What If Each Australian State Became Independent?
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- In this video, I talk about the (unlikely) possibility of each Australian State becoming independent!
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Lol my bad, the GDP numbers are BILLIONS, not MILLIONS, Australia would be very poor if it was just millions.
Also, would you like me to do this for other countries? If so - which?
Romania just because of the hungarian minority
brazil
Think boldly mate, let’s do China
Great video and would love to see more! You could do Australias neighbour New Zealand (maybe the individual Islands), also the islands of Japan and Indonesia, regions of Canada.
Please do Germany
The way he said Adelaide destroyed me
Also canberrrraaaaah.
Wdym he had perfect bogan pronunciation?
adeLIEEED
No different to the old Greeks and Italians living there.
Ikr i literally got goosebumps
Non Australians can never pronounce our city names right
Em De ville I agree and I’m not Australian
Cause the way we pronounce them is fucking retarded 😂
@@cowboycatss what's wrong with Brisben?
trunkage Nah it’s how he said Adelaide
SPELL IT RIGHT!
As a local, I never realised it was possible to mispronounce 'Adelaide'
Sam Button same
Sam Button neither
I can get a few others. How do you pronounce Houston? The guy the city's named said it as "who's ten" not "hugh's ten." Even Texans say it as the latter.
How about Boerne, D'Hanis, Bern?
/bɚni:/, /dɨ.'heı.nɨs/, /bɛɐn/ or /bɛʁn/. I really thought D'Hanis would sound french (/da.'ni/).
Same
Jumin Rhee Boerne, D’Hanis, Bern is is a lot harder to pronounce then Adelaide
And also, yes I have always pronounced it “Hugh’s ton” but I don’t think I’ve ever heard an Aussie even say Houston so got that from Americans
When I found out that Australia had the largest uranium reserve, the wildlife makes do much sense
Yeah we possess 30% of the world’s recoverable uranium
Your grammar makes do much sense as well.
R/ woooosh booosh coooosh
What?
@@leviticus2001 that’s not grammatical error.
“Oh look. My State might actually be talked about for once!”
*He said Adelaide wrong... this might be worse than I thought men.*
syan And we sounded good too until he said Adelaide!
Yep can agree
He forgot to mention your biggest industry, cannabis cultivation.
adel-eyed
Adda-lied and Can-Berra lol
Quick pronunciation tips:
Adelaide is pronounced “Addel-aid”
Melbourne is pronounced “Mell-Behn”
Canberra is pronounced “Can-bruh”
also "Dar-win"
No one cares
So, if Melbourne is pronounced "Mel-behn" by the locals, does that mean they also pronounce the name of the Matt Damon spy thriller movie "The Behn Identity"? 🤔😂
@@sammyvales follow by, "get some beer for the eski so we go on the gears over the weekend, come back pissed"
@@ferminescamilla5353 also 'Syd-knee'
I love how you changed the flags so they didn’t look the same, and then made a bunch of flags that would still get mixed up constantly
That’s the first time I have ever seen Adelaide pronounced wrong
Same here. Usually it's Melbourne.
@FormulaFish15 Who the fuck pronounces Adelaide, Melbourne? They sound nothing alike!
Matthew Behrendt yea nice
Matthew Behrendt I wish I could share GIF’s in the comments. I have the perfect GIF in mind here
Heard
3:32. Actually the 'most reluctant state' to join the Commonwealth of Australia was New Zealand, which was represented at the constitutional convention where the terms of federation were determined. The parlaiment of New Zealand never ratified the colony's admission to the Commonwealth however, and has remained an independent country ever since. To this day New Zealand is still defined as an Australian state within the 'Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act (UK)'.
He means out of the Australian states obviously
Fiji Was also invited to join
This is so if New Zealand ever wanted to join Australia it’s request would be accepted without any extra paperwork
Yeah we aren’t exactly a selective peoples. You want to be one of our states? Then welcome
That is true, new Zealand did nearly become part of Australia, I should know because I live here, I live in Greater Sydney
Except this all sounds like way too much work, and we'd rather just go to the beach.
Cheers.
Ross Cameron we wish
@@scott-v8x someone's got their knickers in a knot.
@@scott-v8x We achieved consistantly having our major cities in the worlds most livable cities rankings. Your country works hard to be like us, we already achieved it pal.
@@scott-v8x what do you do for work champ?
@@scott-v8x yeah yeah just make sure you put the extra cheese i ordered on my whomper
"There are also seven other EXTERNAL territories, but we won't get into those"
*angry Jervis Bay Territory noises*
Norfolk Island sees itself as independent.
And Jervis Bay would be invaded by NSW; it has like 200 people living there.
@@SabreVDM 391 apparently
69th like :)
@@martychisnall Its around 1700 according to latest data i can find
111th like
"The ACT being incorporated into it's surrounding neighbour of NSW seems most likely"
Nah m8, Canberra will be used as landfill.
run at us kent
I mean Parliment Building basically already is
As a Canberran I would be fine with this it is so fucking boring here
Evan also xd_jonnybulldog never heard someone say Canberran before
*Cries in Canberran*
You sydney siders are all so RoOd
Queensland’s flag would be maroon not blue but other than that all h
Just shows that us NSW’s are the better team...
@@minidrone9226 😂😂😂 both teams are filled with fobs and the fans are leaving in droves.
@@karenlee1095 who does what to the mongrel breeds? You mean the saved children
NUMEROUS NUMBERS lol yes indeed, down with the blues
Mike Walker dammm bro, agreed in a way, that guy is bringing things from the past that are over with trying to make us feel bad in OUR land!
Did you just suggest that Antarctica is likely to be independent? Are penguins going to rise up against their scientist oppressors?
George Miller's next flick: 'Rioting Feet'
Well being assisted by leopard seals, be scary prospect
I bloody hope so, and I wish them luck.
The penguins will team up with the emus
Well yeah what else are they suppose to do?
