Tony Robinson Down Under | E4 | Eureka 

People never tell the whole story about the Burke & Wills expedition. Yes, they died and didn't complete the journey, but there was an Irish soldier with them, called John King, who went with Burke to the Gulf, and completed the journey back to Melbourne after being helped by the Aborigines and was rescued by a search party two and a half months after they'd died at the Dig Tree. He was hailed a hero upon his return to Melbourne, and is officially the first white man to traverse the continent from south to north and back again. The story should be called "Burke, Wills & King" - not just Burke & Wills. He succeeded where they failed, but he doesn't get a mention. John King should be remembered, moreso than them.

i love tony's documentary's they're the best

Mr. Robinson is simply amazing how he is digging deep in to the stories. His temperament and enthusiasm are much better than the vitality of some young people. Good/better to watch this than some daily news :) Thanks a lot!!

Great show Tony. I'm from Ballarat Australia. My parents were from England and Scotland so I love all your programs. Thankyou 😊❤

This is all stuff I, as an American, had never heard before. Tony does these stories so well and makes the drop dead fascinating. Thanks for uploading!

Sounds like Daniel Andrews was prime minister in Victoria back in those days too.

love all your documentaries, so well presented

The gold parts of this show were filmed at Sovereign Hill near Ballarat, a living museum which our family loves to visit. Highly recommended.

Great series Tony. Love all your work but veterans of the American Revolution at Eureka ! They would have been 71 years old if they were born the year that the Revolution ended.

So little has changed mentally in this country since Myall Creek, it's sickening.

how can you don't like it ? I'm smiling entire time and I burned my dinner cos I can't stop watching ! Thank you Sir Tony Robinson for your outstanding life work

Very very interesting and informative videos about Australia ❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊

omg, that Horrocks story is SUCH a South Australian thing to happen!! Hilarious!!

Fascinating series.

Wonderful!!

I live in the Pacific Northwest of the United States and I have the exact same type of ironing board, complete with an identical blue cover, that Tony uses to illustrate the ridiculous amount of supplies that the explorers chose to outfit themselves with. I find this very amusing...

i’ve enjoyed tony’s presentations for years...but the unbelievable amount of ads in this video makes it very difficult to stay on track with the stories.

Man, those would be some pretty old miners if they were vets of the American Revolution.

Lola montez a band called volbeat did a great song about her. Them and sabaton do amazing history songs sabaton every song a knod to a event in some historical war both are amazing

7:15 that pointy mountain is called pyramid hill, and the big mountain in the distance is mt Korong, and the hill this painting is taken from would’ve been mount hope

Would have loved to met Tony when he did this documentary harry 🐫🐪 had the last laugh rip Harry 🤠⭐🐨🦘🐴🍀 cheers Stephen ✌️✌️🦅🦅

The original Eureka flag still resides in a museum

Anyone know the tune 34:35 ? i have heard it in a few documentaries, iv tried to find it but no luck.

The Eureka flag was rarely shown,in a doco about the Eureka stockade,

In the story about the camel, the stirrup on the saddle is on back to front.

All ok until he got the Burke and Wills part, and the closing monologue. A fascinating distortion of history. Technically, nobody from the Burke and Wills Expedition actually made it to the northern coast. They stopped well short due to impassable mangroves and decided, close enough, and started the return journey. And the interior of the country was mostly opened up due to the expeditions of John McDouall Stuart, who was, in fact, the first European to cross the continent from south to north and return, with all his men. The overland telegraph roughly followed his path as does the Stuart Highway and the Ghan railway

Though now living in Britain, I still have my Eureka flag which I fly occasionally and also use in protests...such as that against Brex**it.

Good on yu Robo!

"he ordered that the camel should be shot" Bloody oath.

We have come along way, from the 1960s, when the only celebration of the Eureka stockade at that site, was a swimming pool... as a Young seven-year-old I was rather disappointed by this....

2:50 this is wat u call a CLASSIC EXAMPLE OF KARMA. SAY NO MORE ''Apart from #Clasic !!!

