My father fought in the Emu wars. I asked him about it many times but he refused to speak about it. I believe he was a secret agent for the Koalas and fought behind the Emu's frontlines. After he passed away I came across his war service record in his papers. Apparently he was captured at one stage and forced to eat hallucinogenic gum leaves to give up his contacts. He never completely recovered from the experience and would spend days sometimes sitting in a Gumtree chewing on the leaves.
Ian Tait What a coincidence, my grandmother was an emu undercover behind human lines, the rumour is she got much information by having many affairs with the human officers. She was discovered and executed after she layed an egg in the general's bed.
To destroy a people you must destroy their understanding of their history, to enslave them you must make it so they do not know of any other way other than being slaves.
1. Welcome to the derived from Latin show! Spanish? Derived from Latin! Australia? You guessed it! Latin! 1,5. So the Spanish for some reason called the landmass (that they never visited) that was nowhere near Austria "South Austria"? No thank you my good sir, I will not believe that. 2. So as the amount of languages someone speaks seems to be an argument to you somehow, I know/speak 7 languages (English, Dutch, German, Latin, Ancient Greek, French and Japanese (that's in order of how well I know them (kind of; Greek and Latin require a different kind of knowledge))) (Not that it actually matters to me but it seemed like it did matter to you) 3. Tasmania was named after Abel Tasman, that seems pretty logical to me. (Note: Abel Tasman is a Dutchman and not somehow a Spanish word(even if you somehow make up something so you can say it is: See point 1) Thank you.
Note: I don't really have enough time to research so I'll keep it a bit more neutral in the sections where I'm not totally sure. 1. One thing: I never said Cook named it, not that I actually have a source to say he didn't, but just a point 1.5 you literally said "Southern-Austrian Land of the Holy Spirit". If that was a typo, okay, no problem then. 2. I'm not actually Australian, I just love Koalas and Australia as a whole. I'm actually Dutch. I know I put English in front, that's because I probably speak English better as I learned it from RUclips (the feeling part) and school (proper grammar and vocabulary) while I was brought up with Dutch and copied the mistakes my parents make. As for Ancient Greek and Latin, I'm currently learning them at school, I don't know if you also did/do, but just a bit of a note. (If you're curious: in the Netherlands you have to learn French and German in the first 3 years of secondary school and I go to a TTO Gymnasium (TTO is a Dutch abbreviation of Double Language School) so I get Greek and Latin (the Gymnasium part) and everything else in either Dutch or English) I'm learning Japanese with some friend via the Internet. I don't know if you mean dialect with "local language" but if you do and I had to count them aswell, I would probably go into the double figures. 3. Again I don't have the time to research it, so I can only ask you why they didn't stay as in that era everyone was grabbing as much land as possible and it would give them a stronghold in Asia which would be nice. P.S.: You can find Roman things in Greece and visa versa, but that doesn't prove that one discovered the other (but then also the other way around? (Again that's why it can't be correct)) , only that they actually were there someday. P.P.S.: Please only use ignorant when someone actually is. I wasn't ignorant; you only said something is true and if I think that you're incorrect then that's that, only if you gave me actual sources and I disagreed with that would it be ignorant.
Dear ljf, I have 2 reasons why I disagree, note that I am an australian and speak english as my first and only language. 1. Wikipedia is open source, so I could got to that article and write "australia was first mentioned in 6969 on the 20th of the 4th by snoop dogg" 2. A sentence after the bit you mention it says that it is mentioning the name for another island.
When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it’ - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish author I don't give a damn what the bible says about gay people. The bible Allow slavery, child abuse, misogyny, war, and rape-marriages, Genocide, sex slaves, Cannibalism and should not be considered a "moral guidebook". And until you actually prove that Flat Earth, Adam- eve, Jesus even exists, your argument is irrelevant.
My grandfather, one of the untold volunteers from Memerstan, had died in the emu war, in a last stand with the emus against the humans at the battle of Alice Springs. He was a decorated lieutenant, and led the volunteers at the last stand. He died after he was captured and tortured.
Sounds like a lot of bullshit in this thread. Cook was actually a pretty decent guy. The reason he got killed was that he tried to take the Hawaiian king after one of this landing boats were taken. Other than that he was pretty good. These guys were products of the Enlightenment, all full of do-good ideas for the betterment of man etc etc. Their societies were barbaric but the individuals tried, usually unsuccessfully, to rise above it. Just look at Governor Phillip after the arrival of the First Fleet, he even let himself get speared in the shoulder without retaliation after they had abducted an aboriginal man to act as a go-between (that guy was Bennelong). As I said the societies these men came from were barbaric, you only have to see how the convicts were treated ... the country was full of people who either were brutalised by the whip or held the whip. Explains why as a society we now detest authority and injustice.
I like to point out that the state of South Australia was started as a free colony, where all the other now state's were started as a penal colony. That mean no convict's where shipped to South Australia.
With my serial killer remark, yes you are right Hittler's Moustache. However to most of the world the fact that South Australia was never a colony that convict were never sent too is not known.
I’m impressed with the accuracy of this video. I’m Extremely impressed with correct pronunciation of “emu”. The emu wars had a great impact on our national character. To this day, it’s not something that is often openly discussed. I still remember overhearing the adults talk about it as a young child. It’s always sets a sober tone. Thank you for discussing with respect.
It was not a river, it was at Cheviot Beach. Harold Holt was the PM. One of the theories was that he was a Chinese spy and was picked up by a Chinese submarine.
Bryan Wegman I was shook when I found that out because he doesn’t sound it. I’m from Flanders so I know Dutch accents and when I heard his I was honestly so shook.
I'd love to hear more of early aboriginal history, when I went through school they didn't teach us much about it, we learnt mostly about how poorly they were treated and massacres etc. They were wiped out in Tasmania.
Sam H I always love to read about the Aborigines (I'm not Australian tho) and I really love them, they're so fascinating as are their culture and languages
Aboriginal Australian history really is unique and intriguing. But you have to remember their history is mostly oral. They didn't have writing as we know it and we only know what we can dig up and what we hear in the oral history of each tribe. I mean compare non-Aboriginal Australian history to Aboriginal history. There is vastly more to know, research, interact with and look at in non-indigenous history than in Aboriginal history. Simply because of writing and record keeping. What makes that fact mind boggling is that there is vastly more history in post-European Australia then Pre-European Australia. Yet Europeans have only been in Australia since the 17th century but Aboriginal Australians have been here anywhere between 50,000 and 125,000 years! It really is a shame we haven't got any more records and sources to study. who knows what interesting things happened here in Aus in all those years that we may never know about.
I'm from Ballarat, home of the Eureka Rebellion, a hugely important part of our history. Thank you for making this video sir! I've seen the remains of the Batavia in a museum in Fremantle, which blew my mind, but I didn't know the dutch actually intermingled with the aborigines at that time. Mind Blown. Everybody around the world seems to forget about Australia, and while what we did to the natives was tragic, the country we have built here has turned out to be one of the most successful colonial countries ever. If you ever find your self down this end of the country, you're welcome to my abode for beers and cones.
don't buy into the lies designed to make you guilty, mate. we've done nothing but great service to the aboriginies. you're right though: thanks to our british heritage we are one of the greatest countries in existence.
Dielfon Elettab white Australia policy and the stolen generation anyone ? The atrocities white people have done to the indigenous is nothing to be proud of makes me angry 😡 just like it does when people deny the holocaust or the eight centuries of atrocities the English did to the people of my ancestral homeland of Ireland or the Scots as well stop the revising of history please
Why even bother making a section of the video dedicated to trying to discuss Aboriginal history without offending anyone when you have people in the comments claiming that you're being racist, being racist themselves, and calling people out for being racist, why can't we just sit down and discuss history without anyone having a hissy fit.
@The Phantom I normally hate when people accuse others of virtue signalling. But you have pretty much nailed this. We can only control what we do now. That being said, if segments of the population are struggling as a result of generational and systemic abuse/racism/neglect. We should do our best to course correct, and I don't just mean throw money at the problem.
I looked through the comment section and the only person I see complaining is you, complaining about non-existent complaints about the video being racist.
