As an Indigenous Veteran, I served this Nation for all cultures/religions that inhabit this land under the Australian National Flag. I also pay respects to my family, my culture/heritage/ancestors & my dreaming when it was appropriate/allowed in front of my former colleagues. The actions of Adam Bandt are not called for and he should be removed for blatant treasonous acts. That is similar for Lidia Thorpe. I do not recognise you as a Leader of the Indigenous people, I do not see you as a Leader for my people from Northern NSW. The both of you and the Greens Party are doing nothing but the division between Indigenous & Non-Indigenous people.
I'm indigenous, and i agree removing the flag is stupid, to segregate one another by exclusion is counter intuitive, blaming past generations for today is dumb, both communities perpetuating stereotypes by way of segregated echo chambers is stupid, 100% agree buttsmarn
As First Nations that you are, thank you. Not to mention that is also childish of the greens leader that did it. And for that, he is in the same level as Peter Dutton with what that dickhead candidate for liberals did moving the aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags from his press conference.
not an expert in matters indigenous, but I know enough to know that speaking on behalf of indiginous people when you're not one of them is probably the single quickest way to piss a lot of them off, apparently old bandy-boy hasn't worked that one out yet...some people just have to learn the hard way I guess...
I have very little knowledge on Australia. But wow sounds like a lot of Americans problem to. The white people today get blamed for slavery that we had nothing to do with. But at the same time I’m also realizing that this is globally planned, A lot of your issues sound like America’s issues The people in power want its people to hate each other so we spend less time realizing how corrupt they are
In the 1980’s in Australia, we used to learn about the Aboriginal culture, go to shows with singing and dancing, get taught to paint with black Aboriginal people and listen to dream time stories. We absolutely loved this and I felt like it was apart of me as well. Just like the buttsman said and I really mean that. Now we are so polarised and divided and my Kids have no such opportunities because of people like Adam Bandt and Lidia Thorpe. It’s a sad state of affairs when I’m telling my kids about Dream time stories and they have no clue. I want to go back to the 80’s - 90’s asap.
You seem to talk of Aborigines as a "FreakShow". Certainly you find them intriguing. Got "taught to paint" with Aborigines. Wow, you make it sound special. I fear you, as does the Left, comment that you care.......as viewing them like Circus Animals...
I know a few of the "stolen generation" and talking to them they were pretty happy about it, they point to the people still living in bush camps, then say they are happy to have been integrated into society and given the same opportunity to work and live with everyone else. Then I talk to people that were taken into state care as kids at the same time and they sound like they were treated worse. Not that it was a competition but most of the stolen generation seemed to fair better than others taken away from their parents. Then you get to look at the 'genocide" that supposedly happened, and find out it was police chasing bands of criminals that attacked outback settlements, often cattle stations and other farms. The left keep trying to rewrite history and wash away the attacks on the settlers and just concentrate on the chasing down of the murderers. Most of the history taught is through a weird lens of being the oppressor because of being white.
that's silly. It's like saying an antibiotic wouldn't exist without germs. Guess what, it would still exist, it just wouldn't need to be sold in little capsules. It would sit around making bread mouldy instead. What a silly notion.
I'm maori, thanks for the shout out. Yeah you're spot on. Hate only gets more hate, but love gets more love. Maybe Adam should show love to his flag and country. Can't fix shit with hate. Showing love to people because they're people works here. Woman hating men doesn't help. Indigenous people hating immigrants doesn't help. Love and kindness is what solves problems.
It's happening all over the world - these politicians want to divide us. Here in England, racism had kinda faded away up until around 2016 and then you get these groups popping up that stir up hatred. Check out a group called Hope not Hate - good name but they ruin people's lives and make them lose their jobs if their politics doesn't align The people who say they're doing good are normally the people do bad things - in politics. Take care!
beautifully said brother! the *only* way to bring balance to a negative (like hate) is to add a positive (like Love) - Love is The Way, The Truth and The Life of us all (love of life, family, friends, music, art, nature, pets, animals, cars, whatever) reap as you sow
As a kid in the 90's I learned tons about Native Australian culture and history. Anti-Racists (or just racists) are a big part of the problem. These racists think that people who respect, admire and emulate a foreign culture are stealing it. You can't steal a culture, it's not a possession. You can adopt it or reject it. Real racists don't want to emulate or adopt a foreign culture they hate. Can you imagine the mental gymnastics required to convince yourself that someone who has a great appreciation and respect for a foreign culture is actually a racist who hates them? Also anyone who identifies people around them as a "whatever colour" person as if that's their defining characteristic, is not anti-racist, they're just regular old racist. To them, skin colour defines YOU.
Then it gets worse when people of those culture gate keep who gets embrace their culture. The ticktocker, modern warrior gets offended when non-native Americans do stuff related to his culture.
Fought alongside the aussies in Afghanistan. Some of the finest soldiers and human beings that I have ever had the pleasure of meeting and the honor of fighting beside. Fun to be around, damn funny. We all had so much in common that it was like we weren't even from two different countries. I miss being surrounded by that kind of caliber of people. I feel lucky to have these memories and experiences, fair dinkum.
left them to fend for themselves too after running away from the war you started in fear glad you made it home safe not all our countrymen can say the same
I love how these lefties are against stereotypes while at the same time he says all Aboriginal people hate the Aussie flag. isnt that stereotyping all Aboriginal people as all thinking the same.
Brandt the joke that keeps giving. Removes the ANF, But forgets he is still standing below a massive ANF that sits above parliament house. What a peanut. EAD Brandt.
I lived in Australia for 3 years when I was a kid! Best times of my childhood! Thanks to your people I learned to speak English without an accent, embrace diversity, and truly belonged to a community! Thank you Australia!
The thing that many inner city young folk don't understand. Is that when you vote Greens, you are voting against your own country. The Greens mindset is all about appealing to raw emotion, minus the critical thought for potential policy consequences. It is a party which places "feelings" above all else. That includes the wellbeing of your fellow countrymen. Human suffering is, in the mind of a Green voter, a fair tradeoff for enacting policy which they feel will help "save the planet".
I think you forget their point they said its a movement to save the planet but in reality its a movement to save from our stupidity and keep surviving,the planet Will survive on its own long before we are gone sure It Will be a grey Planet full of dust ,shit atmosfere and without life Sure most parties dont act as their origin purpose but i think that there still room for some good since the rest of the parties dont do shit for the enviorment they live in
@Salt Meister while I agree in theory with what your saying about the mining sector, unfortunately it that engrained into our economy that a full scale abort will crash said economy. It's a necessary evil (investment in the mining sector) for the time being until infrastructure and ability to move forward through sustainability is reached, otherwise a depression is inevitable.
Spot on, mate 👍 Absolutely love this magnificent country & grateful to those who fought for the privileges I get to enjoy today. I am lucky & proud to be an Australian 🇦🇺
Isaac you should be a national treasure , I’m just an average man whose lived in Australia for 50 years since coming from the UK .Everything you said is so true . If you can’t be associated with the Australian flag you shouldn’t live here ! What’s the place coming to , makes worry about my grandkids .Thanks for your videos . ( I’m afraid I’m a bit to old to wear your T shirts ) all the best John Wilmot
some claim the Australian flag has no symbol on it that aboriginals cant identify to. which ignores the southern cross which has a dreamtime story and is present in both rock art and carvings . the southern cross has been used for basic navigation for as long as people have existed in the southern hemisphere
I have as much indigenous blood as Lydia Thorpe and I don't call myself Aboriginal because I'm not. Great Grandma was but I'm just Australian with a mix in me. Thorpe should look in the mirror and see it as well.
One flag, One country. the other thing is a racist trade mark designed to split Australians and that the Australian Govt paid $25 Million to get the trademark as an Aboriginal person sold it. So far around $1 Trillion dollars (of taxpayer money) has gone on a tiny minority that most have a very dubious claim to being "Aboriginal"
Despite being American, I love the Aussie flag. The Union Jack shows where the Aussies came from, people from England who went there to start a new life at the Southern Cross looks down on that beautiful land. It’s symbolic like how the US flag has 13 stripes for the 13 colonies we started as, and as new states were added we’d occasionally had new stars to the blue square, now we got the 50 stars of the modern flag. But that’s the point. The most amazing flags like Australia and the US tell a story with their design. Makes them more special and you want to be more patriotic when you learn the symbolism.
I think it’s all virtue signalling with no action. We should be proud of all three flags, they should represent inclusion and change. Also Lidia may have indigenous heritage but she lives, speaks and acts like a privileged white lady. Remember you don’t have to be white to have privilege.
The one party a majority of Australia hates is easily the Greens. There’s probably worse parties but the greens is hated because of its policies and ineffectiveness.
