🇬🇧BRIT Reacts To 6 STRANGE THINGS FOREIGNERS DON'T UNDERSTAND ABOUT AUSTRALIA!

[@Bellas1717]

First issue: Remember that Australia is huge - from the South Australian coast to Alice Springs in central Australia is over1800km. Second issue: Because of the area, the volume of water that would be needed to make any significant difference is massive. Third issue: The population of Australia is so small that such a project is just not affordable with the limited taxation monies available. As an example, to water-secure Bourke, a small NSW bush town 650 km from Sydney Harbour, with bores, pumping station and pipelines has cost $21 million since 2017, and that is for just the 2,000 residents of the town using 3.3 megalitres of water a day.

[@grahamejohn6847]

Ross is a teacher in Queensland and is well paid so he lives a pretty good life. He is also a bloody good proponent of Australia. Tourism Australia should pay him for his work IMHO.

[@CynthiajKnight]

I worked with a nurse from the UK and she and her family applied to migrate to Australia the previous year using her husbands occuption as an Engineer as skills need. After a year were told not needing Engineers but top of list was Nurses. Told them she was a nurse to which the person they were speaking to said why didn't you say earlier., how soon can you move? They were here a month later.

[@Britt-r3r]

You only need what you need. My husband is an engineer we have enough of them but we need chefs and nurses, both of which are totally high stress jobs I'd never do. We have highly qualified people we need occupations we need not highly qualified , intelligent people

[@kymcruickshank7246]

I live in WA. I drive 6 and a half hours to work and back home every two weeks. It’s called DIDO (drive in, drive out). Most people here do FIFO though (fly in, fly out). The drive is normal and we don’t think much of it, especially as I get paid for my driving, in both hours and allowance. I get $100 per day on top of wages as my work is in the outback and it’s paid to encourage people to work there. I also get my own house with all the bells and whistles, including aircon as temps will start getting to 50 soon.

[@Sticks31]

In Victoria we built a desalination plant in 2012 during a years-long drought. It is there basically for "break the glass" emergencies. Incredibly expensive to build and to operate, it is connected to the main water supply and can be used as a back up IF NEEDED.

[@vtbn53]

Same in Sydney. Virtually no water shortage since it was built, it's not really being used but it costs a fortune to keep it in working order.

[@Deceased858]

Some city councils ban the water tanks and collection of rain water, except for plants' That tells me they haven’t done what they said in the last campaign promises. In the 60’s most houses had a rainwater tank.

[@peteralexander3255]

And to this day, it has never been used. Total waste of money

[@zwieseler]

I have German friends who love Perth because it’s so isolated. Driving for 4 hours without seeing another car just blows their minds. They love it.

[@Whitewingdevil]

Your idea of desalinating water is one Australia has considered and attempted before, the plant in Victoria apparently works fine, though it's currently not in use. The issue with piping water to drought affected areas is simply distance. Imagine needing to construct a huge pipeline, the length of the UK, to reach an area, and then two years later a different place hundreds of kilometers away is struck by drought, and the region you irrigated is now experiencing normal rainfall and no longer needs the desalinated water.

[@domenicbellino4703]

I was on a train from London to Edinburgh local passengers complained 5 hours, Being the Aussie Iam I explained to them from Brisbane to Cairns one state Queensland 3days. As usual driving for hours in Australian is something you do road tripping is a passtime, When a english friend ask me where I traveled to and stated the list they where amazed. They replied all in one day I would have gone to one place and call it aday. Every thing is close in England a island, Australia is a island continent everything is miles away

[@Bellas1717]

I've had that experience also. So unusual to hear isn't it? (Australia is the largest land mass on the continent, also called Australia, that includes New Guinea and thousands of islands.)

[@barnowl.]

We had the reverse experience when travelling in England and Wales by hire car regarding 'time to there. In Australia we are so used to long distance travel that it is ingrained in us. We kept on surprising ourselves how quickly we got from A to B in the UK !

[@r.fairlie7186]

I lived in Belgium years ago when there was a terrible time with bushfires all along the east coast of Australia. Some colleagues told me they’d seen it on the news. I could tell that they hadn’t grasped the extent of the fires so I said “Can you imagine a series of connected fires all the way between Sweden and Spain”? The penny then dropped and they were stunned.

[@stephanieyee9784]

When I lived in London an English friend and I caught the train to Southend for the day. It took a lot of convincing for her to go that far on the train for a day. It's only a couple of hours. Haha.

[@newbris]

@@r.fairlie7186tbh the map made it look worse than it was. Brisbane looked covered by fire and our fire season had been finished for months

[@miniveedub]

Distance. You really have to travel around the country by car to fully appreciate just how big it is. Head due west from Sydney and it’s a 13 hour drive to the South Australian border. Head east from Perth and it’s a 15 hour drive to South Australia’s other border. Travelling from Kununurra in WA’s north to Eucla in the south via Perth takes around 50 hours…if you don’t make any stops! Staying in just one state! Some of the major cities have desalination plants to boost the water supply. When we drove across the Nullarbor the motel we stayed at overnight used a seawater desalination system that worked by osmosis. All new houses in most parts of the country have a rainwater tank (better looking than the one he showed) for watering the garden and a lot of older homes have added them. Grey water tanks became popular in Sydney during the strict water restrictions of a couple of decades ago, also used for watering gardens. We do have underground railway, Sydney’s would probably be the biggest, but also fairly extensive above ground railway systems in most capital cities. Outside the major cities it’s another matter. For a long time different states had different rail gauges and interstate travel was a nightmare. It wasn’t until 1995 that rail was standardised for the whole country. Buses are good in the cities but don’t run as often once you get to the fringes of suburbia. Buses do travel between cities and country towns but it can be a convoluted journey depending on where you’re going.

