Life In Australia: Sydney
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- From The Film Australia Collection. Made by The Commonwealth Film Unit 1966. Directed by Joe Scully. Episode 12 of the Life in Australia series. This series was made to encourage immigration to Australia and to highlight the various social activities, employment and educational opportunities and lifestyles of the various cities and regional centres throughout Australia. This film shows an idyllic picture of life in the New South Wales capital of Sydney in the mid 1960s. Previously uploaded in SD it is now available in 4K HD.
Back when we actually produced stuff and didnt need both parents working and could focus more on the family unit.
this was all part of the plan, to get both parents working [more taxes] & with both parents working before and after school care centres had more control of the minds of the children
@@chrism3225 yep the state wants to extract as much as they can get from you and get their hands on your children as early as possible to condition them to support the system in future.
Back when you can leave work at work. Now constant new messages in telegram, WhatsApp and other annoying apps.
A snapshot of Australian when they had a economy with manufacturing.
Like the rest of the world...
Also saw long lines of blokes looking for work, menial jobs in Sydney, problem was migrants who had poor english found it difficult.
I like watching these videos but find myself a bit sad or depressed after watching them. Life seemed to be about the people back then. Not the money.
Thank god for once a decent human pointing out whats important in life not just saying how Australia's change blah blah blah
I agree
Worldwide people and companies became greedy. Decades back a young couple could afford to buy a house in Sydney without a huge commute. Work was plentiful. Work conditions were generous. Tertiary education for a time was free. Medical advances have improved and we live in a more liberal society but other than that cars, music, house design and social cohesion, in fact just about everything was better...
@@club1fan552 13:49
All I know is Australia is NOTHING like this now. We barely manufacture anything, everything we buy is made in China. Now the whole family has to work or on welfare to survive. This film depicts the 'golden era' in Australia. Seeing how amazing Australia use to be is going to make me cry for days.
Adding to that, as each generation goes by they are more unlikely to afford to buy or even rent a house. Homelessness is going to sky rocket in the near future in Sydney. This place will only facilitate the upper class. Boooo Sydney
Not everything
yep those days are gone- notice no mobile phones or social media. The guys standing on the boxes at the park and talking to whoever listened - that was their "social media"
Yes the clothes are not from 2 years ago too.
Australian people are really poor now.
It's all been planned. A meeting of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in Melbourne or Sydney, can't recall, in 1938 had delegates literally saying that the production of the world would go to China years later. The RIIA is an independent think tank which basically makes Gov policy, though it is unelected and unaccountable. This is just one of many points that could be examined. Society is engineered and steered at all times.
Beautiful days!! That will never be seen again.
‘Judy is working in one of the stores until she marries’... simpler times when a family with 3 or 4 kids could happily survive in Sydney on only one wage.
Today both parents need to work or one with a high income
Gotta say as a woman I’d prefer the rights and opportunities now 100%
@@markhustle4826 Funny
@@neversaw Working and the washing up?
I came to the comment to quote this. It's practically impossible now for young couples to buy a house unless they're on high incomes. Sad
Now everyone has to work just to pay the rent, ie husband and wife
@@mickcarson8504 yeh but dont forget the role the government has played in this
How else are you meant to pay the rent?
@@Seapin1 Everyone, not just one person
or wife and wife, husband and husband or what about single people? lol
I love nothing better than in the Summer, opening a bottle of wine and watching these videos of Australia in the 1960’s.
Australia has lost its identity, the results of poor Government and a failure to invest in the future of its people
And what happened to decentralization
When the daughter got in the car and grabbed her make-up mirror at 1:27 I just naturally thought she grabbed her phone. How conditioned we have become.
Wow 1966 Sydney has more nightlife than 2019 Sydney.
my dog wouldnt go out in sydney
How is your dog these days ? @ @@TheAsiaCentury
@@TheAsiaCentury Your dog would be arrested after 10
Such a boring city. No nightlife .
