Why Does Australia Have Such a Tiny Population? (Despite Being Absolutely Massive)

The concluding sentence didn't quite make sense. The birth rate may continue to decline. I am not sure that the immigration rate will be affected. I am not sure you are either. Are you implying climate change will bring the immigration rate down? You said it in a round about way but not directly. If so, I have never heard a statement like this before.

Please NEVER EVER! call us First Nations people it’s extremely offensive and factually incorrect. The First Nations people are people indigenous to Canada and we are nothing alike. It completely erases 60,000 years of culture

The biggest reason is we are in the middle of nowhere. Immigrating to Australia was a strange decision compared to immigrating to the Americas in the 1800s. Much further away, worse conditions for agriculture, much more aggressive nature and landscape and much less developed than the Americas at that time

If you want to go live in a desert nothing stopping you.

The Europeans treatment of the aboriginals wasn't good but its comparatively exaggerated.

Everybody tries to liken it to Native Americans but it's not even close.

White Australians were often hung for murdering aboriginals, the US was paying people for scalps.

Aboriginals were often ignored and left to do what they want if they left the settlers alone.

The stolen generation was implemented terribly but in aboriginal communities sexual abuse and alcoholism has always been a huge issue.

I'm going to guess it's because Australia is full of creatures that can kill you in an instant

there's no water, sorry to be so blunt, don't kno whow you can stretch that out to 26 minutes?

I wonder why the kids are being put into care after Rudd's apology....

And also, before 1901 Australia was Britain - so you don't get off the hook that easily

Seeing this after just experiencing the second heatwave of the summer, where temperatures got to 43°C in Sydney yesterday is explanation enough

You didn't mention large parts of inland Australia have major flood about every 20 years

Why does Australia have such a tiny population? We did because we like it that way but, our Commie government is doing its nest to boost the numbers with undesirables.

Simon wants to sterilize the unmoneyed

How does women Fertility increase, but male decreases? How does that make any sense are the women breeding with the sheep. Thought that was more of a Welsh thing

Might be "on the extreme side" is an understatement. The whole country bursts into flames every couple years

Simon, Have you been to Australia? I know we're pretty far away, but you and the family should definitely visit sometime.

I live on a farm 🚜 and active mine our biggest problem is the mine uses all the ground water and the water table lowering we are having problems with water supply from our own water supply system and pumping stations and got told we had to extend our water pipes to reach the water table it's now extra 158 metres to get water the owner is trying to get the mine to pay for it if not he said he will shut down the farm may have to close until the next rains 😢 we see rainfall all around us but not a drop for our region

They already killed my Commodore, quit making it worse

We are not a lucky country this is how it's supposed to be if other countries can't do it fuk them

What a bunch of BS.

A: water.

Reminds me of Canada but with the opposite temperature.

It is actually so insulting that people look at declining birth rates as a sign of a strong economy.
Young Australians are not having children because we can't afford to buy houses, it's not because we want to be wealthy.

Give me a 79 series Land Cruiser, and if money was no issue, I would take my Land Cruiser, criss-cross the Outback the rest of my life, happyyyyy.

I'm a new immigrant to Australia from USA and I love this country

I think even our coastline seems to be massively underutilized, yes even our east coast. One of the major problems of Melbourne and Sydney is that they are Melbourne and Sydney - most large+ sized businesses are based here (especially fintech) and with office attendance requirements it means they are required to stay here. As such everything from housing increases (both rental and buying) goes through the roof
If there were incentives and decoupling from Sydney-Melbourne (and to a lesser extent Brisbane) by operating perhaps business hubs (for example, local offshoots of large+ businesses), limited tax breaks or whatever, you can help re-distribute population mass.
I do think we need more skilled workers; but they can't all be based in the sydney-melbourne-brisbane area, they need to be placed outside it, and placing them outside will simulate local economies and get money moving,, including increasing tax revenue and services - infrastructure projects.

I have a theory that the population would be far higher, but many people are eaten by drop bears...

