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What can you do in Australia?
When is the best time to visit Australia?
What should you be aware of when visiting Australia
What are the most insane facts about Australia?
Is Australia safe to visit?
How can you get to Australia?
What are the best things to do in Australia?
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Seriously this video should be called 15 things I've "read about" Australia but I don't really have a clue.
Box jellyfish is only an issue in the tropical north. Shark attacks from around the country make the news several times a year. Hawke isn't Australia's longest serving PM. (actually 3rd).
And just to make the number with distances sound impressive she's using metres instead of kilometres. And that's' the first time I ever heard about a hay bale in a cab.
Haven't watched yet but if they said the hay bails were in qld then yeah I read this year's ago listing some of the redundant & ridiculous laws around the country.
@@jadecawdellsmith4009 I believe that this is an English law not Aussie
They hail bail in a cab made me laugh. I think it's along the same lines as the drop bear lol
The hay bale is a true law. It's an artefact law and no one enforces it.
@@therenegade79 that's interesting to learn. I knew we had a few really old laws that no one needs to follow anymore but I didn't know that was one of them
So many mistakes in that video. Did she ACTUALLY mention Drop Bears, like they’re a real thing? 😂 And no, there are no bales of hay in any taxi.
I know, right? I had to go back and listen again, because I didn’t believe what I was hearing 😂
Yo I'm an Aussie and that's sus as fu...
6:04 Apparently, Australia is a landmass with an area greater than 700,000,000 sq km. That's really impressive, as the total surface area of Earth (including oceans/seas) is 501,000,000 sq km.
a drop bear is a species lol a lot
@@panelvanman7671 sure is 😉
I'm an Aussie tour guide and this is one of the worst videos I have ever seen when it comes to accurate and sensible information and facts!
The most fascinating thing about wombats isn’t their size or how tough they are, it’s the fact that their faeces is cube shaped. They actually poop little cubes!
and also how incredibly fast the little demolition tanks really are.
@@theghost6412 totally agree, seen a wombat outrun a German shepherd.
hit a wombat with a car , write off the car and watch the wombat meander away
@@thatrandomaussiechick4107 why i always call them Demolition Tanks lol
That taxi law I've never heard and that hot pants thing either. I'd call BS on those two.
There is zero legislature that claims the hot pants law to be true
so that ones bs
Lmao mate I’ve never heard of that a bale of hay will take up room lmao
@Pure Blood I never knew that lmao hahahahaa
These are old statutes never removed from the original laws. The hay bale is legit. It was an early attempt at ensuring quality of life for horses working when drawing the horse drawn cabs of the early days. The hot pants sound like a local issue. It was also not claimed to be an Australia wide law. It is in fact against the law in Queensland to use tarot cards to "read someone's fortune" (or fortune telling) but anyone doing this activity can get around that law by getting the customer to pay for a cup of tea or coffee and some cookies (biscuits) or cake; so essentially one can go to a cafe like place, order some rather expensive tea and cake, and have one's cards read.
8:12 Big nope. Sir Robert Menzies was Prime Minister for 16 continuous years (he had also previously been PM for a separate two year period), John Howard was PM for 11 years, and Bob Hawke served as PM for 8 years. Hawke wasn't even close to our longest serving PM.
thats because they are americans giving "facts" about a country they know nothing about, they are just doing it for clicks.
I love the line "Coopers is a very popular choice in southern Australia, as well as Adelaide."
Adelaide is the capital of the state South Australia and is where Coopers is brewed... That's like saying "The Philly Cheese-steak is a popular choice in the US, as well as in Philadelphia."
IKR LOL
Coopers ale and the end of the keg, its floaties time!
Radelaide 👍🇦🇺
So many laughable errors in that video....
Can-berra is our capital. (It's Can-borough or Can-bra)
while we at it it's Mel-bin bot Mel-born
A surprising amount of people think Australia is small. I’ve had to explain it to at least five people my self.
The easiest way to explain it is to tell them it's slightly larger than the lower 48 United States, we're the same width as New York to L.A.
@@ydenneki same with Tasmania, a lot of people think its a small island, yet its bigger than Switzerland and nearly as big as Ireland.