"Western Australia ranks last in almost all economic indicators" What indicators are you talking about? Because WA is Australia's most productive state by GDP per capita. It's also 4th in total share of Australia's economy!
Don't worry Rick, they're jealous of us and our pokie free pubs and toll booth free roads.
@@freeman10000 toll booths? Haven't seen one in decades.
Also a bit of stretch to say that mining is in decline, when it is moreso cyclical.
and forget the fact that we have carried the nation over the last year during the plandemic, all that covid cash going to the other states
@@freeman10000 Tolls? never seen any in any states i've been to
"State of the states report by the australian government..."
*proceed to show a commbank marketing material*
legit
Your GDP figures should be in Billions, not millions.
Look at his comment
Not a trivial error :/
@Boris Erdogan wtf
@Boris Erdogan there is no country that does that
@Boris Erdogan Ahh I see
Divide and conquer - The Emu's masterplan.
Funny
Paudel Family Not funny it's terrifying
Google Sucks one of the most overplayed and unfunny jokes in the history of humanity
It was barely funny the first time and after that it just got annoying and repetitive
@@issacarellano9909 First they laugh; then they get angry; then they listen to you. Be warned!
Are you referring to the great emu war? Because guys that's not a joke, it actually happened
FYI the Victorian flag pre-dates the Australian flag. At the time of federation and the proposal of the national flag, there were those against it as it looked too much like Victoria.
Fun fact:
Western Australia is bigger than Alaska and Texas combined
Rodary Windsor Cleveland yeah the north-west regions are pretty fucked ngl and even worse north-eastern regions. There’s so much we can do but the government are in their offices trying to suck their own dicks while us citizens get the brunt of everything that’s wrong
Rodary Windsor Cleveland you have no idea.
@@rodarywindsorcleveland8506 hahaha jeez mate. I like your sentiment but come on, Australia actually has 33 times more arable land than New Zealand.
@@rodarywindsorcleveland8506 yeah we might need a few fact checks on that. Sounds like bullshit to me
@@rodarywindsorcleveland8506
Western Australia's entire west coast can be made habitable with desalination technology when there's sufficient population to support it i.e. it's easier than Elon Musk's Mars plan.
Adele got laid, she didn’t lie.
She got laid and wrote an entire album about it
You got it mate! Despite the lack of convict heritage, she is actually a crow-eating old floosie (but not a liar).
For those confused by what the hell Squizzy Taylor is talking about, I will explain in more mundane terms...
General Knowledge mispronounced Adelaide (the capital city of South Australia) "Adel-LIED" (rhymes with 'died'). It is actually pronounced Adel-LAID (rhymes with... well... 'laid')).
To Australian ears, it sounded like someone talking like he is an expert in Lemonade but calling it "Lemon-eyed".
Fat Earther Congratulations, you played yourself.
On yer, squiz..👍 Still in Collingwood?
'With independence, they would need a new flag'.... forgets New Zealand referendum showed that new flags aren't all that popular in this part of the world, despite their merits.
@@thonks8729 Username checks out. Guess you like having the flag of another nation on ours?
@@jesserowlingsify Yeah, we gunna have to keep the flag as it is. We'll need it once we re-unite the Empire by conquest. The Americans will need the Union Jack in the corner of their new flag to symbolise their joy at becoming a Constitutional Monarchy.
The UK will get a Southern Cross in the corner of their flag of course. And we'll sentence all our undesirables to transportation, starting with the two major parties. The first fleet should therefore consist solely of secondhand tinnies- the boat kind, not the recreational pharmaceutical kind...
TheTripperSmurf The America aping republicans want to change everything and pretend Australia was never British!
@MrBoneman84 if not for the World Wars the British Empire would have transitioned into the British Federation which would have probably lead to a name change to Just the Commonwealth of nations. Non British rights and representation was on the table.
i'd argue being represented by the Union Jack as a principle of colonial past and English Common Law is a good thing even if you're not from British blood.
@MrBoneman84 Many, many Australians still do view England as somewhat of a home nation, it the home of our language, our foods, livestock, culture, names, political history, philosophical history, and western mindset. Besides even if we did try to build something from aboriginal culture it wouldn't be worth the effort most of their history is oral and less reliable than Arthurian legend, and what remains is mostly religious symbols which would absolutely not reflect our increasingly irreligious population.
There was quite a movement for Tasmania to secede back in the 1980s, my grandfather was a huge supporter of it. I've absolutely no idea why because he was a very intelligent man. Apparently he was so passionate about it that my grandmother had to warn him that if he didn't dial it back they'd never be invited to social functions again
2 years late, but there was a huge movement for Tasmania to secede back in the 1920's due to economic reasons, much larger than in the 1980's.
I’ve just gone down such a rabbit hole of reading about the 20s movement, thank you! It sounds like, if nothing else, it got the federal government to stump up some cash for the state to placate the calls for secession. So perhaps a victory?
@@elliecracknell6200 Considering it was around the Great Depression, it wasn't too much of a victory, especially since Tasmania is still the poorest state (GSP Per Capita is $62,000, although next poorest South Australia's GSP Per Capita is just $64,000
Interesting
Because Australia is still a prison state to this day
lost it when he said Adelaide.
I'm looking forward to the day the Australian Antarctic Territory becomes independent.
yeah, they will definitely last for more than a day
HAPPY PING TO A COMMENT YOU FORGOT ABOUT
@@ẞooßys lol
Nobody lives there
6:30
‘Most people live in *Adilide*’
*So you have chosen...
Death...*
Fun fact: New Zealand was originally part of the federation process but chose to go their own way. There's still a provision within the constitution to incorporate New Zealand if they want to join.
gO yOuR oWn wAy... YoU cAn Go YoUr OwN wAy!