I love this video. As an American we aren't taught anything about Australian history in our school system but the more I learn about it the more fascinated I am.
You forgot 2 very important historical key points in Australian history, 1/ "BLACK WAR" Governor Lachlan Macquarie's 1812 declaration of war on all Australian Aboriginals, ordering they be taken into custody (executed), those whom resisted were hung in trees as a deterrent to others to just accept their fate. Hung Aboriginals covered the landscape. 2/ The acquisition of repeater rifles in the 1860's facilitated the extinction of over 200 different Aboriginal races etc by pedo head hunting police in what was the most repugnant decapitation genocides in history. Australian police supplying the East India Company a diverse range of Aboriginal heads for sale to museums and private collectors around the world, the children suffering a far worse fate.
Bro the photo at 21:47 had me laughing my ass off 🤣🤣🤣 I know it's a fucked up photo, but photoshooting the Emu over the Vietnamese soldier got me rolling
Don't think you will upset Aussies by referencing our convict history. I'm proud to say I am descended from two convicts, one on my mother's side and one on my father's side. We call that Australian Royalty!
I've only found 1 convict ancestor and all but 2 of my lines go back at least 5 generations here. That means they were mostly free settlers. Man they chose to be here? Idots
Another McKay. You know our ancestors came here because of the highland clearances? We weren't criminals or convicts, we were crofters from the far north of Scotland who were rounded up and cleared off our ancestral lands. Not many people know about that.
As an Australian it was so touching to see you pay respect to those who fought in the great Emu wars! Such a tragic event which many of us are still coming to terms with! :-) :-)
have you ever watched Australia Border Control on TV ? What an obnoxious nit picking bunch of burocrats. You must make a clear distinction between Aussie beach and bush civilians, and fucking pestering Aussie officials.
Norman Hampton are you implying that a far right government is bad? I'd take it any day over liberals whining when a man breathes in the wrong direction
Well, statistically Australia is one of the best countries in the world for livability , America doesn't even have one city in the top 15 most livable cities.
Fun fact: The Netherlands wanted Australia that way they could have a place to send their people when their mainland and Indonesia were inevitably reclaimed by the ocean.
Interesting fact - Australia is the only country to every have its leader disappear without a trace. Prime Minister Harold Holt in 1967. Can you imagine if a president of the USA just disappeared ?
Heath Cliff I dunno bit it would be nice if our current president would disappear without a trace... he can take the VP and all of Congress with him too.
He didn't disappear as such. He drowned whilst taking a swim in the ocean. By the time they realised, his body was taken out by the current. Which is why they never found his body. That's hardly a disappearance. It's a drowning.
I heard a story once. Someone I know claimed that one of his relatives who worked in the military was called to Harold Holt's house. He had been shot and was dead on the floor. This relative was then instructed to dispose of the body and keep it quiet. I have no way of verifying the story, nor do I wish to identify the source. Nor can I say that I 100% believe the story. But I did find it interesting.
I came to hear het Wilhelmus and was not disappointed. Also, Hilbert mentions reaching 10000 subscriblers at the time the video was made in August 2017. Now he's got well over 78000 subscriblers. Well done, Hilbert!
The video presents a very Dutch view of Australian history. While the Dutch "discovered" Australia they found nothing worth exploiting on Australia's west coast. Their interest was in what is now Indonesia with its abundance of valuable spices and a population of slaves to do the work. So the Dutch never actually claimed Australia as their own. In 1770 a British explorer name James Cook "discovered" the more habitable east coast of Australia and claimed it for Britain . As the video mentions, Britain needed a penal colony and decided to put it where Cook had landed in Botany Bay 18 years earlier. When that site lacked good water the First Fleet shift up the coast a few miles and discovered what is now Sydney Harbour. The British soon found gold and other resources and vast areas of agricultural land. Unlike Indonesia, Australia was more like the US, a place to settle and start a new life. Up in Indonesia the Dutch were despised for their exploitation and cruelty - slavery had continued into the 20th century. Australia gained independence in 1901 without a shot being fired. Tens of thousands died in Indonesia before it was recognised as an independent country by the UN in 1949 against Dutch wishes. The Dutch had not finished exploiting Indonesians Had the Dutch colonised Australia it is highly likely it would have become another South Africa. Apartheid was very much a concept of the Afrikaaners, the descendants of the Dutch colonisers of South Africa.
5:40 There would be an explanation to that But Indonesian natives used to sail down the top of Australia and did sea cucumber trades with the Aboriginal natives The tribes around that area have Indonesian words in their language as well I learned that in my Indonesian class They would of had interracial relationships with the Indonesians who had contact with them 8:50 There’s a bit of misinformation there If you look into the archeological findings of earlier colonists and archeologists in the book Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe, there is evidence that Aboriginal society had a farming/agricultural system that benefited not just them but the rejuvenation of the land and its other inhabitants (Flora and Fauna). It’s a good read, I do suggest looking into it. Nice video tho. Acknowledge the native life and that there was human society before colonialism through education is a great thing.
I was just about to type the 8:50 one, then I saw this lol. You can also look into the biology of Australian Flora, which has clear (internal and external) evidence of farming/agriculture; such as most Australian trees will only shed their seeds when a fire occurs as a result of controlled fires which the Aboriginal Australians used to do.
Great video! En hallo uit Nieuw Zeeland! One of the big reasons New Zealand rejected the Australian Federation was because, quite frankly, their laws surrounding native peoples were piss poor, and there were concerns that treatment of the Māori would suffer in a way that could come into conflict with the treaty of Waitangi. Apparently Australia had to pander by giving Māori suffrage, but it wasn't quite enough. Also, there were views that New Zealand was superior to Australia (we kept our Dutch name, so this clearly must have been the truth, right?). It seems even back then a trans-Tasman rivalry existed.
No. The language had a true name at some point, but it intermingled with Another language when it was colonised. Arnhem Land literally means “land of the foreigners”. So yes, if you believe the Dutch, it does make sense, but honestly it could be any language, or any other nation that colonised it at that time. There are no linguistic markers for Dutch in any of the indigenous languages of the area.
No the Dutch made no claim to Australia, in fact they thought the land was unliveable. It was only when the British arrived that any real Colonisation took part.
The Great Emu War. It was 3 Army Reservists, (MILITIA) in a truck with a couple of Lewis guns trying to shoot Emus and they discovered that the big birds were more tricky than people think they are. They had a kill ratio of 2500 rounds fired to kill 50 birds. That’s 50 rounds per bird. (This is the conservative estimate). Incidentally, the bullets fired to kill one Emu ratio was way lower than the bullets fired per kill ratio of the US forces in the Vietnam War, which was 50000 rounds per man killed. Admittedly, the Emus were not shooting back. The soldiers were amazed at the Emus capacity to absorb bullets and keep going. It was a interesting historical footnote but not a seminal moment in Australian history when compared to the World Wars, the Great Depression, the Bodyline Cricket scandle, the Snowy Mountain Scheme, the mass immigrations of Europeans in the 1960’s, being the first non Americans to win the America Cup. etc, etc. Anyway, the Emu War happened in Western Australia and they’re a weird mob, and it’s the only interesting thing to ever happen in Western Australia.
The Rum Rebellion is so important. It set the precedent and culture for government corruption which we still see. Can't have enough ICACs and Royal Commissions, I say, keep the bastards honest.
Great Video mate, loved the first part about the indigenous people. Had no idea about most of that. Just wanted to flag the whole part of history surrounding Van Diemans Land and the French exploration/sabre rattling that went on with the British. Apparently the British passed the french ships in some spots on their way down to claim the land. A history of Tasmania might be in order!
I feel at times Aboriginal Australians do not get enough credit neither do Torres Strait Islanders as far as I know about the Australian Aboriginals at least as sure they may have lacked named villages, cities, civilizations, towns, etc and they where pretty much in a mixture of the wooden, stone, and bone ages however they did have there own inventions they could call there own like Boomerangs, Didgeridoos, Dilly Bags, Womeroos, Dot Paintings, Fire Hunting Techniques, Rattles, Flyers, Message Sticks, Nulla Nullas, Shields Of There Touchings, Dream Time Religion, There uniqueness with face and body painting styles, etc.
