Reaction To 50 Wild Facts About Australia

Reaction To 50 Wild Facts About Australia
This is my reaction to 50 Wild Facts About Australia
In this video I react to interesting facts about Australian including facts about Australian geography, Australian history, Australian wildlife and more.
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[@dalegallacher7074]

Never call them a forest fire…it’s a bush fire

[@timdevries7350]

"Black Saturday " and "ash Wednesday " were the worst wildfires I personally experienced in Victoria! Horrible stuff!!

[@siryogiwan]

I was living Hurstbridge when the 2009 fire hit, was down south of Geelong and saw the smoke heading home, then copped the fires in NSW a few years back, I remember hearing about the Ash Wed fires as a kid and seeing stories on it at school etc; another major fire I'd add to this list is the Sydney fires of the 90s (can't recall the year now), flames jumping the Hawkesbury river a distance of 3km

[@davidareeves]

Sadly the same. Remember Ash Wednesday as a kid, seeing everything (mountains around) like an open fireplace. You could see hug trees as a big hot red ember. Black Saturday, my being from Sydney, sent us an image from the rooftop of Boxhill shopping centre, and you could see the flames from there. She was like, are you all okay, this is insane.

[@antheabrouwer3258]

Shrimp is actually NOT a prawn. They are a different species....

[@beano9343]

Paul Hogan actually apologised and said he regretted doing the "shrimp on the barbie" ad. So Nya! No more shrimps, just prawns

[@jackbarrie6007]

Shrimp only grow to about 30mm .1.5 inches they live among the reads at the waters edge. It's a pity that some countries can't get it right but it gives us in Oz a good laugh. 😂😂😂😂

[@YellowJello57]

Lower life expectancy for aboriginals is complicated and multi-faceted but some of the reasons include poverty, drug and alcohol addiction, lack of access to modern healthcare and resources, cultural reasons like mistrust of hospitals and western medicine, and language barriers. BTW, aboriginal life expectancy has improved massively since colonisation. Despite the modern idea that pre colonial life was some sort of paradise in Australia, this is simply not the case. Infanticide was common and life expectancy was very low before 1788.

[@lillibitjohnson7293]

2019,/2020 was the worst and largest fire we’ve ever had, lasted well over 5 months and the clouds of smoke reached New Zealand and South Africa

[@kathleenmayhorne3183]

Yeah we had volounteers coming in from other places to fight when the local fities were too darn tired.

[@Vidrack]

RIP for the Canadian pilots.

[@lillibitjohnson7293]

@@Vidrack indeed

[@bengray2628]

Actually, it wasn't the worst season, 74/75 burnt way more land area (15% of the country!), 117 million hectares compared to 18-odd million for 19/20. There's a couple of fires in the NT in between as well but those would have been in remote areas where the fire couldn't be contained.

[@lillibitjohnson7293]

@@bengray2628 probably effected more people in the latest one compared to the outback burning

[@thevocalcrone]

Actually he is factually incorrect with a lot of his comments. I was doing some research more recently and saw that a few of the convicts were charged with murdering an aboriginal man (and punished in about 1790), However, what i also found was that in 1788, one of the convicts went down to a vege patch and was witnessed being taken away by Aboriginals, and his clothes were left behind. there was a belief that he had been eaten, and so the convicts were very frightened of the Aboriginal people (and the military). there are also records (although its not talked about and no longer educated in school) of Aboriginal cannabalism. So yes they were frightened and yes the Aboriginal folk did fight back and resist colonisation, but murder was never 'legally endorsed'.

[@bettymarshall2702]

It is factually correct that Aboriginals were cannibals and it seemed their preference was for Chinese. New Guinea, Solomons, a lot of islanders did the same.

[@RobNMelbourne]

Ash Wednesday 1983, Black Saturday 2009 and the 2019/20 bushfires down the whole of the east coast are the worst I have seen. Yes, eucalyptus trees explode in a very hot bushfire due to the oil being very flammable. You don't have to woory about them though, if you are close to one when it explodes you will probably have been burnt already.

