The Way We Live
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- From the Film Australia Collection. Made by the Commonwealth Film Unit 1959. Directed by John Gray. Produced for the Department of Immigration to assist in the campaign to attract migrants to Australia. The film was used by immigration officers at information evenings, particularly in Britain. The film provides an introduction to “the Australian way of life” by portraying the daily lives of an “ordinary” family of fairly recent British immigrants. It gives an indication of housing, lifestyle and leisure, work, consumer goods, and services such as transport, health, education, financial assistance cultural institutions and social organisations, in such a way as to reassure future residents. Designed to counteract an image of “bush and billabongs”, the film focuses on urban living and the country’s growth potential.
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Hi, just come across the comments and will be fascinated to read all you have to say. I am the older girl in movie. My brother and sister and I were selected to play the part of the migrant children as our mother had put us into modelling and TV ads. I remember making the movie like it was yesterday. My autograph book has signatures from the people in the movie plus those behind the camera. 1959 was stable, the White Australia Policy, and the movie was made to attract migrants from European type countries to populate Australia. It was shown in embassies and had its premiere in London. I wrote about this in my Aussie book "Once I was a Teenager. Growing up in the 50s and 60s in Australia and beyond". My latest book "Are All those Kids yours?" has part of a chapter on the movie and the reaction from some of our adopted children. It's a book to make you laugh and sigh, about raising so many adopted and foster kids. I am in touch with the son of my "daddy" in the movie. Deryck Barnes was the sweetest guy and used to bring well known actors to our place, like Guy Doleman. I got interviewed by the BBC who were astonished that I never got to see the movie until 40 years later. Made front page news in our local rag LOL
Wow that's interesting information. Thanks for letting us know.
As I've posted elsewhere, you must be that very sweet-natured and pretty blonde girl then. Your genuine character shines through, and was evidenced in your adult years when you adopted and fostered so many kids from desperate backgrounds. Well done.
@@NFSAFilms you guys should pin this comment.
Are they your actual parents? You look Estonian
@@wayinfront1 I am that little girl but older now LOL
I was born in 61 and I am just loving seeing all these old films. As a kid in the 60s, this was my Australia.
My dad was born in 54 so the 60s was his childhood
Born in the 60's also &.
Grew Up on Manly Beach, NSW.
We were so Blessed to have the Childhoods we did.😌
Me too. I was also born in 1961 and grew up at Allambie Heights. What a fantastic time to be a child in those innocent and carefree times. We spent so many lazy, hazy summer days down at Manly harbour pool, either swimming and playing on the pontoons or fishing off the jetty on the other side of the boardwalk. So many happy times.
My uncle and family went to Australia in 1965.
When he arrived off the boat 🎉they went to a cafe. Joey looked outside and saw some guys digging a hole in the road. He went up to the foreman and asked for a job. He was taken on right there and then.
Then he opened a fish and chip shop. Then another. Then a shop. Then a chain of shops.
And Joey could barely read or write !!!!! But he was a cheeky bugger and just did what others just talked about.
I was born the same year this film was made. My parents migrated from Europe and were sent to the countryside to work on infrastructure projects line laying rail lines and water pipes and the like. They worked hard but they enjoyed a standard of living that they could only have dreamed about back in the old country. The beauty of Australia back then was that it was literally bursting at the seams with new industries. Work was plentiful as most consumer goods were made in Australia. The Australian government protected its industries with tariffs designed to allow industry to prosper without competition from low wage nations. It was a good formula...the only drawback being that we paid a little more for our goods like cars than people did in countries like the USA. Small price to pay, imho, for full employment. Today, what with globalisation, our industries have been decimated and I fear for the futures of today's young people who now have to pay for their tertiary education (I didn't...it was free when I was a lad because the Australian government of the time wanted an educated population) with student loans and then try to compete in a shrinking industrial market and a shaky services sector.
Top marks to the NFSA for preserving our past in this way... I hope their funding never gets cut by a government who treats the past with contempt.
Hey great comments and thanks for sharing your story. We love history and strive to bring as much of it as we can back to the future. Thanks for the nice feedback.
Unfortunately, the world has changed. Protectionism no longer works in a globalised economy. You simply cannot compete with manufacturing powerhouses like China. If protectionism were to continue Australia's living standards would decline. This is similar to the Americans longing for the days when you could leave high school and get a union paying job in one of the factories, work there for your entire life, and make enough to live comfortably. Without getting into the complexities, that was a unique period that only existed at that point in time. It could never fly in today's world. We will just have to adapt and look forward.
Yes the world keeps turning. Sunset here sunrise there.
Same here, same expeience, being a son of new Australians
Trips, Spot-on comment from you! I spent time working (engineering) in Oz back before the cancer of Postmodernism invaded Canberra. There was less variety in the shops back then, and prices were higher for some goods, but the overall quality of life---and a feeling of social camaraderie, even with strangers, far exceeded conditions today. I am so thankful that I experienced it when it was the safest, happiest, and cleanest urban civilization in the world.
I came in 66 as a 7year old from France.. We settled in Melbourne.. I loved it immediately and made my life here, go worked, got married had kids.. I am 61 now and I believe my parents made a good decision moving here 😊
Just realised that this film was directed by my Dad.
andrew gray is your Dad still alive? Fascinating!
andrew gray oh my! He did a great job🤗
Andrew , mate your father is a legend mate. Love and respect from India sir. Your politicians played a jerk game and messed up everything . Life was better and fascinating back then. Watching from India man. I can feel what Aussies feel now a days. Have a great time ahead.
