Correction: the Portugese and Spanish were the first european explorers of the age of exploration, not the dutch...however you see India, Sri lanka, South Africa etc. were colonised by the portugese first, then the dutch, and then the british. The dutch did have New Amsterdam, yes, but the dutch never really held on to their colonies for long, whereas the English were invested in their empire! I have dutch in me as well, so im not being biased here, just factual.
The aboriginal people were the first people to create aerodynamic tools and weapons. They created different types of boomerangs with different flight dynamics. They were used in battles as well as hunting.
yeah the boomerang was a serious thing. generally not expected to come back, just as a thrown, aimed weapon. usually into crowds of wildlife, where it was bound to hit something.
of course I hope you know the modern "boomerang" that you'd buy at a novelty shop bears no relation. not three wings, two, and one big, one small. it was just an aerodynamic stick that could be thrown far further than a spear.
Strange point to make here, but I'll bite. @grahamfrear9270 The reason Aboriginal people did not establish "democracy" in the same way as the Europeans did is simply because they didn't build cities. And that's for very good reason. The Australian land is harsh and hostile to fertile crop growth. There were no large native beasts like cows or horses to tame and use for fast transportation. There was no international migration (unlike across Europe), and tribal populations naturally remained relatively stagnant. There is no need for a system of democracy when the land contains small pockets of self-deterministic clans of people. What they did worked for them.
There is a sign on a bridge in a village near me that states that anyone caught defacing said bridge would be transported for life. A proportion punishment I think we’d all agree. This still in existence only about 6 or 7 miles from Tolpuddle.
There are different types of boomerangs. As a hunting weapon they can take down birds and game, such as emu, kangaroo and other marsupials. They only come back if they don't hit something and if they are a returning boomerang, not all are.
My great grandfather was a member of parliament here in Aus during Federation in 1901, he was Henry Foster the Minister of Mines. He and his parents came over as free settlers in late 1800s for the gold. They didn’t find any decent gold, but my great grandfather’s name is on the Welcome Stranger gold nugget monument as the Minister of Mines.
Convicts seems like a more benign, acceptable term where it seemed more like slavery based on the conditions that many experienced and the crimes that they were being punished for.
Australia was founded as a penal colony because Britain knew it was losing its American colony where it had been sending its convicts to before. Thomas Jefferson hated that up to 120 000 convicts were "tainting" his view if the idealised American and basically wrote that part out of American history. The truth is that convicts were by and large victims not criminals ( of course some were ). Fact is that children of convicts in Australia had a lower rate of crime than the children of free settlers and the military guards who stayed in Australia.
You should watch 'The Dutch Discovery, Exploration, & Mapping of Australia' to learn more about these things. It was mostly that the Dutch didn't find any valuable trading deals or resources and lost interest, not necessarily that they didn't have the power, as at that time the Dutch East India company (VOC) was a force to be reckoned with (the video I said focusses on the cartography though), even having the legislative power from the Dutch government to govern their own lands, have their own armies, wage their own wars, have their own navy, and their own government/power structure. Imagine Apple having the power to own and govern lands, have armies and whatnot. Absolutely crazy, crazily powerful almost like a country within a country. But mostly focussed on trade, since that's where their wealth and thus power came from. Logically, they abandoned Australia/new Zealand after having failed to befriend natives or as I said, find valuable resources.
I always wondered btw, so if anyone knows, please enlighten me, how would the Dutch republic compare to the VOC in terms of wealth. Like, how much percent of the Dutch economy came from the VOC. Is it really almost like, a country within a country. I mean we all know it was the most valuable company of all time, but how does that compare to the republic?
1.48 Why has the word ABORIGINALS been cut out from the video !? Rolling Stone frontman MIICK JAGGER played Ned Kelly in a film. CANBERRA = CANBRA MELBOURNE = MELBUN. " HALF CAST" means mixed race.
I am writing from Canberra. One funny comment you made was that Canberra and Brasilia were built specifically to be capital cities (true, of course), but you happened to leave out - Washington DC, the grand-daddy of them all??
Of all the colonies in Australia, South Australia was the only colony not started as a penalty colony; right from the start, South Australia was set up as a free settler colony.