[@kathleenmayhorne3183]

Don't forget, the guy who invented refridgeration was an aussie, everywhere in the world with a fridge, owes him big time. Do you have ac in your home or your car, that's his cold gas too.

[@hsvracer]

The exploding eucalyptus trees are no joke and the flame base has been measured at 1100⁰C (a CSIRO study).

[@RobNMelbourne]

It's actually a bit more than 30% born overseas now (30.7%) due to the large migrant intake in the last few years. The last time the % was this high was way back in the 1890s.

[@Aussie-63]

More Chipies

[@redhammer9910]

Yes 450,000 Visa's issued in 2021 alone, strange that.

[@FionaEm]

Tristan did a reasonably good job assembling all these facts. A few things: Paul Hogan had a self-titled show on Australian TV in the 70s and early 80s. There are plenty of KZbin clips - but a warning: they're not PC these days 😅 As for Aboriginal ppl, the early colonists brought European disease and drove them off their traditional hunting grounds. There were also racist policies of corralling them on reservations and taking their children away without consent to be raised by white families. Many of those who survived all this still bear the scars. And bushfires (that's what we call forest fires or wildfires): check out clips of Ash Wednesday (1983), Black Saturday (2009) and the horrific fires of 2019-20. Extremely harrowing 😢

[@devonlord99]

Since you asked if there was any bushfire you should know about the most deadly one in recent history was the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires. There is a very good almost 1 hour and 50 minute documentary on it which you can find on KZbin. It focuses on the day as it progressed and the accounts of survivors. It’s a bit sad but definitely worth watching.

[@srfrcf]

The worst fires I have lived through, where I was actually there, are Ash Wednesday and Black Saturday, I’m still traumatised

[@Frcherub]

The Queen of England did not sack the government in 1975. The representative of the Queen of Australia, the Governor General who is our Head of State, sacked a government which had lost control of the Parliament. I'm afraid this guy is not well informed about Australia.

[@warwickofnorwich]

Ash Wednesday 1983. There were many fires throughout SA and Victoria. There is a great video about it on KZbin. One of the fires started at the end of my street. It was a horrible day.

[@caseymcgrath4258]

A few inaccuracies but a good effort. The English Monarch has no constitutioonal authority any more regarding Australia, since the Australia Act 1985, which Elizabeth II personally signed off during her last visit in 1986. Aboriginal life expectancy is improving but the damage caused by all of the negatives typical of colonisation, alcohol use. Also, the adoption of the modern low fat, high sugar diet which displaced Australian First People's traditional diet has been a disaster as far as their health is concerned, with very high rates of diabetes, kidney and heart disease leading to earlier deaths on average, compared to other Australians.

[@Stockman516]

They had alcohol before British colonisation. The tribes in Northern Australia used to make a sort of wine from Pandanus fruit.

[@stuartspencer2161]

I would also add that part of the reason for lower life expectancy can also be due to the number of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders living in remote areas, and the lack of medical services in those areas. It only compounds the issues when it comes to the health issues you mentioned, due to lack of treatment.

[@user-ou5et3fo3z]

Yes but the Australian constitution is a uk act. It’s found also in the uk. So technically Australia really isn’t independent. Actually Australia was handed over to the globalists. All Aus land titles are owned by the same people who own the global money system.

[@andrewwilliams3897]

Doesn't matter what she signed. You can't have a constitution of the commonwealth without a monarch as the head.

[@paulsandford3345]

Well the Governor General can still dissolve parliament and dismiss a government. Even today!

[@paulsandford3345]

It was called, The Paul Hogan show and it was very fuuny!😊

[@phillipdyson2689]

Aboriginals have free health care which is better than the other Australians receive. The cause of early death would mainly be living in remote communities, alcohol, drugs and lifestyle.

[@ColourfulXO]

Also the introduction to a western diet. And they have a higher chance of diabetes, kidney disease...

