Acknowledging the local Aboriginal people in meetings and formal events is something that, in my experience, has only entered the cultural mainstream in the last 5-10 years. I believe it's also fairly common now in Canada to acknowledge First Nations in a similar fashion. I'm sure it will eventually become common in the US too.
To do a video on indigenous culture here, you need to know roughly how it works. That is to say, some believe that it was just one race of people scattered about Australia, which it isn't. Different nations have differing cultures, beliefs & systems. In the western Sydney area it is dharug/Darug land. Head west over the mountains from Sydney & it is Wiradjuri (my mob). Look up the aboriginal nations map, there were/are over 250 nations. I'd suggest getting in contact with the local land council for where you live (now called Deerubbin local land council). I am still learning about my mob as my grandfather was displaced (part of what is termed the stolen generation), so I never got to know all about the culture, traditions & systems in place. It is a big learning experience & one I have no doubt I will still be learning about until the day I return to the dreaming. Yiradhu marang mudyi (Good day friend in Wiradjuri). I can't speak the language but I have been trying to learn it for some time now. As for billboards, the one that you may have seen, that has become somewhat famous is the MacDonalds sign heading into Yass. It has the golden arches M followed by Yass, so in effect it says MYass. Oh, and out of interest, do you know why it is called Blacktown?
@@jadecawdellsmith4009 it was technically considered a "residential school" for education. Which is a polite way of saying a place where indigenous children were removed from their families & "re-educated". The original site was the corner of Rooty Hill Rd Nth & Richmond Rd. The "school" was where the fenced off area is. You can tell the place as there is still an old silo at the bottom of the site.
@@CraigWilsonAust u confirmed what I'd suspected but didn't know the exact location & like u I have a similar story regarding the Stolen Generation. My father was adopted & lost all connection to his people,land & culture & I've seen how he has suffered. And trans generational trauma exists from these experiences. I may have grown up around Blacktown nsw with no real knowledge of my culture or connection to my aboriginality but I'm making up for it now. About 13yrs ago I moved to an extremely remote community in FNQ (PORMPURAAW)& its been 1 of the best decisions I've made. I cannot tell u how much I have learned & I'm learning more every day,wether that's language, relationship with land, how to hunt & gather etc etc. It's a fantastic experience. I hope on ur journey into discovering more about ur own mob u get as much out of it as I have. And yes the Macca's Yass sign is a good giggle
@@jadecawdellsmith4009 I am in contact with elders within my mob, in fact for the last couple of years I have assisted one of the NFP's as the flora officer (volunteer). Fortunately there is a dictionary app for the Wiradjuri language, so that is helping with my study. I find it intriguing that while the storyline vary, some have very obvious similarities. Look up the Seven Sisters as an example. The story changes between nations yet it is a very similar story. All the best in your endeavours.
Cars in a funeral procession here will generally have their headlights on. As far as I know it's illegal to break into or interrupt a funeral procession (at least it was in NSW when I got my driver's licence 50+ years ago).
It used to be as you describe, but younger drivers in funeral processions don't seem to have had this explained to them - there aren't many funeral processions these days to get practice, i guess.
You still see it in smaller towns, here the funeral director will get out and stop traffic at intersections while the procession goes through, for larger funerals, they sometimes use the police to do it. But because it isn't taught in the licence process, the knowledge of what to do can be lost when it's not passed down form generation to generation.
In the old days you use to have your headlights on and follow on. Going through red lights etc having the right of way. I still think the rights remain. But just no longer followed. I think it’s due mainly to ignorance not disrespect. As for the bugs and spiders don’t feel guilty. Thong the lot loll especially red backs ( shiver).
We have our headlights on and ppl are respectful here and don’t generally push in. You make us sound so bad! I’ve been to two funerals this year and one we had Harleys that blocked the traffic for us at lights and roundabouts and the other we just had our headlights on and no one pushed in or cut us off
Kaitlin, as far as the housing prices go, we are in a colossal bubble, along the lines of what Japan experienced in the late 80's. It will (eventually) go the same way here, in my view.
Only in the capitals and coastal town. The media tells people they must live in the most expensive cities to have any kind of life. It’s all lies and plenty of people are realising and moving to regional areas and buying houses for a quarter of what they pay on the coast.
You pay for where you live unfortunately……when people think of Australia they think SYDNEY…….. it would be good to do a comparison of house prices from all over Australia. The further north you go the more realistic the house prices become as with the more inland you go I guess. 🦋
Acknowledgement of country is relatively new, maybe the last 10-15 years or so it has been the norm. The differences in wording would be if you know exactly what land you're on depending where you are. Sydney is Eora Nation and the people are Gadigal. (although there are several clans that make up Eora Nation, Sydney CBD is generally considered Gadigal) Welcome to Country should only be delivered by Traditional Owners/Custodians of the land on which the event takes place.
The fiscal year in the UK starts and ends in April, I guess countries everywhere have their different reasons. The NBN is the national infrastructure, it's a government commissioned project. The plan is for one big network that everyone can use, instead of each ISP needing to build their own systems. Companies like Telstra, Optus etc. will team up with it, then supply the internet service to you and use the NBN to do it. The whole thing is still being built around the country so the NBN Co. manages the construction and connections to your home.
I’ve been working down in Windsor where the floods were on the hawksbury river recently and the flies have been shocking. I literally had 20 in my car yesterday was still trying to get some out today. And I’m with you on the roach thing. I can deal with spiders snakes and other bugs but roaches … no! If I see one in my flat, it has seconds to live lol
Oh yes our NBN was actually going to be fibre optic to the house. When the LNP took office they balked at the cost so it’s fibre to the node copper to the house
And the incoming Prime Minister at the time (Tony Abbott) was dismissive of the value of high speed Internet and saw it as a waste of money that would only be used by online gamers. He probably wanted telegram delivery to make a comeback instead.
Funeral processions used to all have their headlights on, but now so many cars have their headlights on all the time, it doesn't stand out. They are not that common, usually just for Italian funerals, or someone who had lots of money or influence. All of the funerals I have been to, the service and burial or cremation were held at the same place, so you would walk behind the hearse.
I'm with you on the roaches. I hate the damn things and venomous spiders also die on sight. Spiders are safe outside but if they come inside, they don't get welcomed lol.
l see a big black spider and l want to paint it white, no other colours in my life, l have to paint it white. l watch it thrash around, in its final death throes, l have my can of Mortein, everywhere l gooooooooooo.
thats the unspoken arrangement we have with the spiders. its nothing new, they know when they're somewhere they shouldnt be, at which point all bets are off haha
Melbourne here, I think roaches are a Sydney thing, everyone comments on them there, yet I hardly see one here at all. It's the impression I get, maybe a climate thing.
You're right that Sydney home prices are stupidly expensive , but it's worth noting that Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane are also listed in the Top 10 Most Livable Cities list (Wellington and Auckland also made the cut, good onya NZ!). Now this doesn't excuse the prices, that was caused by Negative Gearing from the 80's (?), in what seemed a great idea back then for the economy, but this is the end result. Also, I'm pretty sure that those prices are an average across the board, so yes, it accounts for the 3 bed 2 bath homes, that's not the average for just homes like those, it is also inflated by the super priced mansions in Double Bay etc.
