Battle of Brisbane: How WW2 Changed Australia Forever | Time Walks

Battle of Brisbane: How WW2 Changed Australia Forever | Time Walks | Absolute History

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Күн бұрын

In 1941, sleepy tropical Brisbane found itself the nerve center for the Pacific War effort, playing host to 100,000 US military personnel. The former convict colony found itself changing quickly, and the pace of progress has barely slowed since then. Yet politically Queensland is the most conservative state in Australia, even playing host to a white South African rugby team at the height of the apartheid era in the face of international condemnation.
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00:00 Intro
02:00 Treadmill Torture
06:20 Apartheid Protests
09:55 WWII In Australia
19:09 King George V Statue
20:17 Brisbane Arcade Murder
22:53 Lamington
25:00 Outro
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@MicahBell_1860 9 ай бұрын

No mention of the actual Battle of Brisbane, between the public with the Aussie diggers, versus the US soldiers in Brisbane?

@violetdreams1799 2 жыл бұрын

really enjoy these walks! hope to see more 👍 thanks!

@olivedrabgarage6243 11 ай бұрын

Tony...there's so much you missed with WW2 The US Navy Submarine base on the Brisbane River. The Battle of Brisbane three night riot. Even the old WW2 bomb shelters that were turned into bus stops all over Brisbane and the suburbs. Fort Lytton should have been a must stop for you being a Victorian era historian too. The US 5th Air Force based at Archerfield aerodrome.... So much history in the CBD and surrounds.

@G-G._ 8 ай бұрын

this is about the battle of brisbane. not a complete coverage

@darylblain4710 27 күн бұрын

Enough about WW2, I would like to ask Tony how WW1 started.

@gabrielclarke8145 4 күн бұрын

It's also 20 years old and it's not his channel 😂

@josephreber525 2 жыл бұрын

Tony is the man

@ashleelarsen5002 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, also 9:53 this looks more like a thimble to me, like Monopoly :)

@Degjoy 3 күн бұрын

Tony runs around like a maniac in this!

@recoveryinbmore8766 2 жыл бұрын

Tony is the best hands down 😎😁😀.

@ashleelarsen5002 2 жыл бұрын

He's fun :)

@bigredinfinity3126 Жыл бұрын

at the bottom of Jacobs ladder is a old air raid bunker

@elizabethroberts6215 2 ай бұрын

……& the rock wall to the right of the last step along Ann St used to house Taxi 🚖’phones’ for the drivers’ to be told of a ‘fare’ to pick-up………

@ryanblack2986 2 жыл бұрын

I love to live in Australia half the year and the US the other half. Always summertime weather lol!

@VampMedusa 2 жыл бұрын

Tony the Joyful! 🤘🏻

@chaffcutter58. 9 ай бұрын

My Grandad Cpl. LAURENCE BEUTEL is on the tea room ,dunny, where he ran a two up school.

@rodpettet2819 Ай бұрын

Brisbane really changed with rapid over development starting in the mid 1980s. It suffered like so many other places from over development by low grade politicians and corruption. I moved to Hervey Bay in the late 2010s for a more tranquil life.

@gabrielclarke8145 4 күн бұрын

Your right, it's currently underdeveloped. Brisbane needs another 250k homes and they need to built 20 years ago thanks....

@jimmyyu2184 2 жыл бұрын

If I ever (get drafted) go to war, I'm gonna sign my name on that wall before I even join boot camp (in pencil, of course).

@gus3247365 2 жыл бұрын

I'm originally from Melbourne but live in The Netherlands .. This is all making me homesick ..I'm missing Australia ..Thanks mate !

@deannavanvelsen2057 10 ай бұрын

The tea rooms were there in 1993 when I visited them

@bunyipdragon9499 Жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot. The battle of Brisbane was between the US and Australia. Its quite interesting and amusing I was expecting that not an histoircal tourist walk.

@alanbarrie5777 7 ай бұрын

You didn't go to the Commissariat store? Shame. Last convict building in Brisbane

@dethspud 2 жыл бұрын

Ok. My first thought was Daleks there but the real story is much better

@paulfri1569 2 жыл бұрын

Brisbane ain't good at PR and marketing.. Such a shame 😥

@elizabethroberts6215 2 ай бұрын

……book, ‘The Mayne Inheritance’, by Rosamund SIEMON is well worth reading for the history of the Mayne Family. Suburb of Mayne, & the Mayne Building at U of Q is named after them. Their inheritance funds the School of Medicine at the University, too………

@Diggles67 9 ай бұрын

Brisbane is subtropical. The tropics don’t truly begin until you reach the Tropic of Capricorn, 650 kms north of Brisbane at Rockhampton. Then you have the dry tropics to Townsville before you hit the wet tropics below Cairns.

@user-fm4hd3zw3q 29 күн бұрын

Watching this in 2024 and trying to date the film by the buildings that are not there yet. The floating river walk to Newfarm isn’t there. Nor Kurilpa bridge. My guess is early 2000s.

@nicholasmatthew9687 2 жыл бұрын

As an American who fully recognizes Mcarthers contributions toward the entire world’s military efforts in the pacific, the man was fucking daft. He might have had big balls, but it’s hard to say since no one else ever filled his position. Maybe someone could have done it better, but who knows. I just can’t help but think of all the men who could have done my great grandfathers job better than himself, he just happened to be one of the few dumb and tough enough to do it at the time I guess.

