AUSTRALIA: Something BIG Is Happening
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Australia often goes unnoticed in the media; however, this country is not only becoming one of the most prosperous in the world, it also aspires to become a superpower hand in hand with the United States. How? We'll tell you all about it.
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Yeah Naaahg.
Thank you for not promoting AI in this video.
I checked my phone's ability to take an eSIM, and it can't. Am so disappointed and later learned that it's for the latest phones.I wondered if there can be some sort of a software/App to download and make the older phones able to take an eSIM?
It's not pronounced as you it's written, its AlboNeezy for our PM & the 'rent resource tax' was a Labor policy that the industry wrote that managed to transfer 70B a year offshore in stolen royalties! Then the minister, Fergerson quit politics and went to work for them! (a small company called BHP) and about 75% of all revenue is all owned by foreigners... We just dig the holes until they can get robots to do it for free but they will always leave the cleanup to the taxpayers, always!
It would be nice if the Australian people actually got decent royalties from our gas and minerals. Rather than governments essentially giving them way for almost free.
Not only that, but these mining a-holes are automating everything which is making them even more parasitic, as less jobs are being created. They aren't happy sharing some of the 248 billion in sales(23-24), they have to penny pinch to be even more greedy. Its repulsive.
That's been tried remember.
The ad campaign by the Mineral Council and the Liberal Party nixxed the last attempt, but it's still a worthwhile endeavour to make resource companies pay a decent amount for the resources they dig up. The argument about higher wages etc forcing the producers off shore is ridiculous, worthy of derision. As with Lithium we have good supplies that are relatively easy to access. We also need a sovereign wealth fund like Norway's.
@@muffinandme1 u nailed it!
Natural resources of a country should always be owned by the public... private companies should pay for the privilege of extracting them and profiting from them.
Sorry, it's not a super power here. A good secondary power, maybe, but we aren't complex enough as an economy.
We're doing alright
True, our economy is overly reliant on our mining industry.
Mining superpower that is, actual super power should have some independence on all sectors, like Manufacturing, Heavy Industries, Energy, and Military, on military point alone, Australia almost entirely dependent on the US
Regional power is likely a better term. The main reason is Australia's value is complimenting US capability in the Asia-Pacific, rather than projecting it's own.
Arguably, China is the same as it's unable to significantly project power to other regions.
Australia has one of the most complex economies on the planet....
So when is Australia finally going to close the Chinese Darwin port? Doesn't China have a 99 year lease on the port. In regards to Lithium, Australia still sends raw Lithium to China for processing. Australia needs to build more processing facilities.
China doesn't want processed Lithium. Chances are America won't either. It's hideously expensive processing stuff when you're paying Australian Wages.
Singapore leased Pearce Airforce Base. I'll tell you what, if war breaks out, I'm pretty sure that the lease agreement will be the least of our problems. The USA had Tindel Airforce base a few hundred clicks down the road.
Pretty sure that's been stopped by the federal government.
@@RockSolitude Gtreat stuff!
Guess you would have to ask the NT LNP that approved it....
Make a video about housing. It is very strange to me that in the wealthiest, most prosperous cities in the world, places like Melbourne, Zurich, San Francisco and Paris, tens of people are lining up for a over priced 20th century apartment! This has a serious impact on people's quality of life!
Supply and demand in high density high income areas.
true, but just think what happens when the boomer gen and gen x(I'm gen x) kicks the bucket. looking at the demographics for the west, few childbirths, soon there will be more housing than peeps.
Aha, you mean gentrification?
In this context, the comparative housing construction in the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR and the price development after the reunification of Germany are interesting. In West Germany today, 50% of people are homeowners, while in East Germany almost 100% of people are renters. In East Germany, people vote for the ultra-right or the ultra-left.
@@n8club Why is that the case?
@@amirhosseinhosseinzadeh7627 Good question. Interest rates for housing construction have risen under a Social Democratic government, and less is being built.
If Sydney is your definition of paradise, you’ve clearly never visited Sydney 😂
Sydney is great to visit! Terrible to live in
Sydney is probably the furthers from 'paradise' of any capital in Australia! Even before you talk about the people living there =/
You're living in Blacktown, aren't you😅😂
@@ЕвгенийМаксудов 😂😂😂😂
Nah, I’m a Queenslander. However I have family in sw Sydney. Liverpool, Campbelltown, narrellan ares. And with work I’ve stayed in Bankstown quite a bit. So fairly familiar with some parts of Sydney. It’s no paradise 😂
My thoughts exactly.
Sorry mate. But this is quite incorrect. The _gov_ and people are not getting _any_ benefits of all this mining.
Little do people realize all of Aus mining is owned by US, European and Chinese companies (yes chinese). They all pay on average less than 3% tax in Australia and in many cases they then sell it back to us at high international prices - LPG being the worst example, but even iron ore has this same problem. Aus will _not_ get rich and benefit from this. Our gov has allowed international companies to come in and take our money, our houses and services and charge a fortune for them. We used to have a thriving car industry for instance.. now.. all gone.. all our goods manufacturing .. gone... and the madness of "defense" manufacturing is just wrong. We buy hulls and systems overseas for ships for instance, then we pay international companies like BAE, SAAB and Lockheed exorbitant rates to make them, while they get super rich from it all. And economically whats driving all this? Debt. Vast amounts of personal debt. Watch this space.. Aus economy has been a massive bubble in the making.. and when it pops.. it will be disasterous because we have no industries to support the economy.
Bingo. We give it away....
Bull. Without mining we could not pay for imports, it’s the balance of trade thing Sonny.
I can see what is trying to be said here but so many half truths and complete lies.
Well said Grover and you're dead right. This was a puff peice. Hey, your not related to that bloke on Sesame Street are ya?
Very well put bro, hit the nail on the head!
