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I have a friend who migrated from the US about 15 years ago. He is an automotive engineer and was born and raised in Detroit. He has lived and worked all through the US and the world but decided to settle in the land of Oz. When asked why, he simply says one of two things - "Australia is everything the US wanted to be but couldn't" or "Australia is the US with all the crap removed". Myself, having the privilege to have traveled to many countries of the world can only say there is only one place I would like to live, Australia. Sure, Australia has it's problems. Show me a person who claims that their county is perfect and I'll show you a liar. I live in the "lucky country" and I am truly grateful that i do. I am proud of our first nations people and my colonial forebears. I am proud to be part of a community based upon migration. My family arrived in Australia in 1836 and were able to prosper through the hardship they endured. Everything about Australia is unique and is something to be proud of and protect. Like all nations, we still have a lot to do with regards cultural and social inequities but if the term "aussie battler" holds true, we can fix those issues.
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As a US expat living in AU for over a decade. Also one who also has been able to travel and see many other countries. I would have to say that yes AU is and always has been in the top list of preferences where I would like to live. I consider myself extremely lucky and fortunate especially considering the pandemic to have been in WA all this time. BUT, it is not and never has been my top choice. AU reminds me a lot of what america used to be decades ago in many ways. In many other ways not so much at all. Just the same as AU is better in a lot of ways and vice versa. But overall yes AU is might fine place to live and I consider myself lucky and fortunate to continue doing so. I will also say I have no desire to move back to US anymore. Many years ago maybe but I do not miss it at all. I miss friends and family and even at times some of the luxuries that comes with a much bigger population (like choices of products, etc), but not my birth home. So sorry but some of the inequities simply will not be fixed without having a much bigger population base, but not sure that trade off would be worth it overall. I will not agree that everything about AU is unique and something to be proud of though at all. Guess if you ignore some of its darker history and dark sides still present today ... then uhm yea sure. Just as I have never been proud of everything about US, even decades ago back in the day when US was something to be more proud of, but everything about definitely not.
I’m a 52 year old Aussie from convict ancestry. I echo your comments and love Australia and our heritage. Very proud.
I agree entirely and well written. Nobody who hasn't been to, and spent time in, every country in the world can accurately declare theirs to be the best.
@@jonlowing7907 yes it always fascinated me when we’d hear, American is the greatest country in the world. I’d think, every country has something great about it. No country is completely great or perfect. I’m Aussie, wouldn’t move for anything. Is it perfect? No way, but a great place to live? Yup. And I love our multiculturalism. The different food, their history and stories they tell, trying to teach me a few words of their language and we end up laughing. Wonderful neighbours and friends and Aussie born as I am. A great mixture of cultures. Sadly I only know one Aboriginal, my sons best man when he got married.
I almost forgot this wasn’t a dedicated indigenous history video in the first ten minutes, good to see that much care given to the indigenous history. Normally it’s just “40-60 thousand years ago, aboriginal people turned up, then nothing happened for a while, then the English arrived”
I would also look at the Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Indigenous peoples, Australia, world, map. It shows just how many languages there were across Australia.
But everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked
When i was in school it was more "aboriginal people were here or something but then actual Australia began when Captain Cook arrived and thats the part we're learning about"
you overlooked the fact that the giant marsupials were wiped out after man arrived
@@samueladams9237 Humans were the last nail in the coffin.
My first contention with this guy's content is that the First Australians did not farm.....they did, but not in ways europeans are familliar with - look up fire stick farming...there is also evidence of crop (tubers) and eel farming (Victoria/South Australia). I hate that the western way of thinking is that these people were primitive and did not farm. They did things differently, their knowledge of their home was far more advanced than we have today. It's simply written off because there is "no scientific evidence or basis" for their doings.
Evidence has been found of indigenous farming.
Gathering is not farming and to claim that an agricultural society failed to recognise an agricultural society when they saw it is pure intellectual dishonesty at least but leaning more toward cognitive dissonance. The agricultural people of Britain and Europe who so easily identified the agricultural ability of the people of the America's and Polyinesia didn't see agriculture in Australia upon their arrival for the simple reason that it didn't exist in Australia until they arrived and started it.
@@myday805 i think if you look it up you will find a fair bit of evidence of Aboriginals farming
@@bonnie7898 Rubbish. Gathering is not farming and there is no evidence of any form of farming. You're trying to sell the myth of aborginal exceptionalism and in doing so either don't know of or are avoiding the obvious. Name one pre colonial domestiated food? Farming to what end and? What for? Where's the evidence of their storage?, don't point to colonial period rock firebreaks or such and claim they're remians of aboriginal structures as that exposed conman Pascoe does. And what you and the poltically motivated post modernest call:Land management or firestick farming was in fact bushfires set to go their own way unchecked to burn out trees and dry grass to get green grasses to grow to attract game and also to walk th and through and pick up the cooked bodies of the animals they just killed in the fire as well as leaving many more behind just wasted and in doing so changed the topography of their hunting grounds, burned off the foods the mega fauna ate and as a result drove the mega fauna and cro-magnon to extinction. THAT is environmental vandalism and drove hundreds of species of flora and other funa to extinction.
Sorry fella. There's no history revisionist pro communist students union here to demand I be forced off campus for stating historical fact so schooling is what you're getting.
@@michealedwards7849 Look it up where? Pascoe's book Dark Emu? You know that was never peer reviewed and has been debunked right?
Botany Bay is on the east coast, a bit south of Sydney, it was to be the first Colony sight, but when the First Fleet arrived it was found to have insufficient fresh water and insufficient protected anchorage, so they moved up the coast to what is now Sydney.
Hobson Bay
I think the one they moved to was Port Jackson?
A bit more detail: Botany Bay was the English generic term for the first convict settlement in the Antipodes, having become known from the reports of Lt. James Cook and Sir Joseph Banks, who stopped there for a while in 1770.
As mentioned by Greg McInnes above, the convict-laden First Fleet, led by Capt. Arthur Phillip, found on their arrival at their intended settlement location in Botany Bay, that the conditions there at that time were unsuitable for the survival of any settlement, so Phillip explored further and found a few miles north of Botany Bay the inlet that had been mentioned by Cook in his journal as he (Cook) had sailed past, some distance out at sea. Phillip entered this small inlet and found to his surprise what he described as “being without exception the finest harbour in the world, where a thousand sail of the line may ride in the most perfect security”. This he named Port Jackson. In one of the smaller bays on the southern shore of this magnificent harbour he found an excellent anchorage and, with a running stream at its head, it was a perfect location for the new settlement. He then sailed back out of Port Jackson, turned right and sailed the short distance (about 19km or just under 11 nautical miles) south, back down the coast past Bondi Beach to Botany Bay and ordered his fleet to sail to Port Jackson and to that place that he had found.
There he established the first European settlement, in what was to become known as Australia, on 26 January 1788. The settlement was named Sydney, after Thomas Townshend, the Home Secretary and Leader of the House of Lords in the UK, Baron Sydney.