Isaac, 10/10 for this instalment...Now for another topic, a person, you, of Irish heritage with a given name of 'Isaac, interesting me thinks, so looking a little deeper into the origin of same, one finds the following....Derived from the Hebrew יִצְחָק (Yitzhak), the name Isaac means “one who laughs” or “one who rejoices.” In the Old Testament of the Bible, Isaac is the firstborn son of Abraham. ... So Isaac Butterfield, one conclusion may be your parents have a wicked sense of humour and or they are psychic.. Well, laughter is the best medicine, right ??...Right !!...
The Australian flag has an interesting history. 1. It was an adaptation of the New Zealand flag which was a proposed flag for NZed while NSW was the governing body of New Zealand. We federated first so we appropriated their flag. 2. The union jack in the NZed flag was symbolic of the NZ - UK treaty. It had nothing to do with Australian circumstances at the time. 3. The First Nation has never been what its name implies! It has always been a continent of separate and sometimes waring peoples that were impartial to one another and, due to a lack of sophisticated culture and unity were "invaded" by a technically superior cohort of nations who sought wealth and victory. None of which history can call unique. (Sorry First Nation Survivours)... Adam Bandt sought media focus for an entirely different purpose. He has slurred not only the cultural evolution of a flag and its nation, but he has avatared the First Nation and Torres Strait Islander flags and culture as supporters of his terrorist plight. Bant is an egotistic shill attempting to purport himself as a do-gooder and avenger for fantasy ideologies including his climate change magic powers. He must have been raised on the mantra "If you build it they will come". What he has done here is build decent and controversy in order to give him a status he doesn't deserve. #uckU2themoon Bant.
Can't blame the British. Everyone had a shit, short and brutal life a hundred+ years ago. If it weren't for the English coming Australia would not be what it is today.
@@jimbo3860 not all white people were British. For starters. Now I hope you're not trying to blame people today for things done by the deceased, which they don't condone.
As a English woman I say it was the English more then Britain, England looked down and took advantage of the Irish, Welsh and Scottish, it’s only been in the last 40 years we have started to make up to them.
@@jimbo3860 unless you're in the BLM community in the UK where I live. My dad's friend was stabbed by a group of black people because he found out his ancestors owned slaves.
I do like Isaac and his humour. Im guessing here he may be being jingoistic and taking the pizz, but he is an Aussie so cant help but put the shitz on the English. Its in his breed or people to do so, especially if there is Irish and Scots heritage (he is as much them as a greek) in there.
In 2013, Thorpe was declared bankrupt, with over A$700,000 in debts, including monies owed to Indigenous Business Australia, and A$55,000 owed to the Australian Taxation Office. She said that her bankruptcy resulted from domestic violence, stating "like many survivors of family violence, I ended up losing everything in a bid to protect myself and my family from an impossible situation".[11] Her ex-husband, who was an alcoholic, confirmed her account of the marriage breakdown. She was discharged from bankruptcy in 2016
Australia literally became a country in 1901, before then it was under direct foreign control. The country as a whole is technically only responsible for the past century of misdoings, while history shouldn’t be erased or ignored that cuts both ways, yes horrible things have been done, does that mean you can be a child and refuse to stand with the flag of the country that gave that man a job and any semblance of importance? I’d assume not
The various separate states were self ruling from the mid 1800s before federation. Not under direct foreign control. London urged restraint but the individual colonists on the ground preferred to take land and kill aboriginals. The first act on federation in 1901 was the immigration restriction policy, the introduction of the white Australia policy.
Being a nationalist doesn't mean you are hateful towards other countries. It means you love your country from which you came from or claim stake too. You want your country to be prosperous and great above all else. Doesn't mean that you wish bad on other countries.
I think you’re confusing patriotism with nationalism. Nationalism generally defines as complete self-interest to the detriment of others. For example, the “N” in NAZI stands for Nationalist. Their name was the Nationalist Socialist Party.
@@StarSwarm. haha you are a funny fella. Nationalism isn't anything dealing with Race or religion. Someone who is Patriotic is a Nationalist. Look up Patriotism and Nationalism. They both are synonyms to eachother. Im a Nationalist type of guy who believes in America and her prosperity above any other nation. You really think that I wish bad on other nations? No I don't. Very opposite of that. But I know you are probably some liberal guy who thinks that anyone who slightly disagrees with you is a Nazi. Well, if you look at history. NAZIS weren't that bad compared to Socialists who under Joseph stallin, Mao Zedong, Che Guevara, Vladimir Lenin. These people put Hitler to shame for the Amount of people they murdered.
As an American, you Aussies and every country that stands for freedom and individualism, deserve to feel the same pride we patriotic Americans feel. When we look upon our flag knowing the sacrifices and good deeds committed to bring and sustain the rights the governments try and strip from us today.
My Thai sister in law has struggled to be happy in Australia. She doesn't want to go back to Thailand,it's worst there employment wise. She wants to come back to Britain!
Replace “Australia” with “America”, and, as an American, I totally agree with you. I grew up in the Southwest and I am white. I spoke rudimentary Spanish and knew a lot about Mexican food and culture. I loved. Then it became wrong to be a white, Irish Catholic American. I suppose that I too am responsible for my forefathers who lived in poverty in Maine.
I think there's a fair case for changing the flag and I'm fully in support of the republic. However, the Liberals do have a point by only displaying one flag: one flag represents one people, and a single nation. To display multiple flags representing different ethnic groups implies that they are not represented by the national flag and not accepted as Australians, even though they're citizens. "Segregating our flags" is what it seems like to me - 'one flag for whites and others, two others for indigenous' is dividing based on race. If we want to change it, let's change it to better represent something that unites us, like democracy, freedom from oppression, mateship, the southern cross or nature.
If you'd never heard Adam Bandt talk before but had only read about his positions on a variety of issues you would not be surprised when you heard him talk with that effeminate lisp.
I found out today that I'm Scottish and Irish too! My Dad was adopted so My Brother did ancestry for Me for My 40th, stoked to know. Our Family can be traced to Buchan, fife and Angus in Scotland.
Interesting that Senator called Lydia's surname is actually an old Norse word introduced to the English language by the Vikings who raided, plundered and took possession of much of England before the Norman's arrived.
13:43 Issac, the Australian flag does represent all of Australia, regardless of race. At least Peter Dutton is smart and stands in front of our one flag that unites us all. ONE NATION! ONE PEOPLE! ONE FLAG! 🇦🇺🇦🇺
What about the Indigenous Australians who have fought and died under this flag throughout the 20th and 21st century wars? I have served with Aboriginal Australians (in the Navy), who love this country more than anything. Disgraceful conduct from the Greens Leader, the Australian people deserve better. EX LS Royal Australian Navy 🇦🇺🦘🐊🏴☠️
Isaac, If only people would focus on the importance of understanding the past on its own terms instead of projecting modern ideas and attitudes back into the past.
Yes, our history has some very bad things in it. But what country does not? But the new vogue of hating one’s flag, and by extension, one’s country because of past deeds is ridiculous. It states that a) they do not see ANY change or good or difference between now and then. This is not only insulting to the ppl who live today, but totally diminishes and dismisses all the hard work done by those in the past to make things better. Plus, you could see it as racist, because after all, many indigenous Australians fought hard to get the changes made( and homophobic and what have you), but these ppl seem to think that those ppl and their works are just not good enough to acknowledge. And b) that they must have it so well, or, by extension, the country must be doing things better, that the only complaint they can point to is past deeds done by ppl now dead. Like someone from an upper-middle class family still crying about how their great grandfather was so poor that they had to go to bed hungry most nights, so you don’t know how it is to be poor, unlike them. Oh, and c) they really don’t have any interest in making things better, because no matter what changes happen, there is always the unchangeable past to point at and say ‘see, that proves that today is just as bad… no, worse.’