As an Australian, reading through this comments section and seeing Aussie after Aussie correctly outlining just what a wasted opportunity our country is, is downright disheartening.
The honesty is heartening though. First step in solving a problem is knowing you have one.
A lot of Austrilians are struggling to just live. Housing is just a pipe dream for younger people. Not to mention there is big swat of people that are essentially working poor.
It's not as bad as people make it out to be. Housing is a supply and demand issue, development is huge it'll just take time.
@@combatwombat_25 its a lot worse than you seem to understand or realise. It's not merely a supply and demand issue either.
@@combatwombat_25 You realize regular people are becoming homeless. In what universe is that not that bad.
And not to mention the very poor quality of newly built houses and apartments in all the major capital cities. It's a national disgrace.
@@bondoqbn7318 the quality of housing here is far better than in many other countries, e.g. the U.S.
Australia is a simple economy, Asias quarry. We are now 63 of 65 in entrepreneurialism. We also have too much market concentration in banks, insurance, airlines, supermarkets and other industries. Housing is insane, but could be fixed by legislation changes. We import people over training our own. All that being said, if you could pick your birth country, Australia would be near the top of the list.
Ask yourself that birth country question in another 10 years, bet it'll be drastically different. This country is very fast going downhill, if you think it's bad now you have no idea what you're in for 5-10 years from now let alone 20
@@paulsherro1374 63 of 65, any details on this or even a source?
@@robd8577 Tax breaks=innovation centre, that probably has a report putting every targeted country at the bottom of something
I don’t think the citizens of Australia would agree.
With what in particular? I'm an Australian.
As an Aussie I have believed, particularly in the last ten years, that we are becoming a major regional player.
My family in Australia has not had good things to say about the environment there. They have said the cost of living has gotten absurd, the government kowtows to China, immigration is getting bad. Basically the same problems that plague the entire west. So in that situation who cares if you’re a regional player.
@@BMWE90HQ the cost of living has gone up but the reality is that it has gone up more virtually everywhere else. I know of Europeans who have moved here because of cheaper day to day costs whilst doubling their income. The problem is not that our government gives in to China (which doesn't happen in any significant way; they have actually stood up to China, for example our former PM was the first world leader to stand up and demand an investigation into the origins of COVID), it's that they are too close to the U.S. when they should be standing on their own. Immigration has temporarily been a little too high but the government is bringing it back now. It's not a genuine issue.
@@skilgour44 so it’s all in their minds is what your saying?
You got the lithium mining right. Australia has Uranium too, which we just use in tiny quantities and export mostly to China. But, for Australia to become a Major Player in the international scene, requires much more than mining. Australia has to become a Manufacturing power, but in the last 20 years, Australia has started to import more and produce less, it is like learning to walk before considering running.
We actually produce a lot more than what people realise. It's just not consumer goods.
Where manufacturing goes so does creativity
I think the USA might also have lost its manufacturing industries, Trump said he would bring jobs back from China, however they appeared to go to Mexico and Vietnam etc,
Lol 96% of Australia's Lithium goes to China to get processed. Until they can manage to do that themselves their Lithium mining only ties them closer to China. And then if they manage that China will be buying 2/3 of it anyway.
Same goes for all the Australian mining.
This video is so disingenuous.
As the saying goes... we're spending 350 billion dollars to protect our trade.....with China.....from China.
The private pension system was invented by Chile! But it seems that Australians are using it far better.
Not really private when 51 billion dollars of taxpayer money goes to fund it every year. Compare that to the actual aged pension which is 39 Billion
He also got wrong that employees pay the pension as a percentage of their income.
What actually happens is employers pays for pensions on top of our salaries as a percentage of income.
I come from the land down under
Where bear does flow and men chunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better get cover
what's going on here guys ?
@@cdcmlyrics to the song from Men at Work
My GF andI went to Sydney with a backpacks in 2011, we got jobs, got sponsored got married, had 2 kids, all got passports. Living the dream on the Northern beaches? Even pre covid, the property prices in shithole areas were insane, unless you'd hit the inheritance jackpot or were a rich overseas 'investor', you had no chance. We loved our life in Aus, but it really just felt like a 9 year working holiday, I miss the beach and the 'no worries' attitude, and my Aussie mates everyday,. However, we moved home in the UK staring again, no jobs 2 kids and mid covid, After a bit of hard work we now pay a mortgage on a in a 5 bed detached house, double garage, 2 gardens, surrounded by lush countryside, looking at prices today I couldn't even afford to buy in Mount Druitt!!!! as the Aussie say yeahhh Naahhh! I'll stick to Yorkshire.
We came to Australia 40+ years ago, stayed and have been on holiday ever since. Now I am getting rich by sitting on my arse doing nothing, and the dumb government pay me to do nothing.
Did you buy a house in London?
As an Aussie, your 100 percent right.. even thou l live in qld l have spent time working around Mt driutt area years ago and it was friggin expensive then and couldn't imagine the cost now, total madness.!!!
Sad but true mate ☹️🍻
I live in Melbourne & I can assure you that it isn't all as rosy as this video makes it out to be for too many reasons to even start writing about them. We have 3rd rate politicians, although not as bad as what you have in the Uk thankfully.
By a whisker... Holy crap, Victoria can't even prevent the Pro-Pally boofheads from protesting on the day Israel was invaded, 1200 people were killed, 250 hostages taken on October 7th. But your on top of toll roads, and your cops love pulling people over. What is with the city centre's Turn right from the far left lane? ;-)
Tumble down because I live in the UK
That I can mostly agree with, although arresting a journalist because he expressed a negative sentiment against a politician was a bit concerning.
