The Race To Australia | Tony Robinson Down Under

[@andrewstrongman305]

Bloody hell, Tony, every Aussie kid knows that the Dutch were the first Europeans to discover Australia. The descendants of the convicts aren't considered special in any way - who told you they were like 'minor royalty'? Those 'Egyptian' rock carvings have been proven to be a hoax, and that 'environmentalist' is either taking advantage of it, or a conspiracy nutter. You are quite correct though, the Australian landscape is itself ancient and awe inspiring. Aboriginal rock art adds mystery as we wonder about the lives and experiences of those who created them.

[@justme.9711]

I think the rock carving are near Gosford, just north of Sydney and were done in the 90's by a new age nutter. RIP BBC credibility:((((

[@jayjayspoon8824]

Cooks own words From what I have said of the Natives of New-Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon Earth, but in reality they are far more happier than we Europeans; being wholy unacquainted not only with the superfluous but the necessary conveniencies so much sought after in Europe, they are happy in not knowing the use of them. They live in a Tranquillity which is not disturb’d by the Inequality of Condition.

[@dutchyey1277]

BC, Before Centrelink.

[@mikael2807]

BC, before convicts

[@dutchyey1277]

@@mikael2807lol what a joke, makes me sick they want us to sell out houses and land and give it to the Aboriginal who only made a stick

[@davidbackhouse4106]

Europeans had been visiting Australia frequently for almost 200 years before Cook.

[@johncronin7875]

Yes, but not frequently and with no official mapping or accounting. History does not endorse your comment of ‘frequently’.

[@hodaka1000]

​​@@johncronin7875 Yeah nah the Dutch had "frequently" been to west coast and mapped it, and others had mapped the northern coast I think they were Spanish And Dutch explorer Abel Tasman mapped parts of the Tasmanian coast and New Zealand in 1642

[@johncronin7875]

@ once, not frequently-that’s University Australia n History for you….

[@johncronin7875]

@ yeah, nahhhhhh

[@hodaka1000]

​@@johncronin7875 The Dutch sailed to the west coast many times Didn't you know that ? Englishman William Dampier landed at Kings Sound near Broome to repair his ship in 1688 And Dampier using Abel Tasman's charts returned to the west coast in 1699 and mapped 1400 kilometres of coastline Have you heard about the Dunning Kruger effect ? 🤔

[@alanfleming4828]

The aborigines saw the British as just another tribe with whom like other tribes they had conflicts with and where they sometimes they lost but mostly because of their advanced technology and organisation won. The British tried to establish friendly and noninvasive relationships and sought cultural or territorial harmony. It was a nice ideal that was never going to be reality. Australia was a group of aboriginal tribes who were never united as a sovereign nation. The Europeans were advanced nations with a desire to explore the world. The invasion of the British tribe was an eventuality bound to happen. Imagine if it was not the British but the French, or Germans, or Russians, or Belgium what the consequences would have been. Not that the British were perfect, but even to their own people, the Irish and the Scots who came to Australia because they were removed during winter or famine or religious bigotry from their homes. They came, despite their hardships, to build a new home by farming and mining and trading. All I am saying is truth must be honest understanding the viewpoint from both sides. History is a different country they do things different there. Examine the past in context.

[@Seagulligus]

@alanfleming4828 You are grossly incorrect. Having studied Australian and Aboriginal history at university, Aboriginal people did not see the British the same way they saw other "sovereign" Aboriginal nations. Sure, there were fierce battles, skirmishes, murders, payback, etc, in traditional Aboriginal society between groups, clans, and nations. However, there was nothing like what colonisation brought. There is no evidence of Aboriginal people having ever committed massacres against other Aboriginal clans and nations. Yet, in 2022, another massacre sight during the fronteir wars was discovered (escavated) in South Australia. The evidence left at the scene matches other settlers' massacres sites darted across all other Australian states.

[@alanfleming4828]

Havong also studied at university then you should do more research,. I am not at my study but a contemporary record of an early settler in South Australia who befriended the local aboriginal people tells how the viewed the settkerd. Of course, the story may vary but my point is, and you shoukd agree as a university graduate, is that you study all sides and not just one point of view. You also go to original sources and not secondary or tertiary reports. ​@@Seagulligus

[@stevep1255]

Australia was always going to be "Invaded" at some point. Whether British, Chinese, French, Dutch or Indonesians.

[@Seagulligus]

Funny that the Portuguese and Chinese never invaded. It's a bit like someone saying, "another man would have murdered him anyway".

