Starts as a British outpost in one of the most inhospitable environments on earth

Becomes the greatest country on earth.

What went so right here?

>one of the most inhospitable environments on earth
>It's an entire island with a very nice mediterrenean climate and ordinary desert regions
Let me guess, spiders being a little bigger than usual make it inhospitable?
It's the greatest country on earth because people there are smart, it's an island, and the government supports its people.

>>17767549 (OP)
>Becomes the greatest country on earth.
Afraid that title's taken "mate."

SETTLER *clap* COLONIALISM *clap* WORKS *clap*

What happens in WA?

>>17767563
>people there are smart
If only. A lot of anti-intellectualism is super rife there.
>it's an island
and still fucked up a ton of opportunities lol.
>the government supports its people
It's government is super mercurial, frequently fucks over the citizenry and spends it's time alternating between American cock and Chinese cock. It has frequently gone out of it's way to sycophantically back anything the US has done without even being asked while also making itself hyper dependent on China.

>>17767660
And Canada also has similar issues as well or variants.

>>17767569
They can't even fill up their own ppost secondary schools so I'm not sure how one would call that effective.

>>17767660
> A lot of anti-intellectualism is super rife there.
What are some examples?
>spends it's time alternating between American cock and Chinese cock
Every capital based country enters economic agreements with other countries. I get the feeling your metric for "sucking cock" is really shallow and grounded in porn fantasies that have infected the rest of your frontal lobe.
>It's government is super mercurial, frequently fucks over the citizenry
Texans pay taxes so that three families who are all working at Bexar County can give their relatives jobs while potholes ruin everyone's cars. The state has little to no public transit so if you don't have a car you're fucked. State troopers give their citizens thousand dollar fines for going 2 mph over the speed limit. Every hurricane entire families lose their house and are forced to pick up from square one with no state or federal help at all.
Can you specifically tell me how the Australian government fucks over its citizens? Because I can.

>>17767674
Solution: They can import changoid women and create more delicious hapas which will also boost their sex tourism industry (off of my contributions alone)

>>17767680
>Can you specifically tell me how the Australian government fucks over its citizens?
Fucking over the spread of fibre by going for shitty FTTN instead of FTTP.

>>17767680
>Can you specifically tell me how the Australian government fucks over its citizens?

Importing jeets

>>17767680
If they're anything like the US they don't really care about prestige or anything, and most of the upper class are completely disconnected weirdos reading marxist racial literature and burning cars

>>17767684
Failing to go for renewables early enough despite the strong vantage point and very limited nuclear since the window for cheap constructions and the worker base to actually pull it off has long since passed for many markets globally.

>>17767685
The Indian and Chinese influx are part of the same problem. Nowadays both have many options to bail out to other countries or return home.

>>17767686
Complaining about road quality is a pretty weird thing to fixate on, when Texas is in the middle of the pack in the US and blue states like California ranked way worse.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/infrastructure/transportation/road-quality

>>17767689
I’m not disagreeing with you, but can you expand on why building new nuclear reactors is less feasible now. I’m actually interested in this.

>>17767694
>can you expand on why building new nuclear reactors is less feasible now.
Basically the time window when construction used to be cheaper when oil prices were lower is far gone. That and the older generation of construction staff, know-how matters like trade secrets and internal Nuclear talent are all aging and retired.

>>17767694
>and blue states like California ranked way worse.
That's a clickbait link and their ranking methodology is literally behind a login screen so I'm just going to call bullshit but regardless, California and Texas both are on-par with road quality (even according to your link that puts them 10 places apart) and both suffer the same problem in that they are both massive states with a lot of small town back country roads that lower the average in both cases

>>17767707
Sad. I blame Soviets for ruining nuclear energy’s reputation by running Chernobyl like retards and Germany for using the EU to kneecap nuclear reactor construction in Europe.

>>17767709
I’m open minded: let’s see the real ranking.

>>17767549 (OP)
>What went so right here?
I'm not sure, but I think being the origin place of "Bulloo River language" probably gave it a head start.