Some facts which need to be told to ppl who live outside Australia and watched this video. 1. James Cook may have discovered Queensland but he also discovered Botany bay first which is just south of Sydney cove where Sydney is located. 2. NSW was the first British colony in Australia .. not Queensland as is said in this video .. it is WRONG. 3. Tasmania was the second major colony in Australia and gained it independence from NSW soon after its founding. 4. Queensland did not become a separate colony till after the founding of Melbourne in 1825. I think that should clear up some of the mistakes in this video for those outsiders XD
we're not that old Melbourne founded 1835
Also a fun fact is that we possess 30% of the world’s recoverable uranium
Thank god I thought everything I remembered from history was wrong
Cook "discovered" the Australian mainland at Point Hicks (now part of Victoria) then sailed northwards.
The state flags existed, almost entirely, before federation. There's no reason the flags would change. They're not based on the national flag.
Plus, the states are all individually set up as constitutional monarchies, with a parliament, judiciary, and a governor representing the Queen. This constitutional structure existed *prior* to federation in 1901. In effect, removing the federal government would result in six separate states becoming their own separate nations without having to change any other constitutional structures or symbols.
I think this video was just an excuse for him to design new flags. :) And as a flag nerd, I certainly don't mind.
And why remove all suggestion of their cultural and historic links? That seems a bit Jacobin.
Absolutely right
I agree of what you said if you change the flag it just like you forget where you came from or history.
@@stevenjlovelace The only one I really didn't love was Tasmania. Why would they have their land as their flag? Should've been the Tasmanian Devil.
I’d imagine that an independent Victoria would take the Eureka flag, as that was used the first time Australia declared independence back in 1850s Victoria. It didn’t turn out especially well - look at the Eureka Stockade.
@@brookek3116 u sound brainwashed
@@brookek3116 yeah it's unfortunate that they poisoned the eureka flag.
@Emu Emperor the flag is more used by unions then white supremacists. Actually the government tried suppressing union action by naming it a such. You’ve got a screw lose if don’t think this flag means anything more than liberty and rights of man movement in Australia.
Emu Emperor
That’s true
Blue flag
with cross and stars
Victoria would be a communist country , so some type of Soviet flag .
“Would allow for a big influx of new immigrants”
Not very familiar with Australia, are you?
yeah theirs literally a bridge in Melbourne with al the stages of immigration
Well if I had the opportunity i'd go to the Northern territory. Sound like paradise to me.
@@xandreduplessis Australian here, probably one of the worst states in reality.
They're not even a state and function completely differently, I guess they overestimated how useful that decision would be.
Its not bad by any means its just far less everything.
have you ever looked at Australia and said wow thats a pretty big space for just one country?
Russia, am i a joke to you
Everyone knows how big Russia is. Its distorted size on a map tricks us into believing its larger than it is.
America, Canada and China are all the exact same.
Australia is different. Comparable in size to the US, yet considerably smaller in size when looking at a map
United States: "umm hello? We're almost the same size as those guys!"
MrLegendGuy 110 no cause I do that all the time
Yes, you are
Pluto is the 'same size' as Russia
the "star underneath the union jack" is the Commonwealth Star.
and yeh thats not how you pronounce those city names
NO, Its the Federation Star
@@paladinmetwo5294 both names are considered correct. Calm down
Useless fact: Australia has two active volcanoes, but they aren't on the mainland, or in Tasmania!
Oh wow! I didn't know that
kinda like how the Netherlands highest point is on an island on the other side of the world no one lives on but is theres.
@@mybumbrash Australia's highest peak (Mawson peak) is one of those Volcanoes which are closer to Africa then Australia.
@@General.Knowledge Yep, its on Heard and McDonald Islands in the southern ocean, near Antarctica. Not a lot of people here know about it, either.
One of the volcanoes that are still classified as dormant (but is close to being classified as extinct (a volcano needs to have gone 9000 years since the last eruption before it is classified as extinct)) is near the Victoria/South Australia border.
As a proud Australian, I would hate for all the states/territories to become independent. What would be the point in making ourselves weaker?
It won't happen he is just having fun on the subject it's the same with any country like the USA or Canada or Russia. The world as it stands now is not going to change for a very long time other than relatively small changes like the union of a few countries in Africa nothing major.
As a West Australian I agree, Let's all stick together. But god the support for becoming an independent state has exploded over the last few years it's crazy. There's even a political party wanting us to be independent and they have a scary amount of support
@@Lucas-fx2ej dude, WA would do well independent, besides, the eastern states take all the money despite us providing 75 percent of the exports, we should become independent
Why not become independent? Having smaller government will make it easier for people to hold their leaders accountable. Also, it's more efficient to administer smaller government.
And less risk of corruption too
@@jackcarmody5118 Why don't you read some history books about Australia, and how NSW and Victorian taxpayers subsidised the smaller states for the better part of a century, ignorant ungrateful fuckers.
6:29- As an Adelaidean, I almost threw up when I heard this
Marcus R Same but I live in NSW
As a Queenslander, I feel sorry for you being an Adelaidean 😂
@@JohnSmith-nz4bn oy, we are a pretty fun bunch of people 😂
@@marcusr9135 I think we can agree that Victoria sucks though lol
@@JohnSmith-nz4bn i don't mind Victoria though 😂
A bit harsh on Western Australia. It does get fleeced the most by far in GST revenue.
Prior to the mining boom, New South Wales and Victoria had propped Western Australia's economy up with subsidies for many years. I'm not necessarily accusing you of this (though I've heard many from WA mention it), but it's a bit rich for Western Australians to complain about their share of the GST pie once the royalties from digging stuff out of the ground started flowing.
Mate your figures about WA are completely wrong . Western Australia's gross state product was A$193 billion (14.6% of Australia's GDP), making it the nation's most productive state with a GSP per capita of $82,653 (compared with the national average of $57,925). WA has about 2.3 million people out of 26 million so less than 10% of the population achieved nearly 15% of GDP. Your explanation made it sound destitute and everyone is broke when in fact it is a very prosperous state that creates wealth for the other states .