Why not mention Australian participation in the Boer war, Gallipoli or the Kokoda trail? The Aussies have a proud military history. My GPA made a lot of good friends in OZ while he was in the US army during WW2.
Lord Levarius Wright Aboriginals make up 25% of prison population yet account for 3%. Women are 50 times more likely to suffer DV in an Aboriginal community. Australia has been giving them welfare and health assistance for sixty years to no avail. They cost more than $40billion a year in tax, own mineral rights and 12.6% of land amongst just 750000 (A population that has doubled in twenty years as anyone can claim to be Indigenous to jump on the gravy train) they ARE the wealthiest land owners on the planet but suffer internalised corruption. Now victimhood politics is in full swing in the west, one eighth indigenous love to scream about their ancestors and their land forgetting about the 7/8ths Irish blood. These are the political ambitious or the self agrandising welfare pot smokers. Actual outback communities with more full blood are a real social issue. If you want an idea about aboriginal community violence just RUclips it to get an idea. Some towns are dry (alcohol free) some are not. Alice Springs has a big grog problem (as well as other drugs). Meanwhile the spineless politicians pander to the narrative while the inner city SJWs who have never been to a troubled community cry in empathetic naval gazing. Using reductionist arguments about skin colour and racism. Ignorants. Anyone over the age of 45 knows our history better than the youth and their revisionist BS. Immigrants only see the tourist image of dream time and art where the reality is far from it. They then abuse whites as racist cause they have hang ups in their own countries history like African slavery in America or British colonialism in India, even Chinese. They seem to want to abuse whites while wanting to get in to get the good life we created. Australia is unique in being settled rather peacefully while It is currently being revised otherwise. This pisses people off as we've done so much good and it is not recognised.
Lord Levarius Wright Yeh I know. American jails are a private business. America has the highest incarceration rate in the world. I think it's different here as Aboriginals fell in love with alcohol from day one and didn't have the enzyme to break it down quick enough. They can become very aggressive. Australia has a much better welfare system which supports them to not work which suits their culture. But they get bored too. There parents get high and the kids rebel. Problem is free time and the grog. America is a dog eat dog world with guns to boot. Seems the lack of welfare and systemic poverty drives crime which suits the system of cheap prison labour. The history of America is very different. It is apples and oranges , but unfortunately many SJW just see colour and extrapolate the same conclusion. It's a shame as Australia was founded on Christian principles and we did try and help the indigenous and still do. Nothing is ever perfect but compared to America, Australia was like a new aged utopia with no wars or genocide. Not that it's portrayed that way now as everyone wants to be heard as part of the victim club..
Well done! One small point: 'Botany Bay' named during Cook's 1770 voyage, greatly impressed botanist Joseph Banks who was part of that expedition. He recommended it to the powers-that-be as a great place for a colony......problem was that when the First Fleet arrived several years later, they found little reliable water so they quickly moved a little north up the coast to Sydney Harbour (specifically Sydney Cove, present-day Circular Quay). Hence the location of today's central Sydney.
Everything we discovered is not in our property anymore New-York was called New Amsterdam and we rucking traded it for an useless island then Indonesia was called Nederlands Indië and then Australia was called New Holland and now we are just a small country with a few islands far away and we had Suriname but not anymore
No disrespect intended towards the Aboriginal people when I say this, they were always going to be conquered if they continued living off the land and not advancing in technology. It is the way of the world and if it wasn't Europeans the Japanese would have likely done it. I'm actually surprised they lasted as long as they did being left alone.
Technology?? My people didn't need it back then, just like the wheel, it was useless. Many other Nations came and went. But they respected us and our country. Who the hell do you think you are? 2019 is showing every race standing together against racism, even your own. When we all truly stand united, you will be the minority in the First Nations Country. Do you like those apples?
Yeah they're still known as the most archaic people in the world, recorded as the fastest runners/sprinters, great focus on nomadic hunting, elemental endurance, on the family, the classless egalitarian ethos, dream-time, distinct music, it's unbelievably cool & amazing to behold. I hate it that the most peaceful nations on earth are the ones most exploited, because they're easiest to overcome. A few pacific islanders had plentiful fruit and song, banned all weaponry, showed perhaps the closest thing to paradise, and thus were first to fall. Japan would probably have been taken earlier, if they weren't defended by typhoons, or hadn't locked themselves up in a warring like state of obsessive religious death for a hundred years.
@@cozzazee4043 Dude..... Your people clearly did need the technology, I mean, they got conquered without it. But it obviously wasn't the fault of the aboriginals, they couldn't develop like Europeans and Asians for many outside factors, (e.g. a lack of easy food like sheep or pigs/complete isolation from they first civilizations.)It's not to disrespect them, it's just a fact of life. Btw, the wheel is always useful (especially for a nomadic people,) and there was no 'one country' of aboriginals. Many other nations didn't come and go because nation states hadn't been invented yet! It says in the video that the only people the aboriginals saw for hundreds of years were the Dutch! And truly united?! You are starting to sound like an ethno-nationalist there, kinda racist m8.
Yep, that's why the Maoris fared a little better and were able to negotiate more, because they were (mostly) more united and organized in armies when the Brits arrived. Here in Oz, hundreds of nomadic tribes with no central organized body was never going to survive the age of European conquest. Hell, many smaller organized European nations didn't, either. That's not a judgement or criticism on the First Australians, Coral, just a sad truth.
Oldest grinding stone found in Australia is around 40000 years old, making them the oldest farmers in the world, and there's evidence that that was being used to bake bread, making them the oldest bakers in the world. This would exclude them from being hunters and gatherers.
@@aliciastrous1966 No, you are mistaken. Port Jackson was named by Captain James Cook in 1970 and this name was listed in the navigation charts used by the First Fleet 18 years later. Similarly, Cook named Botany Bay listing this on his navigation charts. Governor Phillip would have relied on the charts and deferred to Capt. Cook’s naming of the two locations.
My great great great great grandfather was a man named Owen Cavanough, he was the first man from the first fleet to set foot on Australian soil therefore technically making my bloodline the oldest family in Australia (excluding indigenous people) and I'm a direct descendant to him.
lucas holtkamp Lol, no way that a non-Dutch person can pronounce these words as accurate as he did. You can also hear his Dutch roots in some of the English words. Zoals hij ‘the’ uitspreekt als ‘thie’.
Some travel tips if you're planning to travel to Australia. If you're in a bar, and you're getting in the middle of a fight, just say the words 'Look over there, an emu!'. If you see a nice young lady and you want to pick her up, just say 'Jump quick in my car, there is an emu!'. When you want a hotelroom and they are full, just say in the lobby 'I heard that there are some emus in the neighbourhood'.
What I find fascinating about Australia is that it remained undiscovered for so long by non-Aboriginal people. There was that bit of East Indians having traded with northern Australians. But other than that, nothing. Polynesians between 2000 BC and 1200 AD went by boats and discovered all those islands in the Pacific, all the way to Hawaii and New Zealand. So clearly they were REALLY GOOD with boats. But they never discovered enormous Australia and settled there? That I find so hard to believe. What happened there? Why did the Europeans not find Maori-like people in Australia in the 1780s? Very weird...
I feel so ashamed I have lived my life in ignorance of a war that took place in my own country. Why don't they teach us about the Emu War? What are they trying to hide?
I didn't know that part about NZ and Fiji being apart of Australia that's fascinating how have I lived here my whole life and not known that? Subbed you did a great and fair recount of events.
almost all of this was very interesting and correct but the part about william buckley is false because he was apart of the first (failed) attempt of sending prisoners to port phillip bay which is located in victoria and he was not sent as a convict to new south wales but as i said everything else was really informative
Cammy Hill interesting fact this is the origin of the phrase you've got Buckleys meaning you've got no chance of something happening or of it being done !!
What an awesome video this was! Thank you so much for creating this. I'm an American & I find Australia a fascinating place. Unfortunately, in the United States, Australian history is not a top priority teaching point. I headed straight for the "knower of all information" we all carry around in our pockets & was thrilled to discover such a gem here. Really, thank you so much. Wish we could have a q & a session. Now I need more input.
