This Is Sydney Australia in 1985 - Documentary - scenes of Sydney Harbour, Opera House, Bondi Beach 

Multiculturalism stuffed it up.

@@peteormond2828 Found the racist

@@peteormond2828 international interest such as UN and WEF stuffed it up

I second that!

@@peteormond2828 Nope, Building developers and Councils did the damage.

Yes time moves on, but nice to have good memories from that time. Thanks for commenting.

I was also 17 in 1985. Trust me, you miss what it used to be not what it has become. It’s still a visually beautiful and clean city with nice weather but that’s about all it has going for it. I’m leaving next year.

Great to hear the 80's treated you well. Thanks for taking the time to comment.

I'm with you 🤠Thanks for commenting.

Interesting comment. I think your probably right.

I turned 18 in '85. Revesby Roundhouse always had great bands.

@@grantwilletts5669 17 in '85 and after uni we would always head into Newtown for a beer and a band or somewhere closer to the Cross. Life in Sydney wasn't perfect back then, but it was simpler, almost more 'real' than it seems to be now. Moving back to the country when the kids leave home (that could be decades from now!!). Great viewing! Dave

@@davee8659 it was simpler and a hell of a lot less people and traffic. Great times. The pub vibe seeing great local bands has sadly gone. Heady days indeed.

Yep that's me too along with Mondo Rock, Split Enz, Ice House playing at the Revesby Workers, Bankstown Sports club and RSL. Sport every weekend for me it was playing cricket and soccer and watching the League Berries/Bulldogs' at Belmore oval on Sunday, or fishing in the Port Hacking/Georges or Hawkesbury on a Sunday or Flexi day. None of my mates worked on the weekend, we would meet up at the High Flyer Pub, also had flexi days and planned holidays to enjoy life.

Glad to hear brings back good memories. Thank you for taking the time to comment.

I'm sure you could tell a few great stories about the 80's. Thanks for taking the time to comment.👍

It's not Australia anymore, just a mix of a thousand different little groups all doing their own thing and having their own agendas. There was once an Aussie culture, that is now dead and buried.

@@RS-rj5sh Could be some truth in this. Thanks for taking the time to comment🙂

@@RS-rj5sh Balderdash. It was exactly the same back then. People just follow their interests, nothing wrong with that. I lived in Sydney 1981-1989 (mid-twenties to early thirties) and had a great life. Rent was reasonable, for a start. The aussie culture was gobbled up by the corporate sector, mate.

@@paulthew2 nah ...it wasn't exactly the same back then ...trust me on that

the Sydney you miss doesn't exist anymore

Have to agree with you. Thanks for taking the time to comment🙂

Nice to hear your memories. Thanks for your comments👍

So true, thanks for your comment.

Agree 💯

chinese rule

"This Australia is gone. Forever. Now we live on a prison planet." -Indigenous people.

Thanks to global communism

@@wolfgangvonuce9803 Million bucks says you're from Sweden...

Your so right, good observation👍Thanks for taking the time to comment.

the optimism of the 1980s is long gone

they be turning in their graves

Nice to hear, thanks for commenting🙂

Thats the question for sure, where would you go? thanks for commenting.

Some interesting truths there. Thanks for commenting.

Sydney is awesome to this day. You voted for those govs, why didnt YOU make a difference???

So very true Sir..I did the same and moved my family to the Blue Mountains 10 Years ago. Take care friend

Look up castle hill showground and see what’s happened. The Baulkham Shire Council building isn’t at the ahowground anymore and everything is so different now.

@@Iwishiwasflying Unfortunately progress does not always move in the right direction. Thanks for commenting.

Thanks for your comment. Nice to know the film brought back some happy memories🙂

@@gregpetterson I was 12, but the film was not completely a memory, a lot of it was commercialized crap the bondi beach bit was true to history the beginning was not and the end was not I'm sensing this was some sort of documentary , which.. as we know they always throw stuff in that no one did Like Seriously...... SHOW OFF HANDS Which one of us growing up HAD A YACHT growing up? LMFAO I had a car tyre insert that i blew up and took to bondi beach,......>Never a Yacht

Interesting comment thanks.

Right on. 👍

Absolutely!

When we had an identity

@@thedownunderverse We still have our identity. It's that it's being attacked to relentlessly now. From government and the corporate sector, down through the media and the "left", to the hordes of foreigners whom they're bringing in.

Australia before the CCP took over. It was inevitable.