We shouldn't disapprange WA when it needs economic diversification. Tas and NT needs help. NT's Darwin has the potential to be "Singapore" due to it's northern location, but there's a large population difference.
@@ItsAlwaysHappyHour It's worth noting that the GST share is divided based on the recent economic performance. The worse a state is doing the bigger share of the GST they get. Which is a bit of a problem for WA because, being mining focused, our economy is a bit boom and bust. So when we're in the middle of a mining boom we're getting GST revenue based on non-boom WA performance, rolling in cash. But when we drop out of that cycle? We not only lose the economic activity of the boom but we also get a lower share of GST because the calculation is based on boom-time WA's needs.
Oh, and as a side note the GST calculation is based on *potential* state revenue not *actual* state revenue. Which means that WA is in effect punished for having much stricter laws on poker machines. A source of revenue that other states lean on pretty heavily. So yeah, plenty of reasons to complain about the GST as someone from WA.
@@Skywake WA could diversify it's revenue streams in the same way every other state has to ensure it's not as heavily impacted by downward cycles in commodity prices or construction. Just because you've got ore sitting underground doesn't mean that should be your only basket of eggs.
If the GST calculation was based on *actual* economic performance, WA would find reason to cry hard done by when the cycle was at it's lowest point but predicted to boom. There are winners and losers regardless of which method is used and the *potential* revenue calculation used benefits a greater number of states and a higher percentage of population than *actual* as the NSW, VIC, SA, TAS and, to a lesser extent, QLD have more stable economies. I'm of the belief that *potential* is the best method as it encourages states to look for ways to increase revenue.
Sorry, but nothing you've said has convinced me that WA is not difficult to please regardless of how the GST pie is carved up. Once again, the Eastern states propped WA up when there was no boom. Fun fact: Along with WA... NSW and Victoria are the only 2 states that have generally received a lower share of Commonwealth funding than their population sizes would demand since the end of WWII. Why? Because the funding went to WA to make up for exceptionally poor economic performance and negative outlook
Now there's (somewhat of) a boom, all we seem to hear from the West is "we're pulling most of the weight round here". But being part of a nation means that when you have been relying on other states for the better part of a century and then the times come good, you also return the favour.
'A large influx of immigrants'
*Australia has left the chat.*
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@@ATIVVNII Actually, a majority of Australians think this. Don't relegate infrastructure, housing, jobs, energy and government spending issues which effect millions of Australians to a single person. It's bigger then her. www.sbs.com.au/language/english/anti-immigration-sentiment-rises-sharply-in-australia-report I love the bias reporting in the article, they're forced to report the statistic, but still spin it as if all negative responses to immigration numbers where anti all immigration. A government funded propaganda department everyone! Completely out of touch and it'll continue to cost them at the ballot.
Australia have always been an immigration country, different ethnicities of convicts, German, Irish up to Chinese in the gold rush. I don't get the hype of Australians.
@@aokiaoki4238 The difference is our current immigration intake is the highest it has EVER been. Before the election, our cap was 240,000 a year, a majority of these foreigners go straight to Sydney or Melbourne, completely obliterating capacity for housing, roads, public transport, energy and water. Australians never got the vote on immigration. As the government continues to reject Australian opinion on immigration, it will overboil to a point where the fake conservatives currently in power won't have a voting base. It'll split the conservative vote (the largest block) and more radical or socially conservative parties will take its place. That's something I don't want to see, but Canberra must get out of its bubble.
@@CondemnedInformer With a quick look on internet, the actual numbers are half of what you claim. You take immigrants to work in your farms for peanuts or throw them in remote islands.
What the old conservative immigrants want? Its not even their land and is empty.
Lol love all the Aussies correcting you on pronunciation. As an Aussie myself, some of these names hurt me lol.
But I feel that GK is European so I'll let it slide... Blame it on accent
Queensland will never ever ever ever have a blue flag 😂
Except for the current one...
We have only had blue flags......
Because it is based in the national flag, if a flag change was in order it would be maroon, plain and simple...
No toads here
Australians when its not america this time:
:)
So many incorrect points. Nevertheless, kind of fun to watch.
Happens when a person isn't a local. Unlike the US and UK our affairs are relatively unknown to outsiders.
Of course we have to deal with the ubiquitous "Everything is trying to kill you" line. I'd take a brown snake over a US Grizzly Bear.
@@SormonAusPol A Maroon flag for the Queenslanders and sky blue for the New South Welsh would make more sense locally. Also, more incorporation of indigenous symbolism would be welcomed and appropriate.
Sormon Australia and many items about Australia is on the news in the U.K. quite often. There’s a round up of “Australia this week” on the BBC every Sunday morning. Children are taught a lot about Australia and its history in School. Personally, I love watching the news items and many programmes on TV set in Australia.
@@chugggs3516 not welcomed and not appropriate. Like undisciplined children they don't understand hard work and have zero respect for anything.
Ian Brown Yeah you learn some things about Australia, but it doesn’t change the fact that this video has so many incorrect points. For one WA never voted to leave Australia. In 1900 Australia was still made of 6 different colonies but the people initially voted to stay out of the new federated Australia due to fear of being dominated by the eastern colonies such as Victoria or NSW but when they put another vote to them they voted to join not the British intervening.
I feel like if Victoria were to change their flag they would very likely incorporate the Southern Cross / Eureka Stockade flag.
they won't use the eureka stockade flag because it's become a symbol of the anti-vaxxer movement in victoria
The left want the Aboriginal flag. You can see since Labor took power the Aboriginal flag is always front and centre. Never mind the the majority of Australians aren't Aboriginal.
Lol when he said “Terra Nullius” in the actually Latin pronunciation (which is so lit - like the talent) and not just “tear-a nul-e-us” pronunciation I always hear in Australia 😂
He is portuguese, speaks portuguese from Portugal, and yeah it is a latin language, it's very easy to speak latin
Eric Oliver haha of course! I totally get that 💖 I was more making funny of aussies lack of pronunciation skill lmao 😂
@@scarletthuxley6161 I see xD
It's incorrect pronunciation of the 'r' for Latin.
