It's inaccurate to say Australia "forced to fight alongside Britain in WW1 and WW2." While Britain's declaration of war meant that Australia was automatically at war with Germany, as a self-governing colony Australia had the sole power to determine the extent of its military commitment. So actually fighting these wars for any purpose beyond self-defense of the colony was voluntary. This was true not only for Australia, but also for New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, and Newfoundland.
Australia wasn’t actually forced to declare war on Nazi Germany and the German empire they voted to support Britain in the matter in the Australian govt One of the reasons Neville chaimberlain didn’t pursue war over the Sudetenland was because the Commonwealth realms said we ain’t helping by the time of the invasion of Poland the politics of hitlers expansionism had changed
@@patrickwalker4159 they had total independence on foreign affairs And joined the war through the decision of the Australian PM not the Governor General or by default they had actually informed chaimberlain over the Sudetenland crisis that they wouldn’t have joined the war with Germany
Prime Minister Curtain actually had a huge conflict with Churchill about moving the Diggers back to Australia to defend against the Japanese after the fall of Singapore.
Fun fact: Tasmania is named after the Dutch explorer: Abel Tasman. New Zealand was called (by Abel Tasman) : “Nieuw Zeeland” inspired by the Dutch province of: Zeeland
@@010Jordi We don't really know that, considering the Netherlands was just as Viking as Denmark, once upon a time. It very well may have had its name inspired. The Netherlands didn't exist.
I’m from Australia and lots of Filipinos are here aswell (I’d met so much) I had met about 3 Filipinos in Australia Two of them are now at a separate school and don’t speak to anymore sadly because of school switch. I have one current one I met in school and we are best friends, and Filipinos are the nicest people ever I love how many of them are in Australia too
@@Menzies444 Exactly, Australia was essentially an extension of the British people in those days, still is to a degree Saying we were forced to is ignoring that we were keen to fight with our father nation in WW1
Australia had forced conscription during ww2 so we could say that some were forced to fight. They were assigned to Citizen Military Forces which were only allowed to serve in Australia territories. Several units suffered extremely high casualties when they fought the Japanese in New Guinea on the Kokada track.
Ee were forced to declare war vecause we didn't have ab independent foreign police, thats why we declared war on Germany a few hours afyer the British, because it wasnt our choice to make
Probably something to do with the fact that throughout the country's history, the eastern states have been more important. That's where the British landed, that's where the immigrants came and the convicts were brought. Today, while WA might be a while away, it's a very important part of Australia and instrumental in the running of the country, just as the eastern states are to WA. We all need each other.
I’m an Australian and my mums parents are immigrants and my dads mum is while my great great grandfather was an imagrant from somewhere in Europe I only know one person who has an ancestor that was a convict
This tongue in cheek comment about Warney is the most factual and accurate comment about Australia on here. That isn't affected by false history people have either been taught, or picked up along the way.. Some people on here say something almost correct, but then they unfortunately show, they don't know.. Think about what is the purpose of such a video like this? Who would just make it, for either fun or interest?? Please don't get your history from this garbage.. Be smarter and try truth over 'fun facts'.. None of you are anywhere near close to the actual "who, what, when, where and why" facts Australia or any other REALM declared war in 1939.. A hint is; all the information required to find this out, is not all in one place, or 60 sec videos.. So i guess that precludes most everyone here, in being capable of getting this one little piece of history correct.. Here's a hint.. Why was the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act, Oct 1942. Made to take effect 3 yrs earlier on the day Menzies declared war in September 1939.. Did they take it back in a DeLorean, or is it the most retarded thing ever done with legislation. That no one ever questioned and now no one knows about or gives a shit. Enjoy reading
The reason the British discovered Australia is because the 13 colonies in which it became the US won its independence from Britain so they needed another penal colony so Australia fit right in.
Sorry, but our convict past is so overstated and over exaggerated. Convicts were tiny minority, less than #% by the time federation rolled around in 1901.
Land stealers lol. The criminal past is no exaggeration as you'll committed genocide on the aboriginals. So even if the convicts were tiny, y'all are still criminal just like the Americans, Canadians, etc.
They didn't know it was there before. That makes it a discovery. Discovery doesn't mean you're the first person to discover it. When people don't understand that, I instantly have to discredit everything they say from that point on. It's such a simple thing.
