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
Also another tradition when someone dies at home. The funeral home will pick up the deceased in a hearse naturally. One of the funeral directors will walk ahead of the hearse until the hearse is out of sight (normally to the end of the street). It's good manners for any oncoming vehicles to pull over and allow the hearse to pass. Following vehicles should never overtake the hearse.
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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. 🦋
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..
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.
This was an interesting broadcast today! :-) Until I was in my 20s, funeral vehicles travelled in 'procession' with their lights on, and were identifiable. I think more funerals were local in cemeteries then. Nowadays, more often funerals are a bit distant and folks are cremated or buried in lawn cemeteries which are distant from their homes, so a 'procession' would be impractical for travelling all together across a big distance. I suspect that's why the practice stopped. I wonder if anyone else remembers that? (This was in NSW, mostly country areas but have also seen in the city).
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’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.
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).
We use to have Funerals drive with parking lights on and in procession! and most car have day light running lights now. But driving through Red lights, was stopped when there were some accidents at lights. Mardi Gras is to remember the 78 Rights March, Now a celebration! You can buy houses in towns other than Sydney or Melbourne. Or wait for interest rates to go up to 7-10%. Banks will be selling foreclosures at 50cents on the Dollar. 🧡 Welcome to OZ
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.
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.
End of financial year, you have to remember in the Southern Hemisphere our summer is at the start of each year, and businesses close and go on longer holidays/ vacations. So it's easier to have it during winter months. It's a fiscal year.
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
I just found your channel Kaitlyn, Thank you. I came here from New Zealand with my wife and 18 month old son in 1981. I want to let you know that after all this time, I am still hearing new words regularly. Spiders: You have adapted to the hazards of Australian wildlife a lot faster than I did. I am still not prepared to trust my judgement about whether a spider is dangerous or not. I treat them all as lethal and that will do me. I'm not interested in making friends with spiders. Funerals: I think the way Americans do funeral processions is a lot more respectful than how we do it. I think it's a pity we dont have a procession like that.
Ironically the largest and scariest looking spider, the huntsman, is the least lethal and usually pretty timid. And beneficially they often eat other venomous spiders. So they’re alright. (Whilst they are considered a venomous species, their fangs are actually too narrow to deliver the venom properly to humans. So their bites just cause annoying symptoms at worst.)
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👍
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.
I used to live in Sydney years ago and left because I simply could not afford it. And that was years ago, I can't imagine how tough it must be now. I'm in the outer suburbs of Perth, and my house was valued just today at $420k. That's still a lot for a small house on a tiny block but compared to Sydney it's cheap as chips. Come over here and buy 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.
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!
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.
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.
Just discovered your channel, I really like your open and honest outlook on all things Oz! Funeral processions in general aren’t as popular here I think. I always wondered about how in movies there’s always people standing graveside but here we mostly have it in a funeral home or church and then the hearse leaves and that’s it, we stay there for a wake or go to another venue. I’ve been to about 20 funerals and have never been in a procession. And that’s interesting about tax season, is the business year the same as the calendar year over there? Our school year is the same as the calendar year though. 😜 Looking forward to your vids!
It depends if your being cremated or buried, if cremated it's at the funeral parlour, if burial the service is in church or funeral parlour depending if your religious or not then there us the procession and graveside burial. It's illegal to break into a procession,no flags are required as it's obvious it is a funeral, the procession is usually a lot slower, all cars following have their headlights on. As for cost of homes, maybe venture away from Sydney and Melbourne, the average home in Perth is $650K and in the outer suburbs of Perth is around $$350K and if you've not owned shine before look into the First Home Buyers Scheme where the government subsidies your first home purchase with the purchaser required to have 5% deposit you'll also get a Stamp Duty exemption, First Home Buyers Bonus which is $20k in WA, and if you purchase through an agent, you get your first full year Land and Water Rates Rebated.
If a funeral procession is behind you or going past you it is polite and standard procedure to pull over and put on your parking lights until they pass.
from what i've experienced with the few funerals i've been too, we all just made our own way to the cementary. not in a line or togther, we just left the church and got to the cementary when we could.