[@davidhynd4435]

Interestingly, it wasn't that many years ago and local councils were requiring the removal of existing (admittedly, older) water tanks from residential properties. Now, in many parts of the country, councils have done a backflip and actually require them. Government, in all its efficiency.

[@m.e.l.9335]

@@davidhynd4435 , 'requiring us to remove..'.? They made it bloody illegal to have a tank in suburbia. We were trying to be Green before Green was a thing - the Gubmint said NO. We're still not allowed small windmills ( like Mongolian Nomads use ((and airplanes) ) to generate power off grid in the burbs. Everything's bloody illegal till the Gubmint figure out how they can tax it.

[@newbris]

@@davidhynd4435 been a big thing in Brisbane for almost 20 years

[@newbris]

And that standard gauge would be interstate rail only. Intrastate still uses different gauges.

[@brokensuave]

Queensland of course is still narrow gauge 3ft 6in. The second largest narrow gauge railway in the world. There are some dual gauge track sections (narrow gauge/standard gauge) along interstate corridors, allowing for interaction with other states. All services not leaving the state operate on 3ft 6in gauge, including both the diesel and electric high speed tilt trains.

[@cottawalla]

The answer was in his first item. You're not going to be able to irrigate millions of square kilometres using desalinated water, or even get it to where it needs to go if you could. But we have a natural system that does a much better job than desalination could anyway, called the Great Artesian Basin. Over much of the eastern half of the country just drill a hole and water comes out of the ground without even having to pump it.

[@Goatcha_M]

Desalination plants are incredibly expensive. We have a couple, but better water management is always a better option. One of the biggest issues facing southeastern Australia is so much water is taken out of the Murray River for irrigation that its mouth is at risk of silting up completely. In other areas they rely on artesian wells, but they draw far more than is stored annually. And drought isn't actually the biggest issue, there are ,major floods in NSW and Queensland every year now. Personally I think they should build a massive pipeline from Qld to Vic to redistribute excess water, but that would also be very expensive.

[@unoriginalsyn]

Was coming to say exactly this but you'd already done it so well 😂👍

[@anserbauer309]

There's also the issue of getting desalinated water for irrigation from the East coast across/through a substantial mountain range and then there's the environmental impact of by-product from the desalination process on coastal waters to consider. I think when people from other countries say "why don't they just.....?" it's most usually because they still don't grasp the scale of the landscape they're talking about (as per point number 1). Adelaide to Perth is actually about 1,700 miles.

[@Goatcha_M]

@@anserbauer309 Desal plants tend to be used for drinking water first, to supplement the major cities water supplies. Although it can be used for ag, and probably a lot gets wasted on lawns. But yeah getting across the Great Divide would be a task, like that South Park episode.

[@xymonau2468]

They have. It's called the Murray-Darling basin.

[@Goatcha_M]

.@@xymonau2468 snigger. True. But its not quite enough.

[@brendorme7271]

Hi Kabir, just to say that I think the guy in the video started his application 5 years ago, but he has now been in Australia for a couple of years or more, and he moved during the pandemic, which may have slowed the process. He is a teacher, one of the professions needed here, so would have been easier to come in. My brother married a woman from the Philippines and she was able to come over reasonably easily on a visa, firstly a temporary one, then as a permanent resident and now she is a proud Aussie after doing the citizenship test etc.

[@FionaEm]

I once worked at an island resort that had a desalinator. I can tell you, desalinated water still tastes salty. It's gross. Maybe you could wash with it, but if it tastes salty, your skin/clothes might not come out of it too well either 😅 Also, he didn't say it took him 5 years to get approved to live in Oz. He said he began looking into it 5 years before he did the video.

[@Goatcha_M]

Adelaide to Perth is about 2700 kilometres, close to 1700 miles by road. And massive stretch of that road is single lane highway. Even so, Darwin is really more isolated, there are several other major towns in southern WA.

[@Danger_Mouse3619]

As for water you should look at Snowy River hydro as that was enormous project and brough people from all over the world to work on it and also settled here.

[@Sticks31]

I'm from Melbourne. I've had a dodgy knee for a couple of months. Last week I decided to get it sussed out so I booked to see a top notch sports medical doctor (for one of the professional AFL teams). I saw him this morning. He apologised for keeping me waiting 5 minutes after my scheduled appointment. After examining me he sent me upstairs (in the same building) to a radiology clinic to have both knees x-rayed. I walked straight in and had around a dozen x-rays taken. Cost of x-rays? Zero. 100% rebated on Medicare. Went downstairs again and my original doctor assessed the x-rays and gave me options and a prescription. His cost as a specialist? AU$180. All up, 70 minutes. In how many countries could you book, get diagnosed, x-rays, the lot in that short period of time and at that cost? Oh yeah, the script costs me AU$8 to get filled (subsidised, of course, because I'm over 60 years old).

[@Rubytuesday1569]

I live in Perth. It's beautiful and Western Australia is an awesome state to travel through. The lifestyle here is great and the beaches are the best. Top that with spectacular weather. This state's land mass is equivelent to Western Europe. Perth is a small city that is clean and beautiful. Road trips are great fun and the landscape is stunning. Check it out before criticising it, sometimes distance is a blessing.☮️

[@peterm4683]

I don’t believe he criticised Perth or WA. He purely made an observation based on what was shown on the video.