Mister Andrew gray that's true. this film directed to your father
Oh my God old Australia looking very beautiful
To have lived in that colourful carefree time and still feel 20 in these times, I'm truly blessed but only because I'm healthy not because there is anything good today , oh how sad it is to see where we have gone .
Hi, feel privileged to have been in the movie and read your responses. It is an accurate portrayal of what life was like back then. I can remember it like yesterday and making the movie/doco. Life was simpler and structured but children had enormous freedom. We left money in milk bottles for the milkman and no one thought about it getting nicked. Mother made sure her kids and husband were nourished as "breakfast is the most important meal of the day". Her day was regulated by keeping a harmonious home and neighbours were important. In Australia then, we didn't know about divorced couples (but read about them in American magazines ie. filmstars). It was probably not a wonderful era for some but for most baby boomers there are so many websites filled with nostalgia. You can read about making of this movie and Aussie life in my book Once I was a Teenager. Growing up in the 50s and 60s in Australia and beyond." It is not just a historical reference but has fun anecdotes of being an imported Aussie family. Enjoy!
You have no idea just how good you had it compared to today
Which person is you ?
Imyes i loved them days i remember the little milks we drank everyday at school beautiful days in the 70s
@@julieielasi4156 I was an 80s kid. We didn’t have the little milks. Wish we did lol.
I just loved my childhood growing up at Allambie Heights on the northern beaches. I was born in 1961 and can vouch for the accuracy of this film and how idyllic it was to be a child in those carefree times. I would love to have it confirmed if the teacher in this film was Mr J J Hume. He became the Principal of the newly-built Allambie Heights Public School when it completed in 1959. He was obviously still a teacher at the time of this film at the unknown school featured. I attended AHPS from 1967 to 1973, where he continued as Principal there until his retirement many years after I left to go to high school. Unfortunately the credits don’t show the names of those who featured in this film for me to confirm if this is actually Mr Hume. Are you able to advise?
I enjoyed the film... We migrated from Italy that same year 1959..and went through watching the film, all the nice experience we had... When I got to Australia I was almost 7 yrs old... But sadly came back to Italy in 1970. My dad was a panel beater.. We first went to Mytleford, then Melbourne and at last shifted to Warburton..... Best time of my life.
Nice post. Hi from Warburton! Probably changed massively since you were here.
More of this attitude from everyone in the present day please!
During the opening credits there is a street scene. It's Duneba Avenue in West Pymble (then generally known as West Gordon). The footage stops just at the driveway to No 28 Duneba Avenue. You see part of the front fence and the letterbox with the number '28'. I lived at No 28 from 1958 to 1980. Amazing.
Hi Ian, well spotted. Thanks for letting us know. Location and people detail always welcome.
NFSA Films it’s been a month since last video. When is the next one coming. Live this channel I’m a subscriber to. Are you on Facebook??
Where did you get that idea from?
WOW - that must have bought back memories
I grew up with all of this. Wonderfull times .
Me too and it was wonderful.
definitely like this when I got her
A wage earner couldn't survive in Sydney today. The past generations didn't realise how lucky they were. Australia has one of the highest cost of living standards in the world.
Coz we import EVERYTHING and pay for it on the never never. Nothing made here and the best food goes offshore.
How are all the people in Sydney surviving now then?
I stumbled across this film and was glued to it as we immigrated from Italy in 1959, i was only 5 and it brought back so many memories. We lived in Port Kembla for many years and yes, life was so much easier and more social back then. What a wonderful trip back in time. Thank you
Born in Brisbane in the year this was produced, 1959. It certainly was a fantastic time to grow up, I remember when we were all allowed to go home from school early to watch the tv broadcast of Armstrong standing on the moon!
Mate you should know better. Look at the cars. FB EK and EJ Holden's.
EJ's were not sold until 1963...
I absolutely enjoyed every second of this. I was 4 years of age in 1959 and this film was a gentle reminder of my early years growing up in Sydney.
I could have been here earlier too. Growing up in Germany, my parents were "bullied" by my grandmother to move 70 km from her home only instead of 120 km as my parents had intended. Another 16000 km to Australia ? NO WAY ! That was my task in 1984.
Back in the golden age when you ate a meal together at work and home without a mobile at every ones hands.
However still what a beautiful country we live in Ive traveled the world and so thankful I own a Australian birth certificate
I’m first generation born Australian thank god my parents took the first the ship here to Australia 🇦🇺
Thank you Australia 🇦🇺 for the blessing to be born here.
Keep Australia 🇦🇺 alive support and buy Aussie let’s try keeping Australia 🇦🇺 alive and only you can particularly over our harsh COVIDSafe lock down
Our need for greed caused this as we now live in a disposable world instead of getting our TV or fridge fixed we got rid of them to the tip and brought another cheaper from China hence this put our TV and fridge trades men out of a job ( washing machine as well)
Time to rethink so we can keep Australia 🇦🇺 going and alive.
Cheers 🍻 all with a beer.
My siblings and I are the children in this doco movie we made in 1959 with Margaret Roberts and Deryck Barnes. We got paid 25 pounds each. It was a wonderful time making the movie and depicts how life really was. I mention the making of it in my book "Once I was a Teenager: Growing up in the 50s and 60s in Australia..."
jonquil graham WOW ! Do you still all live in Sydney?
@@trixie-bellfaith5380 Not now. I live in New Zealand and adopted and fostered many children. My third book will soon be available about raising our large family from different parts of the world.
jonquil graham Thankyou and I am looking forward to reading your books.
