Should refugees come to Australia? (1979) | RetroFocus
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- Australians give their views on refugees to ABC's Four Corners in 1979.
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Wow the journalist actually made arguments for AND against immigrant, actually balanced journalists? Where did they all go?
Political "Correctness" shut them down.
The Liberal Party keeps defunding the ABC and launching bogus inquires about competition (which have all shown the ABC is only an accelerator of Australia's journalism economy and is an example of Australian excellence). The ABC can't afford to hire as good journalists as they used to, but they're (journalists and the ABC) doing the best they can given the government's hatred for the ABC. Instead, the Liberal Government would prefer to give tax cuts to Fairfax and NewsCorp
news today is not reported on facts but instead on opinions and feelings...
Tim Rossback abc isn’t balanced omg your dumb
@@timrossback So let me get this straight... The Liberal Party keeps defunding the ABC... but the ABC continues to develop a left bias...? How dat be...????
God peoples accents in sydney have changed so much
Belle Roy no i think those being interviewed were first gen british migrants lol
Accents are gradually becoming more and more American thanks to the internet. Particularly noticeable in young children today.
Grant Not necessarily it’s just a bit of slang. But it does occur sometimes
Too many lebs
cash me outside funny Cause I’m Leb. Hahaha
omg I’m living for old Australia accents
South Australia has the poshest accents out of them all, they sound like this most of the time.
Prodee not true
Prodee south Australia is one of the most bogan states in Australia. They have more bogans than Queensland in it.
YOCH TWINA When you guys used to speak British that’s weird
Go listen to some 1979 NSWRL commentary or something, their accents were exactly the same back then.
Is it just me or do people back then express themselves with more articulate, confident opinions compared to people now? or is it just the accent lol
It's because back in 1979 free speech existed. Cancel Culture has gotten rid of that
@@applescruffs2894 ah dont mix up stuff. the reason are cultural and propaganda ones. cancel culture (despite being a stupid combat term and assuming you mean this pseudo moralistic nonsense) is relatively new and for sure not the reason for that.
Nope. Now they just ask 100 people and only show the idiotic answers. You make an intelligent answer to one of these interviews, it will never air. They have a narrative to sell
They were more informed
@@applescruffs2894 Here you are expressing your opinions. How have you been cancelled?
Now ask the Australians, the Brits, the Swedes, the Dutch, the French and the Germans that question now.
Fluky Review But the Australians were already asked
@charlie rammstein have some respect
@Anand Ramaswamy Keep it to yourself, Pajeet.
It’s all political now
@charlie rammstein My grandmother's parents came from Lebanon to Canada around 1910 or so and nobody was every up front racist to them like most people would like to believe. In fact it was my grandmother and her parents who hated Lebanese people, especially when new people started to immigrate because it wasn't really for work, but for welfare
No bogans... What happened to our language.
your people got stereotypes and got kinda autistic. kinda sad now
These are ALL upper middle class people... there were "bogans" back then
When we started wasting hundereds of billions of dollars on welfare.
That was filmed In a large city with select people. In present day, you could gather the same amount of select "strangers" and ask them the same questions and they would still seem as well spoken
@@lukebuttigieg55
No...martin place is full of twats now. Formally dressed but still twats
wow, balanced journalism. such a good time. never see or hear a journalist say questions like him again.
Not really, he seems more pro refugees. But all journalists have bias
ABC stopped doing these types of street interviews in the 1990s.
@@asherouk7308 that's gay
@@MarksyS387 Gay wouldn't have been the way I'd have phrased it but I know what you mean. So much for public opinion and free expression in the media, nowerdays it's just the "left" and the "right", "right" and "wrong".
@@MrJolte Yes, that's a better way of putting it. Most journos are letting their bias and opinions shine through, rather than keeping it impartial. Why is that? How have standards dropped? I keep hearing it's because media outlets aren't making as much money since print died, and are finding it harder to compete to sell advertising and news. So they have to resort to reporting on the extremes to stir up drama or use clickbait headlines to drive more views to their articles. It's not right. It's something that American's would do, but it shouldn't happen in Australia, I hoped we were better than that.