The country was colonised in 1778 by the Brit’s but earlier captain cook found it before returning to England then later on they sound out what’s known here as the first fleet but it’s cool to see a video about Australia
Australia was not forced to fight in the World Wars. WW1 was significant for Australia because they volunteered to send volunteers, some see this as the birth of Australia as it's own nation.
what about Makassar people? they have been coming to darwin for a long time from europe and are friends with the aborigines. you can prove this in the pictures of ancient aboriginal people there are pictures of Makassar sailors with pinisi boats there and try asking the aborigines about Makassar they will surely be happy and this is in history that the Dutch wrote that Indonesians were good people and had customs unlike Europeans who were greedy hahahaha
1thats offensive and 2 disease wiped out majority of the numbers 3 British didn't touch them until they started attacking they literally had orders from the royals not to touch them do you know what happened back then if you dis obey?
It was never a state, just an overseas territory. It still counted legally as a part of Australia though, so that's why CMF (Army Reserve troops) could be deployed there in WW2.
If it wasnt for France we wouldn't have got PNG. Hughes made a very passionate speech to claim PNG because of our sacrifices in WW1. England refused. France saw and opportunity to jag England and as a major player in WW1 backed Australia's request. The English were fuming
They weren't brutally murdered 💀Brits literally has rules from the royals not to touch them and they didn't until aboriginals started attacking and taking recourses from the British
He discovered, Please do not write it between quotation marks. Europeans had no Idea that Australia existed until someday a guy discovered and He deserve his credit.
@@simonlhill-si4sx Unorganized tribal peoples living somewhere doesn't constitute "discovery". If you look at the discovery of Britain for example, it was in 600 BC by a Greek named Pytheas, as he uncovered the area for the civilized peoples of the time: Greeks, Phœnicians, Persians, Egyptians etc.
@@za.monolit The Aboriginals weren't one group under one flag. They were many small nations with different cultures and ideals. They fought and enslaved each other many times. One Aboriginal tribe fighting another tribe is exactly what the Brits did too.
@@za.monolithe meant before the Brits and he's 1000% correct and aboriginals also killed their own people for trying to communicate with the Brits so yea they weren't friendly
@@bnb3394 Zheng He was a Chinese explorer for Ming China that established diplomatic relations with African kingdoms. Much of his work was destroyed by consrrvative officials
Native Australians never allowed the British or Dutch to live on their land The folks just forced themselves in made their own government forgot about the people of the land and now the natives live in such harsh conditions you could never imagine it’ll be in the richest country not even drinkable water or a shitter
Native Australians weren't an organized, civilized government like China, the Arabs, and the European world. They were unorganized tribal peoples, and they would have been conquered by one of our civilizations eventually.
They get more benifits then any other Australian the ones who live in the outback choose to live there they're not forced also majority of the areas in the outback there's also white Australians stop trying to make up shi
Australia was an independent country from 1 Jan 1901. We shared foreign policy, not had it controlled by the UK. Yes the UK monarch is our head of state, but in practice, the decisions are made by our Prime Minister. We volunteered to fight alongside the UK in world wars 1 and 2 before the UK could even ask us. We were never forced to fight. We controlled where we sent our forces, especially in WW2. When Churchill tried to deploy our troops from the Middle East to Burma, we said no, and sent them to New Guinea instead. No convicts went to South Australia. Indigenous people didn't just live on the east coast 6 million immigrants from each continent? No...just no. Not even close. Initially immigrants came from Europe, then after 1973, south east asia. We've had much smaller numbers from Africa and North and South America. Recently, more coming from the rest of Asia. We have also recently welcomed people from Ukraine.
Not true. It was a federation of the colonies into one colony. Australia never declared independence. Your ruler is the English king. Every member of Parliament must make an oath to serve him. The commander in chief of aus armed forces is GG/English king.
@@lukei6255 Time for some reading comprehension. I said the UK monarch is our head of state, but in practice, decisions are made by the Prime Minister....just like they do in the UK too. I didn't say we declared independence. Australia became a nation on 1 January 1901, when the British Parliament passed legislation enabling the six Australian colonies to collectively govern in their own right as the Commonwealth of Australia.