[@LisavonAustralis]

Are-nots... 🤭 Ahhh-nuts is the SA pronunciation, anyway 😁

[@nolasyeila6261]

In WA too 😊

[@ironside210]

Eucalyptus (gum) trees give off a vapour, 8n summer which makes a valley look a bit blue. This gas is flammable, so if a bushfire gets into a stand of gum trees, the fire can spread VERY quickly through the canopy. I have seen a fire travelling in the canopy at maybe 50kph, but exploding trees? No! Mind you, if lightning hits a tree with water inside it, yes, but that is not unique to Australia.

[@geoffmarr7526]

Mm.. filled with 'almost but not quite right'..

[@Ken-er9cq]

In 1975 the government was sacked by the governor general who is the Queens representative, but is selected by the prime minister, the head of the government. The governor general doesn’t have a lot of things they have to do, like assenting to legislation. One thing they do is to resolve problems with governing. This is what happened in 1975, there were some dodgy things that caused it. The governor general dissolved parliament, and called an election.

[@stevenbalekic5683]

Unfortunately the life expectancy of indigenous people today is mostly self inflicted or an effect of living in rural areas that don't have access to good medical assistance. Self inflicted by choosing to partake in vices such as alcohol and drugs and less extreme but still an issue is western food...the indigenous peoples metabolism still hasn't adjusted to sugary and fatty food andnas a resuly diabetes and obesity (and other illnesses) are common. The last reason is doctors and nurses don't want to live in the middle of nowhere so having effective healthcare close by is rare ot non existent.

[@user-ou5et3fo3z]

First British polymer which was the £5 was actually printed in Melbourne Victoria. The technique was closely watched by the uk printing team.

[@jackbarrie6007]

The polymar bank note invention is Australia and the licensed to print is held by Australia 🇦🇺

[@coraliemoller3896]

In 1975, the Labor Government lost control of the budget because the opposition controlled Senate would not pass Supply Bills. The debt was spiralling upwards as Labor overspent on its pet projects. Rather than call an election to try to win more Senate seats, the Labor Government tried to borrow money from foreigners, without going through correct procedures, in the Khemlani Loans Affair. On this basis, the leader of the opposition, Malcolm Fraser, pushed the Governor-General, who is the representative of the Queen/King, the Australian Head of State, to sack the Labor Government and install the Opposition as the Government and Fraser, as the caretaker Prime Minister, in order to call a general election. The election was a landslide win for the former opposition party and Fraser was confirmed as the duly elected Prime Minister. The Queen or King’s role is traditionally only to act as a rubber stamp, and usually the monarch would follow the wishes of the Australian Prime Minister. In this case, the advice to the Governor-General from both Australian and British legal experts was apparently to let the Australian voters decide. Since the Labor Prime Minister had evaded an election, the replacement was required to immediately go into caretaker mode and call an election. The voters agreed with the G-G that it was their call. I lived through it all.

[@Amyduckie]

2019-2020 was absolutely horrific for bushfires. Everything was orange.

[@thevocalcrone]

actually do a google on the birds that pick up firey twigs to spread the fire so they can eat all the little animals running from the flames

[@Vidrack]

All of Australia looked like you were walking on Mars (sky was orange as) for a few days when pretty much all of Australia was on fire.

[@jackbarrie6007]

Western Australia is about one third of Australia's land mass we didn't see any orange sky lean how big our land is vidrack you dill😮😮

[@Vidrack]

@@jackbarrie6007 Coffs harbour area in nsw. Don't be silly. why would weather be the same near 3k km away with orange sky's. if you didn't see the smoke around 2009. you're still a baby then

[@Jeni10]

Data depends on where you are in Australia because I’m in Sydney suburbia and I never have a problem with my wi-fi speeds. I watch live streams all the time with no issues and system updates are pretty good. Australia is huge so if you’re near a major city, your wifi-fi is good. Living further from the city, you might notice some differences. Also bear in mind that Tristan’s visit to Australia ended almost four years ago. He left here for Europe in November 2020. And it’s Emus - eem-yous.