My parents came over from Vietnam during that time. We have been incredibly grateful to the Aus government for taking them in, and they have raised us to be grateful contributors to Australian society. I now proudly call myself a true blue cricket loving Aussie and believe we are living in the best country in the world. Australia, not Vietnam, is now home to me.
If you were born in Australia, Australia should be your home, no matter where your parents or ancestors may have come from.
@Jewtube disagree*
@Jewtube well i guess you're the one whos wrong. In your Theory all of the aussies should be foreigner to their country then.
@Jewtube Inc. Nope, you can be a blue or red person and still be Aussie. Color of skin does not define nationality and you're a dumb racist.
This aged well. Australia has declared itself the first country or one of the first to implement the NWO.
I think this relates to the Asian/Vietnamese refugees back then, who have by the way, become hard working & well integrated Aussies now.
I`d let them in just for the yummy Vietnamese salad rolls alone.
@@philg6757
Would you Phil?
A deep thinker, I see...
lol
Have they?.
@Jace your probably correct ,should be investigated, for tax evasion, once convicted, then deport them.
You have to get out there and get one lol.
1970's: "we've got our own problems"
2020: "we've got our own problems".
Wow that didn't age well.
Well we took in the refugees instead of sorting the problems out!
@@gilbo135 and look how it ended haha
@@gilbo135 In case you have not realised, refugees solve problems, they usually don't create them.
@@noahl6581 diversity is our strength
do not dissent
diversity is our strength
do not dissent
The problem is that Australia stopped taking in refugees but ramped up the “highly skilled migrants”. This happened under Keating when in 1992 he introduced mandatory detention for Cambodian asylum seekers. Meanwhile he opened the floodgate for hundreds of thousands of cashed up migrants instead. So basically instead of compassion reasons Keating only let you in if you had a spare $50,000 to buy a uni degree.
I was a refugee from Vietnam in 1981, came to the United States. Thanks for many good souls around the world, including Australians. ❤️
Awww
But US is the one who made you refugee. Did you forgive them or you didn’t notice that ?
@@TheFivezerofive Trueeee
@@TheFivezerofive you’re racist to whites -a brown person
@@mustafakucukkurtul3678 and you are Turkish
That Black guy is highly enlightened.
Except when he said that a country that takes care of itself first is an "isolationist philosophy" which counteracts his first statement
@@finkamain1621 'First' is the key word here you're missing.
@@finkamain1621 because if you allow them to refuge in Australia then you've already calculated that Australians would be taken care of
@@finkamain1621 not really
That Black guy is highly deluded.
"Do you think it will cause racial hostility in this country?"
ahem...
Aboriginal Australians
Chomsky fauna>Chomsky
there is no such thing as 'aboriginal'
Songmi Lee there is sir.
@@songmilee9135 there is, they're native australian
@@songmilee9135 are you that dumb I'm guessing you bloody are!
Everybody speaks so formally and is well educated and respectful. The type of dialogue we lack in 2018.
I dont think drugs were as much of a problem back then.
The social skills of people then were better than today.
That's because people were better educated and the standard and respect (for people) was much higher.
"..how are we going to afford them? We can't" - this is not the statement of someone who has been well educated, at least in this matter
People were so nicely dressed with beautiful hair back then
Even their glasses so iconic
those hair pomades tho they dont make men like that anymore
They had mature attitudes back then...well most in this vid!
Of cause they were 42 years younger. Even i had nice dark hair back then, Now it's gray.
That was before crazy high prices and job insecurity became common place
It is not racist to put our people first.
i miss the times when i wasnt born
Now boys can be girls and girls can be boys in schools it's up to them... That's how far gone we are
BHAAHAHAHAHAHHA SAME
Don't it was full of racist drunks, women had barely any rights just child birth machines. It wasn't as romantic as you might think.
I think we all missed alot of shit when we wasn't born.😉
@@Spiritlife01 It was so much better.....