@@bigbrowntau time for some practicalities. If the decision proposed by pm is to the liking it goes through. If not, then it doesn't. The Whitlam government is a good example of over 1000 laws and regulations vetoed by Elizabeth and Charles in the past. You still have a colonial GG supervising your government and reporting to the English monarch. And it is not symbolic.
@@lukei6255 peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/your-questions-on-notice/questions/can-the-governor-general-refuse-to-sign-a-bill/ No Governor General has ever refused to give Royal Assent to a bill. Constitutional scholars are still debating whether or not the Dismissal in 1975 was even legal.
Shouldn't have shown a convict in South Australia, the only completely free settled colony
SA has never accepted any prisoner, even the Adelaide gaol didn’t be constructed till 1850s
How can we be sure no convicts moved there?
@@absoliutenuds If they moved there, they would have been free men/women by then.
@@castleanthrax1833 I thought that was their sentence. Being "free" in spider land
@@absoliutenuds The fact that you are calling Australia "spider" land, kinda proves your ignorance.
But you forgot the Great Emu War. You can't just forget the Great Emu War.
Haha fumy over used joke again.
Yes.. Yes you can.
It was 3 guys with military equipment, if you call that a war then the USA capitol attack was also a war
@@Trashypotato it was
@@AlucardArkaine mad australian
I love how Australia still got that british copyright sticker
Lmao that is the best name I've ever heard for The Union Jack XD
@@X-380_ZD yeah I got it from Drew Durnil
@@redstonecircuitoffunmc913 oh i love Drew as well lol
😂
@Amirm odmah
It's inaccurate to say Australia "forced to fight alongside Britain in WW1 and WW2." While Britain's declaration of war meant that Australia was automatically at war with Germany, as a self-governing colony Australia had the sole power to determine the extent of its military commitment. So actually fighting these wars for any purpose beyond self-defense of the colony was voluntary. This was true not only for Australia, but also for New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, and Newfoundland.
Not to mention Curtain recalling the troops from the Mediterranean to defend against Japan.
@@mdj.6179 Because Curtin and the ALP had passed the Statute of Westminster in 1942 that gave Australia complete control of foreign policy.
Australia wasn’t actually forced to declare war on Nazi Germany and the German empire they voted to support Britain in the matter in the Australian govt
One of the reasons Neville chaimberlain didn’t pursue war over the Sudetenland was because the Commonwealth realms said we ain’t helping by the time of the invasion of Poland the politics of hitlers expansionism had changed
@@patrickwalker4159 they had total independence on foreign affairs
And joined the war through the decision of the Australian PM not the Governor General or by default they had actually informed chaimberlain over the Sudetenland crisis that they wouldn’t have joined the war with Germany
Prime Minister Curtain actually had a huge conflict with Churchill about moving the Diggers back to Australia to defend against the Japanese after the fall of Singapore.
Fun fact: Tasmania is named after the Dutch explorer: Abel Tasman. New Zealand was called (by Abel Tasman) : “Nieuw Zeeland” inspired by the Dutch province of: Zeeland
The province of Zealand itself likely gets its name from the island of Copenhagen called Sjaelland. During the Viking age they had a Viking ruler
And Melbourne was going to be named after it's founder, John Batman. The city was nearly called Batmania.
tasman means bag man 😂
@@caniblmolstr4503 Zeeland is in the Netherlands and was definitely not named after some island in Denmark
@@010Jordi We don't really know that, considering the Netherlands was just as Viking as Denmark, once upon a time. It very well may have had its name inspired. The Netherlands didn't exist.
Its funny how always the dutch people found new land just to gave it to the brits
The Dutch only cared about slaves.
Also happened with New York lol
And South America
@@heynowur9146 wdym south america
dutch only got a slice of brazil momentarily and the brits didnt steal that from them
@@_Dalee_ no they traded for Suriname
In Uk, Australia has a different name.
They call it the federal correction center.
UK isn't a federal system...
*royal
As it should be called
@@JustinBeiber-bj9qbmhm
It is federal, its a part of the "IMPERIAL *FEDERATION* OF THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH"
I have met some Australian travelers here in the Philippines they are very nice, great people.
Maraming salamat, MM JJ. You live in a wonderful, beautiful country with the friendliest people.
Filipinos are lovely people as well! Grew up with a lot of Filipino aussie friends who have usually moved over here when they were little.