I think the convicts had a bigger influence here on the culture then in other places. This in part could be due to our small population. We just made 27 million, and 20% of us can trace ancestors back to convicts which I think is a larger percentage than any other country. In the US the population is far greater and I think the convicts sent there got overshadowed by the Atlantic slave trade.
England transported an estimated 50,000 to 120,000 convicts and political prisoners, as well as prisoners of war from Scotland and Ireland, to its overseas colonies in the Americas from the 1610s until early in the American Revolution in 1776. Between 1788 and 1868 more than 162,000 convicts were transported to Australia. Not much difference. Peace out.
There is very little (and very recent - 2016) evidence for the use of boomerangs in warfare (a single skeleton), so the question is pretty much still open. However, I DO know: 1. It was not universal; some groups used it, some didn't. 2. There was a huge variety, some non-returning types were used exclusively for hunting.
The Dutch ships only stopped for a short time to replenish supplies & water if they could find it. They didn’t try to create settlements even though they named it New Holland on their maps.
My 3 times great grandfather was sent ‘beyond the seas’ as a British convict and his name was John Culpin, a petty criminal who was simply trying to feed his family in 1842. He was sent to Tasmania and died in 1881 aged 81. He had applied and was given approval for his family to join him but, they never went and as a result, I am writing this message today. He was released after 7 years and died a pauper. If you Google his name, you can read his story. He arrived on HMS Anson which in 1844 was finally used as a women’s prison ship before it was broken up.
162,000 convicts and now a population of 27 million. Many of the convicts were arrested for poaching and stuff like that but there were some bad guys too. The thing is these numbers aren't all that significant when you count the number of other free migrants. Australia has a mix of people, just like a lot of other places. The difference between Australia and the US was that the numbers of English people or English speakers was vastly superceded in the US. There are now more people with other heritages in the US, like German is #1. Also 1 in 8 Americans are believed to have Native American ancestry. Australia kept things pretty tight in terms of being a British nation for a long time with the White Australia policy etc. There were still Irish and a few Germans who headed over. The country relaxed its imigration laws after WW2 when the country needed workers to build massive infrastructure initiatives and gradually became more progressive but up until that point it was for the most part a polite society where a lot of people strived for acceptance within the higher social classes. For instance people on tv and radio had to speak with received pronunciation (i.e. the Queen's English) until around the 60's and 70's.
G'day Mate!A very much simplified and narrow look at our past also a bit inaccurate...at 9.03 he speaks of us entering WWI as a British colony having already stated we became fully independent in 1901...So much more to Australian history starting with the world's first 8 hour day as fought for by the stone masons union in 1856...There were so many social innovations here for the first time anywhere... Cheers!
Australia and the United States have always been close in times over conflict. The US fought under the command of Australian general, John Monash in WW1. Australia fought under the command of US general, Douglas MacArthur, in the Pacific theatre in WW2. Both countries, with the UK, are members of the recently formed AUKUS.
To answer the thumbnail question, yeah it's about as big as the continental US. The US being a bit wider, and Australia a bit taller. Just imagine the interior of the US but uninhabited because it's dry and barren and hot af so it's mostly settled around the coastal regions.
Boomerangs were designed to kill.. Like a spear , you miss... you still have to pick it up.. As for the return of one, Thats just like a design for entertainment.... But for the boomerang, the one that isnt designed to return, is a weapon for close quarters... But yes, for distance, a spear , using a woomera... Deadly from a distance.. Basically.. Boomerang - CQC Woomera - A sniper with a spear
It wasn't mentioned in the video but when the colony of NSW was young there was no official currency there. The governor designated that Rum, almost exclusively British Navy Rum, was the official currency. Thus all goods bought and sold, except for straight barter, was traded in Rum. As the Governor and his administration held the main stores of Rum they could impose almost any value they wanted to Rum. Also a farmer as an example could sell his once a year crop at the markets in Sydney collect its value in Rum and then have it stored at home for the rest of the year. At that time many of the settlers were also heavy drinkers so it was not unusual for many to have drunk through most of their year's earnings long before it was time to harvest next year's crop. There was also the Rum Rebellion which is a quite famous period in Australian history.