😮😮 how old a the youngest here? The mum left him that the supermarket haha 😄
@@sarah3796 Hi Sah, the little boy was 2 years old. He was the son of the Grip (film technician). In those days the world was a lot safer and mothers parked their babies in prams outside shops and dogs were tied to a post. I remember making the movie like it was yesterday.
Who else finds themselves binge watching these? I'm from the U.S. and have always wanted to see how things were a long time ago, especially in other countries. I would love to visit Australia!
So what's stopping you ? Australia isn't much like what's shown in this great film and i know times have moved on but Australia is different
@@dave1001 Very simple. Money. Australia is very expensive.
Don't come by boat!
@@MrAlcazar yes Australia is expensive both to live here as well as get to but it's worth it in the long run
@@hughmcinally907 no flying is quicker lol
wonderful film, nostalgic and documenting a time when the world spun a bit slower...........how I miss those days
lol, snap out of it. Today is even better
@@nikchris69 not sure that it is. Technology is they only thing that has improved everything else went backwards.
I don't know why but this makes me emotional in waves.
Me Too, Phoebe😔 But, I was privileged to live in these times....great memories 😉.Take Care , Stay Safe in these scary times🙋🏻♀️🇦🇺🕊
I feel the same even I arrived here by myself and in 1989. But seeing the good old times makes me emotional
I was born in 1949, I feel sorry for the youth of today who will never experience the life of my youth in the 50's 60's 70's - it was a hoot !
@Colmillo Blanco and yours. the product of a rampant Dunning Kruger Effect it would seem.
@@BettyBettyBoBetty The 80s was pretty good too, pity, it didn't last long enough.
That couple who scrimped and saved would probably never have dreamed French's Forest would be an area of multimillion-dollar homes someday!
Yes and they would never dreamed that our Banks had been foolish enough to adopted the near zero percent monertry policies from the US Federal Reserve system which has created this massive mortgage debt bubble in home valuations.
Not the only area. Some suburbs, whole street blocks have been bought up, with lots of trees and backyards, only to be smashed up for mega concrete, micro apartment, high rise bunkers, changing the micro climate too.
Awww the good old milk man . That cream in the top of the bottles yummy
Loved that cream on the top.
If only I had a chance to live in the Australia back then. How far downhill it has gone to what it is now.
sadly there is a bit further for us to fall yet - not long now
@@rossie273 Yep! It's coming. It's inevitable now. The sooner the final big show down comes over feminism etc, the better. Once political correctness is completely rooted out of Australian society, we can begin to rebuild it. All nice and clean, moral, decent, high Aussie standards. Don't need this crap!.
This was my parents time. May as well be a million years ago now. Everything's changed.
I’m not even Australian and I feel nostalgic
It reminds me of the Australia of my childhood. Sadly an Australia gone now. And whilst far from perfect it was a lovely place.
In my suburb in Perth, the milkman had a horse and cart, long after the rest of the suburbs had gone over to vehicles. I have fond memories of waking up in the middle of the night and hearing the horse's hooves clip-clopping outside.
Chris, I think you will like the NFSA one on Melbourne briefly covering horse drawn milk delivery :
ruclips.net/video/TC7D5T_m_-k/видео.html
Transferred from film by the NFSA at 4K for this version. Shot from 1964 and 1965. Released 1966.
In Essendon one dairy had horse drawn delivery up until 1987. I was amazed when I found out myself.
Any recollection of when your horse delivery finished? As a kid I used to catch a lift on the milk cart on rare occasions.
Pity they only seemed to have captured this briefly in Melbourne only.
I was a child growing up in the 70’s and this film took me back. I remember the milkman, drive in theatres, Sunday drives and the school nurse. Oh to live back in these times when the world was a more simplistic and innocent place. Australia: We may not be as good as we used to be, but I was born and bred here and think it’s still the best country to live in
YES, stay positive.... it is the BEST!😊
People like you is the fundamental component of Australian strength.
Its just rose co loured glasses you got there . Things just didn't get talked about then . Kiddy fiddling , alcoholism , wife beating , poverty , racism , sexism . All this stuff was rampant . Things are better now because its out in the open and we all talk about it and deal with it . The country is a actually a much better place now than then .
@@Fractalite I didn’t mention anything about the issues you’ve brought up here. I was only a child then, I would hardly have known about that stuff, let alone it was going on. As a kid growing up then, Australia was the best country to live in then and still is. I think you’ll find those issues are far worse now. That wasn’t my point though, I was talking about how great it was to grow up here and be an Aussie whether the ‘70s or the 21st Century.
@@Fractalite those things are still with us and will always be. talk is cheap.
We used to have manufacturing jobs , now we have manufactured jobs .
That’s a Holden, an Australian built car. 😳😳😳
But remember Holden was still always foreign owned under General Motors.
HOLDEN - Holdens body works was Aussie owned . GMH is American owned . We did used to build Aussie cars back then .
Post comes on Saturdays. Now it barely comes at all. I love this film.
fordlandau And every time he drop the letter in the box he blows whistle, l remember that very well.
What a wonderful time - it seemed like anything was possible- life was slower and hard work got you somewhere- a great period to have lived through
Yes, and it was ok to discriminate against the indigenous Australians, steal their land and children, imprison them, keep in poverty and not pay for their labour. Wonderful times indeed!!!
I love how people these days say ‘we are evolving’ however the kids in this film and time are more well spoken and far more educated than kids these days😢
Definitely politer, but I think you'd be hard pressed to have the older son of that "family" of the time be able to dazzle you with his calculus skills.
