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@@dianacasey6002 NZ done way better per capita if they had as many people as Australia, per gold medal NZ would have 50+ gold medals (scenario of course) and top the gold medal tally worldwide
NZ done way better per capita if they had as many people as Australia, per gold medal NZ would have 50+ gold medals (scenario of course) and top the gold medal tally worldwide
Jessica Fox's father is Richard Fox MBE who was born in Winsford, Somerset, England and competed for Great Britain as a slalom canoeist in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and her mother is Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi who was born in Marseille and competed for France as a slalom canoeist in Barcelona and Atlanta, thus making Jessica quintessentially Australian.
🥇 🥈 🥉It’s the VEGEMITE! If you feed children with incredible amounts of B-complex vitamins from an early age you get amazing brain and nervous system development giving them amazing responses and coordination. It’s our secret weapon in international competition. We punch well above our weight in all sports.
Grace Brown(road cycling Gold) and Penny Smith (shooting bronze) both come from the same small country town Camperdown in Vic ...which means Camperdown has more medals than some countries in this years Olympics.
There is a big issue in Australia regarding the quality of education. A long standing big issue. Back in the 1990s, I raised concerns to the Australian government, when acting as a Group Academic Director for Australian and US small campuses in Singapore. My red flags were ignored. Ditto in Hong Kong in a similar environment, where, in addition, I sat on the Education Panel of the WTO. When I returned to Oz after ten years in Asia, I was surprised by not only falling standards, but the pressure on academics to pass poorly performing international students with deep wallets. Sessional lecturers remain very much in the cross-hairs of universities, if they implement the strict standards required by the Australian Quality Framework. Peter S. PhD.
@@swingsloth Think what already has happened decades ago is the dissolution of Colleges of Advanced Education, although some transitions have worked well. The thing is the gap between vocational education and scholarly university education. Employment tends to tiered in organisations. Some folk work well at mastering tasks under guidance, others, developers, can extrapolate current circumstances into the future. In between we might see team supervisors. It follows, curricula meet the aforementioned needs by being appropriately aligned. Similarly, IBM has development teams for R&D and operations teams to run things, after the bugs have been sorted out and there are procedures to follow. Ditto, quality frameworks need to match employer expectations for the level and type of job, and, to be fair, the student who becomes a graduate at whatever level, be prepared. Commercialisation of University education finds monetary incentives can interfere with selection and assessment processes. The risk is to graduate knowledge and preparation for the work force. (Ryan seemed surprised about Australia, however, in the US athletes can be given chances and liberties unavailable to the core student population and coaches can earn more than senior academics.) The promising move to assist anyone with merit to gain University entry, regardless of social or financial background, has erroneously become everyone needs a University degree. Well, something like that. With Government wanting in the future 60% of Australians (from TV) to have a University degree, a substantial population against the 50th percent for the points of central tendency on a normal distribution curve would have IQ less 100. How can that work? Providing an apt education environment for students is expensive, wherein underfunded commercial private providers might close their their eyes to valid recruitment processes and cheating (especially now with AI). International students’ challenges might be ignored, to buy a degree. Another risk is Australian universities loosing their international reputation: Hasn’t happen yet for Australian universities, though one should recall Universities are ranked internationally, including the QS global survey. Moving away from the gripes, perhaps, there has some movement in University curricula towards Workplace Integrated Learning, having the students show good performance in a real workplace-coal face situation. Cheers, P.
I worked with a guy who had a degree from an Australian University but could barely string 2 words of English together. It made it very difficult to work with him when he could only relate to his job by speaking in his native tongue, or by using a translation app to send emails.
I got two degrees in the 80s, I never had a group course thing, ever. It seems group projects only started when a heap of non-English speaking students joined. Out of no where, group projects appeared, meaning that the full fee paying foreign non-english students got added to english speaking students. Since then the ranking of Australian universities has hit, pay to play levels, internationally our degrees have no respect, because we became pay to play.