In Queensland people used to wait for a funeral to pass but as traffic grew it seems that it became too disruptive to hold up traffic for long funeral processions. Most people would be expected to know how to get to the cemetary. Or if its a cremation the service is often held on site,
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
Must vary in different parts of Australia. Definitely drive with headlights on, especially in smaller cities and towns. Towns without traffic lights easier to stay grouped. Everybody should know where the cemetery is so, no problem. Generally wait at the cemetery for everybody to arrive as not everybody may have joined the procession.
NBN Co. is a government owned corporation established to roll out a national fibre optic broadband network. They are the wholesaler of bandwidth to the retail suppliers (Telstra, Optus, Dodo, etc).
On the skink, I found out recently that we have a blue-tongue living in our carport. Our carport is full of my brother Noddy's stuff, stacked on some wooden pallets, so the Lizard is probably in amongst the pallets. Blue-tongues grow to around 30cm (1 foot) in length. They are also harmless pest-eaters.
Yeah I have this impression people from other countries think national animals are sacred, and all respect, a lot are because they are endangered, but Australia eats it's whole Coat of Arms - that is to say kangaroo meat, emu meat, and wattleseed products do exist on the market. Kangaroo is the most common native meat, having a small section in supermarket meat departments. Emu is more speciality and wattle tends to pop up in "Bush Foods" products, but not with the ubiquity of macadamias.
i am from the uk but lived in central sydney for 4 months , i was in hyde ark at dusk , looked up and saw what i thought were huge birds , i was shocked to discover they were fruit bats, something i would never see here , also like you i was always saying that i used to see the sides of roads moving or pavement , it was the bugs ,dont get me started on how big the cockroaches are , one came flying through my window and landed on my chest i screamed the house down lol, i could go on and on , also the food in the supermarkets is so expensive. saying all of this sydney is the best city in the world .
Lol all Foreigners make the same mistake and live in Melbourne or Sydney. 2 most expensive places in Australia. Realise why more Southerners move to Brisbane and rest of QLD. cheaper on everything.
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
@4:50 I grew up in Sydney. Roaches and commute time are the two reasons I will never return. @9:10 NBN, etc - what people forget or perhaps don't seem to appreciate is that internet connectivity involves physical wires in the ground on public land. It doesn't happen by magic. Someone has to own and maintain those wires - the actual copper and/or glass fiber.
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?
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.
Well welcome to Australia here we put our headlights on that's it and chase the leader and it's cheaper to live in the other 5 states than Sydney you will get used to the differences and most people here are friendly so good luck and enjoy the new things and sights you will see cheers
NSW used to use the exactly same procedure for funeral processions, minus the flags and the hazard lights. There was no such thing as hazard lights for a long time,.
Flies are much less numerous now than they were 20 years ago. The fly problem was caused by importing cows. The local dung beetles couldn't deal with big sloppy dung piles. They were evolved to deal with the dry pellets left by kangaroos and wallabies.
I have always thought a funeral procession still has to abide by the traffic rules hence stopping at traffic lights but usually cars put their head lights on so people know you are in that cavalcade. Only a very important funeral,would have the traffic lights turned off or allowed to continue straight through
Regarding funerals. Most funerals here are held in chapels at the cemetery so no procession. I have been to several funerals in Sydney and all of them were held at the cemetery.
I have never once been to a funeral where we went to the cemetery after the service. Only ever attended the service at the funeral homes, then sometimes a wake at a relatives house.
The only thing I'd comment on is , as you point out the ridiculous house prices here in Australia I'm frowned apon for saying it but you'll find that a huge factor in the jump of house prices is the influx of Asian speculators into the country . It doesn't matter what price a house goes for it will be sold , and often by a party from Asia. If they can afford it good luck to them . Every one gets their neck in a knot because foreigners are buying up the housing stock but they can't move the house or land back to their own country and meanwhile.they are paying land rates and taxes which all helps the economy .you could , if your profession allows , consider moving out of the city for a more affordable town or city , Newcastle or Wollongong for example , where the average house prices are a whole lot lower for example my home , in Sydney would easily sell for upwards of 2 million , but here in Newcastle has been valued at around 750 thousand which is still staggering as it initially cost only 10 thousand to build back in 1969 I guess it would be hard to move from the action of a big city but the 600 thousand citizens that call the Hunter Valley home have managed to have a great lifestyle and enjoy all the benefits of the city in what's really a big country town . At least you would have one less thing to worry about and you could spend more time enjoying the Aussie lifestyle .I enjoy your show stay safe and happy
Whilst this comment about foreign investors was certainly a major driving factor of the last housing boom that ended in 2018, it really isn’t the case for the current one. Also, Sydney is a special case (and not in a good way). Since around the 1990s it’s prices have been totally out of kilter with the rest of Australia with some very rare exceptions. The current boom has more to do with historic low home loan interest rates and chronic irrational FOMO, which I suspect will cause serious problem for buyers who have overextended themselves if/when the market retreats.
