AMERICANS REACT TO 6 POLITICAL DIFFERENCES between Australia and America
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She’s right on our rights thou, personally I feel it’s because I’m Oz we understand that yes we have rights, but we also have responsibilities to each other, Americans seem to think the responsibility part means communism, it doesn’t, just means that we all live together
That is true.
We don't have a list of rights to let us be total aresholes.
so true........😊
They’re arguing to keep guns that murderers will use to guess what.. murder
In the USA it often seems like people use "individualism" as a justification to be selfish and not care about anyone else.
Australia's Second Amendment in 1902 gave women the right to vote. That should have been America's Second Amendment. Different priorities.
Australia doesn't have a bill of rights to make an amendment to. Women's right to vote was the result of a separate Act.
Women got the vote long befor that, Queen Vic had the Womens right to vote removed, but we gave it back to them ASAP after we became free of the UK.
@@grahamyates2490 Very true. However, we are not so hung up on our constitution that we allow the easy sale of weapons used in far too many mass murders. Your 2nd amendment in action is most definitely not a pretty sight. It is so good to live in a country where the laws and constitution have a focus on the well being of its citizens. Interesting to note that females in Australia were able to vote 18 years before women in the US were granted a similar right despite, it not being part of our constitution. Then when you add in our our rights to medical care, education, ease of voting, livable minimum wages, adjusted annually, minimum 4 weeks paid holiday as well as paid public holidays, paid maternity/paternity leave, paid sick leave ..... our Acts seem to make our lives very comfortable. Same can't be said for the US constitution.
@@grahamyates2490 Amendments are not made to the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights constitutes the first 10 amendments to the United States consitution.
@@gallow9887 yes sorry, I "misspoke", if I can use a politician's term.
Americans' relationship with firearms is based on an absolute misinterpretation of the 2nd Amendment. Our freedoms are largely defended by our "mateship" which is, unfortunately, being gradually worn away by US influence.
compulsory voting is not compulsory. What is compulsory, is to get your name crossed off the electoral roll. When that happens, you get a piece of paper to vote, or scribble or write on it if you don't want to vote. If you don't vote it is called an informal vote.
The relevant part of the Electoral Act specifically requires people to actually mark the ballot and place it in the ballot box.
Of course, no-one can check that mark.
I have done vote counting, Micky Mouse, Get Fuc*ked, Fuc*k off and many more gets votes.
No religion doesn't necessarily mean godless, It just means we would rather have our own direct connection to our father/creator,
And more importantly, not give money to corrupt churches who protect kiddy fiddlers.
And to anybody who might take offence at the last part of his comment, we had a Royal Commission into sex abuse by the Catholic church, which officially confirmed what we all knew.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Commission_into_Institutional_Responses_to_Child_Sexual_Abuse
(I posted the wiki link but YT doesn't allow them apparently, but it's easy to find)
The right to bear arms is important to Americans. The right to bare arms (and most of the rest of your body at the beach)😀 is important to Australians!
The thing about the difference in attitudes to the military, I would rather live in a country that didn't overtly express love for veterans, but offered them free healthcare and other safety nets.
It feels like Americans are all like "thank you for your service. You might have been willing to give your life for me, but there’s no way in hell I'm paying a little more in taxes to take care of your health and wellbeing."
I find it weird when swearing is censored on TH-cam.
Just so you know, from memory, this girl has mixed parents Aussie / American and spent a great deal of her life living in the US.
She pronounces the word "towards" how it's spelled. The way most say it.
Having spent 25 years in the military myself, the Aussie military is paid so much more than the US military. The US personnel get so many benefits because they're paid so little.
She moved back to the US and was on Fox News, etc during Covid claiming that the Australian Army was in the streets in Australia arresting people at gun point because Australians don't have guns to stand up to tyranny. She's a looney MAGA.