Port Jackson subsequently became more commonly known as Sydney Harbour.
The settlement at Sydney grew and grew and now fully encompasses Botany Bay, with Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport now located on its shore, a short drive from the city centre.
So that’s where Botany Bay is, Ian. In Sydney.
..up the coast where they found the freshwater of the Tank Stream which still runs underground parallel with Pitt St.
@@DeepThought9999 ..it was the tank stream. It was also the origin of the east and western suburbs divide that exists to this day. The name Bridge street was the bridge over the stream and nothing to do with the Sydney harbour bridge
I love learning about my family's history.
3 brothers and a cousin were sent on convict ships, Ireland to Sydney, arriving 1836. They did their sentence and when it was over they were set free and given parcels of land to develop. They applied to have their families brought over and they were in 1852.
Our pocket of land is in Victoria and still in our family today, the whole district is crawling with distant relatives and the name of the main road is even our surname.
Went to school and with j. English daughter and met him
There’s still a saying in Australia “You’ve got Buckley’s” meaning not a chance, which is what the soldiers who guarded the convicts used to say thinking Buckley would perish straight away in the wilderness on his own.
In some areas of the country, that saying has been embellished upon..."You've got 2 chances, Buckley's and Ben All's brother (F#&K All)"... ;)
Of course, we still don't know who Buckley was.
@@grandy2875 Or... you've only two chances, buckleys & none!
Always wondered where that saying came from
@@70snostalgia yes we do. William Buckley was an escaped convict who lived around the Bellarine peninsula and they thought he had no hope of survival.
Thanks Ian for being interested in our history. As an aboriginal descendant I would encourage you to explore that side too 😁💜
There is a great series called "Against The Wind" starring one of our adopted citizens, rocker Jon English. The series centers on a group of convicts sent downunder. Aussies are quite proud of any convict heritag. Most of those sent down as 'criminals' were petty thieves who stole to feed their families, or indentured servants. The big criminals, murderes etc, had their heads lopped off and weren't sent anywhere. It is to be remembered that whilst there WERE a lot of convicts sent down to Australia, they were accompanied by soldiers, and the soldiers families, trades people, and others looking to make a new life within the fledgling settlements.
With respect, the First Fleet consisted of marines who were supplied with convicts as a workforce so that an armed British outpost could be established quickly and cheaply before the French crept in, stuck a flag in a koala and started making baguettes. The "hard labour" of convicts was, for all intents and purposes, a lawful redesign of the British horrors of kidnapped Africans being sold into slavery in America.
I was obsessed with that show when I was a kid 🙂
Great series👍
Jon English is a sorely missed Bloody Legend ♥️
Hunted down the DVDs of the series years ago. Great stuff!
@Roger Green Two of my ancestors were black slaves that defected to the British during the American revolution. They then ended up on the streets of London trying to survive. As a result of petty theft, they were sent to Australia as convicts on the first fleet (many of their descendants married into the Dharug tribe). Imagine being freed from slavery and then being sent here as a convict. After serving their sentences they got sizable land grants. One owned all the land the King's School in Parramatta is on.
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In the times of the First Fleet, slavery had been illegal in the UK for 600 years and the Empire was spending millions on anti slavery patrols.
Britain's crusade against slavery.
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There are some interesting connections between Australia and the U.S. An Australian may have fired the last shot of the Civil War as the raider the CSS Shenandoah picked up crew in Melbourne. The first MoH awarded in WW1 was to Thomas A Pope who fought at the Battle of Hamel on July 4th 1918. The first time American troops fought under a foreign general since the Revolutionary War. The Australian Sir John Monash. A black New Yorker, John Joseph, was one of the people charged with sedition after the Eureka Stockade. When he was found innocent he was carried around Ballarat on a chair to public acclaim.
A long deep connection.
WOW mate, not even i have heard about that. Cool.🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🍻
And the first shot in WW1 AND WW2 was fired from the Battery ar Queenscliff.
John Joseph’s trial was in Melbourne at the Supreme Court and presided over by the Chief Justice. He was carried on chair around the streets of Melbourne and down Swanston Street after he was acquitted.
This was reported in the Ballarat newspaper.
John Joseph, an African American, was one of 3 Americans arrested for treason but the 2 whites were released after the US Consul intervened.
@@chrisrumble2665 You mean the first shot on behalf of Australia. The very first shot was the one that assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand and started the whole show.
The shot fired at Archduke Ferdinand was actually before the war had started as war was not formally declared until some time afterward.
Check out Port Arthur penal colony in Tasmania and the horrifying conditions they had to endure. I'm 7th generation convict descendant from Port Arthur
Botany Bay is in south-eastern Sydney, it's where James Cook and his ship, the HMS Endeavour, landed in 1770,. The driving force of the expedition was botanist Joseph Banks, and he named it accordingly.
I drive most of the way around it on the way to and from work, plus Sydney's main airport
How the he'll does he do a history of Australia and not mention James Cook?. BTW The first fleet may have originally landed in Botany Bay but the soon found a better site a couple of miles further north with permanent water source. They named the new sites Sydney Cove. William Buckley didn't escape from here, he escaped from a penal colony in Victoria. There are a lot of other errors and anomalies too. You might also be interested to know that the N.T. was once 2 Territories, there was a Central Australian Territory headquarters here in Alice Springs. After 58 years I didn't know that until I moved up here!
It's basically a horse-shit video our mate is reacting to. See note about the Fenians elsewhere.
I mean he didn't mention the last tasmanians, blackbirding or the stolen generation either. 🤷 There's a lot missed.
Ian, time to dive into the rabbit hole of Oz history! Look at James Cook trip in 1769, his discoveries (charting) of New Zealand and the Aus East Coast. Look at the First Fleet in 1787 and Arthur Philip, our First Governor. To see our connection with the Yanks look at the Ist and 2nd World Wars, particularly the battle in the Pacific. Look at Pearl Harbour and then the bombing of Darwin, the fall of Singapore. Then (unfortunately) Vietnam. The past events go on and on. Enjoy the discovery!
deep diving research into a topic you are interested in and fascinated by ends in knowledge, understanding and wisdom. Good on you for taking the time to learn our history
I find it interesting that there was no mention of the dutch finding "Van Diemans Land" or that they spotted Mount Osso in Tasmania within the time span of the the dutch shipwrecking in W.A. Abel Jansen Tasman circumnavigated (3/4 of it at least) Tasmania in 1642. Tasmanian Aborigines - read history on Trugganini - were decimated or on show for the british elite... very sad times.
Sharon .. as a ''new tasmanian'' the history down here is usually passed over by the ''big island''.. the sheer cruelty that took place is always conveniently forgotten.
@@miatfitz I’m from the ‘mainland’ and there’s plenty of information about Trugganini. As an example the museum in Sydney has a big display explaining the ‘last aborigine’. We were also taught about it in school.
