American Couple Reacts: Australia: The History! FIRST TIME REACTION! We Learned SO MUCH!
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- American Couple Reacts: Australia: The History! FIRST TIME REACTION! We Learned SO MUCH! We love to learn and this video had an ENORMOUS amount of content! From the early Aboriginal history, through to World War ll. This was all fresh information for us and it was absolutely fascinating. We would love to know from our Aussie friends if there were any big or crucial moments left out here. Also, we would be very curious if there's anything you may have learned? Whether you're from Australia or elsewhere in the World. We are really enjoying our Australian education and hope that you are too! Thanks to each of YOU for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support! More Links below...
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We love to learn and this video had an ENORMOUS amount of content! From the early Aboriginal history, through to World War ll. This was all fresh information for us and it was absolutely fascinating. We would love to know from our Aussie friends if there were any big or crucial moments left out here. Also, we would be very curious if there's anything you may have learned? Whether you're from Australia or elsewhere in the World. We are really enjoying our Australian education and hope that you are too! Thanks to each of YOU for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!
Funny you said about being naughty and being deported to Australia as Paul Hogan did a comedy sketch where he dares the judge to send him to Australia as punishment
Everything you have seen (and I haven't even looked at this yet) is WRONG. The dark players that have been running this world for the tall greys who took over this world in 1796 from the Annunaki (the Cannanites - as in the side of Cane from Cane and Abel which is basically the royal bloodlines RH-, well these people are called cabal, Illuminati, Khazarian Mafia, globalist elite and they have been running your life in America just as much as mine in Australia. Your taxes have been going to the cabal via the crown (Queen Elizabeth) who on paper owned one third of the world's surface. The White House and Washington DC aren't part of America. The real Biden and his son were executed some time back and the play is coming to an end soon, put on by the white hats (good guys) to wake you normies up because you have been heavily programmed since birth through schools, universities, religion and mainstream media. While the fake Bidens have pretended to be the president - that Biden was only the President of the bankrupt United States of America CORPORATION and no-one has been in the real White House except Trump and the people organising the military tribunals that were taking place in there as we are in the end times of a massive 1000 year biblical/galactic war. Heard of the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers? They are Annunaki - well they have been taken down, but they were. 2.7 million cabal have been executed in this war and the normies are none the wiser. THE WHOLE HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA IS DIFFERENT. There have been 200 year resets of the world where they depopulated the planet and cloned babies were made to repopulate called CABBAGE PATCH BABIES. How did they depopulate? Well this time around the aim was with the phoney COVID and the deadly jabs, but in the past mud floods. Pompeii was a mud flood, not a volcano ash situation. I suggest you get into listening to HONEY C GOLDEN in her hidden history section to start off with.
Here is the channel link:- th-cam.com/video/tZE1IuOEoYQ/w-d-xo.html
Also Mind Unveiled has a lot to do with the cabbage patch babies also known as Incubator Babies, cloning centres, mudfloods etc.
www.youtube.com/@MindUnveiled
That's enough to start off with. The more you go down the rabbit hole, the bigger it gets.
THe Emu war wasn't really a war as such. You should look up a video about the "EMU War"....
OK you are taking it down, not YT. You want to remain ignorant and find out things all at once when the emergency broadcast service starts up and the whole world is in martial law. Mmm, I am glad I woke up a few years ago and know what you are about to find out when the only channel available to you is telling you about what I just mentioned and much much more in 3x8 hour lots (and no other TV station available) and everyone will be on lockdown at the time. I am planning to stay in my house when that happens because the normies are going to go absolutely ballistic crying in the streets. Far too much info to get all in one hit. Trump's upcoming arrest is the start of bringing in disclosures, so good luck.
A interesting side note to Ocean crossings. In 1973 la balsas crossing was made from Ecuador to Australia ( 9000 miles) on local made balsa wood rafts took them 160 days but was not the first time . The raft is in a local museum here in Australia.
Kon tiki trip on a similar raft went from Peru to poloynesisa in 1947.
The first gold discovery in Australia was by convicts in the 1820s.
The lawlessness in California had quite a bit to do with some Australian convict gangs that were over there at the time most were eventually hanged.
The Emu War, also known as the Great Emu War, was a nuisance wildlife management military operation undertaken in Australia over the later part of 1932 it was very true
We gotta get more info!
The emus won
Go the emu’s..
@@pantonman Shhhhh!!!! 😬🤦♀️😂
This is a pretty good explanation of it - th-cam.com/video/ejiYxSWrkdY/w-d-xo.html
Natasha: "I know you didn't fight emus, did you?"
The Australian Army: "..."
Oh yes they did and lost😂.
@anthonyeaton5153 lol embarrassing
Australian effort in both world wars is integral to the Australian identity and certainly needs more coverage
Yes, we are starting to see that. We certainly plan to cover it!
Something non Australians might not realise is that it's a thing of great pride to have convict ancestry in Australia. Edit two of the sailors from the Batavia were deliberately marooned on the mainland as punishment for what went on at the Island. Most of the others were punished far more harshly ,with various methods of execution used.
I've just discovered two more in my family tree today. I'm stoked!
🙋🏼♂️ I have two convicts in my family tree.
But a family shame if your predecessor was one of the jailers or military who accompanied them.