>>17767707
Ah yes, we can't go to the moon anymore and we can't build nuclear reactors unless it's to power bill gate's AI holodeck

>>17767714
>let’s see the real ranking.
The closest you'll find to "real rankings" are from the BTS
https://www.bts.gov/road-condition
According to them, 71% of Californias Roads were deemed in acceptable condition compared to Texas' 76%. The national percentage is 81% by their standards

>>17767685
The solution was having kids and contributing to the state that provides for you. I don't know where you and the Europeans messed up with that. And that's not even a uniquely Australian thing. You get healthcare and you get a pension when you're old. We're gonna get our social security cut at some point.
>>17767686
> the upper class are nazbol anarchists o algo
Where do you people get this crap?
>>17767694
USNews is hilarious. I visit it to get a kick out of their car ratings every now and then. Their metrics for ranking are extremely biased towards a specific audience. It's way too obvious.
To answer your question, if I'm paying exorbitant property tax, I'm gonna call everything that it supposedly goes to. Unfortunately in Texas, roads are one of the few things that it's supposed to go to, and it's less than mediocre. That's pisses me off a lot.
The only other spot I seen potholes that shitty was Long Beach CA. But Long Beach specifically has always been a shithole. What excuse does the republican city mecca that is DFW have?

>>17767723
The two sides of the upper class in the US are right wing rich utopian socialists and then leftist utopian socialists. The right wingers like waves of immigration because they're told that's what the US is and somehow they're patriotic for making the country worse. The leftists know it's damaging and want more of it anyway.

The last anti immigration party in the US was the know nothing party

>>17767549 (OP)
Low population density on a huge continent with plenty of natural resources close to Asia. The only other economic sector that they have developed putside of extraction is selling real state to chinks

Super annuation, as of recent. Strong history of trade protectionism, safe borders, an early-modern gold rush that produced one-third of the world's gold, from Victoria alone, attracted intellectual capital from every corner of Europe. A decimated indigenous population, so that there wasn't the same difficulty seen in South Africa or Rhodesia.

>>17767784
>an early-modern gold rush that produced one-third of the world's gold, from Victoria alone

QRD

>>17767786
Melbourne, Victoria was a colony of free settlement, built almost solely because of the wealth found in the Bendigo gold fields & elsewhere. It's also the birthplace of the Australian labour movement, which is responsible for the country's identity as external to Britain, and its strong labour protections. The gold rush brought forth a mini-revolution, called the Eureka stockade, that occurred due to unjust mining licenses mandated upon labourers trying to strike it big in the fields. Immigrants often sold all they had to find gold there, while suffering under a 'taxation without representation', similarly seen before America's revolution.

>The discovery of the Victorian Goldfields has converted a remote dependency into a country of worldwide fame; it has attracted a population, extraordinary in number, with unprecedented rapidity; it has enhanced the value of property to an enormous extent; it has made this the richest country in the world; and, in less than three years, it has done for this colony the work of an age, and made its impulses felt in the most distant regions of the earth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_gold_rush

>>17767680
>What are some examples?
It's nebulous but tall poppy syndrome and anti-intellectualism really is endemic in Australia.
>I get the feeling your metric for "sucking cock" is really shallow and grounded in porn fantasies that have infected the rest of your frontal lobe.
The government sells goods and imports them at a higher price for local consumption, which is insanity. Australia is in the US camp and it often shows it by burning millions of dollars on pointless shit that isn't our problem like Ukraine or Israel of all fucking places. Australia's involvement with the Middle East should have ended the moment Bin Laden died.
>Can you specifically tell me how the Australian government fucks over its citizens?
Infinity Jeets and the other million immigrants they bring in every other year
Deliberately keeping cost of living and house prices high for their boomer overlords. Despite what they say there is actually an easy fix and they will never take it.
Taking no action with gang violence

>>17767549 (OP)
>inhospitable environments
Literally the opposite, retard. Sydney and Melbourne are some of the mildest, easiest to live in climates you can ask for. Australia is enormous and most of the population live in very pleasant green areas.
It's also not as hot as people think. Melbourne gets 0 degree nights in winter and Sydney is probably as cool as a typical southern Spanish city in winter.