Yeah. But if the USA get more gold than China they will revert back to the way it should be. I think the americans got an inferiority complex. They always put the best spin on things to advantage themselves. Also there is the we are the best, we are the best when it is obvious they are sinking down,down, down.
@@biggils8894There was a proposal about 20 yrs ago to rank countries by points. Four points for a gold medal, two for silver and one for bronze. It seems to have gone nowhere.
@@patrickchallis5063 - You can't do Olympic medals or Nobel prizes, etc. per capita. That would make St. Lucia "the best" at Nobel prizes. Who can take that seriously? (P.S. The US has topped total medals every Summer Games for ages; we missed topping the gold in '08 when China hosted.)
Jessica Fox has a younger sister Noemi who also got gold yesterday in her event. So the Fox family has won 3 Gold Medals. Our Olympians are fantastic. Australia really punches above their werght. 💚💛🇦🇺 Our female swimmers are fabulous and a 14 year old female skateboarder won Gold today as well.
I worked on the pump's at the Penrith white water stadium in Penrith before during and after the 2000 Olympics where Jessica honed her skills go Jessica
My favourite Olympic Gold Medal win was our first Winter Gold medal won by Steven Bradbury. His name passed into our venacular … “Doing a Bradbury” coming from last to win.
@@judithstrachan9399 I know, he had a game plan going in, but it sure wasn’t everyone else’s game plan “falling” apart 😂 leaving him an opening to grab 🥇 4🇦🇺👏👏👏
China's medals are mainly in diving and shooting, a sprinkling of swimming. Other countries are more diverse. Australia failed to qualify for only two of the represented sports, hence large number of athletes.
Well, not * ALL *, its optional, but yeah, apparently I could swim before I could walk. but it is part of the primary school curriculum. by the time your 10, as many kids can swim as can read and write (even if its not terribly well). so the true human/dolphin hybrids can be identified pretty early, and be given the opportunity to train and improve if they want. who knows how many fantastic natural born swimmers are born in countries where swimming is not a common past-time. here its just seen a practical, fun, life saving skill, there are pretty good odds you'll spend a good chunk of time down the river or at the beach. another cool thing I like to point out, there is a pretty good network of adult swimming lessons, mainly aimed at new immigrants. very non judgemental, designed thoughtfully, things like language barriers and cultural sensitivities. a mate of mine did one after his lad started swimming lessons at school, and suddenly wanted to go to the beach or pool as a weekend activity, and he realised if something were to happen, he would be powerless to help. He's not what I would call a strong swimmer now, but has enough confidence in himself to go for a picnic and a swim at the beach with his family, which I think is pretty cool.
Jess Fox is from my hometown Penrith. This is also where they held the rowing and canoeing in the Sydney Olympics 👍🏻 also when I comes to maccas, remember we charge more here because our staff get paid more. 😉
I never understand this idea that fast food is cheaper. My daughter, with six voracious grommets aged eight to 14, buys mince from a nearby farm and burger buns from a bakery. Add onions, sauce, condiments, etc and add oven chips, and the ankle-biters get through a "quarter-pounder" w cheese with chips for about $Aus 1.35 each. At Macca's it's $Aus 8.00.
I was on a disability pension for a year and there's no way I'd be able to afford Maccas. Buying basic foods and cooking at home is way cheaper than eating out. The only way "healthy" eating is expensive is you fall for the marketing tricks and buy trendy stuff labelled organic, non-GMO, bio-dynamic or any of the other plethora of names they promote to make people pay more for the same food.
Before the recent world wide inflation, you could really buy junk and filling food in the US more cheaply than real food. But all the major corporations world wide, especially McDonalds, have used the excuse of inflation to hike their prices to insane highs, and now that is not true in the US. It was never true here. Oh, and the one thing that is possibly cheaper when you include cost of transport and electricity, might be the McDonalds hamburger, which is basically a meat patty on a bread roll. At $2, it is one of the cheapest take away foods you can get.