No convicts in my history, no cruel jailers either. All came over free. I’m 3rd gen Aus from UK. My paternal great grandfather and his parents came here. Well not a crook, but was a politician during federation. Minister Of Mines when Welcome Stranger Nugget found, this his name on Obelisk. My sister is a genealogist and there is a slight maybe, we might have royal blood, if true, this Stuart (maiden name) is buying myself a tiara 😂
I've got 2 convict ancestors who arrived with the 1st fleet. Makes me proud that they were able to survive all that they went through.
Aussies are insanely proud of our convict past, this is a tongue-in-cheek compliment, not an insult, Aussies enjoy this banter especially with the English.🇦🇺
Captain Cook had explored Botany Bay in 1770 in April (autumn), but when the First Fleet arrived in 1788, during summer, they found it unsuitable and actually established the new colony in the next bay north, now called Port Jackson. They may have been bound for Botany Bay, as the song says, but they didn't stay there.
It took six months to send a message back saying "Hey we didn't stay in Botany Bay, Port Jackson is much better" by which time the second fleet was on it's way to Botany Bay.
Dingoes are more genetically related to wolves as they don't bark like dogs.
My ancestors were free settlers on one of those boats, Private William Nash arriving on first fleet ship HMS Prince of Wales. Their son, also William Nash, my direct ancestor was the first non indigenous child to be born in the new colony(Straya).
But what I am most proud about is my First Nations ancestors, can be a bit of a self conflict to have first fleet and First Nations ancestors. Kind of like my ancestors invaded my ancestors.
@@cgkennedy Yes pure Dingoes definitely do bark, just very rarely and for specific reasons. I've owned and worked with enough to know that for a fact.
Fun fact: only half of pure wild Dingoes are ginger, brindle, black, white and patchy are all natural pure dingo colours. Brindle is actually the second most common colour of pure bush and rainforest Dingoes after ginger.
I live in Suffolk, UK, and just down the road from us, is Ickworth House, the former home of of the Earl of Bristol...He was the man who funded Captain Cook to follow Halley's comet...In the nearly 1,000 year old churchyard lie the male line of the Hervey's..(only the locals spelt it Harvey as spoken)...When Cook was sailing down the East Coast, he stopped at a bay to take on water and any food... He never set foot on it, but called it after his benefactor Hervey Bay....My partner and I are going back to there in May, it's where my brother now lives, and will visit the Museum that I was able to tell them the History of their town...
I have an ancestor who ended up on a convict ship in 1831. He stole a leg of lamb - he was sentenced to 10 years. He left Portsmouth, Britain on the 16th Oct 1831 on the Asia 1 and arrived in Australia on the 13th Feb 1832. I believe he helped build a railway over there and was granted his ticket of leave in 1840. He then married a fellow convict an Irish lady called Margaret and they remained in Sydney where they raised their family. I was researching my family history a number of years ago and out of the blue received an email from an Australian lady with the same surname as mine, she began her email Hello cousin - we exchanged family photo's and the resemblance was uncanny, we looked so much alike, it was like looking in a mirror.
My ancestor stole a pig to feed his family, sent to Oz leaving his wife and 6 kids having to go into the workhouse to survive. When he was released he stayed in Oz and started another family, committing bigamy. Nasty man.
@@CrazyCatWoman1 Not necessarily a nasty man. Getting transport back to the UK would have been enormously expensive and convicts couldn’t earn enough money to be able to afford the journey. Also, anyone who went into the workhouses in UK, didn’t really find a way out and spent the rest of their lives there, especially women and children with no bread winner to help them get a leg up. The conditions in those workhouses were horrendous and most died of TB and other diseases common to poverty circumstances.
He was my ancestors, I can call him what I like. I do a load of research and know exactly what the conditions of a workhouse were. Thanks for your comment.
Possible that they made a raft from flotsam remaining from the Batavia
Just to add a bit to my last comment. When he was released he became a police officer and then a police commissioner, so had more than enough money to either go back or send for his family, he chose to do neither.
There legitimately was an Emu war and Australia legitimately lost it and that’s legitimately hilarious.
Oversimplified has done a video on it.
Hello from Perth Western Australia. The Dutch did discover Australia. An interesting and less known story of the shipwreck called Batavia that sank in 1629 off the coast of Western Australia. It's a story of mutiny, a psychopath and mass murder. There are also heroes in the story too.
Wow! This was our first time hearing anything of it!
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow
Almost all West Aussie school kids go to the maritime museum in Fremantle to look at the preserved hull of the wrecked Batavia.
Not too sure if they “discovered” AustralIa..but it appears that they were certainly the first Europeans to land on the west coast..
@@terencemccarthy8615 Not true... Spanish explorers were the first Europeans to come ashore as evidenced by the discovery of Spanish doubloons on the West Australian coast and the influence of Spanish language on the dialects of local indigenous tribes. It is thought that explorers shared a cultural exchange with locals and stayed briefly before continuing to explore.
@Conscious Being Oh, you're gonna have to back that one up. Fifty-eight years as a Sandgroper, I've never heard that!
The Spanish would have been bastards as Colonial Masters. The Holy Inquisition, Conquistadors and Convert or Burn ring any bells?
Ok - I’m going to be ‘that viewer’ that points out that there is a warning that is supposed to be displayed prior to any media showing Aboriginals. Out of respects for their beliefs when it comes to death and grieving, the following phrase should be displayed:
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that the following program may contain images and voices of deceased persons.
Other than that, great to see how sensibly you are learning. Wait until you go further down our language, food and lifestyle rabbit hole!!
