Rob Reacts to... 50 Things That Are Only Possible In Australia

What do you know about Australia? Which country has the longest fence in the world? How about the 2nd largest Greek population? Three times more sheep than people? One word will give it away: kangaroos. Yes, it's the Land Down Under.
Australia is the world's 6th largest country and the only one that’s also a whole continent. But with all that territory, over 80% of Australians live within 60 miles of the coast. Before humans arrived, the continent was home to mega-fauna. If you’d lived there about 46,000 years ago, you’d be dead today. But you would’ve seen 10-foot-tall kangaroos, 23-foot-long goanna lizards, and ducks the size of an adult horse.
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TIMESTAMPS:
Grab your skis! 0:43​
The world’s longest national highway 0:56​
The Great Fence of Australia 1:13​
How big the country is 1:35​
A lot of beaches 2:09​
The biggest property in Australia 2:21​
The largest living structure on the planet 2:57​
Why kangaroos and emus are painted on their coat of arms 3:09​
One of the most livable cities in the world 4:21​
What Batmania is 4:41​
Pink lakes 5:21​
More sheep than people 5:47​
50 million kangaroos 6:00​
The most ancient fossils in the world 6:57​
No hoofed animals 7:15​
Burger King turns into Hungry Jack's 7:21​
Mount Disappointment 7:35​
1,500 spider species! 8:03​
National floral emblem 8:38​
Languages of Australia 8:51

[@leeprior5394]

I think peoples confusion with Australia being so multicultural, is that we consider everyone just as ‘Australian’. We don’t really do the American thing, like no one is called Asian-Australian or African-Australian, you’re just bloody Australian.

[@RobReacts1]

Mate I'm the same over here. If your born in England and live the 'english' way of life then your English. Who cares about skin colour etc

[@aussiemikeb9123]

@@RobReacts1 it's not just if you were born in Australia. If you immigrate you are Australian 👍

[@Notric]

I agree.

[@sueg2456]

I agree. Grew here or flew here it doesn't matter. If you feel Aussie you are!

[@RobReacts1]

@@aussiemikeb9123 that's awesome!

[@suzyqilplants]

I think us Aussies are astounded at how little the rest of the world knows about us, in comparison to what we know about other countries. Although we are this isolated island far far away, we are constantly influenced by other cultures and very aware of the rest of the world. On the other hand, some countrie's people appear so insular and unaware of the world around them. Case in point.

[@RobReacts1]

I think you make a fair point. I am trying to learn and i am open to things, but i cannot say the same about other brits. Maybe it comes down to how multicultural Aus is?!

[@renwigley9721]

I feel the same way! I think also because our news shows world wide events, not just Australia. It's like no one can comprehend that we are more than just this big, dangerous country that England sent convicts to. We are a bit more than that

[@AussieVeteran71]

The Americans think we ride around in the pouches of the kangaroos or on their backs .

[@stephmccloskey4563]

@@AussieVeteran71 and apparently don’t believe we have atm’s

[@katebet07]

@@AussieVeteran71 don't you? I do - I mix it up between pouches & backs depending on my mood, if it's raining, or if I've been shopping

[@hofeshmofesh256]

As an Australian I can assure you we don’t have to go outside to find the spiders

[@rogergilmour8805]

The big ones will certainly find their way inside just for fun (usually for food or getting out of bad weather), and they move like the Aliens from the James Cameron movie.

[@fknows1]

yeah our spiders are really friendly and come in side to join you

[@goaway2803]

XD we learn to share our homes and rooms with our little 8 legged Mates, especially having Huntsmen spiders in your bedroom XD

[@bloodyricho1]

I have a huntsman called Fluffy living in the corner of my bedroom

[@paulboon1100]

No they join us in bed too, and give us "love bites"!!

[@8023120SL]

The upside of the snake issue is that the “snake season” only goes from Jan 1st to Dec 31st.

[@RobReacts1]

Haha not too long then 😝

[@Gruvmpy]

@@RobReacts1 They're kind enough to go dormate for newyears eve

[@AussieVeteran71]

Been up close to Red Belly Black Snake and it went past like I wasn’t there -- and I was lying on the ground.

[@downunderfulla6001]

It’s snake season all year here in nth qld

[@maxrander0101]

@@AussieVeteran71 most snakes in our great southern land will ignore people unless they are threatened

[@snook1166]

He missed the fact that we invented the ultrasound, black box recorders, the cochlear ear implant. We were also the first country to take America's cup of the yanks.

[@simonkirkness2573]

And Wi-Fi

[@bluebagger1262]

Alan Bond should have driven a steamroller over it he America's Cup on St Georges Terrace and renamed it the Australian Plate :)

[@dunruden9720]

@@simonkirkness2573 Wi-Fi? Hedy Lamarr was Australian? News to me cobber!

[@jurgentreue1200]

@@bluebagger1262 ,,, hahahahaaaaaaa. Love it.

[@jurgentreue1200]

@@dunruden9720,, oh dear. Austrian not Australian.

[@mikeyhau]

I'm a fairly typical old-school "white" Australian - mostly English ancestry with a bit of Irish and Scottish. But among my friends and neighbours in suburban Brisbane there are folks who come from Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Thailand, China, Central and South America, Somalia, the Philippines and probably lots more besides these. My doctor is Aussie-born, but his parents are from Vietnam. The local green grocer is from Lebanon. Most of the guys who work in my local service station are from India. I live within easy walking distance of restaurants featuring food from Turkey, Thailand, China, Japan, Malaysia and Sri Lanka. None of this is unusual. Luckily the White Australia Policy is dead.

[@RobReacts1]

I love multicultural places! Even if its just for all the amazing food!

[@jurgentreue1200]

I'm in my 60s. I remember my class roll call sounding like the United Nations. I'm a German immigrant arriving in Australia in 1960. We had kids from nearly every European nation, plus from the UK. Great times to grow up with kids from all nationalities. Today, 28% of Australians are born overseas, nearly 50% have at least one parent born overseas. I think Australia is the second most multicultural nation after Canada.

[@conorkennedy8347]

30% of the Australian population comprises of migrants (7.6m) who were not born in the country. There are generations of migrants. My family is Italian, my grandfather was born there. We’ve got mates from all different backgrounds, European, African, Asian. 15% of AFL players are Aboriginal and Torres Strait islanders, despite only 3.6% of the broader population being so. Most migrants however play association football, so you see a lot more of the multicultural aspects in our national team. I played both growing up, going further with aussie rules. My Nonno, however, was a professional player, and played against Man U, Man City, Chelsea, Cardiff City amongst others in the 1960s. There was a tonne of WWII refugees from Europe in the 40s and 50s, then the 70s from Vietnam, now a lot from Sudan, and then huge Chinese and Indian diaspora. It’s a pretty multicultural place, and you can’t not have friends from a tonne of backgrounds unless you live rurally. Even then, some of the best curries can be found in towns of 200

[@gazzas123]

When I worked for Telstra more that half of my work mates were from overseas countries.

