This guy is great! It's always so good to have somebody passionate and involved in history - teachers and tutors like this are why I'm still studying it so many years later.
Australia has seemed to have this happy go lucky attitude which has come to be loved. However ,the truth hurts more as "political correctness" follows in these current days. So much more can be said. Every country has endured hardships through whatever means,none better than any other. But pleasantries and light banter is a way of coping with indifference.A good way of avoiding aggression,especially when people have a clear understating of what is happening ,and have a good copping mechanism.
This tedtalk was presented in a most adaptive humorous and acknowledging way. We must preserve the remaining leftovers. That would be a good thing to give our future genwrations instead of just colonization.
great stories but I still feel it's hard to celebrate Australian history since colonization, because we are on stolen land and our government continues to oppress Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Still, I'm 25 lived on Darug land all my life (western sydney) and I learned a lot from this talk!
The Aborigines were the first to occupy Australian land, but they didn't build it. The land was created by nature, not by the Aborigines, who gained their occupancy the same way the Europeans did - by killing Aborigines. Modern Aborigines have a longer life expectancy than did their ancestors, living the hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Even a homeless person, living in a refrigerator box under a bridge, enjoys more weatherproof accommodation than the Aborigines had before the whites came.
Well, since the world's population has tripled since WW2 and it isn't the western countries that are breeding heavily, the indigenous people of the world must have massively increased their survival rates.
The NT has the highest child suicide rate in australia. The government gives them more than any other Australian but let alone they kill them selves off at an increased rate. But we won't do anything because of political correctness. We would never allow this with any other group in australia.
@@Krustyclown5791 'The government gives them more than any other Australian' - correction: more gets lost in bureaucracy and doesn't help the people who need it.
Our governments, both Labor and Liberal have been giving away our inheritance to foreigners. So of course there isn''t much interest in early Australian history, because it isn't the history of the recent flood of migrants.
My grandparents came to Australia from the country that founded modern Australia. They came to an outpost of their own country when all Australian citizens were British citizens. They didn't sail into another country to get a share of another ethnic group's hard work and initiative, as modern migrants do. And I studied Australian history at school and at university. Also anthropology at uni.
@@chriswatson1698 At least modern immigrants are paying for their land and mixing into the Australian culture. A lot nicer than what your apparently hard working ancestors did when they immigrated to Australia.
Great mate.........lol. I am going to tell my students I tutor about the meaning of Canberra. Hilarious. I taught in Doomadgee and that was said to mean Meeting Place too. Can you find out the real meaning for me, please? Thank you. Lana
It is all well and good to throw back the vail on our ancestors' thefts and atrocities, but what do we do about it now? Should we just pack up and leave? "Here you go. We are all heading back to Europe." 😊
> the catastrophic impact colonisation had on indigenous Australia They were without exception neolithic, illiterate, civilisational peoples with only the most primitive technology and very limited understanding of natural sciences. The contact with Europe rocketed them forward tens of thousands of years in a couple centuries. For every single aboriginal alive today, no year in their 60,000 year history benefited their modern lives today as much as 1788 did. It's absolute lunacy to venerate them simply because they did not create anything worthwhile, and thus left the land as it was, and thus can claim to be the greatest victims. Meanwhile, those who contributed, innovated, built, and created the most are cast as victims. This upside morality is profoundly destructive, and it is the underlying morality of much of the world and much of the political left today. BTW, 'Australia' did not exist before 1788. Australia is not the land itself; 'Australia' is what was built upon that land.
Illiterate means that they had difficulty or were incapable of reading They were rather Non Literate which was incredibly common prior to the printing press which had never spread to Australia Even then Literacy rates were low because education was tied to class in nearly every society with the press
@@deshawnmoore1731 "education was tied to class" Education was more closely tied to class BEFORE the spread of the printing press. There was no point in learning to read when there was nothing to read. Only the wealthy had access to books, which were hand written.
I just discovered Zealand is a place in Denmark, the name Australia comes from Austria ...almost every non Aboriginal named town is named after one in England or Europe...and Australians, Aussies, think they are original!?