[@JustShitImThinkin]

The distance pipelines have to cover in Australia is crazy. Plus include high wages and high consumables it quickly becomes too expensive. We just take a 3-5min shower and flush when it's a two-sie

[@TagSpamCop]

3:20 RBT = Roadside Breath Test. It's a cursory alcohol test. The police often set up roadblocks on a random road and test everyone coming through. They even sit down side streets for people who see it coming up ahead and nick down to avoid it. They don't need cause, it's legal requirement to comply. It delivers an indicative response, and if you're suspected to be over the limit, you might need to perform a full proper test.

[@marekabrown2427]

Perth is the most isolated city in the world! It was also called the city of lights by astronaut John Glenn. Perth has a good train network going from north to south. Yes I’m from Perth and proud

[@macman1469]

To give you an indication of size . The UK would fit into Western Australia 10 times .

[@triarb5790]

Or you could combine UK, Ireland, France, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain and they'd still be smaller than WA.

[@JasonHartley-fc3xv]

New Zealand has a gd healhcare system most of our prescriptions used to cost $5 but recently become free some meds are not subsidised though but not many, then doctors visits are between $15 and $20 its good because those that dont have very much money can afford it and you dont have to pay doctors straight away you can pay them off if need be so yeah its pretty good here in NZ

[@abekane7038]

Desalination is super expensive, although it is already done in Australia! There's 6 major desalination plants and heaps of small ones

[@daveg2104]

There has been talk of piping water from the north to the south. It would be expansive. We have a desalination plant in Sydney that provides up to 15% of supply.

[@tomwareham7944]

Ross is what I mean when I comment on all these videos reacting to visiting Australia!,,,when I advise the viewer to watch videos made by people who actually have spent more than a short holiday with a frantic and limited itinerary . Ross tells it how it is , he lives in Queensland , is a high school teacher , and is living his dream . Water conservation is one of my pet peeves, we do have desalination plants but they are super expensive, my hobby horse is that from the 50s on, when we first started flood mitigation schemes , we have had people, some of them scientists and engineers suggest we store the water from our nearly annual floods by directing the wa5ter by canals and massive pipes inland to reservoirs and lakes , it's always dismissed as too expensive and logistically difficult, but nobody ever says that it's Impossible . It would alleviate our water shortages open up huge areas for agriculture and create thousands of jobs enabling us to offer more places for immigrants and refugees, if Israel can turn desert into arable land while people are shooting at them then surely we could achieve similar results in a peaceful unhostile country. That's my rant , my advice to you is, watch more of Ross's videos he is a good example of someone who knows what he's talking about.

[@mattking1437]

With regard to transporting water from the coast to inland, too expensive is a massive understatement, plus the environmental damage done to the coastal river systems used to supply the water would be catastrophic. In order to facilitate this scheme massive dams would need to be built. These can't be constructed close to the headwaters of the river system as the amount of water flowing into them wouldn't suffice. They need to be built closer to the coast which creates issues with the current population centres, and increses the costs associated with piping the water over/through the mountains to the arid interior. It sounds good, is theoretically possible, but is totally impractical

[@elizabethnuttall5374]

Have you any idea of the land mass of Israel v. Australia.

[@tomwareham7944]

​@@elizabethnuttall5374at least they did something, we just talk about it .

[@wandpj]

@@tomwareham7944 The Bradfield Scheme has been impractical since day one. It would be the equivalent of using desalination for every city in Australia.

[@bblake5116]

My dad, mum, sister and brother migrated to Australia on the 10 pound scheme in 1970. I was born here in oz 6 years later. It was easy back then. They just wanted people.

[@footscorn]

It took me eight weeks. I applied in September and left for Australia in November. Had my medical almost immediately followed by a couple of interviews.. Flew from Heathrow to Kennedy then across the US followed by the Pacific, Hawaii and Fiji. I was nineteen and Qantas really looked after me. Mind you things might have changed since the sixties.

[@TagSpamCop]

5:20 Melbourne has a comprehensive rail system, with a "tube" underground called the Loop, which circumnavigates the Melbourne CBD. There's light rail out to all the suburbs.

[@r.fairlie7186]

Yes, and I’ll add on Sydney to your comment. Our version of Melbourne’s Loop is the City Circle. It only comes up for air at Circular Quay station where you get a view of the Opera House and part of the Harbour Bridge. I loved visiting Melbourne. It reminded me a lot of when I lived in London some years ago. 😊

[@TagSpamCop]

8:40 We did. We had lengthy droughts and built water purification plants, both desalinating and recycling. Some people lost their minds saying they'd never drink recycled water, not caring that recycling will filter it out much more than any originally captured water. Anyway, the droughts broke, the reservoirs filled up, and so it's less of a thing. But we can and do desalinate and recycle water.

[@rotkatzeredcat4284]

Australia also has a lot of rain, flooding rain in certain areas. What we need is a system to capture all that fresh non salt water and relay it to areas where rainfall is insufficient -a costly project due to the country's size.

[@queenslander954]

There’s so many different parts & cultures of United Kingdom , so imagine how many different parts & cultures there is in a country that’s 32 times bigger like Australia.

[@DavidCalvert-mh9sy]

Answer to question about de-salinating sea water to where it is needed. (A) the process is very expensive for the small amount of fresh water produced. (B) The fresh water produced then must be piped, in many cases, vast distances.

