Australian Report

[@NoosaHeads]

I hope people appreciate the superb job the NFSA is doing. We are blessed to have them preserve our history. Please write to your federal representative and let them know that the NFSA deserves more funding and recognition. I'm absolutely nothing to do with the NFSA, by the way. I'm just a very grateful Australian citizen, who realizes the important work that this organisation performs.

[@NFSAFilms]

More power to you Ian. Thank you for the support.

[@christinejackson3922]

Ian Rivlin I so agree with you.I am really enjoying NFSA short films about our history they are doing wonderful work and I can see my tax dollars are not being wasted

[@timjones7482]

Yeah , very nice work .but look in hindsight, ThE political side , then & now. Why did we fight for country......Enlighten me????. .

[@NoosaHeads]

@@timjones7482 That's a whole different question and something I (and so many others) ask frequently. I guess we're praying and hoping that, one day, things will turn around and become shangri-la again.

[@xr6lad]

@@NoosaHeads well when someone in NFSA social media posts in another video in answer to someone; these are and I quote ‘propaganda’ then I’m concerned at least one person shouldn’t be in their government job if they are bringing their political beliefs to work.

[@BodyWellnessHub]

Better and simpler times. The 60's and 70's was a golden time for our country. Some of the happiest memories I have.

[@test143000]

The two decades of 100% employment.

[@xr6lad]

@@test143000 not quite. There’s always been unemployment (the term 100% employment is a political term and implies those that want jobs can get them). But we had less lazy people and people who wanted to work and were happy to do different types of work and didn’t think certain jobs were beneath them.

[@test143000]

@@xr6lad Do you think you said something I did not know?

[@Kpleaides]

Heaven

[@CT-vm4gf]

It was those times that got us to where we are now. Count yourself lucky, if not somewhat selfish.

[@sirsillybilly]

2:15 I remember the chalkies at the ASX. We went there on a school excursion around 1990 for Economics. Wasn’t long before it was computerised.

[@fab60s64]

Well, its a very very expensive place now! Violence is a problem too in many areas. Housing and the cost of living is very high, years ago it was a great place .

[@hughmcinally907]

Wasn't all beer & skittles, and there were definitely things we could have done better, but I'd go back there in a heartbeat. Life was so much simpler and more innocent, and you didn't have to sell your soul to an employer to keep your job.

[@AcePanno1]

The Australia of my youth, great film

[@SecurityHere]

Yes the rise and full of this great land, the great work and sacrifice of Australians past to see it now, shame how politicians have sold us out to the third world.

[@EuropeanQoheleth]

sigh Would people stop blaming everything on immigration?

[@mjames4709]

@@EuropeanQoheleth only some types of immigration.

[@robertaquilina3848]

the glorius 1970s along with the 60s was a magical time thanks for posting

[@christinejackson3922]

This film was my childhood!!!!!!

[@viviekazanili1077]

1973 i was 6yrs old, and how i luv and miss those days so much, we had a simpler and better life then,😊 hate the life we live in now.☹

[@frpetermark]

Thank you for the trip down memory lane to the Australia I knew as a young teen. How things have changed. I wonder what younger Australians would make of this era?

[@mymixedbiscuit9159]

...are um, are uh...you still? you know? active biologically...?

[@mymixedbiscuit9159]

as in...alive/

[@mjames4709]

Too busy looking at themselves in a phone.

[@billmago7991]

Still a great country....there will always be whingers

[@timothy6283]

In 1975 labour under Whitlam signed the Lima agreement to 30% of our industry to the undeveloped countries,within 10 years 90% went offshore . The end of the lucky country,

[@cbccnc1283]

They wanted cheap labour as they still do politics is a popularity contest keep the people happy with cheap imports

[@internezzo]

R.I.P. Australia.

[@t.y.5763]

hahaha😂

[@nuevaholanda1]

Jo estuve en el 1995 y ya estaba enamorado de esta maravillosa tierra al ir se fortaleció ha un más este amor por AUSTRALIA.Me gusta su gente,la gran variedad de culturas y con ello su gastronomía tan variada,el caracter de los australianos, sus playas,sus selvas,sus montes,su cultura de 40.000 años de antigüedad,etc...

[@beercanbarka7678]

Take me back to those beautiful innocent days Pleeeeease Because the one we living in now is horrible 😖

[@michaelcalder9089]

So true.

[@Mynewlife2025]

It's true what they said, 45 years later, Melbourne and Sydney are collapsing. Overcrowded and over multicultural, full of homelessness and hidden poverty. 1973 was when Australia was at its finest.

[@robertristinge4385]

Spot on, same goes for EU

[@yurilemming4130]

Oliver M We had the oil crisis & the start of inflation, business was in doldrums but if you had the where withall & bought property in a couple of years you could double & triple your worth, hysteria with Whitlam govt planted much discontent too.

[@sirsillybilly]

Period of stagflation

[@diegoavilahenriquez9093]

Nghe Phúc hát mà nước mắt rơi mãi ....quá nhiều cảm xúc ùa về, quá nhiều kỉ niệm. Cảm ơn Đức Phúc thật nhiều, giọng hát anh ấm tựa nắng mùa Thu vậy.

[@nuevaholanda1]

Un buen video de la gente de Australia y su industria.Es recomfortante retroceder unos 40 años . ¡AQUELLOS MARAVILLOSOS AÑOS!

[@markwilesmith5599]

So many negative comments. Not so much about the actual video but the changes between then and now. Most of us can consider ourselves extremely fortunate to live in Australia despite it's modern day flaws. Yes those were memorable times for many of us but also dark and fearful for others. As Australians we have in many senses progressed in our our attitudes on many cultural things. Let's applaud ourselves for that rather whinge about how good we had it back then.