RE: Macca's vs Other fast foods. In my local (rural) area I can get a chinese meal for ~$15 AU, a Maccas meal (burger, large fries and large drink) is ~$18AU, KFC box (burger, 2 sides, large drink and chips) is ~$18AU, a medium pizza, garlic bread and can of drink ~$18AU. It's healthier to go for the Chinese than Maccas or KFC. Hell, the pizza is going to fill you up more for the same price and you'll have leftovers for later! Maccas and KFC have messed up big-time on the pricing and they're getting bitten in the ass for it.
@@Akkalia Definitely! Local burgers are so much healthier and better for what you get. Granted, they can cost a bit more if you include chips and drink, but you're going to be full afterwards, and it'll be a healthy full, not something that is supplementary at best.
I’m a deal fiend, too. Shake n win AND online deals at Hungry’s, deals & Reward points at Maccas. Occasional good deals at KFC & Red Royalty at Red Rooster. We almost never use the “TODAY ONLY” Domino’s half-price every. single. Tuesday but may have to suffer until our Aussies Pizza reopens.
Huge problem over here. Aussie students are having their grades lowered, because they are put with non-English speaking students on group projects, who don't have a clue what they're being taught.
If you give money to an Australian Uni you get to stay in Australia, and later bring others. It's the Uni selling migration instead of maintaining standards, which are going through the floor, including with "assignments" instead of exams.
The University Information is correct - International Students pay double but this is why the Universities LOVE Them. 1 part of my program was shifted as not enough International Students were students to help finance the program. I just shifted Universities to continue. A cousin met their future spouse from the USA as the Masters Program was faster & 1/3 the cost of the USA Colleges.
OS student English language requirements: This from the Australian Govt. Student Visas The minimum test score for a Student visa has increased from International English Language Testing System (IELTS) score 5.5 to 6.0 (or equivalent). The minimum test score for students undertaking an English Language Intensive Course for Overseas Students (ELICOS) course before their main course of study has increased from IELTS score 4.5 to 5.0 (or equivalent). The minimum test score required for students undertaking university foundation or pathway programs that deliver reputable English language training is IELTS 5.5 (or equivalent). These recognised courses will be listed on the Department of Home Affairs website. When I was studying for my Dip. Ed. I took a Languages Other Than English (LOTE) unit which required me to mentor 2 foreign students. In my case, they were South Koreans.
I went to a Group of Eight uni, and I'm glad that I completed my degree and diplomas during the 1970s and 1980s, when your assessors could be reasonably confident that the work that you handed in was of your own creation because: 1. There was no Internet to easily plagiarise material from 2. There weren't (as far as I know) well-advertised services where you could pay to have an essay written for you 3. There was no AI/ChatGPT to kick off your thinking for you 4. Unis weren't lowering their standards to give value-for-money to high fee-paying cash-cow overseas students.
50 years ago Hardy's tried to set up in Australia, "come on down to Hardy's where the burgers are BBQ'D" They lasted 18 months. MAcDonalds was just lucky.
Regarding the Mc Donalds section. as a comparison, I could spend $5 for a Large chips for a part of my meal, or I could go to a normal takeaway store and spend $5 on enough chips to feed 2-3 people without having to buy burgers or drinks. $4 for a large coke, which is just watered down syrup taste worse then a $2.5 can of coke you can get at most servos.
Think the average family had 3 kids in the 1970's and got married early to mid 20's, now it's like 1 kid and getting married in early 30's if they get married at all.
Fertility rate is 1.7 per woman which is better than the US at 1.66 with South Korea who have the lowest at 0.81 Demographers consider 2.1 births per woman to be replacement. Any higher population rises, any lower population falls. Global fertility at 2.27 is getting close to no longer adding to population growth. The world should top-out around 10.9b by 2,100 and then fall. Demographics is a fascinating subject to study.
Back in our ancestors day a lot of children didn't live to adulthood. This made it important to have a lot of children. Also contraceptives were not as readily available.