Guy from Texas was quite put out that Queensland is way bigger than Texas, and that some of the cattle stations in Australia are bigger than Texas. His hat size shrunk.
*twitch* that's not how you pronounce Canberra *twitch*
Its "Canbruh"
Yes, I cringed at Can bearah
Re:13 - You'd be surprised how many foreigners think Australia is small. An unfair proportion of them are American, I'm sorry to say. I was in a taxi once and the driver told me about how he used to drive taxis in Sydney. He was parked at a rank, waiting for a customer, when a group of people - an American family of 2 adults and a couple of kids - rode up alongside him on pushbikes. They stopped and asked him how much further they had to go to get to the Gold Coast. He could see they weren't packed or dressed for the epic odyssey that would be and asked them what they meant? They said they were riding up to the Gold Coast for lunch then would ride back to their hotel for dinner. The taxi driver, being Austrailan, told them it wasn't much further so they thanked him and rode on. He didn't find out how far they got before realising the gravity of their mistake and I personally think it was cruel not to tell them since kids were involved but I hope they didn't get too sunburnt and exhausted before giving up.
There is also no current law about having to carry hay in a taxi - that's insane. Where would we put our groceries and lugguage? It dates back to when transport was horse-drawn and it was meant to ensure that horses were properly fed while working.The pink hotpants thing is either some very niche local council by-law that no one has heard of or it's made up. I'm going with "made up".
You might like to check out Ozzy Man Reacts. He's very funny.
I think the hot pants became a local issue. (In Victoria?) but it certainly wasn't Australia wide, and was probably instigated by some ladies who didn't want their husbands looking at cute young things at church.
Hay bales in the boot
Australia
Although repealed in 1980, it was once illegal for taxi drivers in Melbourne to drive around without a hay bale in the boot. The law was a throwback to when taxis were horse-drawn and it was a requirement to have food onboard for livestock.
It was a law not any more
There was another repelled law in Melbourne if you stole food you could be deport to Melbourne.
I thought it was qld🤔
@@jadecawdellsmith4009 Yeah might be because why would they have a law in Melbourne that deports you to Melbourne.
Well a friend of mine stepped out of my car on a busy road and pissed on my back tyre, because he said there was a law that you could piss on the back wheel of your wagon. might still be on the books?
What? i have this hay bale for nothing?
Australia has almost 12,000 beaches, not 7000. And over 8000 islands
Agree with the other guy. React to "why did Starbucks fail in Australia"
G'day my videos are not professional but im more than happy to give any info, as a proud Aussie from south Windsor Sydney Australia
React to Why did Starbucks fail in Australia
I wonder if she was joking about the Drop Bears or legit think they're amounts our most dangerous creatures
Dunno what you’re on about, they’re a huge killer here. The drop bears will get you if you go walking through the bush at night.
They are, but she shouldn't talk about them, we don't want the world to know the damage they can do we need the tourists back
@@geoffmaloney2717 NO..NO STAY AWAY....The Drop Bear took my Baby !
They are very deadly to tourists
@@theyakmaster9984 that's because tourists aren't aware. They think all our marsupials are cute & cuddly. You know how they are about making everything a pet... look at sugar gliders. God help us if they got their hands on quokkas.
And the above comment is correct... I think it's something to do with getting the tourists back post covid.
The "hay bale in a taxi" law was repealed in 1980. It was a hangover from the horse-drawn cart days in Victoria and nobody ever bothered repealing it when horses and carts were superseded by motor vehicles!
I believe horse drawn carts carrying passengers in those days were also called Cabs or Taxis
@@chrish7589 They were called Hansom Cabs.
So much bullshit in the 15 things.
USA beaches simply do not rate when compared to Australian beaches.
