Why weren't we tought this in school it's our culture at it's rawest thankyou great doco.
@navysailor3 ай бұрын
Always good to see Baldrick.
@abdulhalabi37163 ай бұрын
unforts theres not too much on here re Aus history by Aussies. Thanks Mr Robinson. Great work
@simonbarry18864 ай бұрын
Been watching Tony since i was old enough to remember ,I've learnt so much from his documentarys ❤
@robroy53524 ай бұрын
20 fk yrs magik ,,,
@spencernorby60753 ай бұрын
This is a fascinating series. Wonderful story about Australia and how some convicts, rich government bastards, and very entrepreneurial individuals cobbled together fortunes and a country. I loved it and will be scouring for more. Great job blended with just enough humor so the storytelling makes me smile.🤣🤣
@diymanable2 ай бұрын
Thank you 4 all you did
@ganneswilliams6415 ай бұрын
Great videos.Tony Robinson certainly is a fantastic history teacher.
@TipeneIti2 ай бұрын
Thoroughly enjoyed this! Interestingly, at 2:38, a woman introduced her ancestor, Lydia Monroe, sentenced to hang for stealing 10 yards of printed cotton... My ancestor, Anne Forbes, was Lydia Monroe's co-offender.. both caught, sentenced to death, then changed to 7 years transportation. Anne Forbes ended up marrying second fleet convict, Thomas Huxley. Family legend says Thomas Huxley was given his freedom and a parcel of land after serving his time. The local natives, apparently, couldn't get their tongues around the word Huxley, so called him Tom Ugly... to this day we have Tom Ugly's point (and subsequently, bridge, which came a lot later). Anne Forbes (Anne Huxley) was the second to last original First Fleet convict to die, in 1851. What a story she would be able to tell!
@ruthblack3676Ай бұрын
Such a story! What an incredible Life!
@anitagoodwin47854 ай бұрын
This is brilliant. Love Tony's docos. ❤
@raclark27302 ай бұрын
The careful and strategic use of fire by Aboriginal people is indeed a form of farming. And one of mutual benefit to the land and people alike.
@itwasagoodideaatthetime79805 ай бұрын
Brilliant! Thanks for posting this ironically we couldn't get this series here in Australia till now. Go figure.
@charlescraig89944 ай бұрын
except we did, in 2012 or 2013
@aussiemum19824 ай бұрын
It was on the ABC
@rhys55674 ай бұрын
We live in the most beautiful of places.
@joebombero13 ай бұрын
I always found the boomerangs in King Tut's Tomb fascinating.
@ruthblack3676Ай бұрын
😂
@TadhghR4 ай бұрын
they said he was in irons, and was treated with great kindness...
@ctg48184 ай бұрын
The music and score/sound effects IS ALWAYS 5x louder than the actors in everything lol
@sethlogee5 ай бұрын
Egypt built the largest most complicated building using ships to carry stone weighing tons but could build one to make it to Australia
@davidholt125020 сағат бұрын
In my childhood in the 1970s we were taught Australian history in the most boring, Anglo-centric way imaginable. As a result we switched off. If we had had teachers like Tony we would have had a real appreciation of our own national history and prehistory.
@msaltalola4 ай бұрын
44 seconds in & i'm rolling with laughter! Australia was a Penal Colony, people we'ren't "migrating" there, they were sentenced and sent there. It can't be the world's biggest migration if people were not going of their own free will lmao! Given the choice, do you think the people who were sent there would've preferred to stay in the world that they knew? I think that they would.
@redsword16594 ай бұрын
Few decided to go home
@redsword16594 ай бұрын
They may not have wanted to come but they definitely didnt want to go back. Why would they?
@TomasFunes-rt8rd3 ай бұрын
Yeah, they wanna get swept up in more endless cycle of half-arsed Irish rebellion attempts and brutal British crackdowns do they...? Good for them, but a farm near Paramatta with gorgeous parrots and bagging 45 kg of kangaroo meat as easily as walking out of the house with a musket... WINS !
@tomvanaarle26223 ай бұрын
Migration means nothing more nor less than the movement of people. Regardless if that transport was voluntary, forced or accidental it is migration.
@redsword16593 ай бұрын
@@tomvanaarle2622 you are correct but in Australia weve distorted the meaning...a "migrant" would generally be considered a free settler. Through all the colonial history you wont find convicts referred to a migrants because they werent really trying to migrate, theoretically they were to return home at the end of their sentence, but few did because they coukdnt pay their way, or overwhelmingly they preferred not to return to the poxy hole they came out of.
@geoffcrumblin98505 ай бұрын
Those hieroglyphs only appeared in the 60s. Generally regarded as a joke ( if they are near Gosford).