I can hear her accent, most Australians don't pronounce the 'r' in many words. Like 'car', it sounds more like 'cah'. And 'shark', Americans sound like they say 'shork' while Australians sound like 'shahk'.
@MichaelSorensen-bl3ec yep, she has a definite fusion accent. She say towards properly and not toords
@@Rastusmishka12 Yes indeed. I have a slight Danish accent mixed with Australian accent, people don't usually notice it but I've been told the main giveaway is the pronunciation of 'r'.
@@MichaelSorensen-bl3ec yep, my grandparents immigrated from Holland. That's just one of the giveaways for them as well. But hey, this mix is what makes us great!
70K Aussies in one referendum put religion as Jedi. In the next referendum the government said they would not be recognizing Jedi as a religion.
I was one of those Jedi, but then they said it could still count as "being religious" so I've relented back to being atheist
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I think you mean census, not referendm. :)
@@debwhite7629 yep
We get American shows about gator hunting in the south. That exactly how they sound. 😂
I love Australia. I am very proud to be Australian. I believe we do most things well. However, I’m well aware that there are social issues in which other countries (usually a European country) deal with better than us. Therefore I would not say we are ‘the best’ country in the world but I wouldn’t live anywhere else.
I love swearing because for me its a form of stress relief & it also shows that Australians are just more relaxed and easy going people, just lighten up America.
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A few years ago there was a legit study proving that swearing can increase your pain tolerance 😂😂😂
@@unoriginalsyn
I remember that 🙂👍
kick your little toe and a long list of swearing starts. @@unoriginalsyn
We call all our friends Cun*ts, in the US people get offended if you say any thing.
Perhaps that is evidence of our free speech. It's not written down in a bill of rights, just everyday living. Some of us use it a lot, others not so much and some when it just slips out.
So easy to vote here, no one is preventing certain groups etc, by making it hard for them.
That's the benefit of compulsory voting. Voter suppression doesn't work
lol, Australian law makes it hard not to vote.
@@Aquarium-Downunderit's very easy to not vote. You can draw a dick, or write 'they're all oxygen thieves' or scribble all over your ballot form as I saw working as a scrutineer. It's just an informal vote. It's only compulsory to turn up and get marked off or return a postal ballot.
The compulsory voting is well thought out as its usually held on a Saturday. Leading up to the day you can always find a voting booth available for you to submit an early vote if you happen to be working on voting day.
Just out of curiosity, how many Aussies would actually vote if it wasn't compulsory?
Or should I be asking how few? This Kiwi would be very interested (afraid?) to find out.
@almostyummymummy technically you have to vote but it doesn't necessarily mean that you select anyone. The compulsory voting part just means you get your name ticked off and what you do with the paper is between you and the universe. However what I believe happens to empty votes is that it most likely goes to the majority for that particular electorate. I take my voting seriously but I know some people don't bother choosing anyone. I would guess our approach to voting wouldn't be high priority if it wasn't compulsory
@@almostyummymummy, we did have one non-compulsory vote a few years ago. The Marriage Equality Plebiscite was neither an election nor a referendum so voting was purely voluntary. 80% of eligible voters cast a vote. That's probably the closest you'll get to an answer to your question.
Voting is NOT compulsory..
One can place a blank
Turning up to register to vote is compulsory
Gimme that DEMOCRACY SAUSAGE 🌭
34% of Aussies think Oz is the best place in the world.The other 66% know it is !
Interesting video in the UK, we do not fly the British flag very much. It has been hijacked by the far right. We also don’t have a high opinion of the military like there is in the USA
Ewww how fake ,to not swear in front of your partner. I find Americans prefer false nicety over honest emotional responses. Aussie's are honest.
She's pretty much spot on. Most Aussies don't talk much about politics or religion. Swearing is more common privately with mates or at parties. Most public events with kids around , swearing not really accepted.
