Please please 🙏...Do a video on China water diversion projects...please.

we can tell your not Australian hey. you cant even say the towns name rite . this is miss information

Power and energy are what the water project is an example of non radioactive.

I've heard some people make comments on Australia and this is easily one of the worst. The Ord River Scheme has been an extraordinary success. Yeah it had failures with cotton but then cotton has failed in so many places that its almost considered an economic suicide crop. Go ask the Russians about the Aral Sea on that one. Its staggering just how badly some people put out crap on KZfaq. You need to do more than just look up Wikipedia and take what's there without any further research. There's an idiotic claim there about only 260 jobs, which is total BS because it only includes jobs on the farms. It doesn't include the sorting, packaging and export related jobs. I know how big that business is because my brother used to work for VISY one of the main suppliers into the packaging. Also your claims on particular crops which is just plain wrong doesn't include the huge cash crops of melons, tomatoes and other vegetables that are exported to Asia. I know about those because one of my previous neighbors was a seed merchant whose main business was in the Ord River Scheme. He once showed me a bag of tomato seed that cost more per kilogram than cocaine. If you actually knew anything about Australia its our other major water scheme "The Murray-Darling" which is one of the worst cases of government water resource mismanagement anywhere on the planet. Its a national embarrassment ad disgrace.

The Japanese did actually invade the northern Territory during WW2. There was one boat who sent a landing party thay found it inhospitable and there was nothing to wage war on so they left after a week or so.

So amazing that your channel elicits kind of high-quality feedback. Very cool.

The topic of "northern agricultural development" still comes up every few years, as some politician, government or opposition floats the idea like it just occurred to them. It's basically just a way of trying to win votes in Western Australia, Queensland, and the Northern Territory, by throwing around numbers in the billions, and playing up the "strategic importance" angle to garner the favour of armchair geo-political enthusiasts.

I tend to think that the government is going about it completely the wrong way. They have this concept that development equates to the growing of rice and sugarcane. Theres nothing stopping them from putting roads through the desert, and then putting factories and houses, and a pipeline with water fed from floodwaters from the eastern states. We already grow enough food to feed 95 million people now, why are we so worried about growing more?

I don't know why they built schools there. They can't even get the aborigines to stop sleeping in the road or sniffing gas. With an average eye cue (to avoid autodelete) of 68, they simply will not benefit from formal schooling and are really only suitable for menial labor.

Looks British enough to me

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I think the shades were a bit excessive a monocle glass would suffice.

@NAP HAHAHA yeah kidding!

Classy look

Yup. It really sounds like they needed to lay out the rail network first, then build the dams. The rail network should have been short to keep costs down, concentrating on land nearest the ports, which would subsequently be irrigated.

More than 50 years since project start, still no rail line!

@@ShashankRockerYo How about a canal? If shipped in large quantities isn't that more attractive? In terms of cost and scale?

@Shashank Sharma If you are in the west, then this is considered normal and on time 😂

I was thinking the same. Trucking things in and out is one thing but a rail is definitely the way to go. It is more cost effective. Guess the Australian politicians hasn't figure that out yet. With all the money sank into this project. They could have a build a rail line already. 😁

Full on, mate!

Please learn to speak Chinese & keep whining

You do realise that subs are useless in modern warfare. They wouldn't even get in missle range of a Chinese warship before being found and destroyed by depth charge helicopter. Seriously, research subs.

@@teagueman100 subs aren't useless. They're stealth platforms more than for anti-ship. For example, nuclear weapons that are fast and can't be hit in an early strike.

@@joshuacheung6518 Yeah so not good for defense at all. Subs wouldn't be able to stop the Chinese fleet if it came to Australia. The subs could only launch a retaliatory nuke strike back at China after China has nuked all our cities and its navy is sailing here. Our subs would have to sail all the way to China because sub nuke missiles are short range. Even If the subs were already around China they don't carry enough nukes to defeat China. So basically the subs are good at spite. They cant be a nuclear deterrent because you require the same nuber of nukes as the enemy to create a stalemate. Coldwar style. Australia could not win a nuke war against china with subs either. Shouldnt we be focusing on defending our waters from naval attack with ships rather than trying to enter into a nuclear arms race we couldnt win. Nuclear warfare is dead nobody wants to enter it. Traditional warfare is back. We need aircraft carriers and destroyers we need to defend our waters.

Not even USD. In Aus dollars thats like 12 bucks.

@@redhammer92 1B US is about 750 Million AUD. Still a lot of money, but chicken feed for a major project. The dam is still useful for drinking water for the region, and feeding cattle which is the biggest earner. Australia just spent 60 Billion on fibre internet. They spent 3.5B on a desalination plant in Victoria, and Adelaide is building one for 2 B. So 1 Billion for a dam and infrastructure in the middle of nowhere sounds pretty cheap to me.

