The British are tried by the Gillies Report for their atomic actions in the 1950s by this highly impartial court. Aussie satire at it's best. Some Gilbert & Sullivan songs.
@@djackmanson Funnily enough there is other parody of that song dating from the US in the late 1930s: "When I was a lad in 1906 I joined the party of the Bolsheviks. I read the Manifesto and Das Kapital and even learned to sing the Internationale. And I sang that song with a ring so true that now I'm in the prison of the GPU". (Just a brief word of explanation - the GPU was the predecessor of the KGB). The song was popular in the American Trotskyist movement and I mention it for a reason that bears some explaining but is relevant to this video (if you'll be patient with my seemingly weird and lengthy digression). Some time in the late 1930s a young Australian member of the miniscule Australian Trotskyist organisation who was studying law at Sydney University was tasked with taking a fellow student who had expressed interest in the organisation to a political meeting to test his mettle. He took him to a meeting of the Communist dominated Unemployed Workers Movement in an inner city suburb where the topic of discussion was the war in Spain. There he stood up to make a speech denouncing the betrayal of the movement in Spain by the Russians and the murder of non-Stalinists. After being roundly booed, the two left the meeting and, walking down the quiet street, realised they were being followed. The young Trotskyist steeled himself, turned around and faced the bloke who was shadowing him, only to be told: "I've just been expelled from the Communist Party for 'Trotskyism'" "I have no idea what that is. Can you tell me?" The bloke asking the question was recruited to the tiny group but by the late 1940s had moved from a left wing anti-Stalinist to being the right-wing (Grouper-DLP aligned) leader of the Ironworkers' Union, Laurie Short. The young student who had been taken to the meeting, unsurprisingly, decided he wasn't cut out for the dangers of being a revolutionary. The courageous young student who made the speech at the meeting would also move to the right, though not as far as the other two. He only moved to the right of the ALP and became, as you may have already guessed: "Diamond Jim" McClelland. The interested student who became less interested...was John Kerr. So there's some sort of interesting synergy involved in the fact that this same song was parodied in the late 1930s (in a version that the young Diamond Jim would have known all to well) and that it reappeared in this.
Thank you so much for uploading this. I'd heard it but had never seen it.
Brilliant. I loved Gillies work.. bloody brilliant satire
Such classy satire. Thank you!
I like Max Gillie's Humor.
5:04: If you're wondering why the Indigenous man is wearing a shirt and tie:
adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mulga-fred-11194
Thanks for that.
Great upload! Which G&S song is Diamond Jim singing from 0:46 ?
It's "When I Was A Lad" from HMS Pinafore, sung by the character Sir Joseph Porter KCB.
@@djackmanson Funnily enough there is other parody of that song dating from the US in the late 1930s: "When I was a lad in 1906 I joined the party of the Bolsheviks. I read the Manifesto and Das Kapital and even learned to sing the Internationale. And I sang that song with a ring so true that now I'm in the prison of the GPU". (Just a brief word of explanation - the GPU was the predecessor of the KGB). The song was popular in the American Trotskyist movement and I mention it for a reason that bears some explaining but is relevant to this video (if you'll be patient with my seemingly weird and lengthy digression). Some time in the late 1930s a young Australian member of the miniscule Australian Trotskyist organisation who was studying law at Sydney University was tasked with taking a fellow student who had expressed interest in the organisation to a political meeting to test his mettle. He took him to a meeting of the Communist dominated Unemployed Workers Movement in an inner city suburb where the topic of discussion was the war in Spain. There he stood up to make a speech denouncing the betrayal of the movement in Spain by the Russians and the murder of non-Stalinists. After being roundly booed, the two left the meeting and, walking down the quiet street, realised they were being followed. The young Trotskyist steeled himself, turned around and faced the bloke who was shadowing him, only to be told: "I've just been expelled from the Communist Party for 'Trotskyism'" "I have no idea what that is. Can you tell me?" The bloke asking the question was recruited to the tiny group but by the late 1940s had moved from a left wing anti-Stalinist to being the right-wing (Grouper-DLP aligned) leader of the Ironworkers' Union, Laurie Short. The young student who had been taken to the meeting, unsurprisingly, decided he wasn't cut out for the dangers of being a revolutionary. The courageous young student who made the speech at the meeting would also move to the right, though not as far as the other two. He only moved to the right of the ALP and became, as you may have already guessed: "Diamond Jim" McClelland. The interested student who became less interested...was John Kerr. So there's some sort of interesting synergy involved in the fact that this same song was parodied in the late 1930s (in a version that the young Diamond Jim would have known all to well) and that it reappeared in this.
The subtitles add an extra layer of wtf. :)
7:48
good satire.
good satire