@@petersinclair3997 This was before that. Governor Macquarie when he was in charge imported Spanish coins and punched the centres out of them to produce the Holey dollar and the Dump which was then the official currency for a while. The previous Governor and the so-called Rum Corps were the one that used Rum as currency. There was a rebellion by the Rum Corps as the previous Governor, Bligh I believe, lost control to the basically mutinous Rum Corps, and Governor Macquarie was sent out from Britain with his own regiment of professional soldiers to restore order in the colony, which he was very successful at. Bligh would have to be one of the few British officers that had not one but two successful, in the short term, mutinies against him, once at sea, and later once on shore. He must have really hated the South Pacific for what it did to his professional reputation and career.
Many of the Aboriginal tribes made hunting boomerangs which were more asymmetrical than the typically known boonerangs, were heavier and did not return to the thrower. These boomerangs were more like a strange hybrid between a typical boomerang and a Nulla Nulla which was a heavy hunting stick or waddy. Some types even went to the extreme in weight and shape that they were not thrown but was a rather long, heavy hardwood, fire toughened stick with an elbow or bend at one end with a rather short but probably heavy extension. Quite a vicious and effective weapon if used in primative tribal warfare. These types were probably generally rare at most times and places as the Aboriginal was generally nomadic and without pack animals, so all tools, weapons, personal items and tribal or family possessions had to be carried by the person. These latter types of boomerangs were generally not very useful for hunting food but only for combat, were heavy, and probably took a lot of precious resources to make. So unless there was a major war brewing it was probably not useful to carry these around while almost always on the move. The more commonly known boomerang was really only a big boy's toy that could show off his skills to the local females for obvious reasons, or to impress the other men in the tribe with his overall skill in making and controlling an aerodynamic object.
I think Connor is right, Australia does, in spite of all the gloom and doom we see in the media, does have a very bright future. Of course there is always going to be issues, both economically and socially. For example, currently we have an issue with both housing availability and prices. Cost of living, is also an issue. We tend to look at those things as if they are unique to Australia. That is not the case, the US, Canada, and the UK, all have similar problems. We do a lot of things right, for example, our political system, our legal system, and we are becoming a lot more tolerant as a society. We have a massive amount of resources, gold, silver, diamonds, iron ore, uranium, Gas, lithium, the list goes on. We produce food, wine, serial grains, wool. beef, lamb, among other things. All of which, we export in huge quantities. We are seen internationally as a stable country to invest in, and we are at least investing into infrastructure projects with a view to growth, rather than just rebuilding what we already have. There are always going to be people who bitch and moan (just like myself) but most times we get a say in who runs the country and how they run it. We are also geographically stable, we rarely get earthquakes, we don't have any volcanoes, our biggest threat is always fire and flood. So providing our future governments don't make a complete hash of it. We should be alright.
"La expedición española de Pedro Fernández de Quirós avistó el continente australiano unos meses antes. De hecho, el navegante Luis Vaez de Torres perteneciente a la expedición de Quirós, fue el primero en cartografiar el estrecho que lleva su nombre: Estrecho de Torres. Por otra parte, el nombre del país y continente "AUSTRALIA", viene del topónimo "La Austrialia del Espíritu Santo" que Quirós le dio a la Isla Espíritu Santo, hoy parte de Vanuatu." Por eso Australia se llama Australia.
The video didn't mention 'the ten pound poms.' In the sixties immigration was promoted by giving a passage to immigrants from the U.K. (possibly Europe?) for £10.( about £200 today.) Thousands took up the challenge and were helped to settle. Many success stories but not all, possibly giving rise to the 'whinging pom' name tag? Please let me know.
Boomerangs were a lot heavier and dangerous than the ones the tourists buy today. They were capable of knocking kangaroos and other creatures senseless so the hunters could approach and use their spears. They also had other weapons but I don't think they conceived the bow and arrow. I understand they hunted in groups for larger prey. Indigenous people were virtually wiped out by whites in Tasmania.