Notice how people are slim and healthy as no MacDonalds etc, globalization was not a term. People could leave their houses and cars unlocked especially in the country. To see the real Australia go out into the country as unfortunately, our cities don't represent us anymore.
Australia, Canada, USA, and Europe were so much better than today. I wish I was born in that period.
I was...it was a great life...free education right up through university. Free healthcare (in Australia, that is...) and virtually full employment because we made everything from socks to radios to tvs to cars here. Now we make nothing...thanks to globalisation and China.
tripsadelica Same in Spain mate, however we spend a struggles times like civil war and Franco's dictatorship, unfortunately don't back the good old days. Cheers from Barcelona!!
@@tripsadelica Don't we still make cars though? (Holden)
@@OheyBro Na it's all gone. Expensive labour. If we were to abloish the minimum wage, everything should've run smoothly. Increasing minimum wage hurts the economy.
Except for countries under Soviet rule.
Back when there were no computers, broadband, satellite tv and mobile phones. Less is more, so the old cliche goes.
yep sure shows what it was like, came here to Adelaide as a 10 month old in March 1954, I'm glad my folks left Scotland and headed downunder
What a time to live in. My uncle came here from Singapore back in the 1950s to study under the Colombo plan. He said Australia and the Australian people were just so lovely and so welcoming and the way of life was so much better
Lieutenant Colombo?
It's wonderful to see a few Jaguars amongst the Holdens and Morrises. I'm restoring a 1959 Jaguar Mk1, like the one at around 5:45, currently. One benefit of restoring a car in Australia is that they often aren't very rusty, and due to English luxury cars' popularity here, there are plenty of parts too!
My Dad drove a big Jaguar - he was very proud of it!
People aspired to own a house, car and a refrigerator. Now it’s two cars, a home cinema, 4 bathrooms, and a new smart phone when their current one is only a year old.
You sound like a boomer.
She left her child in the front of the store and walked off to do her shopping... 😳
That would be unthinkable now adays.
I was looking for this comment 👍
The film crew were watching the child.
@@justgrand3429
Who knows, one would hope.......
@@justgrand3429 Even in the 70's young children ran around the neighborhood unsupervised. Usually all day.
Even in the 60s and 70s children were snatched by sickos
Absolutely loved watching this. So many wonderful memories. It wasn’t a perfect world then, but we were lucky to have been born in the 50’s, and experienced a simpler, kinder, place. Thank you.
The slight leaning towards a positive portrayal of Australia in no way affects the authenticity of this film. It is a wonderful record of a once proud nation, the like of which will not be seen again. I was very glad to see it, but equally sad to see the contrast of the needless fate Australia has suffered since then.
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.....too much golf....haha
No fat people here. People ate well, but no junk food then. No computers for kids to sit in front of. Lots of outdoor activities.
Food wasn’t as proceeded back then. So less sugar was also consumed as well as kids and adults were PHYSICALLY busy.
@@HGCUPCAKES Yes we can thank the influx of american culture of all the sugar and processed food.
To add, as cars have became more affordable, less people walk. Children get driven instead of walking.
Ah the 1950's. What a time to be alive!
Yes, true to form.
In the 60s the fresh, ‘new’ suburbs were felt great. And all up and down the street there were all young families. So we roamed from house-to-house playing with each other’s toys such as Scalectrix sets and Mouse Trap....at any time... not ever having to (gulp) ‘arrange a play date’ (!) and playing cricket on the street without EVER having to compete with stupid cars parked All up and down the street (today) on both sides (!) ....yes, walking to and from school all on my own from Grade 1... and mucking around down at the creek till dark ! Parents did not have a clue, and hand on heart, never worried. There was just a confidence, or care-free attitude back then, at least in the young suburbs.
Having said that, many parents were hands-off parents... children were ‘seen and not heard’ . Mmmmm, would I swap laid-back parents to hands-on mentoring parents ? Yes.... I am one today ! Today, many of us have some paranoia around safety. Result? Mentoring but also over-monitoring and entertainment managers (!) ...our Lord little Fontleroys are (gulp) driven too and from school !
Fauntleroy reference for the win ! Congratulations, you’ve won a stretch Armstrong and a copy of Picnic at hanging rock!
This was made in 1959? The film quality is remarkable.
Beautiful 35mm film. Even when highly compressed for You Tube.
Film quality was high back then. If anything, it got worse in the 70s.
Three strip technicolor. The same stuff was used in Hollywood. It produced rich vibrant colours...not the pastelly crap of today's film stock.
@@tripsadelica I can't ever recall 3 strip Technicolor being used in Australia. It was rendered obsolete in the early 1950s by Eastmancolor, on which this film would have been shot.
As a result, I expect the NFSA had to do a fair bit of restoration work to counter colour dye fade and the sometimes glaring contrast and high saturation of some cuts may bear testimony to their work in salvaging the print (I doubt they would have the negative) on which this was presented.
A great film ,excellant quality ,could these archives be shown on a special segment television show ,better than the garbage we are presented with today .Thanks NFSA !
We would love for that to happen. Until then you're welcome to enjoy them here.
No salt on the roads here.It helps.
Happier times, before the greed and wealth focus took over.
I think the Aboriginals may disagree with you regarding your timeline concerning when greed and wealth focus took over.
Another one.....
That's when we made things and everybody who wanted a job had a job.
Born in 1952, I've lived all my life in Sydney, 5th generation Australian. This film has been a surprisingly accurate window into my childhood. The colour and high definition reminds me that Sydney really was, just like that.