How funny🤣🤣. Thanks for your comments.

@@gregpetterson no problem Greg, thanks for the video. I can remember the BBQ’s from back then, they were class and there was always a platter on offer. One thing that stands out is how carefree life was then compared to now. No wonder there is so much mental illness these days, too many things to complicate life and not enough time to enjoy the 15 of 17 sunny days.

Interesting memory of a great Sydney landmark! thanks for sharing and fantastic to hear it's still in the same family👍

Great pub, I think I should own a few bricks!

So true👍

Kim who?

Mobile phones were already there. They cost about $5000 and had a run time that couldn't rack up much of a bill. We had reality TV. It was Bert Newton and Norman Gunston. You couldn't get more real than that.

@@philgray3443 I think your right about the cost of mobile phones. I understand NEC made one in Australia, If you got the in-car and boot country range booster you were up for $6000

Dont forget mass immigration. It was 70000 per annum back then, which was a sustainable rate for the amount of housing being built. 400000 now, and Sydney is a chaotic, miserable, and unaffordable mess, thanks to massive immigration being forced on us by our hopelessly corrupt politicians.

Manly is a great spot. Most of the surfing shots were taken at Manly. Agree with you about the golden era. Thanks for your comments.

I had family in Lithgow as well as Narrabeen, Im now in Bathurst

Yep, agree with you. Thanks for commenting.

Too bloody right!😢

So true, a lot has happened and it's too late to turn it back.

When you let the third world in you become the third world.

Look up the Kalergi Plan and who is behind it. Multiculturalism and Diversity are weapons.

that's right,15c per Litre is a sign that we'll never see again and a house was $40,000 What happened ? it's no longer lucky Remember Australian's all let us rejoice for we are young and free....... THAT'S BULLSHIT TODAY

Fell apart 💔 Albo and co, sold us out

Thank you for your kind comment 🙂

Thanks for your kind words and taking the time to comment.

Thanks for your comments Dave. Good point about the national parks and waterways they are stunning 👍

I was born and raised in Sydney and have now finally moved to the mid north coast. It took me 60 years to get the hell out of "That Place"... Now if I have to go down to Sydney, I can feel the pressure of the place when I drive south over the Hexam bridge. Looking back, it was all over for me when they tore down the Dee Why pub. Sydney is a developers dream, but not much chop for the rest of us schlubs.. :)

@@lukebable Thanks for your interesting comment.

@@gregpettersonwhat did he say?

@@CarolynEllisQtEllis Who is he?

Thats not going to happen😂

Now you need a license to go fishing!

Thanks for your kind comment🙂

Yes me too. Working people could afford to rent a place back then. Great days.😊

Thanks for your kind comment 🙂

The only changes I have seen is equity and diversity has improved.

Yep. I’m a similar age. It’s really gone to poop now hasn’t it

In the days when it was another UK

What do you miss about it the most given you were 9?

Now with this voice, they want to segregate. Not telling people of land tax if yes

The 1980's were a unrealised golden period. As you said at least you have the memories 🙂

I hear you buddy, I was 17 in 1985, born at Bankstown. Lebbo capital these days. Now I live at Campsie. All I see are chinese everywhere and not aa word of English. And they are just downright rude people the lebs and the chinese

Yep the Politicians have totally destroyed us!

It seems Australian politicians these days see endless population growth as a positive. I think it will actually lead to the destruction of Australian society and culture. It will destroy what we love about Australia.

@@sushimamba4281 Interesting comment, thank you.

So true. Thanks for your comments🙂

Yep it was a great time, thanks for your comment👍

Thanks for your kind words, good to hear Sydney is treating you well🙂

Thank you for your comment, nice to know what you thought of it

Not surprised about losing a wing mirror or two, just as busy on the bridge then as it is now. Tough job driving in the city. There is a bus in the film crossing the bridge from North to South, could have been you!