Oh, and with the convict thing, it's more a reflection of how dystopian life was in the UK at the time. Most of the convicts were from the brutally poor lower class, livibg in Dickensian conditions in the slums of major British cities. The vast majority were convicted of petty theft, which is what poor, desperate people do. You can go read the record of their crimes online. A large number were being sent to Australia for stealing food. Interestingly, once they got to Australia, most of them ended up having much of their sentence commuted and being given land to settle. Most of them just became regular farmers and workers. All they needed was opportunity. Its interesting to note that the UK had and still has a higher crime rate than Australia.
Dutch explorers were only really interested in trade. Dutch joke: how was copper wire invented? Two Dutch men were fighting over a one cent piece. You’re welcome.
Sadly I don't think Australia gonna see a haven for decades like you said. Already problematic people from unpeaceful nations are comming to take advantage of their easy border/immigration policy and messing things up to a large extent like in Europe. I hope Australia learn to deal with it better than we have. If so I think it has a really bright future.
My ancestors came from UK and South Africa. My UK people came on the ships, one was a soldier and one was a convict. They married on the ship on the way to australia. In South Africa, one of my ancestors was the first white woman to be tortured to death in the public square for having relations with her black farmhands. They killed her abusive drunken husband while he was attacking her. She was put into stocks and tortured for two weeks before she died. That was a warning to the white women not to get out of line.
I’m not sure what to make of these TH-camrs that just recycle other people’s work, bringing it to our attention is one thing but talking over other people’s content is another.
Regarding the boomerang:- if you missed on the first go, it would come back and give you another go! Of course, if you hit your target, bonza, no need for a second shot!
This video is entertaining but isn't historically accurate. Not surprised you didn't know anything about Australia's defence of the Pacific, American propaganda is second to none
Lots of Australians don't know much about their Pacific history. I went through school in the 60s and 70s and didn't learn about it until I took Australian History at university.
@@matthewburgess1406 I completely agree but it bypassed my schooling. I majored in history at Uni yet I somehow went through school in Sydney with no Australian history after WW1 and no ancient history at all. That's one of the reasons I took history at university.
So nice to hear an Australian-created video with proper accent and pronunciation of people and place names.
Correction: the Portugese and Spanish were the first european explorers of the age of exploration, not the dutch...however you see India, Sri lanka, South Africa etc. were colonised by the portugese first, then the dutch, and then the british.
The dutch did have New Amsterdam, yes, but the dutch never really held on to their colonies for long, whereas the English were invested in their empire!
I have dutch in me as well, so im not being biased here, just factual.
The aboriginal people were the first people to create aerodynamic tools and weapons. They created different types of boomerangs with different flight dynamics. They were used in battles as well as hunting.
Yes maybe but not democracy.
yeah the boomerang was a serious thing. generally not expected to come back, just as a thrown, aimed weapon. usually into crowds of wildlife, where it was bound to hit something.
of course I hope you know the modern "boomerang" that you'd buy at a novelty shop bears no relation. not three wings, two, and one big, one small. it was just an aerodynamic stick that could be thrown far further than a spear.
Strange point to make here, but I'll bite. @grahamfrear9270 The reason Aboriginal people did not establish "democracy" in the same way as the Europeans did is simply because they didn't build cities. And that's for very good reason. The Australian land is harsh and hostile to fertile crop growth. There were no large native beasts like cows or horses to tame and use for fast transportation. There was no international migration (unlike across Europe), and tribal populations naturally remained relatively stagnant. There is no need for a system of democracy when the land contains small pockets of self-deterministic clans of people. What they did worked for them.
There is a sign on a bridge in a village near me that states that anyone caught defacing said bridge would be transported for life. A proportion punishment I think we’d all agree. This still in existence only about 6 or 7 miles from Tolpuddle.
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There are different types of boomerangs. As a hunting weapon they can take down birds and game, such as emu, kangaroo and other marsupials. They only come back if they don't hit something and if they are a returning boomerang, not all are.
Boomerangs are not special to Australia, check out Tutankhamen's grave goods
My great grandfather was a member of parliament here in Aus during Federation in 1901, he was Henry Foster the Minister of Mines. He and his parents came over as free settlers in late 1800s for the gold. They didn’t find any decent gold, but my great grandfather’s name is on the Welcome Stranger gold nugget monument as the Minister of Mines.