@gold4leaf5 ай бұрын
yes this is near Gosford (Kariong), it is on Google maps, so not so secret, but access is currently closed by the National Parks due to "High rock fall risk"
@bastage59324 ай бұрын
They were actually shown to have been carved with a dremel (or similar powertool) lol
@allenweier12844 ай бұрын
@allenweier12844 ай бұрын
@bennyfc13 ай бұрын
Some university students who studied anthropology admitted carving them in the fifties/ sixties
@TomasFunes-rt8rd3 ай бұрын
1:20 - I daresay those 28 women, condemned to death in Britain, who chose death over transportation to NSW, did so NOT as a statement of how awful the remote location was, but rather, the prospect of being raped and flogged and raped and flogged and....
@Robo67-243 ай бұрын
You are probably right cause they did start to rape the aboriginal women due to the fact most of them were men. That's why they ended up bringing a ship out from England with just women on board.
@marionhulspas1391Ай бұрын
Interesting
@vman73212 ай бұрын
1:58:47 I can see my great x6 grandfather in confinement with you , he’s standing right behind you
@bb20212 ай бұрын
Really interesting. Excellent - but turn the blimmin' background muzak down perlease! 😨😱
@nataliemay4155 ай бұрын
2:02:44 love how everyone cracks up, at Toni's statement. Even the film crew ❤
@wallywombat1644 ай бұрын
Somebody, PLEASE PLEASE watch this.
@Whoknows197692 ай бұрын
The sun rose in the east. The Phoenician’s have stories of being on this land over a thousand years ago. The knowledge of pyramids in Australia was not lost. A flood and then a re-emergence. I pray the truth comes to light soon.
@robroy53524 ай бұрын
tim flannery,,,,,,,isnt the the geezzer who said sydney &&& new york would be under water by THE YEAR 2000
@kenc32884 ай бұрын
Yep, flim flam is a lunatic fear mongering tosser without any basis for his predictions of gloom. He has been proven to be wrong on every pronouncement he has made. Why did the producers of this documentary interview him…?
@raclark27302 ай бұрын
Not sure about that one, but he did say Australia's dams would never fill again due to climate change. We are currently in an extended wet period that may last up to 30 years or more. He probably means well, but is also a bit of a sensationalist tosser. Australia is and always will be a place of extreme boom bust scenarios.
@robroy53522 ай бұрын
@raclark2730 if ozz was 100% zero emissions it would be y The equivalent of a fkn fart in a hurricane..scientific fact
@raclark27302 ай бұрын
@@robroy5352 Indeed, its all pure hysterics, mixed with righteous virtue signaling.
@andrewprovan22502 ай бұрын
He's an arrogant lia
@nataliemay4155 ай бұрын
2:00:00 reminds me of laying in bed and not being able to sleep in a strange way.
@My_in-laws_condo4 ай бұрын
That shirt button is holding on for dear life. 😅
@StuartWhelan-up8vs4 ай бұрын
Needs to treat himself and buy some shorts too 😂
@genxpilot692 ай бұрын
Talking about bbq scene?
@kelliv29954 ай бұрын
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@cherylkurucz88524 ай бұрын
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@cricketb96653 ай бұрын
That blonde in the pub want in to the Battle of Vinegar Hill 😆
@rocketamadeus37304 ай бұрын
Agreeing to be shot first in a duel is the dumbest thing I've ever heard XD
@THUNDERJOSEPH2 ай бұрын
27:31 He's a Marsupial
@prcr8tion3 ай бұрын
Looking for a new penal colony after losing America. 😅😅😅
@kevinrogers3 ай бұрын
There is a misconception the aboriginal race is the oldest 'continual' group of people in the world. In fact the oldest group of people in the world are the San People of Africa who predate the Australian Aboriginal by tens of thousands of years.
@Yowie27726 күн бұрын
Oldest full complet home sapien and Oldest axe found in the world in Australia don't believe white lies
@Melbournelost664 ай бұрын
Yes, we must always emphasise that the land in Australia was already occupied. And what about the rest of the world??? A lot of Aboriginal history is a modern day myth manufactured by activists today. And don't tell me, the CCP have discovered an ancient map that now justifies them increasing the 9 dash line to the southern tip of Tasmania.
@redsword16594 ай бұрын
Non Australian gibberish
@ike16603 ай бұрын
Well, what about the rest of the world? Acknowledging the fact that the America's were inhabited when the colonists arrived is pretty normal, for example? I don't know if it was your intent, but the things you're saying are also often said by incredibly nasty racist revisionist people. Not calling you one of them, I don't know you, but saying things like this you do sound a bit like them.
@raclark27302 ай бұрын
Ah if Mr Dampier and crew had a hard time finding fish in Northwest Australia. He and his crew must have been quite rubbish at fishing. The place practically boiling with them.
@Robo67-243 ай бұрын
I dont think thats right about Bligh hiding under the bed. It was a satirical cartoon printed in the paper at the time. He was actually standing there waiting for them.