No, thank you for bringing that up. It is an important cultural point.
I believe they do not say their name as it keeps/draws back the spirits into this world and stops them moving on or staying in the next.
www.health.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0023/151736/sorry_business.pdf
I love Aussies, they're just the most excited but relaxed ppl on earth. You guys should see "the Aussiest interview ever." 😂
I’m a Tasmania. The best state in Aus 😂😂
I had a car accident with an emu, the car died and the emu laughed and ran away.They’re tough birds 😂
🤣🤣🤣
I died laughing when the Emu wars were brought up lol and yes Natasha and Debbie it did happen. We lost the emus won . By the way the Dutch discovery of Australia is a controversial theory among modern Australian historians these days with the discovery of Malay and Chinese artifacts dating back centuries in northern Australia .
The emus are still winning 😂
Re that period, quite recently evidence was uncovered that First Nations Australians travelled in boats, back and forth to Indonesia on a semi regular basis over a good while, leaving artefacts and dna - which could also explain Malayan & chinese artefacts??
At the end where he started talking about a Civil War I was very perplexed, until he said ‘brother fighting feathered brother’, then I started laughing because I knew the Emu War was coming up 😂
I love how he didn’t explain it further!
The Aboriginals were not just hunters and gathers recent discoveries have shown they were expert aquaculture practitioners, particularly with eels. We could learn a lot about bush fire management from them , and we are starting to learn.
I watched a woman dig a 4'w X 6' deep hole under a tree chopped off a thick root small log she stripped off a price e under the bark and filled a cup of water in our outback carried it off on her shoulder next trek. Walkabouts are crazy they love thier home
You must see thier Artwork is beautiful they tell stories
@@louisestevenson5102 Being on country is paramount to Aboriginals feeling whole and connected and why the policies of child removal were so damaging for those generations and even now.
Some were some were just hunter gatherers
Sorry wrong already for the first couple of minutes.. genetics show Indian genetics
Yes, we bravely fought against the emus, and the emus won.
I was not taught this at school, presumably we were still too embarrassed to talk about it back then.
Enjoying your work lovely ladies xx
I like to think of myself as well read and knowledgeable but with every video you ladies drop, I learn something new and have a good giggle along the way. I feel privileged to be taking this educational journey with you.
When the Dutch discovered Australia it greatly surprised the people who'd been living there for quite some time. :P
The story of the Batavoa is chilling and well worth learning about.
The transports to Austrailia were known as "Coffin ships" because up to 50% died on the long voyage. Those convicted were offered the choice of being hung or transported, and some chose hanging. One 13 year old girl Mary Wade was convicted of stealing a dress and sentanced to death by hanging, which was later commuted to transportation. At the time of her death in Ausrtrailia she had over 300 descendants. She is now considered one of the founders of the country.
Actually her age varies depending on who you ask. Wade herself told the judge she was 10. Her mother said she was 8 and church records are unsure because there were a lot of Mary Wade's born roughly around that time. 13 is what Wikipedia says however.
Also she stole a hat and a dress with an older friend who pushed a third girl in a privvy and stole her clothes and hat. Mary kept the hat but the other girl pawned the dress so it wasn't recovered.
I would love for you guys to react to some Australian songs about being prideful in our nation and also understanding our perspectives on war. Lots of love guys, love the vids.
• Waltzing matilda - slim dusty/or john williamson
• And the band played waltzing matilda - Eric Bogle or John Williamson
• I am Australian - the seekers
• I was only 19 - Redgum
Definitely I was only 19
I thoroughly enjoy watching your reactions because you are so polite and respectful of differences. Thank you.
We appreciate that, thank you so much ♥️
Our 1st police force were ex convicts. Someone to look up is a man we all know is Bush Ranger called Ned Kelly. He is the well known of them all. It's a interesting story of the great man.
My G-G-grandfather was transported to Australia in 1824 for the heinous crime of stealing a pheasant. A pheasant? Crimes don't get much more British than that. Being a convict was probably a reallly bad experience, but in the long run it was a good thing. He began as an illiterate farm labourer in England and by the time he died in Australia, he and his family owned three large properties in south-west Queensland along with thousands of head of cattle and hundreds of stock horses used for breeding. If he had remained in England he probably would not have achieved anything like that.
You know what I like about you two ladies, is your willingness to say you don't know what you don't know. Love listening to you. Cheers Sean from Perth, Western Australia
I live in Ballarat and was taught at school about the Eureka Stockade Rebellion. There is a place here called Sovereign Hill which is an historical town based around early colonial times and the gold rush era.
I'm Aussie and I learned a lot. Thanks for the channel, just found it.
Haha, love the Emu Wars images.
Yep, it was a thing.
We humans only survived because the Drop Bears decided to remain neutral
Hello from Melbourne Australia. On both sides of my family they were convicts and yes here in the land of Oz, it's something to be very proud of.
Hi Natasha & Debbie, once again another brilliant reaction video. As a kiwi I always love to learn more about our Aussie neighbours 😀 Yes you are right about ANZAC day, it is April 25. Love to you both ❤
Thanks so much!
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow Gallipoli is also the name of a movie which gives a good depiction of the Aussie and kiwi thinking and experience at the start of ww1, also the Australian emu war was an actual thing and the emus won. There are TH-cam on it
The Emu War was a real thing, there are a few good videos on YT about it. The animated one is very good and funny. Aboriginal history is really fascinating especially as I’m interested in prehistoric human migration patterns
The movie The Emu War is set to come out this year with John Cleese and Jim Jefferies.