You've correctly noted that Australia became federated in 1901, it did not become Independent until 1919 When along with Canada, New Zealand and South Africa it was allowed (under a lot of pressure from the United States) by Britain to join "The League of Nations". Until 1919 all four countries were in fact still colonies of England. (Look it up!)
Ah yes the great Emu war. History tells us our military failed but often forgets to mention the triumph of the Australian people over those ghastly birds.
I’m an aboriginal person and you basically got our story spot on but there were many more languages and cultures than you say, also the reason that there aren’t much aboriginal people around now is because the colonies and the Europeans slaughtered and raped us, took our land and placed us in prisons so we have such less population compare to say the refugees in Australia
All we learn in school is about the Europeans colonizing Australia & the gold rush, never heard about the about what actually happened with the penile colonies. It was literally just about the Aboriginals and the gold-rush, so it's good to actually learn something new about my country.
History With Hilbert And therefore, the 5 minutes you dedicated to them was disproportionate. The British built Australia. Yet you spent only 8 minutes on them. A pity. Missed opportunity
I'm an American, but on the anniversary of that fateful day I always celebrate by finding the biggest bird around and flipping the middle finger at it and sometimes bringing a loaf of bread, teasing it and then not feeding it. The US and Australia are great allies so we Americans never forget!!!
I started feeling sad trying to think of something in our history as horrible as you'd hyped it up to be, then it was the EMU'S! How could you mention such a sad, dark, and bloody moment in australias history
You are supposed to put a warning at the start of a video so heavy with aboriginal stuff that there might be now deceased people present in images, cant remember why but it's something to do with their religion or something
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One of my grandfathers died in the camps during the Emu War. I've never forgiven the Emus.
No one died in the emu war, except a few emus.
I died in the emu war o_o
we all died in the emu wars je sui emu
#Never forgotten
#prayforaustralia
My father fought in the Emu wars. I asked him about it many times but he refused to speak about it. I believe he was a secret agent for the Koalas and fought behind the Emu's frontlines. After he passed away I came across his war service record in his papers. Apparently he was captured at one stage and forced to eat hallucinogenic gum leaves to give up his contacts. He never completely recovered from the experience and would spend days sometimes sitting in a Gumtree chewing on the leaves.
Ian Tait True war hero...
The emu war was after the Great War
Respect from U.K.
Ian Tait What a coincidence, my grandmother was an emu undercover behind human lines, the rumour is she got much information by having many affairs with the human officers. She was discovered and executed after she layed an egg in the general's bed.
Ian Tait s Those sadistic bastards 😎
When a RUclips video teaches you more about the first Dutch settlers and the origins of the Aboriginal peoples than your own school...
EMS 76, calm down lmao
To destroy a people you must destroy their understanding of their history, to enslave them you must make it so they do not know of any other way other than being slaves.
@@RobespierreThePoof I can tell you're a teacher.
Cheers.
Zazoo Australia curriculum is pretty hot shit on teaching abbot culture. It’s practically rammed down children’s throat.
That's because the British wrote your history school books.
the dutch came to West Australia realised that the sand wasn't good to grow their marijuana in so they left.
Wtf? No, Spain came after the dutch.
Either way, it was just a joke guys.
1. Welcome to the derived from Latin show!
Spanish? Derived from Latin!
Australia? You guessed it! Latin!
1,5. So the Spanish for some reason called the landmass (that they never visited) that was nowhere near Austria "South Austria"? No thank you my good sir, I will not believe that.
2. So as the amount of languages someone speaks seems to be an argument to you somehow, I know/speak 7 languages (English, Dutch, German, Latin, Ancient Greek, French and Japanese (that's in order of how well I know them (kind of; Greek and Latin require a different kind of knowledge)))
(Not that it actually matters to me but it seemed like it did matter to you)
3. Tasmania was named after Abel Tasman, that seems pretty logical to me. (Note: Abel Tasman is a Dutchman and not somehow a Spanish word(even if you somehow make up something so you can say it is: See point 1)
Thank you.
Note: I don't really have enough time to research so I'll keep it a bit more neutral in the sections where I'm not totally sure.
1. One thing: I never said Cook named it, not that I actually have a source to say he didn't, but just a point
1.5 you literally said "Southern-Austrian Land of the Holy Spirit". If that was a typo, okay, no problem then.
2. I'm not actually Australian, I just love Koalas and Australia as a whole. I'm actually Dutch. I know I put English in front, that's because I probably speak English better as I learned it from RUclips (the feeling part) and school (proper grammar and vocabulary) while I was brought up with Dutch and copied the mistakes my parents make. As for Ancient Greek and Latin, I'm currently learning them at school, I don't know if you also did/do, but just a bit of a note.
(If you're curious: in the Netherlands you have to learn French and German in the first 3 years of secondary school and I go to a TTO Gymnasium (TTO is a Dutch abbreviation of Double Language School) so I get Greek and Latin (the Gymnasium part) and everything else in either Dutch or English) I'm learning Japanese with some friend via the Internet.
I don't know if you mean dialect with "local language" but if you do and I had to count them aswell, I would probably go into the double figures.
3. Again I don't have the time to research it, so I can only ask you why they didn't stay as in that era everyone was grabbing as much land as possible and it would give them a stronghold in Asia which would be nice.
P.S.: You can find Roman things in Greece and visa versa, but that doesn't prove that one discovered the other (but then also the other way around? (Again that's why it can't be correct)) , only that they actually were there someday.
P.P.S.: Please only use ignorant when someone actually is. I wasn't ignorant; you only said something is true and if I think that you're incorrect then that's that, only if you gave me actual sources and I disagreed with that would it be ignorant.
Dear ljf, I have 2 reasons why I disagree, note that I am an australian and speak english as my first and only language.
1. Wikipedia is open source, so I could got to that article and write "australia was first mentioned in 6969 on the 20th of the 4th by snoop dogg"
2. A sentence after the bit you mention it says that it is mentioning the name for another island.
The emu war was our nations darkest time it was truely terrible
xD
The demons had it coming and will fight again and again the give up cos your food on the barrbie is really
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Let us have a moment of silence for all the casualties of the terrible war, feathered and not.
Having just been defeated by Turks at Gallipoli we get beaten by giant Turkeys at home.
As an Aussie, this is one of the best videos on Australian history, especially the indigenous peoples. Well done.
How do you type and read upside down?
Wdym no mention of the Torres Strait islander people’s at all
Damn ya ain't an aussie, ya English all messed up, dipnog
@@prussianmapping9149 (: pɹɐɥ ʇɐɥʇ ʇou s,ʇᴉ 'sᴉɥʇ ǝʞᴉ˥
When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it’
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish author
I don't give a damn what the bible
says about gay people. The bible
Allow slavery, child abuse,
misogyny, war, and rape-marriages, Genocide, sex slaves, Cannibalism
and should not be considered a
"moral guidebook". And until you
actually prove that Flat Earth, Adam- eve, Jesus even exists,
your argument is irrelevant.
'Straya! is like the Australian version of 'Murica!
Except 'straya isn't used as a joke.
Not in Straya, its not.
Orange Boy nah no way really
Minus all the guns :(
evo3bro >implying that's a bad thing
Mate I'm not gonna lie, I was off me chops for most of this so I can't remember most it.
Australia you are not actually Australia
Aussies are our rugby rivals, who are we?
I’m high af rn
@@sophieistired1594 New Zealand, Argentina or Brazil
Jinger Partin New Zealand
My grandfather, one of the untold volunteers from Memerstan, had died in the emu war, in a last stand with the emus against the humans at the battle of Alice Springs. He was a decorated lieutenant, and led the volunteers at the last stand. He died after he was captured and tortured.
Lest we forget.
My granddad never talked about the Emu Wars, but then again he was an emu.
21:10 YOURE TALKING ABOUT THE EMU WAR ARENT YOU
Shhh... we don't talk about that one.
Those were hard times.
YES
Austin Pierce The Great Emu War my friend
Everybody laughing at us for losing a war against emus but they don't realise that we could recruit emus into the military and take over the world
>history of Australia
>no mention of Captain James Cook
Finn Lewis did you know Jame Cook was a Lieutenat when he landed in Australia
Michael Halligan is this true? Where did you hear it
>No mention of Ned Kelly?