I thought the Boomerang's prime use was as a hunting weapon.
yeah pretty sure its for hunting, not combat, hahaha, would be pretty funny too see two armies doing a boomerang battle tho, lol
Approximately 162,000 convicts sent to Australia between 1788 and 1868.
And there’s approximately 20million criminals there now.
Usually because they stole a loaf of bread or sheet of iron
Convicts seems like a more benign, acceptable term where it seemed more like slavery based on the conditions that many experienced and the crimes that they were being punished for.
And about 1/3 of that number of free settlers
Australia was founded as a penal colony because Britain knew it was losing its American colony where it had been sending its convicts to before. Thomas Jefferson hated that up to 120 000 convicts were "tainting" his view if the idealised American and basically wrote that part out of American history. The truth is that convicts were by and large victims not criminals ( of course some were ). Fact is that children of convicts in Australia had a lower rate of crime than the children of free settlers and the military guards who stayed in Australia.
You should watch 'The Dutch Discovery, Exploration, & Mapping of Australia' to learn more about these things. It was mostly that the Dutch didn't find any valuable trading deals or resources and lost interest, not necessarily that they didn't have the power, as at that time the Dutch East India company (VOC) was a force to be reckoned with (the video I said focusses on the cartography though), even having the legislative power from the Dutch government to govern their own lands, have their own armies, wage their own wars, have their own navy, and their own government/power structure. Imagine Apple having the power to own and govern lands, have armies and whatnot. Absolutely crazy, crazily powerful almost like a country within a country. But mostly focussed on trade, since that's where their wealth and thus power came from. Logically, they abandoned Australia/new Zealand after having failed to befriend natives or as I said, find valuable resources.
I always wondered btw, so if anyone knows, please enlighten me, how would the Dutch republic compare to the VOC in terms of wealth. Like, how much percent of the Dutch economy came from the VOC. Is it really almost like, a country within a country. I mean we all know it was the most valuable company of all time, but how does that compare to the republic?
1.48 Why has the word ABORIGINALS been cut out from the video !?
Rolling Stone frontman MIICK JAGGER played Ned Kelly in a film.
CANBERRA = CANBRA
MELBOURNE = MELBUN.
" HALF CAST" means mixed race.
Awful video in my opinion.
Aboriginals being cut could just be a fault as it is said later?
Let's not forget Brisbane (Brizbain as so many seem to default to). Grinds my gears every time I hear them mispronounced by Americans.
@@almostyummymummyImagine being upset at people with a different accent saying words with their accent.
The original Ned Kelly film claims to be the World’s first long feature film.
I am writing from Canberra. One funny comment you made was that Canberra and Brasilia were built specifically to be capital cities (true, of course), but you happened to leave out - Washington DC, the grand-daddy of them all??
The boomerang had many different types. Some for sport, some for hunting and some for war.
Of all the colonies in Australia, South Australia was the only colony not started as a penalty colony; right from the start, South Australia was set up as a free settler colony.
I think the convicts had a bigger influence here on the culture then in other places. This in part could be due to our small population. We just made 27 million, and 20% of us can trace ancestors back to convicts which I think is a larger percentage than any other country. In the US the population is far greater and I think the convicts sent there got overshadowed by the Atlantic slave trade.
England transported an estimated 50,000 to 120,000 convicts and political prisoners, as well as prisoners of war from Scotland and Ireland, to its overseas colonies in the Americas from the 1610s until early in the American Revolution in 1776. Between 1788 and 1868 more than 162,000 convicts were transported to Australia. Not much difference. Peace out.
There is very little (and very recent - 2016) evidence for the use of boomerangs in warfare (a single skeleton), so the question is pretty much still open. However, I DO know:
1. It was not universal; some groups used it, some didn't. 2. There was a huge variety, some non-returning types were used exclusively for hunting.
Whoops, just saw joandsarah made the same point below. Oh well...
The Dutch ships only stopped for a short time to replenish supplies & water if they could find it.
They didn’t try to create settlements even though they named it New Holland on their maps.