He’s a greenie what do you expect Issac? They are called watermelons for a reason, thin layer of green and red to the core, although I think they have more in common with smegma, anyway another great vid mate EDIT: I’m from Melbourne so there’s greenies everywhere……it’s horrid here STAY AWAY
I particularly loved Lidia Thorpe’s tirade against the Northern Territory Governor General for passing a law that she claimed was out of touch with aboriginal people because of course he’s just another white man. The NT GG is an aboriginal woman…
I'm English and live in England and everyone hates us 😂 for good reason of course. But we are like the naughty older brother. Even when we didn't do anything, it's still our fault😂
people like blaming others for their problems their just trying guilt trip so can push down feel ashamed for heritage just responed with one their failing French to busy to fighting each other to unite against Germany twice always good example
@@BooF308 Do you understand,how many times the english/ french/ Germans and Americans, have stabbed Russia and Eastern Europe in the back? For starters... The Slavs saved Western Europe from islamic invasion 75 times. They battled the ottoman empire for 500 years! 1917 it was over! The Russians got to Constantinople. They got ready to take it! The french / english main players in manouvering russia away . The Bolshevik revolution started! Leon Trotsky ( lev davidovich Bronstein) came out of exile from new york . Leading a revolution in Russia. With Lenin from germany. Who arrived with femminist Rosa Luxemburg. All Financed by wallstreet! 2nd world war.....The Russians defeated the Nazis. Lost 2500 soldiers a day at Stalingrad. Lost over 20 million! More than all nations combined! Churchill was a major player in 1946 ..in setting up the European union. He was also a big player in ww1. Setting up the Versailles treaty. Basically starving the germany. Leading to a second world war. Nazism/ communism both came out of Germany. Present times! Ukraine was overthrown by obama in 2014.( DIGITAL MAIDAN). Nuland a main player! The Obama administration trained/ funded/ armed/ the Ukranian army . Including the soccer hooligans that became azov battalion ( neo nazis). Nato broke the Minsk agreement. For 8 years over 18000 Russians civilians died in East Ukraine. The media silent! Ukraine a proxy to destroy Russia. Take it's resources. Main players... England, Germany, France and The Zionist controlled USA. Learn your history friend! The Anglo Saxon sphere are disgusting! Long live the Balkans!
A proud Englishman here. I'll refer to the quote "sins of my grandfather" if people hate us English for what the English did 100s of years ago then holy shit!! The English now ain't the English then. Most of the English are good people, salt of the earth, give the shirt off their back and all that bollox.... Hate! Is a strong, powerful emotion, and, if you spend your life hating then you've wasted it.
Tbh, some of the policies and ideas that the greens have produced are quite good (like the plan to create a Made in Australia Bank and bring 'green' steel manufacturing back to Australia, so that electric cars, railways & trains can be manufactured locally) , but other times, the ideas are out rageous and unrealistic (like removing the Australian flag and advocating for more - somewhat excessive amounts of - LGBTQIA+ education in primary schools & kindergartens: like teaching children about sexuality may be beneficial, but leave that type of proposed education to high school, let kids be kids until their old enough to make a big decision - like changing their sexuality).
Yeah. Many countries are too reliant on other countries nowadays. In my opinion every country should have enough industrial/domestic capacity to be self sufficient without foreign trade and such.
Im a Aboriginal young fella, and having the Australian flag the way it is doesn't bother me, its more the meaning of people bringing up the past. When people bring up the past, it can either hurt or heal, most of all we need to mend the past by is not acknowledging it, but by moving forward in acceptance and involve more Aboriginal and Torre strait islander culture, like the Maori in NZ, having more school programs teach and benefit the education of this culture within its respected mobs, more than just white Australians and then some.
10:25 I'm pretty sure quite a lot would change, actually. It's been a while since I looked into this, so I might be misremembering, but I remember hearing something about how the Australian constitution is heavily based around being a part of the commonwealth and having the Queen be involved in Australian politics, and so by becoming a republic, we would basically have to re-write the constitution. Re-writing the constitution is pretty much every wannabe totalitarian politician's wet-dream, and could seriously jeopardise the rights and liberties of the average Australian. That's why the whole becoming a republic thing is so controversial - it isn't guaranteed to make everything go to shit, but it creates a political environment where that could easily happen. Like I said before, it's been a while since I looked into this, so if I got something wrong or left something out, please add to it in the replies :)
I used to vote Greens, because they genuinely have some good policy ideas, although they have lost me a bit over recent years, where now I prioritize Labor over them. I get sick of the virtue signaling and grandstanding. The last Greens representative I liked was Scott Ludlum... Great vid btw mate.
great rant !!! Firstly there are some 250 different cultures that make up the Aboriginal nations. The tribe/mob around Sydney has a huge influence on the modern Aussie culture
We love you guys, please don't leave us. Honestly we need more straight talking no bull' taking proper people. Don't go, come the other way, here and teach these fools how not to spout bollox all day.
Amidst all of this ‘anti-this’ and ‘anti-that’, I have never been able to understand why there would be such a push towards making people either ‘like’ something or be indifferent to it; it seems to me that disliking certain things (or liking their opposites) is simply not ‘allowed’, which is simply a ridiculous notion; we are all free to like or dislike something (or someone). We cannot be bullied into liking something we dislike, or viceversa. Perhaps we are ‘wrong’ in liking something in particular, but that’s the sort of thing that would normally be dealt with through intelligent conversation. One needs to be convinced of one’s error through intelligent conversation, not forceful submission to the mad impositions of a moronic mob. If, for example, a person ‘likes’ racism, that’s ok; perhaps they have valid reasons to do so, and we should definitely be interested in learning about those reasons and work our way through them with intelligence and sound arguments. We cannot simply discard the entire person just because they are saying something that sounds bad to our ears.
Has anyone in the mainstream media asked Brandt what is his view on the high price of petrol? I pretty sure he is happy with petrol prices going higher and higher as it suits his agenda. I also wonder whether his travel to and from Canberra and his international travel is carbon natural?
So what was the national flag before the one we use now? Oh, that's right, there wasn't one, because their was no single nation to be unified under one flag. Also, can I say I'm pretty sick of these racists that think you need to be indigenous to be Australian. I was born here, that makes me as Australian as anyone else and to say I'm not because I'm not indigenous is racist.
@@MrGundawindy European or where ever you're family bloodline is from. Australian is not an ethnicity its a nationality so culturally as for example, if your family is from Britain you could be Australian English welsh, scottish, irish etc. Aboriginals are the indigenous people of the land that is called Australia, Im Aboriginal (original to the land) but really i'm Wiradjuri(central NSW), that is my Indigenous home culturally, i'm also an Australian two different nations with different cultures and lores/laws. Im not an Australian Aboriginal, i'm Wiradjuri and Australian. So you are British, French, Greek Australian its got nothing about being indigenous, you're just not Indigenous Australian.
@@BBBBB950 well technically aboriginals migrated to australia 10k yrs ago so basically australia has no indigenous people we all came from over seas, yes aboriginals have been here longer in this great land but anyone born here in the modern age are all australians no matter what colour our skin is. i dont class myself as "scottish australian" im just austarlian and im proud to be aussie, i have lived no where else in my entire life and why would i want to be else where when have it all here in this beautiful sun burnt country.
I very rarely post if at all however I feel I would like to point a perspective from me personally, I am British, I’ve been following you for some time as I really enjoy your humour and grasp of reality. I know you stated you felt the union flag as redundant on the Aussie flag as it’s a statement of ‘past colonialism’ but I do feel slightly differently about it. To me it feels more like a friendly bond between 2 countries! I run a company and 2 of my main employees are Australian and I have worked with numerous Australian’s in the past and to me they feel like friends/family from another country and I have always thought highly of any Aussie I’ve met. It might be sad to say but I see it like countries that incorporate the union flag into part of their flag as a sort of ‘friendship band’ and just feel like if it were to be removed it’s like an old friend ripping up that band. Maybe I’m just being over sentimental
If we can change the meaning of words we can change what flags represent. It's really that simple. But that doesn't have rage, drama and protests involved so, ya know, people won't choose that option. People want to fight and argue 🤷♀️
meh we got 59,095 active military... drop in the water really... my father used to tell me when i was young... if china ever came for us 1 of our bullets would have to take out 500 of them for us to make par... peeved we arnt getting those diesel submarines along with the nuclear ones... it would have been a good boon to have them on the defence... such is life...
NZ also had a flag debate thing. We were going to change our flag to the maori flag or maybe even a flag with a kiwi with laser beams shooting out of its eyes. So every New Zealander was mailed out a vote and we voted to stay with the same flag, though now we have the NZ flag, the Maori flag, a few other flags. Surely multiple flags could represent NZ. We also have the Greens here though they are called Greenpeace, Their solution to climate change is electric vehicles, the problem New Zealand's power grid, the few hydro power plants and wind power we have is already taxed, then its hyper taxed when Aucklanders turn on their aircon in the summer. We can only just power all of NZ now, with electric vehicles on our roads that are so shit they kill so many tourists. New Zealand is going to have to somehow get nuclear power and somehow fix and repave all the roads while we have our own people in poverty while we welcome tourists and we house and give them jobs instead. It's so bad that often there is a exodus out of NZ to Aussie because you get paid better, if your a tourist now some places in Queenstown NZ will pay you more than a Kiwi for doing the same job. Yet the employers here wonder why no kiwis want to work for them. I love NZ the way it is, full of people from different cultures, Though I hate when one tries to act better than all the others, I don't want maoris to be on a pedestal, I don't want to give the few maori families at the top extra money for the ability to drink out of the tap at home. Yet I wouldn't mind if money went to every maori family in NZ but no It only goes to the few top families that have bloodlines back to the families that existed here when a bunch of old british skeletons lived and thought they were the only people in NZ. I would apologize for being White though I can't find a graveyard with any buried red coats to shout at.