I question the statement about WA's economy being one of the weakest seeing as it accounts for about 46% of national exports and has the best Gross State Product per person of any of the states.
Well if it has a tiny population of rich miners that also export what they mine they are gonna have high GDP per person and high exports but not really that important economically
@@noahl6581 High exports not that important economically? What?
@@declanellery8500the mining industry is a declining business in Australia and even though it is %46 of our exports, it still is not much
@@noahl6581 1. 46% is a massive percentage that's nearly half.
2. The mining business is declining but it's still relatively strong.
3. WA doesn't just export mining goods.
@@declanellery8500 My point is, since we don't export that many goods, %46 is scale is not much
No one:
Literally nobody:
Tasmanians: OMG they finally noticed us!!!!
I'll never forget the time I went to an Australian restaurant in Scotland and Tasmania wasn't on their "map of Australia" :')
I’m tassie I agree with you
right above ya! *this was made by a victorian*
@@willsvr meanwhile in the NT...
As a Tasmanian, I can confirm that your comment is 100% accurate.
“Victorian flag is underwhelming”. As a Victorian feel like I was just punched in the gut.
Great video mate.
perfectly good flag. This bloke is anti British and anti our heritage
@Henry Wise BS What genocide and traditional owners of what? Boundries and borders between wandering tribes
Dw VIC probs the biggest powerhouse
Henry Wise Because they totally weren’t brutally raping and murdering each other before whitey got here or anything.
@Henry Wise Ah yes I totally remember a genocide that took place over 300 years ago... the only reason people "remember" (Which isn't even first hand ofc so "facts" can easily be fabricated) is because they teach it in schools, I'm no genius but I think teaching children about genocide is retarded. While lots of history is good learning material for young people, to better understand the world as they grow, but I hardly find said genocide informative at all. Most Aboriginals are entitled scammers in modern day and are trying to suppress the "white" population while screaming racism. You're clearly a libtard that wan't to suppress anyone that feels proud to be descended from Britan, You might need mental help If you remember a genocide every time you see a flag. The 1700s' are not the 2000s'. Our flag should stay the same.
6:30 I had a heart attack when he tried to pronounce Adelaide lol
*falls of chair
Me too
I would love to see you guys speak Portuguese (his native language) and pronounce the name of several portuguese cities... 😏
I almost threw up
I CANT WATCH ANYMORE AFTER HOW HE SAID ADELAIDE
Danjw07 YT I just had a stroke after he said that
So don't. Get out. Bye 😚
Western Australia actually makes one of the highest amounts of money out of all the states. For every dollar, Western Australia makes it only gets to keep 30 cents of it because the rest is sent to the eastern states. Abolishing that trade would leave Western Australia becoming very wealthy. Also, the reason why Western Australia wants to be independent is the same one from before federation - they would just get forgotten in its isolation.
Western Australia is Australia's Texas.
Yup coming from a Texan
Question where did you get those statistics?
Everyone seems to think it's that easy. It isn't.
WA would have to pay for its own defence, There is a lot to defend.
What would it use for currency? How would it borrow money with no credit history? You would have to pay your share of Australia's debt.
There are lots of Commonwealth lands over there.
Most importantly, with the Eagles and Dockers out of the AFL
- you'd lose your biggest asset: the ability to whinge and moan about the eastern states which forges your state's identity. With trouble holding on to the north of the state, you'd come crawling back on your knees within 10 years after civil war.
We would remember your treachery and perhaps throw you a bone in the form of a protectorate or just use you as a vassal state.
Most likely, we would have the border well-guarded with nukes to keep out your Chinese overlords. All of this because some of your pollies can't seem to get their heads wrapped around the formula for bloody GST revenue.
@@michaelsinclair8018 What is there about GST formula to get ones "head around" ? It has been biased against WA from the outset. Evey state derives billions in pokie revenue, WA chooses not to lose it's pub culture to gambling (thus the local music industry survived), so that revenue is not included in the calculation - causing WA to lose $1B in GST revenue. If that is not unfair, I dont know what is.
WA loses $22b/year to the rest of Australia in total (all taxes included, especially company tax and higher income tax from miners), that is AFTER taking into account national debt payments and share of defense. These financials are published in WA's Treasury report, the state has been subsidising the rest of the country every year since 1985 (the year Australia became a free trading nation).
The real issue is how would the rest of Australia survive if WA seceded? They wouldn't, 45% of export income would dissappear, East Coast AUD would plummet in value. They would be the ones struggling to pay for defense without WA's contribution to Canberra's coffers. The downside for WA is almost nothing, WA exports very little to the east so there is nothing lost there. All imports from the east can be substituted with local produce if need be (WA is its own food basket) anything else worthwhile is from OS. There is literally nothing unique the east offers. An embargo by the east would go unoticed.
Meanwhile, WA would become one of the wealthiest nations on earth in terms of GDP per capita.
This video is a joke, he has it all back to front.
Hey just gotta bring up that Brisbane wasn't established as a prison colony, it was established as a trading post because it served as a good halfway point between Townsville in the north and Sydney in the south. Brisbane does have a historic jail, but that wasn't the main purpose of the location.
Shame Brisbane was ever established tbh. Townsville, Mackay, Rockhampton, even Toowoomba, would've been far better cities to establish as the state's capital
We would have more countries upside down
Or land down under
yeh we all got pranked on that one. gotta hand it to em, was a fuckin classic.
lmfao..
There is no upside down in space. What is up?