Yeah ... but we have a lot more beaches to choose from. You're also talking about the country that EXPORTS SAND TO SAUDI ARABIA ... that fact alone should explain how good our beaches are. As an example the longest sand beach in USA is the South Padre Island, Texas, at 35 miles (57km) of unbroken sand ... I grew up a short distance from the 90 mile beach in south east Victoria (which is actually 83 miles (134km) of unbroken sand, but 111miles (177km) total with the artificial entrance at Lakes Entrance spoiling things), but the Coorong Beach in South Australia has that well beaten at 129 miles (207km) of unbroken sand (223km total). (The Victorian Lakes ORIGINALLY had a narrow inlet/outlet to the ocean to flush excess water, and it allowed smaller vessels to access the lakes, but in 1869 a permanent entrance was created in its current location to allow large oceangoing vessels to access the waterways, and it's been constantly dredged of sand buildup to keep it open ever since.)
Numerous inaccuracies and exaggerations, ie Bob Hawke is Australias 3rd longest serving PM, not first.
Fun things to search :Aussie adds from the 90s and 2000s , Kath n kim, Eric banners comedies from the 90s
It's time the USA caught up with the world and change to metric system of measurement it's much easier.
You should react to “The Gallipoli Campaign” by simple history it’s pretty short but it’s good, Also there’s a few good Australian songs you should check out like “Waltzing Matilda” (sort of an outback song but very iconic and nearly became our national anthem) and “The band played Waltzing Matilda” which is about a soldier during WW1
And I was only 19
Yeah waltzing Matilda if you want to be bored shitless omg that song and our national anthem are tedious.
That’s people live within 100kms of the coast, and the train line has a 478km straight. Those metre figures were crazy.
I’ve never seen a hay bale in a Taxi….???
It was a crap video tbh
Hey I have some ideas for you, how about reacting to the song “I Was Only Nineteen”, the brilliant place names here (like Woop Woop, Cockburn, Well it Wasn’t There Last Year Cave, Two Mile Knob, Bong Bong, Humpty Doo, Nowhere Else…how great are these huh?) The Great Emu War (which we lost!!!), Coober Pedy in South Australia, or “A Song About Birds”? I don’t have all the vid links for you but they’ll be easy to find if you feel like it.
Hey fellas this is better than some of the others on the lucky country. (Lucky because we have good work life balance,high mineral wealth,good climate,isolated). Some accurate facts like the dingo fence being 5600 kms (3450 miles). 1 mile is 1.62 kms. The Indian Pacific train travels across the width of the country from Sydney to Perth. Takes about 4 or 5 days. The Nullarbor plains has the straightest road in the world (Google). Runs on The Eyre Highway between Ceduna and Perth. 90 miles of 1200 miles.The Ghan is another tourist train that runs from Adelaide in the south to Darwin in the north. 3 days.
Federation Day was January 1 1901. Our Independence Day but Australia Day is celebrated on January 26. 6 days after Captain Phillip landed with the first fleet in Botany Bay in 1788,now Sydney.
Coopers make great range of beers from lights to lagers to a stout. An Adelaide institution dating back over a century.
XXXX is alright but doesn't have the range.
When comes down to discounting here (I'm not talking beer),I'm talking point 14. This is hell hilarious content again. What pink shorts in a car on Sunday? A bale in a cab. Well,it's Santa time. ho ho ho..more baloney..Serious wind up material.
It's technically not legal to leave your key in the ignition just purely technically stupid!
Don't know about illegality of singing with foul language but seems fair enough to me. Nothing weird about that. Generally the populace don't want to hear bad language let alone sing it loudly.
Didn't really explain the stingers well (blue ring octopus). They only live in tropical waters from mid spring to late fall. See green section on map here or 1400 miles Great Barrier Reef running down the north and central Queensland coast. They're not everywhere there.
Australia is a developed western country. More conservative in the south (Melbourne,Adelaide,Perth). More liberal in Sydney and Queensland well is Queensland. Can't say it's your Tennessee but get my drift. It's a big State so varies a hell of a lot from Brisbane which is very cosmopolitan to the tropical north where it's more than laid back (it's so hot you have to be!).
Many shots here of Melbourne. Victoria Train station.
You really need at least 2 weeks to see the country. I recommend Uluru,Sydney,Melbourne,Cairns (Barrier Reef,rainforests,croc tours),Kakadu,Litchfield National Park (3 hours east and 1 hour south of Darwin in the north). 2 to 3 days in each but really depends on what you want to see and do. Best time on the east coast is October (Sydney,Brisbane,Cairns). March and April in the south (Melbourne,Adelaide,Perth). It can be still quite cool and cloudy in mid spring in the south but get some nice sunny mild to warm days.
