Are we going to see an and Australia's Albert Einstein anytime soon?

And to the german, why don't you create a similar thread and let usask you questions about Germany?

cubnake:


Cost of living in Adelaide: This is fairly accurate. http://studyadelaide.com/live/cost-of-living/average-costs It depends on how close to the CBD/education you want to live and your general living habits. I could live within my means when I was in Adelaide and Mt Gambier. Across the country you should be able to find casual work as a labourer paying around $20 an hour. The hours tend to be very flexible with study although depending on the company there may be dead periods.

For an idea of some of the other cities compared to Adelaide: http://www.livingin-australia.com/compare-australia-cities/

Schooling: This covers the various public (state funded) schooling fees for non citizens in each state http://migrant.nabgroup.com/en/education-costs-for-457-visa-holders
In South Australia there is no fee except the generic voluntary contribution expected at every public school regardless of citizenship. This covers both primary and secondary school.

Physicians in Adelaide: We pretty much always need more medical professionals; however, I haven't lived in SA for a long time so I can't comment on the specific area need.

Adelaide for foreign students: It depends on what you're planning to study. After the degree is chosen it's a ratio of degree quality to cost because unless you're a citizen you're going to be paying international fees. The good thing about being an international student is that it's less competitive to study medicine. The government puts a cap on the number of Australian medical students each year, but has no such limit on international students.

Degree quality and entry standards tend to increase as the population of a city increases, but so does price. I can definitely recommend not studying in WA as an international student though, the universities are of poor quality and overcharge compared to the easter

Thanks

craziebone:
And to the german, why don't you create a similar thread and let usask you questions about Germany?

It's exam season soon, so I'm afraid I've got no time for a Q&A thread. Maybe after the exams.

craziebone:
What is the difference between Australia and Australasia?

Tell us about Nick Vujicic. I felt so proud when i saw him with other top people from around the world at Davos.

Whas there ever Nazi sympathizers in Aussie?

Newzeland is part of which continent?

Did you attend the WYD in sydney in 2008? How was it seen in australia?

Is Australia interested in space?

Where do you see Australia in the next 10 years, in all fronts? HDIs, Economy, education, culture, etc.

Australia/Australasia: Australia is a country or continent which covers different areas based on political or environmental borders. Australasia is a geographical and political region covering all of Australia (continent + country) as well as all of the islands to the east (including New Zealand).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia

Nick Vugicic: I've never heard of him. Just from looking at his web presence he's pretty impressive even without his disability. Thanks for the introduction to http://www.weforum.org/ I had no idea this existed either. He's doing good work. Someone should reward him with bionic limbs.

Nazi culture in Australia: There is a minority of skinheads in most if not all western countries which are a sub culture of the nazi movement. There are also national socialists in Australia, but they are a minority with little political power. Given the rise of 4chan's /pol/ I wouldn't be surprised to see a mild resurgence in neo-nazi support in most western countries even outside of the EU. Especially if legislation continues to be left leaning in its current trend. It's only natural to have a backlash as people strive for political equality. For the most part the parties seem to be childish in nature resorting to violence and angry youth support to function. Unless the parties develop beyond that they will have a hard time competing with more publicly approachable parties.

New Zealand: It's a part of the continent of Australia.

WYD: I barely remember the news coverage. I was in WA at the time so I never had anything to do with it. I'm sure the majority of Australians were pleased or apathetic about it as we are a majority Christian nation.

Space: This sums up the government's opinion on space http://www.space.gov.au/SpacePolicyUnit/NationalSpacePolicy/Documents/State_of_Space_Report_2014.pdf
Essentially we're interested in satellites for communication and defence and not much else in the public light. As for in private I have no idea as I'm not in that industry.

Australia in the next 10 years: Essentially the same as long as the mining contracts hold out. This is assuming that there are no difficult to predict upsets on the world scale.

HDI: Well we're ranked second in the world and for now there isn't much that will change that short of a war or a hit to our mining contracts.

Economy: Pretty much the same if our mining contracts continue. Disregard everything below if the contracts don't continue. We'd go into a noticeable recession while we figure out what we're supposed to focus on. Most likely engineering (the global market is pretty competitive here though), agriculture and tourism.

Stock market: The ASX will rise and fall in their general upward trend as is the norm for every major market in the world. Even with the global financial crisis we barely felt a thing except being able to buy things from the US at a cheaper rate for a while.

FOREX: The Australian dollar is pretty damn stable. During the US crisis it beat the US dollar consistently.

Property: The housing market will bubble and burst like it always does and inflation will be kept fairly moderate. CBD house pricing will always be in high demand until more high density housing is built. It's severely lacking at the moment, the average house price in Sydney is around $750000.

Business: Increased international competition in our domestic market will help keep costs of living down (The German supermarket chain Aldi is setting up over here. Hopefully there will be some more competition rather than the duopoly of Coles and Woolworths). Things cost more here, but people also earn more so i balances out fairly well. Most people fall down because they don't budget properly, or at all.

Education: University fees are being deregulated so tertiary education is going to become less popular as the price sky rockets. That will in turn lead to a need for skilled workers and probably a further increase in immigration.

Culture: Political correctness is slowly on the rise. Hopefully we can learn from the pitfalls of the UK and avoid catastrophe. For the most part the underlying culture of Australia will remain the same with generic Western trends laid on top. As immigration increases we'll see an increase in influence from other parts of the world, but in a mostly benign educational manner.

what were you guys discussing in the online forum when theis website was mentioned and you discovered it?