[@stevep1255]

@@Seagulligus All I am saying is that between 1788 and 2024 any number of countries would have invaded Australia. The way any country would have treated the indigenous is open to speculation

[@Seagulligus]

@stevep1255 This is not necessarily true. Many countries had abandoned colonisation by the 20th century. Regardless, this is a hypothetical and ultimately did not happen.

[@Invictus357]

@@Seagulligus That is rather a naive view of what “might have happened.” Considering that the 19th century was a period of great colonisation around the world by the European powers, in Africa, Asia, you even had the Japanese Empire right up to the end of 1945-6, and let’s not forget the USA, it also was involved with colonialism after the Spanish American war, and its annexation of Hawaii. The French, after loosing much of its colonies to the British, sort to make up for this shortfall by claiming Australia, in so far as the King of France sent a message to a French explorer Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de Lapérouse, in the Pacific Ocean at the time, that he was commanded to sail directly to Australia and claim it for France. Thankfully he didn’t, but ponced about the Pacific a few extra months before heading to Australia. The British at the time had no interest at all in Australia, and several bills were rejected by the British parliament to colonise it, but it wasn’t until the French plans were uncovered through American authorities sympathetic to Britain, that changed the situation that the first fleet was hurriedly put together and sent off. Only a couple of days after the first fleet arrived in Australia, that the French explorer showed up, only to discover the British already there. So even if none of that happened, at anytime during the 19th century Australia would have been colonised.

[@Seagulligus]

@Invictus357 you'd be naive to assume that I wasn't aware of the fact that colonisation was in its peak in the 19th century. However, by the 20th century (as stated in my comment), colonisation had slowed considerably. Many countries even gained back their Indpendence (e.g., India). Regardless, dealing in hypotheticals is not how the law works, and that was the only point I was making in my original comment.

[@Kevinwall-u8l]

Captain Cook claimed New Holland for Britian, a name bestowed on us by the great Dutch explorer Abel Tasman in 1644. The state of Tasmania is named in his honour, due to his previous discovery in 1642. Willem Jansoonz, also Dutch, was the first European to set foot on the southern continent in 1606. Our historical ties to the Netherlands now exceed four centuries, much longer than our links to Britain.

[@hodaka1000]

I think Cook named the east coast New South Wales

[@marieravening927]

New Holland was what is now Western Australia.

[@jayjayspoon8824]

@@marieravening927 Named that cause when cook came into the area he found a population of aborigines that were white blonde hair and balding at an early stage descended from shipwreck Dutch sailors who integrated with the aborigines for 60 years before cook set foot

[@hodaka1000]

​@@jayjayspoon8824 What "area" are you supposed to be talking about ? And where did you hear that ? Or are you joking ? Dutch explorer Abel Tasman mapped parts of the west coast and northern coast and the Gulf of Carpentaria and named what he saw New Holland Cook mapped the east coast and named what he saw New South Wales because it reminded him of South Wales I don't think Cook explored any of the west coast on any of his voyages I haven't heard of any Dutch voyages to the east coast prior to Cook although earlier Abel Tasman discover Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) and New Zealand in 1642 There could have been Spanish ships near the east coast or wrecked on it and I believe a Spanish ship mapped part of the western side of Cape York It's easy to confirm all this with the internet and even on KZbin

[@jayjayspoon8824]

@@hodaka1000 Merchant ships been getting washed up a long the WA coast for years before cook kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5itm2OFZsmAos0

[@hodaka1000]

They were very lucky to have Phillip and not a Cortez

[@hodaka1000]

@bananasayswhat Greetings from Australia

[@jamesmcgowen1769]

Very interesting. I’ve never heard of the Egyptian arrival before that I can recall.

[@geoffreyhansen8543]

There's a rumour of an early Dutch settlement in Western Australia

[@PaxAlotin]

*The Hieroglyphs were most likely chiselled into stone some time between the middle 1920's to early 1930's.* Australia, like most of the Western world had been in the grip of a period of what came to be known as 'Egyptmania'. Hot on the heels of Australian soldiers returned from Egypt & Palestine, where they camped in the outskirts of Cairo - near to the Pyramids (that some climbed) - books were published that romanticized the Middle East. These included the famous 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom' by T.E Lawrence, better known as 'Lawrence of Arabia'. Adding to the mania - the movie world was dominated by Rudolf Valentino who played 'The Sheik' a romance story set in nearby Arabia - was released in 1921. Valentino was at the height of his fame - when Howard Carter uncovered the Tomb of Tutankhamen in 1923. Newspapers flashed the news all over the world. It wasn't long before - newsreels showing the discoveries - could be seen in picture theaters across Australia. The public could not get enough of all 'all things ancient Egyptian' - so lectures & talks were provided to a hungry audience. Books on Ancient Egypt and books on Hieroglyphs became highly sought after. To top it all off 'Art-Deco' (an art-movement that drew inspiration from Ancient Egypt designs) swept Australia. So - who chiselled those hieroglyphs ? - whoever it was - had a shaky grasp on Hieroglyphs - as well as getting cartouches from different periods & reigns -- all mixed up.