NBN is so we just have one lot of cables and not each Company running the own cables in the ground also if your Provider goes bankrupt or closes you just get moved to a different carrier and don’t have to worry about paying for new cables to be run to your house or living in an area where no carrier feels it’s cost-effective to run cables so you miss out
Hi Kaitlyn. I subbed when you first started posting, and I've enjoyed your journey here in Oz. My puppy loves Kangaroo. When he was young and silly, he chased the mob of roos that graze in the paddocks opposite my house. I freaked, but no way was he listening to my yells because he's a Border Collie and thought they were like sheep, and needed to be rounded up. The silly mutt could've been killed. Roos can be nasty. After he ran for an hour, and came back looking happy with himself, he got sent to the doghouse. Now every time he sees those roos, he looks at me in hope, but I shake my head NO! and he pouts. It's not every country that eats it's national emblem. Lol. Yeah, it's hard to understand the cost of houses when we have such incredible expanses of open flat land. I was working under a car once, and a redback dropped into my hair. That was a brown moment. Loving you vids. Cheers.
Under a car sounds like Redback country. But on the back of a kitchen door? A Golden Orb perhaps but I am not buying into Redbacks in the open. Dark moist places. Mine live in the kitchen Exhaust and stay happy munching on flies
Our local primary school was renovated and a new kind of insulated ceiling was installed. It turned out to be ideal redback habitat. They were dropping down onto the kids in the middle of class. Now the ceilings, and under the seats everywhere, get sprayed during every school holiday break.
@@chriswatson1698 @Chris Watson if you live in a humid area, I can see that possibility. Insulation trapping the moisture and maybe a cockroach diet. Down south under the building water mains tap is a prime location. I still can't visualise a Redback, in the open, back of a door. Maybe towels and robes would give it the cover? Much like the underseat of the toilet. Kaitlyn should do a reaction video to "Redback on the toilet seat". Slim Dusty version?
Hi, I live in Melbourne since 1975 and I saw my first red back about 30 years after I arrived to this wonderful country . . . and never again since !!! So . . . Regards
Move over to Melbourne housing here does not cost $1.6 million - check out the suburb of Tarneit VIC 3029 - you can buy a 4 bedroom house with 2 bathrooms for around $550,000 to $650,000
I thought you were joking about the house price in Sydney. But, I live in a regional town and a good late model home is about $500,000. Looking at real estate online, I see houses for sale at $4.5 million dollars. Being Sydney, the average resident there would be earning high wages. In my town, a bar owner had a house valued around $1.6 million. It might be worth more. But, his place is one of the upper limits of house prices.
NBN are a government instrumentality who own the physical network. Some of the network uses an ageing cable TV infrastructure. other parts use copper network originally owned by Telstra. Telstra is now a service provider using NBN for delivery, along with many other companies, such as Optus, TPG, iinet, etc. The original NBN (NBN 1.0) was designed to be a fibre optic network from the service provider, amongst the fastest in the world; but a change in government saw the original design scrapped and a multi discipline slow service substituted (NBN 2.0). We now have amongst the slowest internets in the world thanks to the currrent government, and one that ended up costing significantly more than the original design. Hope this helps, but it is highly political and utterly confusing even to me, a communications engineer.
Billboards ate banned in Canberra... some politicians park large trucks with signs to circumvent those laws. The funeral procession was a things some years back , before cars had hazzard lights the headlight s were just on.
If you ever work out the NBN or Telstra do a vid and let the rest of us know. Ha you think thats weird (Tax year) in the UK is April 5th one year to April 4th the following year. Probably someone needed a holiday here in our (well Yours too now) Summer.
Starts on the 6th finishes on the 5th. And that's because they didn't want to lose tax money, I think it was something to do with when they changed calendar.
Agreed - calendar year would be easier for tax. But financial year is simply that. At least school years are in the calendar year, which is easy to figure out
You guys should come and visit Western Australia, best value housing in the country and they are built out of double brick none of this paper plasterboard stuff! 800,000 will get you a palace. Wages are higher here as well due to the strong economy driven by mining and resources. Biggest bonus is the weather is awesome sunniest city in the world.
About House prices: Instead of average price, look at the modal figures, which will show one the value at which most houses are sold. A much better figure.
The NBN was borne out of a federal election promise by the Labor (yes, US spelling) going into the federal election of 2007. The won the election which started the process of planning a National Broadband network. The idea behind it was simple: * provide significantly faster speeds * use leverage of government and the economies of scale that provide to improve infrastructure for all Australia is such a large country (Australia is slightly larger than the US’s contiguous 48 states + DC) but had a population significantly less than the US. It’s not feasible for small internet service providers to roll out their own network. Telstra could but that would be like asking AT&T to roll out to all of the US for 15 times less customers. Labor’s vision was long term wanting to have a primarily fibre to to home network (something only a couple of cities in the US have achieved like Austin, TX with Google fiber) and they knew it would take 10+ years - something federal government never does because of short terms When the next election came, the conservative Liberal government (no, not an oxymoron) said the NBN plan was too big, too expensive, too slow - and as a result the network that eventually rolled out was far less advanced and in many cases still not solving the main issue - getting fast and affordable internet On the flip side, Australia has always been very advanced in mobile networks. It was the first country outside Europe to implement digital mobile (years ahead of Asia and the Americans), and pre 5G Australia has such a fast 4G network that the massive speed improvements gained in the US we’re not seen here, with 5G being in many tests, a downgrade. Australia has generally rated very well with mobile speeds (although countries are catching up and overtaking as 5G rollouts occur, particularly in small countries like UAE). But in fixed broadband, even though the NBN was intended to be a revolution, it’s left us with mediocre pockets and brilliant pockets (I personally get 850Mbs down so won’t complain, but my connection is not representative of the general population). What is good with NBN is that you can leave your service provider and switch knowing that your modem and connection can simply be taken over by another provider - very similar to the way gas or electricity providers can be chosen
You'd be surprised how close you live to herds of Kangaroos. There are a few bushland settings near where I think you live and kangaroos run wild there although housing developments are shrinking their habitat
Redback spiders are nowhere near as dangerous as their reputation. The advice from an Australian government health website is that if you get bitten by a redback spider, seek medical attention only if the pain is severe and persistent. I was bitten by a redback spider when I was 10 and received no anti-venom for it. The bite site hurt and I felt nauseous, but I recovered just fine. On the subject of the anti-venom for redback spider bite, the current medical advice I've seen in hospitals is that a person should only receive anti-venom if their condition is severe and then only if a shot of adrenaline is at the ready. Reason being is that the anti-venom has proven to cause more risk to the patient than the actual spider bite! The anti-venom can cause anaphylactic shock, even after the spider bite did not! *_Completely_* *_different_* *_story_* *_for_* *_the_* *_Sydney_* *_funnel-web_* *_spider!_* If you get bitten by a Sydney funnel-web spider, immediately *_first_* apply a compression bandage and *_then_* ring 000 or otherwise get to a hospital as quickly as you can. Failure to apply a compression bandage can mean you're dead within 15 minutes.
My peoples culture is very diverse and all are unique and differ from mob to mob. At one point we had 700 Languages before colonisation but now we only have 200-250 left and a good majority of them are at risk of going extinct and we also have at least 100 dormant languages just waiting to be revitalised. A good way to find out more about Indigenous Australian and Torres Strait Islander culture is at aiatsis they have some great resources. Also my people have been in Australia for 120 000 years and are the oldest continuous culture.
Regarding kangaroo per food Are you aware that in most parts of Australia Kangaroo is sold in restaurants as well as butchers and speciality shops It is the BEST meat! Delicious as well as one of the most healthiest and low in fat I know some people get funny about eating kangaroo ... yet don't think twice about eating Bessie the cow! Do yourself a favour and give it a go!