On the contrary, Tasmania and the Tasman sea are a direct recognition of the Dutch exploration in these areas of what is now Australia
Growing up in Fremantle and knowing the story of the Catalpa escape, I can honestly say I have never heard that pronunciation before. It is a fantastic story, Ian. The men who were convicted because of they were Fenians escaped and were taken onboard the American whaling ship in a planned rescue. It was funded mainly by Irish Americans. Ripper of a yarn!
My great-great-grandfather left Illinskillen in Ireland with his cousin and went to the Californian gold rush and had some success. They left California and returned to Ireland by ship. Both again left Ireland on the El Dorado for Melbourne in 1852. My ancestor was a signatory to the Ballarat Declaration that led to the Eureka Stockade. It is from here that I want to acknowledge our feathered overlords and may they rule over us forever. God save the Emu and long may it rule over us.
Botany bay would be Sydney.
I have a theory that the word
" convict " is used as opposed to slave. The socalled convicts were used to open up the country for colonisation, the same as in the U.S.
More information on Les Hiddens.
The name of the series is The Bush Tucker (Australia slang for food) Man.
Awesome video and I am sure that some Australians learnt a few things as well. Oh and Botany Bay these days is in the suburbs of Sydney New South Wales, only about 30 or 40 minutes drive from the Opera House or Harbor bridge.
Harbor? Has it come to this?
@@rogergreen9861 Sorry Roger you are obviously just another pain in the ass spelling police officer who is more intent on showing their own inelegance than excepting how things go, you should find something else to be concerned about.
It's only about 20 mins from the city
A great resource to learn about the penal colonies (and also a brilliant read) is the book called 'The Term of His Natural Life' by Marcus Clarke. It was originally written as a newspaper serial distributed in Melbourne. It is now an Australian literary classic.
A most moving story.
I have read Term of his Natural Life at least 9 times since I was 10 years old.
That was great, especially the amount of indigenous history, usually that gets glossed over! I remember when I was in school, history class focused on English and American, only just touched on our own.
Indigenous _pre-history_ you mean. Indigenous history begins with record-keeping a couple of hundred years ago. We must rely on archaelogists to enlighten us as to goings-on prior to colonisation.
@@Toranaboy634 well not quite, our Indigenous have stories going back tens of thousands of years. Some have even been verified by archeologists, such as one country on the east coast had a story about the sea levels rising..... it was verified recently and that story was found to be something like 20,000 years old, so they have preserved their own history, we only need to listen!
@@Shado_wolf History entails records. You are referring to oral tradition which is only as good as the evidence to confirm it. If I discover by listening to an informant relying on oral tradition, who tells me that King Zog of Albania ascended the throne in 25,000 BCE I would regard the information as extremely doubtful in the absence of actual records. How is sea-level rise history? What details of life in the old times has been retained in oral tradition? Can any of it be confirmed by archaelogy? If yes, you have pre-history. If not, you just have stories. If you can refer to the written records of people, say, four hundred years ago, setting out how they lived, you have the beginnings of an historical account. If the written record is scant or not existent you are looking at pre-history. It's not bad, it's just different, and necessarily less informative.
@@Toranaboy634 ok yes, you are correct in relation to pre-history in Australia. The sea level rise I was talking about has been studied by archeologists and relates to when the sea levels were much lower, almost out to our continental shelf. Yes, it's pre-history, if you look at it from a Euro-centric point of view... which in itself is kind of a problem as our indigenous didn't have writing, they kept their records though songs, stories, and drawings. There is some cave art I think he in WA, which has what looks like our megafauna, how can we say that is not evidence, when we know there was megafauna, and what it would have looked like.
I just feel that it's about time we start to listen and look.... then perhaps search for the evidence, rather than what seems to happen where it's just fobbed off as fiction.
@@Shado_wolf It's not Eurocentric, it's just how things are with people (Homo Sapiens Sapiens). We have been around for 200,000 years. European history had its beginnings in the Neolithic Era, within the last 12,000 years. All accounts of European lives before then (and many after) rely on the techniques of prehistory. (Look at Lascaux). The dates when history started vary, according to conditions where people have lived. I think this is about as interesting a topic to study as there is, which is why I'm troubling to correspond with you on a comments page on CZcams for Heaven's sake :) Best wishes.
Makes Me feel all patriotic, f**k I Love this Country!
Enjoy the videos mate. If you want to know more about our country check out videos by Les Hiddens an Army officer who learnt from the Aboriginal locals in the far north how to live of the land so it could be taught to the troops.
That was great Ian. I learned some new things myself especially about the origins of the indigenous. That was fascinating. In relation to Botany Bay, perhaps you might like to research and listen to the Australian convict song (John Williamson's version).
"Bound for Botany Bay"
Farewell to Old England forever
Farewell to my rum culls as well
Farewell to the well known Old Bailee
Where I used for to cut such a swell
Singing toorali-orali-addity
Singing toorali-oolari-ai
Singing toorali-ollari-addity
We're bound for Botany Bay
'Taint leaving Old England we cares about
'Taint 'cos we mispells wot we knows
But becos all we light fingered gentry
Hop's around with a log on our toes
Singing toorali-orali-addity
Singing toorali-oolari-ai
Singing toorali-ollari-addity
We're bound for Botany Bay
There's the captain as is our commander
There's bo'sun and all the ship's crew
There's first and the second class passengers
Knows what we poor convicts goes through
Singing toorali-orali-addity
Singing toorali-oolari-ai
Singing toorali-ollari-addity
We're bound for Botany Bay
Oh had I wings of a turtle-dove
I'd soar on my pinions so high
Slap bang to the arms of my Polly love
And in her sweet presence I'd die
Singing toorali-orali-addity
Singing toorali-oolari-ai
Singing toorali-ollari-addity
We're bound for Botany Bay
Now all my young Dookies and Duchesses
Take warning from what I've to say
Mind all is your own as you toucheses
Or you'll find us in Botany Bay
This song was playing in my head during the video from when it mentioned Botany Bay. Was going to look it up later so thanks. :)
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Yep 😎 and i have a collection of our unique plants in my garden
I have a bottlebrush tree, a native Eleocarpus sp. and i have a Banksia sp. and and a few grevillea hybrids 🙂 as well as some tea tree shrubs (they’re very surprisingly closely related to the bottlebrush, considering they look nothing alike
And then Dianella sp. grasses to add pops of colour, ohh and i cant forget my native violet, Viola Banksii to add colour
15:19 interesting fact. The Roaring forties still helps speed up planes, my sister flew back to Sydney from Cape Town (maybe via Perth) and they got back several hours early because of the headwinds.
tailwinds?
Bound for Botany Bay, folk song we were taught in school...
I think this bloke's getting his info from inside his own dreamworld; there were no woolly rhinoceroses in Australia! Also, there were two rival East India companies, the English, founded in 1600, and the Dutch, founded in 1602. The Dutch United East India Company became, by far, the most powerful of the two. It was, by definition, the world's first and largest multinational corporation to date.
