Bob Hawk was on live TV when Australia won the America's Cup and said "Any boss who sacks someone for not turning up to work today is a bum". He was true blue.
The Auntie Jack Show, hilarious! 😁 Only in Australia! 😵🕷️ Rainforests are not to be explored alone or unprotected! Southern Aroara, is truly fantastic! Broome is unique! Boat trees with an underworld of lost fish species! Nature definitely rules here! Low flying planes remain unnerving! Bob Hawke, great bloke, great scholar, great drinker! Car dealers "hail damage sale" is prevalent after a storm! 😀👍
A lot of families didn't have colour TVs so you would see crowds of people gazing into the display windows of stores that had colour TVs playing. Australia shares this planet with all these other countries but when I look at the scenery around this country I feel I'm on another world.
I was born here in Aus, and have always known how diverse our country is re land and weather. But watching so much more on RU-vid since Covid it’s really bought the realisation of how unbelievably amazing and more beautiful our county’s landscape is.
"If you don't behave, I'll jump through the tv set and I'll rip your bloody arms off". This catch phrase made it into common vernacular said each week by Aunty Jack (the one in the skirt and boxing gloves). The Aunty Jack Show, everybody watched it, starring Graham Bond, Garry MacDonald and the late Rory O'Donoghue. My parents and I loved it. The hail, yes 31st October, 2020. I had a property at Rosewood, west of Ipswich, which was impacted by this storm. It sustained $47k of damage and my neighbour who had a slightly bigger home and a brand new caravan in the driveway, sustained $85k damage. My insurance took care of it immediately, thank goodness. Some families were still waiting a year or so later for repair. The plane was practicing a fly over for Brisbane's "Riverfire" event which is held each year in September. Before the F111 were retired, a couple of them would fly over with their sonic boom and it was the treat of the event. I attended a few times, very exciting
I've seen that plane fly through Brisbane multiple times. Its part of the yearly River Fire festival. That video is the test run before hand as it actually happens at night with fireworks and light shows. Its awesome. They used to have F1-11s do fuel dump and burns which were soooooooo good. Lit up the whole city like it was daylight and made such a loud noise. Miss those days :)
I was in Sydney (from Melbourne) on business a number of years ago and our plane (a 737) was actually on the runway ready to take off. The captain said that radar showed an imminent storm front so he said we'd sit on the tarmac and wait it out. I thought "what a wuss!". Then the hailstorm hit. It sounded like a thousand guys with sledgehammers on the top of the plane. It was deafening. The hailstones were so big that they shattered the roofs of all of the nearby houses. We had to taxi back to the terminal to have the plane checked. They discovered holes in the wings of the plane and so we had to deplane. All flights were grounded as other planes were checked and I had to spend a night at the Airport Hilton. Funnily, the tune I had been listening to on my headphones was "Concierto de Aranjuez" which now, whenever I hear it, associate with "Concierto de A Runway". Honestly! (I'm not making that up).
Back in 1970s my grand farther was a wellthy family man and bought the second color tv in the south af Tasmania. When the change over to color happend almost the intire neighborhood turned up to watch this new thing.
Once in Victoria Australia, It was a warm sunny day. In the sky were tens of thousands of single-strand spider webs from migrating spiders flying in the sky for as far as the eyes could see. They use the wind to move around.
Driving along in Tasmania, when we noticed what looked like frost or low fog covering the farmers crops. But something about it was so strange we had to stop and get out. Then we noticed it covered everything from the fences, sheds, powerlines etc. Blowing in the wind were these long strands of silk... yep millions of tiny spiders were catching a ride on the breeze using their silk. Landing on everything now including us 😂 Incredible sight
That Boeing C17 is part of the river festival in Brisbane (there is a PoV from someone high up in a building and you can see how close it gets to the towers). There are also fighter jets and military helicopters showing up.
One of those massive planes flew slowly towards and over me as I was driving along a familiar ordinary street in my coastal suburb. It had just flown a geographical marking mission along the shoreline...I found out later, but still no photo let alone video, .for the Pearce Airforce base a bit further north. I almost felt like my mind was physically slipping. It was so unreal being so massive and heavy looking yet so low and slow. Such a massive heavy craft looked like it needed much more speed and lift and much more noise too...it was eerie. It made me doubt reality for some minutes. It was also a quiet empty area at that time so no witnesses that I met when questioning disbelieving people. So now my husband is going to be the FIRST person I show this to in order to gain back my credibility.