>>17767549 (OP)
>Becomes the greatest country on earth
This is not true
>>17767563
>>It's an entire island with a very nice mediterrenean climate
This is not true

>>17767575
Mining and cattle

>>17767549 (OP)
Australia doesn't exist.

take your fucking meds.

>>17767575
https://desuarchive.org/his/thread/17687978/#17692177

>>17767549 (OP)
Canadians are pretty much what Strayans pretend to be.

>>17767563
The climate looks nice but it really likes to fuck with you, aside from maybe around Sydney. Mineral resources are great, but good water is defs scarce

>>17767549 (OP)
NSW was where it was founded and Australian was a tyrannical hellhole for it's early history.
First, under the convict system, convicts were basically chattel enslaved and the Brits sent like anyone and everyone there for any minor indescresion that pissed off British imperial elite, so a lot of even priests and things were bundled up and thrown down in Aus for simply disagreeing with someone of nobility or power.
In early Australia, the main punishment was forced sodomy, so basically, early Australian convict men were all repeately raped by British officials, soldiers and freehold settlers. This led to a view among the working classes of early Australia, that being educated and of high class = being a rapist faggot. This is where Australia's Tall Poppy and Anti-Intellectualism culture became a mainstay. Even in Aus to this day, caring about anything more than standard suburban boomer stuff and NRL will get you suspected of being gay/fag.
https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/51366 (Source on the endemic rape and sodomy as punishment)
Australia would eventually grow into essentially a crypto oligarchy, you have latifundia "bunyip oligarchs" who basically control much of Australian production and political power, then the working classes Unions fighting them. Now the Oligarchy has moved from Agri/Mining to FIRE, so Real Estate and Developers hold insane political power in Australia and make Aussie politics super under the table.
Australia is great because it's got small population, shitload of resources and lots of arable land. But you only have to look at how Australia came out of the largest mining boom in history, in debt, to see how mismanaged the country actually is. Australia was selling gold for so low in the 1990s/2000s, it literally crashed global gold markets for like a decade.

>>17768293
Oh also forgot to mention, NSW for most of it's history has basically been run by organized crime. During pre-federation it was basically a tyrannical nightmare state run by dictator governors where people literally used Rum as currency. Post WW2 as well, the biggest power player in NSW politics were literally paperclipped Fascists like the Ustase.
QLD was a criminal mafia dictatorship up to the late 80s.
Also the Liberal Party outright protected pedophiles. ( https://francesjones.wordpress.com/2013/06/22/the-faceless-men-of-the-liberal-party/ )
In fact, Australia has a long history of Nonce and Pedo involvement in politics, ESPECIALLY in South Australia.

>>17768299
>>17768293
This is solid info. The explanation for the tall poppy culture really makes sense. What a fucking shit hole of smooth brained people

>>17768323
if only you knew how bad things really are. When I was ten years old a cousin of mine asked my parents if I was gay because I patted her pet dog. to be born in Australia is a fucking curse.

>>17767563
lol

>>17768351
You were supposed to pat her pussy ya poof.

>>17768351
>because I patted her pet dog
You are minimising.

>>17768351
why? that sounds gay

>>17768515
>>17768551
>>17768623
we were in the outback and showing any compassion for animals means you're gay apparently. fuck this country.

>greatest country on earth
yeah nah that ship sailed over 25 years ago now

Australia is one of the worst countries in the world right now

>>17770028
don't be delusional. Australia always was a shithole.

>>17770101
Nah the 90s and earlier was pretty good
>last decade with White cities
>people could leave their doors unlocked
>practically no crime to speak of
>sense of community, street parties were common
>modern optimistic country

Now its like all the smart people have fled. everywhere is overcrowded and everyone is foreign. And theres dodgy criminal types everywhere. Also everything is too expensive and its impossible to rent or own a house

>>17767563
Technically theres only a coupe of tiny regions with "mediterranean" climate.
The rest of the climate is basically hell yes.

>>17770226
same as america, tbf even britain was optimistic and joyful in the late 90s & early 00s
they just couldn't let you have it could they

>>17767549 (OP)
Anglo Lebensraum works

>>17770226
I left my house unlocked when I was in Australia, so you can still do it