Yeah I think he meant Giant Wombats, not Rhinos...lol
I think the woolly rhinoceroses comment may have been tongue in cheek.
Yea i agree. Some of his facts are straight up incorrect. And i know a whole lot of Aboriginals that would get offended if you say they came from India and all there weapons and customs were given to them by other peoples.
These vids always only serve to lower IQ's.
@@ozzybloke-craig3690 That's correct. Indians are Caucasoids just like Europeans as where aboriginals are Australoids they come from the region ranging between say Borneo and Indonesia.
I saw a doco of the Batavia and found it fascinating . Gruesome but fascinating. The clip you watched just glossed over the surface. Same with the Eureka Stockade in Ballarat. It would be well worth sourcing videos of each in greater depth. There is so much more that you could learn. Fascinating stuff.
There’s a great museum in Fremantle that has many artefacts from the Batavia and other shipwrecks that occurred in Western Australia. It’s of course called the Shipwreck Museum, but nearby there is also the Maritime Museum. Both fascinating places.
First landing of Captain Cook was at Kurnell, a suburb in Sydney's south, in Botany (Kamay) Bay. The landing site is part of Kamay Botany Bay National Park & has many monuments & landmarks in a picturesque waterside bay area. I grew up in that area, known as The Shire.
Wow! I had no idea. They should teach this in our schools. Awesome video. Again you are the best at this. Good job mate. See you in the next one.
I live in Ballarat, Victoria, home of the Eureka Stockade. We also have Sovereign Hill, a re-enactment of the gold rush here is Ballarat, which is a great place to visit if you ever make it to Australia.
Ian, if you haven't already you should look for a video on Coober Pedy - a very unique town in Australia, and not just for their opals! I'll let you find out for yourself what that means, but I think you may find it pretty interesting. :)
Awesome video, and I love the fact that you love and respect our country, our people, and what/who we are. Good onya Ian 👍🏼👍🏼😎
If anyone wants to find out about the history of convicts in Australia there is Robert Hughes book "The Fatal Shore"
Would like to see you do some Australian “Anzac” war history.
The History Guy did a great episode on Sir John Monash.
Agreed
As I might have mentioned before we (I was then married with one son) emigrated to Australia from the UK back in1978 to get a better way of life and now being naturalised and used to the way of life and having made a decent living out of what we did (both of us were RN"s) would not even think of going back to the UK. I like you do not know a lot about the history of the country but find it so engaging in every way. Of course, there are some aspects of politics and distribution of wealth that I find rather unfortunate but on the whole, a great place to settle down in. So Ian I do hope you get a chance to come down under and see for yourself what a great place it is for many reasons.
My best friend's family moved from the UK to Perth in the mid 80s. She was only 5 or 6 at the time and so her memories of the transition were mostly being taken away from her home and school friends by her parents. Anyway, long story short, growing up all she could think about was moving back to England and in her early 30s she got a one way ticket and went back. She was there for a couple of months before winter hit and she immediately started to save up money to move back to Perth. It's a pretty common theme with English ex-pats that they still love England but wouldn't entertain the thought of moving back.
@@pcppbadminton Yes mate my sentiments entirely. I don't understand why some do that and my trips back to see family made my mind up where I wanted to live as I felt so claustrophobic while I was back there.
Botany Bay is in Sydney, the airport runways extend into it.
Port Jackson is today's Sydney Harbour and the first fleet settled in Sydney Cove, today's circular quay.
Right between the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Opera house.
There are 3 major inlets from the Tasman Sea/Pacific Ocean in the Sydney area. From the north, they are Broken Bay, Sydney Harbour and Botany Bay. When Phillip arrived with his Fleet, he originally went to Botany Bay and very quickly found it unsuitable, principally because it was lacking a good supply of fresh water. He then went a bit north and entered what is now called either Port Jackson or Sydney Harbour. He found a fresh water stream and land suitable for agriculture, and founded his colony there. Broken Bay was not explored by the new settlers for quite some time. Its main problems were a lack of sheltered bays with sufficient depth and land suitable for farming. So Port Jackson it was.
We weren’t taught anything like this at school only about captain James Cook, nothing what so ever about the aborigines . Botany Bay is near Sydney.
Really we learnt nothing about our own country. History was mainly on Tudor times England . I have learnt more today listening to that chap, I found that to be very informative . Thank you so much
Fortunately times have changed and there is more Aboriginal History being taught in public high schools, well here in Victoria anyway.
@@lynwill65 I’m glad to hear that , My school days were in the mid 60s. It was very white Australia back then, I’m glad times have changed
@@darneyoung537 There must’ve been a dramatically big change between the mid-60s and 70s as my wife learnt only about aboriginal culture and history which completely turned her off that subject. Yet our daughter completed this in the noughts’ and went on to also complete ancient history after that, so the education department must have toned it down between generations, or my wife just disliked history as a subject! Stephen M
I would have loved to see the amount of wildlife and the untouched land when the aboriginals first made it here. On another note, the uniquness here is the one reason I don't want to move over seas
There is a great 2 part mini series I think called Mary Bryant, based on a true story (convict and escape story).
Also a great old mini series from the 70s calked Against the Wind, if you are interested in watching the story from Irish ‘criminal’ to convict to deportation to Australia and the challenges of life, I really like this series.
Botany Bay is in Sydney. The regeiment that accompanied the first fleet was called the NSW Marine Corps. It was relived by a permanent regiment of the British Army which was called the NSW Corps. They became the permanent force responsible for protection of the colony, which at this time was just a small part of todays NSW. They existed as a permanent force from 1796 till 1810. They are more famously known as the "Rum Corps" as they were responsible mainly for the trade in rum as the colony formed. They were also involved in in putting down most the rebellions in colony. On the plus side as the colony formed many of the officers, made rich by the rum trade, looked to agriculture as a way of investing their money and provided much of the impetus, as did the free settlers, in creating huge farms, or stations as many of the roads went through them and had fresh water available, as they opened up the country. Initial forays into the outback found the Blue Mountains and this was the initial stopping point west of of Sydney. Most of the expansion happened going north and south up the coast and from James Cook's maps, these showed where fresh water was available. Once the Blue mountains were conquered there was no stopping us.
From the establishment of the settlement at Sydney in 1788 all the time until 1813, the settlers had no known way across the Blue Mountains just west of Sydney. So Sydney was constricted by the ocean to the east, mountains to the west, hills and a major river to the north and rivers and hills to the south. The only way to expand the amount of land available for agriculture for food for Sydney was by sea to places on the coast north or south or by following the rising ground to the southwest, still limited by the ocean to the east and the impenetrable mountains of the Great Dividing Range to the West. Until 1813 when explorers Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson, on the advice of (and following the foot tracks of) local indigenous people, followed the ridges and not the valleys and made it across. All of the valleys in the Blue Mountains end in massive cliffs, making further travel westwards impossible. Also, early exploration attempts were made following the valleys as the Blue Mountains comprises a steep monocline on its eastern boundary, generally too steep for horses or wagons except for at a few (then unknown and/or hidden) locations.