My 3 times great grandfather was sent ‘beyond the seas’ as a British convict and his name was John Culpin, a petty criminal who was simply trying to feed his family in 1842. He was sent to Tasmania and died in 1881 aged 81. He had applied and was given approval for his family to join him but, they never went and as a result, I am writing this message today. He was released after 7 years and died a pauper. If you Google his name, you can read his story. He arrived on HMS Anson which in 1844 was finally used as a women’s prison ship before it was broken up.
162,000 convicts and now a population of 27 million. Many of the convicts were arrested for poaching and stuff like that but there were some bad guys too. The thing is these numbers aren't all that significant when you count the number of other free migrants. Australia has a mix of people, just like a lot of other places. The difference between Australia and the US was that the numbers of English people or English speakers was vastly superceded in the US. There are now more people with other heritages in the US, like German is #1. Also 1 in 8 Americans are believed to have Native American ancestry. Australia kept things pretty tight in terms of being a British nation for a long time with the White Australia policy etc. There were still Irish and a few Germans who headed over. The country relaxed its imigration laws after WW2 when the country needed workers to build massive infrastructure initiatives and gradually became more progressive but up until that point it was for the most part a polite society where a lot of people strived for acceptance within the higher social classes. For instance people on tv and radio had to speak with received pronunciation (i.e. the Queen's English) until around the 60's and 70's.
G'day Mate!A very much simplified and narrow look at our past also a bit inaccurate...at 9.03 he speaks of us entering WWI as a British colony having already stated we became fully independent in 1901...So much more to Australian history starting with the world's first 8 hour day as fought for by the stone masons union in 1856...There were so many social innovations here for the first time anywhere... Cheers!
Washington DC was also purpose built as well... Canberra was designed by an American architect who used Washington DC as inspiration.
Australia and the United States have always been close in times over conflict. The US fought under the command of Australian general, John Monash in WW1. Australia fought under the command of US general, Douglas MacArthur, in the Pacific theatre in WW2. Both countries, with the UK, are members of the recently formed AUKUS.
To answer the thumbnail question, yeah it's about as big as the continental US. The US being a bit wider, and Australia a bit taller. Just imagine the interior of the US but uninhabited because it's dry and barren and hot af so it's mostly settled around the coastal regions.
Boomerangs were designed to kill.. Like a spear , you miss... you still have to pick it up.. As for the return of one, Thats just like a design for entertainment....
But for the boomerang, the one that isnt designed to return, is a weapon for close quarters... But yes, for distance, a spear , using a woomera... Deadly from a distance..
Basically..
Boomerang - CQC
Woomera - A sniper with a spear
It wasn't mentioned in the video but when the colony of NSW was young there was no official currency there. The governor designated that Rum, almost exclusively British Navy Rum, was the official currency. Thus all goods bought and sold, except for straight barter, was traded in Rum. As the Governor and his administration held the main stores of Rum they could impose almost any value they wanted to Rum. Also a farmer as an example could sell his once a year crop at the markets in Sydney collect its value in Rum and then have it stored at home for the rest of the year. At that time many of the settlers were also heavy drinkers so it was not unusual for many to have drunk through most of their year's earnings long before it was time to harvest next year's crop.
There was also the Rum Rebellion which is a quite famous period in Australian history.
Think the Bank of NSW issued currency? Spanish currency too?
@@petersinclair3997 This was before that. Governor Macquarie when he was in charge imported Spanish coins and punched the centres out of them to produce the Holey dollar and the Dump which was then the official currency for a while. The previous Governor and the so-called Rum Corps were the one that used Rum as currency. There was a rebellion by the Rum Corps as the previous Governor, Bligh I believe, lost control to the basically mutinous Rum Corps, and Governor Macquarie was sent out from Britain with his own regiment of professional soldiers to restore order in the colony, which he was very successful at. Bligh would have to be one of the few British officers that had not one but two successful, in the short term, mutinies against him, once at sea, and later once on shore. He must have really hated the South Pacific for what it did to his professional reputation and career.
The Boomerang was used for hunting so using in combat makes sense.
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Like "Wall Street" and its meaning....