Thanks for your kind comments. Glad Sydney's been treating you well🙂

😎

Thankyou

Good to hear a bit of your history and to see it turned out OK. Thanks for your kind comment👍

Unreal fantastic! I've been waiting for someone to recognise themselves. Your the first, thanks so much for letting me know. Was a great day.👍

I will be updating the original film end credits in the future once I have identified some of the unnamed people that were interviewed. I find as time goes on it is important to have these names recorded for future historical interest. If your interested even though you only appear for a few seconds I would like to include your name (guy shooting the JJJ Junior at Manly with Canon Telephoto) up to you? if interested and you don't want to leave your name here just email me. For my email go to my channel page and click on the 'about' section🙂

Your probably right

Wrong type of immigration. Im late 30s with my parents (Austrlian born) being italian. I dont know what is was like when their parents moved here (i hear stories of getting bullied as "wogs" when they were kids) but i knew my grandparents (immigrants) always worked hard, tried to learn the language and blend in. My parents aren't the type to start trouble. All i see now is arabs treating the roads like their personal playground, no care in the world to follow any rules and second generation asians still not able to speak english clearly. This might sound like a racist comment, but as someone with multiple ethnic friends, and work with multiple cultural backgrounds its the truth as bad as it may sound. some will say you cant generalize but when the majority or certain groups act this way its hard not to.

@@cmelft2463 Very interesting thoughts from somebody with an ethnic family background. Thanks for commenting.

Nice to hear Zoo Zu

Yep. Great in the 80s. Not now.

@@warriorpoet9629 sad but true mate

Hope you have some nice memories of the time. Thanks for taking the time to comment.

Your right it was. But who knows maybe in another 40 years time today maybe looked upon as a great time🙂

@gregpetterson Maybe not the 2020s: inflation and wokness are rampant. The poor can't afford electricity, and the politicians don't even know what a woman is.

You're right, it was awesome.

The 80's were awesome we weren't backwards, just really laid back :) We got to experience life without mob phones and the internet, and then we did. Apple Mac coming to Aust 1986 I think. To see what Australia was like in the mid 80's and how it has changed 35 years later is a privilege I suppose. Very Aussie ocker then.

We wouldn't have anyone running the 7-11's, uber eats or shopping mall security

​@@MissHannah2036 Wouldn't that be tragic.😅

@@MissHannah2036 Yes we would we would have Aussies. How rude.

There’s always Bendigo.

What’s wrong with Shanghai?

Good comment about the beaches. Melbourne has other qualities different to Sydney.

Melbourne? They have nothing. Always makes me laugh when they go around the country for the New Years Eve fireworks & they show that stupid little stream that goes through Melbourne that they call The Yarra River where they showcase their $100 dollar bag of fireworks & then Sydney harbor pops up on the TV screen with it’s multi million dollar bag of fireworks & it’s the best in the whole world .Who wants to see boring Melbourne & don’t laugh South Australians , Adelaide is just as boring .

@@blastermaster2383 Agree with you about the fireworks. But I think your a little bit tough on poor old Melbourne and Adelaide though, I'm sure their trying their best. Sydney is lucky having the iconic harbour bridge and Opera house to show case the fire works. 🙂

@@IvanDalmatinac Interesting comment. All the best for your move to the NSW north coast

A guy from Melbourne I met at a party in Sydney was extolling the virtues of his home city. “If you took away the Harbour, Beaches and Weather.. what have you got “ he pronounced in a triumphant glow. To this I quipped “ Melbourne “ 😂 I lived in Melbourne for a bit and I stopped telling people I was from Sydney as it kicked off the usual 5 minutes of rather parochial banter which seems weird when people from Sydney really dont care about Melbourne while they seem obsessed in being better than Sydney. It’s kinda pathetic to be honest when Sydney is literally one of the most beautiful cities if not the most. Little brother complex.

So true 😊

Nice to hear you have some good memories. Thanks for your comments.

Thanks for your kind comment.

Thanks for your kind comments 🙂

Nice to hear the film brought back some good memories for you🙂

Thanks for your interesting comments. I think you're right, Bondi did have off days depending on wind and tide conditions back then. Tooheys beer was popular if I remember correctly.

@@gregpetterson Yeah although Malabar was probably worse Bondi had a bad rep for a while. And pretty much everybody drank Tooheys if not Tooth / Reschs. Although VB and Swan had started to make inroads into the market.

You are right, nothing like a Tooheys or 2, as the advert went.

Bondi cigars everywhere..

​@@davidjohnston7512And I thought someone had dumped a load of Picnic bars in the water.

Great comments and memories. Thanks for taking the time to comment🙂

@@gregpetterson thanks mate ... the coastline, colors of summer, personalities at bondi .. centrepoint looked golden and new! and how many people living in Sydney at the time can identify with all these images. Life was magical. BTW so was TV .. countdown .. Cheers .. Hey Hey .. its amazing how the environment at certain times rubs off on other bits of society and there is a richness and abundance.