@@chrismckellar9350 I know. Though with the grid still taxed especially in summer and then adding on all these electric vehicle charging stations if we don't upgrade the whole grid then we will most likely have a problem. The solution might be nuclear power though the downside is the waste.
@@burninghalls -The remaining 15% can be from home generation with surplus power going back to the national grid. Don't forget there are new solar farms being established in the Northland and Waikato regions. The next generation of solar panels are being developed that will have the ability to generate power in cloudy conditions.
The union jack, to me, represent not only this country s origin, but it also represent stability, order, and prestige. Given uk history, I'd add pride too. I rather that, than the chaotic end times disorder of the radical progressive nutjobs.
HIGHEST UTILITIES WORLD WIDE, DONT OWN OUR ON ELECTRICITY OR WATER, DONT OWN OUR OWN GAS FROM MOOMBA. HOSPITALS OVER CROWDED NOT ENOUGH AMBULANCES. ARE YOU FOR REAL MATE ? NO GUNS FOR WHEN CHINA FINALLY DECIDES TO INVADE. GOOD LUCK TO US. WE ARE THE FOOD BOWL OF THE WORLD WITH RESORCES , HERES A FEW URANIUM GOLD GAS COAL MEAT FARM LAND FISHING INDUSTRY THE LIST GOES ON. WE HAVE A ARMY THATS A FUCKING JOKE NUMBERS WISE IN COMPARISON TO CHINA OR THE US. CHINA LIFTED THE ONE CHILD LAW YEARS AGO I WONDER WHY AND HAS NOW BUILT MITLITARY STRATEGIC ISLANDS CLAIMING IT AS THEIR LAND, INTRODUCED A VIRUS THAT THEY WERE THE ONLY ECONOMY TO PROFIT FROM IT "FACTS". PEOPLE NEED TO WAKE UP QUICK SMART..... OH WHEN THEY RAN OUT OF CHILD FORMULA WHO DID THEY TARGET....... US FUCKING AUSSIES AND ROBBED US TO THE POINT WE COULDNT FEED THE BABIES BORN IN AUSTRALIA. i made my point.
Bravo! 👏👏👏 well said! ✊ I can relate, and I agree with everything that you said. A country's flag is a symbolism today, as much as it was then, of all that the people of that Nation stand for and stand behind. It is to honor those that came before us and to remember their sacrifice so we have the freedoms that we very much do have today. Freedoms like what Butterfield's grateful for in Australia, I am grateful for in my country America. My grandfather fought in world war II crawled all the way up to the front line during the Battle of the Bulge. My father served in Vietnam and so did my uncle. I have so much to be grateful for. I do not come from what today's standard of "privilege" is. I don't agree with it and I don't see it that way. I survived many many hardships. Everything from death to abuse, poverty, through discrimination. I could go on but that's not the point I'm trying to make. I'm extremely grateful for the freedom I have, because the circumstances that I was born into are not the circumstances I live today. I climbed up rock bottom birth odds stacked high against me and gave myself a life that I fought very hard for, a life that was literally a dream for me to have one day. A dream and a prayer I had from a very young age. It's because of the mighty hand of fate that I was lucky enough to hit the ground here., That my story is a story of victory and not of victimization. When I look up at my flag, especially on a really good day, but even on a hard one, sometimes it still hits me.. I'm so grateful that I was given the opportunity to give myself this life. Being born in another country under the same circumstances but under very different rules and rulers, would surely have supplied a very and most definitely negative and detrimental outcome for me. I thank the men and women that made the sacrifices they did to give me this chance, I thank my ancestors too because they put up a hell of a fight for their freedoms. My privilege was all the privilege I needed, the ground beneath my feet.
The idea od politicians representing us is to do their best to help our country, that is true for other countries doing what is best for their countries. These weird new age lefties have no clue how the world works and have infected normal peoples minds with their insanity.
Is It ? Is It not? Here if Someone says he loves his own country half assumes he hates it while the other half trust him until you Saw him doing something he could never do if he follow that statement then everyone realizes he hates his own country And If you Say you hate your own country everyone assumes you like your country but seen the bullshit your average goverment does you kinda hate it
As an Indigenous Veteran, I served this Nation for all cultures/religions that inhabit this land under the Australian National Flag. I also pay respects to my family, my culture/heritage/ancestors & my dreaming when it was appropriate/allowed in front of my former colleagues.
The actions of Adam Bandt are not called for and he should be removed for blatant treasonous acts.
That is similar for Lidia Thorpe. I do not recognise you as a Leader of the Indigenous people, I do not see you as a Leader for my people from Northern NSW.
The both of you and the Greens Party are doing nothing but the division between Indigenous & Non-Indigenous people.
Thank you for your service sir!
Ahhh a man of culture I see, thanks for your service
I wanna know more
@@jordansitu6279 no thanks necessary.
@ozicrypto G same as above. No thanks necessary
I'm indigenous, and i agree removing the flag is stupid, to segregate one another by exclusion is counter intuitive, blaming past generations for today is dumb, both communities perpetuating stereotypes by way of segregated echo chambers is stupid, 100% agree buttsmarn
As First Nations that you are, thank you. Not to mention that is also childish of the greens leader that did it. And for that, he is in the same level as Peter Dutton with what that dickhead candidate for liberals did moving the aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags from his press conference.
not an expert in matters indigenous, but I know enough to know that speaking on behalf of indiginous people when you're not one of them is probably the single quickest way to piss a lot of them off, apparently old bandy-boy hasn't worked that one out yet...some people just have to learn the hard way I guess...
@@SomeGuy-em1pn what part of ‘I’m Indigenous’ are you that cooked to comprehend?
@@shroomsrus5116 He wasnt talking about the chick lol
I have very little knowledge on Australia. But wow sounds like a lot of Americans problem to.
The white people today get blamed for slavery that we had nothing to do with.
But at the same time I’m also realizing that this is globally planned, A lot of your issues sound like America’s issues
The people in power want its people to hate each other so we spend less time realizing how corrupt they are
In the 1980’s in Australia, we used to learn about the Aboriginal culture, go to shows with singing and dancing, get taught to paint with black Aboriginal people and listen to dream time stories. We absolutely loved this and I felt like it was apart of me as well. Just like the buttsman said and I really mean that. Now we are so polarised and divided and my Kids have no such opportunities because of people like Adam Bandt and Lidia Thorpe. It’s a sad state of affairs when I’m telling my kids about Dream time stories and they have no clue. I want to go back to the 80’s - 90’s asap.
You seem to talk of Aborigines as a "FreakShow".
Certainly you find them intriguing.
Got "taught to paint" with Aborigines.
Wow, you make it sound special.
I fear you, as does the Left, comment that you care.......as viewing them like Circus Animals...
I know a few of the "stolen generation" and talking to them they were pretty happy about it, they point to the people still living in bush camps, then say they are happy to have been integrated into society and given the same opportunity to work and live with everyone else. Then I talk to people that were taken into state care as kids at the same time and they sound like they were treated worse. Not that it was a competition but most of the stolen generation seemed to fair better than others taken away from their parents.
Then you get to look at the 'genocide" that supposedly happened, and find out it was police chasing bands of criminals that attacked outback settlements, often cattle stations and other farms. The left keep trying to rewrite history and wash away the attacks on the settlers and just concentrate on the chasing down of the murderers. Most of the history taught is through a weird lens of being the oppressor because of being white.
@@Right-Is-Right well said.
I was in primary school in the 90's and we had stuff like this. Is it not common now?
Yep! Because back then, woke Fu*#s were ignored.
Remember, when someone says they are “anti-racist” that means they need racism to exist. They need it.
Great point. I'd never thought of it that way.
That's why they get so upset if you say "Nah I'm just not racist"
that's silly. It's like saying an antibiotic wouldn't exist without germs. Guess what, it would still exist, it just wouldn't need to be sold in little capsules. It would sit around making bread mouldy instead. What a silly notion.
they are the reason it keeps existing
in the business, we just call those people racists.
From my experience, it's just racists trying to convince people they aren't racists.
I'm maori, thanks for the shout out. Yeah you're spot on. Hate only gets more hate, but love gets more love. Maybe Adam should show love to his flag and country. Can't fix shit with hate. Showing love to people because they're people works here. Woman hating men doesn't help. Indigenous people hating immigrants doesn't help. Love and kindness is what solves problems.
Spot on
Well said brother 💯
It's happening all over the world - these politicians want to divide us. Here in England, racism had kinda faded away up until around 2016 and then you get these groups popping up that stir up hatred. Check out a group called Hope not Hate - good name but they ruin people's lives and make them lose their jobs if their politics doesn't align
The people who say they're doing good are normally the people do bad things - in politics. Take care!