And nobody punched anyone for voicing their opinions...eloquently
@aboutthetruthmedia organization Well they are to be honest
Black Lives Matter
activists would punch most of the people in the video.
I don't reply I don’t agree on that it makes no sense
I don't reply Black Lives Matter activists wouldn't punch anyone.
I don't reply shut up
Couldn't believe it was Sydney. It looks so empty.
Half the population of Sydney back then, compared to today.
No most were just at work not bumming arouns
Bonggyu Lee and it’s empty once more.
It’s better that way
it was a developing nation of sorts.
My father was a lieutenant in the south Vietnamese army and was made a pow after the allied forces left Vietnam. He managed to break out escape and make it back to me and my mum but the north Vietnamese started hunting him down and we left with the cloths we were wearing. Me and my family are forever grateful to Bob Hawke and the Australian government for their decision to open the gates at a time of such desperation and despair.
Many of us have a similar story :)
it was Malcolm Fraser not Bob Hawke
@@lastbreathsigh We arrived to Australia in 1981 from a refugee camp in Singapore. You could be right. I was very young and remember my uncles family taking a picture with Bob Hawk when they granted our Australian citizenship.
Thanks for the bun thit nuong and the pretty girls
With stories like that, the decision becomes much simpler
The Vietnamese refugees assimilated beautifully. Living in Melbourne I often meet ethnically Vietnamese people with a much thicker Aussie accent than me!
Gore Vidal you forget viet gang.
Those people are fine, accepting Muslim and African refugees is a different
Thing and a bad thing take a look at europe
I think you're completely forgetting the heroin epidemic that came to Melbourne in the 90s, and the Australian families that lost children and loved ones to heroin overdoses... all that heroin came from the Golden Triangle. You only have to visit the Richmond public housing commision flats to see that so many Vietnamese actually brought heroin and crime to this area. You can't visit Victoria street without seeing drug users and dealers, anyone could buy heroin on Victoria St if they asked and were dressed appropriately. Now Sunshine too has become like Richmond, much of the heroin and ice is distributed from this area. I am not believing your statement that they assimilated beautifully. There are good Vietnamese and there are troublesome ones.
The CIA and MI6 have both been implicated in the international drug trade. To attribute that problem to SE Asian immigration or refugee intake, as though it wasn't going to happen otherwise, is a little disingenuous. The Vietnamese are highly intelligent, civilized and in many ways culturally similar to post-British Australians and most importantly, they don't hate us.
Name one. And their crimes...come on...
It's crazy to see what Martin Place, Sydney was like. I migrated from NZ in the 90's so I'm always going to be grateful for the opportunities and friendships Australia had provided me
Wow! A grateful kiwi. Very rare ♥️♥️♥️
Backdoor entry that must be blocked.
Surprisingly I could tell who would be supportive just based on their faces. The openness was evident on thir faces the moment they started talking. I am the product of Two Vietnamese refugees who immigrated to Australia several years after these interviews. Hopefully you'll get a chance to hear my story as I tear up the course on Australian Ninja Warrior!
There were many aussies who were more holistic thinking than I thought. Makes me proud to be an aussie.
People are basically good
That "holistic thinking" you speak of will destroy us. In about 100 years there will be no Australians you muppets. Only a melting pot of different ethnicities all at odds with each other while our culture goes down the drain.
1:41 I could listen to this woman speaking for hours ! Her voice is so soothing, plus she made really good points.
People were so much more classy back then :)
I'm European but I absolutely love to watch interviews from the 50s-80s. It makes me extremely nostalgic of a time I never knew, just wish I could travel through time.
Same here
Australia takes around 6500 refugees currently, with additional ‘humanitarian visas’ bringing it to about 18000
Japan took 28 refugees last year up from 27 the year before ; Rejecting 99% of applicants.