It is hot in the red centre (Uluru) from September (early spring) to April (mid Autumn (fall)). Uluru is really unique. 11 km around and very different from the tourist pics. Interesting formations. No longer can climb The Rock as it's on Indigenous land.
Summer is generally quite hot through the country but Melbourne and Adelaide has good warm days but also blistering 105F heatwaves. Why suggest March,April. Very hot and humid from SE Queensland north.
...and yes there are plenty of what's at 15.15 here too...!!
As a girl from Melbourne I'm glad she mentioned the rarely seen, but extremely dangerous Drop Bear. Some people like @Ryan Kincade below try to downgrade their danger or pretend they don't even exist (I know tourists may be put off) but as long as they are careful and heed the warning signs they will be fine.
A wombat's mass is so dense it can write off your car if you hit one
and the pink pants law was overturned! lol
They are also relatively quick, my old TAS teacher got chased down the road by one.
@@michaelhibbard654 yeah’ and they have no turning circle!! If he had caught him he would have knocked him down
@@Peajay007 the tas teacher or the wombat 😁
@@michaelhibbard654 😆😂😂😂 sounds like a weird match in mortal combat!! Fight!! Or is that wombat combat?? 🤔 😂
And they can be aggressive. I had a stubborn (massive) one sit in the middle of my drive way for 3 days. I had to leave the car and walk around it. I’m sure it was just effin with me!
When I lived in Europe people would often ask me if I knew their relatives back in Australia, like we all lived in the same suburb. It might look close on a distorted mercator map, Perth (in Western Australia) is 2hrs behind the Eastern States. The UK is only 1hr behind continental Europe. Also, wombats can be huge and can run like crazy. Drop bears a real. Tourists be very afraid!
Yeh, I was attacked by a drop bear once mate 🤪🤪🤪
Agro Rude Compilation. A Kids show in Aus in late 80's early 90's. Hilarious.
We don't take pride in shortening words lol. We just do it. And why the hell does she talk about those laws like they are enforced? They are just weird laws from ages ago that they didn't bother getting rid of. Those laws exist all over the world.
Just like the law in Canberra that said politicians couldn't say mate? Lasted 5 minutes
The law thing regularly pops up in these. They are mostly very old laws that just haven't been removed but are ignored and obsolete. Eg a taxi cab use to be horse drawn and you had to have hay to feed the horse.
yeah i'd never heard of any of those 'laws' and ive lived here my whole life
Russell Coight: Accurate knowledge delivered in a funny way
Yes. finally a good Aussie vid by Americans
If you want to react to some awesome video about Indonesia, specifically every 34 province of Indonesia, here's the list I can give:
1- "Epic Medley of Indonesian Cultures by Alffy Rev" (basically all cultures of Indonesia)
2- "Pesona Kota Banda Aceh 2019, Kota Serambi Mekkah di Ujung Barat Indonesia" (Aceh)
3- "Pesona Kota Medan 2019, Ibukota Provinsi dan Kota Terbesar di Sumatera Utara" (North Sumatra)
4- "Kota Pekanbaru Semakin Maju ditahun 2020, Kota Terbesar di Provinsi Riau" (Riau)
5- "Top 10 West Sumatra Indonesia - Best Things to do - The Highlights - Best Attractions [Travel Guide]" (West Sumatra)
6- "Kota Jambi Drone 2019" (Jambi)
7- "Palembang Semakin Maju ditahun 2020, Kota Tertua di Indonesia | Drone View Sumatra Selatan" (South Sumatra)
8- "Pesona Kota Bengkulu 2021" (Bengkulu)
9- "Bandar Lampung Drone Footage 2019, Aerial View by DJI Mavic 2 Pro" (Lampung)
10- "𝗣𝗘𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗔 𝗞𝗘𝗣𝗨𝗟𝗔𝗨𝗔𝗡 𝗕𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗞𝗔 𝗕𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗨𝗡𝗚 - 𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪 𝗗𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭" (Bangka Belitung)
