Celebration of a Nation -- Australia 1988 - Bicentennial TV spot
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 4 авг 2024
- The bicentennial year of Captain Arthur Phillip's arrival with the 11 ships of the First Fleet in Sydney Harbour in 1788, and the founding of the city of Sydney and the convict colony of New South Wales. Although Australia's history is over 40,000 years old, in 1988 the concept of terra nullius was still in vogue in Australian politics. In 1992, during an Aboriginal rights case known as Mabo, the High Court of Australia issued a judgment which was a direct overturning of terra nullius.
This commercial is what Australian politicians and media makers thought of Australia in 1988. 
Развлечения
From memory, we all got a coin to celebrate this occasion also. No idea where I put mine. Good times.
True i got a coin 🪙
Still got mine
Still got mine.
Have you noticed…something happening…something goin’ on ‘round here?
Have you noticed…there’s a feeling…of something in the air?
It’s a feeling…that’s keeps growing…from the outback to the sea!
It’s a feeling…that’s True Aussie…just like you and me!
C’mon give us a hand (give us a hand)
C’mon give us a hand (let’s make it grand)
Let’s make it great in ‘88
Give us a hand to celebrate!
Celebration of a nation (give us a hand)
Celebration of a nation (let’s make it grand)
Let’s lend a hand…and show the world…how great we all can be
All those years..of sweat and tears…it’s our bicentenary!
Celebration of a nation (give us a hand)
Celebration of a nation (let’s make it grand)
Let’s make it great in ‘88
C’mon give us a hand
I was in this commercial. I was 11 years old, wearing a red shirt and white shorts. It took 2 days to complete. Ahh the 80's was a much better time!
Where? What’s your name?
In the front row, red shirt, white shorts. My name is Ben.
@@benwager7664 ok I’ll look it up
@@benwager7664were you a local in NT or related to someone involved in it
timestamp?
Remember this, getting my bicentennial coin, going to expo. I was in year 6, 11 years old. It was a great year, went to see the tall ships enter Sydney Harbour on a beautiful warm day.
Damn, '88 seems like it wasn't that long ago, even though I was a kid! I still clearly remember all the hype over the bicentennial that year (and this song/ad).
Good times in Australia in '88'.
Maybe i'm old but Sydney seemed to go huge during the bicentennial celebrations.
Nothing compared to Brisbane
So many have passed..😢
Imagine our power if we united with this much spirit and good will.
We used to have it
I was only 7 years old but I still remember 1988 in Australia quite well. That was the year I learnt about the First Fleet and dressed up in colonial clothing in 1st Grade. I still treasure those childhood memories.
That would be racist now!
I was 16 in 1988, I remember 1988 well. It was a good a good time. This TV ad was played a lot, from memory there was an extended version and a shorter version. The buildup to 1988’s Bi-centennial started at least 2 years before.
Probably what I remember most about this time were the B Class diesel locomotives drenched in green and yellow!!?! I also remember the coin via a card that I got via primary school as well! 1988, what a year that was and I was only 9 at the time sigh....How I miss 1980's Australia SO too much that this imagery saddens me now more than anything these days.....Make it great 88?!!!! Yeah now I'd say to that: "Keep on dreaming Mate!!!!!"......Oh well each to their own.
I was 10 years old in 1988. It feels like so long ago now but great to see the ad again for old times sake.
I wanna live perpetually in this era
You probably will when your dementia kicks-in fully
Can we go back to 88 🙏🏻
Watching this from 🏴 as a small child was the first time I remember cringing. Ah memories 🤣👍
Australia is the best
It was
I REMEMBER WATCHING THAT ON MY TV WHEN I WAS A KIDS
Was in year 5 got the 88 medallion and went to expo 88 at southbank
That's cool, I'm glad you have good memories of this. I do think they should change the date of Australia Day now we're in the 21st Century to be more inclusive than we were back then, for example how the terra nullius concepts were used. The debate has been especially prevalent in Australia where it was ignited by the history wars caused by the Mabo case in 1992.
Good to see the celebration of boat people from England from 1788 I guess
Wow its Rick Price, didn't realise he was around in 1988, it wasn't until 1992 he became a household name.
I did. Then I realised I was thinking of Springfield!