Good for Japan. In 100 years Japan will still be Japanese. Can't say that for Australia.
stretch5920
True. But they are starting to open their doors to foreigners as they need human capital with an ageing population. No where near the extent of Oz which has been the highest in the OECD at 1.7% p/a for ten years ( akin to the unchecked growth of a large African city )
Tokyo is the safest city in the world and the same population as Australia.
Homogeneity and tradition is key as people are willing to self regulate for fear of shame and ostracisation. Also high IQ societies are less violent.
Go back to the white Oz policy and despite being poorer society was much happier due to communal spirit.
Morgan - That's simply not true , the 70s was shit , full of child abuse , alcoholism , racism , homophobia and a general yobbo culture full of bogans and bullies . The liberals were waging all out war on unions and the rights that we the workers fought for and gave up lots to achieve . We you there in 1979 ? Please tell me your experiences of the 70s .
Japan is smart.
@@TheHonkster7 I dont have any experience of the 70's. Do you have any experience of living in Auburn/Granville in the last couple decades?
1:12 living for this queen
Yikes
@@mutantmonkey5791 Yikes how?
Simp!
@@StickThisUpYourAnus Dude agrees with her on helping everyone from different countries because they are human, yet people fail to realize that many different humans of different races, religions, and political ideologies would love to see other people dead. I know from Australia that there's many Chinese people who buy up the stocks of baby formula or steal them to ship it back to China to sell, thus leaving Australian parents without baby formula. It's the same thing also with the N95 masks even in Canada and the USA where Chinese people bought all stocks of them because they knew about COVID-19 and they shipped them back to China so that no westerner could use them. Even now that N95's are in very high demand... They are poorly made and are not sterile and there have been multiple videos of factory workers in China deliberately coughing on the masks or rubbing them on their shoes
rgtrooper13 INCEL ALERT! INCEL ALERT!
People had brains back then wow
pEoplE hAd BrAinS bAck thEN wOw, literally 99% of statistics how that most immigrants don't assimilate (Muslims in particular) and don't actively search for jobs. they're more of a burden than a benefit.
@@Potjenjks2988 your wrong most countries that take in refugees see an economic growth for example in 9 out of 10 US cities refugees atributted to major economic growth also most of the hostile refugees in Europe are north African middle eastern refugees are quite okay
@@Potjenjks2988 Source: my ass
Pastas Source?
Abdulla Ahmed Cebola Pão’s ass
Dude flat out said no he’d rather children and people starve and die than come to their country. Crazy.
Al Strider there was a time when the western world had many refugees of its own that fled and sought protection in other countries its only in recent times that the table have turned .
It’s the principle. Should Australia take in EVERY SINGLE starving or dying person in the world? Where is a good compromise? Should Australia take in as many as they can without major resource shortages? Overcrowding decreases quality of life, not to mention potential cultural shift and loss of social capital
A government exists to take care of its citizens, not humanity.
The Babscast citizens are humanity, region doesn’t dictate that. And spoiler alert, this is in context of the Vietnam war (in which Australia participated in as well in the devastation of this country) where refugees were allowed, and assimilated without burden to Australia. History has already proven you wrong.
Yanasoo Sibarah so the Australian government should redistribute resources from the Australian citizenry to all of humanity?
Pro or against immigration, everyone is so civil. Or almost everyone has a valid argument. Are we heading in the right direction in 2020?
It's in the CBD of Sydney, most people interviewed would be well educated. Trust me there were still just as many idiots back then.
@jogger lotsofcrime when did he say that?
Great to see the variety of opinions. I was 9 years old at the time, and I do remember seeing news reports of boats arriving. I remember being faintly disturbed by it, and looking back I can see that my reaction was a mirror of my mother's and older siblings' reactions. I also remember those circular benches and news kiosks in Martin Place 2:26 !
Take me back to 1979
The music was better.
1:32 take me back to her, she's fine and eloquent
Ok say bye to youtube and the internet
@aboutthetruthmedia organization feminism has been around since the 1800's...
@aboutthetruthmedia organization yep..correct....and that woman was right its a totally different australia now
Helps you realise sometimes you only imagine the barriers between yourself and the older generation.