[@cazzle80]

Hi from Perth, (Western Australia). You can drive for 12 hrs & still be in WA. It takes about 2-3 days with stops to drive from the top (Kalumburu) to the bottom (Albany).

[@heatherfruin5050]

We have desalinated water added to our water supply in Perth.😊

[@slaygor5930]

As far as building pipelines to take desalinated water to drought affected areas, see point one about distance. The idea has come up before, but the cost to do so would be cost 2 to 4 times more money than the entire Australian yearly budget. And that's not including the cost to maintain the network or to build and run the desalination plants big enough to keep the pipe network supplied.

[@stephanielane1821]

In Perth Western Australia, part of the water running from our taps is from the Indian Ocean, through a desalination process.

[@michaelellams9105]

Yeah distance is big part of aussie life i was living in Darwin in the 80s, i hitchhiked in 79 to Darwin from Bendigo it only took me a week and had a blast met some great people and caught a ride with a truck driver for about half the trip vastness between towns back then was 300 or so Ks between and the outback was breath taking. Had friends living in Kathrine 315ks from Darwin they used to do a mackers run one a month drive up to Darwin for a visit then later drive home so all up 630ks round trip.

[@PeterKelley]

I know of one person who managed to get a "distinguished talent visa". All you need to do is prove you are in the top 5 in your field in the world.

[@michaelmayo9048]

I can walk at 4 in the morning 99 % of nights by myself in any area in our biggest city's..not a problem no need to carry a weapon people have respect for each other in Australia...unlike some countrys

[@brycejames8770]

We do have desalination plants to top up the reservoirs.

[@Fiona-zc6oz]

We actually do have an old underground Rail System in Sydney which travels around the city plus there are a lot of new Metro lines opening up and the light rail is good

[@scottymorrice5416]

Perth is approximately 2400 km from the next largest city of Adelaide! So we say down here in OZ 'the back of Perth' rather than 'the back of Timbuktu'!

[@Deceased858]

I was born in Aus, was a member of the armed forces and I’m still getting screwed over by those I used to serve, because they don’t care.

[@scottkeedle1119]

We have a desalination plant already, just sitting idle collecting rust

[@user-ys8ky6tv1q]

The distance between Adelaide and Perth is about 1,674 miles across the Nullarbor Plains and The Nullarbor Links Golf Course is the longest golf course in the world! The 18-hole par 72 golf course spans from Kalgoorlie in WA to Ceduna in SA which is about 848 miles long... Unlike the UK in Aus as a public patient you can go to any GP doctor of your choice and even if you are in another State. Income tax is lower than in the UK for the average worker...like the UK we pay an added 10% tax which is included in the price of purchases called the GST (General Sales Tax)...Many migrants come here on a working visa where they have to work in a rural area usually on a farm for 2 years after which they can apply for permanent residency...As you were informed at the start of this video Aus is a BIG country, we do have desalination sites in places in coastal areas but it would be impossible to pipe it to all the central inland places they are far to vast...We are truly blessed with all of our wildlife here in Aus the birds here are beautiful and they are everywhere, even the dreaded Magpies are bigger and different to Magpies in any other country...Here's some information you may not know, our national animals are the Kangaroo and the Emu they are featured on our National Coat of Arms because they are not able to walk backwards which in itself refers to Australia only going forward...What is unusual is the fact that we are allowed to shoot our Kangaroos meaning we must be the only country in the world allowed to kill our National animal.

[@r.fairlie7186]

I have a thing about false rumours so am happy to advise all visitors that drop bears are a figment of some people’s imagination. (They have too much time on their hands!) However, magpies are very real, especially when their chicks have just hatched. Some pedestrians in known breeding areas have taken to wearing bike helmets to protect their heads from being dive- bombed. I recommend the highly satisfying experience of patting and stroking a kangaroo 🦘in the wild. I grew up not far from Pebbly Beach near Batemans Bay. There are photos online. It’s a unique life event - better than a zoo.

[@savannahlandtravelvideos9896]

RBT is a Randon Breath Test. They can happen anywhere and at any time of day. The legal alcohol limit in Australia is 0.05%

[@linesydclb8845]

Perth is the most isolated capital city in the world, with the nearest capital city, Adelaide, over 2000 kms away. But we love it here.

[@redhammer9910]