[@gman7329]

Little known fact, the Australian coat of arms ISN’T the kangaroo & emu but actually a lion & unicorn!

[@andrewbarr8789]

I survived the black Saturday fires in Victoria in 2009. I was out hosing down when I saw a line of flame about 300 m away. There was no wind. Then a gust of wind blew over that line along the red box (Eucalyptus polyanthemos) trees along the road. They exploded in blue flame, as if they were the jets on a burner under a BBQ. Later, as we sheltered in the house while the fire raged outside, the flames were rolling up against the windows. I thought later it looked eerily similar to watching a wood stove with a glass door, after you've closed the flue. Because that's exactly what it was! All that Eucalyptus oil vaporised, and the air literally burns. It soon consumes all the oxygen, so the fire was trying to suck the air out of the house, around the loose fitting window sashes. Believe me, bushfires in Australia are seriously scary!

[@sammychicken4290]

I can recommend the Paul Hogan show. So funny. He does a skit where he sends up the Clint Eastwood movie called," A fist full of dollars". Paul Hogan plays the part of Clint Eastwood in his movie, "A fist full of dollars". Paul Hogan plays, Clunk Eastwood. Regards from Adelaide, South Australia 🇦🇺

[@melnorbury753]

The dissolution of the government was called ‘the dismissal’. It was a very big political situation which resulted in the governor general dismissing the government and calling an election.

[@nolasyeila6261]

There is an old film called The Falcon and The Snowman which sheds some light on the US machinations that led to the dismissal, if you're interested.

[@nhmooytis7058]

I was living in Sydney during the bushfires land CONvid. Quite the adventure 😅

[@redhammer9910]

Aussie here. The time line for the presence of the Aboriginie's ( noun ) is not conclusive. It is between 30,000 and 60,000 years. They share the same DNA structure as all of us with slight variations that depict clearly more ancient times. However the Kalahari Bushman is not only older they are the only race that has it's own DNA, not shared. There is also controversy around the origins of the Gwion Gwion rock art dated around 17,000 years old. I worked with the Tribesmen for 45 years. In all that time I have seem many things the most striking is the power of the tribal spirit man. Their beliefs are intrinsically powerful but the power to control it is through the tribal spirit man and it's the power of life over death. There are around 40,000 Tribesmen left and most live in WA and the NT.

[@RobNMelbourne]

Obesity varies among age groups and location. It is lower in Queensland due to the active outdoor lifestyle and a diet that includes fresh fruit and veg. Obesity has increased because of fast food, processed food and more sedentary work environments.

[@justanaussie7094]

No Bush Fires at the moment they usually occur between Nov-Feb. There has been a lot of rain though especially on the East Coast were it is more of a problem because some of the dams are already full.

[@andrewgeraghty7495]

The January 2003 fires smashed into Canberra along almost its entire western edge. 440 homes lost or damaged, 14 people died. The fires combined into one fire front, which created its own weather/storm, similar to firestorms in WW2 German cities. Eucalypt AND pines exploded, the latter had its sap heated by the firestorm, then exploded. The government had commercial plantations on each side of Canberra's crucial Nth/Sth freeway. Today they have been replaced by the National Arboretum where trees are not densely packed.

[@coraliemoller3896]

The Canberra fires were a disaster made worse by very bad decisions by authorities. All the places that had suffered the same way over the previous decades, Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, looked on helplessly, hoping politicians would get out of the way of the firefighters. I watched it on TV from Sydney.

[@dangermouse3619]

I've lived through a bad of bush fires near where I live. As I live in the outer suburbs of Sydney in Penrith. Also live in Melbourne when we had ash Wednesday fires. Remember that day we'll still. Yeah Gum tree's are killers. Not only as they fuel fires due to the eucalyptus but also the limbs "branches" can drop off. You don't want a big branch to drop on you or your house.

