A City In The Country
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2022
- From the Film Australia Collection. Made by Film Australia 1974. Directed by Jack Rogers. A study of many of the factors contributing to planning a new community. Questions addressed include the economics of industry, provision of necessary services such as school and hospitals, the impact on the physical environment and the big sociological questions that arise when there is a need to decentralise population and reverse the trend from country to coastal capitals. With 42% of Australia’s population in two cities, Sydney and Melbourne, there is a need for decentralisation. To help the states in this problem the Australian Government has acted to create a new growth area near the border of Victoria and NSW. This film studies the many factors involved in planning a new community.
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That Peter's sign is AWESOME 😍
What an amazing step back in time and one I remember from my childhood. I remember my father considered moving from Sydney to Albury in the 1960's and he was outvoted by my sister and myself who made an awful fuss about the possibility of having to leave our friends. 60yrs later and I have moved into the area and wonder why it took me so long.
I assume you're delighted this project failed then ? Do you think you would have still moved there if the " big city dream " had materialised ? Having googled things like the Anvil gallery , pistol club , tennis club etc etc etc I was pleased / amazed to see they're still there and it looks a great place to live .There was a house for sale in the 1st couple of minutes of this programme , a 3 bedroom for 35K and I'd wager that's 1 thing that has changed ..... greatly .
This is a true representation of the time. Charming. Thank you
Commentator is James Dibble from the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission).
A couple of years ago, my wife and I visited Albury for the first time. While we were there, we decided to cross the river and check out Wodonga. (we had never been to Victoria).
We bought some take-away food there and asked the cafe owner where would be a nice place to go to and sit to enjoy the food...
He drew a rough map on some wrapping paper for us to follow....
After a somewhat longish drive, we arrived at the destination on the map... a small village called Howlong.
We then realized that the fellow had sent us back into New South Wales!
Thanks for sharing this video 👍
Thanks for visiting
At 2:04 we see $35,000 for a house.
Now it would be more than that in government stamp duty charges etc. Before you start paying for the house.
Well in Dapto nsw in 73 they were going for 8 thousand n a year later went to 14 thousand, they were new but old housing commission houses n all 3 bedrooms at least.
With wall-to-wall carpets!
Missed seeing any shots of servos. Wonder what the price for a gallon of Standard, or Super was? The film is just before Aus went metric.
@@maximumthrusts I had a new A V Jennings house build in outer melbourene for $25000, incl land ..so Sydney was still expensive....
Also in 1885 I paid $28 000 for a house in Frankston North ..now selling for over $450K !!
Fund fact : The ABC did it’s bit towards restraining the national debt by reusing the same background music for all documentaries about Australian life produced between 1961 and 1974.
Even now, nothing has improved. The coastal cities get bigger, whilst small rural towns that were still reasonably civilized in 1974, have virtually died away to nothing. The government has no problem in encouraging new immigrants to arrive in mammoth numbers, but then fails to redirect them to rural areas once here.
Other than Canberra, Australia lacks any inland cities with skyscrapers, industry and a decent vibe about it.
Overpopulated coastal cities or dusty, insipid, dying inland towns..........just one extreme or another.
1974: land prices are frighteningly high.
2022: amateur hour.
In 1978, I had $1,000 in my back pocket, not bad for a 20-year-old. Little did I know, I could have bought a block of land with that in the upper Blue Mountains. Sadly, I was Sydney-centric back then and did not know anything about property prices in the regions.
The wages were frightingly lower in 1974. Imagine earning less than a 100 bucks a week. 35k would seem huge
@@psychedelicprawncrumpets9479 So another way of looking at it is that in 1974, $35,000 was roughly 7 times the annual nett wages. Today, Sydney's average house price is 1.35 million dollars. Thats over 20 times the average annual nett wage. What seemed frightening, was actually a lot more affordable than today.
Back when people talked to each other. No phones, no email, just people who had to be outside instead of on a laptop.
Absolutely just a simple enjoyable life. People actually enjoyed each other's company non of this social media and mobile phones bullshit we have these days.
There's a lot LESS space in Sydney and Melbourne in 2022 almost 50 years after this documentary was filmed. Congestion, overcrowding have skyrocketed since 1974.
A million acre dam built with muscle power and gelignite, no heavy lifting machines, just horses with scoops, drays, men with picks, shovels, breaker bars and lots and lots of bloody hard work! They should be extremely proud of themselves, but unfortunately, those days are gone…
Borg Warner was making car parts in Australia. Unbelievable.
They had a number of factories around Australia.