11- "Video Udara Kota Batam Provinsi Kepulauan Riau (Kepri) 2019" (Riau Islands)
12- "Telaga Biru Cisoka 4K - Banten | Cinematic Aerial #Drone" (Banten)
13- "4K Jakarta Driving Downtown, Capital City Of Indonesia 2021" (Jakarta)
14- "Bandung City 2020 - West Java" (West Java)
15- "SEMARANG, CENTRAL JAVA, INDONESIA. CITY SIGHTSEEING TOUR 🇮🇩" (Central Java)
16- "Pesona Kota Surabaya Jawa Timur 2020. Kota Terbesar Kedua di Indonesia" (East Java)
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20- "Pesona Kota Banjarmasin 2020, Kota Seribu Sungai di Kalimantan Selatan dilihat dari Udara" (South Kalimantan)
21-"Kota Samarinda Kalimantan Timur, Kota Terbesar dan Terpadat di Pulau Kalimantan" (East Kalimantan)
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23- "B-ROLL /// THE CITY OF GORONTALO - INDONESIA (DRONE)" (Gorontalo)
24- "JOURNEY OF NORTH SULAWESI" (North Sulawesi)
25- "Luwuk - Central Sulawesi - Indonesia" (Central Sulawesi)
26- "Mamuju Sulawesi Barat 2021 - Drone Aerial Video" (West Sulawesi)
27- "Pesona Kota Kendari 2019, Ibukota Provinsi dan Kota Terbesar di Sulawesi Tenggara" (Southeast Sulawesi)
28- "Kota Makassar 2021 Semakin Maju dan Padat, Drone View Kota Terbesar di Sulawesi Selatan" (South Sulawesi)
29- "Bali, Indonesia in 4K (Ultra HD)" (Bali)
30 - Wonderful West Nusa Tenggara [Mataram] - Wonderful Indonesia | Pesona Nusa Tenggara Barat (West Nusa Tenggara)
31- "East Nusa Tenggara - Indonesia || "The Hidden Paradise" (East Nusa Tenggara)
32- "Pesona Kota Ternate Maluku Utara | Drone view 2021" (North Maluku)
33- "Ambon | Drone Indonesia - DJI Phantom 4 (4K)" (Maluku)
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I met a scot who had jumped ship after WW 2 in Fremantle WA. He had heard about the Kimberley's and decided to go there so he set off walking up the coast. He managed to get about 30 kms and started to ask people if he was in the Kimberley's some one told him that he had about 2500 kms to go !!!
Adam Hills alternative musical version of the national anthem Advance Australia Fair (thanks to Cold Chisel). Also Hamish Blake “game show” appearance as The Bachelor on Thank God You’re Here.
THANK GOD YOU’RE HERE !!!! That was a friggin great show!!!! Merrick Watts as the clueless criminal!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
They probably have no clue about our anthem or cold chisel so wouldn't get it but funny if they thought it was real that way.
Guys... as an Australian I can tell you that some of this is just crap, especially number 14 which is mostly untrue. That is the problem when an American produces content about Australia.
If you want to know about Australia and New Zealand, react to the Gallipoli campaign, it was where our national identities were tempered with the heat of battle and created the legend of the Anzac spirit
Personally, as an Aussie, if I meet someone from another country, whether it be America or England or Scotland or one of the European countries, I give them a big Aussie "G'day" and will talk with them, no matter what
Australia produces the true pink Diamond
Listen here, you got to keep Mel , like it or not, he is yours. He identifies as Australian but we got America on a tecno.
lol
Please react to Russell Coight's All Aussie Adventures. It's a parody of an iconic '80's tv show called The Leyland Brothers. The character of Russell Coight is played by comedian Glen Robbins.
I don't think they'll get it. They're kind of literal with everything & don't get the whole concept, like the beaches down here. I've been to California & it's not comparable but to Americans, they can't wrap their heads around anywhere having better beaches. Btw Australia has 12,000 so no idea where she got her numbers from.