The massive standout for me is the way the film kept me in suspense by ignoring mentioning the husband's job until AFTER they couple are seen getting their mortgage and building plans sorted - for a very upmarket suburb. And that mortgage/loan, so low that the wife didn't need to work to pay it off! ! Was the husband guaranteed a job on arrival or even sponsored by a firm, does anyone know?
Whatever the answer, the film suggests that job worry was non-existent. So different from modern times! This is what makes life then seem like a Golden Age. People my age all talk about how much harder life is for our adult children, compared to what we knew. Of course I'm well aware, now, of the social unfairness of those days. I was privileged enough (and lucky enough) to be pretty much shielded from those pressures. But an era of Full Employment seems like some sort of parallel universe. Did it even happen? NFSA, these archives prove it really did.
Thank you for your thoughts. Glad you enjoyed the film.
After I arrived and lived in the hostel in S.A. it took me only one visit to the employment office to find a job, yes it was in a factory. I hated the work as it was nightshift. One other visit to the employment office and that gave me an other job straight away in a dry cleaning which was day time. I was happy.. I decided to travel a little and as I got of the train I walked into an hotel and had a job as a house keeper. Yes it was that easy in the 60's. In my original country I had worked in an office for 7 years. I was 23 at the time I got here and could not speak English. I got free English migrant lessons in the hostel and later by correspondence. It took me 6 months to speak English enough to communicate properly.
Another important fact worth mentioning is that during this time Australia's overall population was low so migrants coming into the country had space to assimilate with the descendants of the original British settlers. However now the country is arguably overpopulated and to an extent immigrants are no longer needed or can be adequately supported.
Yes, Posties on Saturday Morning and Monday to Friday deliveries twice a day Morning and Afternoon deliveries. Morning deliveries of the paper, milk and bread.
No different from what was happening in UK at that time. In the end, I chose Canada but now have a son living in Brisbane - ironic!
Yeah these days it’s takes 2 weeks to receive a piece of local mail. Cause they send it to a ‘Sorting Location’ first, which is quite often 100s of kms away.
Compared with the trash service we now get from the feminist dominated Australia Post and all its recent corruption etc. Unheard of back then, when it was the PMG, a government department. I know because I worked there as a young girl, monitoring g the telephone exchange, doing all the mail etc. There were strict rules, control. Once, I accidently flicked a wrong switch on the old telephone exchange switch board and didn't realize that I was effectively inadvertantly eavesdropping g on a private telephone conversation. In a flash, this stern authoritarian voice from Melbourne came on to inform me of my potentially very serious privacy invading g offence and I had to explain, in a state of shock, how I didn't mean it and had heard nothing, just someone say "Hello, nice to hear from you" to the other person on the li e I should not have been listening to. I was let of with a stern warning that I would be prosecuted if ever caught again doing such illegal things that invade privacy. But, hey, look at all the potentially deadly privacy invasions Australia Post is guilty of, on a daily basis. Like letters eg containing g bankcards, ID etc being delivered to wrong addresses. Maybe some fraudster or homocidal maniac his next murder or some deranged ex husband hell bent on murdering or harming his ex partner, stealing her kids etc. The mind boggles.But nobody dares complain. Because they are women and migrants and oh so politically correct and it could end up in court costing g you a fortune to achieve nothing because such feminist/multicultural corruption in Victoria is now "networked" among feminists in every key bureaucracy, so as soon as you complain, they get on the blower, ignoring g all the privacy laws when it suits them to do so but insisting on them to suit their own ends. And they forewarn the grievance mechanism feminists a out "what's coming", so your complaint never gets a fair hearing. Even if you go to court, you may not get a fair go because feminists have that form of judicial " networking" ie corruption also all stitched up to suit themselves and their mothers, daughters, sisters. They must be crushed if we are to have a decent homeland. It can never be as good as it was, due to the toxic effects of .multiculturalism that causes standards to plummet. But if both feminism and multiculturalism could be crushed, Australian society might not be as bad as it now is. Maybe time for a new hard lockdown, I think.... It was so clean and nice and peaceful during the last hard Victorian lockdown. A bit of a pain wearing masks etc, though OK in winter, for facial warmth. But definitely worth putting g up with such minor inconvenience. Bring on another hard lockdown this winter in Victoria, now that they have recovered from the last one and feminists etc are starting to get too confident again. They need cutting down to size and chastising, as do their millennial offspring g and some of their old girl mothers suddenly converted to feminism by their cash strapped user daughters and on a bit of a menopausal old girls feminist authority trip. You see them in charity op shops, post offices, school crossings, supermarkets, wielding hand sanitizer bottles, ordering and marshalling customers around etc etc eg in one door, exit by another (I deliberately infuriate these old girls by doing the reverse then acting like I am a "mental case" and if they get nasty I just burst into tears, very loudly and publicly, pull out my disability pensioner Health Care Card, sob about discrimination and generally carry on..... Until their husband or some other such partner they have comes to rescue me and kiss it better, ignoring their dragon feminist old girl wife. I just thank them sweetly, reassure the kid men I'll be OK and get out fast, because I know a major "scene" will explode as soon as such working old girl wives confront their "partner" about his behaviour ie helping single women being g abused by such old neo feminist hand sanitizer wielding Aussie dragon women. In the 60's we called these types of Aussie old vinegar tits business women "Aussie frill neck lizards", on account of being typically very skinny, with long crepey wrinkly necks, stuffy coiffures, Same Edna Everadge spectacles on a chain and, of course, the obligatory white 'frill necked" business woman's blouse worn by office women, who were typically glorified typists, with a Madam Batwing older one in charge of the girlie typing pool, who wore the frill neck white business blouse, to show her authority over the rest of her clueless bored bimbos just killing time there until they could snare some hapless dude into marrying them eg by getting pregnant. No more frill necked Madam Batwing, no more shit to type perfectly.... Freedom was washing dishes at your home kitchen sink and changing baby's nappy and cooking hubby's dinner, washing his sox and jox. But times have now changed, ruined by feminism. Though most young women and many older ones, too, wish they still had this female right that feminism stole from them. Simply because they allowed feminists to lead them astray. I was one of the few who dared, in my youth, to question emerging g feminist politics. When I suggested that not all women have to become dismal female failures at womanhood, just because a few leading the feminist push and shove are, I got howled down and had violent threats made against me, by other politically aggressive feminists. These types are now in political positions of authority, in media etc. Going on ad nauseum about women not getting a fair hearing. What women?Who?Where? And which powerful women are perpetrating the very abuses they complain about? Enough said.