[@zomfies]

The White Australia policy is happily dead, but it's the reason we do have so many Greek and Italian families now. In the decades after World War II, people whose lives had been turned upside down by war or who just wanted to get away from the prospect of another war in another generation's time migrated to Australia, which was not only on the other side of the world but also required migrants to be fluent in a European language. That changed after the Seventies, but for a while it was Mediterranean Europeans who had the advantage when trying to come here. My best friend from uni has Italian parents born there who met here in the Sixties.

[@KatrinaaBond]

Indigenous Australians weren’t just on the west. They were all over the continent... and while majority of the population is on the south east coast of Australia, we have an abundance of rural communities all over (and major city’s all around the country’s coast)

[@myday805]

Actually I was a student of aboriginal culture in the 90's and the tribal map has grown massively since then. In reality there simply wasn't enough aboriginals to span the entire continent. It's a con job. 99% of what you believe about aboriginal history today is no older than 20 years and it's all rubbish.

[@musicalaviator]

@@myday805 most Aboriginal tribes lived where the big cities are today in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne etc. They were either "moved on" or "forcably integrated" (often by putting kids in orphanages even if they had to take them off their mothers as newborns in the hospital) well into the 1960's and even 1970's in some states (looking at you, QLD). Only the mobs in central NT/northern SA and north WA got away relitavely untouched. That's why their claims are stronger, because their families remained in contact more. Aboriginals were a few dozen different language groups who saw each other as a threat as much, or even more, than the British and eventually Australians. No centralized culture, so easy to pick apart piecemeal as space required. It wasn't a concerted effort to wipe them out. They were just inconveniently occupying prime produce land without really exploiting it.

[@myday805]

@@musicalaviator It was the common cold that wipes out most those who did die right after colonisation. Tragic yes but not malicious. Two of the first people to be granted farm land and British convict slave labour to teach them and help them with it were two aboriginals being a man named Colebee and another named Nurragingy, Nurragingy reserve is named after him today. They were both of the Dhaurg tribe who's area was Sydney to western Sydney. They weren't forced into it. They approached the governor and requested it. The "stolen generation is rubbish". White children were removed from their parents for the same reason aboriginal children were removed from their parents. Neglect. And white children were being removed the whole time aboriginal children were. This made it child welfare policy and not the rubbish targeting of aboriginals as the cancel culture commo's and blactivists like to make out. In fact most aboriginal children who ended up in missions or state care were taken there by a parent or aboriginal relatives of the parent(s). This was mainly due to the inherent racist culture of aboriginal people not accepting half cast children into their tribes. There was a test case for thehite childr "stolen generation" in 1990. It failed miserably. First up the first two names put forward as stolen, two well known aboriginal "stolen generation" activists by the way but I forget their names of the top of my head, were proven to have been handed to missions voluntarily by their aboriginal parents. This was actually common so that their children would get an education and trade and makes up for the vast majority of aboriginal children raised by missions or the state. Every name put forward was shown to have been either given up voluntarily by their parents or the tribe or there was just cause for forced removal. And records of white children were also presented at the test trail to prove that the welfare policy was not race based. Gillian Triggs, the then Australian Human rights commissioner who as it turned out had abandoned her own child to the state many years before, decided to project her guilt onto the rest of the nation and totally ignored the outcome to the test trial and pushed ahead the stolen generation claim. It's utter rubbish. This is why they want recognition and compensation but have bent over backward to keep the claim out of the courtroom. Because a courtroom would require evidence, facts and , god forbid, questioning and the cancel culture Marxist activists won't be able to simply shout down and label as racist anyone who asks questions and presents facts in the court room.

[@jirup]

@@myday805 Ok, Imma going to call bullshit on this colloq. When they come to the mission and tell you to bath all the kids and dress them nice, because there going to take them all to the pictures and then never bring them back, that's not giving them up voluntarily or neglect. That's kidnapping, plain and simple. I wont say 'stolen', because that implies property and kids aren't property. I don't know where you did your 'studies', but I'm sure this never happened to white families.

[@KatrinaaBond]

@@myday805 This is wrong on so many levels. They were forcibly taken against their own will. There were gov policies for this, it wasn't even that long ago, so not too long ago, people who were taken were alive, and could recount first hand stories themselves. It tore communities apart and destroyed their culture. First Nations people are very communal, they wouldn't just give up their children for no reason. It wasn't neglect, it was their culture and them living how they have for thousands of years, and the white colonisers thinking the kids were "neglected". And you don't think it's easy for the gov to say "yeah they're all given voluntary" when they just took the children, to prevent any suss behaviour? I don't know where you did your study but it sounds all kinds of wrong or white washed. If some got talked into giving up their children (with false promises), doesn't mean you can discount the horrendous actions they all faced because of this

[@IrvsZazza]

Australian Money. One of the most innovative currencies in the world

[@Stellaj22]

I hate when I walk out the front door and get hit by a kangaroo. The struggle is real. Also, people need to stop calling emus eeMOOs it's pronounced eMEW. Jeeze.

[@RobReacts1]

People from the United States have ruined our great language :D

[@fleachamberlain1905]

I know right. The struggle is real - lol Keep fighting the good fight. I'm with you all the way (especially with the mispronunciation of Emu). Solidarity - lol

[@loissaedder2214]

I know. The Americans can't pronounce emu either. Just grates on your ears doesn't it?

[@clint68]

Oh “eemoo” is so annoying!

[@suewinston-elliott2674]

Soooooo Agree 👍👍❤

[@marieosborne1519]

Multicultural is not the same as multicoloured. People from just about every country in the world, from Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas, the Pacific Islands etc, call Australia home. You only have to listen to the names of our footy players to realise the many different backgrounds they come from. One of the best things they bring is their influence on our food culture. Yum! 😋

[@RobReacts1]

I think its brilliant. We are all the same and there is no reason for us not to live together.

[@jurgentreue1200]

I'm in my 60s. When I was at school, I could go to a different friend's house every night for dinner and have a different national cuisine.

[@The_Bookman]

A large part of the impressiveness of the Opera House is *when* it was created. These days there are loads of extraordinary buildings around the world. WHEN the Opera House was built it was absolutely unique. Like nothing else on earth. Not the most functional building of its type, but we do love it.

[@annaleonie2731]

Why wouldn't we have mountains? The Opera house is fabulous! Bigger than you think it's going be. The acoustics in performances is excellent. It's not over hyped, we went through hell to get it.

[@Toffeenuts]

I'm in Melbourne. My neighbour to my left is Croatian, the one to my left is Italian, the one in front of me is Greek, then there's my Vietnamese neighbours, mauritian neighbours...then serbian neighbour, further down the road polish neighbours then Armenian, the people who lived in the house before i moved in were japanese. I'm from Sri Lanka.....

[@RobReacts1]

That's amazing. Imagine the food! 😜

[@Spinikar]

@@RobReacts1 One of the great things about Australia is the food. Within a few blocks of my inner city apart is literally every cuisine you could probably imagine, and its not franchised mass produced, but people who come into the country and bring there cuisines with them. Make it the same way they would back home. Love it.

[@snuscaboose1942]

In Sydney, left side are Australians of Lebanese background, Italian on the right, Serbian at the rear, on my street we also have families of Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese backgrounds. My house is mixed "Aussie" and Thai.