You do realise that house prices double about every 7 to 10 years. The other factor you haven't mentioned is the negative gearing for investment property.
Tax time. It runs from July to June because the seasons are inverted. Thus agricultural businesses, also tourism operators, can match the costs of the season with the income from the same harvest.
i do admit as an aussie born you are so right broadband is crap but overall the lifestyle when i was growing up in Australia is fantastic i hope you enjoy the lifestyle what Australia has to offer you and yes there is challenges you have to face but you can over come them :)
Re Tax Season in Oz: Since a lot of people would be on summer vacation - perhaps at a caravan park or interstate - at the end of the year, including tax office staff, tax season is in the middle of winter, like USA, when everyone is at home.
The house prices get lower the further you get away from the city,as a example I live 25 mins by bus or train to my capital city,the suburb I live,we have a house with yard,cost to buy around 800,000.but you can get luxury town houses for 460 000.with a decent size yard.
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.
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.
LOL Red Back spiders used to be our companions in the back yard dunnies . Provided they weren't in the actual bowl no worries! Can u imagine the youngins today? They'd be needing months of therapy to overcome the traumatic experience haha.
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
Try finding an accountant or Tax agent in January to do your income tax. As December is such a busy period for a lot of industries (tourism, retail, hospitality) and its our major Summer Holiday season, hence they agreed that businesses did not need the extra burden of filing their company taxes In January. Hence, the business financial year is June, so it was natural for the personal income tax year to follow suite.
Hi. Those little lizards (skinks) are known as drop tail lizards as they will lose their tails which keep wiggling to distract you , if you try catch them. The tails just grow back
There is a T-shirt you can buy. On the front it says "there's no flies on my back". On the back the t-shirt is covered in flies. I've seen this when I was in Rome. Real flies not printed ones! I always enjoy your videos.
How you feel about the whole calendar year being easier for tax is how I've always thought about the school system. I get it's a season thing but always sounds odd to me that it wouldn't start at the beginning of the year.
1) locally we use the whole word i.e cockroach not 'roach' 2) A "Welcome to Country" is an acknowledgement of all the native nations of Australia. Generally , the acknowledgement of Moari people , probably would be as visitors. 3) Not all homes in Sydney are worth $1 million dollars.i.e Western Suburbs. The further out of the capital cities the cheaper the home is.
Billboards - as a fellow greater Philadelphia area resident, you probably remember this one billboard. "Jawn" Morgan lawyer. That one peeves me so much, dinkum!
NBN was supposed to be the National Government providing fibre network to cover all of Australia and every Australian. Later Governments cut the funding and it has dragged on for years. So the network itself is built by a Government-funded business, and then to connect to it you need to join a carrier, like you have a mobile phone carrier to connect you to the mobile/cell network.
IOW: It's a clusterf**k. Which we all knew it would be as soon as the Libs decided to mangle the end-to-end fibre into a pastiche of 100yo copper ends with fibre middles.
Australia has so may bugs, beetles and flies that EVERY Australian house has fly wire screens on every window and door just like in Canada and the USA. You see very few bugs in most of Europe which is why it is so enjoyable to sit at outdoors bars and cafes in summer. The historical reason why the Australian financial years starts in July is because January is when we have summer holidays and no one wanted to spend the holidays finalizing annual financial accounts. In Some states ( Like NSW ) it is a traffic offence ( with demerit points and a fine ) to interrupt a funeral procession. Traditionally in Australia cars in a funeral possession just have their headlights on to indicate that they are in a procession.