[@bigears4426]

You are right , but it was a far better country to start out in , for today's children they are going to get it harder

[@Elitist20]

Photographed by future Oscar nominee Don McAlpine.

[@peterjet3819]

loved my innocent youth then and its still a fantastic country now

[@t.y.5763]

Peter Jet what is your age now ?

[@johnryno]

❤ film archives down under

[@NoosaHeads]

Loved the film. Australia sure looked a wonderful place before it became globalised.

[@symontemplar1418]

"globalised" = "mass immigration"

[@johnpro2847]

10:31 Bell 47 VH=BHM Crashed at Trinity Bay, Queensland, on September 25, 1992. Restored as VH-JGO 6 years later,VH-JGO crashed 10 miles SW of Kajabbi, QLD in 1998. The 2 occupants were killed and the helicopter destroyed beyond repair. ..sad

[@xr6lad]

The days when sun tan lotion meant a choice of olive oil, Western Star butter or slapping on margarine! 🤣🤣🤣

[@test143000]

Australia as an industrial nation.

[@jackfrost2146]

Not any more......

[@oldhippie81]

@@jackfrost2146 So Sad.

[@jasoncarpp7742]

It makes me want to visit Australia.

[@t.y.5763]

where are you from mate ?

[@jasoncarpp7742]

@@t.y.5763 Seattle Washington (USA)

[@t.y.5763]

@@jasoncarpp7742 okay you made this comment entire 9 years ago, have you ever been in Australia since that time ?

[@StephenSteve32861]

12.15 Australia's large steel manufacturing industry

[@FreshYoungLeaves]

7:27 modern building architecture with glass relatively new, around early 80's ?

[@TweedSuit]

2:32 - That's how you navigate Sydney traffic.

[@jb7591]

When the Kingswood ruled the road!

[@SeeNoEvil777]

Until the Monaro came along 😉

[@thedave7760]

Wow even in the 70's we had people flying all over the world going to conferences talking about air quality.

[@JamesCampbell-b1w]

Life Was Difficult, Life Was Hard, But, We Lived Because, We Were Young, And Innocent, And Had'nt Yet Seen The Flaws J Campbell.😢😊❤

[@warrenhennessy7684]

I agree lwould love to see some old bus Rides in Melbourne tramway buses of the 70sreallyblessed though God bless you all from warren and ingrid Australia 😎🇦🇺 WARREN FROM MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA PS lwas Born in 64 seems like yesterday l was A kid goes so fast try not to grow up to fast

[@sayit462]

We don't make even fridges now .

[@Cruelaid]

Such awful & ugly places are Sydney & Melbourne in 2019

[@rjl110919581]

THANK YOU HISTORY VIDEO BECAUSE NOT USE TODAY IN AUSTRALIA AS BEEN CLOSED SHORT TIME

[@nuevaholanda1]

Por cierto la Opera House se estaba construyendo ?

[@mjames4709]

1973

[@TweedSuit]

6:48 - Monaro worth $$ now.

[@kendalson7817]

This is really groovy, man. Dig?

[@sandwichman100]

so who spotted the aboriginals?

[@llaneloc]

Yeah working In a steel foundry WAS SO MUCH FUN oh how much of a laugh it was,making stuff that ended up in the garbage As we conformed and mounded into ice cube trays of cool Wearing the same clothes Valuing 'ideas' about a consumer lifestyle over any CULTURAL insights The glamourizing of bigger brighter and newer At the expense of individuality and particular character Thank God those days are gone And this idealized bollocks of hardworking grinder carving out his shell in the suburbs till footie on the weekend and start all over again A modern culture where they were still saying Death to Disco like it was still a problem ten years after it faded in New York or London Whatever nostalgia for this period is based on how out of touch and out of time the place was... compared to connected jetways of the north Like: imagine California populated by parochial british industrial working class social climbers still about to discover they have been unwitting illiterate participants in an industrialized war machine based on access to gunpowder and reading abilities... And finally relax.

[@rajivmurkejee7498]

Australia was pretty dull before Whitlam Australia has been pretty awful since Whitlam

[@t.y.5763]

in 09:08 I noticed a parrot fish and in 09:10 I noticed a sea turtle

[@ceeemm1901]

Sydney 2024- the second most expensive place on earth apart from Honkers.

[@davechristian7543]

I wish i grew up in Europe because then u could go for road trips all over 'even to London, id drive around eastern Europe for a few years maybe, we're just to racist lol

[@johnpro2847]

0:34 yep ..they were the days when Australians were allowed to travel. Now you get heavily fined if you are seen out of your neighbourhood. Hanker for the old days again.

[@Elitist20]

In America they had their 'freedums' and a million died.

[@johnpro2847]

self reply..all back to normal..seems like distant dream now !

[@26TptCoy]

Looks like a propaganda film, It shows an industrial country that mines and manufactures everything from paper to cars and ships and also happy people.

[@Diggles67]

Liam Murphy No, it was actually like this. I remember it well.

[@394824]

It was and I still am

[@spinynorman1562]

Usual mindless nostalgia and whinging from malcontents in the comments here.

[@gigantor62]

Spiny Norman : You're having a whinge on all these clips Spiny. You have to be a commie pos.

[@rowbearly6128]

@@gigantor62 He's not a commie. He's a spoiled millennial that resents a past he missed out on.

[@godfreypoon5148]

@@rowbearly6128 A commie in spirit if not quite literally.