@@anon2131 That was quite a rant!
A mortgage, 3 kids on 1 wage with a 650m2 block. What the fuck happened
people voted liberal
@@jaynemeulman8484 ''GIVE me control of a Nation's money supply, and I care not who makes it's Laws'' question more.
Corporate greed,
Simple. Banks were deregulated. Repayments previously were not allowed to be more than 25% of one income. Now, couples are on a treadmill of exhaustion paying 1 million dollar mortgages. In the past, our arrogant tradies had to dovetail their costs to what the market dictated.
Everyone's greed. Living in an investment, not a home. Council rate time: "You've got to be kidding ! Our place is NOT THAT much worth ..." Sales time: "You've got to be kidding ! Our place is FAR MORE worth ..." Real Estate 'Land rat', collecting 3% commission from the sale: "Certainly, we will spruce it up to pass an auction with maximum outcome." Talk among parents: "Shocking inflation. How can our kids afford a house and land package ?"
I didn't know there were tv licences. Must have cut that out very soon after this movie was made. I remember my dad's push bike had a little numberplate on it. lol.
and don't forget radio licences.
Back when just dads wage could support a family.. now both parents have got to work 2 different jobs just to survive
Nigel Nobody Thanks to feminism.
Catness Everwild yeah since most of them are single and childless.
Hey, I am working on one job and can support wife and child living in Sydney.
Destroy the family unit. Destroy society. So very sad.
Both parents go out and work and actually have a life .
Fantastic!! Thank you NFSA. Wonderful memories. Makes you appreciate more those times and be grateful to this country for it's generosity and help so one can prosper and flourish simply by applying oneself. Lucky to have been born then. We have lost more than we have gained.
This is clearly a propoganda piece and not the experience for many Aussies. I was born in the late 60s and my parents couldnt afford to rent so they lived with my grandparents. When they did buy their own house, it was in a tiny town and was such a shitbox that when we moved out when I was 16 it was torn down. We never had a phone. Never experienced it until I was 16. They both had to work. And this was not uncommon. There wasnt the welfare and support of now. If they wanted something, they had to save up over time. We never went on nice holidays or had nice things. As kids, we had to make our own fun. This was a typical experience for the working class in the country.
So people whining now about how good people had it have not read the descrption of this video nor have any real grasp of the actual reality. What youre seeing is middle class Australia. This may depict the case for some but this is not my experience at all or anyone I knew.
As there are today, there were wealth differences back then. I would not say that your experience was typical, nor would I say this is either. But poverty was not a defining feature of Australian life.
We came out here and within five years bought a beautiful house in a good suburb, we went on holidays and had a swimming pool. A few years later my uncle and his family came out as well. They soon bought a nice house in a good area. My ex-husband’s family came out from Italy before us, and they also soon bought a beautiful house. Your experience isn’t typical.
1959, a lovely sunny place.
Wow, better times, better people, better lives, better economy, everything.
Thank you for postng these films i am myself also a refugee migrant to australia in 1990 time flies i already have been living in australia for 25 years i like these old films
Glad you are enjoying them, Trang
Me too Trang!
We will never see these times again our kids have missed on this good old days when life was so much better 🇦🇺👍
Gee whiz this video is amazing! The music is unreal, makes my heart smile!
Hi Lyndon,
My Dad directed this film. He passed on in 2004 but your kind comments also "makes my heart smile" and remember my Dad with great fondness. Thanks Mate!
They cleared the block and built their own foundation - people just work like that nowadays! Aand a really great movie was "They're a weird mob" 1966 👍👍👍
Yeah, right. Ten pound Poms buying land in Frenches Forest. I call bullshit.
Those migrant hostels gave us The Easybeats, ACDC, Cold Chisel and Dragon.
Note at 10:51, mowing the lawn in Darwin Safety boots (barefeet). Queensland Safety boots are rubber thongs (aka flip flops). Note the bindis haven't invaded his lawn yet.
Wish I could migrate with a time machine .
Where did our accents go 😭. A time when we sounded Australian.
loved the scene in the technical college where the students were standing over a lathe with their ties dangling!
No safety glasses
Ahh good old Sitmar lines. My family landed in Sydney on 1st Jan 1965 then we got shipped up to Newcastle. I was 8 years old. The migrant hostels up there were next to Hexham Swamp and the mosquitoes were the size of dragonflies :). Coming from England it was hot that first summer and at the end of 1965 and 1966 there were bad bushfires in the country. Ahh memories. Thanks NFSA for uploading.