[@MrWilberbeast1]

Cool story bro.😎

[@davidjones535]

Hate to brake this to you but Cook wasn't the first European to find Australia!

[@hodaka1000]

Not wrong

[@mishham6388]

The Japanese pearlers had been trading with northe Eastern people near Cape York have stories of trading with aboriginal people trading with Japanese pearlers before the white man got here. Btw I'm a white fella before people tee off in the comments....talk to people and see what's out there

[@deanpd3402]

I am related to another rascal...Errol Flynn. He was my Grandmothers cousin. Her maiden name being Mary Flynn.

[@hodaka1000]

How cool is that, Errol Flynn 😳 My great grandmother went to school with Ned's sister Kate 😌

[@NigelBiddell]

And do you know that the French were ready to conquer Australia too,at the same time. I wonder who were the more humane conquerer

[@deanpd3402]

We know from the French Revolution that their capacity for brutality was off the scale.

[@hodaka1000]

French explorer La Perouse arrived just after the first fleet and it is believed the French introduced small pox to the Aboriginals causing hundreds if not thousands of deaths

[@Feline_Frenzy53]

Egyptians in Australia? Hmm, maybe. What an interesting idea.

[@JohnMc-q8s]

In 1622the English Ship Tryal eas wrecked on Tryal rock off North West Australia. The first known European Shipwreck in Australian waters. The survivors of the wreck made it ashore and disappeared from history. So they were the first English to colonise Australia or rather were colonised by Australia.

[@daniellebcooper7160]

How can you invade without an Army?. The first fleet was made up of convicts, wardens, and some settlers.

[@hodaka1000]

And some soldiers I've read a book about the Sydney settlement from when the first fleet arrived until the arrival of the second fleet For those times the Aboriginals were lucky to have had Arthur Phillip arrive instead of someone like Cortez in Mexico Phillip was very fair to them and ment them no harm

[@deanpd3402]

@@hodaka1000 The Japanese would have been brutal and we know that from every where they invaded.

[@hodaka1000]

@@deanpd3402 Wherever they went the Knights of Bushido murdered men women and children from beginning to end My father was one of the six survivors of the Sandakan Death March

[@daniellebcooper7160]

@@hodaka1000 Even after they speared him at a corroboree, he still gave no order for reprisals.

[@hodaka1000]

​​@@daniellebcooper7160 Just after the first fleet moved from Botany Bay to Sydney Harbour the French explorer La Perouse arrived at Botany Bay There was a native path between Sydney Harbour and Botany Bay and lots of English and French were using it to visit each other, at some point Phillip banned his people from using this path to visit the French ships, a convict ignoring this order was speared and killed and Phillip reasoning the convict had disobeyed his order and shouldn't have been there took no reprisals against the aboriginals Remember seeing the comic book like warnings from the time ? It showed a white man shooting an aboriginal and in the next frame showed the white being hung another frame showed an aboriginal spearing a white man and in the next the aboriginal being hung I'm pretty sure it was Phillip who had those drawings produced to show both parties an aboriginal life and a white life had equal value They were lucky to have Arthur Phillip

[@billcook4768]

Jake is about the most Australian person I’ve ever seen

[@rogerharley8692]

There was a genetical input about 9000 years ago Kimberly area as they are thought to have brought the dingo with them pointing to Sulawesi sea farers, Polynesians sure did make there way across the Pacific Ocean and for some reason avoided Australia. If a lost Egyptian river boat “not made for sea” ever made it to Australia then they would landed on the Western Australian coast and not lasted long.

[@MurrayBayes]

LA PEROUSE WAS HERE BEFORE COOK BUT NEVER MADE IT HOME TO REPORT HIS FINDINGS

[@Design_no]

He should've used Starlink.

[@Invictus357]

I think you need to do some more research matey! Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de Lapérouse came to explore Australia well after Cook, and just after the first fleet had arrived in Port Jackson. And stop shouting!

[@jimmyboy2]

The British go to Australia in 1788 because of Cook in 1770 ... ummm, no. There's more to it (it's more complicated) for example, new England declares independence in 1776 and this cuts off a means of tax and mechanism to disperse petty criminals ...

[@Stazariii]

Found on the Central Coast. Been debunked, believed done in the 80's or 90's.