Yes, it is Rick Price. The late Jon English was in this too
Uncle Doug, Bobby Fulton, Moonface, Ken Done, Jenny Kee, Deborah Newsome and Denise Drysdale.
That's all I remember.
I'm sure the dude in the wheelchair was Jeff St John if I remember correctly
@@dougtaylor4726 yes he is. John English there too.
And Rick Price
I think I saw Bert Newton
Delvene got a guernsey too
Fair enough.
I remember in 1988, one of my teachers told my class how they went to a James Taylor concert. Before the show, an indigenous man got up on the stage, and addressed the audience.
He gave a speech. He asked the audience to imagine that some people came to their home, and start living in it. They would never acknowledge that you were there first. Years later, they would decide to have a party. This would be to celebrate the anniversary of when they first moved in.
He asked, how would this feel if this had been done to them?
Completely fabricated history. Go look at all the Roman buildings that claimed to be built in 1800s in every location.
Australia was a better place then... And I'm 35
gst jojn jojsn rules! ok agree 100% that's when Australia was normal and not governed by politically correct agenda's like it is today
ali can yilmax inittt Here here! I’m 35 too and remember how we could go into Melbourne CBD anytime of day or night without fear of muggings or bashings, no home invasions, it was a safe country, and everyone was proud of what a great country we were. It’s steady going down the shitter now, and the self-loathing left and some media and councils keep pushing it. For all the whingers on here complaining of the past, you can allllll go and fuck your self! Most of you aren’t even indigenous but you somehow think you can speak on their behalf? What a joke. Aboriginals today have it much better than they ever would have without British settlement. Free healthcare; education, handouts, and if they want to live a traditional life on the land they have that option too. My wife’s side is indigenous and my kids are therefore part indigenous, and the amount of programs they are being offered and signed up to, not to mention free kinder and school. The other family members have had free university, job priority and no high entry marks needed. If the aboriginal people want to make a decent life for themselves they have every opportunity, more so than the rest of us. Seems it’s easier to sit back and use the old “the evil white man ruined me” bullshit excuse and continue to be lazy and do nothing. Sorry if that sounds racist but it’s the absolute truth! Make the most of what’s offered and stop fucking complaining! The past cannot be changed!
@@parkesy82 Love the way you lot blame the Left for problems of your own creation. The one thing the Right does well - projecting.
@@sda6795 guys I feel like you should go back to the 1901 OR even 1910, Anglo supremacy was an official policy back the, dw what you call politically correct agendas or what I call human rights was not the concern of governments,
@@feraccount9941 Do you consider Australia safer today in 2019 with current migration policy, or safer back in 1988 when there were less migrants in the country? There are reasons countries have borders you know. If you believe that its good to allow masses of people in from countries with different cultures and values, the world may as well be borderless. Julias Ceaser stated 'divide the people, rule the world'. Thats what western powers are doing. Anyone that speaks against the current ideology is accused of hate speech and racism. The system has succesfully brainwashed many into promoting victimhood among minorities that simply is not true. Wake up people! Socialism is amongst us in the western world under the guise of 'equility' 'diversity' and other slogans.
Who are the two people lead singing?
Rick Price & Keren Minshull. Keren later went on to sing lead on Euphoria's 'Love You Right' and 'One In a Million'. Rick had some hits in the early-mid 90s too.
Imagine the media, corporations, university academics and the government supporting Australia Day in 2023
I think The Australian newspaper and everything else owned by Rupert Murdoch (who is American by the way) are very supportive of Australia Day every year really.
@@bcy5414 So one institution out of hundreds? Kind of says the exception proves the rule to me
@@suad01 So true, and the fact that an American media baron and his newspapers are big fans of Australia Day kind of proves your theory I guess
I remember this, it was the year that the America's Cup came to Fremantle. They also changed the words of "Waltzing Matilda" to "Sailing Australia"!
I wonder if the memory has got better or worse in the last 7 years, the America's Cup in Fremantle was in 1987.
Aussie Aussie Aussie
Great Times Then!!!
RIP Australia 🇦🇺 1788-1988 😢 - Gone too soon but never forgotten.
The way we were ♥️🥰
How did we go from this to what we have today, councils not even celebrating australia day anymore and wanting to divide our country by race. I was 5 when this ad came out and i have over the years often thought of it around aus day with all the BS that surrounds it now.
Thats how much of an impact positivity has on people.