[@Toffeenuts]

I think with the footy it comes to culture as well. my friends of eauropean decent loves footy and soccer. My friends from Asian decent are more into basketball and If you go to the cricket you will see a lot of Aussies with Sri Lanka or Indian decent. Some don't follow sport altogether. I guess its cultural as well. you're definitely right though something that brings all folks together is the food 😁

[@TheJaniebabe]

where I live in Sydney my neighbours and poms, brazos and kiwis

[@TheLyds01]

The real things we fear in Aus are magpies in Spring, lol. Check out a few youtube vids about this. Oh, and flies are annoying as fuck in summer.

[@thebutterflylady4904]

I talk to them softly when I walk past them and they never attack me.

[@TheLyds01]

@@thebutterflylady4904 that doesn’t work all of the time though. I’ve tried that and tried even ignoring them and yet still been swooped. Some don’t bother with you, but a lot do.

[@mrookeward]

If they know you, and you've always been friendly to them, they will leave you alone even if you're right under their nest. They remember friends and attack strangers. There are dozens in my area and I've not been swooped. Some even bring their young to say hello. Love maggies!

[@thebutterflylady4904]

@@mrookeward I will take a Maggie over a plover any day 😁

[@laurenmullineux9989]

@@thebutterflylady4904 that noise they make sends shivers down my spine!

[@imjusttryingtosurvivedude9499]

15:23 “It might be sunny, but your lives are at risk” the irony of that statement lmao

[@duncanborland8740]

Pay that, you get ignored by the snakes and killed by the sun

[@sharoncarley6102]

And the snakes and spiders come inside too

[@margaretboehm4485]

I actually nearly stood on a brown snake when I went out our front door, about three years ago. So yes our lives are at risk 😳

[@seaofghosts]

Camels were imported because horses weren't suitable for the desert regions of Australia. When they were no longer needed, they were turned loose. Feral camels cause a lot of environmental damage.

[@hjagger]

Australia is the only country with wild camels and are exported to the middle east.

[@RARDingo]

Humpy stew is the answer.

[@Allannah_Of_Rome]

I'm pretty sure roos cause more damage than camels cause you only find them in the ourback. And top top it off, we have a shit load of feral cats that cause more damage than any animal put together.....

[@carokat1111]

@@Allannah_Of_Rome Roos don't cause as much damage as they are adapted to the Australian environment.

[@paulfribbs8516]

Camels were turned loose when the gov went to tax the owners per head!!! By then the rail roads were mostly built by then, using camel transport! & undercut camel caravan transport routes! That's why Oz oldest mosque is near Broken Hill, a major camel transit hub!

[@26101976bdm]

You're most definitely wrong mate, Australia has a huge amount of cultures that call Australia home. In the Court where I grew up we were the only 'Aussie' family. There were Greek, German, Romanian, Turkish, Macedonian, Indian, Chilean and some Poms - it was awesome.

[@glenchapman3899]

Same. We could have easily formed the United Arab League. I would not swap the experience for anything!!!

[@roygeorge5364]

Not sure if this statistic is still true, but at school we were taught that Australia is the most multicultural place on earth. I hope it's still true

[@glenchapman3899]

@@roygeorge5364 I would say we would still be up among the top contenders. I know when Sydney pitched for the 2000 Olympics the fact we had people already here from 144 countries was a big selling point

[@andrewhazlewood4569]

Nope they were all Aussie families. Maybe the parents identified with their country of origin for a while.

[@smitajky]

When people first arrived they tended to gravitate to migrant enclaves where they could speak their own language and get their own foods. By the next generation the children had intermixed and they tended to integrate. Since multiculturalism has been held as a national policy the rate of integration is a lot lower. And the stupid result of that has been an increase in racialism. A decrease in integration. With that said I grew up in a multinational area as a child. And where I am now there was a smaller fraction of migrants so there was no possibility of enclaves and the males at least integrated in only a few years. When I say integrated they are still proud of their heritage but we work together, belong to the same clubs and socialize freely without impediment.

[@theiaofseed]

25% of Australian citizens were born over seas and 52% had parents that were born over seas

[@jakegargiulo5101]

Yesss, I'm in the 52%

[@playlisttarmac]

I wonder what % I am. 5th generation every side. ;).

[@jurgentreue1200]

I think its now 28%. I'm one of the 28% and 52%.

[@AussieVeteran71]

Yep , my olds are from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@clint68]

On my Mother’s side, my Grandfather was Italian and my Grandmother was Spanish.

[@timrobertsgb]

Sydney Opera House is an incredible piece of architecture that is seriously “under-hyped”

[@TheMelbournelad]

Yep. Orange slices never looked so good

[@Saxe_AXRL]

Sydney sucks.

[@yvonnecaldwell6088]

Oh please... It's a building....coupled with a bridge!!🤣🤣

[@79SATAN]

Most Aussies don't really care about it at all

[@RobReacts1]

haha! Now you say that! 😂

[@duncanborland8740]

The dim sim (with the pastry on the outside) that you get in fish and chips shops etc were invented in Melbourne

[@smitajky]

When I was young Mr Wong had his little cart on the road (Cecil Street) at South Melbourne market ( 1953-54) and my mum would buy us some of his dim sims as a treat. Now 65 years later there is a shop in the market immediately adjacent to where his cart used to be that sells "South Melbourne dim sims" although I think the recipe has changed a bit over the years.

[@adriannewman4624]

I’m pretty sure the camels were sent from Afghanistan and the Afghanis used them to transport goods from Darwin to Adelaide. The route they took is now a train line and the train is called “The Ghan” after the afghanis

[@RobReacts1]

Oh that's awesome. What were the afghans doing in Australia

[@adriannewman4624]

@@RobReacts1 I’m not exactly sure, I’m guessing that back in the day they were really good at tracking through the desert, I’m not sure how many years they did it but in the the camels were let go and the population increased , so yes it is true that there are a lot of camels here

[@adriannewman4624]

You should check out the history of Muslim cameleers in Australia it a very interesting documentary

[@RobReacts1]

@@adriannewman4624 il take a look ☺️

[@Mdgfievf]

Yeah thats right, plus British India. They're an introduced species

[@jakegargiulo5101]

That longest highway animation was not accurate btw. The road actually goes around the circumference of the continent hahaha, going for this drive is called "The Big Lap".

[@coolhandluke1503]

It's quicker if you go anti-clockwise.

[@gregind01]

@@coolhandluke1503 only because we drive on the left. lol

[@AussieVeteran71]

And the longest stretch of it is along the Nullarbor.

[@bluebagger1262]

@@AussieVeteran71 The longest straight stretch of road isn't the Nullabor. It is actually just past Baladonia, heading east. I've traveled this road many times by car and motorcycle.

[@southaussiegarbo2054]

@@bluebagger1262 where baladonia?

[@heifa13]

They didn't even mention one of my favourite locals, the echidina. Awesome animal and their babies are called puggles. Don't they just sound so cute and cuddly.