Elections in Australia - it's compulsory to vote (doesn’t mean you have to fill in the voting paper correctly), the campaign is for between 4 and 6 weeks (in which time government is in caretaker mode, no decisions are made), polling day is on a Saturday between 8am and 6pm, with the option of prepolling or postal before then (postal votes still count if postmarked on the Friday before, and recieved by the Friday after).... and don't forget the democracy sausage....
Compared to America - it's not compulsory, campaigns for president last for over two years, polling day is on a normal Tuesday, you need to constantly reregister to vote, electoral districts are gerrymandered, your vote can be excluded due to dubious legal arguments.... then let's not start on the electoral college system.
Just so you know, Australians tend to view most jobs as jobs. They're important, but nothing special.
This also goes for celebrities. We have actors who couldn't walk around in the US without getting mobbed, but we see them walking around just doing normal things here, and leave them alone.
I would wholeheartedly disagree with the jobs thing lol. The majority of Australian school leavers now go on to university- they work hard to develop a rich and rewarding career and a career is not just a job it’s part of your identity.
Oh yes your missus has a country accent!
Sydney Watson, her accent is all over the place. She has a mixture of accents and has no actual accent.
She says "tasks" like an American.
She sounds like an Australian that is now been living in the United States.
Sydney is Australian American so the accent reflects that.
My sister in law is Australian born but lives in Canada and her accent is as you put it ' all over the place.'
Australia’s enemy right now are the price gouging duopoly supermarkets Woolworths and Coles. They’ve lowered prices to get rid of their competition with their huge spending power, paid shopping centres to keep competition out, pay to keep other supermarkets in undesirable locations (Far away from entrances so it’s a lot easier to go to Woolworths and Coles instead). That’s only a fraction of what they’ve gotten away with. They pay farmers and local producers cents on the dollar and often charge 20x what they pay while not increasing pay fairly. They now can increase prices with no repercussions of losing customers, they are currently leading australia into one of the worst cost of living crisis while they rake in billions of profit every year. The Australian public all have the power to change this, we just have to have a loud enough voice from everyone who’s been a victim of Woolworths and Coles. 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
We need everyone from us and uk to hear about this and spread the word 🇦🇺🇬🇧🇺🇸
As an Aussie, i find it strange that Americans can be the most puritanical and Godfearing people and the most lacivius and violent people at the same time
Country Australian accents is a thing. There are different accent from upp er North Shore to outer poor suburban 'Westy or Bogan accent'
If you want to see a huge difference between our two countries look up the murder stats.
It’s mind boggling.
In Australia we vote on a Saturday, or at a pre-poll in the 3 weeks up to polling day. And you are not compelled to vote as such: once every 3 years, you turn up to a polling place, and do something with a piece of paper: either vote, or leave it blank, or write on it whatever you want.
Keep in mind this presenter is Australian born but US raised hence her somewhat mixed accent. To me she sounds more American than Aussie ... to you not so much I guess.
If you're American and come to Australia, don't ever call Adelaide 'The City of Churches' which some visitor called it 100 years ago due to the number of spires he could see. We have jthe usual number of them and are thankfully, largely non-religious
Actually IF an USA IAN..( America is MANY countries) woke up somewhere in Australia, they would probably think they were still in the USA, EXCEPT they would find it nicer, cleaner and more organised!
It is only compulsory to show up to vote. You can get your name checked off and not mark you vote sheet.
No it isn't, it's compulsory to get your ballot paper, mark it and place it in the ballot box. Of course, no-one can check what mark if any you have made, but it's still a legal requirement.
We don’t need to outwardly display our patriotism, like we need to prove something….we love our military, and they know it…and as civilians, we don’t need to be constantly talking about our military and things related to war, us Aussie’s don’t roll like like that, we let our military take care of ALL of Australia’s military campaigns, so we can live in societies free from war, most don’t see the point in talking about, or having conversations about negative things, such as war…never underestimate an Australians patriotism, if push came to shove, EVERY AUSTRALIAN MAN WOULD DEFEND OUR COUNTRY. Anzac Day isn’t the only day we celebrate our military, passed and present. All through Australia we have clubs called RSL, every time you enter these places, and have a cold beer, your thanking our diggers for there service to our country…some countries military might very well need affirmation constantly that they appreciated and loved, but our boys just know that they are.