“Oh, a video about my country”
*Two minutes later*
“These guys have no idea about Australia”
4:07-ok Anthony, why haven’t you enacted any policies removing the desire to invest in housing and move it in to manufacturing and….oh, you want to mine more stuff for your sponsors to make money and not the people
7:50-we weren’t “given” nuclear technology. We have to pay billions for it and even then, if the US decides they need the subs more than us, we don’t get them
8:55-Price Waterhouse Coopers. Oh guys, you aren’t referring to the company found to be rife with corruption with our government are you?!
10:09-the successful pension system to contribute to our superannuation for retirement that we then have to withdraw for buying essential things like housing leaving us a lot less money for retirement? That successful system?!
13:02-skilled workers. Ah yes, we import them now so we don’t have to train them. Our TAFE system used to be top notch and then it was gutted. And we aren’t attracting top notch talent in the skilled sector. Just anyone with a heart beat that can earn money to pay taxes
This was a terrible presentation. So many incorrect facts and now I question how accurate other presentations of other countries are. We will never be close to a super power with our third world economy of digging dirt and selling houses. We at best will be a benchwarmer but that’s it
1 thing I know about Australians is that we're never happy, and we lose perspective. While we've got challenges with inflation, housing and some corruption with the government and big business, it's nothing compared to the challenges elsewhere in the world. At least as a country we're wealthy, free and safe. That's not true of a lot of countries, and I'm very satisfied with my level of comfort.
Spending hundreds of billions of dollars on Nuclear Submarines is insane, INSANE.
Spending that same amount on Solar manufacturing, Battery Manufacturing, and Steel Manufacturing would have significantly more impact on national security than a few subs.
We have the Sun for Solar, the Lithium for Batteries, and the Iron for Steel. We should nationalise all three and be a global superpower in these three industries, then, you spend profits on submarines.
Spending money on submarines that don't bring in any money is insane.
I don’t think you’re understanding the thought process. The US is helping to build up Japanese, Australian, and Indian defense forces by transferring technology because they can’t do it alone.
@@righteousmammon9011Do what though?
We don't have all the required REEs, and we don't mine them or process them much bc China then dumps the market. We've swapped having the ME control our energy to having China controlling it (where do you think our solar panels, wind turbines and batteries that use the REEs come from?).
This is a horrible security situation.
From Koala to Salt Water Croc.
💪🐊🇦🇺
Will Australia become a global military superpower? No. Will they become the tentacle of a global military superpower? Yes. Will that tentacle make a difference? Hell yeah.
For the questions at the end; Yes, Yes, Yes, .......... Yes, Yes, Yes.
But the points of consideration that you completely missed out upon,
That the Oz mainland can, in extreme calamity, be used as an enormous buffer against anything thrown its way. The island off the south-eastern region of the mainland is the State of Tasmania. This State is wildly unlike the rest of Australia in some key areas:
- Tasmania has the infrastructure built making it the most advanced State for internet speeds and connectivity,
- Tasmania has the highest rainfall amongst the States and Territories by a wide margin. Considering the deficit thrust on the other States this may not count for much in itself, except to say that rainfall in Tassie is well ample enough and well over sufficient on the high side rather than the low.
- Tasmania is a mountainous isle with high-rainfall fed hydroelectric power and Southern Ocean exposure providing constant wind to farms of turbines that together, wind and water, make the State 100% renewable energy supplied and producing. With a surplus of energy, Tassie is even able to export energy to southern mainland States.
- Tasmania is approximately cut down its middle, north to south, by a 'Parkes' border that reserves its western mountainous plateau country as (mostly) virgin wilderness. Cool-temperate rainforest and alpine heath.
- Tasmania has (better fact-check this one as it was a story told to me) the largest harbour in the Southern Hemisphere. Macquarie Harbour perched halfway down the west coast, the town of Strahan sitting not far inside its headlands.
- Tasmania is a fair bit more defendable than the big island to its north.
So I wouldn't be surprised if the govt. packed its bags and headed down there.
(especially when global warming/climate change makes the mainland near-un-survivable)
You just said all the Tasmania copes that people who are stuck out in the middle of no where and completely irrelevant throw around when someone acknowledges that they exist.
Look at the last 100 years of weather in your location and I can guarantee that it has not changed since 1900. The climate isn't suddenly going to make Tasmania relevant, especially in yousr or your kids lifetimes. Sorry bud.
@@thomes7318
Yes it surely is.
By 2050 people will be leaving the equatorial-to-the-Tropics regions world-wide, en-masse.
By 'Tropics' I mean Capricorn and Cancer. Hopefully I'll get to go to Tassie sooner rather than later.
@basilbrushbooshieboosh5302 I'm in western victoria and the 6 weather stations near me all show the same weather today as the early 1900s. There is no increase to the maximum or minimum average day or night temperatures. You can do it yourself on the bom website.
I reckon that Australia realises that wars fought from a decade onwards will not require human soldiers on the ground. Most 'soldiers' will be robots and the humans will be in underground bunkers guiding drones etc.
Australia should invest in a robot Army 🪖 As it lacks the people..
Or a clone army!
😂
The elite in Australia are orchestrating the disappearance of the middle class. Companies are raising prices unnecessarily, leading to skyrocketing profit margins. This situation is making the average person poorer, while the wealthy benefit from appreciating shares, increased dividends, and real estate investments. Part of their strategy involves artificially increasing demand by purchasing more houses than needed, making homeownership unaffordable for the average person. The goal seems to be turning Australia into a third-world country where they can continually exploit employees and amass more wealth, using macroeconomic strategies to achieve this. Nowadays, a six-figure salary in Australia is barely enough to cover basic expenses like food and rent. In the past, the same salary would have provided a comfortable lifestyle.
Both of the US and Australia have a great friendship, ever since both countries were liberating the Pacific from Imperial Japan during the second World War both countries have only gotten closer😊
So has Japan curiously enough. And South Korea. We're all mates now.
There is a lot of anti-American feeling here, maybe it started in the universities with Viet Nam. The isolationists think Australia will be left alone if we don't stand beside the US. Useful idiots.