There is actually a good logic to the tax year here...Middle of winter there are no big purchases to be made, not many are on holiday etc, so it's a more manageable time to pay tax than Dec. In the US people are home in Dec, so it's not so big an issue. Here, December is both Christmas as well as holiday time, so expenses are high. Probably not the historical reason, but a valid reason. Interestingly the Japan financial year ends at the end of March
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?
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.
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
Nice to get a 'like and heart from you but the following is a recommendation. A reasonably short drive from Sydney to a place named Gosford you will find the Australian Reptile Park. Here you will find everything that is Deadly in Australia. From Memory it is a reasonable price to attend and the knowledge you will gain may be beneficial. Not sure if they have much in the way of Marine deadly creatures ie Blue Ringed Octopus, Sea Snakes, Crocodiles but more, Creatures you will find Terrestrially in Australia. A nice day's outing.
How far west do you live? I live in Penrith and we still have emus and kangaroos around the area. You might still see them on the odd time come into suburbia.
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
The NBN is the network which connects to the internet. Telstra is Australia's largest telecommunications company. They're pretty good for your phone service, but as far as fixed internet is concerned, you're better off with companies such as iiNet, Internode or TPG. Housing prices in Sydney are ridiculously expensive. Melbourne is nearly as bad. Try moving to Brisbane, Adelaide or Perth, and you'll find the houses are much more affordable.
The NBN is responsible for the connection to the home for everyone. It was supposed to be FttP to almost every home in the country. Really remote people would be either Fixed Wireless or Satellite. But when the LNP took power in 2013, they have a pathelogical hatred for anything Labor proposes... so they decided they could do it 'cheaper' by changing the technology for most homes to FttN which is much less suitable for the 21st Century as it relies on the old Copper telephone wires most homes have from their old landline phones. And the copper lines are really old and need to be replaced anyway. So, their 'cheaper' option has cost more, took longer to complete than the original Fibre Optic cable FttP of Labor... many homes have to be redone and upgraded to FttP because of the failing copper wire. Oh... and when they took over... the LNP also said (this is absolutely true) that we 'don't need fast internet speeds'. Then along came the pandemic, and people working and studying from home... Clearly we DO need fast internet speeds. So that is the potted story of the NBN.
@@Robert-cu9bm What a moronic statement. But typical of the ignorance of the LNP supporter. No. The Internet was not ‘better’ before. But you are just too stupid to remember.
Sorry about the house prices, they're a bit excessive to me, even as a home own. Best advice, get the first homers grant and other government assistance, get into the market and use the built up equity to purchase the next one (start small). As for the tax period starting in July and ending in June, it so Christmas and the holidays were off set to the time tax returns were due. P.S. for tax, claim "any cost incurred from earning a living". Especially if you worked from home. I used to claim work uniform washing, or part there of and it was legal.👍
I think the reason why our tax season starts in the middle of the year is because of where summer lands in Australia, a lot of people go away and is in the middle of summer school holidays
That might have just been the one funeral. What you described has happened at other Australian funerals I've been at. We do use hazzard lights. Also you did the right thing to kill the spider. I don't know where there would be spider centers.
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
Also another tradition when someone dies at home. The funeral home will pick up the deceased in a hearse naturally. One of the funeral directors will walk ahead of the hearse until the hearse is out of sight (normally to the end of the street). It's good manners for any oncoming vehicles to pull over and allow the hearse to pass. Following vehicles should never overtake the hearse.
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.
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!
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.
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
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).
You really get it. Nice to see an intelligent TH-cam channel. Welcome to Australia.
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.
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...
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. 🦋
Whacking a spider with a thong (flip flop) is a national Aussie past time so step 1 to Citizenship is done. Congrats.
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..
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.
This was an interesting broadcast today! :-) Until I was in my 20s, funeral vehicles travelled in 'procession' with their lights on, and were identifiable. I think more funerals were local in cemeteries then. Nowadays, more often funerals are a bit distant and folks are cremated or buried in lawn cemeteries which are distant from their homes, so a 'procession' would be impractical for travelling all together across a big distance. I suspect that's why the practice stopped. I wonder if anyone else remembers that? (This was in NSW, mostly country areas but have also seen in the city).
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’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.
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!
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 use to have Funerals drive with parking lights on and in procession! and most car have day light running lights now.