Spoiler : It's all to do with perception. I live on the West coast so I don't think anything of driving 400 km or jumping on a plane but a lot of people in the east of the country completely freak out at the thought. But the really strange thing is people in Hobart, Sydney and Melbourne look at Perth and say it's to far away to matter, it's too isolated, but so very few have ever been here. Yet Perth is in the same time zone as almost all our major trading partners. In terms of travel it is closer to the Middle East, Europe, Asia, South East Asia and Africa. The only country in the East Coast time zone is Kanskanakastan, true story. With the aboriginie's. The vast majority of people on the east coast have never seen one let alone met one. In contrast if your from the West or Northern regions you regularly come across the Tribesmen and they are nothing like what the idiot box portrays them to be. For most english, if they can speak it, is their second language. Their skin is jet black, their eyes yellow and their pupils a dark brown. They are an ancient tribal culture that face extinction because their story has been replaced by those in the east coast who actively diminish them, you see that happening all the time now. Take the smoking ceremony. For most tribes it is a sacred ceremony and women are not permitted to attend. The same applies to some dance rituals but few who claim Aboriginality care for such things. But the Tribesmen care and are extremely offended by the attitudes towards what they deem sacred. Another example is welcome to country, its not a tribal thing, there is no such ceremony. For starters it's primarily pushed by the East Coast cities, in states where there are no tribesmen. Just watch NADOC week and you'll get the picture of their plight and how they and their culture is being exploited. It gets my blood boiling when I see white people trotting out these tribesmen for show and tell then pushing them back in to the shadows as self promotion and political agendas take center stage, particularly with The Voice. One has to appreciate this gentleman lives in Queensland. So public transport issues will be vastly different from Sydney or Melbourne or as they are from state to state. But I think the biggest issue never mentioned by city people east of the Great Dividing Range is the sense of being in true isolation. To standing alone in the heat on a landscape looking hundreds of kilometers from horizon to horizon knowing that no one can help you if you get in to trouble. No mobile phone coverage, no break down service, no ambulance, no shops, just complete silence. Most people who do experience true isolation will comment the emotions are both of awe and fear. Until you have experienced it you know nothing about the true soul of this country. Those who have braved it will tell you of a spiritual dimension, there is something there that you don't understand but you feel it. You tube has very little content that is a true reflection of this country or it's people. All it really offers is the perceived stereo types and memes. Try the vlogs, they're a lot more factual. Or if your interested in the Aboriginie's watch Malcolm Douglas video's, they're a lot more factual. My favourite is the segment on The Bradshaws ( Gwion Gwion cave art ) from the Mitchell Plateau near Derby in the East Kimberley Region. Facinating, truly fascinating and their origins poses many questions. Do a deep dive and you won't feel challenged going to Sydney or Melbourne, you'll pick the isolation and a journey through it instead.

[@PeterKelley]

Desai plants use a HUGE amount of energy which means they cost a lot to run and contribute to global warming. They also make the sea near them really salty which can destroy the environment. And that's just for urban water supply.

[@TagSpamCop]

11:40 The "mateship" thing came out of necessity. Small population, large country, spread out, long distances.

[@NT.0800]

Yes there is a desalination plant for water ! In Australia in the State of Victoria , Melbourne does have a desalination plant. It is in a regional area by the ocean . If there is not a drought the only thing is that it still needed to be managed by various staff & maintained. Therefore they cost a decent amount even when not in use. I think since those times it was turned on & into a fully operational desalination plant. That's what I recall but someone can correct me if need be. Thanks.

[@Snowman29101963]

You need two years as an Australian resident and then you can apply for citizenship, it's really not that complex. An interview with a govt official and a pretty simple test is all I had to do (back in 2002 so it might have changed I must admit).

[@triarb5790]

I had a fast tracked, private ceremony, after being interviewed by ASIO so I could attain Security Clearance for the DoD project I was working on. I unintentionally burst out laughing when I had to 'swear allegiance' to the Queen. It suddenly struck me as hilarious because I was born in the UK and of course never had to do such a thing. Plus I'm a died in the wool, thru n thru republican, the irony not lost on me. The lady conducting my wee ceremony was singularly unimpressed, which then left me really struggling to control myself from then on. I'm sure ASIO was told that I was clinically insane😂

[@coraliemoller3896]

@@triarb5790 Having a monarch on the other side of the world, who just visited occasionally- (or sent family members as reps) - promoting tourism via public events - works better than any presidential republic seems to do, including present debacle in USA. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Like Venezuela, Zimbabwe, etc.

[@AnnQlder]

It was only fairly recently that I realised that in the rest of the world the mountains aren’t blue 🙄🙄🙄😂😂😂

[@julzhunt7790]

😆🤣

[@eshiestrik2756]

😂😂😂😂😂 that was funny. Or blue and pink where I grew up. The pink was the reflection of the sunrise or sundown on the blue hue of the distant mountains.❤

[@ianmontgomery7534]

Desal plants are expensive and use a lot of power to operate and the water would have to be pumped inland using even more power.

[@stevenbalekic5683]

It doesn't take five years to be accepted to Australia...he said he begun the process five years ago...but he has already been living in Australia since the pandemic shutdowns.

[@furryblue6377]

An Irish mate had a relative travelling to Australia for a week long holiday. Wanted to know the best order to visit the capital cities. By road. I was as polite as an Aussie can be... and didn't laugh too hard.... Water... Well you have to remember our country is 70%+ desert, and we only have 35million people. 80% of them live on the coast. Where drought is extremely rare... We have 2 desalination plants, but they will only be used to supply the capital cities they are in proximity to if those cities have to stop watering their lawns. Our government won't fork out to put in pipework of 1000km+ for a town of 3000 people. It would expect the town to pay for it. Healthcare.. Away from the cities, there is no free care other than emergency care. Yes medicare subsidises, but we have to pay full upfront for general care, and specialists, and we get reimbursed some of that. This fellow, like most who do the 'I moved to Australia videos' has not experienced life outside the major cities or on the poverty line.

[@markleon411]

Yes, citizenship takes five years but that's after you have permanent residency first. Permanent residents have most of the rights and privileges of citizens. Permanent residency take about two years but you are considered a resident while your application goes through. That means, you are entitled to Medicare, employment, Jobsearch allowance and study. By the way, the Tube sytem only covers the London area. It is no the national rail network. All large cities in Australia have urban train networks, including underground systems. The national rail network, however, is definitely lacking. It once was more comprehensive but many lines and stations have closed down as there just wasn't enough usage.

[@clairash2004]

I live about 400kms north of Perth, in Geraldton. Very beautiful but very isolated.