The choice of date, Jan 26th, for Australia Day, does indeed divide the country by race, as it marks the 1788 landing of the First Fleet. Changing the date would be one of many things Australia could do to stop dividing the country by race.
@@DeadOnArrivalrubbish 🗑.. any day that celebrates the Nation will be unacceptable for you socialists. You wont be happy until everyone is in their correct categories. Divided by race, sex, gender, economic status, political idology victim status ect. The only interest you people have in Aboriginal people is how you can use them to usurp power from this nation state..thats all theybare after. The voice will be defeated because its obvious to every day people how disingenuous it is.
Completely fabricated history. Lookup all all the old Roman buildings that were already here in 1800s
Who exactly are they asking for a hand?
0:14 best moment
fair dinkum
+Dead On Arrival Fuck oath
Wow..a time when we knew exactly,who we were...and nobody was outraged
who were "we" you mean back in my day everyone had to shut up and be happy with my opinion on what australia was
@@feraccount9941 yep and they were still the best times. Some people should be seen and not heard.
@@feraccount9941 the majority were United
No every white person is of British descent. That’s a bit presumptuous of you
0:46 Looks like it might be Uncle Doug!
Who are the lead singers? Rick price and who the girl?
Keren Minshull is her name, she was the voice of the Australian early 90s dance group (Euphoria) which had a massive hit "Love You Right"
Who the young blonde singer on the left with a white hat who says let’s make it grand by herself?
It was Debbie Newsome, who had co-hosted Perfect Match with Greg Evans for a few years before this. 🙂
One singular token Aboriginal fellow but could possibly be from india.
I dont know, i can never tell(shakes head and makes a tsk sound)
There was pride in your country and job role back then
and it's Mr Doug Mulray at 0:46, shit haven't seen his face in years
+Martin Kuliza And a couple of seconds before that Rowena Wallace aka Pat the Rat who was given a suspended sentence for fraud a couple of years ago. Stupid old bag.
Vpmatt hehe, tha'ts right, i remember that, pat the rat
Yeah, I forget....what's he famous for now?
Really.... doug Mulray 2MMM Radio Announcer / Comedian.
Made a few TV appearances , have a few TV Shows, but mainly started as Triple M radio Announcer calling himself eventually UNCLE DOUG
He hosted the special, 'Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos' on Channel 9. This was remembered for being yanked off air half way through its broadcast.
Nine's owner, Kerry Packer, phoned, telling his staff to,
"Get this **** off."
Some would later call this out as hypocrisy, since at the time, Packer also owned the publisher of a pornographic magazine.
@AcademicAgent might appreciate this, lol.
I’m 43, and miss real Australia 🇦🇺 our country and culture has been utterly destroyed through mass immigration and multiculturalism
Ironic since white people invaded Oz
@@rickhardman7376 they settled it, no one invaded it lol
Agreed and I am an immigrant myself.
Yep too much british immigrants. Trying to force us back to the imperial system, getting us to call soccer football. Sick of them
You mean in 1788? Right.
Nathan did you even look? There's an aboriginal at 0:33
+sliat1981 And a mighty fine example of what "token abo" means.
+Wendy Sunlover fuck off transexual
@@wendychong8823lol so pointing out the racism of this commercial by using a racial slur?
The lefties would hate this lol
How dare lefties protest the theft of land from indigenous people & rob their cradles.
Whose the Aussie blonde singer who sings “let’s make it grand”.
Whose the bloke in the wheelchair?
Debbie Newsome. Best known as the hostess on the Perfect Match gameshow with Greg Evans during the mid 80s. The singer in the wheelchair is Jeff St John
The soul Olympics was great in 1988 and I can't remember much of Sydney 2000 .
Is the lead female singer
Keren Minshull.
Julie Anthony
A few of the faces
Delvene Delaney
Jenny Kee
Ron barassi
Norman May
Dawn Fraser
Bert & Pattie Newton
Cliff Young
Bill Peach
Thomas Keneally
Jeff St John
Rowena Wallace
Doug Mulray
Bobby Limb
Dawn Lake
Deborah Newsome
Denise Drysdale
Gordon Elliott
Jon English
Jeanne Little
Mark Ella
Ken Done
Nicely done compiling that list. Was it Johnny Raper near the start wearing an Akubra hat? I think I also spotted Victoria Nicholls.