But driving through Red lights, was stopped when there were some accidents at lights.
Mardi Gras is to remember the 78 Rights March,
Now a celebration!
You can buy houses in towns other than Sydney or Melbourne.
Or wait for interest rates to go up to 7-10%. Banks will be selling foreclosures at 50cents on the Dollar.
🧡 Welcome to OZ
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.
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.
We promote Aussie made because we’ve done alot of importing and had a lack of native industry
End of financial year, you have to remember in the Southern Hemisphere our summer is at the start of each year, and businesses close and go on longer holidays/ vacations. So it's easier to have it during winter months. It's a fiscal year.
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
I just found your channel Kaitlyn, Thank you. I came here from New Zealand with my wife and 18 month old son in 1981. I want to let you know that after all this time, I am still hearing new words regularly. Spiders: You have adapted to the hazards of Australian wildlife a lot faster than I did. I am still not prepared to trust my judgement about whether a spider is dangerous or not. I treat them all as lethal and that will do me. I'm not interested in making friends with spiders. Funerals: I think the way Americans do funeral processions is a lot more respectful than how we do it. I think it's a pity we dont have a procession like that.
Ironically the largest and scariest looking spider, the huntsman, is the least lethal and usually pretty timid.
And beneficially they often eat other venomous spiders. So they’re alright.
(Whilst they are considered a venomous species, their fangs are actually too narrow to deliver the venom properly to humans. So their bites just cause annoying symptoms at worst.)
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.
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
Great job Kaitlyn⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍🏻 Nigel WMH🇦🇺
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.
I used to live in Sydney years ago and left because I simply could not afford it. And that was years ago, I can't imagine how tough it must be now. I'm in the outer suburbs of Perth, and my house was valued just today at $420k. That's still a lot for a small house on a tiny block but compared to Sydney it's cheap as chips. Come over here and buy instead :)
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
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.
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!
Sydney is beautiful.. and you too..
In the 19th century one of Australia's largest imports was ice. (that is the frozen water variety).
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.
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
Just discovered your channel, I really like your open and honest outlook on all things Oz!
Funeral processions in general aren’t as popular here I think. I always wondered about how in movies there’s always people standing graveside but here we mostly have it in a funeral home or church and then the hearse leaves and that’s it, we stay there for a wake or go to another venue. I’ve been to about 20 funerals and have never been in a procession. And that’s interesting about tax season, is the business year the same as the calendar year over there? Our school year is the same as the calendar year though. 😜
Looking forward to your vids!
It depends if your being cremated or buried, if cremated it's at the funeral parlour, if burial the service is in church or funeral parlour depending if your religious or not then there us the procession and graveside burial. It's illegal to break into a procession,no flags are required as it's obvious it is a funeral, the procession is usually a lot slower, all cars following have their headlights on.
As for cost of homes, maybe venture away from Sydney and Melbourne, the average home in Perth is $650K and in the outer suburbs of Perth is around $$350K and if you've not owned shine before look into the First Home Buyers Scheme where the government subsidies your first home purchase with the purchaser required to have 5% deposit you'll also get a Stamp Duty exemption, First Home Buyers Bonus which is $20k in WA, and if you purchase through an agent, you get your first full year Land and Water Rates Rebated.
If a funeral procession is behind you or going past you it is polite and standard procedure to pull over and put on your parking lights until they pass.
White Tail spiders love to
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from what i've experienced with the few funerals i've been too, we all just made our own way to the cementary. not in a line or togther, we just left the church and got to the cementary when we could.
In Queensland people used to wait for a funeral to pass but as traffic grew it seems that it became too disruptive to hold up traffic for long funeral processions. Most people would be expected to know how to get to the cemetary. Or if its a cremation the service is often held on site,
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
Funeral processions have the car lights on and you aren’t supposed to interrupt it and the speed limit is generally low.
Must vary in different parts of Australia. Definitely drive with headlights on, especially in smaller cities and towns. Towns without traffic lights easier to stay grouped. Everybody should know where the cemetery is so, no problem. Generally wait at the cemetery for everybody to arrive as not everybody may have joined the procession.
My mother never used gardening gloves and was often bitten by redbacks, she was a tough lady, she just kept on gardening.