Edit: At 22:40 Wow Dee Why in 1959. I lived there in 2006-2007. Changed a bit.
I think I still prefer the 70's. Great days.
By Christ the way we live has changed, now it’s almost 2 vehicles per person and you buy a vehicle long before you can afford a house deposit
You may be needing to live in the car at today's prices.
Old Australia it's very beautiful
it is, especially through rose tinted glasses...
its a long nostalgic footage definitely good to see it on the Tube where one can watch and relieve in the own leisure time in comfortable living room . I quite enjoyed this. i was going to say like Father like older Son :)
Yep when Australia was Australia now everything sold off to the highest bidder mind you it wasn’t all sugar and spice there were problems in those days as human nature hasn’t changed it was simply a different time .
I was born in the sixties and I do miss a lot of things but glad that some things have changed ,the days of cream on the top are long gone
I worked in cafes in my tourist resort hometown and had to make these banana boat sundaes deserts featuring vertically split banana to form the boat sides, two scoops of vanilla icecream, ideally Streets or Dairy Bell, the best and I know because I also made icecream in an icecream factory. Red and green and yellow jelly went between the icecream balls with extra banana horizontal slices. It was all drizzled in banana milk shake flavouring and chopped nuts spring led on top. And then came the whipped cream on top of each ice ream ball. The final touches on the banana boat, served in a special glass dish, were the sails. Diagonally cut icecream wafers stuck on the cream, like a a yacht's sails. Tourists devoured these by the hundreds each day. I couldn't keep up serving them. (But I never ate any myself because us girls dealing with the public had to look slim and attractive. Hence no stuffing our faces on the nice food we had to make for tourists,though management did feed us well. Just no fattening stuff. Like Banana boats. Let the tourists get fat, in stead. After a good time holiday experience.
I've probably watched every doco featuring Sydney that you've uploaded and this has to be the best, both for content and image quality. In 1959 I was 11, so many scenes resonate with me. It comes across as an honest portrayal of the times in which we lived. If it could be tagged as I've done for books on Trove, I think I could come up with hundreds of tags. Thanks for loading this masterpiece.
Hi John, thanks for the positive feedback. Yes it is a great film, glad you enjoyed it. RUclips doesn't seem to allow for that kind of crowd source tagging but it would be a great feature.
Wow, same age as me. Great memories.
quality of the film is quite good
" It is terrific to think you can travel the distance between London and Moscow and still be in Australia" We have learnt so much.
I’m Australian and first time I flew within Europe I was amazed how close places were. I flew between Athens and London within 4 hours. It took me 3.5 hours only to fly from Sydney to Uluru!
Real nostalgia jolt for me from 22:27 onwards - Pittwater Road in the Northern Beaches (Sydney) suburb of Dee Why, where I grew up; I was ten in 1959.
59 I was not yet 2yo. Although I wasn't living there I worked for Telecom construction in the 80's and worked the whole peninsular so got to know the area very well above and below ground. Originally based at St Leonards and then relocated to a yard in Balgowlah. The civils crews there were either Italian or Croatian. I was with the Italians for a while. Croatians were further north around Narrabeen and Mona Vale while the Italians were Dee Why Allambie Heights areas. My work there ranged from North Head North Sydney Chatswood Hornsby to Barenjoey, it was a big area to cover.
I lived in that era, never used “hire-purchase” once, though many did of course. Never - never payments at high interest, a mugs game to me. I love the comments from the incredulous young though. (Like, how do they do all that on one wage?)
The 1950s as a great year it was so much good stuffs around Australia and was a good country
Oh, dear, the postie had a whistle and he was on foot. I guess they didn't have to deliver as big an area as they have to today.
I know people who spent time in one of these. One step above a tent, and mutton stew most of the time. Afterwards, even the smell of lamb made them nauseous. Italians and Greeks saved Australia with their culinary skills.
At 23.21 - putting a pineapple in the pram is one way of making sure your kid doesn't climb out.
The summer months, November through March. .I love it! I love Australia. America's true brother country.
Fantastic film, many thanks for posting. I love watching your vintage films about Australia.
I would love to know what happened to the family, the kids especially, where they are now.
Jemima Gore read the comment thread started by Andrew Grey, the son of the man who directed this film.
I grew up in Auckland (NZ) during this era- and the experience seems similar. My Dad was a Londoner who came out after the war.. met a NZ lady .. all their friends were a mix of ex army and navy men and their wives from the UK and the NZ Forces. They built a little house in the outer suburbs of Auckland themselves .. and raised 3 kids
Where is the bit of my Mum working in a crap Richmond factory, earning one third a mans wages, dragging herself home to a commission flat, greeting the postman, who does not have an alimony check, coz dad was the RSL and Masonic Prez, and winked at the judge during the hearing? It’s ok, the reality of what we wanted, is always the way we remember it.
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Your mum is a rockstar , good on her
Thank you government for making home affordability a distant wish for most young people.
Yes, the government need to regulate where immigrants reside when they move to a new country. So they all flock to the big cities making them overpopulated and driving housing prices up. Supply and demand. So we are told we need to keep bringing more immigrants in, to replace an aging populace, but with automation where are the jobs? Lets ask the aboriginals or first nations what they think.
@@contessaanthrope5775 Property prices having risen in the country areas since COVID-19 too. Unless they are placed in flood or fire prone locations.
Average house in WA now pushing a million.
15 bucks for a pint of beer in a pub .
35 bucks for a pack of smokes that you’re not allowed to enjoy anywhere anymore.