[@RobReacts1]

haha they do sound cuddly

[@christinehartfield6204]

Please whatever you do don't cuddle an echidna The most similar looking animal to them is a porky pine

[@thisisbillgates]

My ancestry is German and indigenous Australian and I live in Melbourne. I work in the healthcare industry and my colleagues are predominantly Greek, Italian, Indian, Chinese and Vietnamese. The area I live in is also predominantly Greek. I think it depends where you live, but we're a very multicultural nation.

[@sassybdassi6686]

I'm from Adelaide and around half of the people at my school were Greek or Italian. We're a very multicultural country

[@CQuinnLady]

Sydney here and we had a few greeks. Most went to the neighbouring school which had a 60% greek n Italian population

[@mr.ovakill]

same at my school in SA

[@jurgentreue1200]

My schools south of Wollongong were hugely multicultural. Mostly European immigrants (I'm a German immigrant), with heaps of Spanish in my area. Immigrants came to my area to work in the iron and steel industry at Port Kembla.

[@myday805]

Nope. Multi ethnic with an English speaking Anglo majority but culturally fundamentally the same. Don't confuse tradition with culture.

[@jackfanning6239]

Yea. It really depends where you live in Australia.

[@maddyg3208]

The other connection Australia (and New Zealand) has with Greece is that the Anzacs tried to stop the German invasion there in 1941.

[@bluebagger1262]

Yep, my great uncle (Donald Patrick Cullen) was captured by the Gerry's on Crete in 41. Spent the rest of the war in German POW camps and escaped three times but was captured each time. At least he survived the war :)

[@jurgentreue1200]

@@bluebagger1262 ,, my maternal grandfather fought for the other side. He was captured by the British in North Africa and sent to a POW camp in the UK. He was a five star hotel chef by profession. When the Brits discovered he was a chef, he was put to work cooking for the British officers. For him the war was over. When peace was declared, the British officers gave him a lead crystal ashtray. I still have the ashtray.

[@bluebagger1262]

@@jurgentreue1200 Was your grandfather German or Italian? I used to work in Manjimup, Western Australia. I had a client who told me he was captured by the British in North Africa during WW2. This bloke was Italian. He said the British asked them 'hands up who supports the king of Italy and then who supports Mussolini.' He said he supports the king, and he was shipped to England and spent the rest of the war working menial jobs. After the war he chose to go to Australia. After working here for a few years, he went back to Italy, found his bride and came back to Australia and bought a farm. He was a hard worker and a top bloke. I was mates with his youngest son. I have three other uncles who fought in North Africa. Doug, Ken and Jim Cullen. Ken was an anti aircraft gunner in the RAR, Jim was a fighter pilot in the RAAF and Doug was a radio operator in a bomber in the RAAF. Another uncle, Dan Cullen was a pilot in the RAF, flying Lancaster bombers over Germany.

[@jurgentreue1200]

@@bluebagger1262 ,, I think my name may give it away ;)

[@bluebagger1262]

@@jurgentreue1200 Ahh, a Gerry :) Uncle Don Cullen always said that the average Gerry was a good bloke. I had no animosity against the Germans even after being in 4 or 5 different Stalag's. However, Uncle Don had a deep hatred of communism and communists.

[@justinroberts2650]

Big farms are called “Stations “ Our biggest is twice the size of any “Ranch” in America

[@MindlessWanderings]

Anna Creek station is 4.77x the size of King Ranch (US's largest).

[@marionettie9396]

The opera house is world class. When I saw it first I was surprised at how good it is. Was proud to be an Australian because it is really one of the best architectural experiences of the globe. Go at dusk or dawn and see the tiles that make its shell glow. I’ve been to London, I think Sydney opera house and bridge are better. I can’t wait to next go to Sydney to them again!

[@J--W]

I don't know about the stats for AFL, but a survey of players in the NRL showed that cumulatively they had grandparents who were born in 144 different countries worldwide. So that seems to be pretty diverse backgrounds.

[@RobReacts1]

Thats pretty amazing and i love that. We are the Human Race!

[@J--W]

@@RobReacts1 On the Greek-Australians thing, Greece have qualified for the rugby league world cup later this year and their team is pretty much all Australian born players with Greek ancestry.

[@mathewkelly9968]

Im from Melbourne like a quarter of the people I know are Greek or part Greek. I've gotta say I was laughing my backside off at your claim that Australian and Greek don't goto together , outside of other English speaking cultures Greek culture has the most influence on Australian culture .

[@RobReacts1]

That amazes me, it really does. And it's fantastic! Plus the Greeks have some bloody tasty food! 🙂

[@adrtho]

@@RobReacts1 yeah, it why Melbourne had unbelievable coffee, because of all the greeks and Italians who immigrated there after then 2nd World war

[@terencemccarthy8615]

I’m not sure the Italians would agree with you !😂

[@muzikkification]

Yeah, it also has a huge Italian population. One of the most multicultural cities in the world I would imagine.

[@ashdog236]

@@adrtho I’d like to argue with you and say that’s it’s Italians that had the biggest influence on Melbourne but I’m probably wrong 😑

[@shiyoushi5778]

"what's that little island below?" That'd be Tasmania. We're being left off maps of Australia almost as often as NZ is left off world maps 😂

[@maureenackerley8024]

I think at the moment us Tasmanians are happy to be left off the map, because we have been Covid free for 16 months! 😁👏👍

[@paulfribbs8516]

Well, you did only join after the 3rd round of federation Talks after NZ dropped out! ;p What did you have against NZ? ;p RAFL.

[@TheMelbournelad]

13:49 we are flat. About 80-90 is flat as we are in the middle of a plate so not been renewed by uplift or volcanos. The mountains are all in a strip on the southeast and east coast in what we call the great dividing range. West of it is basically a flat pan all the way to Perth

[@TheLyds01]

We are multicultural. Melbourne in particular has the most diverse people in the country and therefore the most diverse cuisines too.

[@kbewilson]

I live in Sydney and run past the opera house every day, trust me, it never ever gets old. It’s STUNNING and inside it’s gorgeous.

[@corinnecowper1339]

Absolutely agree. When Rob said he wondered if it was as spectacular as in photos I immediately thought of my 4 year old grand-daughter seeing it for the first time from a ferry and she just went WOW!

[@RobReacts1]

Closest i have got is on flight simulator

[@ArcticCascade]

I’ve lived every day of my 38+ years in Australia, and visited the Opera House for the first time a couple of months ago. I was absolutely awestruck with its magnificence.

[@clairegray_]

Best comment in the whole video “what’s the little island below” 🤣😂🤣

[@RobReacts1]

Yea lots of people have found that one funny! And now i understand why! haha

[@peter.wilson]

Australia also has the Southern cassowary, a large aggressive (uncommon) flightless bird that has killed people with its claws, but not many.

[@jackabm69]

australia is one of the most multicultural counties in the world. About 40% or so of people have a parent that was born overseas. In melbourne there are a lot of Asian’s especially in the cbd but there are also a lot of italians, greek, and others in the suburbs

[@RobReacts1]

thats so fantastic! I love a mix of cultures all brought together!