@@cvarikos More good memories👍

🤣🤣🤣 Life was a little more laid-back in the 80's

Thanks for taking the time to comment, super nice kind words thank you🙂

It would be interesting to predict what it will be like in another 40 years. Thanks for commenting.

Your right about overpriced, thanks for commenting.

Those were the days, sounds like you were living it👍Thanks for your comment.

Yes I lived in Bennett St, Flood St, Roscoe St & Blair St. Flats were cheaper & easier to rent back in the 80's I moved into my first share flat in 1985. At 19 years of age. I had a full time job as a phone technician when I was 18 years old at Telecom before it was called Telsra & stolen from the people. We didn't realise how good we had it back then. Most work places were unionised, work & housing was much more secure & we didn't cop shit from bosses or governments.😊😊

Have to agree with you. Thanks for your comment👍

@@gregpetterson I was staying with my dad in 1983 in a penthouse in Bondi Junction & then he looked after a friends place with a private beach nearby

@@Slashkamr Wow! living the life with a private beach. Sounds like great memories. Thanks for sharing.

Wow! sounds great, would love to see a copy of it. For my email details please click on the 'About' section of my RU-vid channel page. 🙂

No doubt about it, a lot easier to buy and payoff a home then. Thanks for your comment.

You have obviously never been to Baghdad...

you obviously havent been to auburn/bankstown/fairfield/liverpool/...to name a few,Australia is becoming Arabised?

​@@slyonmeshut up. Australia was anglicised when we turned up on boats and raped and pillaged. Who are you to decide who lives here?

Good memories. thanks for sharing👍

Nice one, thanks for your comment.

So true, sure is a beautiful part of the world👍Thanks for your comment.

Manly, Dee Why and Freshie, great spots, mate...

@@stevestewart-sturges2159 Yes, I lived near Dee Why, but Harbord was the best for body surfing. Pittwater was and still is the most beautiful place in the world to go sailing. Halcyon days.

@@stevestewart-sturges2159 All great spots, a lot harder to get parking now to back then.🙃 Was easy parking at Freshie then. I'm guessing it's all changed as it was over 20 years ago when I was there last.

@@thomaselliott573 harbord was also my favourite spot for body surfing. My mate had a VW Combie and on our way to Harbord if the Spit bridge closed we would all jump out and leave the Combie in the traffic jam and go for a quick swim until the bridge went down. Does anybody do that these days?

Intersting observation 👍

There are other people mentioning this. A gentrification is erasing regional accents in the UK.

Thanks for highlighting some of the norms back then.

You wouldn’t have a doctor without multiculturalism.

LOL - spot on!!! Laid back, Anglo-Celtic Australia has all but disappeared. Many of the old diggers would be devastated at how we've sold ourselves out and are being replaced.

​@@embracedmadness This is because the universities deliberately limit med school intakes - it's cheaper to import foreign fully trained doctors. Super bright Aussie students with 98 score ATARS across double maths, physics, chemistry, still can't get into medicine - it's deplorable.

Well you dont know shit, because my grandparents came over from Poland in 1948, my grandad help build the snowy mountains hydro electric scheme with about 65,000 other migrants from over 30 nations.. so immigration helped you have all those wonderful things you enjoyed..

Interesting comment, got me thinking.

Thanks so much for your kind words. Glad you liked the opening music track. It's called Mysterious Ways by Crescent Music.

Your right, thanks for taking the time to comment👍

Thanks for an interesting comment🙂

Nice to hear it sounds like you enjoyed growing up in the 80's. Thanks for commenting.

How nice, great to hear. Thanks for telling your story.

Gotta me some truth here. Thanks for your comment👍

@@gregpetterson no worries.Thanks for the awesome video.I love videos of how Australia used to be.Makes me feel nostalgic.

@@ninjamaster7724 Thanks for your kind words🙂

Definitely agree with you 👍

100%

Good one Hans, Hope Sydney treated you well. Thanks for your comment😄

Thanks Greg, it was the best of times. I have been to Aussie 3 times during my life and in 2027 i will retire( they say🤣😎) and hope to come more often to Sydney and spend a few months every year, for as long as possible. eeeehhh reading the other comments: we in europa have similar problems like Sydney. looks like 'western created problems' and general technical progress and just history taking its toil. Love to read some feedback.

@@Hans-mg5nf Sounds like you have a plan. All the best for your future retirement and hope you enjoy your visits back to Sydney.