[@lynettelillyman68]

In 3003 there was a bush fire near our home that travelled for 300 -yes I mean 300 -kilometres long. We had some buildings burnt. There h a very been several other fires over the years. One fire that came to within 5 kms of our home, It hovered around for 3 months. The highway outside our home was closed for 3 months. One fire killed 125 people because there was only one road in and out. I watched as a house in the middle of a vacant paddock just exploded from the heat. Bush fires in Australia are extremely dangerous. Lyn

[@arnolddavies6734]

A future bushfire, eh.? Thanks for warning everyone about the coming fire 🔥 in the year 3003.

[@user-ou5et3fo3z]

Families/residents had no idea the fire was coming up the mountain ‘09 black Saturday state of Victoria. Took everyone by surprise. Authorities had no time to warn the residents. People were driving through the main town screaming at people to get out. Sadly none took it seriously. 1 minute residents were lazing around as it was a hot day and next thing the residents saw smoke and fire. Cars filled with families /kids etc exploded trying to escape. Gas bottles exploded as there’s no gas pipelines servicing the area. Reason it took everyone by surprise including authorities is because the wind completely turned to the opposite direction within seconds. Headed straight up towards forest. Whatever you do in a fire 🔥 situation never jump inside a water tank.

[@beano9343]

Up to 1960, damn. Didn't get to finish like they did in Tasmania :( The Tassie Tiger got wiped out too :( They are trying to find or bring back the Tassie Tiger :)

[@Flirkann]

Yeah, boomerangs don't all return - only the toy/training ones do. The Hunting/Combat models left your hand and made sure that whatever you threw/swung them at knew it'd been hit.

[@waynethomas3638]

Its not the wifi but the infrastructure supporting it!

[@beano9343]

No threatening fires atm, most parts are dealing with drought while east coast getting floods. If it rains, it pours. This huge amount of rain will likely be a cause for emergency again, And then again in 5 years when we have fires again.

[@andrewgeraghty7495]

Canberra and Dalgety vied to be the capital of Oz. One reason was NOT Sydney/Melbourne rivalry but the risk that a foreign navy could bring battleships to a coastal capital and demand we surrender. The British had done this in Africa [Mozambique??] winning a 30-minute "war"...

[@LisavonAustralis]

Visited a few pink lakes. A bunch of them aren't actually pink anymore, though 😬

[@MelodyMan69]

I believe the colour change is 'seasonal' ??

[@LisavonAustralis]

@MelodyMan69 I could not be happier if I just happened to visit most of the ones I've been to at "the wrong time." I had naturally assumed humans had wrecked them....

[@skullandcrossbones65]

G'day The Boomerangs key feature is the extended time of flight. It uses lift like an areoplane wing . Because it spins it has a rotational impact velocity that is added to the directional velocity.

[@philfeb6]

Also while kangaroos don't walk backwards they can in fact hop backwards just a little bit, Yes Paul Hogan had his own show a comedy sketch show

[@CamboInteractive]

It surprises me how many people still think that WiFi is the same as internet connection! WiFi is just a way your computer/phone connects to a local network. It is NOT the reason why your internet is slow. WiFi is usually 100s of Mbps, sometimes multiple Gbps. Australia's NBN internet is the reason why it's slow.

[@purplesvet]

WiFi was invented by Heddy Lamar (the actress) and her team. Back in the mid 20th century.

[@grannyof12kids]

The worst fires were 2019/2020 that Summer was shocking and vast..

[@bengray2628]

74/75 burnt the most area - 117m hectares vs 18m hectares for 19/20

[@codeblue9004]

There is eucalyptus oil in the gum trees, that’s why they burn so well.

[@heathergarnham9555]

The Dutch mapped the west coast, and honestly it's a big vast nothing (mostly) so you can't blame them for not wanting to colonise it.

[@trevorkrause7220]

Not sure if this is still the case as Arnott's biscuits are no longer a fully owned Australian company but originally when Arnotts made any real chocolate biscuits they used Cadbury chocolate and proudly stated such on the packet. Both Arnott's and Cadbury are no longer Australian owned and many believe the product quality of both has markedly deteriorated since. While 30% of Australians living today were not born in Australia may be an interesting statistic, another one is that around 70% of present day Australians are either not born here or else have at least one parent or grandparent that was not born in Australia.