The American gent nailed it on the head when he said it's an isolationist policy if we only think of ourselves.
I agree and disagree.
I agree when it comes to Vietnamese, or "Asians" and Indians.
But when it comes to Middle Easterns, then a hard no.
Just look what happened in Europe. Rapes sky rocketed. Swedes and Norwegians are not allowed to wave their flags on national day because it is "racist" and "nationalistic".
They want to enforce their religion like prayer in speakers etc.
Religious freedom doesn't only mean that people should be allowed to practice their religion, but it should also mean that they should not enforce their religion upon others.
Thats the difference.
But also, it's a tricky question too, because there are alot of people who actually wants to escape the Islamic ruling system that they have there.
Those people, we should bring in.
@flamefrozer Which 'white' country are you referring to? Neither America nor Australia are indigenously white countries.
@WhiteSupremacistIsAnAntiWhiteFarLeftSlur nobody cares
I bet he's not saying now !
@@philomenaweekes9796 Says who? You have evidence of this?
Wow I love the responses of those who said yes to refugees how kind hearted and beautiful they were.... it was nice to hear everyone’s opinion without judgement or criticism or people trying to create havoc or destroy each other....
I’m American, but my family were refugees around that time n moved to America. Its really nice to hear the answer of these people. Even though this is in the past, it feels welcoming if that makes sense.
Cat eater
@@salty8544 no need to project your personal habits onto others.
@@salty8544you definitely are salty! Poor Bubba!
The elegance of the people back then 🥰. You can’t find it easily these days
Ppl were so beautiful back then js, the way they carry themselves is so beautiful
What a true woman her children’s must be very glad to have her
When you realise this is from 40 years ago and the quality is that good
WOW look at those streets, they look damn safe, no Sudanese gangs looting and beating people.
Movie Jose this was about the Vietnamese. Sudanese have been here for a few years maybe.
Lol what street do you live in? I'm staying away from there.
Give me a link to those numbers also if they were 1 percent what percentage are they of the total population. Also it doesnt take many numbskulls from a community to thoroughly trash a place. Im all up for deporting them so that we dont have to deal with your '1 percent'
Murder rate in Australia is 1.4 per 100,000 people. In Columbia it's 24.4 so I know where I want to live.
The stats are from here: www.crimestatistics.vic.gov.au/media-centre/news/correction-of-country-of-birth-data-incorrectly-reported-and-attributed-to-the
Sudanese make up 0.14% of the state's population, so yes they are overrepresented in the stats. I think the fact that the Sudanese community has a much younger average age and a higher incidence of other factors that are associated with a high crime rate, such as poverty and a lack of engagement in work and school is the reason for this disproportionate rate of offending.
I think the 71.7% of the unique offender population that is Australian is more likely to have caused an effect on the community than the 1% of offenders that are Sudanese.
Why wouldn't we just deport all criminal offenders by that logic? Do you feel the same way about offenders from the UK? I think the answer is not to marginalise immigrants, but to accept them and support them - criminality is based on factors like education, work, family life etc, not nationality.
What the hell happened to the Australian accent? It's only 30-40 years
I know right!
They were more inspired with american accent as all they had was american movies. They traded and lived with Americans more, the british origin, but why it sound so odd and different now no one knows. Evolution I guess
People are changed now mostly immigrants
It evolved
Chaitu Lion Australians are originally from England so they are immigrants too mate
Australia used to be great. Then postmodernism.
You used to have hair
Neoliberalism / capitalism
When are you going to post again? You are wasting your channel
White people when they feel threatened is when they start critiquing some random social period instead of maybe people getting poorer.
Nah, I think capitalism just made most very greedy unfortunately. Postmodernism is so obfuscating and unattainable for most people to contend with, which is why it lives in some dark corners of academia and doesn't have much foothold in larger society. When's the last time you heard anyone reference a postmodernist outside of academia? Like actually promoting their ideas or supporting an ideology solely based on postmodernism?