@@jaygray7102 Your full of shit Jay i reckon your 3rd world shit who Australia didn't let in now your having a cry about it- fucking stay in your 3rd world shithole
Is it me, or does everyone and everything look much cleaner then.
Indeed
Also so white
This is scripted of course, they (the actors) were directed to do so.
@@Nokden144 سسثؤ
And happier
Australia looks nothing like this now unfortunately...
For many reasons...
What a clean and prosperous time it was for Australians...
great days, great country. australia was a proper paradise in the 50s and 60s.
Still is mate , if there’s too many punters down south then North Queensland is the good mail.
@@queenslander954 . Mate I’m from mackay and all I can say is we’ve sunken during and after the war we could build our own planes tanks guns cars everything we even sent a satellite into space. Now strategically we’re completely reliant on others who bring us into crap which we don’t need to be in. We can’t even build cars no more now that’s sad. We’ve become a puppet to America to the point where the accents changed. When I was at high school the kids used to think I was a Pom just because my family were farmers and spoke with an old Aussie accent. It’s sad really
Im from the US and it is sad what this world economy has done. Such good trusting neighbors are now strangers who won't give you eye contact. I grew up in the 70's in Boston and we were poor but everyone worked together and had morals and pride in our country. My mother was born in Italy and my grandfather from Scotland. One thing they had in common was respect for hard work and being humble. The culture was taught to be respectful and have family morals. We all kept each other in check. Then the lawyers came and ruined a system that was working perfectly. It looks like Australia had it more together. I have a feeling there is no coming back from this.
Yes, one an innocence has been lost, it’s gone forever.😢
I wish boomers weren’t so miserable about everything all the time
Imagine working a factory job with enough salary to raise a family.
True wish they brought factories back
Imagine working in a factory. In Australia
I love the shots take from the helicopter. Especially the one of the city. From it you can see just how much the look of Sydney has changed.
hardly any buildings
The more I see this film the more I wish it was the sixties again, what a beautiful Australia it was .
Our people built something so wonderful for ourselves. Why did we give it all away?
Get more people in. Don't worry if that could cause social problems for decades to come.More people will buy more stuff. That's all that matters.
Now Australia is a country of generation landlord and generation rent
Wow people used to live then
Now we're just zombies glued to screens
I'm a time traveler from 1966 and I have to say, I'm disappointed. Back to 1966, I go.
Make sure you destroy that time machine or put it on loop
@Derek Thompson I actually disagree with that one. The plastic bumpers are perfectly justified. Think about the safety. If the cars were strong as metal, there'd be more injuries on accidents. Even airbags wouldnt be enough to save you on hard impact. That's why cars are much softer than they once were.
@Derek Thompson Well as someone who's half your age, It wouldnt really be logical to argue with someone with your experience. It would be logical, however to ask what makes you say what you say. From what I understand, stronger cars cause a much more subtle stop which would likely cause injury as opposed to a weaker car.
God we've changed so much in 60 years.
Wow imagine being able to afford a comfortable suburban home in Sydney on a single income 😮
Imagine being able to afford it at all
This looks absolutely beautiful wonderful so healthy and happy. What on earth have you Aussies done to the poor place?
What do you mean?
Capitalism. Obviously.
traffic is still as bad on the harbour bridge
At least they had the forethought to build 8 lanes or whatever it is, unlike the bloody M5
they need gps
Yet in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, roads then and now are much more spacious as well as sidewalks. I just don't understand the lousiness of Westerners when it comes to city design. Not my preference at all. Just look at Singapore as one example. A much smaller but much more spacious country than Australia when it comes to city design.
@@CountNadirSingapore?Yeah, where u paid 100k for a toyota camary.
in England we have the m25.. x10 worse
its so weird to see people years ago walking through places I go through daily, like warringah mall, Narrabeen lake (near the end) and Hyde Park even the train line T1 which i often catch
That's oh such a great video. It reminds me of my young days and things that were near and dear to us in the day, albeit 50 years on I now live in Brisbane, and how times have changed.