Australia loves phillopino people. You are the nicest, most caring nationalities I have met ! We need more of you here in Australia. 🇦🇺
@@scotttownsand1533 Australia is a great place to live, that's why Filipinos love it there.
I’m from Australia and lots of Filipinos are here aswell (I’d met so much)
I had met about 3 Filipinos in Australia
Two of them are now at a separate school and don’t speak to anymore sadly because of school switch.
I have one current one I met in school and we are best friends, and Filipinos are the nicest people ever I love how many of them are in Australia too
my guy didn’t mention Bunnings sausage sizzles even once
He has 60 seconds to say the most important thing about Australia and he missed it
Do New Zealand. It’s similar but the Dutch, British, and French all landed at the same time
not true
@geromeblara🇬🇧
"6 million immigrants from every continent"
Antarctica:
been letting in the wrong ones just look at Sydney hard to find an Australian
@MrBuckaroonie no way you live in antarctica
That doesnt even make sense considering the fact that only 26 million people live in Australia
@@kevysrandomstuff5835there is no such thing as an Australian they were all mostly innocent convicts( who majority where kids) that got dropped off
I'm not sure "being forced to fight" would be an accurate or kind way to describe it
Yea, us Australians were self-described as more British than Britain at that time and were for it completely, except for some Irish maybe.
@@Menzies444 Exactly, Australia was essentially an extension of the British people in those days, still is to a degree
Saying we were forced to is ignoring that we were keen to fight with our father nation in WW1
Australia had forced conscription during ww2 so we could say that some were forced to fight. They were assigned to Citizen Military Forces which were only allowed to serve in Australia territories. Several units suffered extremely high casualties when they fought the Japanese in New Guinea on the Kokada track.
Ee were forced to declare war vecause we didn't have ab independent foreign police, thats why we declared war on Germany a few hours afyer the British, because it wasnt our choice to make
@@susfringgaming4018 Australians supported the war
As a west Australian where our state was cut out of most of the video about the entire countries history. Accurate representation.
So was Tasmania
Probably something to do with the fact that throughout the country's history, the eastern states have been more important. That's where the British landed, that's where the immigrants came and the convicts were brought. Today, while WA might be a while away, it's a very important part of Australia and instrumental in the running of the country, just as the eastern states are to WA. We all need each other.
Wait there is a west Australia?
@@NicoTheAnimal ye didn't u know that?
Worst State
So Our favorite Australian TH-camrs Ancestors are British Prisoners
Probably no because immigration far outweighed the number of convicts sent there
All of us have atleast one criminal ancestor
@@francine13 correct
I’m an Australian and my mums parents are immigrants and my dads mum is while my great great grandfather was an imagrant from somewhere in Europe I only know one person who has an ancestor that was a convict
The whole Britain is a criminal country so it doesn't matter.
You forget that in 1994 Shane Keith Warne took a hatrick on the MCG.
This tongue in cheek comment about Warney is the most factual and accurate comment about Australia on here. That isn't affected by false history people have either been taught, or picked up along the way..
Some people on here say something almost correct, but then they unfortunately show, they don't know..
Think about what is the purpose of such a video like this? Who would just make it, for either fun or interest??
Please don't get your history from this garbage.. Be smarter and try truth over 'fun facts'.. None of you are anywhere near close to the actual "who, what, when, where and why" facts Australia or any other REALM declared war in 1939.. A hint is; all the information required to find this out, is not all in one place, or 60 sec videos.. So i guess that precludes most everyone here, in being capable of getting this one little piece of history correct..
Here's a hint..
Why was the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act, Oct 1942. Made to take effect 3 yrs earlier on the day Menzies declared war in September 1939.. Did they take it back in a DeLorean, or is it the most retarded thing ever done with legislation. That no one ever questioned and now no one knows about or gives a shit. Enjoy reading
The reason the British discovered Australia is because the 13 colonies in which it became the US won its independence from Britain so they needed another penal colony so Australia fit right in.
But its 5
@@pvzgamerlegisniana6492 ?
The 13 colonies are the US colonies mate.
@@castleanthrax1833 And the 13 colonies became the US.
@@jasonpalacios2705 👍
You forgot a couple things like how about half of the tribe populations were cut in half killed
Yes, European diseases such as chickenpox wiped out 70% of the population
That's false asf majority died from diseases
6M from each continent.