Sounds like a lot of bullshit in this thread. Cook was actually a pretty decent guy. The reason he got killed was that he tried to take the Hawaiian king after one of this landing boats were taken. Other than that he was pretty good. These guys were products of the Enlightenment, all full of do-good ideas for the betterment of man etc etc. Their societies were barbaric but the individuals tried, usually unsuccessfully, to rise above it. Just look at Governor Phillip after the arrival of the First Fleet, he even let himself get speared in the shoulder without retaliation after they had abducted an aboriginal man to act as a go-between (that guy was Bennelong). As I said the societies these men came from were barbaric, you only have to see how the convicts were treated ... the country was full of people who either were brutalised by the whip or held the whip. Explains why as a society we now detest authority and injustice.
@Michael Halligan
Your so full of shit
I like to point out that the state of South Australia was started as a free colony, where all the other now state's were started as a penal colony. That mean no convict's where shipped to South Australia.
Yep, but don't worry, they are making it up by having the most serial killers and the most far out the most twisted murders.
I would like to point out that it's also way less relevant
With my serial killer remark, yes you are right Hittler's Moustache. However to most of the world the fact that South Australia was never a colony that convict were never sent too is not known.
That's why Christopher Pyne sounds gay.
Ahrm Christopha Pahrn Arhm Going to Fix it. Arhm a Fixha
That and we are the home of the Snowtown killers
The Great Emu War was a great tragedy. #NeverForget.
#neverforgive
It's pretty feathery in there....that's the Emu's point....
Emu's DON'T SURF!
I’m impressed with the accuracy of this video.
I’m Extremely impressed with correct pronunciation of “emu”. The emu wars had a great impact on our national character. To this day, it’s not something that is often openly discussed. I still remember overhearing the adults talk about it as a young child. It’s always sets a sober tone. Thank you for discussing with respect.
As an Aussie, I really enjoyed the Great Emu War jokes
Same, it's so silly.
Luke Koziol try saying that to your other colony, now known as the USA
Isabella Di Prisco the Emu War is like Australia's Vietnam.
E-Mau did nothing wrong
Meganon: actually, Vietnam is Australia's Vietnam
Fun Fact: Australia has had no prime ministers assassinated, but we straight up lost one along a river bank.
Liam Fosdike I'll assume you're meaning Harold holt disappearing whilst swimming !
It was not a river, it was at Cheviot Beach. Harold Holt was the PM. One of the theories was that he was a Chinese spy and was picked up by a Chinese submarine.
Oof my guy
Didn’t he get captured by the Soviets who attempted to create a super soldier by inserting emu DNA into his genome
A drop bear came for him......
As a dutch guy i laughed so hard when you played the National anthem
He is to
Bryan Wegman I was shook when I found that out because he doesn’t sound it. I’m from Flanders so I know Dutch accents and when I heard his I was honestly so shook.
@@cd9962 Shook? He is even a Frisian.. Look that one up ;) But it is always nice to visit and talk Dutch/Vlaams speaking people..
Zekers
I'd love to hear more of early aboriginal history, when I went through school they didn't teach us much about it, we learnt mostly about how poorly they were treated and massacres etc. They were wiped out in Tasmania.
it's cause we don't know much about it, and honestly it's kinda boring. although i guess that last part goes for most of australian history =/
Voytek well you can just piggyback off of british history
Read The Biggest Estate on Earth to learn about aboriginal land care and lifestyles.
Sam H I always love to read about the Aborigines (I'm not Australian tho) and I really love them, they're so fascinating as are their culture and languages
Aboriginal Australian history really is unique and intriguing. But you have to remember their history is mostly oral. They didn't have writing as we know it and we only know what we can dig up and what we hear in the oral history of each tribe. I mean compare non-Aboriginal Australian history to Aboriginal history. There is vastly more to know, research, interact with and look at in non-indigenous history than in Aboriginal history. Simply because of writing and record keeping. What makes that fact mind boggling is that there is vastly more history in post-European Australia then Pre-European Australia. Yet Europeans have only been in Australia since the 17th century but Aboriginal Australians have been here anywhere between 50,000 and 125,000 years! It really is a shame we haven't got any more records and sources to study. who knows what interesting things happened here in Aus in all those years that we may never know about.
I'm from Ballarat, home of the Eureka Rebellion, a hugely important part of our history. Thank you for making this video sir! I've seen the remains of the Batavia in a museum in Fremantle, which blew my mind, but I didn't know the dutch actually intermingled with the aborigines at that time. Mind Blown. Everybody around the world seems to forget about Australia, and while what we did to the natives was tragic, the country we have built here has turned out to be one of the most successful colonial countries ever. If you ever find your self down this end of the country, you're welcome to my abode for beers and cones.
don't buy into the lies designed to make you guilty, mate. we've done nothing but great service to the aboriginies.
you're right though: thanks to our british heritage we are one of the greatest countries in existence.
Dielfon Elettab white Australia policy and the stolen generation anyone ? The atrocities white people have done to the indigenous is nothing to be proud of makes me angry 😡 just like it does when people deny the holocaust or the eight centuries of atrocities the English did to the people of my ancestral homeland of Ireland or the Scots as well stop the revising of history please
We knew they would have funny accents in the future that made every sentence sound like a question, so, we left.
who is australian and watching this
Dan Blyton me
Dan Blyton nope
G'day!
mhm
Me and I HATE the British for what they've done.
Why even bother making a section of the video dedicated to trying to discuss Aboriginal history without offending anyone when you have people in the comments claiming that you're being racist, being racist themselves, and calling people out for being racist, why can't we just sit down and discuss history without anyone having a hissy fit.
@The Phantom I normally hate when people accuse others of virtue signalling. But you have pretty much nailed this. We can only control what we do now. That being said, if segments of the population are struggling as a result of generational and systemic abuse/racism/neglect. We should do our best to course correct, and I don't just mean throw money at the problem.
@The Phantom damn, very well said
I looked through the comment section and the only person I see complaining is you, complaining about non-existent complaints about the video being racist.
@@MrAlexkyra use your fucking eyes than
I love this video. As an American we aren't taught anything about Australian history in our school system but the more I learn about it the more fascinated I am.
This is my favorite history channel. I genuinely get excited every time you upload. Keep up the good work.
Thanks, I really appreciate you saying that!
You forgot 2 very important historical key points in Australian history,
1/ "BLACK WAR" Governor Lachlan Macquarie's 1812 declaration of war on all Australian Aboriginals, ordering they be taken into custody (executed), those whom resisted were hung in trees as a deterrent to others to just accept their fate. Hung Aboriginals covered the landscape.
2/ The acquisition of repeater rifles in the 1860's facilitated the extinction of over 200 different Aboriginal races etc by pedo head hunting police in what was the most repugnant decapitation genocides in history. Australian police supplying the East India Company a diverse range of Aboriginal heads for sale to museums and private collectors around the world, the children suffering a far worse fate.
Bro the photo at 21:47 had me laughing my ass off 🤣🤣🤣 I know it's a fucked up photo, but photoshooting the Emu over the Vietnamese soldier got me rolling
Oh my god, a non-Aussie who pronounces Emu right! Alert the presses!
If you had written it using the latin writing system not the english one far more would pronounce it correctly.
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gratz on 10k man! and awesome video!
Cheers mate!
Don't think you will upset Aussies by referencing our convict history. I'm proud to say I am descended from two convicts, one on my mother's side and one on my father's side. We call that Australian Royalty!
I've only found 1 convict ancestor and all but 2 of my lines go back at least 5 generations here. That means they were mostly free settlers. Man they chose to be here? Idots
Wow, I live near castle hill, and I had no idea of its historical significance. Thanks for making this video
LOL didn't you do history.....
Thanks for watching!
Lol me too
Mark Raymond castle towerrrrsssss
Mark Raymond its not even the biggest mall in sydney lmao
I live in the only town in the world at latitude 40' south. Waipukurau New Zealand
Not A Ranga north or South Island ? I have my dad's cousin living in te puke in the. Bay of plenty as my great aunt married a New Zealander !
Michelle Flood North Island, about halfway between Palmerston North and Hastings. And I just played Te Puke on a rugby exchange this morning!
