Loved seeing Malcolm with his two little joeys. Precious. What blessings these films are. Thank you kindly for posting 🙏

Loved these days. Albie, Leylands and Malcolm. They were my favourite shows. Don't see that many big flatties or flounder there anymore.

A lovely film showing capturing Malcolm’s wife snd two children when they were young.

Thanks for sharing all these pieces of Aussie history. Very enjoyable

Love it all

I wonder what Malcoms son is doing now, did he take up his Dads ways?

brilliant

Bloody hard to get a good flat head these days

Where do we send the convicts now - America ? Nobody would notice.

The luyer!

After looking at a lot of his videos, especially the ones with Aboriginals killing and eating snakes, it inspired me to attempt it myself. You get a good 2m long stick, then dig 4 grooves into the end so the end looks kind of like a plus sign from front on. You can buy 15cm or even 17cm long nails, get 4 of these and sharpen the ends so they are very sharp, place them into the groves of the stick and then you want to use a flexible wire that you can wrap around the entire head multiple times to hold those nails into position. You end up with a very good weapon I find for killing snakes. Now you want to find large logs on the ground and move them, however don't use your boots or especially your hands. I find the easiest way is to wrap a piece of rope around an anchor point on a log on the ground, then you can pull it and make it roll over, revealing what is underneath. The advantage of this is that you will be a few metres away from the log when it rolls over, so nothing can take you by surprise. Now grab your spear and see what's there, at least 9 times out of 10 there is nothing under there, maybe a small lizard that you can ignore. But around 1 times out of 10 you will find a snake, hopefully one that is a decent size. Because it was resting, it will be slightly panicked, however it usually won't have much energy as it just work up, so you can easily strike it with your spear. To strike it with your spear, just slowly place your spear around 10cm away from it's neck, and then jam it into it, it's a sure kill. From here, I then cook it like the Aboriginals on Malcolm's shows taught, basically light a small fire to create hot coals, put the fire out, and then cook the snake in the coals. Make a tiny slit near it's privates, and you can pull out the intestines just like the Aboriginals showed you on one of Malcolm's videos, this means you can remove it's intestines and keep almost all of the skin intact, use dirt or sand constantly so you can grip the intestines to pull out. Now simple put it in the hot coals for a few minutes. Very important tool for eating the snake I have found, take a fork, the fork is perfect for removing the meat off the snake, the fork will pierce between the snake ribs and then you simple move it downwards and all the meat comes off the ribs, you can use this method to effectively take all of the meat off the cooked snake rather quickly and leave all the skeleton and bones that are useless to you. This is the only way in my opinion to effectively get the meat off. With an average sized brown snake, I find that it equates to 1 large meal. I won't kill small snakes as they are too fiddly, a large brown snake of like 2 metres is usually around 2 meals worth. After you get the meat off, you can of course use the usual salt and pepper to make it nicer. It's quite nice meat. I also used to be told to never eat carp, however after seeing Malcolm doing it, I finally ate a carp from a river here in Australia, I was shocked at how good the meat actually was on the carp, just like in Malcolm's video it was quite good. I was always told when I was little that the carp is all bone and has barely any meat, yet this is obviously a wives tail and isn't true, there is virtually as much meat on the carp as on other fish species of the same size, and the meat quality is perfectly fine. Carp being like gold fish, they often hang around at the top level of the water, and especially eat bugs off the surface. The easiest method I find is to tie a floater on your line about 20cm back from the hook, and then to simply place a big/worm on that hook, it will sit obviously 20cm deep into the water which is virtually surface level, and you easily catch the carp constantly. I actually release the more pretty carp colours. The carp is called European carp, and in the rivers it's usually around 95 percent are brown/dark green, then the remaining 5 percent can be orange, yellow, even even sometimes white. I release any of the white, yellow and orange ones, because I consider them too pretty to kill, it's pretty to look at them in the waters, you can see them from afar. However the most brown and very dark muddy green types are the most common colour variants and I kill and eat those, because they are a dime a dozen and they also are boring and mostly blend in with the water. Also I consider eating them environmental, because they say that the carp actually have replaces other native species too much, by outcompeting them, and that the original native Australian breeds are more important. Therefore you should eat the carp (especially brown and muddy green ones), and if you ever catch the fish called Redfin, you should eat that also, because it's introduced. These introduced species obviously have no conservation status, they are like the rabbits of the waterways.

I saw Malcolm's son last week sitting in a park with a mob of fellas. They were talking about the old ways before white man came.