I remember the brown smog that choked the city. I remember the smell of smoke in winter when people burnt wood and briquettes to heat their homes and they burnt their rubbish outside in incinerators and every year the bonfires on cracker night. Cars also ran on unleaded petrol and had no emission equipment. The air was so polluted in those days now the air is so clean and I haven't seen smog in decades. Not sure what we are supposed to do now for the climate even all of the manufacturing industries have gone.
The smell of briquettes burning on a cold winters morning in Ballarat in the 70's is the smell of my childhood tbh
$4.15 for a huge bag of briquettes😅. Still remember.
I've lived in Albury since 1969.Came for a month, met my wife and rest is history.
I don’t think I’m going to watch this whole thing, but just from the way the intro goes, and having gleaned a bit from the comments, I think it’s hilarious that they set up this paradigm of “cities are crowded and shit and polluted… so we propose creating another city to solve this problem”
Nothing changes...still doing the same shit today !
Just one more lane...
It was a bloody brilliant idea back then and remains so. Instead, what we did, was stack people into the major cities. Stupid, just stupid. It's a big country with plenty of room. There should have been a bigger focus on infrastructure like dams. The trouble is, the greens are bound to go on about the 'honeyeater', which apparently is one of the few birds on this planet that doesn't like water.
$35,000 for a house!!!!😂 Cant buy a shed for that now!
2022 - “Albury Wodonga - We love ice”
I think you'll find everywhere does.
Just great 👍the pub owner what a champion he was 😂 loved it.
52 years we have lived in Albury, Wodonga
Best thing that happened in Albury/Wodonga was the Hume Highway bypass
Love these videos! More please!
Thanks. More to come!
@@NFSAFilms awesome 👏 video thanks 🙏 I was worried 😟 it’s been at least a month
I look at this step back in time and lament the loss of innocence and unsophistication. It was a less complicated time then, but the need for constant growth has put an end to that. Therein lies the problem. I’m not a communist, far from it. But the underlying issue is that capitalism requires continuous growth, which at the end of the day is unsustainable. We are doomed to fail.
Very well said. And the ironic thing is that people who espouse traditional values are sometimes the fiercest defenders of "economy-first" type policies. They can't see that in the end, it always destroys everything they love.
The inflation rate in 1977 was 12.15%, so not all sunshine...
not true, it is commmunism that requirees contiual grpwth of control over the people, a true sign of communism is when theres a crisis the response is more government
sad but true . we all know its unsustainable but yet we persist . sigh
"Capitalism may not be a disease in the literal sense, however, growth for the sake of growth is the philosophy of the cancer cell."
Amazing!!! Thankyou NFSA Would love one from Bendigo
i was in Howlong visiting in April/May 1974 and remember how clear the Murray was, people say to me its always been muddy, but it was beautiful and clear then, no carp lots of Redfin though, not many cod as illegal "Springers" had taken their toll.
Every single business featured in this film is closed.
Peter's Ice Cream...........another great Melbourne company!!!
Paul's was better😁
@@paul9511 biased!
It's funny how these old reels are usually talking up Australia's capital cities, but this one is taking a massive dump on them. Shows you how media bias is nothing new.
$35000 for a house in Sydney oh the horror!
You got Opera house views for that niccah, now for 35k you might get Dame Nellie Melba to gargle some Listerine in your bathroom. Its just robbery, inflation is grand theft.
For context, the average male weekly wage Dec 1974 was $154.20 before tax.
@@ErgonBill
So that means the home for $35,000 was about 4 times the average salary. Still quite achievable, even on one income.
My parents bought a block of land on Fox Valley Rd in thornleigh in the mid 70s for 8k. 🫨
everything looks so clean, these small towns are hideous now
Well, that worked out just fine.
Albury-Wodonga is a great spot but the mega city never eventuated.
After all these years, the city populations have finally decided, that it's time to flee to the regions.
Yes, but freezing in winter and boiling in summer. No beaches, no sea breezes.😂
I've been looking for something like this for Albury!
And it comes with a free serve of Wodonga.
Fb Disappearing Albury Wodonga
@@NFSAFilms *Wodonga
Wodonga. At least get the spelling right.
Yes corrected, thanks - Typo!
Alf Wright was a Real Character.😌
Shame the Dora Dora Pub is Closed Now.
It does Open for Viewing on Special Occasions.😌
So where was that 3 bdr detached for 35K?
🤣
Narrated by the wonderful James Dibble. Also the audio is so good, I'm wondering if it's a magnetic soundtrack (known as dual system transfer)??
I did think that might have been James Dibble but I was also thinking probably nah. But it is.
Yes separate 16mm mag and 16mm Interneg used for this transfer.
A time before shitty social media.
