good. Go back Two days later and see the doctor to see the result

And we have things like free cancer screening. I found out I had breast cancer with the very first free mammogram I had after hitting 50. Caught it really early and didn’t have to have chemo, just surgery and radiation therapy. Would have killed me if it wasn’t for our preventative screening.

Also there's not much point in having some of the best healthcare in the world if it is financially inaccessible or decimating for the vast majority of the population

the number of school children that are victims of mass shootings certaintly would not help the life expetency figure

@@ZosiaDabrowski The US have some of the best medical technology, they have the worst health "care" in the western world.

Over 500 language groups.

That's interesting. Is this the same as how airports are regarded as federal land? (At least in Perth it is...)

NOTHING would make Canberrans happy. Not even the best Queensland beach. Or even a second-rate NSW beach.

It would require a large study to define the causes. Maybe we have more people more profoundly affected. How does suicide factor in, and in what areas? We would definitely have fewer services simply because of the cost and distance involved. Sweden is compact so one service would serve a much larger number of people than here.

@@xymonau2468 I suspect it has a lot to do with suicide and feeling like there is no out. I know I've been on that edge and it's a scary place to be. Going to emergency isn't always the solution because they often don't know how to help or have the resources. I imagine isn't not just with autistic people but all with mental health issues, especially if our system is not as robust as maybe Swedens is, though I can't speak for people other there and how satisfied they are with the mental health programs, but I know here so so SO many here cannot even afford the get a mental healthcare plan in place to access cheaper psychologist appointments because bulk billing is almost null and void now. Those that do bulk bill are not taking new patients, psychologists are not taking new patients. I know the US is going through something similar so I can't be sure Sweden isn't, was just a horrifying static I heard recently.

The most common cause of death amongst people with Autism is drowning. When they get into difficulty, they panic making their predicament worse. Also, Autism is a bio-neurological disorder and has many other co-morbidity diseases associated with it. Finally, the LE differs across the spectrum and it is believed that the higher suicide rate may be caused by Autistic people's inability to deal with an increasingly divisive, competitive, aggressive society leading to acute clinical depression.

Autism? Does that mean you don't have to change gears when driving your car?

@@RobNMelbourne there you go, I didn't realise it was drowning, I was filling expecting it to be suicide. Yes, it is definitely hard to deal with those things in society but I fully believe that a better mental health care program, as well as earlier diagnosis, and easier to access social programs could help so many of us with a) that horrible feeling that there is something wrong with us, especially those yet to be diagnosed, and b) would help with the feeling is lonely that so many feel, which is often due to feeling like aliens.

It's not only returning interest , your superannuation is not in a bank , it gets invested in Australia in things like new mines , farms, roads and you are like a share holder , your super preforms at well above 18 percent return , if the company you invest in makes more money so do you !

Oz Geographics rocks!!

I rode my motorbike from sydney to Melbourne in one day. Not fun to do as a tourist but it's not that far

@@chrispekel5709 It's far enough so you're not going there and back in a day. I've done the route, it's at least 9 hours if you only stop for fuel. But if you want to visit Melbourne, you'll want a couple days at least to spend there, and then another day to ride back. This guy thought he was going to swing down there after breakfast and be back in time for dinner. It ain't like a day trip to Chicago from Milwaukee.

@@dog4mike Haha oh yeah! I thought he meant a day travel each way plus the time down there, not a single day all up! LOL

@@chrispekel5709 i exaggerated a little when I said four days for the ride alone. Obviously you can iron-butt your way in a day there and day back if you want. But it’s a hard days ride. Once you get past Canberra it’s just two-lane winding road for most of it. My preferred way to get there is take a winding route either down the coast or inland across New South Wales and down. It’s such a great country for road trips, it’s best to take your time if you can.

@@dog4mike No, it was my fault for not reading your original comment properly. The Hume is a crap road, but the long way is super nice. Done it a few times on my Chinese motorbike

Yep me too.

Tasmania wasn't part of the USA, the USA was part of Tasmania when it was all Gondwana. 😁

Regional cities get the most division of the remaining percent, then regional towns and rural towns, then remote towns and stations.

The total super pool is currently more than Australia’s yearly GDP and in 10 years will be more than twice.

You need to talk with new home wannabe buyers to see what they say before making elaborate claims about the ease of ownership..

It's net assets and most like due to compulsory employer paid superannuation (like a 401k in the USA). It adds to the individual's net wealth but you can't touch it until you retire usually.

@@RobNMelbourne Dead right. It is percentage of people with over 100k USD. Even people without owning a home can likely beat this number after a lifetime of super contributions

Both are good places compared to most of the world 👍

Unfortunatley,the US keeps slipping lower and lower,whereas most west most democracies around the globe have seen the flaws in the US system and have looked after their people better than the US government has treated their populace.@@Mattb81

NZ is a poor man's Canada and that's why they have massive chips on the shoulders..

We used to do it in 10, and I know one WRX that did the trip in 8hrs 15. It's a long day in the saddle🍻🍻

Housing affordability and value is way overblown.... we are paying alot more of the % of the average wage for mortgage repayments than ever before.... as a country we used to be able to afford to buy a house and live with one wage in a household.... since the globalisation and creative accounting governments call economies nowdays everything is expensive....

@@paulrodsted3905 that can be related to the government's foreign investment policies and that is common these days, unfortunately it costs us more than what it once did but in comparison we are doing quite good. Especially when we factor wants over needs, we have more than we need an purchase products because we want them because we can afford it. Hence the inflation 😎

My parents sold a house in Blackburn Victoria, 770 sqm, 3 bedrooms back in 1979 for just over 30,000 bucks. That house is today worth 1.4 Million. I told dad not to sell the house back then but he didn't listen to me....... I loved that house!

The 141st is the opposite point on the globe to the line made by the Pope ( Treaty of Tordesillas) to divide the world (1494) between the Spanish and Portuguese (Spain got new world but Portugal got Brazil + East Timor for eg). When Cook claimed the east coast of Australia (1770) it was not known (Till Flinders circumnavigation) if it was 1 continent or 2 islands divided at the Gulf of Carpentaria and Spencer Gulf. So the claim was to the 141st with the East side called New South Wales and the western side New Holland. It's more complicated than this and Spain claimed the Philippine's after Magellan sailed through the Straight named after him.