[@coraliemoller3896]

There are coastal desalination plants near major cities. Sydney had so much rain that water catchments overflowed. Desalination plant was activated for maintenance but not used for much potable water. Eventually mothballed as more economic. Not sure if it will be feasible to reopen. Very expensive white elephant for Sydney. Perth desalination plant may be more viable with lower rainfall than Sydney.

[@AnnQlder]

Our visa system was shockingly bad, the new government is now streamlining and improving it, 🎉

[@arawakriesch7297]

1. Desalination is extremely expensive. 2. It damages both the ocean environment and the environment that if being irrigated. 3. If this was done on a large scale it would change the climate. 4. 70% of Australia in dry. 5. Some areas are desert for 6 months of the year and underwater for the other 6 months.

[@emgee691]

FYI. The distance between Perth and Adelaide is just under 2,700 kms. Take the Indian Pacific train across from Sydney on the east coast to Perth on the west coast. 3 and a half days, approx. 4,200 kms. Yes. Australia is BIG. our cost of living now? Sky-rocketed north! Especially our domestic energy prices. And goid luck finding a suitable rental residence . Almost everywhere across the nation, particularly in the regional or country areas, it's big demand, short supply, and outrageous $$$$, monthly rental payments. Your idea of pumping water to the drier areas, not stupid at all. The top third of Australia is tropical i.e. there, they measure their rainfall by the metre. Everywhere else, it's measured by the centimetre. What would make more sense and wisdom but to pipe water from the north to the south. It definitely would . However our federal politicians rarely, if ever, have it anywhere on their priorities or platforms.

[@queenslanddiva]

RBT - Random breath test. Also, that wasn't a flip flop, that was a thong 😉

[@user-ic8wh5su2t]

I took my cousin from Britain on a road trip in WA. After a few hours of no houses or other vehicles she just kept saying, “We’re going to die, we’re going to die.” 😂😂😂 Funnily, on the way home the car broke down, then she really started panicking. Fortunately, we were not too far from home. Though our idea of not too far and her idea of not too far, were quite different.

[@Nathan-ry3yu]

Australia not really that dry as some people make it out to be. Yes the center of Australia is dry red sandy dirt desert that mostly runs through the state of western Australia and parts of northern Territory and parts of the state of south Australia.Although majority of other states such as Queensland is more tropical torain with semi tropical rainforest. This state alone is huge and could cover all of UK France Germany and Poland and Ukraine and a few other smaller European countries in area easily. Then theirs the state of New south Wales with rainforest many large rivers including the Murry River. One of the largest rivers in the world. Many mountains rivers throughout the state. This state would swallow France and UK and Germany easily in area. Then theirs the state of Victoria with forests many hills and rivers grassland waterfalls ect this state is twice the size of UK in area. Then theirs the state of Tasmania that's on a complete different level of green.Thick rainforest and grassland this island state 500km south away from Australia mainland is 70% the size of UK. If you took of northern Ireland and Scotland Tasmania would be same size. Australia weather suffers from where it's location situated at. As where cycles of weather El Niño events are associated with a warming of the central and eastern tropical Pacific, while La Niña events are the reverse, with a sustained cooling of these same areas. These changes in the Pacific Ocean and its overlying atmosphere occur in a cycle known as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation. These weather cycles either cause Australia to have either hot dry period or wet weather conditions. Australian mountains in Victoria have more snow than the European Alps every year. Only 33% of Australia is actually dry desert that don't get much rain. And it's in the center. The government of Australia has thought of flooding it in the past to reflect sunlight and cooling the area more by making an inland sea. But international geologist and scientists think if Australia government was to so could cause sea leval dropping and ice melting faster at our polls including weather change cycles conditions that could affect other countries in the same region area that is in Oceania. That will also cause change sea currents that could trigger a mini ice age by currents changing of fresh water and salt water mixing moving differently. It will disrupt weather world wide. So Australia government has abandoned the program. To make more rivers is possible by making more man made rivers that runs of main rivers containing the sea.. although Australia don't have a water shortage all our dams are fall at the moment and Australia has a inland sea of fresh water under our soil trape in rocky basin. They only have to tap into that more and pump it out into new rivers and dams. But with this government Australia has now. It be like asking your mum and dad for a Bugatti for Christmas. It ain't going to happen

[@terryt248]

Desalination plants are very expensive to build, staff, run and maintain. Uses huge amount of energy, produces waste and toxic chemicals which are dangerous to wildlife and the environment. It can also cause ocean waters to become more salty and be a risk to life in the ocean. The cost benefit ratio, at this time, is not sufficient to use desalination water.

[@debkendall]

its 1000miles between Melbourne and Brisbane and 1000miles between Brisbane and Cairns (brisbane and Cairns are all in Queensland). Its about 2700kms between Perth and Adelaide.

[@suzannesantos86]