2 seconds in, and i'm thinking why the hell is a Pom telling you/Us about it, should of been an OZZIE
That’s what I always want but can’t find
@@IWrocker I'm happy learning stuff about Australia that I didn't know before from a certain Illinoian ;-)
There were more languages than he said.
czcams.com/video/J_ebtOhcoQM/video.html
I just checked. 250 languages with hundreds of dialects all over Australia, told by an Aboriginal. I love the accent, it’s warm and um rolling. My friend said it reminds here of magpies warbling.
Yes, the video didn't do justice to the diversity of languages.
Also many linguist believe their was up to 700 languages before colonisation and many more dialects but sadly most are not either gone extinct or are now dormant and are just waiting to be revived.
@@rosiebarsby6134 yes I know, they lost so much. Was only talking to my son about that yesterday. If us white Australians had learned from the Indigenous people, we all would have been far better off looking after the land too, and so much more. My son’s best man was, oh he still is lol, Aboriginal, but he laughs and says but I’m only a quarter. He’s a funny fellow, lovely man.
In 1770, Lieutenant (later Captain) James Cook landed at Botany Bay's Inscription Point. He and his Endeavour crew stayed in the area for eight days. The First fleet came 18 years later, Botany Bay was unsuitable and they found the harbour a few Miles up the coast and settled in Sydney Cove. 1788
Now the saying "Buckley"s chance" makes a lot more sense
Yup. Papuan's and aboriginals have denisovan DNA whereas middle eastern, asian, europeans and especially estern europeans have 5-9% neanderthal DNA which also means humans bred with Neanderthal.
The only species of human with 100% homo sapien DNA are from Africa.
Edit: which is ironic that "slaves" weren't considered human seing as they're the only true "clean" genetic humans lol.
I don’t know what this guy is talking about! I’ve travel and still travel through outback Australia! And the central aborigines are nothing like New Guinea natives! Only the turres straits islanders look like Now Guinea natives! Look up central Australian aborigines the children are born blonde haired! And lots of them have a red hair when they get older!
Yes a few things he said, I thought, that’s not right. And only a few aboriginal languages up north, did he mean always? They hav stacks more languages all over Australia. My son’s best friend and best man is Aboriginal, I must ask him a few questions.
The Batavia is now at the Fremantle Maritime Museum. It's a great place to check out all the old wrecks and artifacts they've found. One of my favourite places to visit.
Don't forget the skeleton
Geologically, there is/was no Sahel continent. The Sahel and Arafura shelves, lying northwest and north of Australia, are shallow parts of the Australian continent which were exposed during a period of low sea levels from about 45,000 years to 8,000 years ago. There was never a full land “bridge”. The Wallace Line marks an area of deep water about 90 km wide which had to be crossed on rafts or canoes.
I'd take the facts on this video about Australia with a pinch of salt.
''The Australian Aboriginals were mostly hunter gatherers''..?. Actually they all were. What evidence is there to suggest that before Europeans arrived that they cultivated anything?.
Dont believe what the likes of Bruce Pascoe says.
I thought that 40-45000 years ago, was genuinely accepted as oldest known evidence to suggest that people were in Australia?. Where did they dig up 125,000 from ????
Each tribes language is different, for the simple reason, that as tribes splintered their language changed over time.
Too many people are trying to change history nowadays.
Either way IWroker, thanks for showing an interest in our country.
Ah plenty of evidence has been found that we did cultivate. Fish traps, Eel traps, Yam fields, grain fields, and one of the most obvious, fire stick farming + many more.. Get off the internet, get into a library and read directly from the early explorers notebooks. ;)
@@BBBBB950 LOL You're on the yabba.
I wouldent call any of those things as cultivating.
'Grain Fields'??...thats a first.
I think youve been reading too much 'Black Emu'.
I don't profess to be an expert on the subject, but i did spend 5 years in the territory, and was very much interested in Aboriginal ways and heritage. Not once was any sort of cultivation ever mentioned, it was all hunting and trapping...and in different locations so the game wouldent wizen up to the traps.
I have respect for Aboriginals, but have no time for BS, especially whats being thrown around nowadays by virtue signaling WOKERS.
@@daniellebcooper7160
Pascoe has been exposed as a Fraud, yet the State education system notably Vic and I believe Tas push his tripe in schools with children’s abridged versions.
To what end if he has been both rejected by both Indigenous and scholars?
@@daniellebcooper7160 Yes native grass grains, obviously not on anywhere near the large scale Europeans did but it was done. Also planting of Yam seeds. Fire burning is the most obvious and well studied that it was used as a method to have the land cultivate for you through new healthy growth. Also fish trapping is a form a cultivating, look up brewarrina fish traps...I've never read Pascoes books. I'm a Wiradjuri man from NSW so traditions and methods are different from tribe to tribe and very different between NT and NSW. My grandma is an elder of my homelands my knowledge comes from her and actual recounts written by the first explorers.
@@BBBBB950 To use the word 'Cultivate' in the examples youve put forward, is stretching it a bit to far for me...but thats just my opinion; especially in the context of what the video was putting across.
I'm very aware of the seasonal burn offs, they made the sky at sunset a beautiful purple.
Good luck to you and your family BB.
Botany Bay is the mass of water to the south of Sydney and its harbour. If you manage to get over here and fly into Sydney you'll most likely fly over it before landing as Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport is on the north edge of Botany Bay.
I was born and raised in Botany, which is the suburb of Botany Bay which is just south of sydney cove. It was the original spot considered as the start of the city but it was very swampy and not a good place to settle. They sailed further up the coast to sydney cove. Botany Bay used to be a beautiful place but Botany has now become an industrial suburb and Kingsford Smith Airport sits on the edge of the Bay.
finally a history of oz that just doesn't glance over aboriginal history for 10 seconds.
A video suggestion, is the battle of brisbane where australian and american fought each other in a massive brawl after rising tensions between the two countries, during world war 2.
My grandfather and his brother were involved in something similar in Cairns
@@shanematthews7817 yeah true? i havent heard of that before, any idea if there is a video or something about it?
Australia had a massive inland sea at one point
Really impressed by your interest and courtesy fo my country , well done my friend 👏
Ian, there is also a theory & some proof that Philippine pygmies ruled Australia b4 the Aborigines did & they wiped out the pygmies, Stating that the Aborigines came from Papua New Guinea.
Apparently, the great emu war was in Vietnam.
Yea that was an odd bit…
Fascinating video. Some things I knew some I didn't. Particularly enjoyed the first half.
Australian Aboriginals are the world's oldest continuing living culture.
I think I also read that geologically, Australia is the world's oldest continent. Something about the crust.
Botany bay is in South East Sydney. Near the airport. You will usually fly over it when landing in Sydney.