Do you think that naming a town with an Aboriginal word would be original? Modern Australia is part of western civilisation, and it was founded by the British, so naming towns built by British and other Europeans, with British names, is entirely appropriate. Building towns and cities is a European cultural practice. The Aborigines didn't build anything that anyone else wanted. That is why they lasted so long.
The name Australia has got absolutely nothing to do with Austria. Australis means south in latin...it is a reference to being in the southern hemisphere. The prefix "new" is a fairly obvious sign that somewhere is named after another place...."New" York, "New" South Wales, "New" Guinea etc Explorers had to invent names for the purpose of drawing maps they made comparisons to places they were familiar with or used the names of respected benefactors rather than making up silly random words. People named towns after the places they had come from partly as homage to their birthplace but also so that other people from that area would know to go to that town in order to find friends and family members. There are many unique and original town names in Australia. Where else would you find a town named Wogga Wogga, Illawarra, Bendigo, Kalgoorlie or Parramatta ??
This guy is great! It's always so good to have somebody passionate and involved in history - teachers and tutors like this are why I'm still studying it so many years later.
This is important to all of Australia!
Why?
Absolutely perfect example of Australian storytelling! What a treat!
He's such a beautiful person ! Wisdom, beautiful cultures , knowledge with talent, He's a gentleman !
He is my Dad lol
I laughed when he said "Australia's natural capital was tits".
Australia has seemed to have this happy go lucky attitude which has come to be loved. However ,the truth hurts more as "political correctness" follows in these current days. So much more can be said. Every country has endured hardships through whatever means,none better than any other.
But pleasantries and light banter is a way of coping with indifference.A good way of avoiding aggression,especially when people have a clear understating of what is happening ,and have a good copping mechanism.
Absolutely brilliant man!
Why couldn't he have been my history teacher? Hilarious :)
This was eye opening. 👁️ 👁️
I’m another American who loves Australian history. It’s like looking at my own country through a funhouse mirror.
This was great! Thank you 😊
Virtuoso performance, David. Funny, informative, and as accurate as a compass needle.
Great stuff!!!
Amazing. I was able to accept the terror without feeling white guilt for once.
Good story and comedy good clear beautiful voice .merry Xmas and happy new year tedsydney ..good host
David hunt
Brilliant.
Excellent Ted Talk, David! I have filed a link on flickr against your historical youth!
A lot of lies were told about Ned Kelly that got him into a bad place in the first place.
This tedtalk was presented in a most adaptive humorous and acknowledging way.
We must preserve the remaining leftovers.
That would be a good thing to give our future genwrations instead of just colonization.
I’m surprised this doesn’t have more views
Nobody cares
Could someone please tell me what is a victamoa?
Victa Mower.
Ya know, the lawnmower?
great stories but I still feel it's hard to celebrate Australian history since colonization, because we are on stolen land and our government continues to oppress Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Still, I'm 25 lived on Darug land all my life (western sydney) and I learned a lot from this talk!
The Aborigines were the first to occupy Australian land, but they didn't build it. The land was created by nature, not by the Aborigines, who gained their occupancy the same way the Europeans did - by killing Aborigines.
Modern Aborigines have a longer life expectancy than did their ancestors, living the hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Even a homeless person, living in a refrigerator box under a bridge, enjoys more weatherproof accommodation than the Aborigines had before the whites came.
@@chriswatson1698 also do some research on life expectancy of any indigenous peoples around the world since "european settlement"
Well, since the world's population has tripled since WW2 and it isn't the western countries that are breeding heavily, the indigenous people of the world must have massively increased their survival rates.
The NT has the highest child suicide rate in australia. The government gives them more than any other Australian but let alone they kill them selves off at an increased rate. But we won't do anything because of political correctness. We would never allow this with any other group in australia.
@@Krustyclown5791 'The government gives them more than any other Australian' - correction: more gets lost in bureaucracy and doesn't help the people who need it.
If I had known what Canberra meant, I would have visited! 🙂
Maybe it is time to cop it sweet ,at last.
I am imagining the glee of local aboriginal people after the successful naming of the capital. What joy!
great speach
Our governments, both Labor and Liberal have been giving away our inheritance to foreigners. So of course there isn''t much interest in early Australian history, because it isn't the history of the recent flood of migrants.