I remember a cricket match along the coast at a School oval . We could see this black roll line of cloud across the sky like a curtain coming across the sky when the wind started howling ahead of the storm. We only just called it off for a bit of rain and ran off the ground when the Hail came down in bucket loads hammering us, shredding leaves off the trees and thumping roofs of buildings. The Cars sounded like saucepans from the thuds
I remember staying up late to watch the switch over to colour. I was a pretty young kid at the time and our family had bought a colour TV a few months earlier. It was an exciting night! The Aunty Jack show was hilarious too.
I watched that show in 1975. It was a wonderful time in my younger days. That show was called Aunty Jack, and the catch phrase was I'll rip ya bloody arms off. Aunty Jack was played by Grahame bond.
The spider webs are because of flooding. If you look in the background of the vid there’s muddy water. Millions of spiders head to higher ground when it floods, weave their webs & wait for the water to recede, then go about their lives (with a bit more space to spread out). It actually happens in other places around the world, though it would be cool if this was just an Australian thing 😂 🕸 ✌🏼 Edit: yep there’s two. A bit above the one you saw there’s another cross shape. They’re amazing!
15:32 yeah, the hail storms are savage across that region. I wish I had taken some photos of some of it.. Not far from here I seen a strip about 500 meters wide completely leveled for several kilometers; Signs, treas, crops, sheds.. just flat ground like someone ran over it with big roller in a straight line. You do get about 20 minutes notice from the warning systems, and usually earlier reports to be ware. I remember stacking old cardboard boxes from the workshop over my ute windscreen in desperation one day.. Imagine having to stack 20 customer cars into a small automotive workshop with 20 mins notice :/ > Great video.. I enjoyed very much :)
I remember watching this & being amazed at how the colour came up the screen, the first countdown followed & was great for colour TV with the lighting & outfits
Color TV never arrived by a rising water effect. This was a joke in a crazy comedy show called The Aunty Jack Show. Aunty Jack was a guy with a moustache and large size wearing a woman's dress, always wearing a boxing glove and telling viewers that if we didn't watch her show he would reach out the TV set and rip our bl**dy arms off. She thought there was no problem that couldn't be solved by knocking someone unconscious with her golden boxing glove. Her friends were Thin Arthur, Flange Desire, and Narrator Neville. I adored Aunty Jack. Very surreal and very silly. Oh, she also rode a big motorbike with a sidecar.
I saw colour TV in 1975 at My grandparents house a friend of mine is an entomologist that lives in the Daintree he has classified over 1000 different insect sub species he has a museum there The Daintree bug museum
RE: The abandoned ship. Entropy is inevitable! Also the plane flying through the city was part of the Riverfire festival in Brisbane, might be an idea for a video.
G'day Mate! There is a wrecked ship, similar to the pic, in Homebush Bay inside Sydney Harbour....Originally towed there to be broken up but never was and now is home to a group of mangroves... Cheers!
The ship turned into an island,is one of a couple of abandoned boom defence vessels from WW2 ,next to Bi Centennial Park in Sydney.There is also a wonderful Mangrove Swamp with boardwalks through it.
The 2010 hail storm in Perth, West Australia caused close to $1.1 billion damage. It stopped the city & caused whole apartment buildings to be evacuated due to damage. My wife's 6 month old car was stuck on the roof carpark of the hospital where she worked for almost 2 months before it could be recovered and scrapped. Definitely a once in a life time event. It was even more intense than my experiences of when we got occasionally bombed by Migs in the SA border war.
I was with Telstra from Adelaide and 12 of us went over to help with repairing the Telstra network damage. We were there for a month working 12 hour days
I remember seeing a few of those cars that were rejected for insurance payouts. All because some bright sparks, whose cars were out of the storm, thought they could con the insurance companies with a ballpien hammer. A few cars seen still being driven on the road for some years later. Nice neat evenly round same sized, same depth dents evenly spaced all over the car...even along both sides. 🤭
Ian, they were well warned that TV was coming in on that day. As I said below, I was working in a Television transmitting station the night this happened. We'd spent quite a lot of time get prepared for colour TV. On the subject, I spray lawns for a living and and spend most of my time looking at the ground. I walk into cobwebs often. The worst are the fine and really sticky ones you don't see.