Lived here ninety years and had no contact with Emu War must have been in another state
@@patrussell8917 the Emu war was in WA and I only learned about it via TH-cam reactors recently 😂
You two are the real deal. Prior to subscribing today, I piggybacked watching your vids from my husband's page. Just like you've asked, I 'scribed because I wanted to. Now I'm an expat New Yorker living in Australia. Our story is a long one, but hubby is Aussie (via England)... life happened, we blinked, and now I'm living downunder. It's always interesting hearing other Americans' impressions about Australia. Compared to my experiences when I first arrived 20 years ago. Anyway...love everything about your vibes. I'm welcoming myself to your channel.
I wish this video (or indeed any video!) had existed when I was at school in E Africa, London and the Cape. We spent an entire half term (6 weeks) during Yr 6 studying the history of Australia, NZ, and the Pacific islands and learned far less than what is covered in this entertaining and informative production. Thanks. Btw, I am a mite surprised that the video doesn't mention the Torres Strait Islanders, as my grandsons in Queensland are taught that these indigenous Australians are very distinct from Aboriginals. In the 1600s, the passage London to India took, on average, three-five months. In the 20th century, it didn't take a month Southampton to New York. My school choir took 5 days on Q Mary in 1959.
Don't feel left out. Australian students weren't taught aboriginal history either when I was at school. It different now. My father was from South Africa and he made sure we knew a lot about the terrible history of indigenous Australians. (Which they didn't cover in this). The massacres, the stolen children.
Even during the lowest levels of ocean during the ice ages, there was at least 95km (~60 miles) of open ocean separating South-East Asia from Sahul (Australia and New Guinea). Whoever crossed that gap was gutsy and proficient - or very, very lost.
You picked an excellent video! That very early possible date for human arrival in Australia is based on a skull found in Kow swamp. We’re still looking for corroborating evidence, but one really cool thing not mentioned is that we do have the earliest evidence in the world of grain processing!
It’s believed (or was when I was doing the anthropology component of second year genetics, anyway) that there were three waves of Aboriginal colonisation, each coming in from the north and driving the previous ones further south and east. So the very earliest peoples, the Bassineans, ended up in Tasmania and its surrounding islands. They’re actually most closely genetically related to the indigenous people of Japan, the Ainu. (BTW, early modern humans interbred with Neanderthals, Denisovans and at least five other human subspecies once we left Africa.)
Our extinct animals were pretty amazing. We used to have carnivorous kangaroos! And a predator with the most astounding bolt-cutter like teeth, called the marsupial lion (Thylacoleo). There’s a huge fossil deposit in Queensland, in an area called Riversleigh.
G,day Nat and Deb great reaction . This was a good attempt at explaining a much longer history in a limited amount of time, the narrator for instance didn't mention Captain Cook at all and he jumped over many significant periods in our history . A few facts for you Yes there was a Emu (pronounced eemyoo)war , Emu's were overpopulated and were destroying food crops so they set some soldiers to cull them, as with most government projects it didn't work until they put bounty on the birds, problem solved ,any Australian who can trace their ancestry back to a convict considers themselves lucky,my late wife being one of them her patriarchal ancestor was sent to Australia for seven years his crime stealing 3 teaspoons and a linen handkerchief. The journey took around 250 days , he served his time decided to stay here and ended up a rich man .for comparison my parents brought me as a five year old to Australia in 1950 and the steamship took 32 days . Someone else has suggested you react to the Australian group The Seekers singing WE ARE AUSTRALIAN I concurr you will not be disappointed .
In 1932 The Great Emu War was actually fought. Making a long story short, Western Australian Wheat Farmers wanted the Government to eradicate Emu's because of the damage they were causing to crops etc. The Government decided against full eradication but did send in troops & heavy arms to reduce numbers. They lost. The Emu's not only often survived the 'BATTLES' but their numbers actually grew. After around a month, the Government ended it's campaign & withdrew the troops.
I’m from Western Australia and can definitely say there are A LOT of shipwrecks of the coast.. a lot are Dutch, a lot are British, some were lost at war etc.
with regards to the Batavia wreck though, the Batavia was wrecked on one of the islands that make up the Abrolhos Islands.. to get there now, it’s about a 1.5 hours boat ride from Geraldton, so back then it would have obviously taken a lot longer, but was definitely achievable for them to make it to the mainland… there is actually a museum in Perth called the Fremantle Shipwreck Museum, and this has a lot of excavated items that were recovered from the Batavia, including skeleton remains of one of the sailors who was killed in the mutiny and also a part of the hull.. so it’s pretty cool to check out if you ever make it to Perth..
With regards to you questioning if it was really the Dutch, because of your experience with being told about Columbus etc. from my experience I was actually taught at school when I was about 5, that it was the British and Captain Cook that discovered Australia, and I think a lot of people believed that. It was as I got older I realised that wasn’t actually the case - we also have quite a lot of places named after the Dutch here in WA and the rest of Aus.