I emigrated with my family from Portsmouth, Hampshire when I was a kid (1975). They wanted radiographers (my dad) here in Tasmania. Today, they still desperately need doctors, nurses (especially) and basically any kind of allied Health Professional. My American husband emigrated here in under 6 months (well paid , highly skilled journalist) in 1999. Each state (Tasmania is the island state, much farther south-40degrees south and much closer to Antarctica, has 4 distinct seasons, and a classic temperate climate which the mainlanders constantly and forever bag on Tassie for uselessly) is completely different in dialect, culture, landscape, education, medical, historical differences you name it but they all share that concept of mateship. My general practitioner (GP) just increased his fees to $92 with a $41.70 Medicare rebate for a standard consultation. Doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, specialists in general, especially occupational therapists and speech pathologists are in chronic short supply right now. Probably because the stupid state government historically underpays compared to other states in Aus. Wank$&S! Prices have across the board have been skyrocketing particularly in the last 6-12 months-especially a 9% increase in energy and water costs, groceries and meat are mad expensive, and petrol of course. Still having ‘The Bush’ literally 500 metres away from my house on one side and the capital city and a massive deep water harbour a five minute drive in the other direction is fecking magical. Tasmania is THE state to go to for the best bushwalking- The Overland Track being the best known and most dangerous ,the best/cleanest beaches in the world (Wineglass Bay, The Friendly Beaches) and some of the world’s rarest temperate rainforests -Mt. Field National park-45 minute drive from the capital, and the UN protected Southwest Wilderness. Disadvantages-no trains/trams/Tube. Metro sucks-infrequent, unreliable and more expensive than say Melbourne. Coaches are just as bad. You absolutely NEED a car and the Road infrastructure and parking problems are insane. One bright spot. Instead of paying hundreds of dollars for a parking ticket like in Melbourne we get to pay $45 for a metre violation…yay! Not. You have to fly to the mainland or go on the ridiculously bad and expensive Spirit of Australia car ferry thing from the north of the state- which you have to drive 2 1/2 hours to get to from the south or get a long-ass coach. Then sleep in your car, or in a plastic seat or pay extra for a berth. Bogans, bogans everywhere. Yobbos/thugs in multigenerational ghettos of Housing Dept. (Council housing virtually). Daylight robberies and thuggery. Yay! Other than that it’s complete magic- seriously. Cheers, mate!

[@suzannesantos86]

Ignore the lines or all of it. I don’t. Know wtf happened there. Lol

[@jayweb51]

Australia is 4,000 km( nearly 2,500 miles) east-west, and 3,200 km( nearly 2,000 mile) north-south.

[@sharonrose3871]

All of the stated ... it depends where you live in Aus. As for water - is always relevant to the weather patterns, such as El Nina. The sheer size of the country is cost prohibative. 60 years living in Aus, I have seen 3 alive snakes. Magpies in Tasmania are not violent like those on the mainland. Most of the presented are from Queensland and NSW!

[@wildeturkey2006]

We do have a desalination plants :)

[@johnblackhawk2951]

We get used to saying how far something is in hours rather than kilometres. It’s more relevant. We get used to driving for hours on end watching trees go by.

[@kerrydoutch5104]

That map shows the capital cities only. Perth isnt stuck on the west coast on its own. Theres plenty of places scattered all over that south west corner. Not much north of it tho. Kalgoorlies 200km (?) east and then not much 'til Adelaide. Firstly droughts arent in particular places. You cant say well Woop Woop gets droughts so we'll run a water pipe there. Droughts occur any time anywhere and everwhere and are caused by weather patterns We have desalination plants but theyre expensive and to get water from the coast inland would be very difficult. On the east coast there s a massive mountain range that runs north to south (the Great Dividing Range). In the northern tropics they get monsoonal westher in summef when massive rains and floods occur the surface water refills rivers which run throughout the top end and centre and soak into underground aquifers and revitalise the country and then it dries up and thats how that tropical ecosystem works. In VERY simple terms. Teachers and scientists dont come at me. The Western Australian coast is desert that meets the sea and theres not much there except mining enterprises in the desert (not sure but probably use underground bore water) and Perth is in the more temperate south west corner. Adelaide is on the coast on one of the major rivers the Murray River which starts way further north east in New South Wales but it can be a bit manky by the time it gets to Adelaide depending on drought conditions and how much has been pumped out for crop irrigation. Away from the coast in regional areas people use river water under licence if available underground bores dams and rainwater tanks for farming and mining. In short careful water management is and has been the better solution. Tho' the efficiency and fairness of how its done is always a contentious issue. Theres a lot of city people who go into a tailspin if drought conditions mean that water useage is restricted and they cant have their 1/2 hour showers or a full bath and their gardens suffer and they cant hose off their driveway. But for the most part is just part of life. Its a sunburnt country as the poem says not Englands green and pleasant land.

[@helenlecornu1651]

Only one correction, The Murray river goes nowhere near Adelaide. There's a ' mountain' range and relative flat lands between the outer metro area and the river.

[@kerrydoutch5104]

@@helenlecornu1651 Agree. Badly worded. Should have just said its a major source of water for Adelaide.

[@eshiestrik2756]

South Australia: Adelaide and suburbs have two major reservoirs. One in the East in the Mt Lofty Ranges, the Torrens Valley Reservoir and one down south, I think it's called the Onkaparinga Reservoir. Also, Mt Gambier which is 5 hours drive from Adelaide is in the south-east of the state which has the Blue Lake which never runs dry. Most large country towns have reservoirs and some smaller towns have dams, as do Cattle and Sheep stations which also have bores which have pumps to draw up the water. Artesian bores tend to be much further north.

[@justkerry173]

Adelaide to Perth is 2694km (1,674.4 mi)

[@colddiesel]

Perth is as close to Jakarta as Sydney. We have two states bigger than Alaska, and just 2 smaller than Texas.

[@jenniferharrison8915]

After living here for three years you can apply for a Citizenship, for some occupations the visas are granted within a few days, others a couple of months, if there are specific issues (like over 45 or in poor health) it may take a couple of tries and more tests and explanations! Generally it is not at all difficult to get a visa to come here right now! 🤔👍

[@timstapleton1656]

Sydney and Melbourne both have desalination plants.