[@alextaylor9778]

It was in the news a couple years ago that the population of second generation Australian were outnumbered by first generation and new comers

[@alextaylor9778]

In other words if your parents and their parents were born in Australia you are a minority

[@TheTardisDreamer]

Same in Sydney. I lived in a suburb that was majority South Korean. Now I live in a suburb that is probably majority Chinese. A lot of signs and menus are not in English. And at my old work (a pharmacy with a decent number of staff) I was literally the only person there who spoke one language. We had people from all over the world... China, South Korea, Lebanon, Italy, Peru, Hungary etc. I called myself the basic white chick as a joke because of it. Uni is pretty similar. It's super diverse. And I love that part of it. I've had some really amazing chats about culture and religion and family because of it.

[@oliviaf9259]

I laughed so hard. I’m Greek Australian originally from Melbourne. 😂 Australia is very multicultural and especially in the capital cities. Not as much in rural areas. I’m from Sydney and most people I know are only first Gen Australian.

[@RobReacts1]

Haha I love it's multicultural but I never associated Greeks with Australia

[@corinnecowper1339]

Not sure about that. If you go to a country town, it's usually the Greeks who run the milk bar/hamburger shop and the Chinese who have the best restaurant in town.

[@paigeveenstra9128]

@@corinnecowper1339 No fish and chips is better than Greek run fish and chips haha

[@tobeadvised6909]

I have been here for 35 years. Never have I ever stepped out of the house and been attacked by a spider or a snake. I have seen them, I had them as pets but never been bitten by them. It’s a stupid myth.

[@jedisaki730]

Another Aussie here talking about the multiculturalism! I'm Thai-Australian, born and raised in Brisbane. All around my parents house where I grew up, I have neighbours from South Africa, China, Japan, Canada, Netherlands, Columbia, USA, Norway and Croatia! All incredible people to grow up around and all just as Australian as myself. I say neighbours, but as I was from a sub rural area, the whole street was considered a neighbour. Loved where I grew up in that tiny little town with only 1800 people! So far I've lived in 4 different Australian states (Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia). But even when there is small cultural shifts where ever I go. I can still be proud to be in my home country 😄

[@lucilleh4128]

I’m from Melbourne, and boy do I know a lot of Greeks...

[@RobReacts1]

Its just not something i realised

[@lucilleh4128]

👍🏻 all good mate

[@AussieVeteran71]

Lonsdale St - between Exhibition and Russell Streets is the Greek sector in the CBD. (I could be wrong haven’t been near there in a loooong time)

[@bexxshoxx]

Same 👍

[@xXSinForLifeXx]

4:30 Some of our cattles station in the outback are bigger than other countries lol.

[@annaleonie2731]

It's true, kids really do go to school in kangaroos' pouches. But the really cool kids ride emus.

[@ann-pud]

The Sydney Opera House really is amazing and functional, lots of events happen there both inside and outside, great venue and looks brilliant.

[@phillipburton4294]

Tasmania is the second oldest state in Australia with a third of its area is world heritage.

[@steve3801home]

And Tasmania is the little island you refer to below the main continent. Fact it's the most mountainest island in the world, and takes about 5-6 hours to drive from the top to bottom. Why Tasmania? Named after the Dutch explorer who discovered it in the 1600's. Able Tasman. He originally named it Van Diemen's Lanf

[@drfill9210]

Re kangaroos: they live in grassland. We came in and converted most of Australia to grassland. They did very well out of the deal.

[@davidstokes8441]

Before 1788 the roos lived in balance with the Aboriginals and dingoes the the whitefellas arrived. They began killing the "blackfellas" because they got in the way of the Irish, Scots and English sheepherders. Then the dingoes discovered sheep were easier to catch and eat so they were next in their sights. The whitefellas then sowed crops like wheat, barley and rye, which the roos soon discovered tasted better than native grasses and so the farmers tried to exterminate them, but because of their ability to have one joey (young) on the hip, one in the pouch and one in the womb they roos won the battle and the population blew out. Te dingoes and Aboriginals also outbred the bullets, so all three now have higher populations than in 1788. BTW I am a whitefella, and most of my real friends are Blackfellas - this is what we call each other; no racism, and no offence is taken or given.

[@drfill9210]

@@davidstokes8441 sadly yes

[@paigeveenstra9128]

@@davidstokes8441 Really didn't help thylacines being wiped out. They were the only natural predator to roos in most of Victoria. Although, there's lots of rumors and apparent sightings round certain areas in Vic.

[@gaiasisters]

Sun Loong is the longest Chinese dragon in the world and is in Bendigo, a country town 2hrs drive north of Melbourne.

[@paigeveenstra9128]

Yes... And it was Bendigo that was the richest city in the world in the 1880s.. not Melbourne 😊

[@amandast100]

You should so do a reaction series to various Tim Minchin songs...”Thank you God”, “Rock n Roll Nerd”, “Prejudice” (this one catches Americans out every time), “Inflatable You”, “Confessions”, “If I didn’t have you”.

[@yvonnecaldwell6088]

'noone can call you ginger, but another ginger'....😂😂😂

[@michellebamford2965]

Tim is a national treasure, everyone should check him out!

[@shadowkyber2510]

They get us used to snakes young, pretty much every kids event has a guy with snakes that you can hold

[@RobReacts1]

yea, my dad has a snake in his toilet. Every time you go to the loo, the snake starts looking at you! eeek!

[@shadowkyber2510]

@@RobReacts1 they were real snakes

[@hoorooblu]

The opera house is great. Drinking on the balcony, watching yachts race on the harbour, during the intermission from a great concert, ballet or opera. Or evening concerts and you watch harbour lights and lit-up ferries gliding along under the harbour bridge...

[@RobReacts1]

oh I bet it is lovely

[@lexaharpell5196]

@@RobReacts1 It is minimal contemporary, raw concrete and rich timber panelling inside. Suits the city's culture. Never tire of watching concerts, or visiting for drinks, food. Sensational backdrop.

[@linus98765]

Iconic landmark with a good view of the bridge and harbour.

[@TheZeroAssassin]

"I never Australia with camels" You already pointed out how most of the interior is desert. Yet you missed the obvious connection. :)

[@RobReacts1]

Yea but they are only there due to the afghans

[@camfalafranca800]

Camel races are funny as, also we export camels to the middle East

[@TheMelbournelad]

10:45 yep they brought them in to explore the interior. When done with them they just let them go and run free. Bit of a feral problem in some areas, and a nightmare for truck drives driving the highways in the centre.

[@glenchapman3899]

When we talk of mountains in Australia, understand in most parts of the world they would only be speed humps lol

[@PaulA-bv1rt]

Erosion will do that.

[@glenchapman3899]

@@PaulA-bv1rt Years ago a doco I saw suggested the Flinders rangers were once 1.5 times higher than the Rocky Mountains. That would have been a sight

[@PaulA-bv1rt]

@@glenchapman3899 ....i love the history that the Blue Mountains were very ancient when the Grand Canyon first started forming. Also of old ranges higher than the Himalayas.

[@brassholio]

I remember going down to regional Victoria when I was younger and seeing big mountains for the first time (I'm from Queensland) and thought they were massive. Then I went to the Swiss Alps in my 20s and they were absolutely next level.