Also, the journey from Europe to australia back then took about 8 months 😁
Glad you are enjoying learning about Oz
Though the Eureka rebellion was quashed, it still had a lasting impact on the growth of democracy in Australia. One or more of the leaders of the rebellion were elected as representatives to the (pre-federation) Victorian parliament, and continued to lobby for the rights of ordinary workers against the establishment
Great video ladies we went on a few tours with the Aboriginal people they were fascinating. They have a deep understanding of nature and how we link to it. Convicts yes the British sent many, they weren't all mass murderers. I watched a program about a young girl who was accused of stealing a lace hankerchief she was 10 had no chance and was deported. She had the last laugh, she married had many children but became a strong member of the community in Australia with power she would never have had here. Although many of the white Australian population can trace thier roots to convicts. It's celebrated by them and to be honest one of the few places l have felt safe when visiting. How about doing a video on the £10 poms, or the children who were sent their because they were children.
My ancestor was 17 when she came here. Same thing. Silk hanky theft. She had one daughter who was ‘removed’ to be ‘raised by a good Christian family’, that is, she was the household servant until she could get married herself. Deportation was horrible 😣
@@lynettegraves6261 it really doesn't bare thinking about does it. Looking at today's crimes they get off lightly.
Geoffrey Blayney and Manning Clarke are two very well read historians on Australia and it history.
Happy to say we are proud 4th generation Australians.
The roaring 40s is why Geraldton Western Australia has leaning trees growing along the ground and the Dutch ship the Batavia sunk off Geraldton on the Abroholos Islands in 1629.
The Emu (pronounced " Eemyou ") 😊 war was a thing back in the day😅 keep the Aussie reactions coming ladies.
in the early days the Dutch were trying to get to the east Indies9 Modern day Indonesia) where they had a vibrant spice trade but they could navigate using latitude with a sextant but could not accurately calculate longitude. Once rounding the Cape of Good Hope and catch the prevailing winds to travel eastwards. They would guess when it was time to turn north to the Dutch East Indies but often mis calculated and end up being driven on to the Western Australian coast.
There are records of the Chinese having traded in the northern parts of Australia and it is suspected Arabian and even Egyptian traders may have encountered Australia
Hello lovely ladies, this was a new video for me & I have seen a lot of them. Only so much you can fit into what is really an introductory video but a good overview none the less. Yes the Dutch bumped into our West coast many times on their way to Batavia (a journey taking around 6 mths I believe under sail). Captain James Cook is credited with "discovering", mapping & claiming Australia for Britain in 1770. He raised the Union flag on Possession Island in Torres Strait & declared it a dominion under British rule. He sailed up the East coast & nearly came to grief when he ran aground on the GBR before limping into Cooktown to repair his ship, The Endeavor. The Dutch really weren't interested in this new country of New Holland as there wasn't any spices or exotic that they could easily exploit for quick profit like the spice Islands to the North. It is inconceivable that buccaneers & anonymous privateers didn't also crash into our shores. I'm now in my 60's & recall a story from 40 odd yrs ago about an adventurer stumbling into a cave in Nth QLD & finding a skeleton in full Spanish regalia of Conquistador armour. My indigenous history is now a little faded & may be out of date but I believe there were 3 distinct waves of indigenous settlement. What the video didn't mention was 50-60 k yrs ago the sea levels were maybe 500 feet lower than today so it would have been much easier to Island hop.
That was so interesting, I learned a lot about the convicts in Tasmania. There’s a lot of places around the island telling the the stories of Van Diemen’s Land now known as Tasmania. There’s a huge historical site in Port Arthur where the Prison was and I found that fascinating
The Spanish were actually the first Europeans to discover Australia as evidenced by the discovery of Spanish doubloons on the West Coast which are dated from around the late 16th century (circa 1580s -90s) and some tribal languages of the area having developed some words that clearly held Spanish influence... It is thought that passing Spanish explorers stayed briefly and traded goods with local area tribes but eventually continued on their journey and weren't interested in colonizing the region.
Chinese coins from much earlier than this have also been found on some islands very close to Northern Australia and the beaches of Arnhem Land which suggests that Chinese traders ventured South in search of fresh fishing waters and indigenous tribes with which to trade.
Love from Australia! Great reaction
My family come from Ballarat so the Eureka Stockade is an important thing for us. And my great grandfather is as in the Anzac core fighting at Gallipoli. We still have his original journal.
I’m a big history nerd and of my own country lol
I’d highly recommend history of Australia by fire of learning
As well as the Emu war by oversimplified
My partner and I are going to Ballarat, and Sovereignhill mine this May, so looking forward to it and the Australian Spectactular as well..
My Mothers family are from Ballarat and surrounding areas. One of her ancestors of that time, started the first school in Ballarat, and actually supplied firearms to the Eureka rebels in the Stockade.
@@margaretflounders8510 Take a warm coat, it gets cold there, especially the time you are planning to go.
@@karlenemacdonald6549 oh awesome! my family came a year after it happened but its still important as we are from this area
Did you know that Herbert Hoover, who became U S President number 31 once managed a gold mine near Leonora in Western Australia in 1898? The mine is still in operation today (I think).
I grew up in a suburb called Gladesville, which is in Sydney, NSW. There are quite a few places with Aboriginal carvings. I can remember going on excursions with school to learn about them. The street I lived on (Wharf Road) went right down to the Parramatta River and we learned that when Governor Phillip and Lieutenant Bradley made an early expedition up the Parramatta River in February 1788, they stopped here and the Governor gave an Aboriginal man a hatchet and a looking glass. In his diary, Bradley commented that the Aboriginal quickly conceptualised the notion of reflection by comparing the looking glass with his reflection in the water. Looking Glass Point has also been known as Glades Point and Looking Glass Bay.