Australia immigration is low class with low skill to fill poor paid jobs with 3rd world imports to max corp profits and mindlessly Pay extortionate rents & utilities… Alongside the extortive “education qualifications”.

Take a Look at the AU educated migration for Real results.

In sydney thers no young actuall australians anymore!!
Lucky to Hear english spoken and schools are All asian children!!!

Tina turner did ok with bater town .. she set that up in the desert

The "rate of children taken has doubled" is framed so stupidly. The rate has increased because child services do their job better and remove children from their 24/7 drunk and drugged parents

Canada's geography, despite being the opposite of Australia's (a bit chilly in some places, with plenty of water (60% of all the world's lakes)) has led to a very similar population pattern. One lonely city in the southwest corner, most of rest of the population concentrated in one area towards the southeast, and one oddball island off the southeast coast.

The Australian flag in the video is missing a star. FFS. The history of europeans meeting the indigenous peoples of Australia has its horrific points; however, Simon is giving the "activist" version, as in, the retelling of history for presentist political purposes.

hahahaaha. Yeah Emu's are brutal, I lived 150km west of Longreach, QLD. in an area called the Cockatoo Mountains, an opal mine area, there we lived in a tin shed surrounded by a family of kangaroos and other assorted wildlife ( also where I learnt how to handle and raise some of the deadlier species of spiders, snakes and fauna our nation has to offer ). while being taught how to operate the sks-rifle I missed the target but clipped a Emu in the distance, all the shot did was anger the large bird to which I was told " Back away inside, Quickly but Calmly" if it rushes me "drop and ball up", I wasn't going to do the latter due to a red ants nest close by and I had already witnessed them devour a kangaroo carcass in the span of mere hours and I was smaller than a Roo at the time. Side tangent - I also got to literally watch money wash away as the boulder containing a 2' x 1" pure green, red speckled harlequin opal-vein I found was set on sandstone so in the process of prepping it crumbled into nothingness leaving some small shale shards but mostly washed down the sink into history.

22:40 As a former self-employed childcare worker, the amount of people who struggle to find adequate care facilities so they can go back to the workforce here is dangerously high, I recently had to stop my services due to and i quote from the job agencies and department of Centerlink here " you need to charge your clients more per hour per child if you wish to continue being a self employed worker ". I would charge families based on their financial situation, those duel income single child families would be charged at Australia's fair work minimum of 22AUD/hr usually id accept 20AUD/hr where as those of single or low income families would be charged at a per/day or weekly rate of 50~200AUD. This might read well but sadly due to being on the social security system myself the gross income earnt was heavily effected by 50% of earnings removed from the social security payments + highest tax rate removed, equating to actually earning 20 cents to the dollar. for reference a friend of mine now pays 75/child/hr for care services equating to 800+/1200 paycheck going directly to childcare, their partners check covers the 700+/1200 for rent leaving very little to pay for general living and schooling expenses. this is happening across the nation and as far as I am aware nothing is being done to rectify this issue.

Too many dole bludger. And ones who won't learn English.

side note. renters have less children, homes have become too expensive and it's becoming too expensive for immigrants. i don't see our population exceeding 35m ever. not until this changes.

To simplify the reasons:
1) Most of the continent is a desert
2) It was colonized extremely "late in the game"
3) Connected to reason 2, more British/European settlers probably chose Canada, the U.S. or even South Africa before they would choose going all the way to Australia.

Well, it was terra nullius, except for the indigenous Australians. Then the population couldn't probably didn't even count the indigenous population, sadly.

What is that temu fail flag he has on his desk? 😂
The southern cross has 5 stars , not 4...🇦🇺

Tasmanian aboriginals were from a different breed of people

we are so lucky regardless how bad the government is we get by rather well thank you mate

Gotta love all the references to Dune that who knows if Simon got

It doesn't really do ANYTHING?
It's just a Booboisie suburb for The Former British Empire, busy digging up and selling the extractive and agricultural products to the rest of the World.
There are only so many people who want to live in that cul-de-sac beyond the edge of town, like John Belushi in "Neighbors".