[@ashdog236]

While certainly not the highest in the world, 2,500 metres is not a speed bump 😁

[@philthy4242]

The little island is a state called Tasmania or "Tassie" in the slang. A slightly inappropriate term colloquially used here for a woman's lady area is her "map of tassie" due to the similar shape..... kinda... lol

[@RobReacts1]

haha is does sort of!

[@sassybdassi6686]

omg I've never heard that hahaha

[@sassybdassi6686]

@@RobReacts1 it's one of Australia's 6 states

[@JamieS1992]

@@sassybdassi6686 6? although i dont count ACT as the 8th its a fake state you appear to be missing one i assume NT? 7 in total QLD NSW VIC NT SA WA TAS

[@jamesnagle5221]

@@JamieS1992 ACT and NT are Territories, not States. As a quirk of how the constitution was set up, they only get 2 federal senators (States get 6) and the Federal parliament can veto any law passed by a Territory.

[@bethdumont9020]

Great Dividing Range - a huge mountainous backbone that runs down the Eastern seaboard from Cape York to Cape Otway.

[@DuckyROK]

No we aren't all rich. There is quite a high homeless population in some areas. We have issues like everywhere

[@xXSinForLifeXx]

2:12 Originally the Rabbit proof fence we had a massive massive infestation of rabbits. There is actually a good movie about the rabbit proof fence.

[@hart-of-gold]

A good movie but a very sad one.

[@clansiri]

Rabbit proof fence is a different fence

[@aihtdikh]

@@clansiri Yeah the rabbit-proof fence runs north-south further to the west, doesn't it?

[@clansiri]

@@aihtdikh yep, in WA

[@sassybdassi6686]

camels are an introduced species to Australia but I'm pretty sure we have the world's largest population of them

[@mattjohns3394]

We export camels to the middle east. Sand too.

[@gregind01]

And our camels are the best quality camels on earth now!

[@AussieVeteran71]

@@gregind01 what you mean the purest breed of camels

[@gregind01]

@@AussieVeteran71 I only said 'best quality' not 'purest breed' of camels. I'm pretty sure that the purest camels would still be somewhere in Arabia.

[@geministargazer9830]

@@gregind01 yeah I think the middle eastern camels are too interbred now and they’re exported to diversify the bloodlines

[@clairegray_]

Aussie here, not from Melbourne, but a With Greek & Italian parents it’s so so normal to me for there to be Greek everything in Aus 😄 .... and yep Melbourne is my favourite city because there’s just so much good food & coffee thanks to the many many different cultures.

[@RJ.Mitchell]

OMG your reactions are hysterical for an Aussie to see !!! Especially your confusion regarding the tiny island at the bottom 😂 Tassie is stunning!!! I live on 26 acres at the base of the Watagan Mountains & it’s so beautiful here. Kangaroos don’t hassle us, spiders are quiet neighbours too, just don’t walk around at night without a torch cause it’s a real pain getting web out of your hair😜 and the snakes mostly sunbake then move on 😉

[@Mimzula]

I lived outside a suburb called Oakleigh in Melbourne, it is one of the biggest Greek/Italian populations in Melbourne and it has the most amazing cake stores there!

[@xXSinForLifeXx]

16:00 Weird because thats kinda the entire motto of Australia. I can say myself living in Australia I have met all kinds of people. Yes we have racism but we are 100% multicultural.

[@RobReacts1]

Im finding this out and sounds awesome!

[@tygs1237]

My favourite spider fact is that the most poisonous spider is also the safest spider. The daddy long legs is one of the most poisonous spiders but it has no fangs to inject the poison in to you. If you find a daddy long legs in your house leave it along as it will keep other spider away.

[@justinroberts2650]

Camels were know as “Ships of the Desert” and there are 10’s of 1000’s of them.

[@hazchemel]

From Cairns, not Melbourne, however, Greeks are throughout the country, including a good mate and his family. Btw, I think the kangaroo number is a bit conservative.

[@seanlynch1185]

Indigenous Australians are over-represented by population as players in the AFL - they excel at the sport. Not all are dark skinned = perhaps you don't always clock them. The only immigrant population not to really breakthrough in the AFL so far are Asians - the new wave is from Africa - expected to have a huge impact in the next 20 years. Half of the reaction videos on players you see *or you did would be Aboriginal players

[@RobReacts1]

Those players iv done reactions on have been suggested. SO maybe they just make the better players :)

[@donnam5891]

@@RobReacts1 Also if you take notice of the surnames of the players you will hear many names from a multicultural background

[@bluebagger1262]

Lin Jong #46 plays for Footscray and Peter Bell is half Korean played for South Fremantle, Fremantle and North Melbourne. Carlton had the first footballer of Asian decent, Coochee was his last name. He played in 1907. He was a decedent of a Chinese gold miner who had come to Australia during the Victorian gold rush.

[@seanlynch1185]

@@bluebagger1262 Connor Downie

[@awf6554]

@@RobReacts1 Indigenous players tend to be athletic and tough.

[@Hurricayne92]

17:30 that small island is the state of Tasmania 😂 and is also part of the country.

[@kcbrown4993]

The only thing that you can guarantee being biten by is mozzies in my 40 years I've seen one snake in the wild and wild roos keep their distance from people

[@shaz464]

Better check out Tasmania. A beautiful and unique state of Australia.

[@RobReacts1]

does watching the tasmanian devil cartoons count :D (just a joke)

[@ColOscopy]

One of the most beautiful places I have ever been, and I'm a Victorian. Also, I don't think it has any flat spots.

[@alyssaaaa67]

Australia is mainly more populated through the coastlines and along the edge but people do still live in the middle. I love seeing how you want to know and learn so much about Australia! I love it...keep it up. And no a lot of the stuff ur saying isn’t very ignorant because there are a lot of stereotypes 😂

[@RobReacts1]

i was suprised how little i knew! But i suppose Australia is on the other side of the world!

[@LokiLivewire]

Your videos keep popping up on my home page, so I'm guessing I've watched and liked more than a couple. Think it's to make it official...NEW SUB 😋

[@RobReacts1]

Good man! I hope you enjoy them! And enjoyed my confused face ocassionally haha

[@LokiLivewire]

@@RobReacts1 Hey Rob, shot you an email regarding permission to use clips. Hope to hear from you soon.

[@seth1455]

We do have some small mountains but I doubt we get more snow than the Swiss alps

[@paigeveenstra9128]

Mum and her fam are from Switzerland.. Apparently it totally depends. Some years Aus gets more, some years Switzerland gets more. It's definitely a hell of a lot colder there though. Couple years back Grossi (grandma) went to visit and was complaining it was a warm winter..at -25°c 😳

[@louisechick1204]

That little island at the bottom is Tasmania, commonly called Tassie, and my home 😊

[@michaelmclachlan1650]

And it's not that little either, just smaller than the mainland. 26th largest island in the world: 68,401 km2 (26,410 sq mi)

[@auzee4925]

Tassie is actually so cool tho. The air just tastes good down there. Idk what it is but tassie is cool.

[@hellagood67]

Love Tasmania. Would move from the mainland in a flash.