Not A Ranga oh cool 😎 have a great day !
Michelle Flood thanks! You too
What about Ushuaia?
Yo I’m from New Guniea and I just learned something new
Greatings from Cell Block "D".
Regards Bruce McKay. 🇦🇺🤣
Another McKay. You know our ancestors came here because of the highland clearances?
We weren't criminals or convicts, we were crofters from the far north of Scotland who were rounded up and cleared off our ancestral lands.
Not many people know about that.
Bruce Mckay get rede⚔️
A lot of Irish too.
I have watched "Against the wind."
We are in the same cell
@@Noises wow mad thing, im actually from MacKay
As an Australian it was so touching to see you pay respect to those who fought in the great Emu wars! Such a tragic event which many of us are still coming to terms with! :-) :-)
As an Aussie myself I really enjoyed the penal colony map of Australia at the start and the emu war jokes
I really love Australia, great people and a great country. if I had to choose some other country to live in it would
be Australia.
>"great people"
oh boy, you've got a lot of things to learn about us
have you ever watched Australia Border Control on TV ?
What an obnoxious nit picking bunch of burocrats.
You must make a clear distinction between Aussie beach and bush civilians, and fucking pestering Aussie officials.
Norman Hampton are you implying that a far right government is bad? I'd take it any day over liberals whining when a man breathes in the wrong direction
Hitler's Moustache agreed
Well, statistically Australia is one of the best countries in the world for livability , America doesn't even have one city in the top 15 most livable cities.
2:32 COTTON EYE JOE
Can't say that seriously, died on the inside.
Fun fact: The Netherlands wanted Australia that way they could have a place to send their people when their mainland and Indonesia were inevitably reclaimed by the ocean.
As an Indonesian, I lol’d
Interesting fact - Australia is the only country to every have its leader disappear without a trace. Prime Minister Harold Holt in 1967. Can you imagine if a president of the USA just disappeared ?
Heath Cliff I dunno bit it would be nice if our current president would disappear without a trace... he can take the VP and all of Congress with him too.
He didn't disappear as such. He drowned whilst taking a swim in the ocean. By the time they realised, his body was taken out by the current. Which is why they never found his body. That's hardly a disappearance. It's a drowning.
A whole lot of people would be really happy.
I heard a story once. Someone I know claimed that one of his relatives who worked in the military was called to Harold Holt's house. He had been shot and was dead on the floor. This relative was then instructed to dispose of the body and keep it quiet. I have no way of verifying the story, nor do I wish to identify the source. Nor can I say that I 100% believe the story. But I did find it interesting.
Good luck with the secret service literally on all sides of you at all times no matter what for miles.
Hahahaha - love the humour 👌🏽 your Dutch accent tops it 🤣 soooooooo good!
Your history are the best , is like studying and comedy AT THE SAME TIME
i found this very enjoyable to watch , i'm a aboriginal from the tiwi islands :) & so this had me hooked
This video taught me more than my own school and I’m Australian lmao
Sad but true, eh?
I came to hear het Wilhelmus and was not disappointed.
Also, Hilbert mentions reaching 10000 subscriblers at the time the video was made in August 2017. Now he's got well over 78000 subscriblers. Well done, Hilbert!
omg asking for a moment of recognition to the victims of the emu war is such a dark joke you had me dying 😂
How was it dark? The emu war was just some government program to kill some birds, where's the darkness? In the emus families??
@@WoogleWimpy cringe
As an Australian I think you did a good job!
Thank you!
Have to agree with you there. Would have liked a bit more modern history but I learned a lot about how Australia came to be. Great work mate!
except South Australia was never a penal colony it was formed by free settlers.
The only culture in the world not to invent the wheel.
Fuck u
The video presents a very Dutch view of Australian history. While the Dutch "discovered" Australia they found nothing worth exploiting on Australia's west coast. Their interest was in what is now Indonesia with its abundance of valuable spices and a population of slaves to do the work. So the Dutch never actually claimed Australia as their own. In 1770 a British explorer name James Cook "discovered" the more habitable east coast of Australia and claimed it for Britain . As the video mentions, Britain needed a penal colony and decided to put it where Cook had landed in Botany Bay 18 years earlier. When that site lacked good water the First Fleet shift up the coast a few miles and discovered what is now Sydney Harbour. The British soon found gold and other resources and vast areas of agricultural land. Unlike Indonesia, Australia was more like the US, a place to settle and start a new life. Up in Indonesia the Dutch were despised for their exploitation and cruelty - slavery had continued into the 20th century. Australia gained independence in 1901 without a shot being fired. Tens of thousands died in Indonesia before it was recognised as an independent country by the UN in 1949 against Dutch wishes. The Dutch had not finished exploiting Indonesians
Had the Dutch colonised Australia it is highly likely it would have become another South Africa. Apartheid was very much a concept of the Afrikaaners, the descendants of the Dutch colonisers of South Africa.
Loved the vid mate. I can't believe you found out about the emu war 😂 good job
5:40
There would be an explanation to that
But Indonesian natives used to sail down the top of Australia and did sea cucumber trades with the Aboriginal natives
The tribes around that area have Indonesian words in their language as well
I learned that in my Indonesian class
They would of had interracial relationships with the Indonesians who had contact with them
8:50
There’s a bit of misinformation there
If you look into the archeological findings of earlier colonists and archeologists in the book Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe, there is evidence that Aboriginal society had a farming/agricultural system that benefited not just them but the rejuvenation of the land and its other inhabitants (Flora and Fauna). It’s a good read, I do suggest looking into it.
Nice video tho. Acknowledge the native life and that there was human society before colonialism through education is a great thing.
I was just about to type the 8:50 one, then I saw this lol. You can also look into the biology of Australian Flora, which has clear (internal and external) evidence of farming/agriculture; such as most Australian trees will only shed their seeds when a fire occurs as a result of controlled fires which the Aboriginal Australians used to do.
As a Australian. I really appreciate this. Thank you very much.
Great video! En hallo uit Nieuw Zeeland! One of the big reasons New Zealand rejected the Australian Federation was because, quite frankly, their laws surrounding native peoples were piss poor, and there were concerns that treatment of the Māori would suffer in a way that could come into conflict with the treaty of Waitangi. Apparently Australia had to pander by giving Māori suffrage, but it wasn't quite enough. Also, there were views that New Zealand was superior to Australia (we kept our Dutch name, so this clearly must have been the truth, right?). It seems even back then a trans-Tasman rivalry existed.
Keeping the name of Nieuw Zeeland does indeed clearly show your superiority.
@@draphotube4315the name should be Aotearoa. Wtf is new zeeland
@4:00 Arnhem languages? So does Australia actually amount to Zuid Gelderland? Making Dutch claim to the land more valid?
No. The language had a true name at some point, but it intermingled with Another language when it was colonised. Arnhem Land literally means “land of the foreigners”. So yes, if you believe the Dutch, it does make sense, but honestly it could be any language, or any other nation that colonised it at that time. There are no linguistic markers for Dutch in any of the indigenous languages of the area.
No the Dutch made no claim to Australia, in fact they thought the land was unliveable. It was only when the British arrived that any real Colonisation took part.
The Great Emu War. It was 3 Army Reservists, (MILITIA) in a truck with a couple of Lewis guns trying to shoot Emus and they discovered that the big birds were more tricky than people think they are. They had a kill ratio of 2500 rounds fired to kill 50 birds. That’s 50 rounds per bird. (This is the conservative estimate). Incidentally, the bullets fired to kill one Emu ratio was way lower than the bullets fired per kill ratio of the US forces in the Vietnam War, which was 50000 rounds per man killed. Admittedly, the Emus were not shooting back. The soldiers were amazed at the Emus capacity to absorb bullets and keep going.
It was a interesting historical footnote but not a seminal moment in Australian history when compared to the World Wars, the Great Depression, the Bodyline Cricket scandle, the Snowy Mountain Scheme, the mass immigrations of Europeans in the 1960’s, being the first non Americans to win the America Cup. etc, etc.
Anyway, the Emu War happened in Western Australia and they’re a weird mob, and it’s the only interesting thing to ever happen in Western Australia.