Mate, you are not alone trying to work with NBN. NBN is the infrastructure provider and the ISPs use the NBN infrastructure to deliver their services. You cannot directly contact NBnand must deal through your ISP. If your ISP is useless, you are in trouble. And regarding tax time, I don’t really see the issue. You have to remember that December/January in the US is winter and definately not a holiday time. December and January in Australia is SUMMER and holiday time. The last thing Aussies want to think about over Christmas/New Year are bloody tax returns!!!! That’s the reason. Grüße aus Australien.
Hi Kaitlyn, our culture is 60,000 years old, they are the beautiful indigenous people here first,and their passion for the Dreamtime, the original Australians.
redbacks aren't much of a worry. but don't mess with a funnel web. funeral processions - headlights on, not hazards. We stop at red lights because with all the stop light cameras these days you are risking a nasty surprise in the mail
I have started getting my house sprayed for bugs...got it done a couple of months agao and havent seen a spider or cockroach since. They recommend every six months :)
You'll love the big brothers of the skinks, the Blue Tongue lizards. They do a great job getting rid of snails. Kill the red back spiders, there are plenty more where they came from. I'd take a funnel web or trap door spider outdoors where they belong however, even though they are more dangerous. You should know your local aboriginal tribal area, ours are the Ngunnawal, you should know whose land you are on. Maybe you will get the same feeling for "country" as they do. Be honest. Where would you rather live? Philly, Sydney or Melbourne? You get what you pay for. And the average home is not $1.6m, not even near, but it isn't US$300k either. I suspect you are not looking in the outer suburbs, and are interested in the nicer suburbs. We may have Aussie made on our products (usually a sign it is better, especially with food) but we don't hump our flags like Americans do. Aussie funerals are a great opportunity to buy some fruit from the side of the road. You know where everyone is going and it's not like the occupant of the hearse is going to mind.
I'm surprised that you haven't mentioned the Funnel Web Spiders that you get in Sydney Now THEY are scary! I have a few Redback families living in the shed Live and let live Also Regarding funeral processions That is something that used to be common but I think it died out in the 70s Life just got busier I suppose But it is something that we did do. But not really anymore
You actually have to wait until January to start any tax paperwork stove you need to include ALL of the year before (1 January through 31 December) and typically have to wait a few weeks into January for your employer to give you your W2 form in order to file. Besides, for the US, it's winter and most people's holidays end right after New Year's Day.
Tax time is so easy . It’s based on a financial year. And when I file a tax return I go to MyGov. The ato already knows my wages and interest etc a few clicks and done
It wouldn't be so easy for her though due to tax residency, DTA between Australia and USA, decision on what income to recognise in what jurisdiction and timing issues. So her concerns are valid. McGov is particularly useful to Australians not working in the private or quango sectors.
Come live in Brisbane, I have lizards 18 inches long and smaller. Again not something that attacks you, we coexist happily. By the way, Redbacks are the same type of spider as your US black widow. You guys in Sydney have to look out for the funnel webs, they are bad! We have bad snakes in the bush though. Many varieties. Oh, house prices, this is one of the most over-regulated countries, we all pay for this in higher prices for, well everything.
Think of the NBN as the owner of the cables and (most of the) devices (not strictly accurate, but close enough). You interact with a retailer (for example, Telstra, Optus, TPG, etc) to get Internet services through the NBN. If you are sick of a retailer because of their incompetence or their inability to get the NBN to fix an issue, then you can swap retailers (you may have to break a contract). Note: Mobile phone services are not provided by the NBN, though of course the big NBN retailers all have mobile phone networks of their own. So why use the NBN? Download volume value for money is the main reason, and in some areas you also get high speed. Let's not get into the technologies of the NBN as the whole sorry saga is very disappointing and could lead to a political flame war :-
no that's an old myth about the white tail spiders, it's been debunked. From wiki... "Although ulcers and necrosis have been attributed to the bites, a scientific study by Isbister and Gray (2003) showed they had other causes, mostly infections. A study of 130 white-tailed spider bites found no necrotic ulcers or confirmed infections."
@@DaveWhoa You're intellectually dishonest if you ignore the fact that whitetail toxins prevent the body from fighting these infections. it's like saying a komodo dragon bite being toxic is an "old myth" bacteria still kills. I can name scores of patients who experienced ulcers from the FOUR SPOT WHITETAIL
Re the NBN. It’s a government funded broadband network which was paid for by taxpayers. The idea was to let people all over Australia, no matter where you live access to broadband services. Even in the middle of nowhere, if you live there, you get the NBN. The government had to do it as it was not economical for a private company to do it due to low population especially in the areas where fast broadband is the most expensive to connect up. The NBN is the resold through Telstra, Optus, Vodafone, TPG and countless other RSP’s (retail service providers). It’s the same as electricity in Australia. One or two companies own the power lines and poles etc in each area and you chose which reseller you want to connect to and where you get the best deal. The NBN was supposed to be optical fibre to the home. Really fast, and world class. Unfortunately the Liberal (The Liberal government here are a conservative government (like the Republicans) - different to what “Liberal” means in the Us!) government at the time decided to go cheap and nasty and changed the technology for a vast majority of connections to fibre to the node instead of fibre to the home. This means the NBN is fibre (and very fast speed) to a box up the road and then delivered through really old tech copper wire phone lines to the home. This means the connections are often slow and unreliable. It turns out if the government at the time had done it fibre to the home across the board it would have actually been cheaper in the long run. Now the NBN is a patchwork of technologies (wireless, FTTN ANF FTTH) having to be upgraded across the country which is costing a fortune. It should have been done properly in the first place. Your channel is great! Keep up the good work! Craig - Geelong - VIC.
This description of NBN is spot on. This is the inevitable outcome of conservative politicians who have no interest in better serving the needs of the whole population but just their wealthy supporters. Would rather use government revenues (our taxes) to subsidise the fossil fuel industry.
@@openminded5393 Malcolm Turnbull isn't a conservative, a conservative would have allowed technology and private companies to build it over time, understanding that you make decision about where you live and to try to connect everyone from city to regions to the same network was never going to work. But this is what the left wanted so that's what we got. A conservative never touched it. Lol
the only reason it's trash is because the government didn't want to invest in fibre optic cabling and tried to rely on the existing copper wire network. Because of all its faults it's usually nicknamed "No Bloody Network".
I enjoyed 2 years in Seattle when I was in the Royal Australian Navy in 1984, onwards. My most embarrassing culture shock was the first morning breakfast at our hotel where we were staying at, was having to ask the waitress what hash browns were! Good memories of a lovely Country. All the best down here!
Love your channel and I am so glad that you have moved to our country. I enjoy all of your videos. You seem to be adapting well. Keep up the great work.
We don't use hazard lights for funerals, but usually, headlights would be turned on for following the hearse. I'm not sure what/if any road rules are these days in regards to funeral processions but I have seen older Gentlemen remove their hats as a procession passes. * Just checked and it is illegal to interrupt a funeral procession.
The financial year thing is so you can do your taxes without all the extra hassle of Christmas time, either one of those on their own is enough. It's ok to knock off a Redback, they can give you a nasty bite but others like the big, scary but harmless Huntsman, you catch in a jar/glass and release it in the front/back yard (on a plant is good) they also are good insect hunters. In South Oz we drive in a funeral with our lights on and often people on the street will remove their hat as you pass (but that sadly has fallen away over the last few decades).