Antarctica: Noooooo
Lot of penguins in Australia
James cook cooked 🔥🔥
Didnt mention the great emu war where the emus fought to take back their home and nearly won
Which side were the kangaroos on?
I love how there is just two of what I’d assume to be hurricanes chilling on the east coast at the start of
Im Dutch, and I feel so mighty now lol 🇳🇱
Sorry, but our convict past is so overstated and over exaggerated. Convicts were tiny minority, less than #% by the time federation rolled around in 1901.
Don't worry mate.
The only people who care about that, don't matter. ✌️🇦🇺
Land stealers lol. The criminal past is no exaggeration as you'll committed genocide on the aboriginals. So even if the convicts were tiny, y'all are still criminal just like the Americans, Canadians, etc.
Actually it’s probably more. Half my family claim to be convicts and the other don’t. People used to be ashamed so they lied
Convicts played a huge part until the gold rush. After that they are largely irrelevant
Australians are just British people who live in a country with nice weather 😂
@dpassch7Especially the animals imported from Europe. Look at the statistics of animal caused fatalities in Australia and you would be surprised.
Nice? Its hot and humid or even hotter and dry.
They didn't know it was there before. That makes it a discovery. Discovery doesn't mean you're the first person to discover it. When people don't understand that, I instantly have to discredit everything they say from that point on. It's such a simple thing.
You had the Papua New Guinea flag stretching over both half's of the island of New Guinea. The other half is under the control of Indonesia.
I think another thing to add is the emu war and the tasmanian tiger
He left out some more important things than that. How about when we won the America's Cup?
How to make Australia speedrun:
The country was colonised in 1778 by the Brit’s but earlier captain cook found it before returning to England then later on they sound out what’s known here as the first fleet but it’s cool to see a video about Australia
Abel Tasman didn't find Australia. He found Tasmania and New Zealand
Love to our Aussie mates 🇬🇧♥️🇦🇺
Great video!
Very good analysis I’m Aussie so we’ll done. Only issue being South Australia the only state without convicts
I love your content! Can you do the history of argentina?
Thank you for doing my Country 🇦🇺
As an Australian I just want to state that at this point western Australia is pretty much it’s own country
No it’s not how?
@@tropic2860 were just far away haaha
Maybe in lockdown era but not now lol
Calling tasmania the random island demonstrates understanding of australian culture (as a tasmanian)
As a Victorian, seems accurate
Fun fact, the state borders used are only correct from 1892 (I think). Before that, QLDs border was 300kms north.
@MrBuckaroonie Absolutely. The only way we get state funding up here is for stadiums and the coppers basically.
Finally, a video that doesn't gloss over the aboriginals and Papuans. It's sad how many do
instructions unclear, I lost a war to a bunch of birds
What country's next? I think that Belize is interesting. So is Cameroon.
"Discovered" Lmao
Yeah he did but ok
Man I am just laughing @@44shots6worlds
“yeah thats pretty cool, you just have to fight with us” -Britain, 1901
Australia was not forced to fight in the World Wars. WW1 was significant for Australia because they volunteered to send volunteers, some see this as the birth of Australia as it's own nation.
UK had control of Australian foreign policy until 1942
Make a video about Georgia
Well done mate
Western Australia never decided to join the Federation...
Yes they did. If they, didn't they wouldn't have
Next thing you know, aliens will come to earth and claim they discovered it
what about Makassar people? they have been coming to darwin for a long time from europe and are friends with the aborigines. you can prove this in the pictures of ancient aboriginal people there are pictures of Makassar sailors with pinisi boats there and try asking the aborigines about Makassar they will surely be happy and this is in history that the Dutch wrote that Indonesians were good people and had customs unlike Europeans who were greedy hahahaha
Pls do Ireland 🇮🇪
You either omitted or forgot to mention how the Europeans almost “eliminated” the aboriginals of Australia.
That’s not true. There are still many aborigines
The killing was absolutely awful, but they weren't almost eliminated
The Europeans didn't do the most damage. The diseases they carried did.
right
Almost eliminated 💀 there's animal species that have more then aboriginal numbers back then and aren't under threat but ok💀
the Dutch only discovered Western Australia and never laid any claim to it. Only the western half of the continent was named New Holland
Dude just ignored natives genocide
He is white 😊
Their are more aboriginal people alive today then their were when the country was founded.