Good clip, balanced and fair journalism. A historical time when one could express their views without being crucified for it. This is what the ABC used to be.
1:11 wow. was not expecting someone to be that well spoken being ambushed on the streets.
Yeah, she had an outstanding answer. Shame they weren't all that progressive.
@@MostlyReading Progressiveness is entirely, subjective. I bet you think modern day degeneracy is progressive. You worm.
@@MostlyReading She is a stain on this country. I hope she's happy with what Australia has become, with knife crime, racial tension, and degeneracy plaguing our country.
Not a racist remark but just a statement.
The background of a few of those clips it looks like Martin Place, where the Sydney siege took place.
Crazy
Why would that be racist
The accent was so different from today..
And so much better.
sounds more British
@Peter A. What's a bogan?
@Peter A. Strange, I always thought of Australia as more left wing than America 🤔
The accent is very similar to white, educated Australians today who work in law and high finance - which were (and still are) the businesses surrounding the location where the interviews took place. It has changed, but not too drastically. Had the interview included Italian-Australians and Geek-Australians, who had been here for decades before 1979, you would have heard some other familiar accents. And if the interview had been done in Kempsie, you would have heard some very different accents. However, that mild accent is dying out.
It's amazing how the Australian accent evolved from just a few decades ago. I think the lady in 1:11 is the closest to the Australian accent as we hear these days.
That lady has a qld accent.
She's hot
1:23 she’s cute
I more or less agree with her too.
One world, one people.
@@Khadija-rs7jn Where is the KKK? Last I've seen them on CZcams they're just a bunch of hillbillies today.
But dumb
Bartlomiej Kasprzyk exactl
@Alias Fakename finally some logic lol.
1:10 more than 40 years later, this statement is even more true. If we want peace, we can't close ourselves off of each other.
Oh my god Sydney looks so beautiful here. I walk through here almost daily and hate it now during peak hour.
Jacques Peterson Yea it looks beautiful this was filmed in Martin place
And very clean... Now a days there are rubbish and graffiti everywhere 😕
@@edurockforever Modernity.
@Hei Shehui what does rubbish on the streets have to do with race?
@@zbdmo4914 Because they don't care lmao? It's not their country so why should they?
that was only 4 years before I was born, they speak and hold themselves completely differently to what we do today or what I can remember
"to how we do today" ,not "to what we do today".
@@mjh5437 his point works either way, all that matters
Say what you want about their beliefs, but unlike now they could actually argue about why. And the reporter was also much more unbiased, asking critique questions to both sets of beliefs
1:11 That lady had all the answers that are required now.
A valuable teaching resource for my Year 9 and 10 History students. Thanks!
that sweetass circular red bench looks... vinyl? or something? love it.
I thought it was vinyl too! But if you keep looking here’s more footage with at another angle, it’s actually plastic! I made the same comment as you, but had to edit it 😂
Martin place wow. I'm there everyday, doesn't look THAT different. Just much less crowded.
Look what happened in Germany and Scandinavia...
What? Do you mean Germany built itself up to be fourth largest economy on the planet and they and the Scandinavian countries sit at the top of the most liveable countries on the planet?
Is that what you meant?
It's the western world as a whole, that's suffering from radical Islamic Muslims, these people don't assimilate, and want Sharia law, classic example is London big problems, keep the buggers out.
Diwem Diwem. They're talking about Vietnamese you ignorant prick.
@@hawkesworth1712 I think hes talking about how many refugees are on the social welfare programs despite never having worked in said country, also the rising crime issue, which includes a significant increase in rape.
Germany is a mess, and they had allot of financial aid from their NATO allies, Merkle does not represent the average German citizen
how well spoken we were in 1979 i miss that year
It had early 80s aspects to it.
They were talking about people like me - at the time I was floating on a leaky boat (more like a long canoe really) for 8 days in Pacific ocean.
I would like to thank those beautiful ladies in this clip - so very articulate and full of compassion.
Thank you Mr Malcolm Fraser.