At the end, when he started talking about world war 2 and the Japanese, I thought he was going to start talking about the bombing of Darwin. Was coincidentally watching something about the anniversary of the bombing a few days ago. On the 19th February 1942, the Japanese launched a surprise air raid on Darwin. They weren't trying to invade Australia it was more so to destroy out northern defences, so they could invade Timor. It was largest attack on Australian soil. Something that was kinda buried at the time in the press and the number of casualties and damage played down. My Nans brother was there, said they were told to keep quiet. It wasn't really taught in school or widely known about I think, until about 20 years ago. The movie "Australia" with Hugh Jackman highlighted it in scenes, some years back. And there were about 100 smaller subsequent attacks on Darwin and Sydney etc over the next 18 months months after that.
Your channel and videos have given me a renewed interest in our history and desire to learn more. And just and over over all appreciation for our country and people.
I'm part aboriginal and part of my family haven't left our homelands for 10s of thousands of years. We have oral stories about when the sea levels rose. We are situated between the great barrier reef and the rainforest. I'm bias but this is the best part of the world. Our languages are so diverse. Whilst the language family is large there are hundreds of different dialects. Unfortunately colonisation has had a massive impact on us but we're still out here practising our culture and looking after country. Our country has an amazing history. It is such a vast land full of beauty!
There were more horrible times for Indigenous people before the Europeans arrived, he just left that part out.
He left out the Stolen Generation too!!!
Check out Old Sydney Town - this was a theme park of Colonial Sydney that has since closed. England had hundreds of prisoners being punished on "Hulks" - these old dilapidated old ships so after discovery of Australia it was considered a good idea to ship the prisoners to Australia to build new Colony. Heaps of History around The Rocks & colonial Sydney - Tank Stream that still flows under Sydney Streets today. Sydney has been described to have a similar landscape to San Francisco. Check out the Japanese Attack on Sydney in Circular Quay - all 3 mini submarines have all been located & #3 was only found a few years ago buried in Sand for 60+ years at a beach underwater.
Old Sydney Town was amazing... sucks it was closed down
@@NetK-J Yeah I went there before it was closed -- only a few hundred people there & it had lost it's lustre as times have changed.
@@matthewbrown6163 I went there with school in 1993 & it was amazing.
I was only looking at the photos last week thinking oh it would be great to be open still
@@NetK-J Very sad but the land is so much more valuable. Wonderland became all industrial as the Theme Park began to flounder being away from transport.
@@matthewbrown6163 absolutely loved wonderland :) was cheaper to head there for the day than go to the Newcastle show or down to the Royal Easter show
Botany Bay is just south of Sydney. Cook, who first navigated the east coast in 1770 landed at Botany Bay. He would have also discovered Port Jackson (now Sydney Harbour), but most likely kept its existence secret from the official records with the forsight to protect its location from rival empires, France and Spain. When the First Fleet arrived on 20 January 1788, they first anchored in Botany Bay, but quickly sent out a scouting party to confirm the location of Port Jackson, where they relocated to the harbour and planted the flag to establish the settlement on 26 January, now celebrated as Australia Day. The timing was quite crucial, because 2 French exploration ships arrived at Botany Bay on 24 January as the last of the First Fleet ships were heading down to Port Jackson. Both French ships left 7 weeks later and were never heard from again.
Botany Bay is in Sydney, the settlement was then moved to farm cove which is now circular quay and the opera house!
William Buckley gave us the expression "Buckley's chance" - or no chance at all. If someone says "you've got Buckley's", they're telling you that you have little or no chance of success.
may I correct you on that. It comes from a Melbourne department store called "Buckley's and Nunn". People would say you have two choices. One is Buckley's the other is Nunn (None)!
@@maureenal6smith982 Thank you. It appears I've been misinformed. :)
@@sophdog1678 According to Wikipedia , the Wiliiam Buckley version is supported by the ANU because the department store version "appears to have arisen after the original phrase was established".
That was a really cool video, most of the Aussie history I am familiar with though the migration of the Aboriginal people was fascinating.
Being a native of Melbourne and having studied Australian History. I learnt that in Federation was proclaimed in 1901, Melbourne was the capital and the Exhibition Building in Carlton South was the original Parliament House, it also flew the first Australian Flag.
Botany Bay is in Sydney. One of Sydney airports runways leads out into it.
A lot of comments about never being taught the history of the ABORIGINAL people, I'm sorry, but can't these people making these comments, read and self educate, that is what libraries were for,I'm nearly 70 years old, so yes I said libraries, enjoy your history of this beautiful country of AUSTRALIA 👍👍👍👍👍👍
When I was going to school in the 60's and 70's, we weren't taught much about our own history and virtually nothing at all about the indigenous people. Most of what I learned was from local indigenous people. Up here in NQ, we used to go to the library to hear stories from an aboriginal artist called Goobalathaldon or Dick Roughsea, who also took us kids to the park and teach us how to throw boomerangs and make woomeras (a spear with a holder, like a long curved plate) and bull roarers (a flat stick or cascara tree seed pod on a string), which made a spooky sound, when you'd swing it around. I consider myself very lucky to have grown up here as most Aussies never got to experience these things.
I'm 76 and until I saw your video I had never heard of the emu wars. Thank you for teaching me something about Oz history.
Ian,
Botany Bay, is now metropolitan Sydney. Sydney's main international airport (called Kingsford Smith Airport, another history lesson). The main N-S runway actually juts out into Botany Bay. NB: Charles Kingsford Smith was one of the founders of the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Service, at Winton, QLD (an airline now called QANTAS)... You have so much still to learn about Oz Land...
Great video. Bit messed up that it showed a murder in Vietnam and kids running from napalm strikes in the emu part though. Wonder if he even knew the context.
But great to see you learning more about Australia.
Yea that was a little much for me… I’m hoping maybe that the video editor didn’t know exactly the context
I saw your face and was pretty sure you have seen the reality of those pictures. As Aussies we can a take a joke. Pick on us all you want. But that was a bit much.
I’m very happy you know the context and happy you agree.
Keep the videos going. I’ll be happy and ashamed for you to learn more aboriginal history. In many cases we (white people) did our best to help. But many decisions hurt more then helped.
Gday chieftain, just a quick gday from Melbourne mate.👍🍻
Oh, & Melbourne has the tallest buildings in the southern hemisphere mate plus we're the sporting capital of the southern hemisphere. Couple fairdinkum facts for ya.🍻🤣
We have the biggest bar in the Southern hemisphere here in Perth. The Camfield. Right next to the world's best sporting stadium, Optus Stadium. Cheers. 🍻 🍻 🍻 👍🤣
@@SuperRoo_22 optus stadium 😂🤣😂🤣, isn't that just a small park for the western elite?
@@SuperRoo_22 bar sounds like a bucket list addition though.👍🍻🍻🍻🍻
@@s.roberts3839 Yeah, a tiny paddock with a few stands & a wrought iron bar on the outside! Seriously though, I think it's got something like 180 taps inside. Dissapointed I never got to the GF. Once in a lifetime opportunity. Well done to Melbourne. Thoroughly deserving Premiers. It looked like the Bulldogs raised the white flag in the end to get beaten by that much.
