1970s Queensland - 'A Sign of the Times'

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[@leopoldonotarianni8663]

This footage was shot about 1973. There are HQ Holdens, XA Falcons and VH Valiants as the most recent of the big three .

[@paul9511]

It's changed so much, probably for the worst.when Australia was still Australia, politicians & big business are ruining it...

[@seanyuke3249]

I love these old clips. Listening to TMR beat their own drum is worth the admission fee. And it worked so well for so long.

[@dennisthemenace57]

Peak Australia. We have seen the best of it. The seed of our decline was planted in 1972 and came to fruition 20 years later

[@davidarter6271]

I know EXACTLY what you mean.

[@scottyfromhawaii8306]

Happier, healthier and richer times.

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

before australia was treasonasly entered into the united nations lima declaration 1975.... before the dark times.

[@tomm5765]

Not sure about healthier; life expectancy in Australia has increased by 10 years since 1970!

[@muzzsteam2869]

@@tomm5765 what value is life expectancy when today they have sucked all the pleasure out of life

[@tomm5765]

@@muzzsteam2869 sad

[@jackthelad9933]

yep, lots of happy smiling white faces.

[@scottyfromhawaii8306]

Our country will never be this rich again.

[@shannongraham3055]

@Bashem Toodeath ahh having a leftist whinge ❄🤦‍♂️

[@paulfri1569]

Yeah. Australia peaked in the 90s. Been getting worse and worse ever since..

[@julienfroidevaux1143]

​@@paulfri1569 We will be just fine selling overpriced properties to each other .

[@jacquelinewilson2279]

Remember their corrupt government? Had a minister of Racing! And built roads and infrastructure to benefit private individuals.The corrupt police force commissioner charged with crimes and politicians too. Eventually led to inquiries and major reforms. This video paints a rosy picture. Great archive to have.

[@batmanlives6456]

Bejelkie Petersen days … Brown paper bags got things done!

[@ladycaissia1547]

We still have a Minister for Racing. It's Grace Grace and she is also the Minister of Education and Minister of Industrial Relations. And we still have corruption :(.

[@indiathylane2158]

@@ladycaissia1547 Not as open and blatant corruption as under Bjelke. And even with police excesses during Covid, a far gentler, less violent police force now.

[@andgate2000]

Joes Queensland. They were all crooks.

[@pbhpbh1379]

You know it’s the seventies when so many of the men have Bermuda shorts and long socks.

[@seagoat6591]

👍🤣🤣🤣🤣👍

[@andgate2000]

Its warm up there.

[@xr6lad]

Nah. They were still wearing that for business up far north and the NT well in to the 1990’s.

[@Slazmoservicing4209]

If only Harry foresaw the crazy population explosion the GC has seen and envisioned a more capable roadway for the future...

[@sanctuaryism]

and what a better time it was...

[@paulfri1569]

Love the casual fishing on the beach 🎣

[@bootroota1394]

If i had a time machine id go back in time for a holiday in a heartbeat. Fuck what this country has turned into.

[@wytreeey3645]

It looks like Queensland was coming along well. It seems to have peaked around that time with cheap energy, cheap housing and land, community cohesion, manufacturing of Australian cars from 3 big companies. Things have certainly changed. We can't even make car manufacturing viable anymore and we now see china-cars on our streets.

[@davidarter6271]

I remember going to Queensland in the 70’s and thinking I landed in paradise! How far has the place fallen in the past twenty years :(

[@trinitymatrix9719]

wow, u must be quite old sir.

[@scottyfromhawaii8306]

If only we didn't lose our democracy to the greedy landlords.

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

and "foreigner landlords" at that. such as joke beyoke youpetersen selling us out via max christmas. absolutely remarkable no one see a thing. i mean the joke. the firsgerald enquiry. the endo disruptors in kentucky fried chicken.. lol.. nothing to see here all move along. i know a few old diggers that knew. God bless em. lest we forget.