I have always considered myself so lucky to have grown up in a suburb with a lot of history. Banjo Paterson, arguably Australia's greatest bush poet, lived in Gladesville for a time. While attending Sydney Grammar School, he lived in a cottage called Rockend. The cottage is now listed on the Register of the National Estate and New South Wales State Heritage Register.
My family came to Sydney in 1836 went to the Goldfields opened a shop made their fortune and stayed
Some convicts were free to walk around but many others were in jails in very harsh conditions - and the convicts were used to build the jails. There were 160,000 convicts sent to Australia as opposed to 60,000 sent to USA. I give this docco a 5/10 - it's what a smug pom deserves.. Cheers from Australia.
5 out of 10 ??? That's being generous. I'd like to know where this bloody Pommy did his research
That was cool to refresh the memory thanks ladies 👍
& Yes, ANZAC Day is 25th April. I go to our dawn service each year where I live.
Lest We Forget.
The first penal colony was not set up in Botany Bay. When the First Fleet arrived at Botany Bay, they realised it was not suitable for tall ships so a scout was sent north to find a better harbour. They discovered Sydney Harbour and Farm Cove, which was a deep water harbour. This is the site depicted in the famous early painting and the site of Sydney.
G'day Natasha & Debbie 👭 yep Natasha pretty much nailed it with the G'day , there's different dialects of accents eg : Like people from the country tend to not open their mouth as much so to not swallow flies 🪰 or various other insects .
I was born in a City called Wagga Wagga and that has both a Army Training Base Called Kapooka & An Royal Australian Airforce also a training base , Dad was in the RAAF he was in for 20 years got to Warent Officer .
I'm a bit of a history buff and Australia was known about many thousands of years ago there is Artwork found in ancient China that has Kangaroo's also there has been found some Egyptian hieroglyphics found carved in rock . So maybe the Ancient Egyptians also knew about Australia 🇦🇺
Thank for your entertaining video's
Really briefly, in 1932 large numbers of emus had started devastating grain crops in Western Australia. Politicians got the army to send a few troops with a couple of machine guns to cull them. The emus turned out to be harder to hit than they thought, and also started to run when they heard trucks. The army lost because the didn't really make a big impact and had used thousands of rounds of ammunition, eventually giving up.
Interesting snapshot, the French also were landing in Australia before the British and the settlement in Sydney was hastened to beat the French to raising the flag
After cooks report on Australia, Napoleon Bonaparte wanted to get colonies and take Australia. He was only a few days late to raise flag and claim it before the First Fleet. The First Fleet was a rushed response to learning about Napoleans move to claim. He went on to send many spies under cover of exploring and research. In 1812, he sent two warships to Sydney who were to meet two American warships, and turn Irish convicts to their side. Aim ....to steal Australia. American ships had an accident and didn't make it. So on arrival, they hide their intentions.
My feeling is that anyone who claims they discovered a land BUT there are already people, then they didn't discover the place, they are just trespassing... Saltwater crocodiles are further north than Perth in the same way as Saltwater crocodiles are not around, in the same way as there are no crocodiles around Brisbane...
Most Americans mispronounce emu, it is not e-mu it is pronounced em-you...
The emu was is real, just like the rum rebellion which this video skipped...
An interesting fact: You may have heard Englishmen referred to as 'pommies'. This is a misnomer. It was actually "pome' which stood for 'prisoner of Mother England' and the Pome's were the convicts sent to the various penal colonies. Over the years it has become "pommies", and even some English people refer to themselves that way - in error,
The "Emu War" was absolutely a real thing. With the introduction of agriculture to Australia, the wildlife, in particular Kangaroos and Emus had a population boom. Mainly because of all the new species of grasses (like Wheat etc.) and the seeds thereof. The rampant wildlife decimated crops and so drastic action was taken when war was declared on the Emu. They actually used the military to try to cull the Emus, but, those crafty buggers defeated the military by just refusing to fight and running away. ( a novel approach that the military command hadn't considered). In the end the govt. forces conceded defeat and we've been living together in harmony (sort of) ever since. You will easily find videos on the "tube of you" for a full explanation.
A good way to relate to ANZAC is to see the movie “Gallipoli” in which one of the main characters is a young Mel Gibson. Who incidentally was born in the USA but migrated to Australia when he was a young child. Grew up in Australia became an Aussie actor and eventually took his career to the USA.
Another amazing video by you 2 amazing ladies. I loved learning about the history of Australia so many interesting facts and gotta learn a bot about how 🇦🇺 Australia the country was formed into how we know it now. It has a very rich history which shocked me a bit.
I grew up in Western Australia as a child, and I remember this indigenous boy of 6, black as black yet his hair was long straight and pure white, whiter than snow.
They would have had life boats.
That's what happened to Bligh on the Bounty. Christian and his crew took the ship (l think to Pitcairn Island) and Bligh and his crew were put in a launch as they called it.
The narrator has garbled the Catalpa story. The rescue of the "six poor Fenians" was in 1876. The enterprise was carried out using the U.S. whaling ship, the Catalpa. It sailed from New Bedford Massachusetts and took the prisoners from Fremantle, in Western Australia to New York. A nice touch is that the Catalpa raised the US flag to prevent an intercepting vessel from stopping her. There is a lovely song about it, too: "Come all you screw warders and gaolers, remember Perth regatta day, Take care of the rest of your Fenians or the Yankees'll steal them away". It's a most inspiring tale.