I'm with you Kaitlyn, any red back spider in my house has a death wish. House prices at the moment are rediclously high, here in Adelaide average is around $300,000 -$500,000. I don't use NBN, instead I use Telstra mobile internet, works really well - no problems (yet). Love your videos. If you are going to touch on Indigenous topics please consult with culturally aware people eg S.A. museum can provide a great deal of information ( unfortunately politics can taint understanding). All the best👍
The USA… Grizzlies,Wolf packs,Mountain lions,Rattlers,Alligators,crazies with assault weapons…in Sydney…’watch out it’s a skink,RUN !! 😝🙋♂️👍 Also losing the funeral procession gives you the automatic right to go straight to the pub…no?
Wow you nailed it, in regards to aboriginal and TI culture even the maroi peoples. That's what I love about Australia. We all try our best to be better and wiser then the generations before. Take nothing but photos and leave nothing but footprints. Oh and on the bugs situation, I hate and run for my life when those huge flying roaches are around. Lol don't stress about the red backs, there only in because of all the rain.
I’ve only experienced one funeral procession where it wasn’t interrupted and that was only because we got a police escort and green lights the entire way. Other than that every other funeral procession i’ve just followed normal traffic rules. Didn’t even know it was a thing to not interrupt.
Going to NSW from any other state in the country is a culture shock. Squashing red back spiders with your thong is a very Australian way to deal with them, totally acceptable 👍the ones to be careful of over there are the funnel web and trap door.
@@nickt6965. Thong has always been about straps on footwear, Indian sandals, JC sandals, etc, until the modern invention of clothing that involved narrow strips of fabric - probably originally for (ahem) exotic dancers. Underwear is usually not mentioned in public so when one says thongs (plural) in public it means footwear.
Depends on what you want though. Living in those states you have to deal with those premiers that happily stop family to see one last time their dieing parents.
NBN is a Federal Company/Service owns the phone/data lines which are than able to be used by any telecommunications company so we have a wider variety of Providers of Phone & Internet! NBN is meant to connect 95+ percent of Australia People the few that can not get phone/data cables run to them due to cost use Satellites Services!
The funeral thing while sounding morbid is just Aussies being Aussies. Of course we care about people dying but everyone dies. What purpose is a funeral procession? The dead person doesn’t care. No need to hold up traffic just so everyone can drive together. I’d assume that’s a bigger thing in the US because in general people are more religious.
Noooo dont try to protect redback spiders or any dangerous spiders in Australia. Just kill them, they arent protected or about to go extinct. If you see a huge hairy huntman spider though, dont kill it but just take it outside, those eat the spiders which could hurt you. Sydney is expensive for houses in Australia. If one is in a funeral possession in Australia, you can keep your headlights on so that people know (you just cant go driving through red lights).
Telstra was the sole supplier of all phone cables nation wide this was broken down and Optus was allowed in with others, then the government created NBN as sole supplier of optical fibber nation wide with all other telco's buying rights from NBN without having to worry about cable network Telstra was hard done by loosing a lot as once it was part of the post master generals umbrella for communications with government funding
Please please do not try to catch a red-back spider! It's far too dangerous to try to catch it. Even killing it with your shoe was brave. I honestly could only spray it or get someone else to kill it. And I would freak the shit out if I saw one on my kitchen door!
Killing a red back is completely reasonable. Councils will come out and destroy a colony in a drain. They aren’t a protected species in the urban environment or areas of human habitation.
My wife would take to a redback with a flamethrower if we had one! 😆 I usually leave them alone. The reality is that redback bites while painful rarely require anti-venom treatment. It’s the funnel webs which are the problem. Whether roos are a pest depends on the variant of kangaroo and where you live - kangaroo dog food originates from licensed hunting. Sydney house prices have skyrocketed in the last 20 years and I agree are totally ridiculous (and we own one of them but were very lucky with our timing!). Getting into Sydney property these days usually requires starting out somewhere else! Oh and your “gidday” is progressing well - you’ll have to drop the “Kinda” in your TH-cam name soon! 😀
Not too bad, skin swells, looks like the skin of an orange, sweats, and is quite painful. Not deadly, unless you are allergic to bites. I am allergic, I hit first and ask questions later. Thank god for good old Aussie thongs.
love skinks...we have two kinds in our garden black ones with a green stripe...and pale grey ones with a yellow stripe...they compete for sunny spots and we often watch them while we are having our morning coffee and laugh at the little wars going on in the garden..
In the process of moving offer there. With an immigration consulting company, but I would love to pick your brain some time with visa and moving questions.
Acknowledging the local Aboriginal people in meetings and formal events is something that, in my experience, has only entered the cultural mainstream in the last 5-10 years. I believe it's also fairly common now in Canada to acknowledge First Nations in a similar fashion. I'm sure it will eventually become common in the US too.
Yes RACISM is now very common
Approaching peak wokeness
It’s been common in government agencies for at least 15 years.
@@kayelle8005 commonly wrong
That's ridiculous.
To do a video on indigenous culture here, you need to know roughly how it works. That is to say, some believe that it was just one race of people scattered about Australia, which it isn't. Different nations have differing cultures, beliefs & systems. In the western Sydney area it is dharug/Darug land. Head west over the mountains from Sydney & it is Wiradjuri (my mob). Look up the aboriginal nations map, there were/are over 250 nations.
I'd suggest getting in contact with the local land council for where you live (now called Deerubbin local land council). I am still learning about my mob as my grandfather was displaced (part of what is termed the stolen generation), so I never got to know all about the culture, traditions & systems in place. It is a big learning experience & one I have no doubt I will still be learning about until the day I return to the dreaming.
Yiradhu marang mudyi (Good day friend in Wiradjuri). I can't speak the language but I have been trying to learn it for some time now.
As for billboards, the one that you may have seen, that has become somewhat famous is the MacDonalds sign heading into Yass.
It has the golden arches M followed by Yass, so in effect it says MYass.
Oh, and out of interest, do you know why it is called Blacktown?
Because there used to b an institution there to "look after" the local mob? Got told that when I lived there,dunno if it's true.
@@jadecawdellsmith4009 it was technically considered a "residential school" for education. Which is a polite way of saying a place where indigenous children were removed from their families & "re-educated".
The original site was the corner of Rooty Hill Rd Nth & Richmond Rd. The "school" was where the fenced off area is. You can tell the place as there is still an old silo at the bottom of the site.
@@CraigWilsonAust u confirmed what I'd suspected but didn't know the exact location & like u I have a similar story regarding the Stolen Generation. My father was adopted & lost all connection to his people,land & culture & I've seen how he has suffered. And trans generational trauma exists from these experiences. I may have grown up around Blacktown nsw with no real knowledge of my culture or connection to my aboriginality but I'm making up for it now. About 13yrs ago I moved to an extremely remote community in FNQ (PORMPURAAW)& its been 1 of the best decisions I've made. I cannot tell u how much I have learned & I'm learning more every day,wether that's language, relationship with land, how to hunt & gather etc etc. It's a fantastic experience. I hope on ur journey into discovering more about ur own mob u get as much out of it as I have.
And yes the Macca's Yass sign is a good giggle
@@jadecawdellsmith4009 I am in contact with elders within my mob, in fact for the last couple of years I have assisted one of the NFP's as the flora officer (volunteer). Fortunately there is a dictionary app for the Wiradjuri language, so that is helping with my study. I find it intriguing that while the storyline vary, some have very obvious similarities. Look up the Seven Sisters as an example. The story changes between nations yet it is a very similar story.
All the best in your endeavours.
Word, I grew up in Bundjalung country (I'm white, just lived in Northern NSW in my teens).
Cars in a funeral procession here will generally have their headlights on. As far as I know it's illegal to break into or interrupt a funeral procession (at least it was in NSW when I got my driver's licence 50+ years ago).
