Ideas For You

[@michaelallen3918]

I remember the old tannery, if memory serves me correctly it was near Webster Rd at Chermside, you could always smell it when you drove past. Great video, brings back some old memories..

[@bluescooter2262]

I think it was where the Stafford City shopping centre is today. The legacy of the odours from the tannery kept Stafford real estate prices lower than the surrounding suburbs for many years.

[@michaelallen3918]

@@bluescooter2262 you could be correct, I was only a kid back then and memory isn't as good as it used to be.... I think it's relocated to Narangba now? Packers Tannery?

[@GOFABVIDS]

@NFSA Films good to see the past been saved

[@blackcorp0001]

Essential viewing in Primary and again in Secondary schools

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

yes i love these films too. .. if only we could save the nation. . .. too

[@NFSAFilms]

Thanks GOFABVIDS

[@garyleigh]

The ingenuity of people back then. Yet the work culture of men and their smug bosses leave me cold.

[@johnd8892]

Wonder how many of these factories from around 1965 are still in business making products.

[@peterbarakan9006]

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[@danrobinson572]

Awesome 👏 video

[@NFSAFilms]

Thank you 👍

[@dariuslankarian3282]

That's a word that does not exist in Australia vocublary anymore, "manufacturing".

[@Handleyman]

You nailed it!

[@blackcorp0001]

😞

[@jub8891]

we will be manufacturing things.. at home.. on the metaverse..

[@janramonmartin]

who wants to work in a factory? do you?

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

yes sadly , some say due to the United Nations Lima Agreement 1975 .. it is a bit complicated tho.. we definitely have gone backwards as a nation ..

[@jamesgovett3225]

Wonderful Australia back in the prosperous days of manufacturing just about everything we needed! Little did these groups of dedicated people back here in 1966 realise that it would not help us at all in the long term as in a few more decades everything and I mean everything that we manufactured here will be made in Communist Red China because of greedy companies that wanted to make quick $$ by getting goods made there and with the laying off of thousands of employees etc, go to any Harvey Norman or Bunnings store for instance and see how much they have on sale that is made here in Australia! Sweet F/A that’s what! I remember the sixties well when this film was made all our iconic brands then are All gone now, brands like Victa and Black & Decker, Whirlpool that were Australian are now made in China, But one thing we are good at is goods like these are “Badge Engineered” with these once great Aussie nameplates, I shake my head in disgust!

[@metricstormtrooper]

And with added productivity comes fewer workers needed, working harder to line the pockets of the management and factory owners, been there done that.

[@blackcorp0001]

Productivity means more GDP ... GDP pays for all your services

[@zook8506]

Everyone's like "so sad these jobs are all gone now", but love their $3 shirts from kmart. Chimney sweepers also lost their jobs, but other forms of employment were created.

[@ewanmcalpine2393]

Produtivity - everyone got something . Unemployment . Australia , one of the world's best warehouses.

[@Berlin-Kladow]

I remember the good and bad of Australia of the 1960’s and 1970’s. The bad was the industrial action, strikes , super high prices of manufactured items

[@davem3325]

but houses were dirt cheap!

[@bigears4014]

You wouldn't get other businesses help each other these days , they'd want payment

[@Gator1699]

The old days when we could do what we wanted to. Now its like living in a box.

[@Areyousayingidontknowmyname]

Considering that half the thing was showing people spending hours of their day doing exactly the same thing over and over again. How dull. Give me now anytime

[@SteveSmith-zz4ih]

All those "shiny bums" sitting around the table wouldn't give a rats Posterior about the workers, like someone said its about more pay-rises for the Bosses.

[@paulosborne6517]

"Patti"

[@Frank-qs3pe]

Does it just seem like people were just better back then…

[@Areyousayingidontknowmyname]

Not really. Just these days our eyes are open. Its like how people say about how they didn't need to lock their doors in the past. Well... Considering the 70s was just filled to the brim with Serial Killers. Clips like this give the impression everything is fine. But you still had children being raped, murdered. Wives being beaten. I could go on.

[@philbowden1961]

increase produtivity lower safety

[@redplanet7163]

All this talk of "the men at the top" and the "men heading up the productivity group, would have the feminists spitting chips today. Not to mention all this footage of "mansplaining" 🤪

[@mickmccluand4677]

By two and a half minutes into the video modern feminists will be foaming.

[@Areyousayingidontknowmyname]

I don't know about Feminists but considering all those men literally sold this country out.

[@Pixielly]

Or maybe modern feminists like myself, like to look back on how far we’ve come and enjoy watching historical videos?

[@memeagain7181]

@@Pixielly Do you think we're better off now?