I have a cunning plan 😂😂🤣🤣😎😎

Thanks for your kind comments. The film transfer was by DVD Infinity in Crows Nest Sydney. (The option was for HD and enhancement). They did a good job including the sound transfer. Further work on stabilisation and removal of scratches/marks was done using the editing software Davinci Resolve. Also I had a professional film colourist Tim Wreyford do the colour correction. I changed the transferred film to full aspect so you don't have the black vertical bars on each end. The negative with doing this is you loose some quality as the film has been zoomed in but the plus is you can move the scene up or down to hid the film gate which can be seen sometimes between scenes. Also with the editing software I removed 2-3 frames either side of a lot of the original join splicers to stop the judder where the projector jumps over these physical splices which where originally overlapped and glued together.

Wow love your work

@@adambooth600 Thanks for your kind comment 🙂

You bring up a good point. Thanks for commenting.

We are supposed to be united as one .Anyway I was born here so I’m indigenous

Unless you have black aboriginal ancestry m8 nor about as indigenous as a man calling himself a woman stop trying to change the meaning of the word to suite your own agenda

@@moparmadman1134 I agree with you we should be united as one. I come from an indigenous group from another country. Sure be proud of your heritage but you have just as right as anyone as you were born here.

I was an old Bondi lad and those old fellas look like Icebergers. Bondi Icebergs used to be the rock pool on South Bondi.

@@anthonyraymond5718 Thanks for your comment. With the help of The Bondi Loop FACEBOOK Group and the Bondi Historian Lawrie Williams we have identified Frank Hurley on the left (Australian heavyweight wrestling champion 1949. Was taken prisoner by the Germans in WW2 on the Greek Island of Crete and spent the war years in a prison camp in Germany) and Gordon Cassidy on the right but we are STILL TRYING TO IDENTIFY THE GUY IN THE MIDDLE?.🤔 I have been informed these guys were all original old boy lifeguards.

She seems an inner west type

@@fergspan5727 Could be, well thats a start. Thanks for your comment👍

I wonder where those protesters are today, how their living their lives, how important, concerning, this is subject is for them 40 years later.

I think your right, Morag does sound a little like Laura Tingle 👍Thanks for taking the time to comment.

It was a great time living in Australia I agree. I'm sure some parts of the world were doing it tough though. Thanks for commenting.

Interesting observation. Thanks for commenting.

@@gregpetterson Why do you respond like a bot

Already is

Rather a ridiculous comment. Isn't there a movement in WA trying to get it's 'independence'. Perth would then become a non-Australian city...

You will probably notice some changes next time you visit 🤣

A good year to be born. Thanks for commenting.

Totally agree, its still a great place to live but sad that many struggle with the expenses living in Sydney today. Thanks for taking the time to comment🙂

Thanks for your comment, always interesting to hear what people were doing back then. Agree it was a great time.👍

NO such thing nor mindset of common sense exists, Stupid. Define it if you Retarted-ly think so 😐🤐

Agree your parents made a good move and also agree Australia is still a great place to live. Thanks for commenting.

@@gregpetterson cheers.

They had some great add campaigns back then. Thanks for reminding me.

Great to hear you new the old guys. With the help of the Bondi Local loop Facebook group and the Bondi Historian, I was able to identify Frank Hurley and Gordon Cassidy. The guy in the middle many know him but unable to name him. Would you know?