Kia ora bro!!! 💪🏻😎
beautifully said brother!
the *only* way to bring balance to a negative (like hate) is to add a positive (like Love) - Love is The Way, The Truth and The Life of us all (love of life, family, friends, music, art, nature, pets, animals, cars, whatever)
reap as you sow
As a kid in the 90's I learned tons about Native Australian culture and history. Anti-Racists (or just racists) are a big part of the problem. These racists think that people who respect, admire and emulate a foreign culture are stealing it.
You can't steal a culture, it's not a possession. You can adopt it or reject it. Real racists don't want to emulate or adopt a foreign culture they hate. Can you imagine the mental gymnastics required to convince yourself that someone who has a great appreciation and respect for a foreign culture is actually a racist who hates them?
Also anyone who identifies people around them as a "whatever colour" person as if that's their defining characteristic, is not anti-racist, they're just regular old racist. To them, skin colour defines YOU.
Then it gets worse when people of those culture gate keep who gets embrace their culture. The ticktocker, modern warrior gets offended when non-native Americans do stuff related to his culture.
Fought alongside the aussies in Afghanistan. Some of the finest soldiers and human beings that I have ever had the pleasure of meeting and the honor of fighting beside. Fun to be around, damn funny. We all had so much in common that it was like we weren't even from two different countries. I miss being surrounded by that kind of caliber of people. I feel lucky to have these memories and experiences, fair dinkum.
left them to fend for themselves too after running away from the war you started in fear
glad you made it home safe
not all our countrymen can say the same
@@arroeducarlion4990 I started the war all by myself huh? Ya I am aware not all of my countrymen made it back, some of them were my f*cking friends.
@@3-2bravo49 I salute you my good sir
@@Obsurdian I salute you back good sir
@@arroeducarlion4990 mad?
I love how these lefties are against stereotypes while at the same time he says all Aboriginal people hate the Aussie flag. isnt that stereotyping all Aboriginal people as all thinking the same.
Brandt the joke that keeps giving. Removes the ANF, But forgets he is still standing below a massive ANF that sits above parliament house. What a peanut. EAD Brandt.
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Can’t even spell his name right.
I lived in Australia for 3 years when I was a kid! Best times of my childhood! Thanks to your people I learned to speak English without an accent, embrace diversity, and truly belonged to a community! Thank you Australia!
So glad you loved it! Come back anytime.
Diversity is a code word for less white people,so it's a racist term.
@@australiaambassador. you're the racist one for assuming that diversity is automatically racial 😂
@@frenchbloo 🤣🤣🤣 you're not thinking too hard are you? When an ideology reduces people based on race is RACIST 🤦♂️
@@frenchbloo because it's the only real time they use that meaning based on race..Read the context of the whole conversation. 🤦♂️
The thing that many inner city young folk don't understand. Is that when you vote Greens, you are voting against your own country. The Greens mindset is all about appealing to raw emotion, minus the critical thought for potential policy consequences. It is a party which places "feelings" above all else. That includes the wellbeing of your fellow countrymen. Human suffering is, in the mind of a Green voter, a fair tradeoff for enacting policy which they feel will help "save the planet".
Garbage. The Greens may be wankers but they want Australia to be a better country and they are absolutely correct about Climate Change.
@Salt Meister the greens don’t give a toss about the environment, it’s a masquerade to being a communist organisation
@Salt Meister is it good tho?
I think you forget their point they said its a movement to save the planet but in reality its a movement to save from our stupidity and keep surviving,the planet Will survive on its own long before we are gone sure It Will be a grey Planet full of dust ,shit atmosfere and without life
Sure most parties dont act as their origin purpose but i think that there still room for some good since the rest of the parties dont do shit for the enviorment they live in
@Salt Meister while I agree in theory with what your saying about the mining sector, unfortunately it that engrained into our economy that a full scale abort will crash said economy. It's a necessary evil (investment in the mining sector) for the time being until infrastructure and ability to move forward through sustainability is reached, otherwise a depression is inevitable.
Spot on, mate 👍 Absolutely love this magnificent country & grateful to those who fought for the privileges I get to enjoy today. I am lucky & proud to be an Australian 🇦🇺
Isaac you should be a national treasure , I’m just an average man whose lived in Australia for 50 years since coming from the UK .Everything you said is so true . If you can’t be associated with the Australian flag you shouldn’t live here ! What’s the place coming to , makes worry about my grandkids .Thanks for your videos . ( I’m afraid I’m a bit to old to wear your T shirts ) all the best John Wilmot
some claim the Australian flag has no symbol on it that aboriginals cant identify to. which ignores the southern cross which has a dreamtime story and is present in both rock art and carvings . the southern cross has been used for basic navigation for as long as people have existed in the southern hemisphere
I have as much indigenous blood as Lydia Thorpe and I don't call myself Aboriginal because I'm not. Great Grandma was but I'm just Australian with a mix in me. Thorpe should look in the mirror and see it as well.
She wont because she IS A RACIST.
We should absolutely not be blamed for anything our ancestors did.
except having us? That might be our fault...
Doesn't mean we shouldn't make up for it. And I am part everything but SEPPO and Inuit.
Not our ancestors, our ancestors were slaves to the people that did
One flag, One country. the other thing is a racist trade mark designed to split Australians and that the Australian Govt paid $25 Million to get the trademark as an Aboriginal person sold it. So far around $1 Trillion dollars (of taxpayer money) has gone on a tiny minority that most have a very dubious claim to being "Aboriginal"
My mother is a refugee, Australia saved her and her family. I don't have a problem with the flag changing, just don't disrespect it ya cvnts 🇦🇺
well said mate XD
Despite being American, I love the Aussie flag. The Union Jack shows where the Aussies came from, people from England who went there to start a new life at the Southern Cross looks down on that beautiful land. It’s symbolic like how the US flag has 13 stripes for the 13 colonies we started as, and as new states were added we’d occasionally had new stars to the blue square, now we got the 50 stars of the modern flag. But that’s the point. The most amazing flags like Australia and the US tell a story with their design. Makes them more special and you want to be more patriotic when you learn the symbolism.
You hit the nail on the head "it's what the flag represents" people died under that flag.
Yes. The bloody rag in the corner waved over the genocide of Australia’s Indigenous people.
We've become an ungrateful generation because it's all about us. Screw Grandma and Grampa
@@readingtips2690 we knew what?
They killed under it too.
Austalia should be a republic, get rid of the fuckin union jack
I think it’s all virtue signalling with no action. We should be proud of all three flags, they should represent inclusion and change. Also Lidia may have indigenous heritage but she lives, speaks and acts like a privileged white lady. Remember you don’t have to be white to have privilege.
The one party a majority of Australia hates is easily the Greens. There’s probably worse parties but the greens is hated because of its policies and ineffectiveness.
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Fkn oath mate
What about united australia and one nation?
@@palatasikuntheyoutubecomme2046 I’d even prefer them to the greens
@@timjohnun4297 why lol
As a British person I fully respect the Australian flag and the people love thy neighbours ❤
You know what mate this is probably the most beautiful and honest video you have every bloody made
Isaac, 10/10 for this instalment...Now for another topic, a person, you, of Irish heritage with a given name of 'Isaac, interesting me thinks, so looking a little deeper into the origin of same, one finds the following....Derived from the Hebrew יִצְחָק (Yitzhak), the name Isaac means “one who laughs” or “one who rejoices.” In the Old Testament of the Bible, Isaac is the firstborn son of Abraham. ... So Isaac Butterfield, one conclusion may be your parents have a wicked sense of humour and or they are psychic..
Well, laughter is the best medicine, right ??...Right !!...
Bong on Aussies Bong on, Australia is the greatest 👌
I’m on the mish bahahaha
AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE!
I'm a Aussie iving in Thailand...so ok...I will..legally.
Christmas tree that cu*t
@@emptyemptiness8372 I heard about this. How good !
The Australian flag has an interesting history. 1. It was an adaptation of the New Zealand flag which was a proposed flag for NZed while NSW was the governing body of New Zealand. We federated first so we appropriated their flag. 2. The union jack in the NZed flag was symbolic of the NZ - UK treaty. It had nothing to do with Australian circumstances at the time. 3. The First Nation has never been what its name implies! It has always been a continent of separate and sometimes waring peoples that were impartial to one another and, due to a lack of sophisticated culture and unity were "invaded" by a technically superior cohort of nations who sought wealth and victory. None of which history can call unique. (Sorry First Nation Survivours)... Adam Bandt sought media focus for an entirely different purpose. He has slurred not only the cultural evolution of a flag and its nation, but he has avatared the First Nation and Torres Strait Islander flags and culture as supporters of his terrorist plight. Bant is an egotistic shill attempting to purport himself as a do-gooder and avenger for fantasy ideologies including his climate change magic powers. He must have been raised on the mantra "If you build it they will come". What he has done here is build decent and controversy in order to give him a status he doesn't deserve. #uckU2themoon Bant.