[@JaseTheAussie]

(And its still part of Australia :) )

[@NoName-ds5uq]

@@michaelmclachlan1650 it’s only a tiny bit smaller than the the Republic of Ireland.

[@emma_erk9940]

I‘m from Melbourne and being multicultural is one of its defining aspects. In my year level at school there was probably only a third or less ‘white’ British Australians, the rest being mostly Asian, Greek, or Italian out of 350 people. Most people that I know are either first or second generation Australians (parents weren’t born here). There are people from all over the world.

[@RobReacts1]

I knew there were a 'few' asians due to being so close to asia, but i just didnt realise how multicutural it is!

[@emma_erk9940]

@@RobReacts1 I looked it up and my suburb’s Asian population is approximately 30% and that’s higher in surrounding suburbs

[@jmc7636]

I'm a minority in Melbourne, I have no new arrivals since the 1800s. I love our multicultural society. In my primary school class of the early 80s we had 18 kids, we had 3 kids who's backgrounds were Greek and we had 2 Lebanese, 1 vietnamese, 2 polish, a Turk, a Maori, 2 poms. There were only 3 of us who had both parents born here. My 15yo is the only kid in her class of 25 who has both parents born here and her class hails from all over the world.

[@corinnecowper1339]

I'm from Sydney, and in my seventies. My class in school had 6 Australian born kids. All the rest were immigrants. We all got along just fine and nobody called each other names.

[@amygone2pot]

Sydney Opera house is impressive, not only because of the architecture, but more for its stunning setting. Your eyes just want to keep taking it in, being more blown away the longer you look.

[@SaskiyaSass]

I've been up Mt. Disappointment plenty of times. It's beautiful. We used to ride our horses over it to Wondong Pub (before it got developed).

[@albion2304]

The Opera House really is beautiful. It sits on the harbour framed by the Harbour Bridge there is a large plaza/forecourt with the botanical gardens on the other side. They host outdoor concerts on the forecourt in addition to the concert halls and playhouses inside.

[@RobReacts1]

sounds really amazing!

[@linus98765]

Memorable concert was Crowded House playing Don't Dream It's Over to packed crowd on NYE.

[@michaelrossa3037]

Mt Disappointment is in Victoria and some of the best 4wd tracks

[@AussieVeteran71]

Drove up it with the Army -- a lot of fun going back down

[@goatsmilk]

Ah I went here, just walked around the bottom though. Hoping to do a walk up a the top at some point!

[@victoriaivy5953]

I died when he asked what Tasmania was 🤯🤣🤣🤣

[@MON-ud7sw]

I’ve lived here for the past seventy five years and have never been bitten by anything larger than a mosquito or been punched by a kangaroo.

[@paulpowell7424]

South Australia is the only Australian state NOT to have used convicts in its early settlement.

[@RobReacts1]

Those lucky guys 🤣

[@user-xo2ix3pt7k]

@@RobReacts1 And on the opposite end of that, Western Australia was the only state to specifically request convicts because not enough people were going there of their own free will.

[@Alex-dz2et]

@@user-xo2ix3pt7k and convicts sent to Tasmania, specifically Port Arthur were convicts who had committed another crime whilst in the colony - the worst of the worst 😂

[@maddyg3208]

@@RobReacts1 *Unlucky. Convicts built this country.

[@smitajky]

@@Alex-dz2et I used to think that Port Arthur was a punishment camp. But the weather is grey, miserable and cold. Basically a summer camp for the Brits.

[@TheMelbournelad]

7:10 yes Greeks and Italians came here in droves after the WW2. Melbournites thank them everyday for the awesome food and coffee culture we now enjoy. Also a lot of the tradies and big companies associated with it have a Greek or Italian background. Also check out a movie called “wog boy” made by a comedian here on the complex relationship English background and Greek/ Italian Aussies have with each other.

[@TheMelbournelad]

Ohh no also why soccer is massive on east coast of Australia

[@emmall22]

They didn’t even cover the Emu war. The emu’s won. They deserve recognition.

[@RobReacts1]

If it helps I did a video on that 🙂

[@stevewiles7132]

That's why Kangaroos don't become politicians.

[@broningham4161]

That island below Australia that you didn’t know is another of our states it’s called Tasmania - where the tassie devil comes from 🇦🇺🐨🦘

[@PlasticAssasin8]

Dingo fence mate, keeps the dingo's on one side and the other stuff on the other

[@MrLocomitive]

Hi Rob. Love your channel! Keep up the good work. For more information on Australia I can highly recommend Tristan's channel.. He's a Yank who got stuck here during Covid. Although he couldn't make it the the great West Coast he nevertheless put out some great stuff on his experiences here. Cheers, Kimbo.,

[@gbsailing9436]

Hey Rob, Recently found your channel. I'm glad for you that you are just now learning about Australia. I'm a direct descendant of a convict and "First Fleeter" arrival, as we call them. My great, great, arrived on the "Charlotte" in 1788 when the colony was founded. Now you mentioned the incongruous nature of what we 'don't know' about each other even though 'many' of us here in Australia come from the UK. Well this fact is changing, and fast. But it comes down to what our education teaches us. I remember my schooling well and we were taught almost nothing about the USA for example. I did learn more about the UK and Europe. But this too is changing as I was schooled some 40 years ago. Now kids learn much more about the world. There are, like where I live, still enclaves of British people and the percentage of British to 'other' cultures would be approximately 85%. But if you go to mainstream Sydney for example that percentage drops significantly to less than 50%. You should pull out all the stops (sorry for my slang) and get over here asap! You Will love it. You may not even go back, many haven't! You can typically consider Australia to have 4 sides, like a square. Even though we are a continent, we are typically and island and those of us lucky enough to travel the country routinely, typically consider that there are four sides, being the: east coast (side), the west coast, the south coast and the northern region. The southern region is split into two fo course to allow for the separation of Adelaide and Melbourne (pronounced Mel-bun here in Sydney - you'd say melborn if you were saying it on TV). Here in Sydney we shorten everything. Sydney where I live has the best weather out of Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne. Perth has great weather (similar to Sydney) too. Each and EVERY state has STUNNING features and places worth visiting. As the video correctly stated, Just visiting the beaches alone will take you half your life, trying to see the rest of the country takes much longer. Going "bush" to see the 'outback' is worthwhile and more rewarding than you'd expect. Even though there is almost no-one out there, you can't appreciate it till you experienced it first hand and at some length. I was going to suggest that the West Coast is the place to go over other states because not many people go there and most miss out on seeing the stunning west coast, but that would be wrong and would lead you astray. NSW is beautiful, as is Victoria, as is QLD and SA and the NT. Each for their own special reasons, mainly dictated by their own geological features and landscapes. Tasmania too, is perhaps the MOST rugged and yet the most beautiful of all, because of that fact. It is wild and hugely untouched and 20-30 years behind the rest of the world, seriously! Sure, there are spiders, snakes, stingers, and sharks and killer birds (Cassowaries), then you have the Magpies! Not to mention the 'Dropbears' and 'Con-tours', these WILL kill you and many unsuspecting tourist. More tourists are killed by Con-tours in this country than anywhere else in the world combined! Con-tours run rings around hills and attack you unknowingly...when you least expect it. As Aussies, we grow up with the danger and we learn to live with it. It's not a drama, You learn how to protect yourself, how not to do silly things like: Always close your tent when you enter and leave a tent when camping. Stuffing socks into your shoes over night if you live in remote or regional locations. You don't swim in estuaries at dusk or dawn on your own or even with others for that matter. Bull sharks love estuaries and fresh water! Don't swim with dogs in DEEP water, ankle deep is ok as long as it clear, etc. Don't feed the animals. Don't go near Cassowaries!!! Wear cable ties on your helmet when cycling! Learn how to swim - we live on an island FFS! No matter which direction you go in you are bound to come across a significant body of DEEP water - if it isn't now it SOON will be, It FLOODS here, FREQUENTLY!!! DO swim between the RED and YELLOW flags at a beach!!! Everyone learns these and lots of other simple rules to keep you safe as you grow up. Unfortunately, the Govt. does NOT provide these basic rules of the road to visitors coming to this country on the airplanes that they fly into the country on!!! This video (if it were available) should be mandatory watching for everyone who comes here. BUT OTHER THAN THAT, it is a GREAT place to be and experience. If you ever get here drop me a line here and I'll show you around GOD's own country where I live. You won't want to go home I can guarantee it! Cheers,