[@BTW...]

@@jesusislukeskywalker4294 Don't forget that grubby Clive Palmer too... the prick behind the Johk for PM campaign, that failed exactly the same way he does today.

[@adelarsen9776]

"Developmental" - A word not understood by today's professional politicians. When one understands Developmentalism, one knows who and what is really needed.

[@uncle7162]

We need a proper conservative in power. Not the rag tag lot that are modern liberals. We need to limit the Native titles act and actually realise that income doesn’t start in Beijing if we want our economy booming again we’ll have to build factories and forgeries once more. Build them out west and have on sight quarters. That’s the way to do it. Get rid of afew unnecessary laws. Stop giving in and appeasing Climate change protester BLM folks and Rioters in general. Set up the states guard

[@bushpig6837]

United Nations agenda21 turned that into "sustainable development, and the rest is history.

[@muzzsteam2869]

The people who lived in these times and died prior to the mid 90's are the lucky ones

[@americarsqueensland1667]

Great footage, good to see.

[@dufus7396]

When the energy bill wasnt an anxiety attack

[@batmanlives6456]

And the cost on the sign didn’t include what was in the paper bag…. Aaaahhh Joh Bejelkie Petersen times …

[@justdoesntaddup8620]

Hahaha, we found the faithful msm believer.

[@indiathylane2158]

@@justdoesntaddup8620 Yes, any inconvenient truth the nutjobs want to reject, they put down to "the MSM". Bjelke-Petersen was a pure as the driven snow.

[@harrisionstan3773]

Lets ask Harry why the damn roads weren't build properly!

[@americarsqueensland1667]

The Main Roads Dept aren't able to stop chocking traffic today in 2022, the don't even try anymore, the planning skills mentioned here have been lost.

[@ronsmith2241]

Its all so different now.

[@rodcampbell628]

Very interesting

[@billpilkington445]

And everyone was trim taught and terrific. Overall a better quality of life me thinks ;)

[@doctorbohr1585]

"taut"

[@indiathylane2158]

Less obesity, more early death and infirmity from smoking. Fewer people needing a shrink for any number of claimed syndromes, higher proportion of suicide and depression from undiagnosed mental health issues. A lot longer time to pay off a car, hi-fi or home loan, but a simpler life needing fewer things on the credit card. Good & bad then, good & bad now.

[@ETERNITY777]

😈 GOOD OLD DAYS BETTER THAN GARBAGE RIP OFF 2023 😈

[@TheAngryIntellect-]

Look at all those law abiding layed back safe, comfortable, friendly non-rap listening no homie-style attitude folks..................................................................................

[@woodrow60]

If this is the 70s, it’s very very early 70s.

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

before the dark times. before the treachery of the U.N. Lima Agreement 1975.

[@woodrow60]

@aussiefaraday I’d thought perhaps 71 or 72 but the facts behind your dating are more precise than mine, cheers

[@saxongreen78]

1973 is my estimate - the soundtrack is a KPM 1000 Series disc of mostly James Clarke arrangements from 1972...no cars later than 1973 in the footage.

[@paulfri1569]

@@jesusislukeskywalker4294 indeed 😥

[@maxsonthonax1020]

​@aussiefaradayAppreciate your detective skills!

[@bigdog1391]

Make Queensl’nd Great Again

[@jaggedlines2257]

The music is making me crook.

[@indiathylane2158]

The 'Bruce Highway' in the 70s and 80s was a joke. Pot-holed, crumbling, narrow, huge drops off the shoulder, flooded every wet season. The Country/Nats party never contributed their share of the cost to maintain. A national link? In Qld, a disaster.

[@bobbritten5673]

And not much better to day ,

[@indiathylane2158]

@@bobbritten5673 Nope, a great disappointment. A weak link in a supposed national chain road.