200 buck fine every time you leave your house.
Wilson’s car parks ( pack o carnts!}
Can still get a cheap root at the motorplex so it’s not all bad.
One day I'll become one..Have dreamt of it for 10 years, and I am only 24. Greetings from Denmark
Good luck getting a flight there. Then you have to quarantine for two weeks at $3500 a week.
@@anneofgreengables1619 not right now tho'. Could be in 5 years
Oh boy to see this ! The old Commonwealth Film unit , and my old Department of the Dept of the Interior under the section of Australian News and Information Bureau ; and in WW11 the Department of Information . This film was written by an old , but now along time past friend " Bernie Freedman ( Canberra ) My roll in the the Dept of the Interior was ( Government Photographer ) and loved every minute of it : Thanks for the memory .... Norman Plant / Canberra 26th Oct 2019 ....
Thanks for sharing your memories Norman. This is the place to find as much of the various government film units production as we can put up. Lots more to go.
Written by Bernie and directed by my dad John Gray.
That Country no longer exist's, now Australians struggle to pay electricity and gas bills! the young can only work part time, and only work is in service industry, eg tourism, retail, insurance, govt department. In the mean time liberal governments are gradually taking working peoples rights away,
yes I was told I would get the pension at 65 for most of my life, until I turned 60, now their telling me no not 65 anymore! after taking my tax's all my life,
we were all told our tax's paid for pensions, now were told were just a burden when we get to 65, hypocrites the lot of them!!
Don't forget mass immigration of cheap foreign labour and Chinese infiltration which is destroying the Australian way of life and turning the country into a third world shithole
@@lordhonksworth7701 I think it's just a lust and greed of political parties that make Australia what it is now, in every sector there is a decline and Australian economy is heavily relying on international students and migrants now these days. It just remind me the time what we used to be and what we are now .
@@lordhonksworth7701 The rot started when we gave the European migrants citizenship in the late 60s and 70s. they all voted labour as labour gave their communities money and more immigration
yes, you will a burden to the taxation system. If you have a job then you will probably be OK until you retire at 67 unless they retrench you. The politicians even talked of raising it to 70 or abolishing it altogether. I'm 62 and haven't worked for nearly 6 years now and have to wait another 5 years to apply for an aged pension. I have some super but cannot touch that until I turn 67, there goes the pension. I divorced and sold the family home 7 years ago and have been living off my half of the settlement since. I dont apply for newstart because at my age I know it is a hopeless idea of finding work. I worked hard for 41 years even did a couple of years in the army. I made enquiries there for entitlement and they said I may qualify for a discount on health insurance. If I was a refugee I would be given so much assistance, it's a slap that's for sure. I feel that as I age I will end up sleeping under a sheet of plastic somewhere. I have no faith in politicians that's for sure, there's no manufacturing anymore because of greedy self indulgent people feathering their own nest with total disregard to the community.
@@26TptCoy - I'd apply for Newstart (it's now called Job Seeker) if I were you. Some money coming in is better than none. You may not be eligible though - it depends on your financial situation (savings, assets, etc.) But you might as well apply - Job Seeker is a lot more money than the old Newstart because of the coronavirus.
a suit and tie for the drive in. we've changed
If those old school carpenters at 8mins could come back see what the I'm using in construction now, battery saws,planes, laser measure tapes, cordless drills,cutters, nail guns, the list of innovation is endless
The projects have become more complex too at risen wages. Reigning in the costs, allowing for profit, such modern gimmicks are essential for efficient building.
a good formula to improve and reverse the rot in our country today
Back when a family of 5 were content living in a modest 2-bedroom home instead of the McMansions they live in now.
So so true.
Grred is good is largely exported from the US
Corruption, loss of resources and high labour costs has driven this lifestyle into the ground.
and mass immigration...
@Doctor MENGELE The UN's Lima declaration which the power that be signed killed Australia's manufacturing and rampant unionists helped nail the coffin shut!
@@Edgar-xh8iu And yet you've just watched an hour of video encouraging immigration. Which is what built this country.
GitarStu immigration from Scotland, England, Ireland ect built this country... NOT immigration from west Asia & Africa... there’s a difference.
Catness Everwild yes indeed, though they made up a small percentage relative to the Anglo migrants.
Adults who arrived four years ago speaking with fully Australian accents. That's quick work.
They sound very British to me (an Australian)
sounded like they still had their British accents
24:20 omg wow she legit left her kid at the front of the store and went shopping. Can never happen now. btw, This an absolute treasure!!!!. look how nice immigrants were treated then. given a small home ro stay in a migrant hostel. not anymore. i wonder if that house they built in the beginning is still standing? wouldn't it be amazing to see it now. Australia seemed like. uch nicer place then, such caring and community.
Just remember that these immigrants are from England. They were encouraged to come to Australia to keep the country ‘racially pure ‘. It was much harder for other migrants.
@@milly5568 Nah australia had chinese migrants since the 1800s, and most migrants since federation where europeans, not english. Our popualtion is mostly of irish origin, dont talk about something you know nothing about.
Migrants were also really discriminated against called shocking names and treated as factory fodder. I know cause I lived through the era. The past is always a golden age
@@dopaminedreams1122 No we're not of irish origin, most White Australians cite English as their largest ancestry.
@@dopaminedreams1122 White Australia policy. There was always a catch and trick, avoiding those Chinese being on the same citizenship level than the British. Look at WW I. Citizens of German or "enemy nation" background, born in Australia, even in 2nd and more generations, were interned in camps and villages and towns were renamed. How petty is that ?