[@kaibest6560]

The Sydney Opera house is basically just a performance art Centre. That's pretty much it 😅 Fun fact: In 1932 we had a war with the emus and lost 😂

[@RobReacts1]

Sorry what... Emus! 🤣

[@devonlord99]

@@RobReacts1 it was all fun and games till we found out they can take 10 bullets and keep running away faster than we could follow. We are now secretly ruled by emu overlords

[@tomm7511]

Rob reacts, you should react to oversimplified’s emu war!

[@BassMatt1972]

there is a gallery too, and it was being refitted to "original spec", which would be cool to see..

[@kaibest6560]

@@RobReacts1 hahaha yep! The Great Emu War of 1932! And because a peace treaty was never signed we are technically still at war with them! Check out this vid if you wanna kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqC9qnV7m9yjgKs it explains exactly what happened (does contain some swearing of course)

[@davidhanifin2692]

Rob, this video doesn't represent here in Australia very well. Maybe watch a video made by an Aussie (no offence intended Americans). Fun fact: we don't have burger king in Australia. Our version of burger king is called Hungry Jacks.👍🇦🇺

[@RobReacts1]

To be fair I don't think the video is talking about the culture(other than a lot of Greeks), it was more facts and figures(sort of). But I agree it would be much better with an Aussie narrative

[@Erizedd]

They mentioned the burger king/hungry jacks thing in the video.

[@dignoh2144]

Don't listen to David. He's a wanka and doesn't appear to have watched the video.

[@flowerpower8722]

First gen Melbourne Greeks added a whole new level of enthusiasm to the Aussie accent.

[@littleflick]

I grew up in a rural area, just over 500km from Melbourne. We had a massive Italian and Greek population in the town as they had settled there to grow grapes and other vegetables and fruits. I now live in Melbourne and we have a huge Greek population. I’m not far from Oakleigh (suburb in Melbourne) and the shopping area there is full of amazing Greek restaurants and cafés. All the old Greek men sit outside the cafés drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes all morning. It’s very sweet.

[@mattwhite489]

To be fair to this guy, Kangaroos cant walk forwards either

[@Elizabelle79]

This was the comment I was looking for. :)

[@adamoldham5542]

Lived in Melbourne for a few years and had Greek friends there. Nice bunch of people and boy do they know how to cook.

[@RobReacts1]

Oh man i love greek food!!

[@rickadrian2675]

To put our 'Alps' in perspective, I have walked to the top of the tallest mountain on our continent twice - both time in shorts and a t-shirt. They get more snow because they are so low and it melts every summer.

[@AbblittAbroad]

But they are higher than anything in the UK. Even the Tasmanian highlands are higher than the Scottish highlands. Mt Ossa in Tasmania is about 300m higher than Ben Nevis.

[@suemoore984]

The snow doesn't always melt in summer. I'm a first generation Aussie. My father was a teacher so we travelled a lot during the summer, exploring this wonderful country. Like you I've gone to the summit of Mt Kościuszko in summer clothes, but had to walk through snow on the upper reaches.

[@katebet07]

You might not want to come over here after reading this Rob. I have a Huntsman spider living in my study (she likes sitting on the blind & I have to tap her so she moves if I want to roll up the blind!). There's another one just out the back door. Moved a pallet the other day & there was a redback spider behind it. Found the discarded skins of two baby browns in my backyard last summer. Went to go kayaking at a favourite spot a few months back, but gave it a miss as there was a snake rearing up when we pulled in to the carpark (& only went back recently now snake season is over). There was a red belly black snake under my friend's 11 year old daughter's bed a few weeks back. So spiders & snakes are about! But I wouldn't want to live anywhere else 😊

[@RobReacts1]

haha well you are just making it sound worse than it realy is!! :D

[@katebet07]

@@RobReacts1 sorry to say - all of that is actually true! No kidding around! The snake under my friend's daughter's bed was truly frightening. Alana was on her bed & didn't see the snake, but her younger sister did. Alana had ear phones on & when my friend finally got her attention & told her about the snake Alana thought she was joking. Until she really saw how scared my friend was...

[@sassybdassi6686]

if you ever go to Sydney, I'd 100% recommend going on a tour of the opera house. so impressive inside and out

[@XaviRonaldo0]

I've live in or near Sydney my entire life and have never felt the need to visit it. Just seems like a place for rich snobs.

[@TheTardisDreamer]

@@XaviRonaldo0 It's hardly snobby at all. As someone under 25 I can go to a theatre production there for only $25. Which is really cheap for a show. And they do it to encourage young people to go. And I have also been to stuff like the Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular there. Pretty much as geeky and silly as you could get. Plus, for a lot of the operas and ballets and such, you can get pretty cheap, decent tickets.

[@sassybdassi6686]

@@XaviRonaldo0 it's so interesting if you take a tour. the whole architecture of each room and history of it is fascinating. worth it to book a tour

[@sassybdassi6686]

@@TheTardisDreamer I'd love to go for an actual show next time I'm there

[@peterfromgw4615]

Mate, the Opera House is only important for Sydneysiders......

[@aaronkratzmann9703]

I have no idea why but I love the fact we have the largest Greek population outside of Greece. It feels like Australians and Greek people can just be friends anywhere.

[@RobReacts1]

Haha I just never associated Greece and Australia together

[@wizzard5442]

To put into perspective the large Greek population, they, along with Italians, English and other countries, emigrated to OZ after WW2. For some unknown reason, most were sent to Melbourne - pretty much like a lot of Germans went to Adelaide hence the German-named towns and wines in Barossa Valley. Over the following years, the Greek relatives came here too (I'm in Melbourne - not Greek though). The Greek population expanded so much that city of Melbourne had the largest Greek population of any city outside Greece.

[@kathmills9168]

You are awesome Rob ❣️ you're channel.