And we have American soldiers here to keep an eye on us, and to make certain that we don't get any fancy ideas about joining BRICKS.
@@DavidLockett-x4b except the only problem with that statement is that India is also a part of the brics and the US and India formed an alliance in order to keep China from having funny ideas invading India's territory. Yep, even brics countries are suspicious of China. Also to mention China's built military installations on the Solomon Islands to keep Australia contained just as the Japanese tried to contain Australia during World War II. Why do you think the US sold three nuclear subs to Australia to keep China in check.
@@DavidLockett-x4b that's BS India's a part of brics and the US and India have formed an alliance in order to keep China from having any funny ideas invading their countries North. Yeah even brics countries don't trust Beijing.
Australia has only 0.3% of the world's population. It was settled way later than the US and had far lower birthrate in the early days than the US so grew much slower. It is not likely to become a superpower either because the fertility rate is below replacement rate so it can only grow through immigration.
And the place is mostly a flat, barren wasteland...
China, Korea, Japan all have lower birth rates. Australia has oodles of former Arabs and they are spiking the fertility rate ! Just saying.
Both US and China’s birth rates are below replacement.
Australia doesn’t have multiple continent spanning navigable river systems. It’s certainly capable of supporting a lot more people but the geography isn’t as completely overpowered as the US or China.
And the ‘blessing’ of natural resources has meant a high exchange rate making manufacturing prohibitive. The last major manufacturing was killed off when the AUD was last worth more than the USD, due to mining exports.
Nothing to do with birth rates after settlement and everything about immigration rates.
The USA got German immigrants. Australia received more Irish. Now it’s Moslems. Res ipsa loquitor
Aussie here. You have got this so wrong on virtually every point. Did you get all your info from the labour govt PR department?
Mining boom is over... Government is hopeless and our people are suffering from the the biggest deterioration of living standards in the history of the country. This video is not the reality.
in Australia, there is probable a dormant Godzilla monster hidden in their lithium reserves.
It's a Godzilla sized kangaroo , but instead of blowing fire it throws a boomerang..
I can't wait til this is made into a movie, ha!! Starring Margo Robbie as the damsel in distress!
Just out of interest, the E at the end of the prime ministers name is not silent - Al ben ee zee is the correct pronunciation.
Albo Very-easy.
Before he was running to be PM it was always silent, a journo mispronounced it one time and being diplomatic, he didn't correct them. Within a few weeks everyone was using the new form.
I ran Albanese through Italian voice software. The ese is as in Chinese. Penny Wong used get the pronunciation right, but has now adopted the popular form.
Actually the correct pronunciation would be more like Albanay-zay.
Australian's can no longer afford a home & it suffers from social disharmony.
Nothing to say about Ukraine’s frontlines collapsing and russian’s moving forward every second of the day?
Let’s just ignore our completely flat wage growth when combined with inflation has caused household strain on everyone except the ultra rich. It’s slowed the economy to crawl. Add this to a ridiculous housing crisis where the current young generation (basically anyone under 40) don’t have a hope of owning their own home and are just permanently stuck in the rental cycle filling the pockets of the rich.
It may look shiny on the outside, but inside it’s a completely different picture. The federal government for many years now (so not just the Albo govt) has only been interested in digging holes and no other industry has any chance of growing (unless it related to mining in some way). Green energy? Nope, missed it. AI? Nope. Robotics? Nope. Any kind of manufacturing? Nope.
Until a govt has the balls to step up and properly tax mining and legitimately reinvest the income into new industries, the future looks bleak.
We're a wealthy middle power located in a strategic position. The US is only interested because they're a superpower on it's way down and we can be of use to them.
“”Expansionist Policy of China””🇨🇳?…..I’m far more worried about the Islamic Expansionist Policy ☪️!!!!😢
Same, it's a much bigger threat (it's still nothing though)
@@mjh5437 they’re both evils that must be countered
Sydney is a suburb of Lebanon and Syria. Melbourne isn't too far behind. They reproduce at far higher rates than other ethic groups and Melbourne has had Pro rallies every day since October 7th. The far Left and Greens are openly anti-israel and Penny the clam licker, has just given free plane trips back to Oz.
Oh and Albo imported 3000 visitor visas, without security checks.
Here in WA, a certain Labor candidate, got elected, defied party policy, went all Middle Eastern and then became an independent. Nice work.
I'll be voting Liberal for the first time in my life.
Bob Hawk wouldn't have ever let the far left hijack the Labor party.
He had a spine.
The above said, I don't hate them. I just dislike the ones that want to reshape Australia into a new suburb of certain countries in the middle east...
We have to be careful who we let in, look at the mess England and Europe are in.
I don't think you know what a super power is in this context. Our navy (if all things go according to plan) might rival a major power like France. Our soft power punches way above it's weight. The importance of the pine Gap CIA base that is in charge of monitoring all of the US's enemy nations of this third of the earth is very important (real life lore has a great video on this). But also, our immigration is exploding, it's causing rents to sky rocket and something has to give. Our banks can't control the interest rate, so we might finally have a recession.
We have a navy? Do 30 boats (and a few ships) count as a navy?
The navy isn’t a patch on France and inflation is mostly under control. Recession or not in Australia largely depends on other countries.
@@peter65zzfdfh do you mean a match? Not Currently, but it's on course too.
France LHD Force: 64,500 tons displacement
Australian LHD: 71,000 tons displacement
That's current Force
SNN Force
France, working towards 6 Sufferen Class SSN's (5,300 Tons Displacement), 20 Torpedo Racks
Probably Also worth Mentioning Frances 4 Triumphant class Submarines. The VLS in them are for nukes, hence, not really there to be used, but they could technically still use the torpedo bays and use them in a similar role as the Sufferen class. But they might also might prefer to leave them out of convectional wars as a deterrent.