As someone with autism I did not get it from cow’s milk. It was goat’s milk
Can't blame the British. Everyone had a shit, short and brutal life a hundred+ years ago. If it weren't for the English coming Australia would not be what it is today.
@@jimbo3860 it is people of the past. It doesn't matter who, all that matters is it doesn't happen again.
@@jimbo3860 not all white people were British. For starters. Now I hope you're not trying to blame people today for things done by the deceased, which they don't condone.
As a English woman I say it was the English more then Britain, England looked down and took advantage of the Irish, Welsh and Scottish, it’s only been in the last 40 years we have started to make up to them.
@@jimbo3860 unless you're in the BLM community in the UK where I live.
My dad's friend was stabbed by a group of black people because he found out his ancestors owned slaves.
I do like Isaac and his humour. Im guessing here he may be being jingoistic and taking the pizz, but he is an Aussie so cant help but put the shitz on the English. Its in his breed or people to do so, especially if there is Irish and Scots heritage (he is as much them as a greek) in there.
Id fill behind him with more Aussie flags each time haha
Next time hes on a stage or something, chuck all those little shitty flags you get at bunnings at him.
Bolt them and the pedestal to the ground so he can't move them 😀
They had two choices, captain cook of the endeavor or Captain Kōsaku Aruga of the Yamato.
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I think that’s the nicest thing Isaac has ever said about New Zealand😂😂
He only the nice things because he is going on tour there soon 😁
Lol I am from nz
And we have the same first name Lol
Sometimes you’ve got to let go of your past in order to move forward as a country 🇦🇺
I love Australia !!! 100% Sand Groper ... our history is bad, but today we are pretty good guys ... on wards and upwards ...
It wasn’t the Aussies, it was the pommes
In 2013, Thorpe was declared bankrupt, with over A$700,000 in debts, including monies owed to Indigenous Business Australia, and A$55,000 owed to the Australian Taxation Office. She said that her bankruptcy resulted from domestic violence, stating "like many survivors of family violence, I ended up losing everything in a bid to protect myself and my family from an impossible situation".[11] Her ex-husband, who was an alcoholic, confirmed her account of the marriage breakdown. She was discharged from bankruptcy in 2016
Australia literally became a country in 1901, before then it was under direct foreign control.
The country as a whole is technically only responsible for the past century of misdoings, while history shouldn’t be erased or ignored that cuts both ways, yes horrible things have been done, does that mean you can be a child and refuse to stand with the flag of the country that gave that man a job and any semblance of importance?
I’d assume not
And then after getting freedom they lost a war to fucking emu... Can't beat the British army but a fucking bird kicks Australia's ass
Australia was still a dominion of British rule until the 1980's.
The various separate states were self ruling from the mid 1800s before federation. Not under direct foreign control. London urged restraint but the individual colonists on the ground preferred to take land and kill aboriginals. The first act on federation in 1901 was the immigration restriction policy, the introduction of the white Australia policy.
Being a nationalist doesn't mean you are hateful towards other countries. It means you love your country from which you came from or claim stake too. You want your country to be prosperous and great above all else. Doesn't mean that you wish bad on other countries.
I think you’re confusing patriotism with nationalism. Nationalism generally defines as complete self-interest to the detriment of others. For example, the “N” in NAZI stands for Nationalist. Their name was the Nationalist Socialist Party.
@@StarSwarm. haha you are a funny fella. Nationalism isn't anything dealing with Race or religion. Someone who is Patriotic is a Nationalist. Look up Patriotism and Nationalism. They both are synonyms to eachother. Im a Nationalist type of guy who believes in America and her prosperity above any other nation. You really think that I wish bad on other nations? No I don't. Very opposite of that. But I know you are probably some liberal guy who thinks that anyone who slightly disagrees with you is a Nazi. Well, if you look at history. NAZIS weren't that bad compared to Socialists who under Joseph stallin, Mao Zedong, Che Guevara, Vladimir Lenin. These people put Hitler to shame for the Amount of people they murdered.
Genuinely surprised he didn't replace it with a pride flag...
Calling the English "bastard's" is the reason I subscribed. Myself an English bastard. Lol 😂
Ah yes Lydia thorpe, such a traditional aboriginal name...
Please never stop making fun of Waleed 🤣
Australia's number 1 parasite
Don't like living in Australia, move to another country like maybe Afghanistan.
Also doesn't the name PETA - Stand for "People Eating Tasty Animals"
Hate speech does not exist, there is only speech some people consider hateful.
My parents watch the project, and its terrible, you need to do another full video on them!!
As an American, you Aussies and every country that stands for freedom and individualism, deserve to feel the same pride we patriotic Americans feel.
When we look upon our flag knowing the sacrifices and good deeds committed to bring and sustain the rights the governments try and strip from us today.
Always a good day when Isaac posts
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My Thai sister in law has struggled to be happy in Australia. She doesn't want to go back to Thailand,it's worst there employment wise. She wants to come back to Britain!
"Grass roots black senator"....who probably lives in a $2 million home
"grassroots" lol
this kunt coulndn't look more like al lthe 13 in dozen woke propagandists on pinko payrolls if she tried
Replace “Australia” with “America”, and, as an American, I totally agree with you. I grew up in the Southwest and I am white. I spoke rudimentary Spanish and knew a lot about Mexican food and culture. I loved. Then it became wrong to be a white, Irish Catholic American. I suppose that I too am responsible for my forefathers who lived in poverty in Maine.
I think there's a fair case for changing the flag and I'm fully in support of the republic. However, the Liberals do have a point by only displaying one flag: one flag represents one people, and a single nation. To display multiple flags representing different ethnic groups implies that they are not represented by the national flag and not accepted as Australians, even though they're citizens. "Segregating our flags" is what it seems like to me - 'one flag for whites and others, two others for indigenous' is dividing based on race. If we want to change it, let's change it to better represent something that unites us, like democracy, freedom from oppression, mateship, the southern cross or nature.
Perfect description of The Project 😂
If you'd never heard Adam Bandt talk before but had only read about his positions on a variety of issues you would not be surprised when you heard him talk with that effeminate lisp.
"a grassroots BLACK Senator"
Gotta confess, I laughed out loud. I've seen blacker snow.
Is that blacker a word ? Who cares .lol
I get weary explaining this ... but I'll have another go:
Indigenous People: The people who were killed before you killed the people who killed them.
lol clear enough :D
I found out today that I'm Scottish and Irish too! My Dad was adopted so My Brother did ancestry for Me for My 40th, stoked to know. Our Family can be traced to Buchan, fife and Angus in Scotland.
Interesting that Senator called Lydia's surname is actually an old Norse word introduced to the English language by the Vikings who raided, plundered and took possession of much of England before the Norman's arrived.
Exactly the old double standard
Its Greek origin.....
Good on’ya Issac, I love Australia too. You are a good man.
13:43 Issac, the Australian flag does represent all of Australia, regardless of race. At least Peter Dutton is smart and stands in front of our one flag that unites us all. ONE NATION! ONE PEOPLE! ONE FLAG! 🇦🇺🇦🇺
What about the Indigenous Australians who have fought and died under this flag throughout the 20th and 21st century wars? I have served with Aboriginal Australians (in the Navy), who love this country more than anything.
Disgraceful conduct from the Greens Leader, the Australian people deserve better. EX LS Royal Australian Navy 🇦🇺🦘🐊🏴☠️
Without history, none of us would be here. Learn from it, don’t repeat the bad.
There's nothing wrong with loving your country.
Isaac, If only people would focus on the importance of understanding the past on its own terms instead of projecting modern ideas and attitudes back into the past.
Yes, our history has some very bad things in it. But what country does not? But the new vogue of hating one’s flag, and by extension, one’s country because of past deeds is ridiculous. It states that a) they do not see ANY change or good or difference between now and then. This is not only insulting to the ppl who live today, but totally diminishes and dismisses all the hard work done by those in the past to make things better. Plus, you could see it as racist, because after all, many indigenous Australians fought hard to get the changes made( and homophobic and what have you), but these ppl seem to think that those ppl and their works are just not good enough to acknowledge.
And b) that they must have it so well, or, by extension, the country must be doing things better, that the only complaint they can point to is past deeds done by ppl now dead. Like someone from an upper-middle class family still crying about how their great grandfather was so poor that they had to go to bed hungry most nights, so you don’t know how it is to be poor, unlike them.
Oh, and c) they really don’t have any interest in making things better, because no matter what changes happen, there is always the unchangeable past to point at and say ‘see, that proves that today is just as bad… no, worse.’