Quite right. Aussie would on top. Just because the people who gave us the Industrial Revolution & are 'the big hitters' UK, USA, European Union, Russia, China, Japan, Korea et.al. there's no geographical/celestial reason why they've got to be on top. At home, years ago, I adjusted my World Globe so that the Southern Hemisphere is on 'the up side'. [ps. reading stuff is upside down, but, hey, that's as they say, "no big deal". One last thing. Australia's the Best Country in the World. I live here. ]
@@jlord9638 Like you J. Lord., I'm a Melbournian too. My roots are Ballaarat (trad sp) Goldfields 1852 ex Britain my own namesake aboard "The Tornado' totally under sail.Gold made Melbourne & Victoria the richest place globally, & Gold reduced Syn to smaller than Melb's 'exploding' population, shortly to be replicated in the early 2020's as Mel goes beyond Syneytown again :-). ps. Australia is currently well beyond a Trillion $ Annual Global Economy [source CIAFactbook] about the same as The Russian Federation. & your "need to know"... I'm amazed at how ignorant of our pre 2000 history so many locals & incomers are.
Western Australia was judge very harshly by this guy. Considering it's the state that gets fleeced the most by the federal government. If Western Australia becomes independent and keeps all its revenue and taxes, I reckon it would do quite well.
Really, and then be owned by a multi national ..good luck with that.
100% you're Western Australian.
The GDPs should be in Billions😅
General Knowledge: says that it is impossible for each state to be a separate country
Australia before 1901: hehe funny
Australia would go broke without the west just check out how much money we prop up all the rest of the country with we would love to suseed a very large amount of the population do agree
@@jackbarrie6007 WA doesn't prop up the rest of the country.
@@Sydneysider1310 if you know anything out our country it would be good the pm stated on national television a few weeks ago ìf it had not been for mark Mc gowan keeping the state SAFE by doing so kept the mines safe and production going the country would be in trouble he also thanked wa for not succeeding if a mine site was to have just !!! One !!! Case of covid the whole mine would have shut down the workers fly in on a full plane from perth to the mine's switch your brain on before you comment find out about YOUR comments wa has a bank roll of four billion dollars from mining iron gold silver lithium salt oil gas coal then there is the wheet wool meat oats fish crayfish mineral sands plantation woodchip and a lot more get it right stupid 🤑🤑🤑🤑🇦🇺
@@jackbarrie6007 It was just a joke about Australian history, please don't use it as propaganda for WA, you're proud of your state, that's really cool. But just don't use my joke comment like you did. Like I said. It's a history joke not a argument starter.
There's no inherent reason that the new flags would need to be rid of the Union Jack. Australia is a country politically independent of the UK. What we have is a personal union with the UK, which simply means that our Head of State is the same person, but that Head of States acts in a legally separate and distinct capacity in both countries. For the sake of continuity, the Union Jack was retained on our Federal and State flags. If one of the States separated, there's no reason that it couldn't remain an an independent Commonwealth Realm as they have been so far (along with the Federation) if their constitution stipulated as much.
the reason the flags would need to change, is because they are hypothetically splitting from each other, so the flags would look too similiar
I have been waiting for this video for over 3 YEARS! When I was in year 7, I made a powerpoint on what if Victoria gone independent but it was full of inaccuracies and I gave up. THIS IS THE BEST
I can’t believe how wrong so much of this is.
Lee Duncan he's not wrong about western Australia our state is already dying
@@callumleslie1680 With the meth epidemic here we could be a very wealthy country XD
@@elletts Adelaide is the meth capital of the world
@@studio2251 I never said SA wouldnt also be wealthy lol
Studio 2 once Ben Cousins is out of prison, we shall take back that glorious title
1:54 WA
3:56 NT
5:49 SA
7:30 QLD
8:50 NSW
10:36 ACT
12:10 VIC 😜
13:42 TAS
And NT isnt a state its a territory
@@aussieelite5236it's only a territory because they don't want to pay to change to a State, because the other States will hit them up for money. It's still a state lol.
I may be totally wrong and stand to be corrected, however I thought in 1606 the Dutch landed in Western Australia, not Queensland? As an Aussie I've never heard about it being QLD.
This channel really wants to everything become indepedent.
Alright class, There are 828389 countries, Memorize them within 1 Month.
One independent republic of Australia with 8 states. Better late then never Australia! You'll be better off without suckling the British tiet while being fondled by its grubby hands. Start driving on the right side of the road like the rest of the free world that has shed itself of British influence, you'd still have a thriving automobile industry.
@@anawesomepet xD
@@robertpolkamp The British don't have much control anymore and who cares what side of the road we drive on? The U.K and Japan drive on the left.
@@robertpolkamp Australia stays mates with Britain because more than half the population in one way or another comes from or descends from there. But there is a more important reason. We get to whack the Poms at cricket every couple of years. If we didn't have the Queen in England? We would have to have a President here? No thanks. Apart from that?
How in the hell would Victoria’s flag have a sea dragon on it
Could be worse - one with Dan Andrews head on it?
@@farnthboy couldn't fit both face and ears on
I thought it is an unique and awesome flag.
@Dominic horvatincic indeed not
Copy Wales but with a blue background
If I remember well, Canberra territory holds a small strip on the Pacific Ocean.
Can you do the same with canada
I would love this considering I am Canadian.
Wasn’t there one time where the State of Quebec attempted independence but failed?
Brandon Lyon Yes, and there is a political party known as “Bloc Québécois” that if voted in then will get Québec independence.
There are actually two countries on the Australian continent.
The second is the Hutt River Province Principality.
Correct. Hutt River is very interesting situation, as the ATO wants back taxes from it, but if the Commonwealth tries to get it, its inadvertently acknowledging its existence, which then gives the Principality legitimacy. A legal minefield. We just think of it as a different bit of WA over here.
Lets invade it.
There is no such thing as the principality of Hut river.
@@timgourlay7349 If you say so. But I have been there.
Its not recognized by the Australian government or any other countries.
ok, im putting this out there, im an australian, and there is not 6 states, there is 8, victoria, act, northen territory, south australia, western australia, tasmania, queensland and new south wales, its just barely anyone knows about act but i dont understand why they left northern territory out.
edit: i just realised they put it as a territory my bad
pay attention next time you attend a history lesson e.g. ACT stands for Australian Capital Territory, not state.