@@SuperRoo_22 end of the 1st quarter. 🙄
Now they've broken tradition, hopefully it'll be there again & soon.
I really didn't mind it tbh mate, was more than happy it did go to Perth & not gay ol Sydney.
Would've been rainbow shit everywhere.
The Emu war was a very interesting thing. I only found out about it from my eldest daughter studying it in History at school. So I read more about it. There was an influx of Emu's in the area around the New South wales & Victorian Border. The farmers complained to the Government, so the army was sent in to fix the problem. They sorely failed. The Emu's surprised the Army by actually forming battle plans. The leader they called Galiath was apparently around 10 or 11 feet tall. At one point they emptied a few machine guns into Galiath & he ran away. He was found a few weeks later having died from his wounds. But, the army ended up giving up & the Emu's won. By the way, when he said that the Australian's & New Zealanders made up Part of the Anzac's, They WERE the Anzac's. The name ANZAC (Australian & New Zealand Army Corps), was forged on the Gallipoli Campaign. It was also the 1st time that Aboriginals were used in Australia's forces, even though they were not considered citizens. Something that is not mentioned about either the Aboriginals & the New Zealanders at Gallipoli was the fact that they caused a lot of fear to the Turk's even though the Turk's ultimately won the campaign. But the Aboriginals had a flat board on a cord that they used to swing around & made a very freightening noise at night that the Turk's could hear & it scared them. Paul Hogan uses one in one of the Crocodile Dundee movies (He says to Linda Kozlowski, I'm going to send a message). It's called a Bullroarer. The Kiwi's used to reply with the Haka (a Maori Warrior war cry) Used especially by Kiwi Sports Teams before a sporting event. It was reported by some Turkish soldiers after the war that the noises made them think that the Anzac's were possessed by demons.
The story of the shipwreck and following events of the Batavia is both fascinating and horrific. I am sure there are others but Peter Fitzsimons book "Batavia" is an incredible read, especially for anyone interested in early European contact with Australia.
LOL
The video is full of factoids the narrator pulled from his coight with a smattering of historical revisionism from the usual suspects.
A more believable window to the times of Australian colonisation is the diaries of people of the period that can all be read in the National Library archives that cover observations of daily life from various perspectives.
Most Poms (English people) gleefully mock us as having been a "prison" when in fact the invasion was by way of establishing a military garrison to counter French expansion into the South Pacific as well as thwart any Dutch attempt to take over the entire continent of which they had mapped about 2/3rds of the worst parts of the coastline before Cook so much as got our sand in his slippers, the workforce for which was drawn from overcrowded prisons in a broken homeland where a person would be jailed for 7 years or more for stealing a crust of bread to feed their starving kids and despite the promise in Rule Britannia about Britons never being slaves, all so that the Empire could dispossess yet another First Nations people of their lands and resources and dignity and freedom, but "prison" sure whatev.
The Poms just have the shits because we slaughter them in cricket and rugby league.
Aussie history in a nutshell. Lol. The French influence (via nuns I believe) is still evident in Vanuatu with certain customs, including incredible tidiness. Got shown around a restored "native village" there, and seriously...It was the cleanest jungle forested area I've ever seen. There wasn't a single leaf or twig on the ground anywhere. Chickens running around; but not chook droppings. And I watched a little 2 to 3 year old Vanuatan boy TIDY UP the shallows in a tidal creek by picking up starfish and throwing them further out. Their children were universally well behaved and I only saw one little girl whining and crying and hanging off her mother's dress (she looked unwell) and whole families camped in a huge open air shed for 2-3 days and nights a week to sell produce and touristy stuff. The kids sat behind their spread out blankets making things or helping their mothers. The fathers seemed to hang out downstairs in the local Yacht Club, which, by the way, was racially segregated. Locals downstairs, tourists and visitors of non Vanuatan heritage, upstairs. There was a wall sized screen in both areas which simply showed all the latest stock market prices around the world. That's it. Because Vanuatu is a tax free haven. So maybe the French influence would have been very beneficial to Australia. No syringes all over Manly Beach for example.
@@Kayenne54 Lapérouse was sniffing about Botany Bay just as the First Fleet was settling in. Not sure if I would have preferred a meat baguette to a pie though.
The Brits were scared of the French claiming Western Australia for themselves as well. Whether they would have done so is anyone's guess.
2:18 Yeah really interesting how it was connected back then.
Its amazing what time can change burying under water an entire crossing.
On some of our highest mountains you can find fossils of the First living water plant
Interesting fact, Australia fired the first allied shot in WW1 and WW2. Both in Port Phillip Bay against German merchant ships.
Just like any country there is way too much history for a 30 min video. This video was really short on Aboriginal history but then missed so many important things in more modern history.
We should be proud to be the 1st independent nation to allow women suffrage (at federation women could vote) but unlike we are often taught, it was not universal suffrage. All immigrants, no matter their origin could vote but not the Aboriginal people. This did not occur until 1962, this we should be less proud of.
Unlike what American documentaries teach us, the first land battle win against the a Japanese was at Milne Bay and then Kokoda trail by predominantly Australians, N.B. In fairness it wouldn’t have happened without the USA (predominately) pushing back the Japanese at the battle of the Coral Sea. Australians also broke the stalemate on the eastern front in WW1 at the battle of Beersheba.
War history aside, the natural history, political system and legal system all have unique properties that we have exported to others. It’s slot to talk about - Sorry to ramble.
The ships were not both German, the one in 1914 was a German steamer called “Pfalz” and were trying to evade internment upon hearing of the declaration of war. The one in 1939 was a Canadian ship that was mistaken for a possible escaping German ship. The crew of Pfalz were interned for the duration of the war and the ship was seized by the Royal Australian Navy and renamed (sorry I can’t recall what name was) and used as a tender ship by the RAN. It was still in RAN service when WW2 broke out in the pacific and was sunk in battle by the Japanese. Both shots fired decades apart were from the same gun.
So much knowledge my ancestors could have passed on that has been lost forever after the invasion by Europeans.
Something alot of Indigenous forget is many had no choice and was out of their hands. That's why many Indigenous people back then took them into their families after escaping the gaol's. I have known some that understand this and were great mates growing up but others just hate everyone that is white and tarnish us all with the same brush. Even though most us alive have nothing to do with the dark history that happened many years ago. I feel in this day in age we should all learn to live together and respect each other despite what had happened. Much of our European heritage is long gone. I love the Indigenous culture, it's what makes our country unique and something to be proud of. I just wish we all could move on and fully embrace it without walls dividing us. We are all Australian and live in multicultural times, doesn't matter if you are Indigenous, European or Asian heritage and immigrated here. We should look after each other and be proud. That's my opinion and i understand why, i just think we should all stand together without race and history separating us.
I wish it was different.