And btw how lucky for us Tony "Throw back the Boats" Abbott was still in uni.
Don't get involved into other countries domestic affairs will naturally create less refugees!!!
World population 1979=4.4 billion, World population 2018=7.6 billion and it's obvious that it's not countries like Australia that are creating that. If they want standards of living to rise in these countries then they need to get their birth rate under control and not pass the burden on to us, however on the positive side for them when all is said and done they will still have their countries and cultures, what will we have, apart from higher costs of living, less opportunities, and a more divided and alienating society.
The world's population is spiraling out of control. The huge surge in population is coming from the developing and 3rd world. It's becoming apparent that the developed world cannot keep on taking in more and more immigrants. Furthermore, the environment world wide is suffering due to the huge surge in human population. Population is a discussion that needs to be taken as seriously as climate change, as both are directly linked to each other.
R I
What aboutism- Said every immigrant ever.
Then , shut the gate, it isn’t as nice as when I arrived.
'The world population is sprawling out of control' Is FALSE. Actually the worlds population is about to crash, that why China got rid of the one child policy and many other countries are encouraging people to have children
It is quite logical that nowadays everything is based on science and technology and extremely highly technologically skilled workforce.To bring in in any country unskilled people it is nothing else than economic suicide and going back to the stone age.With automation and Artificial Intelligent Robots on the horizon immigration and emigration are all doomed to the dustbin of history.When the new masters take over that is AI an immediate culling of population will start on a global scale and no primitive human will be left alive under AI power on planet earth.
Someone 234, that is a delusional comment not made on fact. The birth rate in the western world in general is dropping. The developing and 3rd world birth rates are spiraling out of control. Nations encourage people to have children to ensure their nations survive into the future, this especially rings true in parts of the western world where the birth rate is low. In regards to China, they have 1.4 billion people so one would think a lowering in the population would be a good thing. China now allows 2 children to have a more balanced population (male female ratio) and due to a large aging population caused by the one child policy. If China was concerned about a dropping birth rate they would allow for as many children as possible to be born (not something I agree with).
Someone 234, your head is stuck in the perpetual growth syndrome and can't see that a lowering birth rate is a good thing for the planet. That being said the world's population will continue to grow substantially into the future for sometime, thanks to the developing and 3rd worlds and this will be to the detriment of the planet.
I wanna hug those first two people
Bloke in the orange with the beard is decades ahead of his time, what an absolute legend and incredible human being. I truly wonder what became of him.
Wow, great speakers and great attitudes. Absolutely impressed with most of these attitudes!
Yep, it depends on how you define and what you mean by refugees and by what terms, eg. Moral character and reciprocal cooperation, etc. It depends on what you're after in refugees, as well as what you want Australia to be as well.
Wow some Australians were so kind
I have relatives, aunts and uncles who were refugees and immigrated to Australia during the Vietnam war. No developed country is perfect but because of the opportunity that allowed them the peace and freedom to live again, they prospered, became good citizens, opened their own businesses and gave back to the community. Given the current state of affairs I understand not all refugees could easily thrive and integrate but let’s not forget that if we didn’t cultivate at least one ounce of humanity, a lot of these people who would have done good for society could have perished. Say thanks, be gracious, and stay humble ✌🏼
I’d love to just walk around for a day in those days
We made the indigenous people here refugees, and though we do well with those from overseas we still haven't done right by our own.
What a good journalist
Thank you Australia! It's the best country in the world. I love watching videos like this.
First Guy: A very noble answer sir. Bravo to you sir!
Phayes I like the third guy
❤ LOVE TO Australia from a Hindu Bengali
Ashis Roy I am so sorry for the racist people in these comments.
that's at martin place! lay out hasnt changed, so cool to see!
Great clip. That part of Martin Place hasn’t changed much in the 40 years since 1979
Except for Clover Leaf Moore and her black slate fetish.
The most humane and inhumane belief I've seen in my life is - "we have to look after ourself first"
Huh? You should always look after yourself first.