Happy birthday Butterfield for tomorrow. We love you 😍 ❤️
Man it’s been a long day and I’m knackered. I can’t tell you how much I needed that first 10 seconds, thank you sir.
He’s a greenie what do you expect Issac? They are called watermelons for a reason, thin layer of green and red to the core, although I think they have more in common with smegma, anyway another great vid mate
EDIT: I’m from Melbourne so there’s greenies everywhere……it’s horrid here STAY AWAY
Left is best. The Liberals were thrashed by the Teals because of their rump of idiot Climate Change deniers.
@@Uqwefsdjxsa don’t be, someone’s got to be a melbornian, that should be our number plate slogan, ‘Melbourne, some poor bastard has to live here’
@@schmidty9536 sorry what?
@@Uqwefsdjxsa Why? Melbourne is a good city to live in. I’ve lived here on and off for fifty years.
@@nicknapeem1541 So where do you live?
Woop Woop?
I particularly loved Lidia Thorpe’s tirade against the Northern Territory Governor General for passing a law that she claimed was out of touch with aboriginal people because of course he’s just another white man. The NT GG is an aboriginal woman…
Australian Dutch patriot here
Will die for the flag and my family!
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I'm English and live in England and everyone hates us 😂 for good reason of course. But we are like the naughty older brother. Even when we didn't do anything, it's still our fault😂
They probably wouldn't hate you if the Russian's were the colonists. Anyway, wasn't it the Roman's fault?
people like blaming others for their problems
their just trying guilt trip so can push down feel ashamed for heritage just responed with one their failing
French to busy to fighting each other to unite against Germany twice always good example
@@BooF308 Do you understand,how many times the english/ french/ Germans and Americans, have stabbed Russia and Eastern Europe in the back? For starters... The Slavs saved Western Europe from islamic invasion 75 times. They battled the ottoman empire for 500 years! 1917 it was over! The Russians got to Constantinople. They got ready to take it! The french / english main players in manouvering russia away . The Bolshevik revolution started! Leon Trotsky ( lev davidovich Bronstein) came out of exile from new york . Leading a revolution in Russia. With Lenin from germany. Who arrived with femminist Rosa Luxemburg. All Financed by wallstreet! 2nd world war.....The Russians defeated the Nazis. Lost 2500 soldiers a day at Stalingrad. Lost over 20 million! More than all nations combined! Churchill was a major player in 1946 ..in setting up the European union. He was also a big player in ww1. Setting up the Versailles treaty. Basically starving the germany. Leading to a second world war. Nazism/ communism both came out of Germany. Present times! Ukraine was overthrown by obama in 2014.( DIGITAL MAIDAN). Nuland a main player! The Obama administration trained/ funded/ armed/ the Ukranian army . Including the soccer hooligans that became azov battalion ( neo nazis). Nato broke the Minsk agreement. For 8 years over 18000 Russians civilians died in East Ukraine. The media silent! Ukraine a proxy to destroy Russia. Take it's resources. Main players... England, Germany, France and The Zionist controlled USA. Learn your history friend! The Anglo Saxon sphere are disgusting! Long live the Balkans!
as a dutchman , i kind of like the english lol
in fact, i share your passion in hating the french
A proud Englishman here. I'll refer to the quote "sins of my grandfather" if people hate us English for what the English did 100s of years ago then holy shit!! The English now ain't the English then. Most of the English are good people, salt of the earth, give the shirt off their back and all that bollox.... Hate! Is a strong, powerful emotion, and, if you spend your life hating then you've wasted it.
Tbh, some of the policies and ideas that the greens have produced are quite good (like the plan to create a Made in Australia Bank and bring 'green' steel manufacturing back to Australia, so that electric cars, railways & trains can be manufactured locally) , but other times, the ideas are out rageous and unrealistic (like removing the Australian flag and advocating for more - somewhat excessive amounts of - LGBTQIA+ education in primary schools & kindergartens: like teaching children about sexuality may be beneficial, but leave that type of proposed education to high school, let kids be kids until their old enough to make a big decision - like changing their sexuality).
Yeah. Many countries are too reliant on other countries nowadays. In my opinion every country should have enough industrial/domestic capacity to be self sufficient without foreign trade and such.
Yeah us bloody Aussies are great. Cheers mate thanks for supporting us, you are the best Aussie RUclipsr I've seen. good on ya mate
Im a Aboriginal young fella, and having the Australian flag the way it is doesn't bother me, its more the meaning of people bringing up the past. When people bring up the past, it can either hurt or heal, most of all we need to mend the past by is not acknowledging it, but by moving forward in acceptance and involve more Aboriginal and Torre strait islander culture, like the Maori in NZ, having more school programs teach and benefit the education of this culture within its respected mobs, more than just white Australians and then some.
Just stay off the grog mate,and the glue, because you will end up deceased or in jail or retarded.
I went into their website and it was riddled with spelling errors.
10:25 I'm pretty sure quite a lot would change, actually. It's been a while since I looked into this, so I might be misremembering, but I remember hearing something about how the Australian constitution is heavily based around being a part of the commonwealth and having the Queen be involved in Australian politics, and so by becoming a republic, we would basically have to re-write the constitution. Re-writing the constitution is pretty much every wannabe totalitarian politician's wet-dream, and could seriously jeopardise the rights and liberties of the average Australian. That's why the whole becoming a republic thing is so controversial - it isn't guaranteed to make everything go to shit, but it creates a political environment where that could easily happen. Like I said before, it's been a while since I looked into this, so if I got something wrong or left something out, please add to it in the replies :)
I used to vote Greens, because they genuinely have some good policy ideas, although they have lost me a bit over recent years, where now I prioritize Labor over them. I get sick of the virtue signaling and grandstanding. The last Greens representative I liked was Scott Ludlum...
Great vid btw mate.
great rant !!! Firstly there are some 250 different cultures that make up the Aboriginal nations. The tribe/mob around Sydney has a huge influence on the modern Aussie culture
As a kiwi you actually made me laugh when telling us to get fucked that this isn't about us and I hope you enjoy your shows in New Zealand
We love you guys, please don't leave us. Honestly we need more straight talking no bull' taking proper people. Don't go, come the other way, here and teach these fools how not to spout bollox all day.
Number one reason to love australia:
*1. THEY HAVE THE ONE AND ONLY, TRUE BEARD!!*
Hilarious 😂 and so true 👍 we love the Buttsman ❤️
Amidst all of this ‘anti-this’ and ‘anti-that’, I have never been able to understand why there would be such a push towards making people either ‘like’ something or be indifferent to it; it seems to me that disliking certain things (or liking their opposites) is simply not ‘allowed’, which is simply a ridiculous notion; we are all free to like or dislike something (or someone). We cannot be bullied into liking something we dislike, or viceversa. Perhaps we are ‘wrong’ in liking something in particular, but that’s the sort of thing that would normally be dealt with through intelligent conversation. One needs to be convinced of one’s error through intelligent conversation, not forceful submission to the mad impositions of a moronic mob.
If, for example, a person ‘likes’ racism, that’s ok; perhaps they have valid reasons to do so, and we should definitely be interested in learning about those reasons and work our way through them with intelligence and sound arguments. We cannot simply discard the entire person just because they are saying something that sounds bad to our ears.
Has anyone in the mainstream media asked Brandt what is his view on the high price of petrol? I pretty sure he is happy with petrol prices going higher and higher as it suits his agenda. I also wonder whether his travel to and from Canberra and his international travel is carbon natural?
“There is no traffic here it’s great”
My having to fu**ing drive 5 hours just to get to the next suburb.
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So what was the national flag before the one we use now? Oh, that's right, there wasn't one, because their was no single nation to be unified under one flag.
Also, can I say I'm pretty sick of these racists that think you need to be indigenous to be Australian. I was born here, that makes me as Australian as anyone else and to say I'm not because I'm not indigenous is racist.
In the legal sense, yes you are Australian. But you are not culturally or ethnically. And it is not at all racist to say that.
@@pythonprogrammer6773 If I'm not Australian culturally or ethnically, then what am I?
@@MrGundawindy European or where ever you're family bloodline is from. Australian is not an ethnicity its a nationality so culturally as for example, if your family is from Britain you could be Australian English welsh, scottish, irish etc. Aboriginals are the indigenous people of the land that is called Australia, Im Aboriginal (original to the land) but really i'm Wiradjuri(central NSW), that is my Indigenous home culturally, i'm also an Australian two different nations with different cultures and lores/laws. Im not an Australian Aboriginal, i'm Wiradjuri and Australian. So you are British, French, Greek Australian its got nothing about being indigenous, you're just not Indigenous Australian.
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You can be culturally from somewhere without being from there ethnically , lol.