[@LisavonAustralis]

Used to LOVE driving past the Arnott's Marleston bakery on my way home, circa 2000.... The delightful smell wafting from the factory, not to mention the factory outlet with ugly yet still delicious bags of mixed bikkies.... priced at a song..... ahhh the good ole days....

[@daveg2104]

@@LisavonAustralis The old Arnott's factory in Sydney was at Nth Strathfield, next to the railway line. If the wind was blowing the right way, you could smell the biscuits baking from the train.

[@LisavonAustralis]

Mmm... it was the equivalent of having Wonka's factory in your town! 😋😁

[@angusmacgyver1390]

The EXPLODING TREES: With the Gum trees when an intense Bush fire goes through the gum trees heat up and start to expand on their trunks and limbs and just as the oils begin to boil excessively a flash-over event occurs. This is where the outer bark layers shrinks back tight and streams out the overheated oils through the pores in the bark shooting the flames out either appearing to explode everywhere and or produces flame throwing up events to 30m+ pending conditions enabling fires to cross roads easily. The Wi-Fi - VDSL+ and Mobile 3G/4G/5G speeds are not Wi-Fi speeds, they are 3 distinctively different systems. He unfortunately mistook the home broadband general connections speeds from ISP's and called that Wi-Fi speeds. Wi-Fi speeds are the same worldwide, pending your Wi-Fi Router and or Device capabilities, generally set from 802.11g/n/ac/ax standards, Home Broadband connections generally are VDSL+ and pending plans 25/50/100Mbps. Remote areas may use a satellite connection between 5-10Mbps.(unless using STARLINK). The average link because of high costs the most users are on 25Mbps Mobile 3G/4G/5G standards speeds are similar worldwide pending your provider and your devices capability.

[@ceejfletcher]

Turpentine trees explode when hit by lightening or in bush fires as they are full of turpentine oil

[@allon33]

Australian natives are still learning, 200 years ago they could not read or write and half had never visited the Ocean. Hunters that never built houses.

[@antheabrouwer3258]

I don't really care about the internet speed. My internet is super cheap, unlimited and I have only ever experienced buffering on a few occasions. This year, Canberra was voted the most livable city in the world. I agree!!!

[@calvanwest3612]

Some cunt is lying. How is it Melbourne adelaide and somehow now Canberra for most liveable. Not saying Canberra isn't I ain't ever been there but fuck politicians so fuck Canberra.. plus it's just nsw but sad cunts. Fking hate Vic but if anyone of us was gonna get that title would be them dogs living in wanna be literally every other famous city. Melbourne annoying has many reasons why its considered most liveable. I do like Melbourne's tap water but hate the shit hole 😂

[@luciebatt]

The WiFi isn’t slow. It works the same as everywhere else. It’s the end connection to the internet that can be slow.

[@ceejfletcher]

Australia had the first snow ski club in the world,

[@wendygroves8296]

Trees can burn internally for days..n can re start a bush fire if not extinguished completely. Fire makes it own weather.

[@1WHATSUP1]

The trees don't explode but eucalypt trees are full of oil and hot oil fumes leaving the trees ignites

[@pixymisa8087]

I've seen gum trees explode, while the fire department was back-burning into an approaching fire front across the road from my house. It's not a sight you soon forget.

[@paulsandford3345]

If the camp fire is dying, just grab a branch with gum leaves and put it in the fire, it will soon spark up?

[@emmagriffis9135]

my internet speed is 52Mbps download and 5Mbps up for wifi. I feel as though this is some of the best available speeds. Adelaide, South Aus

[@dutchroll]

Emus can actually walk backwards and there's video evidence of this. It's popular myth fuelled by the fact that they very rarely do (why would they?).