@@gregpetterson sorry, I can't help Greg. I think they were a regular part of the furniture that the younger Men would joke with and be respectful of. They would swim across the bondi bay, then sit and tan. What they said was correct. It is a perfect Bathers beach. Australia is spoilt. Sydney is spoilt for various beaches. Nth Bondi club was considered a more family club, as opposed to Bondi and I remember a lot of really cool, but nice clubbies. I've watched the Bondi rescue a few times, and some of the teens, young adults of my time are on it. I was only in the Eastern suburbs from 85-93 , and had an amazing experience, just as it was going' 'yuppy'. I had wanted to cross over from stillwater swimming to surf swimming, but did not quite have the style or desire. I was at the age where I quickly more interested in being social and getting a career going. If you are into the older history of Bondi beach, I have quite a personal family history. My Grandmother was born and grew up where the pavillion now is. Her father was the manager of the then 'Bondi Change Rooms' which were built in the early 1900's. You would know they used to have the formal change room system. Their home was built above the change rooms. Great Grandfather and Mother would go out their side gate and walk up to the Bondi Hotel for dinner often, when it was becoming fashionable in the decades to come. My Grandmother was born on June 18th, 1912 during a well known quite damaging 4 day storm. When the storm abated, the long wooden dive in platform had been ripped from its moorings at the icebergs pool and was washing up against the frontdoor of the changerooms. The beach still had sand dunes etc, so nothing to stop it, and were really badly damaged. And the big boulders off the north bondi cliffs had been pushed up to their current positions, signifying the power of the storm. It was really quite an event at the time and the council had mermaids placed on the boulders with a date of the storm. No one officially knew when the rocks came up, but my family always said it was most likely the 19th, possibly 20th. Grandma was born during the storm, but in at Paddos Womens hospital, and couldn't return till storm settled. I believe the mermaids were stolen a little while back. Sad. My Grandmother was an absolute fish or mermaid as they would say, and was bodysurfing at age 5. She said she just spent her days with her little dog running around the beach and swimming. At that time there were not many doing so, but I think there were enough good young men doing similar to watch out for her. She had an extensive pressclippings book to prove it all. She bacame an incedibly successful swimming in the ladies club, being basically the champ by age 12. I would bodysurf on her back up until age 8 or so. She was almost as natural as dolphin in the water. Never lost it. She had an early professional framed photo as I looked at a lot as I was growing up. It was of her, age 6 and 4 other bodysurfers catching a beautiful big wave at the south end. The had been 6 or them bodysurfing the southend together and one missed the wave. Sadly this man was taken by a shark. I believe this was the first known attack at Bondi. I think I have that story correct. It was engraved in my brain as a kid. Freaky! I don't know what happened to the photo when she passed. Another sister has the pressclippings book, so I can't check the details that were in the papers. Sadly her Dad died when she was 14 and they moved to Paddington, which was quite poor at the time. She became a secretary during the depression and made money for the family. Around that time the changerooms and their home were knocked down and made way for the fancy new Pavillion, and the rest is history. Keep up the good work, is fun to see older stuff! The only thing I notice with the older filming is it doesn't pick up the colour well. The harbour and beaches are so much more vibrant in real life and I think the bright sun washes out the camera catching that vibrancy.

@@em945 Wow! such a great history and memories. Thank you so much for taking the time to share them🙂

@@gregpetterson thanks, Greg. by the way, the long somewhat boring story about the storm and dates was on my mind to tell someone after hearing a history reporter talking about it on ABC radio. I had not realised how big an event it was....a number of shops etc were washed away, and it meant the council had to replan the streets. Prior to that, it was just a dramatic family story. He said It had been a mystery too for detail people, as to what the actual date of the rocks had come up. I would like to have told him my family thought the 19th. Take care.

@@em945 Great history, I'm sure the Bondi Historian Lawrie Williams would be interested in this story also.👍

Thanks for your comment. There were very strong feelings from both sides of the Nuclear aspect. So strong at the time that this film was criticised by judges in film competitions for this footage

Keep in mind, this was filmed less than a year before the Chernobyl disaster. People were rightly suspicious of 80s era nuclear technology. I know there’s a world of difference between a western nuclear powered ship and a meltdown of a Soviet power station.

@@OldAussieAds You bring up some good points. Thanks for your comment. I Like your channel by the way, your channel content brings back some good memories and laughs.

@@gregpetterson Cheers Greg. Makes it worth my while! I’ll be sure to keep them coming.

When you think about it Coal, Oil and Gas are way more dangerous then Nuclear, but you never see these hippies protesting outside Coal mines for safety of workers.

Back in the care free days, now part of history.

Understand how you fell, not the same as it was, but still a lovely city in some way.

What a lough, hope your just joking 🤣🤣🤣

I have with agree with you on some of your points. Yes they did promise that technology would give us an easier life with more free time. I never did believe it would happen. Your right, more young people are working longer and harder than ever just to live in Sydney.

@@gregpetterson I’m leaving to south east Asia next year. I can live there and have a very nice lifestyle without working and save money and travel. In Sydney all I do is work to pay bills and get nowhere.

One of the problems of housing affordability was here already in 1985, illustrated by the attitude of that guy on the boat in the video. Get your life down to working 2 or 3 days a week and spend the rest of your time sailing on the harbour, hey? Only the well-off could do that, and then they bought up all the real estate and got richer by jacking up the prices and rents. Now they are richer, and so many have to suffer because of it...

Those were the days of only 1 toll in Sydney and I think it was only 20 cents.

Your right, it was more easy going and laid back. Thanks for commenting.