@stevethomas5849Ай бұрын
Why is an Englishman using French Measurements instead of Imperial Measures.
@StanleyStuart-h1q3 ай бұрын
Anything the English do that's bad it's British if there honor and glory to be had its called defined as English fact 100%
@benjamindejonge36243 ай бұрын
In Holland this has a different story
@raclark27302 ай бұрын
There are already enough people moaning over what cant be undone. Time we all move on eh.
@perryanderson91034 ай бұрын
Gidday cobber
@manicmatt77734 ай бұрын
The Egypt stuff has been proven false.
@zpydawebb2344Ай бұрын
I had a Northern Irish History teacher in high school and he had a really strong accent, I guess Belfast. He was very pale, often wiping perspiration from his forehead and it seemed like he always needed a drink because he'd make these "click-cluck" dry mouth sounds when speaking... He was a horrid, spiteful little man but nevertheless I do have an interest in history these days.
@jacquelinevanderkooij43015 ай бұрын
New Holland (Australia), Diemensland (Tasmania), New Zealand....the dutch should have claimed it 😂😂
@gold4leaf5 ай бұрын
"Van Diemen's Land", named by Abel Tasman in the 1640s
@itwasagoodideaatthetime79805 ай бұрын
Could have been worse, the French could have claimed it.
@DomingoDeSantaClara5 ай бұрын
@@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980 I could see myself having wine and cheese at smoko time....
@Curt-r9d3 ай бұрын
Haven’t the English yet been to the moon?
@ruthblack3676Ай бұрын
😅
@user-se1kc9xm8z2 ай бұрын
Aotearoa😂
@StuartWhelan-up8vs4 ай бұрын
Tony buy some shorts don't know how you can walk away with jeans on
@MK-gn1nz4 ай бұрын
Anything but the English discovered "Australia" 😅😅
@geoffwaterman6560Ай бұрын
No! No Europeans settled in Australia in 1778! Bloody ignorant for Historian. Our heritage was British not European
@daintree9823 күн бұрын
Romans, Saxons, Vikings, Normans, Dutch and the Royal family German etc 80% Europeans
@dazzabrah32084 ай бұрын
Lol😂 our community would have shoned them. What and absolute load of b.s😂 do people actualy believe this rubbish when there are recorded recorded records of tribal war ( why did they have combat weapons (sticks) that differed from hunting weapons they lived peaceful what was the need for them😂
@jacquelinevanderkooij43015 ай бұрын
Australia became a dumbyard of overcrouded English prisons. First to English US Canada though. All poor people.😨
@redsword16594 ай бұрын
The Rev Samuel Marsden gave all the female convicts in The Womens Factory a test of their "reasoning ability". Turns out they were all significantly more intelligent than the norm, and the officers, and him, and probably you. I have 5 poor convicts in my family tree, all marked "RW", when your ancestors almost certainly didnt.
@redsword16594 ай бұрын
The more intelligent you seemed to the magistrate, the more likely you were to be exported.
@tyvs-x6l2 ай бұрын
I call bullshit. 😊
@dazzabrah32084 ай бұрын
Oldest living culture in the world ??😂😂 lol that is a load of b.s obviously never heard of the sentenelese there 65k years old and still live traditional lives there not living of centrelink and watching t.v all day
@redsword16593 ай бұрын
@@dazzabrah3208 but you wouldnt know culture if you got your knob stuck in it
@jacquelinevanderkooij43015 ай бұрын
I heard that the aboriginals migrated to Africa.
@itwasagoodideaatthetime79805 ай бұрын
You heard incorrectly, they're still here & are abundant in many places.
@HenriHattar4 ай бұрын
God NO wonder Australians fight hard against the English and Australia was NOT occupied, grab your calulator and do some long division and work it out for the truth!
@maxieduardoapariciom.31813 ай бұрын
tony's british BS
@wesstubbs34724 ай бұрын
The Hudson Rive is a misnomer - it's actually a fiord.
@IOSALive5 ай бұрын
Time Travels, Your creativity is impressive, wanna be friends?
@robroy53524 ай бұрын
tony get it right the prisoners were slaves,,for the empire,,,,,,,not immigrants......
@ike16603 ай бұрын
Forced migration is still migration. And after completion of their sentence many became regular citizens.
@Droo753 ай бұрын
@@ike1660many were political prisoners too. Especially from Ireland. Poets, certain leaders, rabble rousers to the English. Not all were hardened criminals or bread stealers.
@robroy53522 ай бұрын
@ike1660 well they shure as he'll couldn't afford the fkn trip bak
@JohnnyPaulTutaki4 ай бұрын
colonisers not settlers. land was already settled.
@ramsay9073Ай бұрын
I'm sure they were fighting each other over land, but the British created the great nation that is Australia.