That was great.. it may have already been said but there is an excellent song called “I was only 19” that shows the ANZAC spirit and yes we did have an EMU war and the EMU’s basically had the upper hand.. there’s a clip on TH-cam about it. My son did a presentation at school about it when he was 17.
I was Only 19 is more a song about war and post war (The Vietnam War in particular) trauma, a great song but I think And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda is more closely aligned to the Anzacs of 1915. If you listen to either song, have a tissue or 2 handy as they both can make you feel rather sad, war tends to do that.
Another superb diverse video, I'm in awe of how much effort you put into finding these topics, really really enjoyed this one and learned loads, thank you x
The Great Emu War is very real, as silly as it sounds. Also seeing as you want to know the pronunciation Emu is pronounced Eem-you as opposed to Eem-oo.
This was very interesting, my ancestors arrived in Australia in the 1820"s as convicts. There is a song by The Seekers that tells the story of Australia called I Am Australian that you might enjoy,
Disclaimer - I'm British, so I don't claim any particular expertise in matters Australian, but as I understand it, the Aborigine people are reputed to have first arrived in Australia more than 40 000 years ago. According to their own legends, at least. They refer to it as The Dream Time.
PS. I love Hilbert's videos. He has a way of explaining complicated or confusing bits of history in a very understandable way.
There is actually a lot of debate about when our first nation ppl arrived. 40,000 years is the latest that they arrived. Studies done of the rock drawings, have found that underneath what you see today are older ones. Possibly multiple layers. ( estimates of the ones we see today have been used to date arrival of the ppl.) So, yeah, it's not set in stone, so to speak, their arrival.
@sunisbest123 thanks for that. I'm trying to learn more about the people and their history, legends, etc, so that's really Interesting information. Thanks again.
@@sunisbest1234 There are stone tools and fragments that date back to 120,000 years or so, but most evidence suggests between 60,000 and 80,000.
@@michaelstamper5604 my pleasure. There are places here, like Ulluru, ( used to be called Ayers Rock ) is a sacred place to Aboriginals. We went there a few years ago, finally. Honestly, you could feel how special that place was!
Also, visited some of the areas where rock paintings were. Standing there looking at something that dates so far back is amazing!
There were paintings of the human body, showing swollen joints, arthritis, next to it a painting of a native plant that helps alleviate the pain.
Their songs are like guide books. They narrate how to cross from one area to another, where to find water on the way, etc. It has been said, if you were to put all the songs together, you could navigate around Australia.
It is a fascinating culture!
@@mjb7015 I have heard a lot of approx times, but, as in this video, hadn't heard of 125,000 years ago. Not sure about that one.
Hi ladies...what a fascinating video and definitely a lot of information in there to take in and I'm sure there is a lot more that can be learned. Great video as always ❤
Hey ladies, great video. There was a lot of info there that even I wasn't aware of even though I am a born and bred and proud Aussie from European parents. Natasha, you are spot on with Anzac Day being the 25th April. There is a video on You Tube all about Anzac Day for you to watch which I'm sure you will find interesting and very moving.
There were 2 of the mutineers of the Batavia were marooned on the coast East of the Islands but more Dutch were on land from other Dutch wrecks, quite a number were left from the Gilt Dragon ashore North of Perth while some sailed to Batavia in a long boat to get help. When a vessel returned from Batavia there was no sign of them. There was another wreck further North, the Zuytdorp where it is also known a number of people made it ashore but no trace of them have ever been found, they are the ones who possibly introduced the DNA strains into some of inland indigenous families.
He completely airbrushed Captain Cook out of the story, he was the one who surveyed and created charts of the east coast, this was the first recorded communication with the east coast. He also did the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. The word discovered is often debated but the likes of Cook ‘discovered’ it for the World hence why the British and others became involved.
The Clipper Ships such as ‘Cutty Sark’ would take between 70 and 80 days to travel from the U.K. to Australia depending on which route and final destination they chose, ‘The Torrens’ another famous Clipper did the shorter Adelaide route. Normal sailing ships would have taken a lot longer.
He left out a lot of Australian history ... & yes, vikings made it here too!
Watched about 14 of your shows in a row and loving you guys. Hi from the suburbs of Melbourne.
The Vikings were Scandinavian, living in the northern part of the northern hemisphere. Although they were fearless sea raiders, I doubt they could have made it all the way to Australia in the southern hemisphere. 🚣
4 months plus sailing time to Australia. Many many ships wrecked on WA coast and all along southern Australia then they hit Bass strait between mainland and Tasmania which is one of the most notorious waters anywhere as the roaring 40s are squeezed into a narrow seaway. South-West Victoria is called shipwreck coast.
Hi there, I am not sure if you know about a documentary was released on TV in Australia called - AUSTRALIA The Story Of Us The Epic Journey That Made Us. I know it is on DVD, but not sure if you can get it in the US, but it is a very comprehensive history of Australia.
My Aussie heritage is Gumbaingirr, Gamilaraay and one English convict.
Emu is pronounced Em-you not Em-oo. Yes the emus did win against the Australian Army and it was backed by the parliament. You got to look up that too. 👍
Hey Ladies. Two points of interest 1. Movie Gallipoli with Mel Gibson 2. Comedy with one of Australia's best Carl Barron
Learned a lot on this one, feel like I know more than the other half about Australia now and he grew up there! 😂😂 thank you both and Happy Wednesday.