They already did react to it watch their videos
@@harryg2453 I'm well aware they did after I posted this 3 MONTHS ago
The Bob hawk longest serving PM fact is complete rubbish. He was third longest, only 8 years. Sir Robert Menzies 18 years and John Howard second with 11 years.
I like that she's discussing, with all seriousness, box jellyfish, while video of Irukandji is on the screen.
2:55 that curved tree the kids are sitting on is still around near my house in a park, i used to climb it when i was younger
the longest golf course is a tourist thing. They basically take a couple of holes from a line of golf courses stretching across the bottom of Australia and call it a 'gold course'. So you play one or two holes, drive for a few hours, then play the next one, and so on.
Yes, we carry hay bales in cars all the time. Taxis are the only ones required by law, but we all tend to do it anyway. It’s frowned upon if you don’t.
If you do come to Australia make sure you always keep a hay bale nearby during your trip 😊
ha ha ha I never seen taxi with hay bales imao.
I worked with a man ,originally from England. He told me he had just gotten a phone call from his brother who flown into Melbourne on business, he still lived in England. He asked my friend if they could meet for lunch. My friend was a bit confused, we live on the north coast of NSW ,at least 2 connecting flights away not to mention availability of said flights and other factors. His brother had no idea the distances involved. My sisters friend at family from Sweden holidaying in Cairns, they were going the ride the push bikes to have afternoon tea. Usually takes 2 to 3 days by car!
The hay in the boot (trunk) of taxi's was there when they used to be horse drawn vehicles. It was there to ensure you could feed your horse if you had to
funfact: didgeridoo is an aboriginal term for music, the story behind it is an english settler asked an aboriginal "what's that?" pointing to another aboriginal playing the "didgeridoo" the aboriginal next to the english settler said "didgeridoo" talking about the sound instead of the instrument. Where I'm from, our indigenous communities language here in brisbane, QLD refers to it as yidaki. (essentially, You'd play didgeridoo out of the yidaki)
Australia is also used to be home for so many amazing gigantic ancestor of all the modern day wildlife of Australia like for example giant short faced kangaroo (Procoptodon), giant wombat, the size of a car (Diprotodon), marsupial lion, a type of carnivorous marsupial arboreal predator, and also giant 3 meter high flightless bird! (Dromornis)
Think u might like the dinosaur museum in Richmond qld. I went last week & was amazed at the incredible findings. Some of the best preserved & important in the world.
The hay in the boot was to feed the horse in the old days
1/ drop bears aren't a threat (they don't exist). 2/ Haybale law is not enforced at all. 3/typical non-metric user usage of metric units. Yanks would not talk about distances like 400,000 yards or 200,000 feet. 4/ Bob hawke was never the longest PM
11:45 Riversleigh in Queensland; I went to high school with a girl who married into that family; before they discovered all the dinosaur bones on their property. Years later, when I married, I met the people who owned Riversleigh (the parents of the son - or one of their sons - who married the school friend) at my new husband's parent's house. Obviously, we talked about dinosaur findings. They basically excavated to build some dams, and found a treasure trove of dinosaur remains. At that particular time, they were having trouble getting anyone interested in their finds, but luckily they left those areas undeveloped and put the dams elsewhere. It is now famous.
Australian indigenous map of Australia is incredible
It would’ve had more names from the mobs that are now no longer around sadly but it is incredible I agree.
This is hilarious! You can tell that some Australia's wrote this knowing an American was going to be reading this. Australian's swear just in general conversation and the C word is used often.
This is true. They should do a "Dashcam Owners Australia" 😂😂😂 reaction video...
The taxi/bale of hay thing is a throwback to the old horse-drawn taxis of the 19th and very early 20th centuries. It was a law designed to ensure that the horses had food to eat. Quite ahead of its time if you think about it. Of course, this is not enforced. Anyway, I am aware this law used to apply to horse-drawn "Hackney Carriages" in England so I'm not sure this is even a thing here.
The hay bales - Not a law anymore, but it was for olden times when taxis were horse-drawn and you had to keep hay for the horse to eat
I am Australian and I have never heard of the hay in taxis but this is what google said
Although repealed in 1980, it was once illegal for taxi drivers in Melbourne to drive around without a hay bale in the boot. The law was a throwback to when taxis were horse-drawn and it was a requirement to have food onboard for livestock
I just realised that sydney is not the capital city of Australia 😂
Capital of NSW...