Or as someone said, first loser. Then again, what about being the SECOND FASTEST person of the 7,000,000,000 in the world?!? (I know, they aren’t all at the Olympics, but we should be making our “losers” feel better, not worse.)
Yep, in my ancestors days, they had 10 plus children, most more than that, but also the life expectancy was lower, a lot were lost to disease and illness, but youre right, we do need children being born for the longevity of the species......
The US will come home with a wet sail and win the most gold medals but I love that they change the ranking to make sure they are wining which they also did at last world swimming championships which Oz won but suddenly the US used total medals,come on grow up and use it as an incentive to get better.
Don't forget that Australia has a small population, and we definitely hit way above our weight, just imagine if we had over 300 million people to choose from to compete in the Olympics like America. Australia with it's small 26 million population has a much higher density of elite athletes compared to America.
The Aus university education isn't worth 300 thousand, but the citizenship that comes with it is. It's just a way of paying to immigrate. It's a major cash cow so they reserve a number of places that Australians can't access for the international fee paying students.
This Irish woman I work with here in Australia says that people there used to have around 20 kids. They don’t do that there anymore and no one ever had that many here in Australia.
this applies all the way down to TAFE, i did fours years at TAFE and we had a few students who had no clue at the end receiving the same certificates and diplomas i was, and i am talking mature age people 30 to 40 yrs old
Ummm, in case you haven’ty been paying attention Ryan, Universities and in fact the whole of Academia have declined so far in recent years as to allow scandals such as the Plagiarising scandal of Harvard president, the scandal of peer review being shown to be absoluety corrupt and lacking in any sort of integrity. This news report is not surprising to me at all. I have had discussions with people who have engineering degrees and it is clear that they don’t have even a vague understanding of basic mechanical engineering principles. Anyone who tells me that they have a degree with the idea of impressing me is in for a shock because those things no longer count as far as I’m concerned.
Most are just degree factories. These days they bend over backwards to find a way to pass students who would have been failed in previous decades. But due to decades of cut to federal funding, universities are under-resourced. The teaching is also by the cattle-truck full - kids do not get the level of interaction with their tutors and lecturers any more. Kids are so isolated from the real process of learning and understanding, or developing critical thinking. It’s sad.
@@kevkoala and what about that Jewish Victorian headmistress that fled to Israel after being caught grooming girls , what ever happened to that story or was that @ntisemitic
@@judithstrachan9399 we had a successful day today. 🥳 I believe we are 9th on the official Olympic scale at the moment. We have done better but still, not bad for such a small country.
I'm finding it very instructive to look at the medals table in this way. Look at the medals total for your country, then the number of gold medals for your country. Work out a percentage of gold over total. Right now, USA: 14 gold over 61 total = 23%. Australia: 27%. China: 37%. France: 41%. Next, consider these figures in the light of the countries' populations. Australia: population: 26 million. USA: 333 million. China: 1.412 billion. France: 67 million. Instructive, isn't it. Greetings from Australia 🇦🇺
McDonalds kneecapped themselves about 10-15 years ago. The reason why their prices went up so much over the last decade has less to do with rising cost of labour and inflation and more to do with the fact that they sold off their supply chain. They used to be able to keep prices artificially low because they owned their own supply chain and even some farms etc. they controlled every element of what they stocked where it was supplied from and the pricing. But that isnt the case anymore and now their reliant on middle man supply chains just like every other restaruant. This wasnt a problem when times were good economically, but now that things are going down hill their supplier raises prices etc. and they dont have as much that can control to keep things down.
@@petersinclair3997 That real estate is owned by the corporation rather than the licencees, they make alot of their money from the rent and fees of the licensees and if they have problems then that does impact the corporation, but yes their land portfolio is still doing well no matter what
hey Ryan many of the Aussie students spend most of their time teaching OS students English, a lot of our kids are complaining it group work is a nightmare for them
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