Another fantastic upload - thank you so much and keep them coming- do you have any on life in Tasmania by any chance ??😁😉
Have you seen these: ua-cam.com/play/PLYjU0Xph-Gj6DVsIsb-UB6LCMC9mC-5E4.html
@@NFSAFilms Thank you very much - I didn’t have a very good look did I 😂Keep up the good work 👍
No worries. We are just a very small speck in the Youtubiverse so easy to miss.
@@NFSAFilms keep showing these kinds of videos. Really good 😊
I love these historical videos
How old is this video? If they could see us now. People flooding into Australia, house prices in the millions.
1974.
Sadly after just a few years of growth in Albury-Wodonga Malcolm Fraser promptly dumped the more ambitious elements of the scheme. It prospered as a substantial regional city but fell way short of the lofty ambitions of it's original charter. Still you were never going to lure millions to inland Australia and the choice of a coastal alternative may have been more likely to have created another metropolitan sized city.
We have one of those petrol bowsers in our museum
I believe it largely failed because the governments pulled the plug on it themselves. The State government officers all jacked up when the rumours started about them moving offices from Sydney or Melbourne. The Feds already did their decentralising bit it is called the A.C.T. The Growth Centre Corporation offices in Albury ended up being a campus for Charles Sturt University late in the 20th century. Remember the Bathurst - Orange growth centre that was also strangled by government budgets (or lack of them) and inaction.
We swam on in Bondi, undeterred.
Under turd 😂😂😂
So after nearly 50 years, Albury /Wondonga area did not help big city conjestion at all ..it has a population of only 100,000 approx.
Decentralization has not happened yet in those years. Jobs in big cities and country life chasing country problems (farming, ranching, etc). Most people still ived near the big cities when we lived in Aus.
Maybe with co**d and quaran**nes the small towns will flourish. But here in USA the folks are expected back at work and your job is at risk if you can't make it in to the big city.
I wonder if things changed a lot from than.
1 glug sunnyboy please.
And a razz as well.
It’s crazy how the pollution changes the color of the ocean.
Raw sewage will do that.
Oh, shit happens...
They predicted 17 Million by 2000, But they were wrong there were 19 million in 2000.
I’ve lived in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney since the time this film was made, all I can say is that life has become better and better since then. So all the doom and gloom about choking cities was rubbish as far as I’m concerned.
But what actually happened was that people who can’t afford to live the ocean in Sydney but had done quite well in life moved to the Central Coast. The market solved the problem, not government planning.
Drug gang wars has become an issue now.
Your YT name is apt.
I dont care what they say, the Aussie comb over was the mark of an honest clown!
Is the comb over now extinct?
WOW so about fifty years ago our governments did notice how crappy our capital cities were becoming to live in and set out to create a better organised alternative.
But the capitals just kept growing anyway and now they are spending billions trying to fix the congestion etc in them.
That's because Malcolm Fraser and John Kerr sacked the government and took it for themselves. That was the turning point for Australian politics. Now just one corrupt government after the other. Unless people wake up and stop the two party lie we are well on the way to becoming little America.
None of the problems fixed and not even a will to try half a century later.
So this is why Albury Wodonga is Australia's undisputed best city.
Shame it's become a haven for ice addicts
I would love to see some more old Australian film footage but not necessarily Always government-funded film footage, I think everyone's had enough of listening to the government
Maybe that’s true however the government back then wasn’t as driven by propaganda and bias as it is now.
Can i buy a house for 35000 wow
You only get 100 dollars wage though
seems like typical TV fear mongering, doom and gloom. this is why i gave up on tv 20 years ago.
Saw-tooth Mugwumps are now a protected species.
20:51
That was 10 years before I was born (1984)! Melbourne is far far worse now than back then.
Something I have never understood about Australia 🇦🇺 and America 🇺🇸 to name but two countries with more space to grow outwards instead of upwards, is why? Personally I couldn’t live in a place that was constantly awake, noise, pollution, higher cost of living than the suburbs, and living high up with windows that can’t open, lifts that take forever to arrive and just as long to get to the floor you want, left your phone in your car? a 30 minute trek to go get it, out of milk? another lengthy trek, pizza delivery? It’s cold because it takes longer to get to your apartment than it did to make and get to the ground floor of your block, no trees no grass (apart from in the parks), it just doesn’t make sense to me, so Why?. Wouldn’t it be cheaper to expand outwards? better for the environment and your health and your children’s health, a more friendly way to live and grow. I can think of so many reasons to grow outwards but none for growing or living upwards.
There was next to no one living in the towers, they were largely offices only. But 50 years later there is little room to grow outwards.
too many humans. :)