If the country did a genocide they failed miserably.
That's old news. Australia is now suffering from Asian colonisation.
@@AJWRAJWR settlers are suffering from Asian colonization and natives suffered from European colonization.
Karma 😂
Ignored it wasn't genocide 💀
I’m Australian so thank you for making this vid 🥹
Are we gonna ignore the absolute massacre on aborigines people?
Yes
based@@alberobluilblu
1thats offensive and 2 disease wiped out majority of the numbers 3 British didn't touch them until they started attacking they literally had orders from the royals not to touch them do you know what happened back then if you dis obey?
Wasn't a massacre majority died from diseases
Torres was the first European who discovered Australia.
You forgot that after WWI we owned Papua New Guinea because Germany had to hand it over, so for a short period of time we had 8 states
It was never a state, just an overseas territory. It still counted legally as a part of Australia though, so that's why CMF (Army Reserve troops) could be deployed there in WW2.
It was a colony of the Australian colony.
@poor ned Yep...six states, plus a number of territories. The 7th point on the Federal Star represents all the territories.
@@lukei6255Australia was a country when we had PNG as a colony
If it wasnt for France we wouldn't have got PNG.
Hughes made a very passionate speech to claim PNG because of our sacrifices in WW1. England refused. France saw and opportunity to jag England and as a major player in WW1 backed Australia's request. The English were fuming
Actually south Australia was not built by convinces it was the first free setters Connolly
Aboriginal who were brutally murdered by the Brits.: are we jokes to you?
They weren't brutally murdered 💀Brits literally has rules from the royals not to touch them and they didn't until aboriginals started attacking and taking recourses from the British
They weren't 💀 majority died from diseases and the ones who did die from battle weren't innocent
Can you pls do sweden
Funny that a prison settlement became a police state
Sovereign Hill has joined the chat:
Funny that you're wrong.
@@Chapps1941 how so?
@@mw123lover we're not a police state.
Where are you that you experience such a thing?
Fun fact the person who stole the place was captain cook or hook or captain idk I forgot
Bro rapped faster than Mc stan
AND OUR SOIL IS OUR GOLD 🏅
- the austrailan national anthem
Is there something in your mouth speaking?
What do you mean?
I hate when people say full independence we are still British contoled
God save the king of Australia and the commonwealth
as an australian, that is completely correct but u kinda skipped over the gold rush & eddie mabo but all in all very accurate
Tribes? Think “mob” is a term they use.
Australia wasnt forced to fight in the wars, there was huge support for it
He discovered, Please do not write it between quotation marks. Europeans had no Idea that Australia existed until someday a guy discovered and He deserve his credit.
I think it was because it was already populated, like America was discovered, even though it had a populace already
@@simonlhill-si4sx Unorganized tribal peoples living somewhere doesn't constitute "discovery". If you look at the discovery of Britain for example, it was in 600 BC by a Greek named Pytheas, as he uncovered the area for the civilized peoples of the time: Greeks, Phœnicians, Persians, Egyptians etc.
@@LouisianaCreole what a disgusting comment
@@simonlhill-si4sx What about the comment is "disgusting"?
@@LouisianaCreole the suggestion that basically before we landed there, there was essentially nothing there no society or anything
Nice video! Do it with Hungary please!🇭🇺🗿
The natives weren’t exactly peaceful.
So if a stranger came into your house and said it was theirs you'd do nothing about it?
@@za.monolit The Aboriginals weren't one group under one flag. They were many small nations with different cultures and ideals. They fought and enslaved each other many times. One Aboriginal tribe fighting another tribe is exactly what the Brits did too.
@@U9DATE show me where I asked
the natives had every right to kill their invaders
@@za.monolithe meant before the Brits and he's 1000% correct and aboriginals also killed their own people for trying to communicate with the Brits so yea they weren't friendly
Uk next please 🥺🥺🙏🙏
That's traditional 'Western' history. It's kind of being rewritten since Chinese and Spanish visited sooner, but didn't settle.