@nedkelly9688 Жыл бұрын

Lol he was a racist rude tool and a useless leader and was lucky Australian commanders with more battlefield experience ignored him a lot and did their own tactics and saved countless lives who would of died for nothing if followed him. A lot of battles would of lost if followed MacArthur blindly. His stupidity and ego of trying to beat Nimitz and defeat Japanese first in Papua and didn't care how many Aussies he lost as long as won was disgusting. His claims of USA wins when was Australians only fighting is so disrespectful to all who died.

@chaffcutter58. 9 ай бұрын

Most senior Officers hated his guts, he called Aussie soldiers Cowards when they stopped the Japs at Milne Bay, the first to do so. Then when the Americans tried to fight, they were found extremely wanting.

@msjrockqueen2011 5 ай бұрын

Sure enough, I thought that was a dalek....😅

@OstblockLatina 2 жыл бұрын

Kassandra was not mad. She was cursed by the gods to have no one ever take her prophecies seriously.

@Shilo-fc3xm 8 ай бұрын

Lol. "He was known as a flogger". Out of the mouths of babes. Dear sweet, innocent Jenifer. Lol.

@cheypam 2 жыл бұрын

I can't wait until they make these documentaries about our generation!

@terrigaines1812 2 жыл бұрын

I'm sure the people of the future will think we were incredibly stupid.

@bennett8535 2 жыл бұрын

The Battle of Brisbane? How WWII changed Australia forever? Did I miss something?

@paulfri1569 2 жыл бұрын

Free piss

@orilianGaming 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Tony you look good in a canary yellow helmet maroon leather jacket and knee high biker boots riding a Honda 250 with a teal gas tank and fenders

@theeutecticpoint 2 жыл бұрын

bin chicken

@itsjohndell 2 жыл бұрын

The commercial at the beginning got me to usnsub.

@SmertDaBaus 2 жыл бұрын

Oh no not a 30 second sponsor to enable this channel produce content. I agree with you; boycotts inbound to any and every channel that uses sponser time in their videos!

@terrigaines1812 2 жыл бұрын

Oh no, don't usnsub LOL

@Ghastly_Grinner 2 жыл бұрын

Yes ending Apartheid was such a great move LMFAO

@PorcoAka 2 жыл бұрын

this the reason I dont read youtube comments, touch grass

@Ghastly_Grinner 2 жыл бұрын

@@PorcoAka well on your bike

@benhaney9629 2 жыл бұрын

Just because Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe and South Africa may have been better off financially during apartheid and Zimbabwe is now a failed state and South Africa may well be in its way... That doesn’t mean it wasn’t a good thing to end apartheid. I mean are you really saying that a government system based around racism is a good thing? If you really think that well... I mean fuck you I guess. And it’s not as though basing your government on racism is some guarantee of financial stability. Or any country that doesn’t will never be a good country to live in. I mean South Africa and Zimbabwe have problems. It doesn’t make apartheid good...

@snowstrobe 2 жыл бұрын

I was born, raised, and went to uni in Brissie, and grew up under Joh, the original Trump. I vaguely remember the protests, (I was 8)... And yes, I had honestly always thought that was meant to be a dalek! Thankfully I got out of that shithole after uni.

@johng8186 4 ай бұрын

This bloke is very irritating

@07MoPower 2 жыл бұрын

Let’s do a documentary on Australia now. Indigenous people begging the international community for help, draconian lockdowns, keeping healthy people in covid camps, arresting elderly people for walking their dogs. Ah, yes. Australia. A place I once dreamed of visiting and bestowing tourism dollars upon. A place that has been scratched off my bucket list. Good luck Australia!

@henrytoledo4103 2 жыл бұрын

Yes I also dreamed of visiting Australia and spending my hard earned dollars as a tourist. All I can do now is take solace in the fact the average Australian citizen is whole heartedly opposed to what's going on now

@jonc4403 2 жыл бұрын

They've had pretty good luck so far, only 2,572 COVID deaths, whereas the US, which never really took it seriously has over 845,000 dead. I'm sure they're happy plague rats like you won't be visiting.

@VampMedusa 2 жыл бұрын

Australia, itself, is a drive-to-thrive nation. America, itself, is a rebellious nation. History is always upon us all. Fellow humans, NO ONE owns a crystal ball that can reveal the future...yet. 🤘🏻

@nedkelly9688 Жыл бұрын

Lol another low IQ who believes CNN lies and garbage.. what Healthy people in camps haha funniest fake propaganda i ever heard of. Only 2 states of Australia had severe lockdowns and i barely wore 10 masks during whole covid and saw 5 days maximum lockdown. My American friends saw worse then me. Our children were back in schools months before USA schools finished their stupid online garbage. I was at the beach while my American friends were in lockdowns.

@nedkelly9688 Жыл бұрын

This had absolutely nothing to do with Battle of Brisbane and is worse story of it on the web. Lol don't know much do you. i like how blame Australian Government for the African Americans and segregation of them. Was actually the USA forces who always separated their Blacks. The Aussies actually didn't like how the Americans treated their African Americans and was a part of the Battle of Brisbane hostilities