It used to be as you describe, but younger drivers in funeral processions don't seem to have had this explained to them - there aren't many funeral processions these days to get practice, i guess.
You still see it in smaller towns, here the funeral director will get out and stop traffic at intersections while the procession goes through, for larger funerals, they sometimes use the police to do it. But because it isn't taught in the licence process, the knowledge of what to do can be lost when it's not passed down form generation to generation.
Wow haven't seen one in years!! But back in the day.....
In the old days you use to have your headlights on and follow on. Going through red lights etc having the right of way. I still think the rights remain. But just no longer followed. I think it’s due mainly to ignorance not disrespect.
As for the bugs and spiders don’t feel guilty. Thong the lot loll especially red backs ( shiver).
We have our headlights on and ppl are respectful here and don’t generally push in. You make us sound so bad! I’ve been to two funerals this year and one we had Harleys that blocked the traffic for us at lights and roundabouts and the other we just had our headlights on and no one pushed in or cut us off
Kaitlin, as far as the housing prices go, we are in a colossal bubble, along the lines of what Japan experienced in the late 80's. It will (eventually) go the same way here, in my view.
Only in the capitals and coastal town. The media tells people they must live in the most expensive cities to have any kind of life. It’s all lies and plenty of people are realising and moving to regional areas and buying houses for a quarter of what they pay on the coast.
Yeah I don't think you're wrong, unfortunately. There will be tears.
Don't know what will end it, other than more supply though. There's a housing shortage.
@@Amy-ky5wr Higher interest rates should do the trick. Especially if they keep going up. There are some areas that have excess stock.
You pay for where you live unfortunately……when people think of Australia they think SYDNEY…….. it would be good to do a comparison of house prices from all over Australia. The further north you go the more realistic the house prices become as with the more inland you go I guess. 🦋
As a fellow Aussie I must say, if any aussie see's any redback spider they are just as frightened as you. Those are scary and deadly, not fun at all!
Acknowledgement of country is relatively new, maybe the last 10-15 years or so it has been the norm. The differences in wording would be if you know exactly what land you're on depending where you are. Sydney is Eora Nation and the people are Gadigal. (although there are several clans that make up Eora Nation, Sydney CBD is generally considered Gadigal)
Welcome to Country should only be delivered by Traditional Owners/Custodians of the land on which the event takes place.
My rule with spiders is simple, if they're outside that's fine, their world.
If they come inside, my world, they're fair game.
The fiscal year in the UK starts and ends in April, I guess countries everywhere have their different reasons.
The NBN is the national infrastructure, it's a government commissioned project. The plan is for one big network that everyone can use, instead of each ISP needing to build their own systems. Companies like Telstra, Optus etc. will team up with it, then supply the internet service to you and use the NBN to do it. The whole thing is still being built around the country so the NBN Co. manages the construction and connections to your home.
My mother never used gardening gloves and was often bitten by redbacks, she was a tough lady, she just kept on gardening.
I’ve been working down in Windsor where the floods were on the hawksbury river recently and the flies have been shocking. I literally had 20 in my car yesterday was still trying to get some out today. And I’m with you on the roach thing. I can deal with spiders snakes and other bugs but roaches … no! If I see one in my flat, it has seconds to live lol
Oh yes our NBN was actually going to be fibre optic to the house. When the LNP took office they balked at the cost so it’s fibre to the node copper to the house
And the incoming Prime Minister at the time (Tony Abbott) was dismissive of the value of high speed Internet and saw it as a waste of money that would only be used by online gamers. He probably wanted telegram delivery to make a comeback instead.
@@openminded5393 Yes and isn't stupid that the upgrades will cost more than the initial fibre to to home
Funeral processions used to all have their headlights on, but now so many cars have their headlights on all the time, it doesn't stand out. They are not that common, usually just for Italian funerals, or someone who had lots of money or influence. All of the funerals I have been to, the service and burial or cremation were held at the same place, so you would walk behind the hearse.
I'm with you on the roaches. I hate the damn things and venomous spiders also die on sight. Spiders are safe outside but if they come inside, they don't get welcomed lol.
l see a big black spider and l want to paint it white,
no other colours in my life, l have to paint it white.
l watch it thrash around, in its final death throes,
l have my can of Mortein, everywhere l gooooooooooo.
@@bettysteve322716 That's good with apologies to the Stones of course Well done
thats the unspoken arrangement we have with the spiders. its nothing new, they know when they're somewhere they shouldnt be, at which point all bets are off haha
Melbourne here, I think roaches are a Sydney thing, everyone comments on them there, yet I hardly see one here at all. It's the impression I get, maybe a climate thing.
If you go for a drive round 1am out here in Windsor round the Bligh park area, you’ll see Roos happily bouncing round the neighbourhood
You're right that Sydney home prices are stupidly expensive , but it's worth noting that Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane are also listed in the Top 10 Most Livable Cities list (Wellington and Auckland also made the cut, good onya NZ!). Now this doesn't excuse the prices, that was caused by Negative Gearing from the 80's (?), in what seemed a great idea back then for the economy, but this is the end result. Also, I'm pretty sure that those prices are an average across the board, so yes, it accounts for the 3 bed 2 bath homes, that's not the average for just homes like those, it is also inflated by the super priced mansions in Double Bay etc.
On spiders, once they are in your house it’s open session. They can hurt kids and pets, I have never relocated a venomous spider.
NBN is so we just have one lot of cables and not each Company running the own cables in the ground also if your Provider goes bankrupt or closes you just get moved to a different carrier and don’t have to worry about paying for new cables to be run to your house or living in an area where no carrier feels it’s cost-effective to run cables so you miss out
Hi Kaitlyn. I subbed when you first started posting, and I've enjoyed your journey here in Oz. My puppy loves Kangaroo. When he was young and silly, he chased the mob of roos that graze in the paddocks opposite my house. I freaked, but no way was he listening to my yells because he's a Border Collie and thought they were like sheep, and needed to be rounded up. The silly mutt could've been killed. Roos can be nasty. After he ran for an hour, and came back looking happy with himself, he got sent to the doghouse. Now every time he sees those roos, he looks at me in hope, but I shake my head NO! and he pouts. It's not every country that eats it's national emblem. Lol. Yeah, it's hard to understand the cost of houses when we have such incredible expanses of open flat land. I was working under a car once, and a redback dropped into my hair. That was a brown moment. Loving you vids. Cheers.
That definitely sounds like something our border collie would do if we lived near kangaroo 😆 Thanks for the laugh 👍🏻
Under a car sounds like Redback country. But on the back of a kitchen door? A Golden Orb perhaps but I am not buying into Redbacks in the open. Dark moist places. Mine live in the kitchen
Exhaust and stay happy munching on flies
Our local primary school was renovated and a new kind of insulated ceiling was installed. It turned out to be ideal redback habitat. They were dropping down onto the kids in the middle of class. Now the ceilings, and under the seats everywhere, get sprayed during every school holiday break.
@@chriswatson1698 @Chris Watson if you live in a humid area, I can see that possibility. Insulation trapping the moisture and maybe a cockroach diet. Down south under the building water mains tap is a prime location. I still can't visualise a Redback, in the open, back of a door. Maybe towels and robes would give it the cover? Much like the underseat of the toilet.
Kaitlyn should do a reaction video to "Redback on the toilet seat". Slim Dusty version?