Why can’t non-aussies say Australian city’s correctly
ok fortnite man
lack of respect
I'm from England and I don't struggle with any, although I think being a rugby league fan helps
Because they are unfamiliar. The same as Welsh is problematic for non speakers. Unfortunately I am one but trying to learn.
Most of us can, because we actually try. It is simply fucktards like this narrator that gives the rest of us a bad name
Some may keep there flag, they have now, if they were to become independent.
Victoria being the same
The States of Australia have always been independent!
Fun Fact with regards to my state of Victoria:
> we had own army and navy and the remains of HMVS Cerebus still exists off Black Rock.
> we had broad gauge rail, and so anyone travelling from Sydney to Melbourne would have to change trains at Albury.
> Melbourne is growing faster than SYDNEY and soon will be Australia’s biggest city.
How’s Victoria going now buddy
@@averageleaguevirgin4303 We are surviving, as best as any country or state facing a crisis not seen since WW2.... but the state government is being realistic and not trying to bullshit us, unlike the US Government message...
twitter.com/thejuicemedia/status/1288989754210557960
Queensland had a navy but the ship was not very well preserved as in it is almost destroyed and it is very rusty but I think we preserved a gun from it I'm not sure though.
@@kyedamant1323 Yeah it is going to take considerable engineering to refit HMVS Cerebus, put in the Nuclear Reactor and arm her with Tomahawk Cruise missiles....! This is important as we need to defend keeping the AFL Grand final from the Bjelke Petersen types up North.....as for our army, we did send troops to the Boer War...
@@hypercomms2001 what are you talking about?
Lol you using millions instead of billions makes Australia seem like some impoverished hellhole
who cares?
@Asian Rice Farmer not really, it's a small but rich country which is a lot better than some overcrowded country
Asian Rice Farmer ur probs just jealous cause ur country is poor
Or that our dollar is just 1000x stronger than it really is
It's also worth mentioning that certain areas use larger numbers differently, a short version and long version. 1 billion in short equals 1 thousand million in long, 1 trillion is 1 billion, 1 quadrillion is 1 thousand billion etc etc. It's confusing why everybody can't agree on the same units of measurement.
Fun fact there is a town in central Qld called 1770 because James Cook landed there to fix his ship
WA is the most likely to split off. Being physically so far removed from the East Coast, it feels separate and a bit abandoned by the rest of the country.
Also Queensland is culturally very splittable into two states. You have the urban south of Brisbane and the Gold Coast, while the north is rather more small town rural and conservative. That is a possible change some day.
Queenslander here yeah ever since the Days of Joh Bjelke Petersen theres been a growing discontent for southern states. While the urban centres grow larger and effect politics more ie Melbourne and Sydney discontent grows more. I wouldnt see separation anytime soon but with a Rising Republican movement mostly from down south id see a fair bit of Trouble then. Constitutions being rewritten for a Republic id see a fair few states pulling away. WA Tasmania and probably most of Queensland outside the South East Corner
100% agree with all this.
If ever there was a split, the main "splitters" would be WA (as they are fairly independent anyway), Victoria (as we are more progressionist/left wing) and far Nth Qld (conservative/right wing). If this was to happen, I would say WA would probably have NT tag along, if NSW didn't fight for control of it. Tassie is too reliant on Vic economically (and geographically), far Nth Qld would happily fly solo because lower Qld and NSW are like brothers. SA I don't know about. They can relate to WA so maybe join them but they also rely on Vic for trade. So probably 3 or maybe 4 countries if (IF!!!) hypothetically there was a split.
Gold coast is so much better. the capital should be there
Not to mention WA also off the main power grid and have their own independent distribution. My two cents.
We already voted to secede with 78% approval. Big daddy government wouldn't let us.
Although the ACT is mostly landlocked, they do actually have a port - Jervis Bay. The problem is that the port would be severed from the main country by NSW.
Uranium? I want their uranium
I see you everywhere, supreme leader. You are truly omnipresent
I'm sure President Trump could broker a deal, Mr Kim. How about uranium in return for kimchi?
Well you can have it because my state has no use for it because we hate nuclear power so we don't use any of the Uranium,
@john smith Wind and Solar seem to be running our state pretty effectively ATM
@john smith FYI I'm not the one blocking nuclear power. Also the blackout (no s) happened over 4 years ago and was due to a major power cable falling over. The battery has done quite a good job stabilizing the power gird such that a second one is being erected. Also Japan and Germany have drastically reduced there nuclear production
Nah honestly, South Aussie here, you forgot the Meth industry, its mostly just rich rich people and not many average people but we still top the charts. Adelaide #1
"...with the exception of WA and NT..." Not sure where he got his stats from regarding WA not being economically able to support itself. Western Australian Newspaper front page 13 Sep 2017, in the preceding 10 years (2007 to 2017) the difference in grants from the federal government versus what was stolen by royalties / petrol excise & GST was $171 Billion net contribution to the Federal Government. WA state debt is just under $40 billion, WA would have had a net $130 Billion surplus from the iron ore / LNG boom. NSW pays it's way, Victoria too, all other states and territories get more more federal funds than they pay in. WA would be among the wealthiest places on the planet per head if the wealth generated here was not siphoned off by the feds.
I think the stats this guy got for this video were taken when the last mining boom had ended. If he had have taken the stats 10-15 years earlier it would be a very different story. If WA was able to keep most of the wealth form the mining booms it would even more different.
An independent Victorian flag would be the Eureka Stockade flag without a doubt
bUt THaT's wAAyCiST
AntarcticMagpie not really. It’s my understanding a lot of Victorians still identify with it
Just from the thumbnail I knew this was going to be an amazing video
Well if you have any good ideas join his discord and suggest them there and help his channel expand link in the description
YOU GOT SOMETHING WRONG (many thing wrong) Captain James Cook landed in Australia in 1770 in a village now called 1770 which is 5 hours via road from Brisbane. The first settlers came via ship Captain Arthur Phillip in Port Jackson (now Sydney) in 1788. Brisbane was not discovered until 1840 by Lieutenant John Oxley along with prison convict Pamphlet. St Helena Island was the penal colony of New South Wales and Queensland was not a state until June 6 , 1859.