[@nhmooytis7058]

60,000 years and only invented the boomerang, probably would have been more useful to invent the nuclear bomb. And a didgeridoo sounds like someone farting in a barrel 😂

[@tamariskbeitz303]

Black Saturday bush fires As the wind blows. 😢

[@AussieWombat22]

Also invented IVF

[@Guvament_bs]

The governor general sacked the guvament in 1975. Aust has the largest per capita migrant intake of any developed country by a mile. The most deadly wild fired occurred before 1950 and before the climate apparently changed. There was no Aboriginal massacre in 1960. There were many in the 1800s. Aboriginal culture is not the oldest on earth at 60,000 years. People have been living on the same bit of dirt in Africa since before modern humans even evolved. The 'oldest' claim is cultural appropriation. Just some of the misinformation in his video.

[@darylblack196]

"May God save the Queen, because nothing can save the Governor General"

[@Jeni10]

No one worries about trees exploding unless you’re a firefighter or have a fire on your land. Bushfires are a necessary part of our ecology, without bushfires, many native plants would die off because their seed pods can only open during the high heat from the bushfires. Aboriginals have lived in Australia for at least 45,000 years. In modern times, they no longer live as they once did: living off the land and relocating to save the environment, limiting their impact on the land so that it could regenerate while they were gone. So they ate bush tucker and certain flora and fauna, they knew which plants were medicinal and which ones were edible and so on. Now they shop at supermarkets because they can’t go walkabout or live wherever they like. Eating our food hasn’t helped them maintain their original diet. Arnott’s is not pronounced “are knots”. Americans don’t seem familiar with that surname at all.

[@Jeni10]

@@highcountrydelatite Go to aiatsis.gov.au and you’ll find this: “There are varying estimates for how long Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have lived on this continent, however, upwards of 60,000 years is what current research reveals.”

[@darylblack196]

Many limbs explode off gum trees in summer with no fires.

[@Jeni10]

@@darylblack196 I live in a house surrounded by gum trees and in 33 years, none of them has exploded.

[@noone6559]

When it comes to obesity, the cause is the same as in most developed western countries. Buying fresh food, meat, good bread etc. is too expensive for a lot of Australians. Especially those in the lower socio-economic areas. Fast food, microwave meals, easy cook options are cheaper. Depression, drug/alcohol addiction and the inability to afford gyms or trainers, lack of motivation also leads to obesity. Comfort eating is common in a lot of Australians due to trauma, family dynamics and generational influence. It's sad, but it is what it is. And I'm saying that as a person who does all of the above. i try to decide every day that I will do better the next day.... but then I wake up and still feel as shit as the previous day. It is hard. If I had no choice but to grow my own vegetables, kill my own meat, grow my own grain and process all of the above - plus the physical exertion needed for the above, I would not be obese. But it's too easy to buy some microwave meals, burgers, etc. plus cheaper...... there is science behind all of these factors.

[@louiseciur316]

Yeah my dad was a Italian and my mum is great great great grandfather was German yeah that was a mix but the rest of us was born in Australia in a twit couldn't even say emu right

[@melnorbury753]

My speed at home is 272Mbs and work is 720Mbs.

[@libbypeace68]

With internet speed, I suppose if you've never known any different, then it seems okay. I don't upload and only download what I am watching and it all works okay so my personal use of the internet isn't impeded by it being slow. Of course, back in the day when it took forever to download the smallest thing, I did notice when it improved and you weren't sitting there looking at the box telling you it would take hours or days, lol

[@stevenbalekic5683]

I have 1Gbps internet but my powerline network adapters bottleneck it to 250mbps to my computer. My PS4 is connected direct to the router and it has reached an average of 336mbps or more but I can't remember how high it went. Just gotta buy and lay some nerwork cables but I'm lazy and can't be arsed.

[@gjamieson1956]

Black Friday fires

[@geoffmarr7526]

3.2 Billion year old fossills. Not 32 Billion.. that 2.5 times the age of the universe.

[@ianrobertson2282]

Just one of several errors in this video.

[@lifewithalistair.]

Where I work I am the only person that was born in Australia.