I remember watching that show, I was 12. There was huge excitement in the town as more of our friends got colour tv. We eventually got one. But yes, we watched that Aunty Jack episode on a black and white tv. You could still see the line go up the tv so it was very exciting. But we had to use our imagination. I think one of the first things I saw on a colour tv was Princess Anne’s wedding. Haven’t checked the timeline but that’s my memory.
In and around Canberra during the hail storm in 2020 over 40,000 cars got damaged. The government had to rent farmers fields (plus more per car) just to store all the cars for a few months cause there wasn't anywhere to put them.
In 1972 it was announced that all stations would move to colour on 1 March 1975, using the European PAL standard mandated in 1968. The slogan used to sell colour television to the Australian public was 'March first into colour'. Australia was to have one of the fastest change-overs to colour television in the world - by 1978 over 64% of households in Sydney and Melbourne had colour television sets.
On the first story about colour TV - our military family had been posted to the USA for 5 years, watching color TV over there. We came back in early 74', back to black & white TV, but we brought our American TV back with us, so yeah - later in the year we saw that Auntie Jack show turn to colour and we spoilt teenagers breathed a sigh of relief.
@@johnd8892 Well, not only was my dad a Test Pilot, he was also an electrical engineer & I believe he used English parts to do a conversion. Half his spare time was spent fixing TV's, until computers came along & he taught himself to fix them.
When I left in 1970 to work in the bush we had a black and white TV set that was allowed to be on for the news in the evenings then turned off again. There was no TV in the bush. So it was a few years before I came back to civilization and saw that TV was in colour! Yes it all keeps changing all the time. Every time I move around or do something new, something else changes. But these days not everything changes for good. The opal looks like you are looking through a bad storm into the lovely sunlight beyond. Yes we have lots of pink lakes and beaches particularly in Western Aus. And that red photo of the guy on the verandah, was probably shot around mid morning or midday! So not only was it red it was the middle of the day! My Mother's house was absolutely beaten to a pulp by massive hail stones in Maleny, Qld. All the sunlights in her house were busted open by the hailstones and rain poured in because after the hail came an inch of very heavy rain. The stones were about 7-8inches across, lots bigger than softballs and made from many stones melted together then unceremoniously dumped on the public! Yes those people in Caloundra copped it as well. The insurance bill from that storm was huge. Some cows and a horse were killed near my Mother's place during that storm.
I was so disappointed when Australia switched to colour tv I was 12 and the Aunty Jack Show was an institution in our house - I didn't realise our B&W tv wouldn't change to colour
The plane fly threw Brisbane is what we call river fire were we have jets and that beast flying over the river or threw the city and fireworks...just another day
Ian the show was called Aunty Jack (comedy show) I actually remember watching this the night it happened, funny thing is at the time not everyone had the new colour TV, my family was lucky to have one, thanks for the memory mate, cheers from Hervey Bay Queensland
like you said you needed colour tv,we didn't have one straight away,i had one friend whoes parents had one,so we arranged to go over to see it, the mother said come over when cartoons were on for best effect,we go over a big group of us watched some cartoons it was crazy seeing what colours they were ,then the mother came in and turned the colour down saying we dont want to wear it out before dad comes home from work,we tried explaining it didnt wear out but she said it was time to go ,was about a year after that we got a colour tv.
Colour TV was introduced in 3 phases. First was about 1973 maybe earlier. That was when they tried to give an example what it would be like by flashing an Ampol fuel sign from std B/W to white. The effect left your eyes seeing a blue reddish colour, I know a bit strange. Next was the test pattern, now it gets weird. TV channels ( all 2 ) turned off between 11pm and midnight then a test pattern would come on. As the time for colour TV neared those who had purchased a colour TV could wait up and watch the test pattern, . A friend's parents had one so I remember it well. Then the colour came in but only a couple of shows were in colour and it took about a year till around 90% of shows were colour. You're right, very few people had colour as they were very expensive. But then TV wasn't a big thing so it wasn't such a huge topic.
I actually saw this show, on this night, and, yes, we were fortunate to have a colour television. My teacher at school did not believe me when I described the show!