I’m sad now, please take me back in time.
When I was a Kid, back in the 1960s, I used a wooden Ironing Board to Surf with. I forgot all about that until I saw this Clip. It was a Wipeout Man, Hanging 10 on an Ironing Board. lmao
Thanks for the great video. I was 15 in 1966 and it brought back many scenes that I could relate to. At 11.20 the scene is Coogee Oval. The rugby players in the green are Central Randwick and it's South Coogee in the red who I used to play for. Happy days (for the most part).
Thanks for the information Phillip, and glad you enjoyed the film.
I wish I could go back to then
What the bloody hell happened ??
I remember being told that 1960s and 1970s Australia was so safe you could walk anywhere without fear of violence or gangs
I wouldn't say that!
Where is this violence and gangs? It's in your head, mate.
In the 60s and 70s they had razor gangs, bikies, sharpies and many more. Wasn't the safe haven people think it was.
Tell that to all the raped and murdered women in that time, continued abuse of indigenous peoples, and the children being sexually abused. It's rather that all the white dudes in charge cared less about those vulnerable.
i never knew about gangs in the 60s.except bickie gangs but never saw any.
What on earth has happened? I'd prefer to go back
Someone needs to film me doing my daily chores and put this music to it. People would then want to be me
Really enjoyed this video. Its amazing to see how cities evolve.
no casinos no private roads no pokies just good old time with fresh air and asbestos
LMBAO!
I remember these days so clearly.
The double decker carriages were introduced in the late 60s. Bring back those days please.
Find me a time machine! I wanna go back! The golden years of Australia!
"They are a weird mob" a book written in the 60s ? 5Os' was the representation of lovely Australia and it's values.
Those houses were so well built.
farr out the 771 is ancient! I remember hopping on as a young kid just waiting until id be old enough to rule the bus and sit up the back. the trip from the beaches to millions pt was looong so the chaocticness was high. take me back
Lots of slim healthy people.
Can we go back to the Australia like we once had. I dont like the way its evolved.
What do you mean ? Be clear...
@@gokulm92 he doesn’t need to be clear.
Hi Paul B.
@@gokulm92 Too easy mate,allow me to be clear. Sri Lanka by all accounts used to be a beautiful country, but I'd say that over the past year perhaps many Sri Lankans don't like the way it has evolved, for many reasons......so there you go. 🥱
I really want to live in this Sydney🙂
Not the one in 2021🙈
We all do.
In the last 55 years, we've never seen anything disastrous like this. Panic buying at supermarkets, take-out only at restaurants, home-schooling for kids, etc.
I wanna live in the 2021 Sydney but with the house prices of this Sydney
Everyone looks so fit and healthy. Why is everyone so stooped and flabby and dead-eyed these days?
Agreed, but also sunburnt to hell back then. All my older relatives growing up this time have skin like leather, skin cancer and heart disease. Still call freckles 'sun kisses'. I guess a lose-lose at this point, ugh.
Was thinking the same thing, hardly a fat person in sight!
Fantastic time capsule of Sydney in the late 60's. Obviously the sanitised version with smiling slim happy people everywhere. That said I do romanticise for a simpler time where we were not all on our phones all the time and not so connected all the time. When the daughter gets in the car with Dad for a second I thought she was looking down on her phone. Haha. Ryde Pool at 12:01
Early '60's ... before decimal currency which was 13 Feb, '66. Something in Woolies was 3/6.
I thought she was for a second as well! But the only phone was inside on top of a doily on a table in the hall.
@@anSealgair yes! My mother loved doilies & had them all over the house
The hard-working, labourous Australians made all these things.
13:50 A chilling warning about the future, more or less.
Back before Sydney was just an ATM for rich people. I bet their mental health was better back then.
A Bit of Anger the Like leftover from WW2! Domestic issues as Today!
