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From the Film Australia Collection. Made by The Commonwealth Film Unit 1964. Directed by Christopher McCullough. Life of a typical Australian family living in Mount Gambier in South Australia in the mid 1960s. The film shows rural, agricultural and manufacturing industries of the area and features the recreational pasttimes of members of the family. The Life In Australia series portrays Australian cities and rural centres as happy, lively places where good homes, abundant jobs, schools, hospitals and amenities provide the foundation for a relaxed lifestyle where sport, shopping, religion and even art combine to create a homogenous and prosperous society. If you have any information about the people or places in this film we would love to hear your comments.
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Multiculturalism ruined australia
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Gigi seems like it was a pretty hip coffeehouse
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What school is it
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My great great grandfather is in this, the man on the left. 4:31
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rofl - 'I don't know what the youngsters see in this sort of music' - some things never change
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I was 10 when this film was made. It was good to be reminded of the world I lived in. I guess it shaped who I am now. I have fond memories. Life seemed so simple back then. I remember the YMCA dances, Dale Cleves, hot chocolate at GiGi, Katchor's Fashions (remember Mrs Katchor?), Holdens, Falcons and Valiants doing laps of the main, the Odeon, Jens Hotel, the Cave Gardens, the bottomless Blue Lake, 'black' limestone houses, the interminably long 17 mile drive to Port Mac chanting 'I can see the tower', the delicious smell of seaweed, mysterious Mount Schank...they were all significant in my formative years. It's interesting to read the comments here. Yes, Mount Gambier has changed. I hardly recognise it now when I go "home". When I was young there was the old hospital and the new hospital. Now the new hospital has gone. The main street has lost it's charm. Where have Fidlers and Sheards and Gem Stores gone? . And like all country towns, the Mount has a drug problem. We live in different times. We have lost our optimism about the future. We have lost our innocence. Hopefully we have also gained tolerance, gender equality, environmental awareness, and lots more choices.
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Imagine doing one of Mt.Gambier now, it would be shown as a dying town that's lost its main industry, it's full of scumbag Ferals due to the jail that was built and its continuing expansions, it has the 10th highest youth unemployment rate in Australia now, and is totally overrun with the drug ice and a higher crime rate than Elizabeth in Adelaide.
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Wow so many true blues back then, makes it a crying shame to see where things ended up today.
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So this movie is to blame for the farm door policy we have in having a 'any migrant will do' attitude with no standards and no responsibility?
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Born and bread mount gambier girl 1986, it's good to see what mount gambier used to be like before I was born. A lot of things have defiantly changed
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Thanks for sharing your thoughts. You might be interested in our South Australian Time Capsule on our website nfsa.gov.au/blog/2013/07/04/south-australian-time-capsule/
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Haha, we need a photo of how the old hospital looks now.....
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Wow, the Mount sure has changed! I'm a Naracoorte girl, but I've been visiting the Mount since I was a youngster.
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thats the beach,
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You might be thinking of another beach, the one in the film is Shelly beach near Port MacDonnell (down the front of the light house) You used to be able to park your car at the track at the top and scramble down the cliff as the family do.. not accessible now as a fair section of that cliff collapsed about 20 years ago and they had to close the track that ran down to that car park area... Brings back great memories of going down to that beach as a kid :-)
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I am so sorry...
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Crikey! .... I went on a school excursion through the saw mills there when I was about 11yo. Brought back memories!
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The little kid is one of the nicest blokes you'd want to meet, an
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Whoa, back then the sun actually came out.
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I visited Lesley L who has a nice farm a bit outside the town 2005. She was really working hard with her kettles and horses. She also showed me this lovely town and a part of the Murray river at Loxton. I had a wonderful time. If nothing had changed I would never have seen her...Carl