When we finally got a colour TV most of the programs were made black and white. The best thing to watch was the start of Disney on Sunday Nights. I was in that red haze of fires for 4 weeks so I remember. We said sorry to New Zealand when the smoke made their Glaciers go brown. That plane was what it was like to land and takeoff in Hong Kong. Until they got a new airport.
Did have a pretty bad hailstorm a few years ago that smashed some windows but it was the noise on the roof. Most homes have tin roof and the noise of the hailstones hitting the roof and the howling from the storm made it a pretty intense 30 minutes. Insurance was fine and the damage was fixed in a couple of weeks.
that crazy hail , i put my Motocross body armour and helmet on , ran out side and covered my vr statesman with pallets . got a couple small dents but didnt loose any windows on the car . they were golf ball size hail .
I remember the day we went from black and white to colour.. we only had a black and white tv but raced down to the tv shop to watch the colour change .
LOL, speaking of walking through a spider web,,, We have a large spider,(the Orb spider) That just loves spinning it's web many metres long, from ,,,say,,,your house to a nearby tree.? at FACE level. It spins at night and removes it again by day break, During the night, it sits right in the middle.
The globemaster was flown down the Brisbane River as part of the Riverfire celebrations. They used to use F1-11s to do a dump and burn. When they left service they used F18s but since they were on deployment they used the Globemaster.
The show is called Aunty Jack. It was an hilarious show with a Monty Pythonesque feel to it. Great songs and music from Rory O'Donoghue and Graham Bond. Garry McDonald who later morphed into Norman Gunston played Kid Eager. There was also a Pythonesque movie made that featured most of the Aunty Jack cast but wasn't officially a part of the Aunty Jack show. If anyone remembers the name of this movie please let me know, I've been looking for it for years! Cheers and Beers!
The C17s flying through Brisbane happen around river fire time (big fireworks show) Used to have a couple of f-111's do a dump and burn overhead, untill they replaced them. The hail at the end on the car looked like Springfield West of Brisbane. Had a cracker go through there a few years back.
We came to colour tv fairly late (by world standards) but unlike the US system NTSB we got the German PAL, which was high definition. Made it difficult if you wanted to watch a video tape from America. Those hail storms I was fairly lucky, I was at home but I had a lot of water come into my house, it was fairly extreme, but a mate of mine he'd not long bought a new car, and it was badly damaged. Took him a long time to get it fixed as there was so much damage across the state. They actually used the old Holden plant in Elizabeth to fix the cars.
Australia still had a very small population in the 1960’s so it took longer for new technologies to roll out. We didn’t get cable tv until the late 1990’s. By that time the population had grown enough that new innovations could be rolled out a lot quicker, but 50 years ago it was a lot harder for the country to absorb the costs.
Hawk was fantastic. He now has a great beer named after him. He also opened up immigration to people from El Salvador for a short time, to help people leaving the war. If it wasn't for him I would never have met my wife or have the beautiful baby I have now
We had one of the biggest hailstorms back in 2010 in Perth. Many cars and some poor motorcyclists was caught out when the hailstorm hit around 4:30pm (peak hour beginning on the freeway). You would recognise which cars were hit by the hail by the egg-carton shaped roof tops. Windows smashed, umbrellas ripped to shreds and unfortunately the sad deaths of University of Western Australia’ resident ducklings who were killed by the falling hail. 😢
I lived out near the hills then and we didn't get it very bad, but you'd still see the dented cars around for about 6 months afterwards - the panel beaters were busy for about that long before the queues eased up.
My poor car got pummeled by that storm and it was only a couple of years old. The insurance company chose to repair it. I still have it but it's never been quite the same.
My dad loves to tell the story of how when he was young and regularly raced bicycles, he won a race once because there was a hail storm and 90% of the competitors dropped out to take shelter. I'm not sure if they were full tennis ball sized hail though.
we had a chrysler black and white tv until the early 80's, we bought my uncles colour tv when he got a bigger one. i still remember my dad hiring a vhs player and the movies, not long term hire purchase literally hire the vhs player and the movie for a night. he did that a few times before buying one and it was such a big deal to be able to watch movies at home we reviewed every movie gave it some notes and a star rating in a little notebook.
You should see what those spider webs look like when they catch fire. The plane one I think is the River-Fire festival. An annual event in Brisbane, which usually has a plane flyby at extremely low altitude. It used to be an F1-11 flying by low enough you could probably hit it with a good tennis shot.
