The 3 Historical Hallmarks that Define Australia | Dr. Stephen Chavura
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- In this clip, Dr. Stephen Chavura outlines the three historical factors that have most strongly contributed to the unique attributes of Australian culture that we see today.
See there full interview here: • Stephen Chavura Pt. I ...
Dr. Stephen Chavura teaches European and Australian history at Campion College, Sydney. Before he worked at Campion he was a lecturer in sociology and political philosophy at various Australian universities.
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I'm a Brit who has now visited many times and grown to love Australia. I'm searching for answers to exactly these questions and feel I found them here. So thanks. As well as knowing of the distance knowing of the cultural forces going on in the world at the time that influenced those people is important. Then you get a sense of Australia in context and thus begin to feel it groaning and heading towards its birth.
I believe that the influence of the Gold-Rush is badly underestimated.
Firstly, because the population growth during that era absolutely dwarfed the pre-Gold-Rush population and heavily diluted the memory of the convict era.
Secondly because the major idea of the Goldfields was the belief that the difference between poverty and wealth was a combination of luck and hard work, rather than some inherited virtue. Toss in with that, the labour-shortage created by the Rush, and the consequent demand for skilled labour and you have a recipe for an unusually egalitarian outlook.
Thirdly, the prosperity generated by the goldfields and the wool industry enabled a degree of prosperity and sense of self-worth that led the population to an increased sense of independence and a desire to differentiate ourselves from the English. We were not just poor relations, we were different.
Australia’s most popular writer would pen.
The narrow ways of English folk
Are not for such as we.
They bear the long-accustomed yoke
Of staid conservancy
But all our ways are new and strange
And through our blood there roams
The vagabonding love of change
That drove us westward of the range
And westward of the sun.
(AB Patterson, The Old Australian Ways)
I’m very pleased to hear yet more argument and evidence that our settlement and history is more enlightened than the black-armband mob would have us believe, but there is more to Australia than the convict era. There was a foundation on which we could build a population of vast numbers of immigrants and say, “This is Australia. It is good. Join us and be Australian”
Aaaahhhh you had me with the Banjo poem, and your interpretation of early Aus being much more than a bunch of convict and settler stragglers lost in English classism mindset in endless conflict with Indigenous Australians is spot on. Can’t understand why more public and academic dialogue isn’t centred on this “intermediate” period between the first settlers and when we really started to differentiate ourselves as a culture, because that is the true origin of modern Australian culture.
Interesting..so many parallels and tangents with the USA and Canada...it brings great perspective and context...thanks for this..cheers
I have always been in awe of those British prisoners who, dumped in Australia, somehow survived, and incredibly, made a life for themselves. Also, the Australian young men in the army saved many American young men’s lives during the Second World War, and in the Korean War. Thank you to Australia from America.
Thanks, but our current WOKE WEF grubberments are destroying us.
🦘🇦🇺👍
Me too my friend.
From NZ.
we love USA, now that we're the 53 state. 😅
We Australians love Americans and Trump too❤❤❤
As "Lousiana Man"
Doug Kershaw sang,
"It's not the distance that
makes hard the travelling,
but the travelling that
makes hard the distance,
That's what matters
That's what matters."
Great Guest
Over the last three years Australia has been in a race to the bottom with Canada to see which country could be the MOST authoritarian 😂
New Zealand and Canada are far more totalitarian than Australia, Victorian government is a massive concern, but Victorians voted for communism yet again🤷
....and the most anti-white and pretentiously virtuous eg: "welcome to country" on Qantus and Public transport.... while of course real aboriginals are living in poverty.
The rot started four decades ago, with the election of the Hawke-Keating regime. It's been a steady decline ever since.
Yeah, thanks John.
Schwab Wars… the Dark Side of WEF Foundations…
nationalism is love of and support for one's country. It does not entail attacks on others
Unless you are a fascist.
Incorrect. Patriotism is love of your country.
Nationalism is the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions or tens of millions of people can be confidently labelled ‘good’ or ‘bad’. Secondly, it is the habit of identifying oneself with a single nation or other unit, placing it beyond good and evil and recognizing no other duty than that of advancing its interests.
It is for these reasons nationalism ends in war and misery.
@@percy832 There are indigenous nationalist movements. Like that of the Ainu in Japan. If you honestly believe they're all about labeling others "bad" and believing they are above and beyond criticism and not just about conceiving of themselves as a nation of people and wanting to be afforded the right to their own sovereign interests then you are a clown.
Also: Oikophobia-the disdain many feel for their own countries to the point they flinch at the sight of their own flags-is such a self-defeating and miserable and frankly juvenile state of mind for one to be in.
Nationalism has become a dirty word. Because people like you don't even know what it means beyond what your political tribe tell you it means.
@@percy832 There are indigenous nationalist movements. Like that of the Ainu in Japan. If you honestly believe they're all about labeling others "bad" and believing they are above and beyond criticism and not just about conceiving of themselves as a nation of people and wanting to be afforded the right to their own sovereign interests then you are a clown.
Also: Oikophobia-the disdain many feel for their own countries to the point they flinch at the sight of their own flags-is such a self-defeating and miserable and frankly juvenile state of mind for one to be in.
Nationalism has become a dirty word. Because people like you don't even know what it means beyond what your political tribe tell you it means.
@@percy832 There are indigenous nationalist movements. Like that of the Ainu in Japan. If you honestly believe they're all about labeling others "bad" and believing they are above and beyond criticism and not just about conceiving of themselves as a nation of people and wanting to be afforded the sovereign right to govern their own interests then you are a clown.