6:20
“Adel-ide”
I’VE NEVER HEARD OF THAT CITY LOL
This was a pretty interesting look into the way things might work here if all of our states became independent. Stoked to see little Tassie mentioned, as a lot of these sorts of vids miss us out, haha. Independence has always been a topic amongst locals here in TAS, but working as a collective is a much better outcome in my honest opinion. Cheers for the content 👌
Jervis Bay Territory Independent!
Thats right! Its a tiny part of coastal Sydney but its a fully independent territory!
@cyclonicleo actually, it’s technically apart of the act, cause they thought that the capital would need a port for trade and other stuff
cyclonicleo Jervis bay is 200km+ away from Sydney no where near part of it
Jervis Bay is basically a suburb and a Military camp.
Sure, the number plates are different but less than 300k people live there.
The ACT actually tried to get NSW to take it over - they refused!
As an Australian, the way he pronounced Every word related to Australia really pissed me off lol, like canbehrrah
Be glad he spoke about your lost island.
@@gerardmentor4387 So... why are you harassing him?.. they're only stating the obvious fact like the rest of the Australians in the comment section...
@@gerardmentor4387 I mean you say that yet Suriname, Guam and many more examples aren't as well known as Australia... Seems kinda dumb you say it's a lost island when you compare it to another island called "Liste der Inseln Indiens", an Indian island which can't be inhabited cause the people haven't been touched by modern society and which you would die if you try to interact with them, this island is more forgotten as they haven't even been touched by modern society bruh
Just after Name Explain does a video on Australia's states
Wow, Queensland flag being light blue... that would go down well during State of Origin.... Each state has a state colour. Queensland being maroon, Tassie green etc.
You forgot the great emu republic 40 miles in from the west coast until the rabbit fence is all righty ownend by the emu
CommBank is no longer state run, the study shown at 9:48 is conducted by a private company that was previously state run
I can't imagine Queensland ever having a flag that doesn't have the union jack. haha
Probably the least english/posh state too though
Or one that’s sky blue
excellent. The way it should be
Queensland the Alabama of Australia.
QLD has roughly the same population as Alabama, but almost twice the GDP.
If this were to ever happen I think it'll be beneficial in the long run, I feel like Australia can be self sufficient. We have more than enough farming space to feed our population and with advancement in solar energy we have enough space to effectively generate a good portion of renewable energy. A sort of city state model can be established because although each state will be independent we still are unified underneath the Australian identity, so if a state like western Australia, NT and south Australia provides solar energy and raw materials then states like Queensland and NSW can provide farming and food for the rest of the states. And finally and attribute of Australia can makes a utopia like this possible is our urbanisation. Each state has one main city were most the population is centred around. If anyone reads this let me know your thoughts.
P.s written on my phone and I'm a crippling dyslexic so excuse my spelling mistakes
This is a hypothetical scenario in Sid Meier's Civilization 6 Outback Tycoon scenario where you can play either South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia, Queensland existing at the same time after the founding of New South Wales. New South Wales is a City State that you can interact with only for trade routes. Objective is to make the most gold from the 1800s until after the end of WW2 . No combat, culture, diplomatic victory but its fun as an empire builder though.
That gamemode is surprisingly fun
Common mistakes from non-Australians:
Emu) Non-Aus: “E moo” --- Aus: “Eem you”
Canberra) Non-aus: “Can Berra” -- Aus: “Can bruh”
A lot of people seem to confuse magpies and kookaburras, magpies are human killing machines, and kookaburras make the laughing noise.
The Australian flag has six white stars, New Zealand’s flag has 5 white stars with red inside them.
Maccas is a common term but not used all the time.
I have a bearded dragon and budgerigar from Australia, luckily they can't attack me
Not yet
Meh. Get a pet Cassowary. They are your personal dagger wielding serial killer.
No, but you can teach your budgie to say crazy stuff to freak out visitors.
Budgies are cute
They are waiting..... For when you're sleeping....
Where dose the Hut River Principality fall into this mess in Australia?
onrr1726 carver out of Western Australia
western australian special administrative region?
It’s in the Western Australian section
Well it’s not a seperate nation/province, so it’s part of the state of Western Australia.
Queeensland is Australia Queenstown is New Zealand
We have a queenstown in Tasmania you know :p
There’s multiple Queenstowns in Australia
Got to love it when Victoria’s flag just becomes the Labor party logo, lol.
Victoria's flag is revolting. I would leave straight away
Noah Barling why?
@Rosscoe Schopenhauser Marxist shithole, really? Where the hell are you living
@Rosscoe Schopenhauser You mean it's economically booming compared with every other state and people moving there in droves?
what's wrong with it?
You should leave anyway lol Victoria is a shithole
Nice waltzing matilda in the background! ;)
I wish that was our national anthem
*Every colony* : We hate our colonists!
*Australia* : we love you daddy england, we gonna make a flag with yours inside
The union Jack in the top left is policy for literally every colony of Britain, Australia isn't different
@@lukedavies2406 Yes, but almost every former colony has their own flag now
Britain gave us Tea, they're alright.
@@no4812 Were still technically a dominion, the Queen can depose our prime minister whenever she wants via the Governor General, and it actually happened during a political crisis.
@@no4812 and Australia has her own flag too
Western Australia's gross state product (GSP) was $361.8 billion in 2020-21, 17.5% of Australia's gross domestic product (GDP). Western Australia's GSP per capita was $135,479 in 2020-21, 68% above Australia's GDP per capita of $80,461
Additionally, WA has reserves of just about every resource imaginable. Minerals, agriculture, fisheries.