Like your self
My grandparents came to Australia from the country that founded modern Australia. They came to an outpost of their own country when all Australian citizens were British citizens. They didn't sail into another country to get a share of another ethnic group's hard work and initiative, as modern migrants do. And I studied Australian history at school and at university. Also anthropology at uni.
@@chriswatson1698 At least modern immigrants are paying for their land and mixing into the Australian culture. A lot nicer than what your apparently hard working ancestors did when they immigrated to Australia.
@@taylorroos4414 Not 'mixing in' Australian culture... 'exploiting it'.
@@chriswatson1698 Australians were British subjects, not citizens
brilliant
That talk belongs on the top shelf 👍🏽
Great mate.........lol. I am going to tell my students I tutor about the meaning of Canberra. Hilarious. I taught in Doomadgee and that was said to mean Meeting Place too. Can you find out the real meaning for me, please? Thank you. Lana
Hi from California
Brilliant!
The Jewboy Gang comment / reference is wrong - it was only Edward Davis that was actually Jewish. Other members such as James Everett were Protestant.
Fantastic! Couldn't be politically correct-er.
wow
15:09
Great break down of western propaganda
It is all well and good to throw back the vail on our ancestors' thefts and atrocities, but what do we do about it now? Should we just pack up and leave?
"Here you go. We are all heading back to Europe." 😊
Cannabalism
14:23
> the catastrophic impact colonisation had on indigenous Australia
They were without exception neolithic, illiterate, civilisational peoples with only the most primitive technology and very limited understanding of natural sciences.
The contact with Europe rocketed them forward tens of thousands of years in a couple centuries.
For every single aboriginal alive today, no year in their 60,000 year history benefited their modern lives today as much as 1788 did.
It's absolute lunacy to venerate them simply because they did not create anything worthwhile, and thus left the land as it was, and thus can claim to be the greatest victims. Meanwhile, those who contributed, innovated, built, and created the most are cast as victims. This upside morality is profoundly destructive, and it is the underlying morality of much of the world and much of the political left today.
BTW, 'Australia' did not exist before 1788. Australia is not the land itself; 'Australia' is what was built upon that land.
Illiterate means that they had difficulty or were incapable of reading
They were rather Non Literate which was incredibly common prior to the printing press which had never spread to Australia
Even then Literacy rates were low because education was tied to class in nearly every society with the press
@@deshawnmoore1731 "education was tied to class" Education was more closely tied to class BEFORE the spread of the printing press. There was no point in learning to read when there was nothing to read. Only the wealthy had access to books, which were hand written.
I just discovered Zealand is a place in Denmark, the name Australia comes from Austria ...almost every non Aboriginal named town is named after one in England or Europe...and Australians, Aussies, think they are original!?
Do you think that naming a town with an Aboriginal word would be original? Modern Australia is part of western civilisation, and it was founded by the British, so naming towns built by British and other Europeans, with British names, is entirely appropriate. Building towns and cities is a European cultural practice. The Aborigines didn't build anything that anyone else wanted. That is why they lasted so long.
The name Australia has got absolutely nothing to do with Austria.
Australis means south in latin...it is a reference to being in the southern hemisphere.
The prefix "new" is a fairly obvious sign that somewhere is named after another place...."New" York, "New" South Wales, "New" Guinea etc
Explorers had to invent names for the purpose of drawing maps they made comparisons to places they were familiar with or used the names of respected benefactors rather than making up silly random words.
People named towns after the places they had come from partly as homage to their birthplace but also so that other people from that area would know to go to that town in order to find friends and family members.
There are many unique and original town names in Australia.
Where else would you find a town named Wogga Wogga, Illawarra, Bendigo, Kalgoorlie or Parramatta ??
@@chriswatson1698 r/woosh
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@@warwicklewis8735 It’s Wagga Wagga mate. You can call “Wagga Wagga”, “Wagga”, but you can’t call “Woy Woy”, “Woy”.
Do aborigines really have a history? Before contact does anyone know of an individual or event? Aboriginal history is archeology only.
Love you mate!