Australia to Acquire 3 Virginia Class block 5 (10,200 tons)
Torpedos plus 40 VLS for Tomahawks? 65 Missile/torpedo weapons total.
5 AUKUS Subs ("over 10,000 tons") Armament Unknown, Subs supposed to be reusing the Dreadnaught hull to a degree to keep commonality for cheaper production. But the dreadnaught class is listed as 17,000 tons? Dreadnaught has 12 VLS for Trident missiles but they are a lot fatter than a tomahawk, so I don't know if that gets converted to a lot of vls or not.
Should note, the french sub can apparently launch surface to or or land attack missiles out of it's Tubes, the British Astute also has some special sub surface torpedo launch tomahawks but they couldn't justify a production line so the few they have are it. So I'd assume the french ran into similar problems with their special topedo missiles and as such, is more of a one trick pony than a capability. The advantage of VLS is that you can use standard production missiles.
Anti Air Destroyers
France, Currently has 2 Horizon Class Destroyers
Australia: 3 Hobart Class Destroyers
Ships are Comparable (45 VLS) but should note the Hobarts have Aegis.
Anti Submarine Frigates
France: 8 Aquitaine Class (6,000 tons) 32 VLS
Australia, Currently Building 6 Hunter Class Frigates (10,000 Tons) 32 VLS, plus Aegis.
General Purpose Frigates
France: Building 5 F.D.I. Frigates, 16 vls 4,500 Tons
5 Lafyette class: 3,900 Tons, 8VLS
Australia: 11 ships, Hasn't picked a class yet, 4 similar classes shortlisted such as the Daegu, 3,600t 16 VLS
Australia will also Receive 6 LOSV Ships, which are "Optionally Crewed" Semi Drone Vessels. These are still being worked out. But the idea seems for them to be arsenal ships. Basically, Slave them to follow around Australia's Aegis Class ships, the Hobart Destroyers and Hunter Frigates, and act as a 32 VLS Expansion boost.
Carriers
France: 1. Clear Point to France.
This is speculation, but the Australian governments looked into fixed wing Capability for it's Canberra class ships. The report concluded that the Tarmac wasn't rated for jets and to remake it like the Spanish version would almost be the cost of a new ship. But it sounds like, with the renewed focus on the Australian Navy. There's a very likely possibility that the next gen replacement ships would have fixed wing capability for the US navy's NGAD fighters, which would shit on anything the french navy would have in the future (Although the single carrier would have more).
Further speculation on Australia's Next Gen Destroyers, I could easily Imagine proper Pacific Destroyers like the US, China or Korea. Australia was leaning towards buying Arleigh Burkes for their fleet, but without any clear threat at the time opted to save money on the Hobart mini Burkes. Since manpower is hard to compete with private Industry as the video pointed out, rather than getting more smaller Hobart types (the general purpose frigates cover the hull numbers anyway) I think Australia would get bigger destroyers with around the 100 vls capacity. But this is all a long way away in the second half of this century, the Century of Asia as it's been dubbed. Meaning I think Australia will continue to invest in the quality of it's navy as it's neighbours get stronger.
None of this is to shit on the french. Their defence force is very well balanced. If you Compare Australia's future navy to say, a major naval power like the UK, we're still not major power status. But with the UK's economy woes, maybe the UK navy will atrophy back down again in the second half of this century. Japan is well ahead, having the second biggest blue water navy in the world. Korea's ship building industry is incredible. But Keep in mind Australia's population is only 27 million compared to Frances 80+ million. That's all the video is trying to emphasise. "Super power" is pure hyperbole though.
@@Smart-Skippy France have a lot more patrol boats, but if you looks at the actual war fighting ships, yes, we are getting a serious navy, see my other comment.
@@dan7564 Je suie desoilaite, I meant Australia's navy. We have very navy few boats and Australia Screwed France when we cancelled our order for submarines.
Je taime Francais!
Australia doesn"t miss an opportunity? They literally mine and export both iron and coal but dont produce any steel themselves. Also they are competing hard with Canada to become the nation most legeslatively hostile towards men.
The AUKUS submarine program is unprecedented. Though the fact that the RAN nuke boats will likely be ex-Virginia class for a long time as a pure AUKUS design gets a protracted development.
If we ever get them, which I bet my Kelpie, we wont... If we did, we won't have nukes and there will be Yanks on board every one. We only have a tiny research reactor at Lucas Heights. That produces medical isotopes and is what, 60 or 70 years old?
I reckon the first AUKUS class will be operational before the first French diesel lemon would have been.
@@douglasnakamura6753 We were offered Nuclear powered French Subs at I believe a similar cost. Subs are vulnerable during refuelling, snorkelling and replenishment, so Diesel powered subs should never have been ordered. I know little of the efficacy of French subs, but the USA can't build enough navy vessels, Full Stop. The UK does slightly better, output wise, but their latest Aircraft carrier is Diesel and had had problems.
@@Smart-Skippy Nope, the French were going to build diesels. We're not asking the USA to build our vessels, we'll be building a new class of nuclear subs called the SSN-AUKUS in South Australia.
@@douglasnakamura6753 I failed to effectively explain that we were offered French nuclear subs AT THE SAME COST AS DIESEL SUBS.
It took decades to make the Collins class subs effective. Eventually they were usable. Nuclear subs are inherently noisier than a D/E running on batteries.
On the new SSN-AUKUS class, it takes forever to design and develop any navy vessel, let alone a hybrid class of nuclear powered sub. Adelaide has great wines from the Barrossa, Radioactive water at Panalana Springs, lots of churches and Penny the anti-Israeli Clam licker, but assembling subs is not exactly their forte... Collins Class being a case in point.
My 5 cents!