Once pine plantations have been harvested or burnt down by fires , the remnants of the soil is poor quality left remaining with millions of tree stumps . This is such a *. 1 -. Ditch , no thought consideration that the soil must first be re vitalized for anything else to grow . Tell us what they have rejuvenated down South Australia - old Kypo- Forest ?

Its 10 to 12 years for sandlewood and the main crop is the oil,not the timber.

@@pennyoflaherty1345 Sorry Penny, but your wrong. In Western Australia and in particular our South West pine plantation shave been vigorously growing now for many years. The plantations have a life span of around 30 years, then get cut down, cleared, burn the rubbish and immediately afterwards, a new crop is planted. Pending on the rain fall, they grow very quickly. The pine trees are the Pinus Radiata.

@@itchyvet same in NSW. Must be characteristic SA stagnation which is affecting Kypo forest.

I'm guessing the presenter is young and has yet to understand the concept of time. I'm fifteen years into a twenty year project and it feels like no time has passed at all.

Actually its bullshit. Ord river's early days were a bust because they went for cotton, which is easily one of the most damaging crops on the planet. Ask the Russians about the Aral Sea. But this is all based on old information. In recent decades they switched towards vegetables and melons to supply demand in Asia and that stuff has been incredibly profitable. I know that because one of my previous neighbors was a seed merchant who did business in the Ord. Seedless water melons and tomatoes make huge money out of the ord. Also my brother used to work for VISY ad they have a huge division in Darwin selling packaging into that market.

@@tonywilson4713 I agree that the Ord River Coop has done pretty well and that a few seed companies have done well producing their maize, sorghum and other hybrid seed there out of season. And, yes, rock melons, seedless water melons and a few vegetable crops have also done well BUT the areas producing those crops and the water consumption are a fraction of the total developed irrigation capacity and will never repay the money ploughed into its development over the last 65 years. In my 40 year career in agriculture I have seen too much boom/bust cropping in the Ord - cotton, rice in the 70s and early 80s and sugarcane from the mid 1990s to 2007 - each with significant investments in infrastructure ultimately abandoned. As recently as 2016 AgricWA was talking up sugarcane yet again. I have discussed its future with too many respected agricultural economists to have any faith that Australia will ever see a return on investment. And that is without considering the most recent exotic pest incursion in the discovery of fall armyworm in the Ord last autumn ....

@@geoffmesser5091 fair comments. The crop I have concern about is cotton. There's the new cotton which is one of the greatest achievements in ag science ever. It would have been great if they could have reduced the water needed, or the chemicals needed or improved the fiber quality. Doing 1 of those would have been great *but they did all 3.* The problem is that its now incredibly profitable which is what has driven the madness in the Murray-Darling. I'm an engineer and this is part of my argument about our long term planning. We don't think long term in our engineering which includes our infrastructure (like Ord). Everything is about the next quarter or next season. As a nation we need to start being a lot smarter in every industry we have. I actually started in aerospace and after the new Space Agency started their 1st road map had as its first item - advanced space based water management *but delivered in the mid 2030s.* So I put forward a proposal to move on it now and try and deliver that in 3-5 years. You should have seen the panic I created. I said to the ASA - "these are your words lets not wait until somebody else hands it too us lets just get on with it." And they freaked out. Feedback form the Farmers Fed was positive but the ASA stomped on me. My mothers family are farmers so I have been around farming and ag since I was born. From the day it started Landline was compulsory viewing in my family. Before that Big Country.

Thank goodness numb nuts didn't build his plastic canal !

Government owned rail is the solution.

Theirs nothing contradictory about that. The money gets put into infrastructure that stays in local hands. Its only development that is leased.

@@yanmak2363 you do not know the meaning of the word 'contradiction'.

@@indyrock8148 China itself uses foreign direct investment (From America) to build up its massive new Navy (targeting America). Australia does the the exact same with Chinese Investment. Go figure. Its how the world really works, both sides hedge and balance.

@@yanmak2363 please look up the meaning of the word contradiction

@@indyrock8148 please gain some reading comprehension before your respond. It makes you seem stupid.

CU in the NT

HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Having lived and worked in Kununurra the presenters pronunciation of Kununurra makes me doubt he’s actually been there; lots more going on there than Agriculture, mining and tourism being two.

@@stuartferguson7947 I cringe when non Australian wants to criticise Australia with out actually getting a firest hand experience of the reality

@@stuartferguson7947 I'd even bet my left one He's never been there.

Yeah, but it's a long drive from Cairns to the Ord River. So maybe it doesn't count. Come to think of Darwin's too bloody far away as well.

Those numbers are a pittance. You guys call Adelaide a "CITY" with slightly over a million people. What a joke.