@@duffman7065 Yes I think you could be right at 0:14 and 1:04
lol Rick Price... gee what ever happened to him??? was going to be the next big thing...
+Brian Woodrow he choked on a hairy kielbasa. Terrible way to go really.
He's still about, I saw him live solo just this past weekend. Living and recording in Nashville now. Spoke of his days singing advertising jingles...
Ok cool ... thanks for that , glad to see him still playing . ✌️️
who punched that dude in the eye?
twice
The Newsreader brought me here. Yes, I'm aware the fictional version of this song 🎵 is different.
Uncle Doug Mulray
30 years on. lets give our farmers a much needed helping hand
Back when Australia didn't hate itself and its' history.
Don’t worry kiddies, this was cringe af at the time also
Nah it wasn’t
It’s a sad place now
This is what Australia was at the time. Young and free, as it says in the national anthem if anyone actually bothred to learn it now. We are now a country of enraged loonies who lose their minds at the concept of being proud of who we are in case it upsets someone and hurts their feewings.
By loonies I guess you're talking about the antivax cooker Qld cop killers?
Bring back the WAP!
100%
Whose the blond singer with the straw hat
Pretty sure she's an actress or TV show presenter. Can't put a name on the face though.
Debbie Newsome!
Between 1842 and 1904 more than 60,000 men and boys from the South Pacific islands, and an unknown number of women and girls, were kidnaped and brought to Australia to work as slaves on the sugar plantations that still dot the country's northeast coast.
+Joe Joee And look at the sugar industry now. Going from strength to strength. Love us a bit of islander we do.
Australia was built by convicts and Aboriginal slaves that didn't get wages, were separated from their families at birth.
You're actually admitting to being pro-slavery Susan?
What a nasty bitch you must be.
@@DeadOnArrival did they negotiate for the land when they arrived?
Nice memories of this time, I was in the 9th grade. I feel sorry for the people who view this with such negativity. What miserable people you must be inside, and a pain in the ass to live with.
I live with some indigenous people and we all get along just fine, and we still think this video is far from inclusive, there are many conservative's out there that still think they have the right to climb Uluru.
MartyMonster h
Millennials weren’t even alive, the SJW were still inutero
@@cappygolucky Pretty sure that’s incorrect. Millennials can be born as far back as 1981, depending on your definition. So that makes me a borderline Millennial.
That wonderful ad was back in the good old days when words and "woke" and terms like "climate-change" were unheard of. When Australia was still pretty much fair dinkum. It was a wonderful time in 1988. It was a true Celebration of a nation. I was in Sydney for some of the celebrations. Too bad we have fallen so far in just 30 or so years.
that's some serious bullshit. We had the hole in the ozone layer and global warming and plenty of protests in 1988 about aboriginal treatment, cars were burned on australia day in Sydney
Imagine being such a sad sack that rather than simply enjoy a memory you'd prefer to rant about how life passed you by and you can't cope much anymore.
Can we not blame the other political side for problems? Both political sides have problems so learn to fix them instead of blaming one another
Why are you boomers so afraid? Why does it scare you that we have become more enlightened and tolerant? Why does it scare you that we are starting to take the planet's needs seriously? Do you feel your control slipping old timer? You have been in charge for such a long time and what have you done in that time? It must really scare u knowing others will be so much better.
The shit has always been around. Back then we just called in Political Correctness and "Global Warming/Greenhouse Effect"
Ding dong Bert Mr football Ron molly Allan border
Glad this celebration was in 88. Can’t even celebrate Australia day nowadays with all the whiners
We need a public holiday that has no connection with England regardless.
People act like it’s a sin to celebrate anything non-British
It's also known as Survival Day by our Indigenous peoples and their supporters.
Meh they’re all party poopers
you forgot the lyrics about the genocide
+Joe Joee You forgot that no one gives a fuck if you told us we forgot something.
Nasty fucking One Nationer Susan Baker
You forgot your manners
So diverse
This was before mass immigration. Back in the day where people where recognised for talent not their colour. Now when I see "diverse" movies I know the coloured people are there to make the snow flakes happy, not for talent.
It actually was, people from all different diverse European cultures celebrating this wonderful European nations together as one
No Indians etc....I love it!
Ejaculation of a nation.
That's probably what I was thinking at 14.