7:30
Where did you come from? Where did you go? Where did you come from, cotton eyed Joe?
right when he said that, I immediately thought of cotton eye joe 😂
You missed the Rum Rebellion and how each state came to be.
Daniel Liddicoat was going to mention that !
no surprise - he didn't have time for actual history; only for sucking off abos.
its the uploader's agenda that got in the way of accurate presentation of history.
The Rum Rebellion is so important. It set the precedent and culture for government corruption which we still see. Can't have enough ICACs and Royal Commissions, I say, keep the bastards honest.
Hilbert, . . . history very nice done . . . Iooking forward for other documentations of yours !
Great Video mate, loved the first part about the indigenous people. Had no idea about most of that. Just wanted to flag the whole part of history surrounding Van Diemans Land and the French exploration/sabre rattling that went on with the British. Apparently the British passed the french ships in some spots on their way down to claim the land.
A history of Tasmania might be in order!
I feel at times Aboriginal Australians do not get enough credit neither do Torres Strait Islanders as far as I know about the Australian Aboriginals at least as sure they may have lacked named villages, cities, civilizations, towns, etc and they where pretty much in a mixture of the wooden, stone, and bone ages however they did have there own inventions they could call there own like Boomerangs, Didgeridoos, Dilly Bags, Womeroos, Dot Paintings, Fire Hunting Techniques, Rattles, Flyers, Message Sticks, Nulla Nullas, Shields Of There Touchings, Dream Time Religion, There uniqueness with face and body painting styles, etc.
100% agree, but none of those inventions are unique as many other cultures also have had those at one point.
matthew mann they also invented outriggers
this video is so Australian that by the end, i have a snag from Bunnings on my right hand and a bottle of VB on my left.
Why not mention Australian participation in the Boer war, Gallipoli or the Kokoda trail? The Aussies have a proud military history. My GPA made a lot of good friends in OZ while he was in the US army during WW2.
Teddy Rattlesnake I studied two of these wars in school and they didn’t tell us that Australia took part
Caramel Bieber they probably just mentioned Commonwealth Army
He did mention Gallipoli
This is a great video, but why the fuck I'm seeing racist comments in the comments section?
Expert Opinion what are you talking about?
XZDrake I'm not even from Australia bro, im an young black man from the USA
Lord Levarius Wright
Aboriginals make up 25% of prison population yet account for 3%.
Women are 50 times more likely to suffer DV in an Aboriginal community.
Australia has been giving them welfare and health assistance for sixty years to no avail.
They cost more than $40billion a year in tax, own mineral rights and 12.6% of land amongst just 750000
(A population that has doubled in twenty years as anyone can claim to be Indigenous to jump on the gravy train) they ARE the wealthiest land owners on the planet but suffer internalised corruption.
Now victimhood politics is in full swing in the west, one eighth indigenous love to scream about their ancestors and their land forgetting about the 7/8ths Irish blood. These are the political ambitious or the self agrandising welfare pot smokers.
Actual outback communities with more full blood are a real social issue.
If you want an idea about aboriginal community violence just RUclips it to get an idea. Some towns are dry (alcohol free) some are not. Alice Springs has a big grog problem (as well as other drugs).
Meanwhile the spineless politicians pander to the narrative while the inner city SJWs who have never been to a troubled community cry in empathetic naval gazing. Using reductionist arguments about skin colour and racism. Ignorants.
Anyone over the age of 45 knows our history better than the youth and their revisionist BS.
Immigrants only see the tourist image of dream time and art where the reality is far from it. They then abuse whites as racist cause they have hang ups in their own countries history like African slavery in America or British colonialism in India, even Chinese. They seem to want to abuse whites while wanting to get in to get the good life we created.
Australia is unique in being settled rather peacefully while
It is currently being revised otherwise. This pisses people off as we've done so much good and it is not recognised.
Gutten Tag well it's kinda the same here in the US where a lot of blacks in jails and prisons
Lord Levarius Wright
Yeh I know. American jails are a private business. America has the highest incarceration rate in the world.
I think it's different here as Aboriginals fell in love with alcohol from day one and didn't have the enzyme to break it down quick enough. They can become very aggressive.
Australia has a much better welfare system which supports them to not work which suits their culture. But they get bored too. There parents get high and the kids rebel. Problem is free time and the grog.
America is a dog eat dog world with guns to boot. Seems the lack of welfare and systemic poverty drives crime which suits the system of cheap prison labour.
The history of America is very different. It is apples and oranges , but unfortunately many SJW just see colour and extrapolate the same conclusion.
It's a shame as Australia was founded on Christian principles and we did try and help the indigenous and still do. Nothing is ever perfect but compared to America, Australia was like a new aged
utopia with no wars or genocide. Not that it's portrayed that way now as everyone wants to be heard as part of the victim club..
Well done! One small point: 'Botany Bay' named during Cook's 1770 voyage, greatly impressed botanist Joseph Banks who was part of that expedition. He recommended it to the powers-that-be as a great place for a colony......problem was that when the First Fleet arrived several years later, they found little reliable water so they quickly moved a little north up the coast to Sydney Harbour (specifically Sydney Cove, present-day Circular Quay). Hence the location of today's central Sydney.
The Dutch really like naming things after "New Holland"
Too bad it never works
Like new amsterdam new york
There is stil a place called Holland in America
Everything we discovered is not in our property anymore New-York was called New Amsterdam and we rucking traded it for an useless island then Indonesia was called Nederlands Indië and then Australia was called New Holland and now we are just a small country with a few islands far away and we had Suriname but not anymore
No disrespect intended towards the Aboriginal people when I say this, they were always going to be conquered if they continued living off the land and not advancing in technology. It is the way of the world and if it wasn't Europeans the Japanese would have likely done it. I'm actually surprised they lasted as long as they did being left alone.
Exactly or the country would have just been found by another group of people and taken over by them instead.
Technology?? My people didn't need it back then, just like the wheel, it was useless. Many other Nations came and went. But they respected us and our country. Who the hell do you think you are?
2019 is showing every race standing together against racism, even your own.
When we all truly stand united, you will be the minority in the First Nations Country. Do you like those apples?
Yeah they're still known as the most archaic people in the world, recorded as the fastest runners/sprinters, great focus on nomadic hunting, elemental endurance, on the family, the classless egalitarian ethos, dream-time, distinct music, it's unbelievably cool & amazing to behold. I hate it that the most peaceful nations on earth are the ones most exploited, because they're easiest to overcome. A few pacific islanders had plentiful fruit and song, banned all weaponry, showed perhaps the closest thing to paradise, and thus were first to fall.
Japan would probably have been taken earlier, if they weren't defended by typhoons, or hadn't locked themselves up in a warring like state of obsessive religious death for a hundred years.
@@cozzazee4043 Dude..... Your people clearly did need the technology, I mean, they got conquered without it. But it obviously wasn't the fault of the aboriginals, they couldn't develop like Europeans and Asians for many outside factors, (e.g. a lack of easy food like sheep or pigs/complete isolation from they first civilizations.)It's not to disrespect them, it's just a fact of life. Btw, the wheel is always useful (especially for a nomadic people,) and there was no 'one country' of aboriginals. Many other nations didn't come and go because nation states hadn't been invented yet! It says in the video that the only people the aboriginals saw for hundreds of years were the Dutch! And truly united?! You are starting to sound like an ethno-nationalist there, kinda racist m8.
Yep, that's why the Maoris fared a little better and were able to negotiate more, because they were (mostly) more united and organized in armies when the Brits arrived. Here in Oz, hundreds of nomadic tribes with no central organized body was never going to survive the age of European conquest. Hell, many smaller organized European nations didn't, either.
That's not a judgement or criticism on the First Australians, Coral, just a sad truth.
Oldest grinding stone found in Australia is around 40000 years old, making them the oldest farmers in the world, and there's evidence that that was being used to bake bread, making them the oldest bakers in the world. This would exclude them from being hunters and gatherers.
Or was it a stone anchor?
@@MegaPeedee it was found approximately 2000 ks inland.... I don't think it's a stone anchor
@PermaCultureBob96 Graham Hancock is a great investigator and presented his findings in an easy-to-read Manor
Thanks for touching into our great southern land!!!
That sounded very molesty.