In Australia its us and our rights while in America its me and my rights .Australia routinely out ranks the USA on the World Freedom and Rights .
Voting days are always on the weekend, always a bbq where you can buy a sausage sizzle and cold drink.. takes 10 to 15 minutes
I swear like a smegging sailor! BUT I do adjust based on who I am talking too/around of course, just out of politeness.
Seaman?
@@nicholasjopson7326 Like the ones in the long tube! lol
Im in Sydney, just came across this video. You guys have an adorable dynamic... kudos.. & there are many aussies who are respectful & thankful to our military but thats mostly either people who once wanted to serve themselves (like me, rejected from officer entry due to colour perception test, worried i will hit the wrong button on the bridge! Lol) or they have family or live in more rural / outer suburb areas..
Anyway mates, you got my sub!
A lot of people think we all sound like Crocodile Dundee or Steve Erwin but around the country we all sound different,most Aussies grew up watching Dukes of Hazard,Brady Bunch or binged watched Swamp people 😆.Much love from Australia
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those aussie sausages are disgusting though
In respect to the military, we absolutely respect what our service people have done for our countrymen but we also understand that the wars they were thrown into were pointless wars fought for the rich so if no one stood up to fight these wars then the rich wouldn’t just “invade” Australia because they would be fucked up by our people. Yes many do have guns, more than people understand. There are very many black market firearms in circulation in Australia.
I get frustrated by people constantly not using the English Language correctly , like like like like every 2nd 3rd word like .
When mum wasn't around my father would let us swear in conversation so long as it wasn't swearing for the sake of swearing. When mum was around swearing was ok if it's like a stubbed toe and f@ck F@ck, sh!t that hurt but never the C word, she hated it. ....
Never voted in my life and never registered so no I haven't been fined...
I'm ex Army & find it weird when I tell people & they thank me for my service, I don't know what to say besides "uhhm thanks", then they feel weird for saying it.
We revere and respect our service personnel. We don't glorify war but appreciate the service of our veterans
We actually have more protected rights than Americans do, but it is by virtue of our complete participation in the 7 core international treaties for human rights. The USA is not a participant or is only a partial participant in some of these treaties. There are 10 amendments that give protected rights in the US Bill of Rights... There are hundreds in these international treaties and few are as trivial as the right to bear arms, banning the government from forcing homeowners to house soldiers or explaining that there are other unlisted rights. The US Bill of Rights was a product of post-revolutionary war thought. The second amendment provided the accessibility of fighters for militia to defend the United States from it's enemies. This has been used to create the gun culture in America today, a culture unique in the world, where the right to own a gun is divorced from any responsibility that comes from that ownership. This has removed many freedoms from Americans that are enjoyed by all other developed countries. I like guns but I don't want every Tom, Dick and Harry to be able to get one willy-nilly. Democracy is founded on the ideal that every set of civic rights comes with a set of civic responsibilities, and many Americans have forgotten this as they are not defined in a list like their rights are.
Not all Aussies swear like troopers, I for one rarely ever swear, the only time I do swear is if I'm really angry about something! We don't have a country accent as such, it's more of a class distinction! Mackenzie sounds like Miss Prissy from the Foghorn leghorn cartoon, especially when she she says "YES" hahaha
She left out one key difference, us Aussies tell it like it is to politicians and that's why we've had 6 Prime Minister's in 10 years, shape up or get lost is our modo and we don't isolate family or friends over political differences like the USA is prone to do.
We have a neutral electoral commission that administers elections. This strips powers from parties to add barriers to opponents from voting.