What is the name of the online forum?

craziebone:
Are we going to see an and Australia's Albert Einstein anytime soon?

And to the german, why don't you create a similar thread and let usask you questions about Germany?

Australian Albert Einstein: It's pretty much genetic pot luck combined with good parents and education. The chance is there, but it's slim. If we had a larger population it would be more likely.

cubnake:


Australian Albert Einstein: It's pretty much genetic pot luck combined with good parents and education. The chance is there, but it's slim. If we had a larger population it would be more likely.

Cubnake are you interested in Poetry?
Ayamlaykorn

craziebone:
what were you guys discussing in the online forum when theis website was mentioned and you discovered it?

What is the name of the online forum?

I'm from the notorious 4chan, for those of you who don't know it's an American image board which started a lot of western internet culture (lolcats, memes etc) and spawned the previously amoral political activist group Anonymous (though it has almost nothing to do with them today). Someone on the literature board posted a link during a positive discussion of African literature a while back and I decided to follow it up.

I believe that this place was targeted by /pol/ at one point with an ebola-chan scare. Ebola-chan is literally just some edgy teenagers who have been over-exposed to national socialist ideas, trying to spark chaos in Africa because they don't have a basic sense of empathy. Members of /pol/ jumped on the bandwagon of ebola-chan simply because it generated original content. Some people don't have a sense of empathy when it comes to the internet.

@cupnake I love your mature responses. By the way, is there any forum in Australia that is equivalent to Nairaland?

cubnake:


I'm from the notorious 4chan, for those of you who don't know it's an American image board which started a lot of western internet culture (lolcats, memes etc) and spawned the previously amoral political activist group Anonymous (though it has almost nothing to do with them today). Someone on the literature board posted a link during a positive discussion of African literature a while back and I decided to follow it up.

I believe that this place was targeted by /pol/ at one point with an ebola-chan scare. Ebola-chan is literally just some edgy teenagers who have been over-exposed to national socialist ideas, trying to spark chaos in Africa because they don't have a basic sense of empathy. Members of /pol/ jumped on the bandwagon of ebola-chan simply because it generated original content. Some people don't have a sense of empathy when it comes to the internet.

can you give a link? #curiosity

cubnake:


Australian Albert Einstein: It's pretty much genetic pot luck combined with good parents and education. The chance is there, but it's slim. If we had a larger population it would be more likely.

genetics? You can be honest about your opinion on the issue, pls. I thought genetics has got nothing to do with it. I have seen people who were not too 'bright' turn out to lead their class.

craziebone:


genetics? You can be honest about your opinion on the issue, pls. I thought genetics has got nothing to do with it. I have seen people who were not too 'bright' turn out to lead their class.

Intelligence, is a mixture of genetics and environment (culture/socioeconomic/family support). It's nature via nurture, your genes are your hard limit for potential and your environment shapes you within that potential. Intelligence as a heritable trait has a correlation of around 0.5-0.6 so genes account for around 50% of intelligence. Most people don't reach their full potential because their environment isn't supportive of their development.

There are also many forms of intelligence and not all of them have reliable or valid testing measures.

laykorn:

Cubnake are you interested in Poetry?
Ayamlaykorn

Yes. I don't write it, but I enjoy all forms of reading. Do you have any to recommend?

Exmay:
@cupnake I love your mature responses. By the way, is there any forum in Australia that is equivalent to Nairaland?

Thanks. There isn't anything as comprehensive as Nairaland for Australians. There are many popular niche forums for more specific interests and a few Australian "chans" have come and gone, but we tend to be purpose driven when we make websites. Australians just use other US or UK websites when there aren't any Australian equivalents.

Anything in particular you were interested in?

craziebone:


can you give a link? #curiosity

A few notes:
Do not expect this to be a nice place.
The website is majority NSFW 18+ either in written or visual content.
Each board has it's own culture and rules, but there is also an overarching 4chan culture.
There are no rules against trolls and depending on the board there are no rules on post quality.
Many people will hold controversial view points for the sake of causing argument.
Another warning, some boards can be incredibly aggressive and racist.
I would recommend holding off posting for a while until you get a feel for the board.
All posts are deleted if they are pushed off their board. Depending on the board this could take minutes, days or weeks.

This is the headline for the site:
"The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
http://www.4chan.org/
I hope I'm not breaking any rules by doing this.

cubnake:


Intelligence, is a mixture of genetics and environment (culture/socioeconomic/family support). It's nature via nurture, your genes are your hard limit for potential and your environment shapes you within that potential. Intelligence as a heritable trait has a correlation of around 0.5-0.6 so genes account for around 50% of intelligence. Most people don't reach their full potential because their environment isn't supportive of their development.

There are also many forms of intelligence and not all of them have reliable or valid testing measures.

this is my best post on this thread...

I need your input here OZ people.
I Just Got an offer for Postgraduate dg in Griffith Uni, Aussie.
My programme is starting in the month of February Next year.
Even though the school is under SVP will i be able to meet up with the resumption date
as i await my COE or what happens if my Visa comes out after my resumption date
and i have already committed myself with that huge deposit?
please your input is needed.

cubnake how about your Film Industry where does it rank in the world

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