[@hodaka1000]

The Gosford Glyphs

[@PaxAlotin]

Made in the 1920's to early 1930's. See my comment for explanation.

[@2011Matz]

Britain did not invade Australia. Australia had not been invented when Cook visited. It claim possession of a sparcely populated continent whose tiny clans had no idea of its size or boundaries. As for Cook, he was killed and eaten by the neighbours.

[@hodaka1000]

Cook was killed on a different voyage and I wouldn't be calling the Sandwich Islands "the neighbours" You should get into some of the videos on here about these things, they're really educational

[@Seagulligus]

However you fashion it. the British invaded First Nations peoples lands a point of which is confirmed by the Mabo high court case.

[@heathmurphy3735]

Lol​@@Seagulligus

[@peterfromgw4615]

@@SeagulligusAnd 97% of today’s Australians are continually paying for this view of “ownership”. Question is when will the other 3% recognise their appalling treatment in the past is exactly that - the past. Let’s move on from this. Grüße aus Australien. Tschüss.

[@Seagulligus]

@peterfromgw4615 I think everyone has moved on, mate. Can you elaborate on how you feel that we you/we are paying for it? Are you referring to land rights?

[@pcoppleman]

The representation of ducks screams 1900s not ancient egypt. Someone from the victorian era playing a joke?

[@1967hashem]

😮 Australia was used as a penal colony because of the American War of Independence. No more convicts could be sent to places like Alabama and South Carolina etc.

[@lyndabignell9660]

Also it established a base in the southern hemisphere to protect trade routes.

[@jc-qd6be]

tell me what country at one time never got invaded ..life goes on ..good bad and the ugly

[@pc8808]

The Gosford glyphs have been debunked.

[@MrWilberbeast1]

By whom?🤔

[@Rubytuesday1569]

'Discovering' a country that is already occupied doesn't make sense.

[@hodaka1000]

The Gosford Glyphs are a proven fake Australian engineer inventor aeronautical pioneer and explorer Lawrence Hargrave believed there had been European visitors to the east coast prior to Cook and the first fleet By Hargrave account when the first fleet arrived there was graffiti on a lot of rocks around Sydney Harbour and a place that appeared to be where ships might have been careened and repaired The story was the British new arrivals not wanting to acknowledge any possible previous claims by other countries to the area ignored this evidence and made no official records about it By Hargrave's time the waterfront around the harbour with the graffiti had been covered by building and development Another part of this story was Dee Why is supposed to be named that because there was a D above a Y carved in a rock facing the sea, Hargrave explained this may have been some sort of known depth marking a "D" over a "V" and erosion of the soft sandstone could've made the V appear to be a Y Hargrave explored the east coast and east coast of New Guinea looking for evidence of these earlier European visitors He called the graffiti around Sydney Harbour "The Great Stone Book" and I believe he wrote a book about it with the same name I read something else about it from another source saying these earlier visitors to Sydney may have been Spanish

[@MurrayBayes]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂it's a prank🎉🎉🎉

[@roslynechivers36]

I have a connection back to Edward Kimberly….

[@johnbell2677]

The Maori word for the sun is also Ra

[@xadrikxaulxu]

Janz.

[@MichaelAxe]

Would I have liked to have lived here in 1787? You bet. Has English law always recognised ancient titles and local customs? You bet. Did the English lie about not being able to find anyone to negotiate with (Terra nulius). Of course. That's why Australian courts recognised Native Title. English law precedents.

[@theoztreecrasher2647]

"English Law" is founded in "Dieu et Mon Droit" As is "The Law' in most of the world. Might is right - sometimes with a little help from The Almighty!

[@professornuke7562]

Ah yess the liar who was never of Aboriginal descent.

[@hodaka1000]

The great white hope

[@michaelmaguire8223]

Tony as usual ! Brilliant ! Michael in Melbourne. 🇦🇺🇦🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@hodaka1000]

"Brilliant" ? Cook didn't discover Australia and the Gosford Glyphs are a proven fake

[@Design_no]

The Egyptians? Ffs, what a load of bs.

[@barney992]

hyraglyphic experts say they were very unprofessional glyphs . like copied from seeing them before. Could be a uni prank .

[@margaretcopley8880]

Thankyou Tony Wonderful research. We have McMahon ancestors 3 siblings who were sent to VDL for stealing food during famine

[@hodaka1000]

Tony or his script writers should have done a little research before making this video, Cook did not discover Australia and the Gosford Glyphs are a proven fake

[@JohnBall-wx3nb]

LOL

[@ElvisPresley-nf7lb]

The "aboriginal " fellow is more white than Tony