Australians do swear a lot, but the Scottish have to be even more casual about swearing than Australians are. Particularly the 'C' bomb.
Voting in Australia is incredibly easy. You can vote early if you can't make it on the official polling day or send in a postal vote. You also don't have to line up for hours to vote. I think the longest I have ever waited in line was about 10 minutes. Figure it out America, it's not that hard.
Swearing is a descriptive part of language. The compulsory part of voting is irrelevant since there's only 2 parties with any chance of governing. Were still essentially treated as convict by our government. Our gun laws are different in every state. She's right about our government wanting to ban anything fun. Only reason they haven't banned smoking and alcohol is because they make too much money out of it.
It is concerning that church and state are so intertwined in America
Soldiers who serve long enough get big money, discounts and pensions for the rest of their lives
I think Sydney has parents from both Australia and America and has been working in America.We are allowed to swear because we are treated like adults halve the time down here in Australia, thou we are a big nanny state also.
Cussing has become a lot more common to a point where it can be annoying if a person cannot communicate without dropping the F word in every sentence. I love the southern girl US accent Macca.
She sounds mostly American, but every now and then she'll say something in a real Aussie accent. I'm assuming she lived in Australia as a kid and has lived in America for a while. I agree with a lot of what she says but her accent is off putting
Americans REALLY need to look outward, other countries have many freedoms and benefits that you don't see
Mackenzie saying "forced" was nice. 😂
I love both of you. ❤
Darian: "My country accent" ...
Mackenzie: "You don't have one!" 🤣
I disagree with the military discounts. My brother in the army and sister in the airforce. They have since retired however, they still receive discounts, perks and at times payment for keeping their fitness up to date each year if they are required to be called upon.
Mackenzie, now you know how annoying it is for Australians to hear American TH-camrs imitate our accent!
In Australia 80% of people get married or buried in non religious serves run by civil celebrants. Australia has compulsory voting but polling takes place on Saturday. In addition you can do pre-polling for a month prior to the election. The registration of vote is done by a central body rather than people having to do it. The main effect of this is that elections are more moderate. Parties have to attract the center. In America parties tend to be more extreme as they have to motivate their base to vote. Australia also has proportion representation so that if you first choice fails you vote flows onto another candidate. There is an electoral commission which does electoral maps. Three is thus no gerrymandering.
There is a video song "I still call Australia home' that expresses an idea of Australian nationalism.
The podcaster who did the original is a right wing figure. Not to say that anything she has said is wrong. However she has left out a range of things. Australia has a much higher minimum wage than America. it's work conditions are also better. It has a minimum of four weeks. The background of the country is that one of the parties is called the "Labor Party". This party is an extension of the Trade Union movement. As a result there has historically been a strong push for government to do things for the people. Apart from higher minimum wages and conditions there is a national health service. The student loans which finance collage education are lower and payment only kicks in when people's income gets above a certain level
Election day is always a Saturday in Aus. regardless of geographic location. We also have Postal voting and early polling for those who work or for whom voting will be more convenient.
Religion... because 90% of us are not that stupid or gullable lol, the rest we call insecure dopes, but each to their own hey.
Luv youre channel❤🇦🇺
We all take our priveledge to vote seriously, without waving flags and carrying on like ratbags and then not voting
Have that 66% of Aussies who believe that Australia is not a really good country to live in been out of Oz and experienced being in other countries?
Mackenzies accent is definitely country.
I've got some news for you, mate. Your US accent is stronger than hers - different, but still less like Australian or British English. I'm not saying that's bad, just different. Sydney (the TH-camr, not the city) also sounds more like someone from the US, not Australia. There are some very slight Australian 'tints' to her accent, but mostly she sounds like she's from the US. Certain rights are explicitly stated in the Australian constitution. Others are implied. Mostly, the whole document needs an overhaul, as do most of our laws, because they were written in a bygone era for situations that may no longer be relevant. Apparently, I've heard that it's physically impossible for one person to read all of our tax laws in one lifetime. I don't know if that's true, but I wouldn't doubt it. We have some very archaic and conflicting laws that we inherited from England.