[@Jordy120]

There are no competent politicians here, never has been. There are only two types of politicians, $hit and slightly less $hit.

[@Aussie-63]

lol Ken Oath

[@Aussie-63]

And the bottom of rung Trump🦘

[@Bellas1717]

You haven't come across the federal MPs in our area and adjoining. They are amazing.

[@paulsandford3345]

My 5G mobile broadband is working just fine thank you!

[@Fiona-zc6oz]

I very rarely have any issues with my Wi-Fi but then I don't do gaming etc

[@kevo6190]

Yeah mate. The Hogan show was bloody hilarious . If you don't really care about political correctness 🤣🇦🇺

[@peterwooldridge7285]

I like this lad

[@LisavonAustralis]

And yes, there's a lot of tubby folks here 🤭

[@Aussie-63]

Too many great pies to stop now. pies mmm, and sauce of course.

[@LisavonAustralis]

@@Aussie-63 pie floater FTW! 🤣🤣🤣

[@badpossum440]

The Dutch did not map Australia, The Dutch called the WEST ,New Holland. Cook claimed the EAST. Cook did not colonise Australia. Cook did not "Find" Australia, he found the east coast, the Dutch never did.

[@galadriel481]

I'd need to see the data on 1/3 obesity levels. Not the case where l am, but it is a beachside area. Maybe we're more active

[@allon33]

Gum Trees, demon trees from hell.

[@itsjustme8815]

about 5-6 mbps lol, great for lag free gaming haha lower south aus

[@gjamieson1956]

Where do you think whities were 50,000 years ago on Mars

[@coraliemoller3896]

Australia always has bushfires but their danger is where they threaten human occupied lands. Otherwise they could just burn until fuel is exhausted or a drop of rain cuts them off. Many people build or buy homes close to the natural bush, or backing onto National Parks, as a lifestyle choice. The problems is that local councils are full of ideological environmentalists who prefer to leave the bush pristine and untouched, by closing off trails, preventing agriculturalists from grazing herds in the undergrowth or clearing leaf litter at the base of trees. They fine people for disturbing the natural bush. All in the name of the Environment and the wild flora and fauna. Except, this build up of leaf litter, fallen branches along trails, limited access, and few experienced eyes on changes or problems, creates dangers. If a lightning strike or broken glass starts a fire, or an arsonist, then the fuel load ignites and burns fiercely. Blocked trails prevent bush firefighters from controlling small fires, so they spread. The lack of experienced bush walkers reduces timely warnings because the councils don’t want people bushwalking. Fires burn faster up hills as the trees are preheated and dry before the flames actually reach them. Residences surrounded by lovely bush and eucalypts have a 50:50 chance, or less if built on a higher level. The flora and fauna take their chances. Like they have for thousands of years. Aborigines set small fires during safe times, to force animals to flee straight into the hunters path. Some native plants only germinate when exposed to extremely high temperatures. Uncontrolled bushfires, that could have been prevented, kill many native animals that could have survived if proper management of eucalypt bush was not ideologically blocked.

[@ariadnepyanfar1048]

30% of CITIZENS were born abroad! You’ll have to find a really good video on the Whitlam dismissal, I’m too sick to do it justice in a comment.

[@gusdrivinginaustralia6168]

26 download 18 upload, and thats with 6 people on it constantly.

[@admanistansheridan1826]

Im at 50mbs but extra $ i could get 100mbs

[@allon33]

yes 30% were born elsewhere which is too many

[@BigGen222]

Bush fires, not wild or forest fires.

[@Bellas1717]

It's not Fraser Island, its name is K'gari. The internet speed is an average. In many rural areas it sadly isn't good, but it is much higher in the cities - Sydney typical evening speed ranges from Standard NBN upload/download speeds of 25.1/4 Mbps to NBN Superfast with 232/21 Mbps. We're lucky enough to have the latter.

[@genie674]

Im not surprised by 30% born overseas. Immigration rates are too high and I think Aussies who are descended from early settlers are dying out. A lot of the mateship we had here is disappearing.