NBN Co. is a government owned corporation established to roll out a national fibre optic broadband network. They are the wholesaler of bandwidth to the retail suppliers (Telstra, Optus, Dodo, etc).
On the skink, I found out recently that we have a blue-tongue living in our carport. Our carport is full of my brother Noddy's stuff, stacked on some wooden pallets, so the Lizard is probably in amongst the pallets. Blue-tongues grow to around 30cm (1 foot) in length. They are also harmless pest-eaters.
Yeah I have this impression people from other countries think national animals are sacred, and all respect, a lot are because they are endangered, but Australia eats it's whole Coat of Arms - that is to say kangaroo meat, emu meat, and wattleseed products do exist on the market. Kangaroo is the most common native meat, having a small section in supermarket meat departments. Emu is more speciality and wattle tends to pop up in "Bush Foods" products, but not with the ubiquity of macadamias.
June/July is the "Financial Year" thing, which makes me wonder if it is scheduled like that due to Northern Hemisphere summers.
i am from the uk but lived in central sydney for 4 months , i was in hyde ark at dusk , looked up and saw what i thought were huge birds , i was shocked to discover they were fruit bats, something i would never see here , also like you i was always saying that i used to see the sides of roads moving or pavement , it was the bugs ,dont get me started on how big the cockroaches are , one came flying through my window and landed on my chest i screamed the house down lol, i could go on and on , also the food in the supermarkets is so expensive. saying all of this sydney is the best city in the world .
If you are ever in the city at night during summer. Check the Sydney tower. bats seem to regularly fly around it for some reason........lots of them
Lol all Foreigners make the same mistake and live in Melbourne or Sydney. 2 most expensive places in Australia.
Realise why more Southerners move to Brisbane and rest of QLD. cheaper on everything.
Sydney best city in the world? LMAOOO c'mon man
In cairns in queensland, there are 1000s of bats in central city. They fly low at night and in day they hang upside down on trees
@@johnwelson7024 Although 4 out of 5 Australians dont agree with your depiction of QLD
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
@4:50 I grew up in Sydney. Roaches and commute time are the two reasons I will never return.
@9:10 NBN, etc - what people forget or perhaps don't seem to appreciate is that internet connectivity involves physical wires in the ground on public land. It doesn't happen by magic. Someone has to own and maintain those wires - the actual copper and/or glass fiber.
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?
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.
Well welcome to Australia here we put our headlights on that's it and chase the leader and it's cheaper to live in the other 5 states than Sydney you will get used to the differences and most people here are friendly so good luck and enjoy the new things and sights you will see cheers
NSW used to use the exactly same procedure for funeral processions, minus the flags and the hazard lights. There was no such thing as hazard lights for a long time,.
Flies are much less numerous now than they were 20 years ago. The fly problem was caused by importing cows. The local dung beetles couldn't deal with big sloppy dung piles. They were evolved to deal with the dry pellets left by kangaroos and wallabies.
I have always thought a funeral procession still has to abide by the traffic rules hence stopping at traffic lights but usually cars put their head lights on so people know you are in that cavalcade. Only a very important funeral,would have the traffic lights turned off or allowed to continue straight through
Regarding funerals. Most funerals here are held in chapels at the cemetery so no procession. I have been to several funerals in Sydney and all of them were held at the cemetery.
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I have never once been to a funeral where we went to the cemetery after the service. Only ever attended the service at the funeral homes, then sometimes a wake at a relatives house.
The only thing I'd comment on is , as you point out the ridiculous house prices here in Australia I'm frowned apon for saying it but you'll find that a huge factor in the jump of house prices is the influx of Asian speculators into the country . It doesn't matter what price a house goes for it will be sold , and often by a party from Asia. If they can afford it good luck to them . Every one gets their neck in a knot because foreigners are buying up the housing stock but they can't move the house or land back to their own country and meanwhile.they are paying land rates and taxes which all helps the economy .you could , if your profession allows , consider moving out of the city for a more affordable town or city , Newcastle or Wollongong for example , where the average house prices are a whole lot lower for example my home , in Sydney would easily sell for upwards of 2 million , but here in Newcastle has been valued at around 750 thousand which is still staggering as it initially cost only 10 thousand to build back in 1969 I guess it would be hard to move from the action of a big city but the 600 thousand citizens that call the Hunter Valley home have managed to have a great lifestyle and enjoy all the benefits of the city in what's really a big country town .