This video paints Australia as a MUCH better place to live than it actually is 😒
Sydney is close to a paradise. Sure there are problems and things that could be better, things that I would do very differently if I was the big man in power. However when looking at Australia relative to the rest of the world, I've realised as I get older just how damn lucky we are.
It is cursed and is why it is always corrupt.
@@THREEFIFTEEN315F ummmm ok
Perth is even closer to paradise. Unlike Sydney we have no toll roads and pokies are only in the casino.
Fortunate to be an Aussie 😊
@@freeman10000or Hobart, not even a Casino….
@@freeman10000 Yeah I love Perth, beautiful place, and Optus stadium is fucking epic. Too bad I decided to go and see the derby when West Coast were playing like an under 6 side. 😂
Sydney is hands down one of the most beautiful cities in the world though. Very few cities can come close and I love my home. So glad my parents decided to move here from the UK when I was 2!
This is not entirely accurate, yes there is vast natural resources, but the management of those resources, is ineffective, most citizens are not really benefiting from the mining, along with the ecological repercussions of blowing up the outback.
The transition to renewables, is laughable, the government has had years to make any real change, yet sacrificed that, in favour of mining companies, coal companies and making a small bunch of individuals - Gina Rinehart, very very wealthy.
It’s also important to note, that personal debt is above 1 trillion dollars, for a population of 27 million.
The government is an absolute joke, im not sure what wall they’re staring at, but it ain’t doing much watching it dry, whilst migration increases, housing availability is almost non existent, and inflation stays high..
The Australian dream is debatable.
Australia has 27 Million people. Oh and while you live half way around the world, I live here, in Perth, Western Australia. AKA "W.A." or "WA" . WA has virtually all the minerals. SA and NT have Uranium.... Sydney and Melbourne are just large cities with huge numbers of former Middle East, pro Pally and woke boofheads. Perth, The state capitol, is bloody huge, with approx. 140km of coastline and it extends about 50km inland. Perth i has a Mediterranean climate, with winter rain and dry summers.
Unlike Sydney and Melbourne, we don't have to pay to use toll roads and it is really laid back.
No Opera House or Harbour Bridge but we do have the world's biggest inner city park. Kings Park.
We also have Quokkas on the car free island called Rottnest, AKA "Rotto". Down in the South West, we have amazing country full of wineries and fabulous cheeses and epicurean delights. North of Perth is like Mars. less than 1 person per square kilometre, but that is where most of Australia's minerals, Oil and Gas are found.
Workers literally fly in, do two weeks of 10 or 12 hour days and fly home for a week.
This is called FIFO. Fly In Fly Out.
The North West is pretty arid and bloody hot, but the money is great!
Sadly the lifestyle is cruel for relationships.
I like your channel, but when you get the population wrong in the first sentence and start with Sydney and Melbourne, you lose credibility.
Perhaps you could ask your script writer to up their game and see beyond the two mega cities.
Western Australia can hold Texas 3 times with room for another half.
It is the whole left third of Australia and as I said, where most of the minerals, Iron Ore, Nickel, Lithium, Gold, Bauxite and oil/gas are found.
Pretty much most of the mining is in WA.
Oh and our beaches are amongst the world's best. Pristine, white sands...
Lastly, yes we have snakes, spiders and Kangaroos. I've been to 48 countries and lived in 6, but I always came home to Perth. It really is one amazing place.
Australia is the biggest sand pit and aircraft carrier on the planet.
I wonder how many Beaches Australia has....because everytime they talk about Australia they show us the same fcking beach xD
Almost 12 000 beaches
We don't want to share the best beaches with the tourists mate.
Just one. It's called our coastline.
We keep the best ones secret and send all the tourists to Bondi and gold coast
@@Inspireworkshop 🤣🤣🤣
Please. Australia is on its way to a 3rd world country with first world tastes. The 'diversity is our strength' propaganda swallowed by Australian parliaments without permission from the Australian voters has gone too far.
In Australia currently, things don't look so good for us, have a rampant inflation problem and a severe housing crisis. And there's TLDR telling us we're about to be an economic superpower. I'll believe it when I see it (assuming I live that long).
Inflation is good for property owners. and always has been.
Despite all this new expenditure...some $600 billion by 2035, its government still runs a comfortable surplus. Its tackled the military recruitment challenge by raising the pay scales of its servicemen. No one, even a raw recruit, earns less than $60k pa. The same recruit in the USA earns just $28k. And the US now bases a squadron of B52s and two B2 bombers in northern Australia. There is also a bridade of US Marines on constant rotation through its base at Darwin.
The other thing is that Australia has the most stable and boring political system in the western world. It also has a tough judiciary so crime rates are low. You do not need to give your schoolkid a bullet proof vest.
Australia = New America?
Australia = England in the sun, only better.
Australia Lucky to be near Indonesia a great place also with great potential 🎉
I live in the constituency of Benelong in New South Wales. It is one a significant number of parliamentary seats that have pluralities of East Asian voters. Do not assume that we will blindly follow America into any military adventure. Our political parties are well aware that it could be impossible for a party to form government if it was seen to be excessively tied to the bitterly divided USA.
There aren’t enough people here to be a superpower. We need at least 30-50million more people.
Arms manufacturing is a rapidly growing industrial sector in Australia. A decade ago they were about 20th in the world, now they are 15th, and have stated an intention of becoming a top 10 arms exporter. AUKUS is about a lot more than just building nuclear submarines.
@VisualPolitikEN
Aussie guy working in the superannuation system here: the figure of $2.3 trillion in assets is out of date. It’s now $3.9 trillion 😁
USD?
He said USD.
Great overview; thanks
There power is so expensive tho
Which is crazy considering space and potential. Invest hard in energy supply and make it cheap to bring back manufacturing
Australia will be like the Dutch Empire of the past a very wealthy middle power.. Having a massage mineral resources rich states and wealth from that will make it prosperous..