Hi, I live in Melbourne since 1975 and I saw my first red back about 30 years after I arrived to this wonderful country . . . and never again since !!! So . . . Regards
Move over to Melbourne housing here does not cost $1.6 million - check out the suburb of Tarneit VIC 3029 - you can buy a 4 bedroom house with 2 bathrooms for around $550,000 to $650,000
I thought you were joking about the house price in Sydney. But, I live in a regional town and a good late model home is about $500,000. Looking at real estate online, I see houses for sale at $4.5 million dollars. Being Sydney, the average resident there would be earning high wages. In my town, a bar owner had a house valued around $1.6 million. It might be worth more. But, his place is one of the upper limits of house prices.
in terms of the flies - wearing brown/tan seems to stop the blighters biting you in australia - versus blue.
Back in the 1960s, we use to turn our headlights on in a funeral procession
NBN are a government instrumentality who own the physical network. Some of the network uses an ageing cable TV infrastructure. other parts use copper network originally owned by Telstra. Telstra is now a service provider using NBN for delivery, along with many other companies, such as Optus, TPG, iinet, etc.
The original NBN (NBN 1.0) was designed to be a fibre optic network from the service provider, amongst the fastest in the world; but a change in government saw the original design scrapped and a multi discipline slow service substituted (NBN 2.0). We now have amongst the slowest internets in the world thanks to the currrent government, and one that ended up costing significantly more than the original design.
Hope this helps, but it is highly political and utterly confusing even to me, a communications engineer.
Billboards ate banned in Canberra... some politicians park large trucks with signs to circumvent those laws. The funeral procession was a things some years back , before cars had hazzard lights the headlight s were just on.
If you ever work out the NBN or Telstra do a vid and let the rest of us know.
Ha you think thats weird (Tax year) in the UK is April 5th one year to April 4th the following year.
Probably someone needed a holiday here in our (well Yours too now) Summer.
Starts on the 6th finishes on the 5th.
And that's because they didn't want to lose tax money, I think it was something to do with when they changed calendar.
Agreed - calendar year would be easier for tax. But financial year is simply that.
At least school years are in the calendar year, which is easy to figure out
Would you want to be doing your taxes on new years..
You guys should come and visit Western Australia, best value housing in the country and they are built out of double brick none of this paper plasterboard stuff! 800,000 will get you a palace. Wages are higher here as well due to the strong economy driven by mining and resources. Biggest bonus is the weather is awesome sunniest city in the world.
The funeral thing in America makes more sense. We should do it like that too.
The Tax season in the UK is usually April 1st to the following March 31st every year. Strange!
About House prices: Instead of average price, look at the modal figures, which will show one the value at which most houses are sold. A much better figure.
The NBN was borne out of a federal election promise by the Labor (yes, US spelling) going into the federal election of 2007. The won the election which started the process of planning a National Broadband network.
The idea behind it was simple:
* provide significantly faster speeds
* use leverage of government and the economies of scale that provide to improve infrastructure for all
Australia is such a large country (Australia is slightly larger than the US’s contiguous 48 states + DC) but had a population significantly less than the US. It’s not feasible for small internet service providers to roll out their own network. Telstra could but that would be like asking AT&T to roll out to all of the US for 15 times less customers.
Labor’s vision was long term wanting to have a primarily fibre to to home network (something only a couple of cities in the US have achieved like Austin, TX with Google fiber) and they knew it would take 10+ years - something federal government never does because of short terms
When the next election came, the conservative Liberal government (no, not an oxymoron) said the NBN plan was too big, too expensive, too slow - and as a result the network that eventually rolled out was far less advanced and in many cases still not solving the main issue - getting fast and affordable internet
On the flip side, Australia has always been very advanced in mobile networks. It was the first country outside Europe to implement digital mobile (years ahead of Asia and the Americans), and pre 5G Australia has such a fast 4G network that the massive speed improvements gained in the US we’re not seen here, with 5G being in many tests, a downgrade. Australia has generally rated very well with mobile speeds (although countries are catching up and overtaking as 5G rollouts occur, particularly in small countries like UAE). But in fixed broadband, even though the NBN was intended to be a revolution, it’s left us with mediocre pockets and brilliant pockets (I personally get 850Mbs down so won’t complain, but my connection is not representative of the general population).
What is good with NBN is that you can leave your service provider and switch knowing that your modem and connection can simply be taken over by another provider - very similar to the way gas or electricity providers can be chosen
The flies in Central Australia can be so bad that it's almost impossible to eat ourdoors sometimes.
Other spiders, fine. But if there is a redback around, that I kill. Or a white tail. The others I put outside or just leave, depending.
You'd be surprised how close you live to herds of Kangaroos. There are a few bushland settings near where I think you live and kangaroos run wild there although housing developments are shrinking their habitat
Redback spiders are nowhere near as dangerous as their reputation. The advice from an Australian government health website is that if you get bitten by a redback spider, seek medical attention only if the pain is severe and persistent.
I was bitten by a redback spider when I was 10 and received no anti-venom for it. The bite site hurt and I felt nauseous, but I recovered just fine.
On the subject of the anti-venom for redback spider bite, the current medical advice I've seen in hospitals is that a person should only receive anti-venom if their condition is severe and then only if a shot of adrenaline is at the ready. Reason being is that the anti-venom has proven to cause more risk to the patient than the actual spider bite! The anti-venom can cause anaphylactic shock, even after the spider bite did not!
*_Completely_* *_different_* *_story_* *_for_* *_the_* *_Sydney_* *_funnel-web_* *_spider!_* If you get bitten by a Sydney funnel-web spider, immediately *_first_* apply a compression bandage and *_then_* ring 000 or otherwise get to a hospital as quickly as you can. Failure to apply a compression bandage can mean you're dead within 15 minutes.
My peoples culture is very diverse and all are unique and differ from mob to mob. At one point we had 700 Languages before colonisation but now we only have 200-250 left and a good majority of them are at risk of going extinct and we also have at least 100 dormant languages just waiting to be revitalised. A good way to find out more about Indigenous Australian and Torres Strait Islander culture is at aiatsis they have some great resources. Also my people have been in Australia for 120 000 years and are the oldest continuous culture.
In Australia you're supposed to drive with your headlights on in a funeral procession.
Regarding kangaroo per food
Are you aware that in most parts of Australia Kangaroo is sold in restaurants as well as butchers and speciality shops
It is the BEST meat!
Delicious as well as one of the most healthiest and low in fat
I know some people get funny about eating kangaroo
... yet don't think twice about eating Bessie the cow!
Do yourself a favour and give it a go!
I don’t camp I’ll be at pub with accommodation
Move to Perth, $500k average house price. Dry heat, far fewer bugs, better surf.
Here in Western Australia you can still buy houses for under 300k
There hasn't been a death from a spider bite in Australia since 1979. The last death from a redback was the 1950s.
They killed off the weak ones and only the strong survives💪
Mate, you are not alone trying to work with NBN. NBN is the infrastructure provider and the ISPs use the NBN infrastructure to deliver their services. You cannot directly contact NBnand must deal through your ISP. If your ISP is useless, you are in trouble. And regarding tax time, I don’t really see the issue. You have to remember that December/January in the US is winter and definately not a holiday time. December and January in Australia is SUMMER and holiday time. The last thing Aussies want to think about over Christmas/New Year are bloody tax returns!!!! That’s the reason. Grüße aus Australien.
The US tax time is mid winter when other activities can be limited (depending where you live). Tax time in Australia is mid Winter also.