Oikophobia-the petty disdain many feel for their own countries to the point they flinch at the sight of their own flags-is such a self-defeating and miserable and frankly juvenile state of mind for one to be in.
Nationalism has become a dirty word. Because people like you don't even know what it means beyond what your political tribe tell you it means.
It is Christian civilization is what was underlining assumption was when Gandhi said that Western civilization will be a good idea. As history tells us Civilizations don't always end becoz of external attack but are quite capable of committing suicide. 🙏
That was interesting.
I have just flown from Oz to London via few days stop over in Tokyo (to recover) and I can certainly vouch for the tyranny of distance.
We are just going for straight up tyranny now.
After looking up ' pragmatic and egalitarian ' I am better placed to follow, I think ? This seems to be a clip of a very pragmatic point of view or perhaps it is very male.....not sure yet will have to watch the full conversation . Thank you both......regardless .
No mention of the Irish and Catholicism ? By the end of the 1800's one third of Melbourne's population was Irish.
He literally mentions the Irish!!😅
We did have an egalitarian and anti-authority mindset. Now Australians believe the solution to every problem is more and more laws and egalitarianism is just an abstract concept.
"Quite fast to look to the government to solve our problems" That's the problem right there.
Our Constitution sums it up in the preamble, "the people of...", "humbly relying on the blessing of Almighty God." (A Christian Nation and Politic).
Please keep that divisive figure of god out of this.
Thanks.
@@banta-pd8zj In there lies the problem, a question of faith in a higher power!
@@banta-pd8zj and your statement explains the demise of Australia the beautiful into what it is today, a nation of known communists. Who by the way also despise God and his ways, funny that a nation implodes when they turn up. If I could I would ask Stalin what he thought of Canada and the USA now.
Willeton.
Taking note of the maga movement?
Ultra nationalism in Russia turning you on?
I guess that rule of law isn't your thing?
@@willeton in Oz this would be represented by the Fabian Society AKA the Labour Party / Trade Union Movement. In every society you need a bit of hard left and right as it influences where they steer the good ship Lolipop. The problem is when there it too much of Left or Right. AND a country with no faith in something or someone is blind.
If the church was operating in power like it should, money wouldn't be a problem. That's what happens when they drive out apostles like the religious cohort drove out Jesus.
He states that Australians are authoritarian (looking to the state) and anti-authoritarian at the same time!
It doesn't matter, John looked on disapprovingly throughout.
Donald Horne should sue for copyright.
The Irish Catholic community never gets the recognition that it deserves in the founding of this nation. Apparently the C of E crowd did all the work. I don’t think so. If not for the Irish there would not be any cities here.
That’s a big claim. The biggest city in the world at the time, was not built by Irish Catholics, but Protestant Englishmen.
Maybe we need a thank you day for our British and christian forefathers? Jan 25 maybe?
So we’re just a bunch of misfits and rejects? Sounds about right.
Not the least bit rebellious any more. Compliant cowards comes to mind.
Yeah sure, what a tool. You have no idea what Australia is about, that when co-operation for the better good is needed, it gets done.
Sigh. Can't you love the country you live in without getting tagged with the nationalist slur? 😔
Christ, we've come to the point where "nationalist" is a slur?
One world (👃) government here we come
It’s just another piece of name-calling. The tactic of those who can’t argue their own case but lack the honesty to admit it.
I think there's nationalism which is fine and then there's irrational nationalism. The left won't make a distinction
Thank god for our British roots, otherwise we would have ended up like Latin American countries.
We are still dominated by convicts.
The tyranny of distance has always been a problem for Australia as much as the large size of the country and low population. Most people lived in the SE corner , Melbourne and Sydney, the vast area to the north and west was not seen as important , until the 20th century and the rise in industrialism . Now this is the golden goose , lots of money being made by selling natural resources .
But this will prove to be a bad thing , Aussies have it too easy now and have lost most of the manufacturing industries, relying on imported products, which forces the sale of more natural resources to maintain the arificially high standard of living.
Nationalism was mentioned and this is what Australia needs now to instil a strong sense of nationhood , multiculturalism destroys a country .
Well said. America is intent on destroying itself, too. It’s so sad, so very, very sad.
Trite
Australia wasn’t “settled” by the British
It wasn't?
Australia was created by the British.
... prior to which it was very sparsely populated by hundreds of warring tribes.
Yes it was invaded but that's not about to change mate.
It continues to be settled. Not so many British now.
Chavura is an intellectual pigmy.
Egalitarian 😂 thats a joke right?
Tie me kangaroo down sport , that's what got Rolf into trouble with protection 4 animals rights
This guy eats babies
Yeah. I would like to understand why and how Australians allowed themselves to be castrated by giving up their right to bear arms
Fairly simple really. We didn't want to become another USA.
Because a professional army is going to cream civilians regardless of the arms they bear or the toy soldier training.
The dreams of the right wing militias are just that, or maybe more a nightmare that they like to share with us.
Americans casrate themselves with their out-of-control gun crime and school shootings.
Castrate
@@lindsaysmith8119Bullshit.
In the late 19th century, the right to bear arms was recognised by the British Parliament as a right belonging to all British subjects. There was less gun-control in London than anew York, and London was far more peaceful in terms of firearms misuse.
The roots of gun-control in Britain and Australia were fears of revolution - whether in the style of the French “terror” or of the European Bolsheviks. The reality is that we had too easily forgotten why those rights were originally recognised - to oppose tyrants.