No, all colour formats are B&W compatible, so those with B&W wouldn't have seen the colour but there would not have been any picture corruption. The TV programme you see is The Aunty Jack Show, it was hilarious.
I remember when Don Lane was on and they did it too. Yet because many had black and white tv the complain to the television stations not knowing they need a colour tv
I remember watching colour TV for the first time, the whole family all went around to my Nanna's house to watch it, I was devastated to discover Superman was actually blue and red, not black and grey, like I thought 🤣
I remember the change to colour tv and I remember it was the Aunty Jack show. I was quite young but I also remember there was a lot of talk in our household and nagging from we kids to buy a colour tv before the change over so I guess the ABC and other stations were flagging it for a few months maybe.
That was Auntie Jack.. An ABC show (National Broadcaster) and was a comedy show based on the comedy of Graeme Bond (Auntie Jack).. Also Gary McDonald (Norman Gunston) in an early appearance.
Quite apart from the well camouflaged spiders you wouldn’t go touching random trees in the Daintree Rainforest anyway, it’s home to the Gympie Gympie tree, also known as the suicide plant, with leaves covered in tiny fibres that pierce the skin and cause excruciating pain that can last for a couple of years.
that plane flying thru the city looked spun out, gee i wished they turned their phone sideways so we could see it better! if you ever use your phone for photos or videos, turn your phone!
The show is Auntie Jack, a very funny, kinda amateur show which was on every week. I loved the show and still know all the words to the theme song to this day. The spider web "sheets" usually appear after a lot of rain or actual flooding. It is the spider's way of protecting themselves.
Aunty Jack show. Very funny in its time. Going colour was built in as part of the shows story. If your TV waS black and white it didnt show up. The change over date and time was advertised so colour TV sales spiralled.
The Globemaster, (from the Amberley Air Base), is doing low flyover was for the 100th Anniversary of the RAAF (Royal Australia Air Force, which was established in 1921 only 3 years after first Air Force was founded (RAF - Royal Air Force of Great Britain). The angle and the building mask the fact that the aircraft are actually following the course of the Brisbane River. Here's some more info from one of the photographers: To achieve these images, I have found an ideal perch upon the railing of the 39th floor of Riparian Plaza in Brisbane. For two years pre-COVID, I have hosted the RAAF media teams with me to ensure they can make the most of this vantage point. From the vantage point of Riparian Plaza's 39th-floor balcony, the jets pass about 30-80ft below the balcony. The balcony, with its 360-degree views, allows for coverage of the air display from above most of the central business district buildings. This year's images were shot on a Nikon D850 with a Nikkor 200-500mm telephoto lens so the close passes meant I was stuck with close-up crops of the C-17 Globemasters. The general flight path of the display was known from previous years and had only been slightly altered for 2021. What was known for certain was that the pilots from RAAF Amberley Base had flown many hours in the simulator to prepare for the low-level passes (250-300ft above ground level) over the river and bridges. Despite many publications pushing alarmist rhetoric about "dangerous display flights" being too much like 9/11... they hide that the aircraft have a very broad river below their low-level passes and that at no point is any building occupant at any risk of harm. Here are more seriously cool photos taken on the day by the photographer: www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/42637/these-images-of-aussie-c-17s-flying-among-skyscrapers-in-brisbane-are-the-best-weve-ever-seen .
Hi IWrocker, like your videos. Thought you might like to see the real expanse of Australia. Too appreciate the vast ness you need to watch [ 10 days and 1000 miles on Australia`s most remote 4x4 track.] goes for 1hour. hope you enjoy. Bob
About the hail.... My car was written off a couple of weeks ago from hail that big and bigger where I live in Lake Macquarie. I just go into my car to go for a family lunch when the hail started... the noise was excruciating and I couldn't get out to go inside because it would've killed me I'm sure, plus the whole ground was covered in it, so no way of walking on it and staying upright. I have never seen hail that size in my 70 years. Very scary to be in.
When l was a kid in the 60s in a country town in Victoria Australia ..this nice house we walked past everyone knew that the Americans that lived their had a color TV but it didn't work in color for many years later.
I live in Manly Sydney for years Sunday nights were garbage nights ,walking out of unit with hands loaded with garbage bags and walk into a huntsmen spiders web and the spider get your immediate attention
