Was the land stolen from indigenous Australians?

@@lukei6255 What land wasn't. The entire continent was stolen.

@@lukei6255 I dont think so

@Luke I no , many aboriginals steal from the hard working taxslaves, we were born here too

@@lukei6255 do we whinge about the romans, saxons, portuguese or spanish? Nope. Stop being a white knight

I'm sad to hear that about the Sunshine Coast. The Sydney people spoilt Byron Bay, too. :-( Ironic that what they go there to escape, ends up being transformed into a mini version of what they left. Just stay out of the north, please!! We like it the way it is! Welcomed always, but dont change the laid back lifestyle we love.

@@eurekaelephant2714 completely agree 😄

@@wilmaw1190 thankyou. That was nice to read.

Yep, Sunny Coast has been bought up by the rich from down south

Yep, we spent many happy hours in the beer garden and bird watchers with hundreds of others. Now there is some kind of indoor shopping centre and Woolworths there, what a disaster.

Absolutely :)

Nice, which year are you talking about?

Yep! I noticed that too. It's the Beachcomber hotel where they had a 12 month residency.

well spotted

well spotted!

Me too 😭

The Penthouse nightclub. Ahh, the memories! Surfers Paradise Hotel beer garden on a Saturday afternoon, while staying at the Apollo. The smell of coconut oil on the beach...

@@Brashyboy more like The Playroom I'd say!

the beach is still there.

Thank the mayor you vote in each and every time.

Grand isn't it. Penthouse in soul tower has a great view.

Not 50 stories please don't exaggerate..

There'll be an earthquake or Tsunami one day.

Lebs and noodles there now.

@@fanatamon yeah, no Australia much now is there. Don't no what it is.????

@@davidklaehn2938 yeh well our extremely shortsighted governments decided for us ages ago that we won’t develop our own peoples or systems and just simply rely on immigration and it’s all to much effort to spend and train people and look after our country so now we just import everyone and rely on that. An interesting example is a medical practice that opened up where I live in a town in southern NSW. The business is run by Sri Lankan doctors, now nothing against them as a race but they are doctors I wouldn’t get to run a bath I kid you not, this is a microcosm of things and the overall uselessness of just endlessly importing people to do a job or whatever.

@@fanatamon yes mate. I have to agree with you just said, they are very shortsighted when it comes to things, not so short when it comes to MONEY.

@@davidklaehn2938 for sure and we end up with less and less Australia and more and more of other whatever that is.

What they have done to Southport is a text book example of how to destroy a suburb,. My intermittent memories of Southport back to the late 1960's and earlier photos I have seen are truly of a paradise that is now well and truly lost. This was amply demonstrated when the Cecil Hotel had to lease part of the building for offices and turn much of the rest into a Chinese eating house.....not to mention the great Southport hotels that have closed over the years.

@@bert23337 Chinese food is awesome

Hey glen, Dave Yeager here, remember our marooning on macintosh island? They’ve certainly stuffed the place totally now, I live in NZ these days. Cheers!

If its a paradise lost, why do tourists stay there for high prices? The world keeps changing, and we feel nostalgic for the way things used to be.

@@graerindley6312 Our feelings of Nostalgia plays a part for sure, but that doesn't mean the past cannot be known to be objectively better in some ways or worse in others. My example was, it used to be a paradise for kids. I knew the Gold coast as a child & I know it today. It's not possible for children today to have see do & experience what we able to, in the way we were able to. A lot of the natural beauty has been obliterated or is unaccessible. I won't table the many examples, but just say, you had to be there then to know what's gone today.

Yer make sure you vote NO to that voice BS albo is trying to bring in 🇦🇺

Yeh it’s not great with the obscene moneyfication and cost of everything amongst our appalling environmental efforts.

👍😊💯 I know someone who was born in Southport, probably during the 60's & others who were later eras too. I wasn't delivered in the Gold Coast myself,but how it's changed as of now I still probably would not recognise it given all the changes here over the years in comparison to other places

Southport. Its tragic what that place has become. Once a lovely growing suburb on the beach at the end of the line from Brisbane and now striving to become another Chinese high rise outpost.

YEAH, i RECKON THIS WAS ABOUT 1963 OR '64

Agree. Didn't like the snotty commentator one bit

Yes, agree. Very condescending! Been to the Gold Coast about a dozen times. Has its good and bad, but I feel it has something for everyone.

Seems he was just an old crusty sook. Maybe the humidity was too much for him so he thought nobody should or could like it.

No truth in rising sea levels... the elites continue to buy and hold waterfront property all around the world. Companies still invest in waterfront property and insurance companies still insure it all. Rising sea levels (and supposed rising temperatures) are part of a con that is difficult to disprove and easy to exploit for power and control.

In the mid 1970s they were saying it would soon be under water.

I lived in Burleigh in 1964 for a year. We lived on the Esplanade and our dog slept in mum's VW parked on the grass by the beach. This looks very familiar based on the vehicles on the road and limited state of Cavill Ave development etc. Ron Ricco was the magician act on the sand at Coolangatta. I remember the mutton bird oil man sprayed us with his suntan oil on the beach at Surfers. I got my licence at Burleigh police station after driving the sergeant's EK round the block and doing a reverse parallel park. My dad looked to buy a unit on the bluff but at £16k he gave up. Should have tried harder.