@@macrick Adelaide is a CAPITAL CITY, not just any old city mate

@@macrick you’re the joke, there’s smaller cities in Europe and the US and they’re still called cities. A city is generally a town with more than 100,00 people so yes, Adelaide having 10x that many people, makes it a city 💀

my guy is living 100 years in the future

The Commonwealth of Australia a.k.a. the Federal Government was set up by the State Governments. It only exists because the states wanted it. I doubt the states would agree to just disappear, and anyway Queenslanders would never let go of their state based identity i.e. the chip on their shoulder directed at everyone south of Coolangatta.

Dear @@Pushing_Pixels , not quite correct, the Commonwealth Government exists initially because London wanted one Colony, not six Colonies, and made that quite clear to the existing Colonial States. It was also the result of some British Australians seeing the need to Federate to ward of other European powers, and to better provide for the common defence of the continent.

Wasn't it a native bug which decided it liked eating cotton?

No, it is the migration of Magpie Geese, which coincided with rice maturity which killed rice cultivation

@@antipropo461 Absolutely spot on, the farmers at the time said the birds would blacken the skies strip the crop and then could not fly off. The gas guns and shotguns were laughed at by the departing geese and ducks when they could finally taxii and take off.

This is where you start crop diversification , a rotation on fields and like biblical days hallowing & rejuvenating for 7 yr period !

Did you check the channel's name?

@@donniebunkerboi9975 given how he's already done a video of a failed semiconductor plant in the UK, I'd think its same to assume that could make a video around california's fertile valley

The contrast is in a huge local market and mass cheap labour. The Ord really is a long way from anywhere, 800km to the nearest city, 3000km to the nearest capital. getting workers in and food out is a massive task.

@@mabamabam The problem is the area is not large enough to develop a port to ship the produce to market, let alone build a railroad as there is not enough WATER. Soil is not a problem, all that is required are grazing cows, moved daily, or twice daily in a mob. If you can build soil in Deserts of Mexico, S. Africa at same lattitude with less than 300mm rain a year, you can do it in N. Australia.

@@w8stral there is plenty of water. And there is a port 100km up the road.

I hope so. I have a few shares in that venture.

@@linmal2242 All the best 👍🏽

Some places have had serious theft issues because of its value

@@Gleesonglee That is a very serious problem.

Farming in a Mediterranean climate (like California) is absolutely possible - but it has to be done at the terms of that climate. It's sheer insanity however to brute-force all the farming done across the entire world by liberally applying the Monsanto-provided mix of planet-killer fertilisers and pesticides onto endless tracts of mono-culture fields.

yeah, and not a good impact at that

@@SomeGuysg What's not good about solar? Northern Australia would seem the ideal location, with ready markets in Asia for the juice. Replaces the coal.

Actually its bullshit. Ord river's early days were a bust because they went for cotton, which is easily one of the most damaging crops on the planet. Ask the Russians about the Aral Sea. But this is all based on old information. In recent decades they switched towards vegetables and melons to supply demand in Asia and that stuff has been incredibly profitable. I know that because one of my previous neighbors was a seed merchant who did business in the Ord. Seedless water melons and tomatoes make huge money out of the ord. Also my brother used to work for VISY ad they have a huge division in Darwin selling packaging into that market.

@@DavidOfWhitehills Another one of those people suffering from geographic dyslexia who think the Australia is "close to East Asia". Transporting electricity over large distances is not very economical. There is a single project to connect Singapore to Australia. Incredibly ambitious and expensive. Its main reason is strategical.

@@michaelrenper796 Transporting electricity over large distances IS very economical. Australia to Singapore 3200 kilometres. Transmission loss 10%. Cost? Extrapolating from the cost of the new North Sea Link, about $9 billion US dollars, or 2.6% of Singapore's GDP.

Part of the problem with the French Submarine contract was the usual series of requested additions and alterations to the initial design proposal, plus the inevitable other amendments that any new design creates. All of this, however, was finally resolved, and the Project was meeting the agreed revised delivery target, as evidence before Senate Estimates Committee. The DoD even sent a letter to France to that effect a day before Morrison cancelled the contract by a public statement without prior reference to France. Morrison topped this off by publicly humiliating France. No wonder the French were angry. And as the contract was cancelled, despite the contractor complying wth the revised agreement, as the DoD letter above indicated. Compensation ( approx $835million) therefore had to be paid, no submarine was delivered, no new submarine will be delivered prior to 2040, and our current submarines will life expire around 2030-2035. Oh, and guess what, nuclear submarines are VERY expensive, and all current nuclear submarine users globally have a domestic nuclear power industry, which is subsidised, and which are used to give submarine nuclear power plant operators access to suitable live nuclear training. Countries with nuclear power plants have the option of acquiring nuclear weapons if they want to, and a number of countries , Pakistan and India come to mind, have already done so. Other countries maintain the nuclear power industry to sustain their nuclear weapons programmes. the Big 5 Permanent UN Security Council members come to mind The British Royal Navy's HMS Dreadnought was commissioned in 1960, and ever since, the British Defence Budget has been beholden to the huge expense that nuclear submarines generate. You have been warned.

