Australia's Rise to Global Power

Will Australia rise to global power? Maybe.

[lucmart]

Okay, but that doesn't change the fact that in Australia there are 48 million kangaroos and in Uruguay there are 3, 457, 480 inhabitants, so if kangaroos decide to invade Uruguay, each Uruguayan will have to fight 14 kangaroos.

[lawsofsand]

As an Australian I love how Tasmania is just notably cut off all map images...

[stevestir]

The oldest joke in the book is telling foreigners “Australian slang” and just making up random shit that not a single Australian ever uses.

[CeladonHairExtraordinaire]

As a Kiwi I've always referred to Australia as the USA to our Canada. They are unbelievably powerful and honestly I think we're just happy to get along with them, for the most part.

[TheMelbournelad]

As an Aussie I’m happy to live in a country that’s closer to the big boy table than we have any right to be.

[sandwichsatanattenborough]

As an Australian, I am glad to see Australia being talked about outside of Australia.

[anneofgreengables]

As a rural Australian living in semi-desert land, I appreciate you for mentioning us and our land, we never get any mentions, it’s only the cities, but the people here are lovely and hard-working, the land is absolutely stunning, the animals are fascinating, the freedom is impeccable etc. I would hate to live in the city.

[thepengyknight]

australia is basically just if someone took a European power, gave them a continent that’s mostly desert, and slapped them off the coast from indonesia

[leeroyo]

Proud criminal descendant here. We have heaps of resources and a government that is prepared to throw it all away for shiny baubles.

[Johnvfr]

Important think to note about Australia is while much of the country can be mostly dry at times on the surface, it also has the worlds largest aquapher called the Great Artesian basin, it covers 1.7 million square kilometers, the state of NSW alone has over 5000 million mega litres in aquaphers, even the city of Sydney has an 141 square Km aquifer under it. Australia tends not to use its underground water to the same extent other countries, but it is nice to know it's available if needed.

[jamesrussell]

The reason we don't make steal is that our wages are too high and our currency too valuable to make it competitive in international markets. We used to have a large steel industry before we got rich, particularly in the city of Newcastle. But as wages went up we ended up just selling iron to China and buying back their steel. Hope this was helpful :)

[Fubnin]

As an Aussie our current main concerns are housing (which is further exasperated by foreign and local investors), water security as you said, rising inflation and interest (making houses even more expensive) and debt. Last few administrations sucked up insane amounts of debt.

[grape]

If I had a penny for every time you missed out Tasmania on your map of Australia...

[Ben-edwx]

Aussie here, we may not be in a "recession" as such but we're bloody well heading towards one. Our inflation went up the wazoo a few months ago, shit's bad. Also we did used to have a massive manufacturing industry but it's all gone now and we mostly just sell food and raw minerals

[overworlder]

Negative gearing isn't about the value of a property, it allows you to treat an investment property like a business and deduct expenses (mostly mortgage interest) against your taxable personal income. Negative gearing is where the expenses of the investment property are greater than the income so you pay net lower tax. You can't do it for your residence though. You can also make your investment property part of your low-tax retirement fund.
The right loves it because it enriches their base and supposedly increases housing supply, the left dislikes it because it is an expensive subsidy for investors and supposedly drives house price inflation. There's 15m taxpayers of which 2m have rental properties and 1m have negative gearing. Of the 1m, 9 in 10 have one investment property, the other 10% 2 or more.
Those numbers, despite being a small minority of overall electors (16.4m), mean it is hard to campaign against the system because it immediately alienates 1 million voters, mostly right voters, but enough independent and left voters to make a difference. Labor lost an election in 2019 where it campaigned against this system but won this year's election after it dropped that policy. Although it was only one issue among many, of course.

[MelissaWilliams-ln]

I cant believe he called the people who can f*** up a whole shark cowards

[qocket]

To be honest Perth's isolation turned it into one of the nicest Australian Cities. There's a reason everyone in Adelaide has a moderate to high hatred of the east coast but not the west coast.

[WaveDaSeaWing]

As an Aussie I’m pretty sure recently on the news the government is doing something nuclear and also jazzing up the military

[Mail-man_admirer]

The “long dry” and “big wet” are actually called elnino and lanina, when Australia was on fire that was elnino, right now lanina and it’s flooding.

[ProCoder]

As an Australian, I find it hilarious that this guy is trying to teach me about my own country