But the country lacks vision and never does the big vision projects like Dams or irrigation systems that would actually help Australia become even a bigger player in the long-term..
Safe to say the Globalists dont want Australia to get to far ahead of itself or too powerful for reason..
This is what these woke + environmental policys are all about as its really to restrict countries like Australia becoming even more powerful..
Australia has great potential with incredibly rich natural resources, but reality is it's squandered by career politicians with vested interests, apathetic citizens that will tolerate just about any erosion of their personal freedoms and future prosperity, so long as they can still have a beer, BBQ and weekend at the beach. The reaction to 2020 broke something fundamental in Australia, and it's no longer the beautiful place of possibility it used to be.
Yeah we've absolutely become a ridiculous nanny state. Fines permits and licencing for everything it feels so suffocating here and it's really obvious when you travel overseas.
Overstated.
Lithium is a flash in the pan. Japan is already toying with solid state batteries in their high end models. Not only is a lithium a figurative flash in the pan but the batteries currently produced containing it are subject to unstable reactions and spontaneous combustion. Having said that. The other products in solid state batteries will most likely emanate from Australia.
Another issue with Lithium. Even though Australia produces and exports it in huge quantities it all goes to China to be processed.
SS far as defence goes. All Australia's eggs are in too few baskets. A few well placed high yield weapons would wipe out Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Canberra - that would be 75% of the population taken out of play.
Australia is very mineral rich, even if the world moves on from lithium, there's a good chance we will have something else for them.
Good. Western Australia will not be held back anymore by NSW and Victoria.
If nuclear weapons are hitting Australia the Northern hemisphere likely stopped existing hours earlier. That would probably make New Zealand, Brazil or the 25% of Australia that’s left as the only super powers… if humanity survives at all.
As you point out there are new solid batteries *that actually still use lithium* that are even more safe than the safer lithium chemistries in use today. Not all lithium batteries are lithium ion. And the point of US investment is to establish processing for lithium outside China.
Australia was a regional superpower in 1945, supporting Allied forces throughout the Pacific through reverse Lend Lease and accepting the Japanese surrender and occupying territory from the Solomons in the East to Borneo in the West. At the same time, there was a power vacuum in the parts of SE Asia the British were responsible for such as Vietnam, Java and Sumatra.
Later Australia provided the bulk of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan, including the position of CinC.
It just has to be a majority anglo saxon to be a super power
There was so much garbage in this video. What did I even watch....
As an Australian, this is very satisfying. However I have to let you know that you mispronounced Melbourne and Canberra. If I was going to spell the Victorian capital's name, it would be Melb'n. The last syllable is contracted and only the b and n are pronounced. Canberra was intended to be pronounced as you did. However when the foundation stone was laid by Lady Denman, wife of the Australian Governor-General of that time she mispronounced it as Canbra, and that pronunciation stuck.
I'll forgive him from getting the pronunciation of our PM wrong, but, as a Melbournian, he needs to get Melbourne right. (If he wants me to keep watching his channel anyway).
Good stuff. Very informative. Much love to you and the crew. 🙂👍
One note: It's Alban-easy not Alban-ease. 🙂
Australia isn't a long way away. I'm in Australia. You have a global audience.
❤ for Australia from 🇺🇸
The problem is, Australia lives the fantasy that we are firmly wedged, geographically, somewhere in Europe, maybe a little island somewhere between the UK and the Netherlands. Everything is just a phone call away. The reality is we're geographically isolated, and for the last 50 years, all self reliance industries have been anhialated. Nobody in this country has the means, or probably even the talent, to build a car, clothe the people, or make and distribute saucepans to cook your food in. That is quite alarming, given that we've got most of the metal. That factor of course is not a problem, until it is.
And, it is fashionable for the greenies to give approval to mining lithium, but coal is bad? That's the rubbish we have to deal with.
Employers are required to contribute 11.5% of an employees' salary over and above their regular salary into an approved and nominated superannuation scheme. This means that an employee receives a salary of 111.5%. Employees can also make voluntary additional contributions to nominated and approved funds. It is more complex than this as it takes into account individual employment modes and circumstances. Employees are usually able to access their superannuation upon reaching retirement age but are able to access it sooner in exceptional circumstances
If we actually processed that lithium into batteries in highly automated factories in say QLD, imagine how much better it would be for us.
wake me up when they figure out how to terraform the outback
The USA guaranteed the security of Ukraine, in exchange for Ukraine giving up the 1,200 nuclear weapons that Ukraine had at the fall of the Soviet Union. The USA is NOT defending Ukraine. So, what value is a USA guarantee of security? Nothing is the answer.
Regards,
Geoff. Reeks
Great videos
Nice video.
Generally speaking yea it is but he makes some false statements and assumptions. Like that Australia hasn’t had an economic crisis in decades. They are in the middle of a housing crisis right now. Also the liberal assumption that everyone is going to go all electric for everything is dead wrong. Yes more things even some cars will be electric but if you think the ICE engine is going away, then I have some ocean front property in Idaho for sale.
Second biggest producer of natural gas …………electricity in Aus is almost becoming unaffordable ! Most of it is exported cheaply
"The Land *_of_* Down Under???"
Australia is the world's quarry, the amount of untapped natural resources is off the charts - but not easy to extract, process or transport.
Thanks
Appreciate the positivity ♥️🇦🇺
can you talk about Why Australia wants US-made B-21 stealth bombers?
We're in a multifaceted housing & economic crisis being propped up by immigration & high taxes for everyone but the rich. Our governments sell the roads & rails built by tax payers to companies that charge the populus to use them aswell.
On top of that non of the mining money comes to the people, our resource industry pays less tax than single parents 😞 long way to go...
Australia is awesome it’s true if high interest rates work in your favour the future is very bright
Bwahahahaha. you don't get out much...
