Comments by "Helmuth Schultes" (@helmuthschultes9243) on "American Reacts to Top 4 Reasons to Move to Australia (From an Immigrant)" video.
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Inland is hot and dry, but excatly the dry also creates no clouds and very clear sky. It is quite possible and have actually had it three nights in a row, for day temp up to 45°C, but night goes sub zero, long enough that a 5 litre plastic water bottle goes solid by morning. That very dry clear air allows massive heat radiation to space. In many areas night temp can quite commonly go to frost levels and under 0°C on many nights. Inland farming country in SA, Vic and NSW have many towns, not in mountains that regularly get down into -5 °C to -8°C over winter months. Also in winter coastal places can suffer feeling cold by higher air moisture and wind, so even +5°C can cause shivering and need for warm clothes. In fact my experience would suggest the region -5°C to +10°C is least comfortable, as clothing is either insufficient or too warm, when relarively inactive to being active. Real cold, -10°C to below -30°C proper clothes can work fine. I have done many years of cold car testing in Sweden, South Korea, Hokaido (Japan North Island), on high mountains in snow, including a having to shovel snow of more than 1m, taking half the day to access the test cars and equipment. Temperatures down to -30°C, say -25°F working hours long outside, and even driving 80 kph with head out the window, as with four test people in the car, fogging and icing over inside the car was instant, and with cold engine no heater, sonce purpose is testing engine and car start and driving performance after starting. BRRRR... lots of hyper chilled face, nose, ears, and long icicles off the beard and nose. Yet more work in cold chamber at down below -45°C, though here for Australia, most only to -15°C to -20°C, but my projects covered world markets too.
I actually did some cold chamber work up to an hour in T shirt and shorts, and enjoy really cold, below -10°C, but hate the 0 to 10°C range, which is also the worst for colds and flu.
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The easy going nature also carries into many aspects of social servivlces, schools are free, including in many ways compared to USA, to tertiary level, though there you do now runup a public debt, that must be payed back at moderate rate, but only once you earn above a basic level. There is good unemployment benefit, not rich life, infact close to poverty margin, but high enough that there are plenty unemployed who do NOT want a job. Lots of young people pool their money for food and rent, rather spend their days free to do as they please.
Universal pensions, if you have no excessi e wealth, so for example two people doing same job for entire life, one saves and lives within means. Retires owning their house, a good not too old car, good savings, these days a good superannuation fund, formerly optional either personal and/or employer supported, now built on compulsory employer contributions (9% now over next few years to 12%), with option to put own money in as well . This person may have wealth high enough to NOT get the gov pension. The other, though identical earnings over working life, has no savings, always spent everythi g on holidays, latest car, several boats, caravan, lots of parties, always only rented. The superannuation is there but not really sufficient as compulsory fund is not all that many years active. That person is far short of even minimum threshold wealth, so gets a good pension (though some say not enough). This person needs the pension to go on with moderate life, probably reduced compared to former spending habits, for remaing years.
Universal medical support, based on a few percent deduction on saleries, that can be further extended with private insurance both Hospital and option Extras, which still permits access to the public system, but private insurance gives access to private hospitals and services, not constrained by public waiting lists.
There are other public available services, supported by kocal, state and federal gov.
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