"How to talk Australians" ....... classic 6 or 7 episodes
I can't believe that the dropbear, a species we invented to freak out overseas friends when we're taking a walk in the bush, is being presented here as something that exists.
Emus can't walk backwards because their knees bend backwards and I don't think kangaroos can move their hind feet separate from each other so they can't take steps, so they can't walk backwards.
And Kangaroos tail is in the way.
I have no idea where the taxi/hay thing came from. I have never heard of or seen this ever!
The pink hot pants thing, I highly doubt too.
@Michael Rogers I wasn’t thinking that far back…. That of course makes sense now.
React to - Tony Abbott, President of the USA of Australia: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Kangaroos don't walk but they can actually hop backwards if they have too but can be dangerous for them
Hundred percent there’s no hay in the boot
Hi Guys
Living in Australia for over 10yrs ,
I would say ,come and visit Perth in Western Australia and see the place and the potential lifestyle it can give...Yes Western Australia is not the cheapest place to live but there are opportunities for work that would give you a different perspective..
I'm from Perth originally, born and raised there for 30 years. Moved to Sydney and been here 20 years. Sydney is by far the most expensive city in Australia, which is not a good thing.
Ducks also can't walk backwards. You can trap one by digging a narrowing trench with feed in to. The duck will follow the trench, eating until it gets stuck.
7:41 Americans confused by the metric system of measurement along with only 2 other countries, bless em 🤣🤣
Time they changed lol
hey guys, an almost forgotten classic TV show from Australia that will warp your mind, "Bush Mechanics", it will also answer a few questions you had from previous videos you have, like what we do if you break down 100's of km from the nearest town
Never heard of hay in the boot of taxis or the pink bike shorts thing and I'm Australian lol
Wombats can be quite big. They have a bony plate on their rump, which protects it from predators as it heads into its burrow. Their pouch is backwards…opens to the rear…so the pouch doesn’t fill with dirt when it’s digging. Oh, and hit one with your car, a wombat is pretty solid.
Omg, the outdated crazy laws…The bail of hay would have been for the horse drawn taxi.
Australia has been here for well over 50 billion years. Our indigenous peoples have been here for well over 60 000 years.
I understand why the vid was called 15 things people didn’t know about Australia….because much was garbage.
There is no hay in the boot of taxis, no such things as drop bears, Hawke was not the longest serving PM, it is not illegal to sing obscene songs out loud, etc, etc, etc
Bob hawke was also the PM when Australia won the Americas cup in 1983, and famously said " any boss who sacks any employee for not coming to work today is a bum" .he declared the day a national holiday on thed spot.
Adelaide is in the south. It's in a state called South Australia. Also, Coopers is made in South Australia. They make it sound as if Adelaide is somewhere other than the south.
she didn't mentioned Margot Robbie so I'm pissed!!
The law about requiring taxi drivers to carry hay is only applicable in Queensland. While it has never been enforced there are a few taxi drivers that carry it just in case. The law goes back to the days when they had horses. Taxi drivers were required to carry hay to ensure that they had food for their horses.
If you are into car races try the Bathurst races. You will be thrilled
Love watching your videos. Keep it up! As an Australian, this video triggered me to have to comment. You have to stop watching videos about other countries when the voiceover is American. This video isn't really accurate, but was amusing to watch.
If you thought Drop Bears were a terrifying thought, watch out for the infamous Wombat Death Charge. If a wombat is running toward you, you better move and get outta there.
Yep. You see do many dead as road kill, esp down the south coast ☹️ they will straight up write your car off
The hay in the taxi cab law still exists in some regions, but is never put into action by police since it was originally created in the 1800s for horse drawn cabs . The reason for the compulsory carrying of a bale of hay was for the owner of horses and cart to have food on hand when the horses needed refuelling during the day.
All of the longest things are the same thing.
The road from Perth to Adelaide is long.