Hi Kaitlyn, our culture is 60,000 years old, they are the beautiful indigenous people here first,and their passion for the Dreamtime, the original Australians.
redbacks aren't much of a worry. but don't mess with a funnel web. funeral processions - headlights on, not hazards. We stop at red lights because with all the stop light cameras these days you are risking a nasty surprise in the mail
I have started getting my house sprayed for bugs...got it done a couple of months agao and havent seen a spider or cockroach since. They recommend every six months :)
I'll have to look into doing that!
we do it every 12 months, after our kids were having red backs in their rooms. We don't see spiders anymore.
You'll love the big brothers of the skinks, the Blue Tongue lizards. They do a great job getting rid of snails.
Kill the red back spiders, there are plenty more where they came from. I'd take a funnel web or trap door spider outdoors where they belong however, even though they are more dangerous.
You should know your local aboriginal tribal area, ours are the Ngunnawal, you should know whose land you are on. Maybe you will get the same feeling for "country" as they do.
Be honest. Where would you rather live? Philly, Sydney or Melbourne? You get what you pay for. And the average home is not $1.6m, not even near, but it isn't US$300k either. I suspect you are not looking in the outer suburbs, and are interested in the nicer suburbs.
We may have Aussie made on our products (usually a sign it is better, especially with food) but we don't hump our flags like Americans do.
Aussie funerals are a great opportunity to buy some fruit from the side of the road. You know where everyone is going and it's not like the occupant of the hearse is going to mind.
I'm surprised that you haven't mentioned the Funnel Web Spiders that you get in Sydney
Now THEY are scary!
I have a few Redback families living in the shed
Live and let live
Also
Regarding funeral processions
That is something that used to be common but I think it died out in the 70s
Life just got busier I suppose
But it is something that we did do. But not really anymore
If you don't know how to catch a funnel web don't attempt it. The fangs can puncture through leather gloves and shoes.
Why would you want to do your taxes in the middle of Christmas
You actually have to wait until January to start any tax paperwork stove you need to include ALL of the year before (1 January through 31 December) and typically have to wait a few weeks into January for your employer to give you your W2 form in order to file. Besides, for the US, it's winter and most people's holidays end right after New Year's Day.
@@KindaAustralian But it's summer here.
Tax time is so easy . It’s based on a financial year. And when I file a tax return I go to MyGov. The ato already knows my wages and interest etc a few clicks and done
It wouldn't be so easy for her though due to tax residency, DTA between Australia and USA, decision on what income to recognise in what jurisdiction and timing issues. So her concerns are valid. McGov is particularly useful to Australians not working in the private or quango sectors.
Come live in Brisbane, I have lizards 18 inches long and smaller. Again not something that attacks you, we coexist happily. By the way, Redbacks are the same type of spider as your US black widow. You guys in Sydney have to look out for the funnel webs, they are bad! We have bad snakes in the bush though. Many varieties. Oh, house prices, this is one of the most over-regulated countries, we all pay for this in higher prices for, well everything.
No real Aussie is gonna give you crap for killing a redback.
No billboards in ACT, good idea about hazard lights
Don't catch either! They both love Americans
Here in Ballarat ave house price is around 320 000
You smack the crap out of any spiders
Are you deliberately misspelling "leanring" in the graphic 20:51 - I know the US has a different english but not that different!
No, that was a typo. My graphics designer fixed it for my newer videos 🙂
If it's poisonous your better off not trying to catch it. Nobody is going to complain if you kill one.
Think of the NBN as the owner of the cables and (most of the) devices (not strictly accurate, but close enough).
You interact with a retailer (for example, Telstra, Optus, TPG, etc) to get Internet services through the NBN.
If you are sick of a retailer because of their incompetence or their inability to get the NBN to fix an issue, then you can swap retailers (you may have to break a contract).
Note: Mobile phone services are not provided by the NBN, though of course the big NBN retailers all have mobile phone networks of their own. So why use the NBN? Download volume value for money is the main reason, and in some areas you also get high speed.
Let's not get into the technologies of the NBN as the whole sorry saga is very disappointing and could lead to a political flame war :-
When a fly is bothering me, I say. " Go away fly, I'm not your friend"
Other than the red backs - the white tail spiders are something to avoid.
no that's an old myth about the white tail spiders, it's been debunked. From wiki...
"Although ulcers and necrosis have been attributed to the bites, a scientific study by Isbister and Gray (2003) showed they had other causes, mostly infections. A study of 130 white-tailed spider bites found no necrotic ulcers or confirmed infections."
@@DaveWhoa they are more aggressive than most spiders though. I leave everything else in my house but them
The worst thing about being bitten by a poisonous spider is that it means that you are probably Australian :p
@@DaveWhoa You're intellectually dishonest if you ignore the fact that whitetail toxins prevent the body from fighting these infections. it's like saying a komodo dragon bite being toxic is an "old myth" bacteria still kills. I can name scores of patients who experienced ulcers from the FOUR SPOT WHITETAIL
@@tinfoilhomer909 and you're showing how gullible you are to a myth that's been debunked a long time ago.
Whacking a spider with a thong (flip flop) is a national Aussie past time so step 1 to Citizenship is done. Congrats.
Re the NBN. It’s a government funded broadband network which was paid for by taxpayers. The idea was to let people all over Australia, no matter where you live access to broadband services. Even in the middle of nowhere, if you live there, you get the NBN. The government had to do it as it was not economical for a private company to do it due to low population especially in the areas where fast broadband is the most expensive to connect up. The NBN is the resold through Telstra, Optus, Vodafone, TPG and countless other RSP’s (retail service providers). It’s the same as electricity in Australia. One or two companies own the power lines and poles etc in each area and you chose which reseller you want to connect to and where you get the best deal. The NBN was supposed to be optical fibre to the home. Really fast, and world class. Unfortunately the Liberal (The Liberal government here are a conservative government (like the Republicans) - different to what “Liberal” means in the Us!) government at the time decided to go cheap and nasty and changed the technology for a vast majority of connections to fibre to the node instead of fibre to the home. This means the NBN is fibre (and very fast speed) to a box up the road and then delivered through really old tech copper wire phone lines to the home. This means the connections are often slow and unreliable. It turns out if the government at the time had done it fibre to the home across the board it would have actually been cheaper in the long run. Now the NBN is a patchwork of technologies (wireless, FTTN ANF FTTH) having to be upgraded across the country which is costing a fortune. It should have been done properly in the first place. Your channel is great! Keep up the good work! Craig - Geelong - VIC.
This description of NBN is spot on. This is the inevitable outcome of conservative politicians who have no interest in better serving the needs of the whole population but just their wealthy supporters. Would rather use government revenues (our taxes) to subsidise the fossil fuel industry.
Open minded? It was a labor plan! Kevin Rudd started it….
@@openminded5393 Malcolm Turnbull isn't a conservative, a conservative would have allowed technology and private companies to build it over time, understanding that you make decision about where you live and to try to connect everyone from city to regions to the same network was never going to work. But this is what the left wanted so that's what we got. A conservative never touched it. Lol
the only reason it's trash is because the government didn't want to invest in fibre optic cabling and tried to rely on the existing copper wire network.
Because of all its faults it's usually nicknamed "No Bloody Network".
I enjoyed 2 years in Seattle when I was in the Royal Australian Navy in 1984, onwards. My most embarrassing culture shock was the first morning breakfast at our hotel where we were staying at, was having to ask the waitress what hash browns were! Good memories of a lovely Country. All the best down here!
Love your channel and I am so glad that you have moved to our country. I enjoy all of your videos. You seem to be adapting well. Keep up the great work.
Thank you! 🙂
@@KindaAustralian Sydney and Melbourne are not the best examples of affordable housing in Australia, Adelaide is Australia's most livable city..