What is superseding the NBN?

@@justicedemocrat9357 The original ~2008 Kevin Rudd government NBN was to build Fibre To The Premises (FTTP, maximum initial speed 1000mbps) to 93% of residences. The 2013 LNP government switched to a "Multi Technology Mix" which used the inferior "FTTN" (fiber to the node, limited to ~60mbps depending on the cable quality), "FTTC" (fiber to the curb, max 80mbps right now depending on cable quality) and "HFC" (Hybrid Fiber Coaxial, max ~100mbps depending on cable quality). For HFC they bought Telstra's Foxtel cable TV network and Optus's HFC network (for $30 billion if I recall correctly). The limits of FTTN means they have started building out FTTP for certain suburbs after first installing FTTN. Because the FTTN existing network turned out to be too slow. By the way, it's possible to get a free quote from the NBN "Technology Choice Program" website and pay out of pocket to upgrade to FTTP. Fiber optic cabling to the premises is the best internet technology around, and will continue to be for many decades.

@@justicedemocrat9357 Starlink

@@spacefacts1681 What speeds and ping can Starlink do?

@@justicedemocrat9357 150+ down, 50+ up, ping is under 50 ms usually closer to 25 and these numbers should get better as they introduce the direct laser link versions of the satellites

Atleast the bright sparks in perth know how to balance a budget and have a net contribution for WA, unlike the rest of the country..

AUEUTR?

Its far more difficult than just simply a road or rail project. I actually spent 9 months up that way on a mine site during the mining boom. It amazed me how little I actually knew about Australia's far north and how the place works and what the conditions are like. Most Australians have no idea what its actually like. The distances and conditions are so radically different to the southern states. You can't just simply build roads and rail up there because of the wet season. I was there through a wet season and its just so different to anything else I'd ever experienced and it included a cyclone. At one point everything was under 30-50cm of water which made the entire place lethally dangerous because of the snakes and crocs. Then there are the current issues with the over use of ground water in other parts of that region. People have been putting in mango plantations and mangoes need water 365 days a year. That can be difficult in a place where it rains for 6 months and then doesn't rain for another 6 months.

It's beautiful up there, ❤ many people stay there for holidays.

Bwahahahahahahaha

Yeah, a good place to retire in with no place to spend it and no place to go the cost of living would be fantastic......maybe they could create a las Vegas and make more money than they dreamed of.

there's ... quite a bit more that's required

The problem with the area is that its not a pleasant place to live. It goes above 40C routinely and there is nothing to do nothing a 3 hr plane ride.

There is a proposal to create a vast PV generation operation and to use the energy to produce “green” hydrogen.

Whos gonna maintain and keep those solars clean ? Your kids lol ?

They said he was a kind of happening guy, plus he looked a little weird.

Don't they erode the soil though because of their hooves and overgrazing of vegetation which holds the soil together, and also compress the soil so it is harder for plants to grow?

Incorrect. It was originaly a pear diving center.

Darwin still is a military base. About 80% of the Australian military is based in Darwin.

The whole of northern Australia did have a reduced tax zone, all through the 70s and up to the Howard govenment abolished it

@@gregsutton6258 the old story of the fools in Canberra looking after themselves and forgetting about the northern part of Oz.

@@Hungry_Hunter should've built Canberra in Alice Springs

You got the money? And where would it go; the Great Sandy Desert, the Tanami Desert? Great Victoria Desert (348,750sq.km) Great Sandy Desert (267,250sq.km) Tanami Desert (184,500sq.km) Simpson Desert (176,500sq.km) Gibson Desert (156,000sq.km) Little Sandy Desert (111,500sq.km) Strzelecki Desert (80,250sq.km)

That's about it, and beefsteaks !

Tropical soil not good for agriculture? You have obviously never been there to see how well crops grow. Have a look at crops in Brazil, Zimbabwe where world records are set for maize, sugar, cotton grown in the tropics

@@croxy57 Tropical and sub-tropical Brasil are yet to develop...

CPI I guess. I doubt it would be gold price which fluctuates greatly according to movements in other financial markets.

Yeah, and all the bugs that prey on crops too....

10 years is really long time when it needs constant irrigation and pest control. however I wish more places had the foresight to make those 100+ year investments

@@jk-xm7fi indeed it requires very little of labour, except of every 25 young trees planted only 1 reaches full value, rest is being cut much, much earlier

Hear ,Hear, we’ll stated.There are statistics and statistics.

And the fact that lake argyle dose have a 30megawatt hydro power station

Everytime the tide comes back in. It's about 9 m for Ord.