At least you would have one less thing to worry about and you could spend more time enjoying the Aussie lifestyle .I enjoy your show stay safe and happy
Whilst this comment about foreign investors was certainly a major driving factor of the last housing boom that ended in 2018, it really isn’t the case for the current one. Also, Sydney is a special case (and not in a good way). Since around the 1990s it’s prices have been totally out of kilter with the rest of Australia with some very rare exceptions. The current boom has more to do with historic low home loan interest rates and chronic irrational FOMO, which I suspect will cause serious problem for buyers who have overextended themselves if/when the market retreats.
You do realise that house prices double about every 7 to 10 years. The other factor you haven't mentioned is the negative gearing for investment property.
Yes, but try buying land or a house in China.
“Did ya forget the aero guard MR walker” great Australian add staring a great Australian cricketer. No more bugs on you.
Tax time. It runs from July to June because the seasons are inverted. Thus agricultural businesses, also tourism operators, can match the costs of the season with the income from the same harvest.
The Tax season in the UK is usually April 1st to the following March 31st every year. Strange!
i do admit as an aussie born you are so right broadband is crap but overall the lifestyle when i was growing up in Australia is fantastic i hope you enjoy the lifestyle what Australia has to offer you and yes there is challenges you have to face but you can over come them :)
Re Tax Season in Oz: Since a lot of people would be on summer vacation - perhaps at a caravan park or interstate - at the end of the year, including tax office staff, tax season is in the middle of winter, like USA, when everyone is at home.
The house prices get lower the further you get away from the city,as a example I live 25 mins by bus or train to my capital city,the suburb I live,we have a house with yard,cost to buy around 800,000.but you can get luxury town houses for 460 000.with a decent size yard.
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.
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.
LOL Red Back spiders used to be our companions in the back yard dunnies . Provided they weren't in the actual bowl no worries! Can u imagine the youngins today? They'd be needing months of therapy to overcome the traumatic experience haha.
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..
Try finding an accountant or Tax agent in January to do your income tax. As December is such a busy period for a lot of industries (tourism, retail, hospitality) and its our major Summer Holiday season, hence they agreed that businesses did not need the extra burden of filing their company taxes In January. Hence, the business financial year is June, so it was natural for the personal income tax year to follow suite.
Hi. Those little lizards (skinks) are known as drop tail lizards as they will lose their tails which keep wiggling to distract you , if you try catch them. The tails just grow back
There is a T-shirt you can buy. On the front it says "there's no flies on my back". On the back the t-shirt is covered in flies. I've seen this when I was in Rome. Real flies not printed ones! I always enjoy your videos.
Roma NOT Rome.
How you feel about the whole calendar year being easier for tax is how I've always thought about the school system. I get it's a season thing but always sounds odd to me that it wouldn't start at the beginning of the year.
1) locally we use the whole word i.e cockroach not 'roach'
2) A "Welcome to Country" is an acknowledgement of all the native nations of Australia.
Generally , the acknowledgement of Moari people , probably would be as visitors.
3) Not all homes in Sydney are worth $1 million dollars.i.e Western Suburbs.
The further out of the capital cities the cheaper the home is.
Billboards - as a fellow greater Philadelphia area resident, you probably remember this one billboard. "Jawn" Morgan lawyer. That one peeves me so much, dinkum!
Also, is that "duck cake" at ~16:24? XD
I have yet to see an American who doesn't swear whilst mentioning Telstra. so proud.
I know a lot of Aussies that feel the same way. At least their phone boxes r free now
NBN was supposed to be the National Government providing fibre network to cover all of Australia and every Australian. Later Governments cut the funding and it has dragged on for years. So the network itself is built by a Government-funded business, and then to connect to it you need to join a carrier, like you have a mobile phone carrier to connect you to the mobile/cell network.
IOW: It's a clusterf**k. Which we all knew it would be as soon as the Libs decided to mangle the end-to-end fibre into a pastiche of 100yo copper ends with fibre middles.