Many of the Aboriginal tribes made hunting boomerangs which were more asymmetrical than the typically known boonerangs, were heavier and did not return to the thrower. These boomerangs were more like a strange hybrid between a typical boomerang and a Nulla Nulla which was a heavy hunting stick or waddy. Some types even went to the extreme in weight and shape that they were not thrown but was a rather long, heavy hardwood, fire toughened stick with an elbow or bend at one end with a rather short but probably heavy extension. Quite a vicious and effective weapon if used in primative tribal warfare. These types were probably generally rare at most times and places as the Aboriginal was generally nomadic and without pack animals, so all tools, weapons, personal items and tribal or family possessions had to be carried by the person. These latter types of boomerangs were generally not very useful for hunting food but only for combat, were heavy, and probably took a lot of precious resources to make. So unless there was a major war brewing it was probably not useful to carry these around while almost always on the move. The more commonly known boomerang was really only a big boy's toy that could show off his skills to the local females for obvious reasons, or to impress the other men in the tribe with his overall skill in making and controlling an aerodynamic object.
I think Connor is right, Australia does, in spite of all the gloom and doom we see in the media, does have a very bright future. Of course there is always going to be issues, both economically and socially. For example, currently we have an issue with both housing availability and prices. Cost of living, is also an issue. We tend to look at those things as if they are unique to Australia. That is not the case, the US, Canada, and the UK, all have similar problems. We do a lot of things right, for example, our political system, our legal system, and we are becoming a lot more tolerant as a society.
We have a massive amount of resources, gold, silver, diamonds, iron ore, uranium, Gas, lithium, the list goes on. We produce food, wine, serial grains, wool. beef, lamb, among other things. All of which, we export in huge quantities. We are seen internationally as a stable country to invest in, and we are at least investing into infrastructure projects with a view to growth, rather than just rebuilding what we already have. There are always going to be people who bitch and moan (just like myself) but most times we get a say in who runs the country and how they run it. We are also geographically stable, we rarely get earthquakes, we don't have any volcanoes, our biggest threat is always fire and flood. So providing our future governments don't make a complete hash of it. We should be alright.
"La expedición española de Pedro Fernández de Quirós avistó el continente australiano unos meses antes. De hecho, el navegante Luis Vaez de Torres perteneciente a la expedición de Quirós, fue el primero en cartografiar el estrecho que lleva su nombre: Estrecho de Torres. Por otra parte, el nombre del país y continente "AUSTRALIA", viene del topónimo "La Austrialia del Espíritu Santo" que Quirós le dio a la Isla Espíritu Santo, hoy parte de Vanuatu."
Por eso Australia se llama Australia.
Boomerangs were apparently thrown into a flock of birds for hunting..probably amongst other things..pretty awesome
😮 Connor: "I need to shut up!" (Yes!) ...
Next...
"Why does Australia..." ...
.. carry on '_Reacting_' Connor...
(...oh you are!!) 😊😅😂
Yes, New Zealand is included in Australia's constitution.
If you want to see a good programme on Aboriginal weapons, Australias ABC iview has a good series on how they were made and what they were used for.
The video didn't mention 'the ten pound poms.' In the sixties immigration was promoted by giving a passage to immigrants from the U.K. (possibly Europe?) for £10.( about £200 today.) Thousands took up the challenge and were helped to settle. Many success stories but not all, possibly giving rise to the 'whinging pom' name tag?
Please let me know.
Boomerangs were a lot heavier and dangerous than the ones the tourists buy today. They were capable of knocking kangaroos and other creatures senseless so the hunters could approach and use their spears. They also had other weapons but I don't think they conceived the bow and arrow. I understand they hunted in groups for larger prey. Indigenous people were virtually wiped out by whites in Tasmania.
Thank you, we are doing well in beautiful Sydney It's just a bit warm and humid but no complaints 😊
Oh, and with the convict thing, it's more a reflection of how dystopian life was in the UK at the time.
Most of the convicts were from the brutally poor lower class, livibg in Dickensian conditions in the slums of major British cities.
The vast majority were convicted of petty theft, which is what poor, desperate people do. You can go read the record of their crimes online. A large number were being sent to Australia for stealing food.