If you don't vote, where do you get your Democracy sausage????
Don't worry, Mackenzie! We love your American Country accent!!
I never questioned the right 2 bear arms, its the left 2 bear arms that worry me
The cursing thing is rubbish. Our news readers don’t curse and words are bleeped out on radio songs in fact there’s a song with the word BS in it and it’s always bleeped when it plays on radio. Growing up no one in my family was even allowed to say the word bloody and i certainly didn’t let my kids swear.
Sorry Mackenzie, she sounds exactly like you 🤣
Australia is ok but like she said the regulation is out of control,it’s a nanny state and as Kerry Packer said they put up more and more laws without reducing any.
To say that USA has right, is the most laugh a ball thing I heard. Yet when it come to the ordinary work at his job does that person have rights.
Non compulsory voting encccourages discrimination against the poor and encourages racial and other divisions in society. If 95% of people vote then politicians and bureaucratic must work to. Benefit everyone.
The election day is always a Saturday. Plus weeks before the election the polls are open to make voting convenient.
Australian governments are hardly anti fun compared with US governments.
I can't tell if she's American or Australian
What an accent! I can’t decide if she is an Australian putting on an American accent or an American putting on an Australian accent 🤔
Hi D and Mackenzie. 😀
It's not true about the censorship on the radio in Australia. For example the Prince song, Sexy mother fucker was censored to "sexy bleeeeeeeep" when they played it on the radio.
The only difference is that you can swear a little bit on Australian television, but it is not done often and usually not by the people who actually work for the television show.
Talk radio is another thing. I don't know if they swear on the radio in either country. Maybe someone else can comment about that. 📻
I remember Sam Newman swearing, I can't remember if that was on television or on the radio.
Sydney Watson, the name is familiar but I don't remember what I saw her on. I'm guessing that she makes many TH-cam videos.
she has an American acsent
she is not born in australia
This pair are more interested in her sccent than the issues she raises!!
Yes ya have a mild country American Accent. It's cute lol. Like Australia it has some very Broad bush accents sometimes. .
haha macca you sound exactly like that lol
Mckenzie could star in Swamp People. (Tv show)😂😂😂😂😂😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
We don't all swear
We always vote on a weekend. Republicans don’t want everyone to vote though 😂😂😂😂😂😂 🇦🇺
its only compusary to turn up to vote but not to tick off a candidate
Incorrect. The legal requirement is to get your name marked off, mark your ballot and place it in the ballot box. That's what the law specifies.
3 accents here in Australia. Low ocker, medium ocker & refined ocker.
Swear word here and there in a conversation is fine, When its used for attention , loud and rude interupting conversations of other people , when ever third word is swearing I turn off
Is the presenter actually an Australian???? Her accent is very American….. Grüße aus Australien. Tschüss.
YAY! Gunlaws here mean our kids can go to school and get home safely
Mckenzie, your accent is exactly how I'd imagine a country U.S girl 😂😂
This woman has a country accent!
I don't always agree with Sydney, however she has broadly got the contrast right. Please, cut her a bit of slack on the accent thing, its a bit of fun and not meant to be serioua
No one does accents of other nations accurately. It's always exaggerated.
Mackenzie they do talk like that to us . We have a way of taking the piss out of everything when you hear country accents . Trump is the classic example I can think of lol .
Sydney Watson so full of &#it and BS ......Aus here
Got to pass on this one, can’t stand Sydney Watson
About the military, remember the US has never won a war on its own.
Grenada yall
@@JohnSmith-rw8uh First of all this was an Invasion, second, the US had the help of 6 caribbean nations (look it up), so, again NOT on their own. Fun fact, in the list of largest armies (total military personnel) in the world, the US is ranked at number 9.