@@KindaAustralianI just looked 700000 -1000000 for 3 bedroom 2 bathroom 1 or 2 garage home if go close to cbd then 1.6 mil
We don't use hazard lights for funerals, but usually, headlights would be turned on for following the hearse. I'm not sure what/if any road rules are these days in regards to funeral processions but I have seen older Gentlemen remove their hats as a procession passes.
* Just checked and it is illegal to interrupt a funeral procession.
The financial year thing is so you can do your taxes without all the extra hassle of Christmas time, either one of those on their own is enough. It's ok to knock off a Redback, they can give you a nasty bite but others like the big, scary but harmless Huntsman, you catch in a jar/glass and release it in the front/back yard (on a plant is good) they also are good insect hunters. In South Oz we drive in a funeral with our lights on and often people on the street will remove their hat as you pass (but that sadly has fallen away over the last few decades).
Yeah, Sydney house prices are ridiculous. It's a real intergenerational issue. Also dayum, I'm moving to Philly 😎
Great Channel btw 👍👍
We promote Aussie made because we’ve done alot of importing and had a lack of native industry
I'm with you Kaitlyn, any red back spider in my house has a death wish. House prices at the moment are rediclously high, here in Adelaide average is around $300,000 -$500,000. I don't use NBN, instead I use Telstra mobile internet, works really well - no problems (yet). Love your videos. If you are going to touch on Indigenous topics please consult with culturally aware people eg S.A. museum can provide a great deal of information ( unfortunately politics can taint understanding). All the best👍
Pffft can’t buy a garage for that in Sydney
@@gloryglory5688 Which is why Adelaide has been voted Australia's most livable city, it's still relatively affordable.
@@iggyblitz8739 it’s a boring shithole
Nope. Kill them
The USA… Grizzlies,Wolf packs,Mountain lions,Rattlers,Alligators,crazies with assault weapons…in Sydney…’watch out it’s a skink,RUN !! 😝🙋♂️👍 Also losing the funeral procession gives you the automatic right to go straight to the pub…no?
Wow you nailed it, in regards to aboriginal and TI culture even the maroi peoples. That's what I love about Australia. We all try our best to be better and wiser then the generations before. Take nothing but photos and leave nothing but footprints. Oh and on the bugs situation, I hate and run for my life when those huge flying roaches are around. Lol don't stress about the red backs, there only in because of all the rain.
You really get it. Nice to see an intelligent TH-cam channel. Welcome to Australia.
I’ve only experienced one funeral procession where it wasn’t interrupted and that was only because we got a police escort and green lights the entire way. Other than that every other funeral procession i’ve just followed normal traffic rules. Didn’t even know it was a thing to not interrupt.
Going to NSW from any other state in the country is a culture shock.
Squashing red back spiders with your thong is a very Australian way to deal with them, totally acceptable 👍the ones to be careful of over there are the funnel web and trap door.
I hope you are referring to using your Australian thong and not your American thong LOL
How can that be, there is no discernible change in culture?
Funnel Webs and White Tails. Never heard of any problems from Trap Doors
I just move the redback to another area in my garden where it is "out of the way"
Why kill them? Not like they are "hard to see".
@@nickt6965. Thong has always been about straps on footwear, Indian sandals, JC sandals, etc, until the modern invention of clothing that involved narrow strips of fabric - probably originally for (ahem) exotic dancers. Underwear is usually not mentioned in public so when one says thongs (plural) in public it means footwear.
Redbacks and Black Widows are cousins.
I love your G'day greeting ..so cool and you certainly do say it right ...Loving your vids ...G'day from Tasmania by the way...
Your in the wrong state. Queensland or south Australia is much cheaper or get way out of the metropolitan areas.
Depends on what you want though.
Living in those states you have to deal with those premiers that happily stop family to see one last time their dieing parents.
@@Robert-cu9bm I was only speaking about cost of housing and nothing else.
I still get excited about geckos in the house.
Acknowledgement of Country does not include New Zealand Maori. I am Aboriginal- Bundjalung People
Fu%@ing Telstra… yep that’s the Offical company name
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Sydney house prices have been ridiculous since the 2000 Olympics, the rest of Australia is catching up.
Move to Tassie or Queensland 😀
NBN is a Federal Company/Service owns the phone/data lines which are than able to be used by any telecommunications company so we have a wider variety of Providers of Phone & Internet!
NBN is meant to connect 95+ percent of Australia People the few that can not get phone/data cables run to them due to cost use Satellites Services!
Kill all spiders.. Aussie here! You did well.
Great job Kaitlyn⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍🏻 Nigel WMH🇦🇺
The funeral thing while sounding morbid is just Aussies being Aussies. Of course we care about people dying but everyone dies. What purpose is a funeral procession? The dead person doesn’t care. No need to hold up traffic just so everyone can drive together. I’d assume that’s a bigger thing in the US because in general people are more religious.
Even Aussies don’t get the NBN either
Noooo dont try to protect redback spiders or any dangerous spiders in Australia. Just kill them, they arent protected or about to go extinct. If you see a huge hairy huntman spider though, dont kill it but just take it outside, those eat the spiders which could hurt you. Sydney is expensive for houses in Australia. If one is in a funeral possession in Australia, you can keep your headlights on so that people know (you just cant go driving through red lights).
Hey Lady, you killed a redback with your thong. Classic, I would have liked to see that! Only good redback is a flat back
Telstra was the sole supplier of all phone cables nation wide this was broken down and Optus was allowed in with others, then the government created NBN as sole supplier of optical fibber nation wide with all other telco's buying rights from NBN without having to worry about cable network Telstra was hard done by loosing a lot as once it was part of the post master generals umbrella for communications with government funding
Please please do not try to catch a red-back spider! It's far too dangerous to try to catch it. Even killing it with your shoe was brave. I honestly could only spray it or get someone else to kill it. And I would freak the shit out if I saw one on my kitchen door!
Killing a red back is completely reasonable. Councils will come out and destroy a colony in a drain. They aren’t a protected species in the urban environment or areas of human habitation.
My wife would take to a redback with a flamethrower if we had one! 😆 I usually leave them alone. The reality is that redback bites while painful rarely require anti-venom treatment. It’s the funnel webs which are the problem. Whether roos are a pest depends on the variant of kangaroo and where you live - kangaroo dog food originates from licensed hunting. Sydney house prices have skyrocketed in the last 20 years and I agree are totally ridiculous (and we own one of them but were very lucky with our timing!). Getting into Sydney property these days usually requires starting out somewhere else! Oh and your “gidday” is progressing well - you’ll have to drop the “Kinda” in your TH-cam name soon! 😀
Thank you! 🙂
Not too bad, skin swells, looks like the skin of an orange, sweats, and is quite painful. Not deadly, unless you are allergic to bites. I am allergic, I hit first and ask questions later. Thank god for good old Aussie thongs.
love skinks...we have two kinds in our garden black ones with a green stripe...and pale grey ones with a yellow stripe...they compete for sunny spots and we often watch them while we are having our morning coffee and laugh at the little wars going on in the garden..
Subbed at the skink lol, i love content about my country when someone has no clue :D. Al so yeah do whatever with a redback dw.
You do realise New Zealand is a separate country don't you? Was your reference to Maoris because you went to an ANZAC day ceremony?
In the process of moving offer there. With an immigration consulting company, but I would love to pick your brain some time with visa and moving questions.
Hey Breana! Best of luck with your move! Feel free to email me or DM me in Instagram anytime, happy to chat 😊
@@KindaAustralian oh great idea! I just got Instagram, it is technically my dog's actually Thank you very much!