Interestingly, once they got to Australia, most of them ended up having much of their sentence commuted and being given land to settle.
Most of them just became regular farmers and workers. All they needed was opportunity.
Its interesting to note that the UK had and still has a higher crime rate than Australia.
Lived in Australia when I was young, some of my family lives there. Australia is so hot it isn't real. Give me rainy cold England anyday.
Very correct. The Dutchies were all over the southern hemisphere, in the 1600's
The Tasmanian aboriginal war, so called, only netted a young boy and one old man. It wasn't a shooting war but the effects were the same.
Two types of boomerang 🪃 returning and non returning this was used for hunting and warfare
The Australian continent was once connected to Antarctica.
I think you should read about Montezuma and smallpox
The aborigine's main weapon in combat was light throwing spears.
Boomerangs were more of a hunting tool.
It's just a silly cartoon in the video, lol.
Dutch explorers were only really interested in trade.
Dutch joke: how was copper wire invented?
Two Dutch men were fighting over a one cent piece.
You’re welcome.
Similarities with the US ? It was the same people doing the colonisations
Technically Japan did invade Australia in WW11 - because Papua New Guinea was an Australian territory.
It was rough times for the shackle draggers but it's ok now
This is a lot of rubbish he's just advertising. Not even got the history rights about Australia
The boomerang was/is a weapon - very effective if you know how to use it 😊 silent and fast.
You need to know more about vaccinations 🤔
Great introduction..but they forgot the emu war!!
A war fought by three soldiers against a flock of birds in a small area of one state is great as an amusing story but not significant enough.
@@miniveedub yes, it was meant to be a humourous post for the algorithm. I spent about 0.2 milliseconds coming up with it!
fyi, japan never intended to invade australia
you need to react to "friendly Geordies"
Sadly I don't think Australia gonna see a haven for decades like you said. Already problematic people from unpeaceful nations are comming to take advantage of their easy border/immigration policy and messing things up to a large extent like in Europe. I hope Australia learn to deal with it better than we have. If so I think it has a really bright future.
And that immigration policy has come to hurt us
My ancestors came from UK and South Africa. My UK people came on the ships, one was a soldier and one was a convict. They married on the ship on the way to australia. In South Africa, one of my ancestors was the first white woman to be tortured to death in the public square for having relations with her black farmhands. They killed her abusive drunken husband while he was attacking her. She was put into stocks and tortured for two weeks before she died. That was a warning to the white women not to get out of line.
From what you just said she wasn't killed for sleeping with a black she was killed for the involvement of murdering her husband. Stop the BS lies.
@@matthewburgess1406 that’s what was written in the news paper article about the subject. So stop the white washing of history
I’m not sure what to make of these TH-camrs that just recycle other people’s work, bringing it to our attention is one thing but talking over other people’s content is another.
Regarding the boomerang:- if you missed on the first go, it would come back and give you another go! Of course, if you hit your target, bonza, no need for a second shot!
This video is entertaining but isn't historically accurate.
Not surprised you didn't know anything about Australia's defence of the Pacific, American propaganda is second to none
Lots of Australians don't know much about their Pacific history. I went through school in the 60s and 70s and didn't learn about it until I took Australian History at university.
@@carokat1111 really? The Pacific war was taught in my school, it's an important part of history.
@@matthewburgess1406 I completely agree but it bypassed my schooling. I majored in history at Uni yet I somehow went through school in Sydney with no Australian history after WW1 and no ancient history at all. That's one of the reasons I took history at university.
@@carokat1111 depends on the school I guess, in Queensland schools it's common to have Australian history in the curriculum.
@@matthewburgess1406 As they should. I hope things have changed now.
You like the green grass, Connor, - you won't get too much of that there.
From what Australians have told me, it's like Arizona, all year round.
Then you've been told some big lies.😄
Seriously 🤦♀️
Its called a boomerang 🪃 because it cones back when thrown properly
That’s not why it’s called a boomerang.
Why do you call on Jesus when you say you don't believe?
Sorry counl not watch. Too much BS. If you lived next to some of these kids you would steal them too.
This video is 90% rubbish.
The common cold also decimated the aboriginal population as they had no immunity to it. 🥹