As stated, Dutch ships sailed up the coast of WA. The earliest recorded has Houtman (1597), after whom the Abrolhos is named. Houtman's Abrolhos (a chain of coral islands and reefs) is where the shipwreck of the "Batavia" (captain Francisco Pelsaert) occurred. The small island is about 80km off the coast where the town of Geraldton now stands. Another landing of interest occurred in 1642 when former English pirate turned good guy, William Dampier landed and described the country as a barren waste land. The fact that the desert meets the sea in most places along that part of WA is the reason I speak English and not Dutch.
Hello girlies, that was really interesting. This is the sort of history that should be taught in schools. I really love learning with you both keep up your good work. Xx
One of my ancestors was a British machine lace maker (engineer) who was sent to France to teach them how to make lace. Once they learnt they then told them they were no longer needed and they had to leave. Unfortunately their jobs were no longer available back in Britain, so he negotiated a ride to Australia. By the way emu is pronounced "eem you".
I am fifth generation Ballarat and one of the issues was that they often "policed" the miner's rights using ex-convicts and they had some dodgy methods of checking for them. Miners were treated badly and having no voice, they rebelled. And although they lost, it started something and in fact eventually one of the main instigators became a member of parliament.
G'day Ladies! I'm an Aussie fella who enjoys your videos! Check out the song 'I was only 19' by Redgum. It's written from the perspective of a young Aussie soldier during the Vietnam war and is a sad but brilliant song! Keep up the great vids!
Convicts only made up 2% of Australia population of early settlement. 40.000 of them was Irish rebellion who fought against the British. Others was for petty crime's a total of 164.000 convicts was sent to Australia over a period of 100 years
Thanks, that was really interesting. I really enjoy your [perspectives, especially through the questions you bring up. The Emu (eem-you) War was a real thing, a military operation to cull emus causing havoc to crops in Western Australia.
Just a little bit of history…Did you know that Your president Herbert Hoover owned the Gwalia gold mine in Leonora Western Australia in the 19th century he served as mine manager from 1898.this a very interesting video thanks again girls
There is a beautiful 10ft or so wood framed mirror from Hoover’s home in one of the pubs in Kalgoorlie. The bar is called Hoover’s.
The Emu War has had some hilarious videos made about it. The farmers in WA we’re having their wheat crops destroyed by thousands of opportunistic hungry emus so they called on the federal minister for the army (because he was a fellow west Australian) to help them. He sent a major, a sergeant and a gunner and two Lewis machine guns. Emus can run at 40 mph, they zig zag, they keep running after they’ve been shot. After several attempts and hardly any emus killed they gave up. It is now the legend of how the emus went to war with the army and won.
There's a pub in North Shields (Nortumbrian, England) called The Ballerat. What the connection was I have yet to find out. Still, it makes a change from the Red Lion or the Kings Arms.
That was fantastic 👏 thanks, girls I really learnt alot more about the history of Australia
The famous American Mark Twain said about Australia; "Australian history is .. picturesque; It does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies & all of a fresh new sort, no mouldy old stale ones. Full of surprises, & adventures, & incongruities & contradictions, and incredibilities; but they are all true!"
The interesting thing I found out about the indigenous Australians, I actually read in a book called “Denisovan Origins”. Denisovans were a humanoid population that were known to also intermix with Neanderthals to create offspring. The Denisovans were the original Siberians, before “dying out” like the Neanderthals, however, in most of the indigenous populations of Australia, up to 6% of Denisovan DNA can still be found in the Indigenous population.
Whoops, I paused to type this just before he said it. My bad! 😅
You're correct, Natasha,25 April is Anzac Day. A day in which the nation commemorates our war dead, honours our veterans and the amount of alcohol consumed across the country must be a truly mind-boggling figure.
Read "Dark Enu" by Bruce Pascoe.
It shows from early European books and journals that many aboriginal Australian people practiced settled agricultural/ aquacultural societies....
These were different to Europeans, so they weren't recognised
Thank you ladies for this very informative video. I have enjoyed many of your ‘reaction’ sessions but this one is the most interesting to me so far. Come and visit us one day and don’t be put off by the distance. The travel time is part of the experience.
Australian Aboriginals have the world's longest, continuous culture in the world by tens of thousands of years.
In the 1740's it used to take the Dutch about 7-8 months on average each way to make the journey between Batavia and The Netherlands.
And yes, the Great Emu War was a thing that the humans lost.
Our convicts used to be sent to America to work off their sentence before you fought for Independence. Australia, up to that point, wasn't considered a place suitable to pioneer and inhabit but the convicts had to be transported somewhere (or hung) and so the colonisation began. Those convicts who survived the journey and their sentence had no means to return home when they became free and so they settled in Australia. In the meantime in America the absence of free labour (convicts) the slave trade was born.
BTW the Batavia story is a HORROR story, check it out. Basically one faction of the merchants on board took the bulk of supplies and the women and children to one island then, through a trick, marooned the soldiers and sailors on another. They then butchered the children and had their way with the women which the soldiers and sailors eventually got news of. Battle ensued and when a rescue ship finally came (the Captain of the Batavia took a DINGY and sailed it to the city, from Australia with just the starts to guide him, to raise the alarm about the wreck) months later both factions were racing to get to the ship to tell their story. Casefile do a great podcast episode but I'm sure you can find a lot about it here.