Make it great in 88 let’s masturbate
Just sad these people are not the native ones :(
You mean the ones who came from Asia thousands of years ago oh yeh they are native alright lol.
You mean mungo man who was extinguished (genocided) by the Aborigines? Yes, life is definitely brutal.
Token indigenous person 🙄 fkn shameful.
Nope, represented the true population of Australia
@@tigermotive2378 too right 🇦🇺
He chose to be there and not complain 😊
And all without acknowledging tokenistic minority group representation.
The sound of Schlitz dysentery is superior to this drivel.
Moronic lefty tosser alert
Lol America already had its Bicentenial of being a republic. Grow up Australia and realise you don't have to be under a foreign power and be your own people. Then in 200 years you can say you have a bicentennial
It's a different type of bicentennial, and we are not under any foreign power (well except the Rothschild banking dynasty, but then again so are you Yanks). Maybe you shouldn't make these comments, it plays into the stereotype of American international ignorance.
MartyMonster um no we are under he British. We are not a republic and have a British queen as a head of state
Imagine the woke brigade with this today
They’re a shower of muppets moaning about stuff that wasn’t even in their lifetime!
I was only 6 then but still remember the celebrations quite well. I can still sympathise with the indigenous people’s view on this while at the same time being fond of memories of learning about The First Fleet in school and dressing up as a red soldier on a 1st Grade school excursion. One can appreciate history for what it is (something that cannot be changed) whilst at the same time not wholeheartedly agreeing with all aspects of it. Imagine being able to accept different points of view...
How about we don't bring politics into a good ad?
Australia way better today eg pay tv/full time professional sporting competitions eg full time AFL rich players-not footy players with full time working class jobs who not as fit/social media/Uber eats/Uber/far more choice of restaurants/way better food courts in shopping malls/e commerce/online dating/way more tech savvy etc… Who wants to go back to the 80’s in Australia after the list of things I said now here, no way.
I would in a heart beat
Always Was... Always Will Be... Aboriginal Land
blech!
Musical diarrhea. Just awful.
Sure, the music may have been on the tacky and cheesy side (and I even thought that as a 10-year-old at the time), but at least the sentiment was on point. In any case, something similar for the 250th anniversary in 2038 is sure to send the wokies into even more perpetual meltdowns. 😛
they are tools
There is nothing quite like imperialist propaganda to "celebrate" the invasion of a country. This country belongs to the First People, and no amount of propaganda engineering magic will change the fact that "Australia" is founded on a very sad and tragic history. All my respects to the first people of this land.
The commercial was very white.
ethnic cleaning
Joe Joee yes, start with the Brits first.
We are all human, don't buy into the construct of 'ethnicity'
lol, it's 'cleansing'. If you want to earn your 50c maybe at least get the basic english correct. Typical Chinese quality control. How is your 're-education' of the people in Xinjiang going?
@@stephenellwood9765 agreed
genocide
Blessings. The Abos love western clothes, supermarkets, cars, technology. They are blessed the Brits got here before the Indonesians, Muslims, and oh Whites defended the Abos from invasion by the Japanese.
Yes, white people are being extinguished by telling them they committed crimes centuries past while of course certain countries today can release an epidemic on the world and no-one is allowed to criticise them.
Such a white wash of a commercial.
Well they didn't have very good cameras then.. oh you mean just picking some random aboriginal person off the street and including them, bit of a token gesture wouldn't that be.
It was actually very inclusive and representative of Australia in 1988. You're either very young or just stirring up dissent.
Who cares if it's all white. If India has a song for their country being all black. Does that make it blackwash?
@@cuda260 what about the ones who sufferd though
But their screams were ignored by the country's white historians, and 150 years later few Australians are aware of this brutal period of their history.
i never knew that,now i do
The insightful know that types like you are just anti-White.
I couldn’t care less, they lost and we won, end of debate
@@tigermotive2378 “we?” You’re not British mate
slavery
Wow. Your one bitter little fella aren't ya? The sad fact is that shit happened worldwide. Every race has been affected by genocide and slavery. No one has a choice of where they are born so the sooner we see everyone as human, not defined by colour, the better off you will be perhaps a little less racist too.....oh the irony.
On the whole, the Aboriginals have been blessed to have Westerners live here.
That's blatantly untrue.