If Australia had 100m people they would be 2nd to China and the US. However, they inherited a poor idea of human capital
*Expansionist policy of the Chinese regime???* What bollocks!
China is ONLY focused on its territorial rights, including in Taiwan and the South China Sea. Let's keep in mind that five other countries have territorial claims in the South China Sea (Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam), _and Taiwan also has the same claim as China._
Since when did protecting one's territorial integrity constitute expansionism? Is the UK expansionist with regards to the Falkland Islands?
What territorial rights does China have over Taiwan? Taiwan has been Dutch, Manchurian, Japanese and Japanese under Western occupation. When the KMT refugees arrived in 1949, Taiwan was under Western occupation until 1952. Both the PRC and ROC’s claims of sovereignty over each other are an anachronism, no one will address, for fear of a war. The issue regarding the South China Sea has been adjudicated on by the The Hague and the SCS determined to be internal waters.
@@petersinclair3997 Agreed. The policy of strategic ambiguity regarding Taiwan was a mistake. The CCP has never governed it. After the three generations since the war, it should be completely independent. The people can determine their own future. Unlike in Mainland China, the Taiwanese have an elected government
@@petersinclair3997 First of all, the adjudication in the Permanent Court of Arbitration was entirely one-sided; China was not a participant. This is hardly legal.
Second, Taiwan was returned to the ROC after the Japanese defeat. This is not in dispute.
Third, the Communists overthrew the ROC and formed the PRC. All ROC territory henceforth belonged to the PRC.
Fourth, Taiwan's constitution has not renounced its claim on the mainland. This is hardly an anachronism. It's very current.
Tibet…. Formosa….water off Borneo…come one….china has never controlled those waters…..it couldn’t even control the waters off Hong Kong, Macau, shanghai or port Arthur….
China has troops in Myanmar as we speak! China funds wars in Africa. Educate yourself
The Albanese government has worked hard to gut our defence forces despite the propaganda, for example it cancelled another F35 squadron, we have had to mothball two frigates in an already small surface fleet. They halved the number of self propelled artillery after South Korea had actually built a factory here on the assurances of the previous government. Then they cut the. Umber of new APCs from 450 to 128 units. Do they expect our infantry to walk hundred of kilometres?. As for AUKUS and the nuclear subs they were initiated by the previous Liberal government. In short, this Labor government has been grossly incompetent that is dominated by unions resulting in the highest rates of insolvencies since the Covid lockdowns and the true reason we have maintained our standard of living is because our miners dig up valuable rocks and our farmers growing stuff then export them. Oh, and as for the most restrictive immigrant requirements, that doesn’t apply to unskilled Palestinians.
I had to double take what you said about our pathetic current Labour PM Anthony Albanese. Are you serious pal. He is as weak as water! What Australian free enterprise does, has little to do with Albo. He is a WOKE kowtowing PM to China. They called him the handsome boy. What an insult. What Australia must do is keep profits for Australia, not for Blackrock and Vanguard. All these initiatives were instigated by the Morrison Government (LNP). Albo has no choice but to follow suit with the arrangements.
Australia doesn't just have gigantic bugs !
It's got gigantic Sharks, Crocodiles, Snakes and Velociraptors (Cassowaries) 👍 LoL
Saruman: Australia 🇦🇺..You fear to go into those mines. The Aussies delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum... shadow and flame…
Australias opportunity to invest in itself, came in the early 2000s mining boom when China was buying up all the Aussie Iron Ore and Coal. Unfortunately, Australias leadership sold its people out 20 years ago. I spend a lot of my time in both Australia and the United States (last 15 years) I'm a dual US-Australian Citizen, and for me as time as gone on. Australia has only gotten worse. Australia is a land of wasted opportunity, it pains me too say that. But for me it is true.
I've been back in Sydney for 2 years, and Sydney is far from paradise on earth. Have you been to Thailand? 😂
You're right, unfortunately.
14:48 Your country doesnt even recognise TW as a country and you call it a country? In fact TWs government doesnt even consider TW as a country as per their very own constitution. If they, and your country doesnt recognise TW as a country, who are you to call them a country?
Perth is now the worst city in the world to find a rental property, apparently. And Australia would be even wealthier if it didn't keep selling off assets overseas. 🙄 Not a Scomo fan at all, but he did stop the sale of a cattle station to a Chinese consortium because the size of the property meant the company would then own almost 3% of Australia's agricultural land. Also, from memory, the area ran alongside (or was close to) Woomera weapons range. I'm probably a lefty, but I don't think any part of Australia should be owned by anyone not living in Australia. Have a look at Vancouver empty apartment problems.
Not a single economic crisis in decades you say??? Hmm 🤔
Ikr
Pretty much 30 years and no recession.
The Australian Ministry of Propaganda should hire you as a mouthpiece.
Pretty certain they already did.
You should live in Lebanon or Iran... Maybe you do?
I’m a Aussie love me country but fuck mate we don’t even build our own cars anymore. And the economy right now your either in the mines or flat broke
@@uncle7162 Ditto.
Fun fact. A FIFO Diesel Fitter, can earn
(AUD) $310,000 a year!
FMD.
Population density in Melbourne CBD is 38,000 people per square kilometre. The capitals exist outside normal Australian conditions and average Australians do not accept that way of life and yet we are having to pay for it.
We have an entire continent, not the biggest but it is all ours.
I'm sorry, but I live here, and it feels like we are seriously going backward, both politically and economically.
I feel bad for Canada… Welp I guess maple syrup will do it.
10:30 Careful- pensions, and superannuation (which is what you were talking about) are 2 totally different things! Superannuation means that 12% of our regular pay is invested into a superannuation fund only accessible after the age of 60, but retirement age, when you can access the government pension (ie, if you don't have enough super) is 67.
G'day, mate!
Josh u need to get rid of your neo-colonist mindset mate