@@yasi4877 No houses left on The Esplanade now, they are pulling down the 20 storey unit buildings to replace them with bigger ones. Also 3 hour parking limits have recently gone up along the beach. Soon it will be parking meters or even worse, more high rise units on the beachside reserve and parking lots.

Oscar was my dad. He was a Polish holocaust survivor. He moved to the Gold Coast in the mid 1950s to take up a job as head waiter at the Chevron Hotel, then started doing massages on Surfers beach next to John Paterson's mutton bird tanning oil business. Later dad did massages from his shop on the Esplanade where he also had a steam/sauna bath. :)

@@82muttsmall world

Just saw your response. My Dad was Kevin Hicks and I went with him to your house where I remember a big surf rod on the wall. I vaguely remember your mum and, maybe , some smaller children We went surf fishing with him and he hauled in a giant Jewfish and laid it on a towel in front of the front door next morning. I hadn’t realised he was a holocaust survivor. He told other stories ( I think when we were eating at the Steakhouse I mentioned ) about smuggling valuables around Europe. This was around 1965 -1967 , I was in the area several times and it’s so long ago. I turned 16 at the end of 1966. My dad’s partner was also from Europe and had some harrowing tales. I remember how strong your dad was when he cast out - at least twice as far as my dad could manage. I just remembered the tanning oil business. I learnt to surf on hired boards on that beach.

Big Deal nothing to do with The Goldie.

YES! I remember the teepee and the big tap!

Us kids also went to the lion park, when the road was a windy narrow road

You remember when the tour guide in the Bullens bus got out and kicked a Lion in the backside to wake him up so the Jap tourists could take action pictures? the guide just made it back to the bus, but only just. Yes, he was a bit tipsy, had a few beers but it was a different time then. I cant remember the tour guides name but he is a legend.

Yes I remember it..friends and I went there many times😅

The Australian soul has been crushed because of those lockdowns and mandates 💔

I live on the Gold Coast now. No one was ever banned from the beach in March 2020.

You took the words out. Yes and all the crime and scumbags on skateboard.

Queensland version of Sydney or Melbourne. Liked it back in the 1980s after school. Different place now. Sydney is still the best IF you like city living. However, there are quite a few bush towns which are very enjoyable. 😊

No one loves to live near the ocean in the past... Australian in the old days loves to live inland in town near a waterways and farming as communities ... hmmmm since money printing is normalise.... beach front property is a new status...of who can print money faster.. hmmmm..

Yes I do went there a couple of times 😅

100% well said!! Me too

Meh.. I live here. In paradise every day....... With the exception of a few areas to avoid especially at night haha. Southport, now Surfers Paradise as well since the pandemic the cops vanished and all the criminals and junkies took over, Miami is also crackheads, Coolangatta is now 50/50 old people that do nothing and druggies. Palm beach is now mostly crackheads, any area closer to Brisbane is the cheap super low life people, think bash your wife and abuse your dog and hoon around and bash anyone for any reason kind of attitudes from Helensvale through to Brisbane. But... Other than 3 crackheads (I've literally counted them) Burleigh heads is still good for now, so is Robina & Varsity Lakes. Other areas are ok, but not awesome. The council's and police have really messed up since the pandemic, they allowed any junkies or homeless to literally sleep anywhere even if their trespassing or harassing tourist or joggers with immunity from the law, and because the cops were at the borders for some stupid reason, the criminals from Southport have all moved to Surfers and taken over the area, including the return of bikies which I'm pretty sure were banned or something years ago... Nice going QLD government and police... They failed at everything and now everyone suffers the cost of it.

​@@TheAngryIntellect-Pandemic has nothing to do with it. There's no branch of QPS more corrupt than the Southport branch. Lived on the Gold coast right on the water for 6 months in 2006. Utterly packed with criminals, junkies and wayward youth. I got broken into 7 times in 6 months, even my external security cameras got stolen. Police were hopeless and could take days to arrive, if they even bothered to show up at all despite the station being just a few hundred metres walk and less than a minute drive away. Gold coast has been a cesspool since it's inception. It was a cesspool back when the footage in this video was taken too. It's built on the proceeds of organised crime for the purpose of laundering that money.

NOT A CHANCE !!! It’s a shithole !

@@TheAngryIntellect- i live in Robina its great

pre decimel

don't forget the chinese, indians and muslims!!

@@boxedogthey are everywhere. More in Melbourne & Sydney

I lived there during the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and 2000’s and moved to Brisbane as it became what I call Little Sydney, spoilt by people who made it into the fast paced metropolis they were moving from. Sunshine Coast is going down the same path.

@@wilmaw1190 Hmm not sure if I can agree 100%. Sure it’s going to be very busy and active but Sydney is just lots of people grinding away … It’s not as “touristy”. GC is touristy. Helped by the climate and beaches too. GC doesn’t have that dull serious vibe. But in the context of being a quiet, sleepy seaside town, then I wouldn’t doubt you there.

Why did it slip away?

@@sammykins6529 Migrant influx.

@@mickden3155 even the White ones are migrants from Britain/Europe though

The whole globe is now

@@sammykins6529 You know why and so do I.

new years wasnt celebrated in Australia before the 60's? Im not surprised actually, a lot of traditions are inventions of the US advertising industry