@@Twenty_Six_Hundred It's the knowledge of the land and how to use it is what I see as our biggest loss. How to work with the environment and every thing in that environment, not against the environment to create an artificial land for unsuitable agriculture use. How to use the native wildlife instead of destroying it to run sheep suited to a European environment and left out in bare paddocks in basically an environmental desert void of life. Destroying the dingo for the benefit of sheep has caused an enormous amount of unrepairable damage and loss to native wildlife by eliminating the top preditor that controlled Kangaroo populations, now they are at unsustainable populations that are regularly culled. Smaller native animals have learned to adapt and avoid dingo predation, instead only preying on young or old roo's and wallabies. Without the dingo foxes and feral cats have been allowed to decimate these animals, Dingoes in the few areas they are left alone form stable packs, strictly controlling the amount of pups born each year and will kill any fox or cat in their territory. Where they are regularly killed young male Dingoes that manage to avoid 1080 baits are free to roam in large groups, breeding is uncontrolled and they just become juvenile delinquents causing mischief and mayhem to farmers in ever increasing numbers. Removing every tree instead of clearing and burning just the undergrowth has caused huge salinity problems. That's just a few examples of lost knowledge.
Botany Bay is near Sydney… in fact its the container port of Sydney
his name was abel ( sounds like able as in kain and able ) tasman. botany bay was near the sydney airport is, on the kurnell side near the entrence of the bay, it was claimed in the name of england because frenchman la-peruse was spotted in his ship waiting to come in after a storm, so the english quickly claimed it.
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that the following program may contain images and voices of deceased persons.
I think it would be good if you could please put this at the beginning of the video and any other Australian history videos you do. Especially if the videos contain the Aboriginal or Torres Strait people due to their beliefs.
Thank you. Love your videos!
Very valid point. 👍
This is important to show cultural sensitivity and respect - especially as there's sadly been a lack of respect throughout history.
Um idk if there was a separate video made on this particular part of Australian history, but I feel like the Stolen Generation should have been mentioned. To me that's the first thing I thought about when I heard History of Australia
He mentions that he would go into further detail regarding the dark times in Australian/aboriginal history, I believe. Perhaps visit that CZcams site via the link. "Stolen children" happened in many places on the planet; seems it was the "go to" to eviscerate and demoralize any group or peoples. Based on that French saying "give me a child until he is 7, and I will have the man for life" I suspect.
I am a 6th/7th generation white Australian (depending how you count it). My great great great great grandfather was an Irish Rebel. There was a fire that burnt all the court documents at the time of his trial, not sure what his exact sentence was. He and his brother tried to mutiny on the way over and he survived 300 lashes. He came over on the Britannia, his wife came over too. They ended up completing Theo sentence and being granted freedom. They settled the town of Wangaratta. Then his sons were so.e of the people who first drove cattle over the ranges and their routes were used for years to come.
My grandmother was into genealogy, as were some other family members.
In 1997 there was a family reuinion, they broke us off into 4 colour coded family branches and hundreds of people came to Wangaratta. We saw the homestead and watched the local races. There was a big dinner and bush dance one night. It's a bit hazy, the last night of the reunion my dad's mum died and we had rushed trip back to qld for the funeral. Crazy emotional time burned in my memory. Really cool, I have some books on different genealogy of different branches of the family which is so cool to have. Especially since time has meant I have no tangible ties to any of those heritages. I am Austrlian. Being able to know, even parts, of that history means a lot. And I am grateful for the work and time put I'm by so many to collate it (especially as a bulk of it was done before the internet was a readily available thing).
Botany is in south Sydney it's also the name of khans ship in Star Trek another interesting fact my hometown of oyster bay isn't far from botany bay
He appears to have lost the plot with the emus.
Yes, correct. That was the "dark" period when (sadly) the different states decided to wipe out the Aborigine population. Tasmania even put a bounty on Aborigine scalps. Many thousands were killed. Now it's seen as a shameful period and often historians try to eliminate it. Say that it never happened. That's why all that crap about an Emu war.
Yea that was a strange bit… wasn’t a fan
first bit is false the current indigenous are pre dravidian and came from india 3-4000yrs ago they displaced the papuans. the indigenous tasmanians were papuan but were wiped out by the british, the few that were taken to the mainland that survived have been bred out with mainland indigenous and colonials.
Do you have a citation for this?
Maybe some of the details are questionable but I find this fascinating nevertheless. There's evidence showing some form of indigenous occupation 40,000+ years, aided by land bridges during the ice age (up to about 11,000 yrs ago) and a second wave somewhere around 3-5,000 years ago. That's more than I learned in school years ago - maybe I was taught but didn't learn ;).
Aboriginal people survived through the last Ice age... thank you for respecting my people... I'm a Noongah woman from Western Australia
Found his first major error. Although Captain James Cook landed in Botany bay in 1770, the fist fleet under the command of Captain Phillip, checked out Botany Bay in 1788 but decided that it was not suitable for the first settlement so they sailed further up the east coast and found what is now called Sydney Harbour. Sailing into Sydney Harbour they found what is now called Circlar Quay located to the east of where now the Sydney Harbour Bridge and west of the Sydney Opera House now sit and they named this cove Sydney Cove. They chose Sydney Cove for its fresh water supplied by a fresh water stream running through the centre and into the harbour. This was called the Tank Stream. It is still there today although it is now in stone tunnels and drains running under the City of Sydney. The city od Sydney now stretches south to include and pass Botany with the area south of Botany Bay called the Sutherland Shire being the southern coastal edge of the City of Sydney.
Though the rebellion against a corrupt government, military and police, drunk on power and rum, was quashed with dozens dead, mostly miners, enquiries were held, changes were made, and one of the ringleaders Peter Lalor, who lost an arm in the battle, later became a member of the Victorian Parliament. 2/3 of the original flag is on view in Ballarat, and is seen today as Australia's 'rebel' flag.
The graves of some of the miners and soldiers can be visited in the old cemetery in Ballarat. They are buried in separate areas, a short distance apart.
Only the area where the battle occurred is known, not the exact site.
A great song to listen to is. LISTEN TO YOUR TRIBAL VOICE. By Yothu Yindi. A great aboriginal band.
20:00 is this the buckley from the saying "you've got Buckley's or none" or "buckleys chance"
No /,maybe - all is explained here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckley_%26_Nunn
Shoutout from Australia. Thanks for covering us.
Why do we have an English fella telling us about Australian history? Ian, would you like an English fella representing US history?
whilst not referring to this video specifically, I find watching any video on CZcams that puports itself as 'fact' to be unadvisable. People go to university and/or undertake research that is peer reviewed, analysed, scrutinized, etc, etc. So it can stand up on what it is proposing. Whereas CZcams can present anything by any random person without any checks and balances and that essential critical review.
Don't get me wrong, CZcams is a lot of fun and provides a lot of entertainment (such as hearing from what an American thinks about Australia 😁😁 ). However, it is just that - entertainment.
You have a growing audience Ian (and huge congratulations for that). However, from my perspective, it does worry me when information is presented as knowledge with the weight of credibility rather than as entertainment