From Sheep to Chardonnay- Life in the Australian Bush. Early 1900's

Episode from the 1999 TV series Our Century, presented by Ray Martin.In Australia's formitive years, involvement with the bush was necessary to yield what was needed to feed,clothe & house the colony.The bush was no easy life for those who chose to live it. Drought, floods, fire & pests were some of the uphill battles that they had to endure just to make a quid.

[@AussieAF]

Blast from the past. Australia was such a better place back then. Shows that life got easier with technology and not better

[@amm019]

Dang, the Aussie Bush romanticism reminds me of the Wild West here in the states :)

[@CovidConQuitTheCensorship]

Wow I've never heard that comparison but it warms my heart. I grew up on a farm in the Aussie bush and have always romanticised the American Wild West which has fascinated me from a young age. We had the 'Wonderful Worlds of Walt Disney' 4 book set and America was my favourite. I have those books now and the stories and illustrations still jump out of the page at me. But anything American, I loved the 'Gentle Ben' tv show, of course The Cisco kid 😍 How cool was he? 😁

[@cherylpurdue888]

I love horse riding😊

[@apd8339]

good ep.

[@felipepresser]

The title should actually be: "(...) Life in the White Australian Bush". No mention et all of the aboriginal people, who definitely have always had the knowledge about land, farming and climate in Australia.

[@no-body-22]

No. Aborigines had no farming and used the land differently, and they weren't Australian. They weren't even counted in the census. No such thing as a white Australian in the past because all Australians were white.

[@felipepresser]

@@no-body-22 can you prove what you are saying?

[@no-body-22]

@@felipepresser Hello and yes I can. These are very basic things that you can read for example in the Encyclopedia Britannica (I'm not being rude). You can also look up John Hirst, he was an Australian historian and wrote 2 introductory books. One is called Australian History in 7 Questions, the other is Sense and Nonsense in Australian History.
Originally the continent was discovered (from the White perspective) by Dutch Explorers and was called New Holland. When Captain Cook saw the east coast he called it New South Wales. Eventually the name Australia, a Latin word, came to be applied to both the continent and to the white colonial society that was in it, which was primarily New South Wales for the first few decades (New South Wales was actually everything except Western Australia).
The explorers sometimes used the phrase 'Australian race' to refer to the Aboriginal or 'native black' race. But there was never an Aboriginal people calling themselves the Australians. Why would they call themselves by a Latin name? The people who called themselves Australians were the children of the white colonists, the so-called 'native whites'. Prior to this every single baby born on the continent was black and every single white person was a foreigner. But the Australians occupied a middle ground, being both native-born and white. Since that time the definition of Australian has expanded and taken on many meanings for many people, but this is an old and legitimate one.
When the colonies federated, the founders considered Aboriginal peoples to be a state issue, and they were constitutionally barred from being counted in the federal census until 1967 (search for 1967 Australian constitutional referendums). Australia by 1950 was 98-99% white, an homogeneous white society.
Every Aboriginal tribe was unique so some were moving rapidly towards agriculture, but there was no permanent settlement or government for any of them. Every family network was able to go where it wanted within the territory of the tribe. The largest tribes had up to ~9,000 people but many were much smaller. Their society was decentralized and used resources from an extensive area, moving around as needed, but developed societies use small plots of land intensively, allocated to individuals or corporations, and rely on large populations doing this over a large area to produce what they need, all regulated by a powerful government. This is the opposite of Aboriginal society.
In short, the video title is correct. It documents the Australian way of life which is distinct from the Aboriginal way of life, so distinct in fact that they are incomparable. But they have one thing in common: they can both be very interesting. I hope this helps you.
Bibliography:
Australian History in 7 Questions; Sense and Nonsense in Australian History by Hirst;
The Native-Born: The First Generations of White Australians by Molony;
To Constitute A Nation: A Cultural History of Australia's Constitution by Irving;
Encyclopedia Britannica.

[@AussieAF]

Abos never farmed, they lived off the land as hunters and gatherers. Farming as "whites (or also everyone else)" did it, was a foreign concept to them. Go get a book and have a read about Australia history, because your emotions are clearly out of tune with facts.

[@supergaming9767]

Robbie rotten

[@12121149]

Gun DA Guy, Wrong pommies,Gun Di Guy,just sayin'

[@pixlekingproductions]

Pete Smith well I’m Aussie and I’ve only ever heard gun da guy

[@sheelaghclapham5506]

Same here.