[@SalisburyKarateClub]

And Adelaide

[@VanillaMacaron551]

And Brisbane - Gold Coast

[@RyanLye1975]

It doesn't necessarily take 5 years for permanent residency or citizenship. Like all things, it very much " depends". Western Australia ( capital: Perth) has 2, or 3 desalination plants. Maybe one in construction. We ..uh mm .. have already thought of that. Some major towns, in Australia, during droughts HAVE ACTUALLY run dry, requiring EVEN MORE EXPENSIVE WATER CARTAGE. Australia is the driest continent ( other than Antarctica)

[@robynjefferson4779]

It takes me about three and a half days to drive across to Perth from Melbourne

[@amishgirl1000]

Perth is the most isolated city in the world. Perth is 2438km away from South Australia. Be careful when an Aussie says some where is just down the road. It could end up being hundreds of miles away.

[@ReHerakhte]

RBT = Random Breath Test, a test for the level of alcohol in your bloodstream Preventative health care - here in Australia the federal government pays for all Australians over the age of 50, to undertake a bowel screening test for cancer, every two years. The government pays for a test kit to be sent to your residence and then you literally send the government your shit... which they pay for it to be tested for signs of bowel cancer. The cost of living... oh yeah, it is definitely biting us on the bum, meat has become quite expensive and for some states, petroleum is subsidised for international sales, that is to say, we Australians pay a higher price for LPG for example, so that the companies can offer that gas for sale to other countries at a far cheaper price

[@eclecticapoetica]

if you’re a teacher, medical professional of any kind or a tradie the process will be easier, but still have to check all the boxes.

[@k.vn.k]

Desalination operation cost is too high for the benefits it can provide for such a small population but huge land area. There are other cost effective and efficient ways including water usage policies etc.

[@mikeythehat6693]

"Why can't we desalinate the sea water"? That's an excellent question. Would you like a job as Prime Minister in Australia? Because we need you.

[@clivegilbertson6542]

G'day Mate! About the wait times...Ross and his family arrived here just over 2 years ago and the video you watched is from a month ago...So that five years was three years or less of visa application time then two years here...after 4 years with at least one as a permanent resident you can apply for citizenship. Cheers!

[@taniafletcher5185]

To give u an idea of distance, Perth is just under 4000 k’s, not miles, from Sydney. Hence while it would be impossible to warrant pipelines for water across the massive expanses in Australia. Hope this helps yr vision. Byee

[@Jus7aguy]

Perth to Adelaide = 2,692.6 km (1673 miles)a 28hr straight drive. And the logistics of acquiring, desalinating, and pumping sufficient water to cover the irrigation needs of 60% of Queensland, a few thousand kilometres, across a mountain range, for a few years at a stretch, is not exactly practical. In relation to your outdoorsy comment, it's not necessarily that many of us are out-doorsy or sports-like (Though it's not discouraged), as much as that our sense of personal space might be a larger area. You may find we tend to converse from a slightly larger distance apart, especially if you grew up in a non-metro area. Our sense of how close people are before it starts to become uncomfortable is often a bit of a longer distance.

[@jogould1045]

In short yes we are noticing the cost of living increases. Probably not as much as a lot of other countries as we started out with a better one then most.

[@patrussell8917]

North Queensland lacks dams and water storage allowing big monsoon rains to flow seaward onto Barrier Reef and rain water flowing inland from Gulf Carpentaria ends in Lake Eyre after several weeks to the lowest spot in Australia also feeding underground aquafers water is important in the driest continent

[@one2604]

water evaporates, a lot of Australia gets to 40'c

[@barnowl.]

Australia is a vast country with a huge hot and dry desert (which was in the ancient past under the sea) in the middle. Apart from the cost of pipelines and desalination there is the difficulty of water evaporation. One day/someday it might be possible to turn the desert into farms. that produce crops.

[@occulathree5378]

We do desalinate in Western Australia 😃

[@xymonau2468]

Perth is more than 1,600 miles from Adelaide. You haven't grasped the size of the country. Sydney and other places have underground trains. Yes, it's a dumb question. You have no idea of the huge cost of desalination of ocean water. Just as many foreigners love animals. No, Australians are not more "outdoorsy", but the sunnier weather in some parts means you aren't always restricted to staying warm and dry indoors. No, it does not take five years for citizenship. He merely said he started looking into it five years previously. Yes, global inflation fuelled by covid, is everywhere. But we still earn a lot more more comparatively than Brits, even accounting for more expenses here. The Australian minimum hourly wage is currently $23.23 per hour. And only a few people earn only that. Poor people on fixed incomes suffer the most here, but we have a lot of charitable places, foodbanks, etc, and most will not go hungry. Housing is an issue, though, because rental prices are through the roof in cities, and very bad in smaller places.

[@ianmontgomery7534]

Melbourne suburban train network is nearly 1000k.

[@RyanLye1975]

Perth has 2 desalination plants

[@TimTamRipple]

It would cost too much money to build a de-salintiser and you would need alot of pipes . The same reason why we dont have a tube .

[@ElmosMum8]

Cost of living has just gone up and up, every week it seems the prices increase. Very hard to afford even mediocre food let alone good food.

[@rhondacohen9377]

We do desalinate in perth

[@breezle7296]

As someone who lives on the East side of Australia and has just come back from Perth - HOLY SHIT desalinated water is disgusting!! I feel terrible buying the (goon) bags of water but it was the only way to avoid dehydration. My body was curious with the water the first day but after that drinking it just made me feel sick. Soon as the plane landed I sculled a few drink bottles of good water 😅