@@BBBBB950 well technically aboriginals migrated to australia 10k yrs ago so basically australia has no indigenous people we all came from over seas, yes aboriginals have been here longer in this great land but anyone born here in the modern age are all australians no matter what colour our skin is. i dont class myself as "scottish australian" im just austarlian and im proud to be aussie, i have lived no where else in my entire life and why would i want to be else where when have it all here in this beautiful sun burnt country.
I very rarely post if at all however I feel I would like to point a perspective from me personally, I am British, I’ve been following you for some time as I really enjoy your humour and grasp of reality.
I know you stated you felt the union flag as redundant on the Aussie flag as it’s a statement of ‘past colonialism’ but I do feel slightly differently about it. To me it feels more like a friendly bond between 2 countries! I run a company and 2 of my main employees are Australian and I have worked with numerous Australian’s in the past and to me they feel like friends/family from another country and I have always thought highly of any Aussie I’ve met.
It might be sad to say but I see it like countries that incorporate the union flag into part of their flag as a sort of ‘friendship band’ and just feel like if it were to be removed it’s like an old friend ripping up that band.
Maybe I’m just being over sentimental
If we can change the meaning of words we can change what flags represent. It's really that simple. But that doesn't have rage, drama and protests involved so, ya know, people won't choose that option. People want to fight and argue 🤷♀️
The greens are like a kid trying to get elected to student council, "I promise to get icecream, and a swimming pool, and end school uniforms...."
English here. I didn't do shit, my ancestors did, and I had no control over that, so I don't feel the slightest bit guilty :p
I love this country because my grandfather Fought for this country along the Kokoda trail 🇦🇺🇦🇺
Hmm, I am not sure peace and disarmament is a great idea during these times. That is unless we want to lose the ability to be "Australians".
meh we got 59,095 active military... drop in the water really... my father used to tell me when i was young... if china ever came for us 1 of our bullets would have to take out 500 of them for us to make par... peeved we arnt getting those diesel submarines along with the nuclear ones... it would have been a good boon to have them on the defence... such is life...
You forgot about all poison and venomous fauna and flora that always try to find you way to you home/garden xD
NZ also had a flag debate thing. We were going to change our flag to the maori flag or maybe even a flag with a kiwi with laser beams shooting out of its eyes. So every New Zealander was mailed out a vote and we voted to stay with the same flag, though now we have the NZ flag, the Maori flag, a few other flags. Surely multiple flags could represent NZ.
We also have the Greens here though they are called Greenpeace, Their solution to climate change is electric vehicles, the problem New Zealand's power grid, the few hydro power plants and wind power we have is already taxed, then its hyper taxed when Aucklanders turn on their aircon in the summer. We can only just power all of NZ now, with electric vehicles on our roads that are so shit they kill so many tourists. New Zealand is going to have to somehow get nuclear power and somehow fix and repave all the roads while we have our own people in poverty while we welcome tourists and we house and give them jobs instead. It's so bad that often there is a exodus out of NZ to Aussie because you get paid better, if your a tourist now some places in Queenstown NZ will pay you more than a Kiwi for doing the same job. Yet the employers here wonder why no kiwis want to work for them.
I love NZ the way it is, full of people from different cultures, Though I hate when one tries to act better than all the others, I don't want maoris to be on a pedestal, I don't want to give the few maori families at the top extra money for the ability to drink out of the tap at home. Yet I wouldn't mind if money went to every maori family in NZ but no It only goes to the few top families that have bloodlines back to the families that existed here when a bunch of old british skeletons lived and thought they were the only people in NZ. I would apologize for being White though I can't find a graveyard with any buried red coats to shout at.
Just a point to note - 85% of power generated in NZ is renewable from hydro, wind, solar and geothermal.
@@chrismckellar9350 I know. Though with the grid still taxed especially in summer and then adding on all these electric vehicle charging stations if we don't upgrade the whole grid then we will most likely have a problem. The solution might be nuclear power though the downside is the waste.
@@burninghalls -The remaining 15% can be from home generation with surplus power going back to the national grid.
Don't forget there are new solar farms being established in the Northland and Waikato regions.
The next generation of solar panels are being developed that will have the ability to generate power in cloudy conditions.
English geezer here, I absolutely love your videos, you're so real. Fuck the haters
The union jack, to me, represent not only this country s origin, but it also represent stability, order, and prestige. Given uk history, I'd add pride too. I rather that, than the chaotic end times disorder of the radical progressive nutjobs.
My 3 reasons for loving australia.
1. Paul Hogan
2. Steve Irwin
3. Qantas Wunala Dreaming livery(VH-OEJ is now donating spares to Kalitta😢).
Australia is by far the best country. Never gonna live anywhere else.
Let's be Honest We knew it
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Yeah I'm tryna get in but it's so hard to get residency
HIGHEST UTILITIES WORLD WIDE, DONT OWN OUR ON ELECTRICITY OR WATER, DONT OWN OUR OWN GAS FROM MOOMBA. HOSPITALS OVER CROWDED NOT ENOUGH AMBULANCES. ARE YOU FOR REAL MATE ? NO GUNS FOR WHEN CHINA FINALLY DECIDES TO INVADE. GOOD LUCK TO US. WE ARE THE FOOD BOWL OF THE WORLD WITH RESORCES , HERES A FEW URANIUM GOLD GAS COAL MEAT FARM LAND FISHING INDUSTRY THE LIST GOES ON. WE HAVE A ARMY THATS A FUCKING JOKE NUMBERS WISE IN COMPARISON TO CHINA OR THE US. CHINA LIFTED THE ONE CHILD LAW YEARS AGO I WONDER WHY AND HAS NOW BUILT MITLITARY STRATEGIC ISLANDS CLAIMING IT AS THEIR LAND, INTRODUCED A VIRUS THAT THEY WERE THE ONLY ECONOMY TO PROFIT FROM IT "FACTS". PEOPLE NEED TO WAKE UP QUICK SMART..... OH WHEN THEY RAN OUT OF CHILD FORMULA WHO DID THEY TARGET....... US FUCKING AUSSIES AND ROBBED US TO THE POINT WE COULDNT FEED THE BABIES BORN IN AUSTRALIA. i made my point.
@Ahmed Aaqib nah I like hotter weather
@Salt Meister so which country is better?
Bravo! 👏👏👏 well said! ✊ I can relate, and I agree with everything that you said. A country's flag is a symbolism today, as much as it was then, of all that the people of that Nation stand for and stand behind. It is to honor those that came before us and to remember their sacrifice so we have the freedoms that we very much do have today. Freedoms like what Butterfield's grateful for in Australia, I am grateful for in my country America. My grandfather fought in world war II crawled all the way up to the front line during the Battle of the Bulge. My father served in Vietnam and so did my uncle. I have so much to be grateful for. I do not come from what today's standard of "privilege" is. I don't agree with it and I don't see it that way.
I survived many many hardships. Everything from death to abuse, poverty, through discrimination. I could go on but that's not the point I'm trying to make. I'm extremely grateful for the freedom I have, because the circumstances that I was born into are not the circumstances I live today. I climbed up rock bottom birth odds stacked high against me and gave myself a life that I fought very hard for, a life that was literally a dream for me to have one day. A dream and a prayer I had from a very young age. It's because of the mighty hand of fate that I was lucky enough to hit the ground here., That my story is a story of victory and not of victimization.
When I look up at my flag, especially on a really good day, but even on a hard one, sometimes it still hits me.. I'm so grateful that I was given the opportunity to give myself this life. Being born in another country under the same circumstances but under very different rules and rulers, would surely have supplied a very and most definitely negative and detrimental outcome for me. I thank the men and women that made the sacrifices they did to give me this chance, I thank my ancestors too because they put up a hell of a fight for their freedoms. My privilege was all the privilege I needed, the ground beneath my feet.
You make me proud to be a fucking Aussie . Love ya mate
Isn't it funny, that every time someone says they loves their own country, everyone assumes that they hate all the other countries? x'D
The idea od politicians representing us is to do their best to help our country, that is true for other countries doing what is best for their countries. These weird new age lefties have no clue how the world works and have infected normal peoples minds with their insanity.
All countries matter 🤣
Is It ? Is It not?
Here if Someone says he loves his own country half assumes he hates it while the other half trust him until you Saw him doing something he could never do if he follow that statement then everyone realizes he hates his own country
And If you Say you hate your own country everyone assumes you like your country but seen the bullshit your average goverment does you kinda hate it
It's only when white people say it. Every other race can say they love their country.
that's just stupid, we only hate france lol
Best video you’ve ever done Isaac. Well done mate, speaking up for the silent majority
I love the fact that we're one of the wealthiest countries in the world but can't afford Medicare
Are you a Yank? We have Medicare in Oz