As a millennial, can I ask, was life really that good back then? It seems to good to be true.
It really was as depicted for some
For men yes, for girls and women no.
Haha, EH taxis, red rattler trains with the "new" double decker carriages mixed in, brown cardboard school cases, Ryde pool... a world I'd largely forgotten.
Sophdog
So sad at its demise 🙁
Life looked so chilled back then
Everyone you speak to from that era says it was as well, must be true.
5:06 "Judy is working in one of the stores until she marries" .
Not a mobile phone in sight.
mostly we were CIVILIZED then .im proud to have seen Sydney back then as a child.Including having many photos with the unfinished opera house in the background.
Yes, I look at these videos from the 60s and whether it's Australia, US, or Canada, I can only see that we, as societies, have lost so much. Something happened in the 60s that started the decline.
how life was so simple in those days
don't worry life wasn't as simple as the film makes out
@13:59 blond woman on stage , a young Nolene Brown... Wow i came here as a kid in 1969, went to school on these old double decker buses in 1971-72. loved them, and the old red rattlers. Remember a lot of these places, so much has changed over the years, things like we lost our country to foreign developers, and our govts became corporate owned..
Nearly everyone I see in this video has a well-kept appearance. Now there are people who don't give two sh*ts what they look like or what they do in public lol.
The true Australian life
No social media, no trolls, no hit and runs because people were texting while driving.
1966 not a worry in the world we were just ordinary people enjoying life
Now everyone hates each other.
Lol! I somehow thought the daughter in the car was about to go on her ph to text 😂
Exactly as I remember it as a teenager in the 1960's, living in the poorer suburbs and travelling daily into the city for university studies and then weekends as a lifesaver on Bronte Beach. Oh, how sad to have lost these idyllic days for the over populated city, traffic snarls and technological 'disadvantages' of today. We worked hard, played harder and laughed longer back then!!!
sure thing boomer
How the hell did we let the politicians do this to the country? Look at Sydney now, a disgrace, too much immagration has ruined this country. I shouldn't worry, I just scrape by on the pension, a victim of the Ansett murder, still waiting for my super. Thanks Johnny Howard
Just like immigration from England eh?
@i i And somewhere along the line you are probably one of them
Pretty nervy thing to say considering all the WHITE Australians taking away jobs and housing from people in other countries. Don't any of you guys stay in your own country - our town is full of rude Aussies. Bunch of hypocrites, Australians should follow their own advice and stay in their own country If they want other people to stay in theirs. What makes them think THEY"RE so welcome everywhere.
My old man worked for Ansett as well
This video is a time machine back to happier and safer times. Australia is ruimed now. Theres no going back.
Lucky folk here...I think that it was probably the 1980's was the last time we'd ever saw a comfortable existence similar to this somewhat?! Then by the early 90's the country went down the sink hole.....
Technology & the Internet ruined this world
This is from 1966 Before decimal currency was fully in place The opera house opened in 1973 🤔
sad that manufacturing is all but gone!...…….: (
1960s heaven
2021 cyberpunk dystopia
Sometimes i wish i lived back then but then I remember I'm not white. Also i would think that a cyberpunk dystopia would have at least a good internet connection... hah...
Here's an idea bring our practical school learning back I learnt so much as a child back then ! We all know it was better
Thanks to the NSFA for putting up this (and the others, like Melbourne).
1966 was my first year of living in Manly and I often travelled on the "Dee Why" and the "South Steyne" Manly ferries, to my job in the Customs House at Circular Quay. Seeing all those wharves actually with ships berthed in them brought back my memories, especially the ways of unloading their cargo in slings by the wharfies. Before containerisation cost most of them their jobs.
And those green double-decker buses, where sitting up top and up front gave the most amazing views of the passing world.
They were such optimistic times.
I can remember wearing hats and gloves to church I was born in 1963.
9:46 constructing high rise without a safety harness. But that hard hat should save them.