@@hereusername so what? that's only a problem if minorities are treated bad, and it's still in the hands of the white majority to guarantee thats not the case
The population in 79 was only 14.5 million. Another 10 million people later and things aren't as easygoing. Housing and job competition is aggressive and there are numerous and very grim examples since then of integration not only being unsuccessful, but being dangerous for many Australians and even the immigrants themselves in many cases. Some of the answers here are absolutely wild.
I'm proud to have Australia as a big brother to my island home.
I love how we talked back then
You mean the Australians of that time. I wasn’t born yet.
People are definitely more educated and articulate back then. People today can hardly string a sentence together!
Everyone has such educated and eloquent answers, people often really fumble in interviews like this now days. What’s changing?
Australia took my family in 1988, I'm grateful.
Suffered plenty of racism, I refused to hate my fellow Australians.
Now with only little pockets of racism I am proud of my country.
@Thomas Mountbatten Ye now the cities becoming filled with non whites
What country did you immigrated from? If you dont mind me asking.
1:47, I am more fascinated about the burgundy seats! 😂
3:04 is that bloody Robert Menzies the politician, doppelgänger? 🙀
1:10 I’m loving that lady
So well spoken 😱😱 what happened!
Pax Americana happened
Bring back 70s journalism wow I’m in awe
2:41 You don't meet many Aussies with that level of self-awareness and humility. I am Australian and I can say that.
Both sides make such compelling arguments.
Totally agree with the second guy. It’s not our responsibility.
I was an American living in Australia between 1979 to 1982, and Sydney was a very violent place back then with a lot of stabbings and murders.
It's amazing how far that thinking went back. The same then as now:
You have limited resources. For every person you save overseas, someone you could have helped in your own country might die. The people who say that states have a responsibility to their own citizens first are absolutely right. The error in thinking is that a lot of do-gooders don't consider the long term consequences of their actions. The same is happening in Europe right now:
Short term thinking might go as far as to significantly impede Europe. If that comes to pass, nobody is served: neither Europeans nor the countries that Europe has been generously donating to for decades.
People just don't think.
jesus christ you take the npc meme too seriously
@@vcz7101 The only thing he takes seriously is the wellbeing of you and I - and that means protecting and fighting for an Australia which welcomes us.
Not one where we become the minority.
"You have limited resources. For every person you save overseas, someone you could have helped in your own country might die."
That's BS, as most of the money goes to the rich whilst the rest face austerity
And the British didn't exactly have a right to colonize that continent either.
Third, without immigration you wouldn't exist
If only I had a time machine. I could go back to 1979. Back then Australia was so much better.
My experience is quite different. The Australia I live in now is more prosperous, interesting and fair than it has ever been. I am proud to be an Aussie in 2019.
@@freeman10000, I have to agree that I am also proud to be Australian. In regards to my comment, I believe 1979 was more simplistic. Life was good. I would like to get your definition as to how we are more prosperous now than 40 years ago.
@@freeman10000 Well, this comment aged badly, didn't it.
I’ll give u one example: FRANCE
Where immigrants have greatly contributed to French society and have only accelerated economic success?
You have to understand that France was once an imperialist colonial Empire. That's what shaped their so called multiculturalism.
@@LordDavid04 Like every other country in the world?
@@timrossback You are blind.
@Tadgh Gunter pretty sure no matter what city you go to on the planet, if you "cheap out" you'll see the darker side.
Wow so many of these could have been spoken today too!
The street furniture seen here in Martin Place is exactly like the one between Town Hall and St Andrew's Cathedral. I wonder if it's the sole survivor from that era? Was it always there, or was it moved from Martin Place to its current location?
This was primarily about Vietnam which people aren't getting.
It's irrelevant.
I think australia shouldn't take in ALL the refugees, only those of extreme cases. we can still do good for others by donating and funding them overseas. The idea of having them all in at once may put Australians at risk in several aspects (social, economic and safety issues for instance)
Too late.
Chilling how thats the Lindt cafe in the background....
Was this filmed at Martin Place?