It's interesting that the US Flag and the Texas flag are at the Australian rally.

The youtube algorithm is absolutely mental and pointless. RU-vid keeps reccomending the same time team episodes ive watched dozens of times because thats what it reccomends. Then out of the blue it recommends this. This that i have never seen before, my kind of content and youtube and thats been on youtube for 5 years. Seriously

Harry-the-camel should've had a companion camel. Might of improved his attitude.

My dyslexia read this as a tomy Robinson vid… I thought the Canadians had messed him right up!

Er......WHO pioneered the exploration of the interior? I think you'll find people were already there

Blacksland, Wentworth and Lawson first non-indigenous to find a usable root over the Blue Mountains

Am i only 1 thinks its ironic the guy bit by camel name was Garlic lol

look up James McBrien ... he discovered the gold way way earlier./

ah - well all those international clubs, Lions, Masons - those people still run the show in England as well as in Australia and America -

Awwe poor Harry

The men they recruited to be “policemen” were ex convicts released for this purpose and also ex prison guard so you can imagine how honestly they went about their business especially given that they earned a percentage of those fines.

talk to demolition dave rockiest place on earth

Tony, that tall blonde lass that accosted you in the Alice Springs airport was my daughter, I do apologise, she's too much like her father.

It's Peter Lalor , it is pronounced law lor.

I'll go rhythm

They were barking mad because they were english men…and Noel Coward summed them up in song…you know the one I mean.

I'm glad Govener Gipps reopened the case and had the men sentenced to hang, could’ve easily just ignored the inequality but he didn't. Kudos to him to sentencing those monsters to death

My mate has a farm out near Armadale which has unmarked graves from the natives that used the water hole there. His ancestors would shoot them for sport after waiting for them to try get water. No one knows this until now I’ve told you all lol.

Victoria was not a convict colony! NSW & Tasmania was, as well as WA & Queensland. The two youngest colonies, SA & VIC. We’re not!

Tony should know better. They didn't get "hung" they were "hanged". Big difference....

And what year did this happen that he was successful? Because is disagree with that they failed and a South Australian John McDouall Stuart was successful in 1862

25:18 yes the Chinees also even though after being in australia for generation in the early 1900s they n there children were all thrown out of the country even is they were born in australia all bc australians wanted to keep Australia white n was the most racist country in the world even after world war 2 there immigration policy stated NO JEWS N ONLY OF PURE ARIAN RACE.n it wasnt just th Gov that wanted this but it was the people also.

Interesting video. Worth pointing out the out of all the hundreds of massacres that happened in Australia only two happened in South Australia we were a very progressive state. Also Burke and Wills were in a race against a South Australian who was also trying to do the same thing which probably lead to him making bad decisions

Mitchell - the most famous explorer! Who have you been listening to Tony? My money would be on Charles Sturt, John MacDouall Stuart, Edward John Eyre and Ludwig Leichhardt to name a few, who in my opinion did more exploring with less funds and resources than Mitchell.

15:00 just remember at this point in the story, Australia was still a colony, there were no white Australians, they were englishmen. The black people were the Australians. After 2 civil wars and many other slayings of their own in Britain over the centuries it us little wonder that the lives of black people in Australia, India and Africa were of little consequence. My heritage is British though I am born in Australia but I am ashamed. The Brits started the slave trade too so another thing to be ashamed of. The current Monarchy is the most humane and close to normal than any have ever been.

Try find an American here that doesn’t let us know they’re American lol okay we get it

Fergawdsake Tony! RETIRE! Look at yourself.

It's pretty interesting that Tony presents such a huge double standard when it comes to justice. On one hand, the injustice of perpetrators of a massacre being found not guilty by a jury of peers was horrible and rightfully resolved when another retrial was ordered... The trial of the men at Eureka however was the same situation. There is no question that the rebels committed offences, yet acquittal by the jury was 'just' in the view of the shows narrative.

Aboriginals?......Aborigines Tony, aborigines.

It was the way of the world back then and I know it doesn't make it right but it is what it is and a lot worse has happened.