1950 60 and 70 Australian golden years
Not for all Australians.
The mostly Anglo work culture, looked cleaner because most men shaved and wore a clean white shirt that had been ironed. 🧍🧍♀️
It was like that, believe me. Overpriced cars but Holdens and Ford made in Australia were bullett proof and provided tons of jobs.
Sydney in the sixties is like being in heaven.That time was special sydney is special
My aunties, single working social girls, certainly enjoyed it! 🥳😁
it's a pity we outsourced our electronics ...
And everything else as well.
sad to see so much manufacturing - by both men and women - which has been lost. 15,000 factories back then. And now we even offshore sewing undies (Bonds)
Yep, really interesting work, sitting on a production line doing the exact same thing, eight hours a day. Let's see you sit down and sew undies for forty hours a week and then tell us about how good it is.
I don’t think I saw a morbidly obese person. They all seem a lot calmer as well.
What happened.
The shopping trolleys got bigger 😂
The same in the UK at that time.
The multinational food corporations hadn't discovered additives and added sugar to everything they served up to us, yet.
I guarantee everyone was told not to smoke when making this. We could smoke everywhere and anywhere back then including planes and hospitals. I would love to see this remade today to compare both.
the lifestyle was so simple in those days
Everyone was dressed nicely....so polished.....
Even the mechanics???
It’s weird knowing that everyone in this video is either a senior or dead today
Film produced in 1966. I was 1 years old and migrated to Sydney in 1970 and we were the last boat of migrants entering Australia firstly arriving at Fremantle Port for processing then onto Melbourne and the migrant hostel then finally Sydney. I remember all those spots in this video, but those women got around, driving from Chatswood to Warringal Mall in Brookvale then Hyde Park in the city...
not one botox filler insight what a time to be alive
What happened?
I was riding the RED RATTLERs (02:08) to and from work daily, 20 years after this film was made in 1966. (Some were still running in 1992).
I love that 1960s house. I wonder if it is still there?
I lived in suburban Sydney from '71 till end of '73, loved it.
Notable appearance by Noelene Brown at 14 mins.
Yes, I thought it was her.
Bought back great memories. Many thanks 🙂🇦🇺🇦🇺
Much better times back then compared to the present .
Love you! Life in Australia 👍😍😘
Wow and OMG! I remember all of that and recognise so much as having been my life as a child of the '60s! That little Knox boy from next door at 2minutes and swimming across the T pool at the Ryde Swimming Centre Gladesville at 7 minutes might just as well have been me! So glad to see these old images again, such memories.
2:07 - 2:23 - Killara Station
11:23 - Who did their homework on Friday night? I always put it off till Sunday night!
yes, that is exactly what it was like.
something is missing!....no phones and people smoking!! ahh the good old days!!?
John De Friee you typed this on your phone
@@Simonmarg1976 laptop !!!!!!!!!
5:39 Oh wow, The Forest High School! My sister went there, I remember she had that uniform. In 1966 she was 15, so she might even be one of the older girls in that first scene. I was only 6 and the high school I would later go to, KIllarney Heights High, hadn't yet opened (it began operating in 1967).
Watching this makes me feel like a kid again. Man, I miss the 60s. Such a great time to be a kid. And Sydney was such a great town back then. Now it's an overpriced, overcrowded, traffic-choked dump and I haven't lived in it for a bit over ten years.
Yeah I’m from Wollongong and now that’s turning into the same thing. Overpopulated and expensive as. My parents got a quote on their house for 1.5 million. It’s a small 4 bedroom house :/ I’m looking to move soon. Just don’t know where
If only we could go back!
id be screwed, im black lol
@@ruaterea1122 We'd all be screwed theres no WiFi.
@@riley9663 lol
The 771 and 772 bus were from the Northern Beaches. There was a bus driver named Curly. He was known to all of us kids at the time. Lets just say that he used to turn a blind eye to the shenanigans on that long trip to Milsons Pt.
Love life without phone