Comments by "John D" (@johnd8892) on "Australian Data u0026 Maps That You Wouldn't Expect.." video.

  1. A small Japanese naval landing force did in fact invade Australia during World War Two. But landing on a particularly isolated and desolate part of the north west of Western Australia, they found no water, no food sources, no shade and no materials worth capturing that they could see at all. They retreated in a very short time and this remained unknown for many years.
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  2. A median salary is a more informative salary indicator to use. It is the salary the 50% are below and 50% are above. Not affected by the hugely high incomes of billionaires and the like skewing the average.
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  3. The 50% of population map , even though it is from 2011, would still be much the same. The Australian Bureau of Statistics provides suburb like population figures each year. When I was reporting on that, as part of my work for years, it was rare for even parts of the regional areas growth to exceed the major metropolitan areas growth. That trend for the capital city areas to increase their share of a states population had been happening since the thirties recovery from people heading to the bush to live on eating rabbits and look for itinerant work. One thing that did happen was that "suburbs" on the fringe of metropolitan areas would start functioning as part of the metropolitan area and thus be absorbed in the metropolitan area instead on functioning as regional areas. Often called Urban Sprawl but caused by Australians aversion to living in multi story high density flats. For Victoria in the fifties, places like Dandenong and Werribee were regarded as Country towns in the fifties with industry like farms, livestock sale yards and similar. Now very suburban.
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