The first settlement wasn't in Botany Bay, although that was the plan. The first settlement was in Port Jackson
And was subsequently renamed Botany Bay, if I'm not mistaken. It's the same place
@@aliciastrous1966 No, you are mistaken. Port Jackson was named by Captain James Cook in 1970 and this name was listed in the navigation charts used by the First Fleet 18 years later. Similarly, Cook named Botany Bay listing this on his navigation charts. Governor Phillip would have relied on the charts and deferred to Capt. Cook’s naming of the two locations.
My great great great great grandfather was a man named Owen Cavanough, he was the first man from the first fleet to set foot on Australian soil therefore technically making my bloodline the oldest family in Australia (excluding indigenous people) and I'm a direct descendant to him.
Dunny r/quityourbullshit
Za_dark_fox I ain't lying nigga
I watched this with my father and he said that you pronounce Dutch words very well
well he is dutch
@@dirtyphill2831 oh wait fr? Thought he just really liked them
lucas holtkamp Lol, no way that a non-Dutch person can pronounce these words as accurate as he did.
You can also hear his Dutch roots in some of the English words. Zoals hij ‘the’ uitspreekt als ‘thie’.
@@j.a.weishaupt1748 ja ik wist neit dat hij een nederlander was.
lucas holtkamp Maakt niet uit vriend. Goede dag verder. Goed je handen blijven wassen ;-)
It has been 250 years since Captain James Cook landed on the east coast....you completely fail to mention this MAJOR fact.
If you think about it, 250 Years isn't actually that long ago
Some travel tips if you're planning to travel to Australia.
If you're in a bar, and you're getting in the middle of a fight, just say the words 'Look over there, an emu!'.
If you see a nice young lady and you want to pick her up, just say 'Jump quick in my car, there is an emu!'.
When you want a hotelroom and they are full, just say in the lobby 'I heard that there are some emus in the neighbourhood'.
THIS WAS AWESOME! PLEASE DO THE HISTORY OF THE PHILIPPINES PLEASE!
Only Europeans feel guilt for colonization, no other peoples on this planet have expressed any remorse for their colonial past.
the Japanese m8
@@olajong2315 they haven't either.
What I find fascinating about Australia is that it remained undiscovered for so long by non-Aboriginal people. There was that bit of East Indians having traded with northern Australians. But other than that, nothing. Polynesians between 2000 BC and 1200 AD went by boats and discovered all those islands in the Pacific, all the way to Hawaii and New Zealand. So clearly they were REALLY GOOD with boats. But they never discovered enormous Australia and settled there? That I find so hard to believe. What happened there? Why did the Europeans not find Maori-like people in Australia in the 1780s? Very weird...
3:36 THIS IS WHAT AUSTRALIA HAS BEEN HIDING FROM US FOR 1,000s OF YEARS GIANT EMUS
Drumsticks for Australian KFC.
I feel so ashamed I have lived my life in ignorance of a war that took place in my own country. Why don't they teach us about the Emu War? What are they trying to hide?
I didn't know that part about NZ and Fiji being apart of Australia that's fascinating how have I lived here my whole life and not known that? Subbed you did a great and fair recount of events.
almost all of this was very interesting and correct but the part about william buckley is false because he was apart of the first (failed) attempt of sending prisoners to port phillip bay which is located in victoria and he was not sent as a convict to new south wales but as i said everything else was really informative
side note: he legit g sent to australia for "stealing a cloth" and there was no proof he ever did it like dammmmm thats one heavy punishment
Cammy Hill interesting fact this is the origin of the phrase you've got Buckleys meaning you've got no chance of something happening or of it being done !!
Cammy Hill Well at the time Port Phillip was a part of NSW, so he's not technically wrong.
that is true but he said botany bay which is different from port phillip
20:55 knew he was gonna mention our damn war
What an awesome video this was! Thank you so much for creating this. I'm an American & I find Australia a fascinating place. Unfortunately, in the United States, Australian history is not a top priority teaching point. I headed straight for the "knower of all information" we all carry around in our pockets & was thrilled to discover such a gem here. Really, thank you so much. Wish we could have a q & a session. Now I need more input.
15:21 the dude on the right was like: "this is fine"
Considering the Amount of Irish in Australia, it should probably be called 'New Ireland' :-)
Nah that's America and monseratte
Fock u maite
Paddyland?
New Ireland sits of the north east of Australia. Can't have two of them … to be sure.
More English than Irish
You've correctly noted that Australia became federated in 1901, it did not become Independent until 1919 When along with Canada, New Zealand and South Africa it was allowed (under a lot of pressure from the United States) by Britain to join "The League of Nations". Until 1919 all four countries were in fact still colonies of England. (Look it up!)
Basically all that happened in 1901 was a unification of the colonies. Also didn't we only really become under John Curtin?
Ah yes the great Emu war. History tells us our military failed but often forgets to mention the triumph of the Australian people over those ghastly birds.
then the bounty hunter names dog came in and did the job
Meta llic.
You do know that "the Great Emu War" consisted of three soldiers, two machine guns, and one truck don't you?
I'm Australian and I'm not a criminal
He's using stereotypes for comedic effect. Like how you've got high Netherlands countryball on your profile picture
I’m an aboriginal person and you basically got our story spot on but there were many more languages and cultures than you say, also the reason that there aren’t much aboriginal people around now is because the colonies and the Europeans slaughtered and raped us, took our land and placed us in prisons so we have such less population compare to say the refugees in Australia
😢
I’m sorry.
❤ from Indonesia
lost it when you played the dutch national anthem
also big props your pronunciations subbed!
Might want to check the history of “Cell Block C” (SA) in particular.
Word. We weren’t no cell block. We fancy.
@@laurenpiro1876 South Australia; the only colony that didn't have convicts.
Elroy Fudbucker I know homie, I live here.
Didn't import convicts, they made their own once they got here.
Me: he's gonna shit up
Presenter, 3 minutes in: shits up
most of Australia was New South Wales in the early 1800s if i am correct
there's more comments about racism than racist comments
I don’t even see any racists comments? What are they saying?
All we learn in school is about the Europeans colonizing Australia & the gold rush, never heard about the about what actually happened with the penile colonies. It was literally just about the Aboriginals and the gold-rush, so it's good to actually learn something new about my country.
Penal* lmao not penile. Look up what penile refers to 😂
I stand firm by my claim that everything can be traced back to the Dutch.
Jona Willekens some but not all unless we're talking about people like Abel Tasman
Michelle Flood I still stand by my claim
Yes thank you the weed is flippin fantastic here.
Wait. So how did the Dutch lose Australia? Was there a treaty signed or was it taken?
Joep Koehof The Dutch never established any settlements in Australia so it was never taken ;)
They, according to a famous quote, said "nah mate, fuck this shit, we're outta here!" And then they left.
Nathaniel Pillar I see. They probably said Ja fock deze woestijn. Wij Zijn weg uit deze hel
History With Hilbert And therefore, the 5 minutes you dedicated to them was disproportionate. The British built Australia. Yet you spent only 8 minutes on them. A pity. Missed opportunity
Kenelm Tonkin Lets calm down here. WE discovered it and had first contact with the natives
as an Australian I have to say I really did enjoy this
I'm an American, but on the anniversary of that fateful day I always celebrate by finding the biggest bird around and flipping the middle finger at it and sometimes bringing a loaf of bread, teasing it and then not feeding it. The US and Australia are great allies so we Americans never forget!!!
I wish the dutch stayed. How cool would it have been if Dutch was also a national language.
@@sandwichbreath0 Doesn't matter who would have taken Australia. The fate of aboriginals would have been the same
And if new york stayed new amsterdam
@@mr.bonkers2310 😂😂
Ggggg gggg ggrggegegg that how dutch people talk xD greetings from amsterdam haha
Ggggrggg gggrgrgg that's how that would have sound worldwide haha better not. Grt from Amsterdam
I started feeling sad trying to think of something in our history as horrible as you'd hyped it up to be, then it was the EMU'S! How could you mention such a sad, dark, and bloody moment in australias history
You are supposed to put a warning at the start of a video so heavy with aboriginal stuff that there might be now deceased people present in images, cant remember why but it's something to do with their religion or something