Australia has so may bugs, beetles and flies that EVERY Australian house has fly wire screens on every window and door just like in Canada and the USA. You see very few bugs in most of Europe which is why it is so enjoyable to sit at outdoors bars and cafes in summer.
The historical reason why the Australian financial years starts in July is because January is when we have summer holidays and no one wanted to spend the holidays finalizing annual financial accounts.
In Some states ( Like NSW ) it is a traffic offence ( with demerit points and a fine ) to interrupt a funeral procession. Traditionally in Australia cars in a funeral possession just have their headlights on to indicate that they are in a procession.
There is actually a good logic to the tax year here...Middle of winter there are no big purchases to be made, not many are on holiday etc, so it's a more manageable time to pay tax than Dec. In the US people are home in Dec, so it's not so big an issue. Here, December is both Christmas as well as holiday time, so expenses are high. Probably not the historical reason, but a valid reason.
Interestingly the Japan financial year ends at the end of March
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?
In Canberra its illegal to have billboard advertisement so no signage pollution
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.
Nbn provides the cabling, and telstra in your case provides the data that travels along it.
If i see a spider, i'm killing it! You're not alone. Haha
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
Katey, our Financial Year is from 1 July to 31 July, the calendar year is 1 Jan to 31 Dec
Correction: 1st July to 30th June 👍
Canada generally does funeral processions, and wedding processions, like in Australia.
Back in the 1960s, we use to turn our headlights on in a funeral procession
Nice to get a 'like and heart from you but the following is a recommendation. A reasonably short drive from Sydney to a place named Gosford you will find the Australian Reptile Park. Here you will find everything that is Deadly in Australia. From Memory it is a reasonable price to attend and the knowledge you will gain may be beneficial. Not sure if they have much in the way of Marine deadly creatures ie Blue Ringed Octopus, Sea Snakes, Crocodiles but more, Creatures you will find Terrestrially in Australia. A nice day's outing.
How far west do you live? I live in Penrith and we still have emus and kangaroos around the area. You might still see them on the odd time come into suburbia.
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
The NBN is the network which connects to the internet. Telstra is Australia's largest telecommunications company. They're pretty good for your phone service, but as far as fixed internet is concerned, you're better off with companies such as iiNet, Internode or TPG.
Housing prices in Sydney are ridiculously expensive. Melbourne is nearly as bad. Try moving to Brisbane, Adelaide or Perth, and you'll find the houses are much more affordable.
The NBN is responsible for the connection to the home for everyone. It was supposed to be FttP to almost every home in the country. Really remote people would be either Fixed Wireless or Satellite. But when the LNP took power in 2013, they have a pathelogical hatred for anything Labor proposes... so they decided they could do it 'cheaper' by changing the technology for most homes to FttN which is much less suitable for the 21st Century as it relies on the old Copper telephone wires most homes have from their old landline phones. And the copper lines are really old and need to be replaced anyway. So, their 'cheaper' option has cost more, took longer to complete than the original Fibre Optic cable FttP of Labor... many homes have to be redone and upgraded to FttP because of the failing copper wire. Oh... and when they took over... the LNP also said (this is absolutely true) that we 'don't need fast internet speeds'. Then along came the pandemic, and people working and studying from home... Clearly we DO need fast internet speeds. So that is the potted story of the NBN.
Labor just wants everyone living off the state.
Should let companies compete, the internet was better then.
@@Robert-cu9bm What a moronic statement. But typical of the ignorance of the LNP supporter. No. The Internet was not ‘better’ before. But you are just too stupid to remember.
Sorry about the house prices, they're a bit excessive to me, even as a home own. Best advice, get the first homers grant and other government assistance, get into the market and use the built up equity to purchase the next one (start small).
As for the tax period starting in July and ending in June, it so Christmas and the holidays were off set to the time tax returns were due. P.S. for tax, claim "any cost incurred from earning a living". Especially if you worked from home. I used to claim work uniform washing, or part there of and it was legal.👍
I think the reason why our tax season starts in the middle of the year is because of where summer lands in Australia, a lot of people go away and is in the middle of summer school holidays
That might have just been the one funeral. What you described has happened at other Australian funerals I've been at. We do use hazzard lights.
Also you did the right thing to kill the spider. I don't know where there would be spider centers.