Zheng He probably arrived
When did the Chinese come? I know the Dutch and I think French came here before the English but not the. Chinese
@@bnb3394 Zheng He was a Chinese explorer for Ming China that established diplomatic relations with African kingdoms. Much of his work was destroyed by consrrvative officials
Chinese allegedly arrived in Australia but it hasn’t really been confirmed.
Australia was not obliged to join in WW2
You’re actually incorrect about the aboriginals only being on the east side. They were everywhere, even in the fukin desert.
Native Australians never allowed the British or Dutch to live on their land
The folks just forced themselves in made their own government forgot about the people of the land and now the natives live in such harsh conditions you could never imagine it’ll be in the richest country not even drinkable water or a shitter
Native Australians weren't an organized, civilized government like China, the Arabs, and the European world. They were unorganized tribal peoples, and they would have been conquered by one of our civilizations eventually.
Live in harsh conditions 💀mate you either a wokey or hate white people because that's absolutely BS
No they don't 💀mate I suggest you actually travel instead of watching ABC Documentaries
They get more benifits then any other Australian the ones who live in the outback choose to live there they're not forced also majority of the areas in the outback there's also white Australians stop trying to make up shi
Also, WW2 did involve Australian territory in the form of New Guinea
u forgot the emu war
You forgot your manners.
@@castleanthrax1833 ok
Imagine being a convict getting sent to an island. Then in 1883 a fucking volcano just ruptures your fucking ears
Australia was an independent country from 1 Jan 1901. We shared foreign policy, not had it controlled by the UK. Yes the UK monarch is our head of state, but in practice, the decisions are made by our Prime Minister.
We volunteered to fight alongside the UK in world wars 1 and 2 before the UK could even ask us. We were never forced to fight. We controlled where we sent our forces, especially in WW2. When Churchill tried to deploy our troops from the Middle East to Burma, we said no, and sent them to New Guinea instead.
No convicts went to South Australia.
Indigenous people didn't just live on the east coast
6 million immigrants from each continent? No...just no. Not even close. Initially immigrants came from Europe, then after 1973, south east asia. We've had much smaller numbers from Africa and North and South America. Recently, more coming from the rest of Asia. We have also recently welcomed people from Ukraine.
Not true. It was a federation of the colonies into one colony. Australia never declared independence. Your ruler is the English king. Every member of Parliament must make an oath to serve him. The commander in chief of aus armed forces is GG/English king.
@@lukei6255 Time for some reading comprehension. I said the UK monarch is our head of state, but in practice, decisions are made by the Prime Minister....just like they do in the UK too.
I didn't say we declared independence. Australia became a nation on 1 January 1901, when the British Parliament passed legislation enabling the six Australian colonies to collectively govern in their own right as the Commonwealth of Australia.
@@bigbrowntau time for some practicalities. If the decision proposed by pm is to the liking it goes through. If not, then it doesn't. The Whitlam government is a good example of over 1000 laws and regulations vetoed by Elizabeth and Charles in the past. You still have a colonial GG supervising your government and reporting to the English monarch. And it is not symbolic.
@@lukei6255 peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/your-questions-on-notice/questions/can-the-governor-general-refuse-to-sign-a-bill/
No Governor General has ever refused to give Royal Assent to a bill.
Constitutional scholars are still debating whether or not the Dismissal in 1975 was even legal.
They didn't send convicts to South Australia
They didn't discover anything,people already lived there
They discovered it💀you do Kow what that word means right?
26 million thank you.
a real genocide
No it wasn't 💀
Thank you for doing my country next, can you please do Sweden thank you
The dutch also named new Sealand after the dutch province of zeeland, which translates to sealand
Australia willingly joined the war to aid the mother country, it wasn't "forced". Real Australians did it then, and they would do it again today.
As an Australian I’m glad that this video was made, but you forgot the Great Emu War 😫😫 it’s ok
Do Canada Next
Can you pls do Canada or China
Do Bulgaria next
South Australia never took any prisoners
one thing i think thats sketchy is that the dutch mapped it first then they sold their maps to the brits cause they were costy back then
Australia in one sentence buffalo meat, tropical beaches, Aboriginal culture, cute koalas, English and Cricket 😂
Not English, we can't stand em. I make allowances for Kate Bush
Do Nauru next
Portuguese 🇵🇹 were the first Europeans. Not the Dutch.
The emu war: *screams in distant*