1988 Australia Day "Bicentennial" celebrations, Channel 9 TV's programming for that day. скачать в хорошем качестве

1988 Australia Day "Bicentennial" celebrations, Channel 9 TV's programming for that day.

Happy Australia Day, folks, whether you be Australian or not, it's a day to celebrate one of world history's most striking success stories !!! A sprinkling of wretched penal colonies, which however ALWAYS included brave colonists who chose to settle and construct a new transplanted civilisation, oceans away from the comforts of the familiar. BUTT that's just what it was in 1788, NOT a "nation." Yet in 1988, Australia shamelessly conflated the NATION that began on the first day of a much later century, 01-01-01 (1901, that is)... with... the penal colony with growth potential that was founded on 26-01-1788. By right we should have been waiting another 13 years to celebrate even a Centenary "of the nation" !!! All this reality got buried under a potent brew of hype and dollar signs. But Australia Day is a joyous celebration every year, whether the hype is managed well or badly.