[@bobbritten5673]

@@indiathylane2158 I have been watching this play out every election time ??AND WHEN IT HOLIDAY' TIME THE STATE POLICE GET UP AND START THER USUAL SQUAK ABOUT THE ROAD TOOL ,INTERESTING FACT .IN 1970 THE ROAD TOOL WAS 3,500 KILLED ON THE ROAD EVERY YEAR ? IN 2023 THE ROAD TOOL WAS ABOUT 1,500 IN AUSTRALIA , 1970 THE POPULATION WAS 14 MILLIOM MILLION PEOPLE , IN2023 WE HAVE 27 MILLION PEOPLE ,THE ROAD TOOL HAS REDUCED A LOT AND EVEN MORE IFF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE COUNTRY GOT ON WITH DUPCLATING THE MAIN H ,WAY AND BRINGING UP TO S.T, D, ,THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR 50 YEARS ??? BUT WAIGHT WE THE PEOPLE WONT NEED MOST OF THE ROAD SYSTEM BECAUSE OF THE 15 MINUTE CITIES THAT ARE PLANED FOR THE POPULATION OF THIS COUNTRY BY 2050 2 PECENT OF THE POPULATION WILL BEE ALLOUD TO OUNE A MOTOR CAR ???? AND IF YOU THINK I AM FULL OF B.S. JUST LOOK UP AJENDER 21 !30 PLANE FOR THE POP ULATION OF THE WORLD ???? .

[@rocknral]

As a kid back then, we travelled from Brisbane to Bowen and back again twice a year. It was a genuine worry being on that "highway". The road toll was double back then with probably 1/3 of the traffic. Scary.

[@indiathylane2158]

@@rocknral Yep, potholes that would break a bulldozer axle, deceptive cambers on corners, decaying, too narrow, nowhere to pull off to avoid a wide load or road hog, shit drivers generally and the famous Crystal Highway, the unsealed stretch that kept greedy windscreen repairers knee deep in cash.

[@redtobertshateshandles]

Harry Highpants.

[@paulfri1569]

Go woke to broke..

[@paulfri1569]

Australia peaked in the 90s. Been gradually getting worse ever since..

[@michellerowell158]

The globalists are to blame

[@paulfri1569]

@@michellerowell158 They want all the West equally poor...

[@tankatim13]

We need 5 lanes either way. Why For the future Nah she’ll be right Future: Fk!

[@MrAussieJules]

Back in the day when common sense ruled ... and crazy environmentalism wasnt creating massive costs, closing down entire power stations etx.,

[@maxsonthonax1020]

I see where your vote went.

[@ConcreteRiver]

the 70’s are gone forever, you’ll never get them back. no matter how many tears fall into your XXXX gold

[@Mrc172]

The Deep North.

[@benbrown2470]

We were progressive back in those days. Now, not so much.

[@mrbanjopete]

Look how dry it is. Must have been early climate change?

[@MrFister84]

Sad that Harry Lowe died around two years after retiring, I guess he didn"t have enough to keep his soul going after that.

[@IntrospectorGeneral]

That would have been very close to average age at death for men in Australia at that time. The Age Pension qualifying.age for men being set at 65 years reflects the desire of Government to not have to pay out for too long.

[@batmanlives6456]

A visionary man

[@hendriksaldua8208]

We would have lived there if it weren't for my biological father had an affair with another woman.

[@snowflakesue3986]

Your comment just made me choke on my coffee... and think of the Movie Don's Party with Graham Kennedy :)

[@hendriksaldua8208]

@@snowflakesue3986 i will look into this movie... I don't want to call him my dad because even if they are married until now he is still cheating on her. And this started in 1980 up until now he is still doing it.

[@snowflakesue3986]

@@hendriksaldua8208 Don's Party is a movie about 70's Australia/Australians. It was made during the time depicted in this youtube vid. It may not have much relevance to your experience other than there was a lot of people cheating with others during "Don's Party". My father was a cheater as well and that's the reason our family moved from the UK to Aus in the early 70's.