There is a railway, a road, and a golf course on the route.
you should do one about the sculptures around the country
The Hay in the boot draws back to the Horse and Cart day's. It was food for the animals as they worked long hours so there were a ready suppy of food for them. To day it's represented by a box or Gas (LPG) Tank as some Taxis run on LPG. Hence forth Food for the Animal.
im an aussie, ive never herd of the taxis must have a bal of hay in their boot before now. ive taken taxis many times ive never seen any hay. its likely one of those laws that existed for a reason once upon a time like when everyone used horse and carts, that no one bothered to change when cars became a thing
The laws are ancient, that would be like her quoting "In Arizona ... it's illegal for a donkey to sleep in a bathtub" or "In California ... it's illegal to whistle for a lost canary before 7 a.m."
Wombats have been known to total cars. They have this plate in their backs and they can really f up your vehicle. Even if it’s a raised Ute it can still total it.
The Law of Taxi requiring a bale of hay is an old law dating back to horse drawn Carriages when a Taxi would be required to carry food for the horse - this was partially due to the long distances they would sometimes have to travel. This is also the same as a law that all pubs have to have a trough of water out the front of the building, for the same reason. These are old laws that just have never been removed and are not upheld - but in theory could be as they are still Laws.
A lot of this information in this is wrong. Bob Hawke isn't the longest-serving Prime Minister, though he may have been the most popular. A number of the laws cited just haven't been taken off the books; they're a legacy of the past. The Mel Gibson thing is best left to Mel - his grandmother Eva Mylott was an Australian opera singer and he's often said he identifies with both countries.
Do people actually still believe that drop bears exist!
What do you mean? Mate I've got a colony living in my 1.5 metre gum tree saplings 😂
Yes...because they do. If you haven't seen one, that doesn't mean they don't exist. This is why tourists keep getting hurt... because we make a joke about the dangers they really pose (much like we do about sharks, crocodiles & funnel web spiders). We're just do used to it, we downplay the real risks.
@@MsCateStar The drop bear is a hoax in contemporary Australian folklore featuring a predatory, carnivorous version of the koala. This imaginary animal is commonly spoken about in tall tales designed to scare tourists.
Of course drop bears are true blue mate.....
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Nicole Kidman was actually born in Hawaii to Australian parents. They moved back to Australia when she was three and has dual citizenship. Mel Gibson was born in New York and moved to Australia when he was 12. He actually has American-Irish citizenship from his Irish born mother. Australia can't claim him. Sorry - he's yours!
The hay in the trunk and the hot pants thing are probably old British laws we inherited. They are certainly not enforced and no one here in Aus probably ever heard of them either. BUT one law we do have us that on Anzac Day it is the only time that betting in public is legal everywhere only after mid day playing a game called “Two Up”. The town of Kalgoorlie has the only sanctioned place in the nation where two up can be played legally every day of the year.
People definitely think it’s small. I’ve come to the US & Europe and people say they want to come for a week and drive around the country.
As for the weird laws, I'll give 2 answers. As far as I can confirm, it was London cabs that had that requirement until 1976. The actual rule was that taxis had to carry food for their draft animal.
The second answer is that there are always weird laws left on the books until someone finally cleans them up. Most of the driving laws are now pretty constant because all the states made an effort to standardise them. What is weirder, however is that if there is no gate which can be secured by a lock, the private road is treated as a public one. So going into the McDonalds drive-through and pulling out your phone to pay is illegal unless you set the park brake and turn off the car (can't use a phone while driving). As you can expect, no-one does it.
Aussies in “Hollywood” are well known as Aussies, unlike what she was saying. Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Sia, Chris Hemsworth, Liam Hemsworth, Geoffrey Rush, John Noble, Anna Torv, the list goes on!
You try walking backwards with joints orineted like that...
8:26 Bob Hawk was famous for skulking beers
'Fact' 13 - had an Asian couple want to buy our little Toyota carolla we were selling - where is as is no road worthy needed minor work.
They said they wanted to drive up to cairns for the day... that's at least overnight on the train or about 4 days drive from where we are... In Qld
In Victoria it's illegal to change a light bulbs in your home, you have to get a sparkie to change your light bulbs.