🔴 🎥 🇦🇺 Australia in Colour Episode 1: Outpost of the Empire
“Modern Australia was born on January 1, 1901, when six British colonies united. Agriculture and mining transformed the country. “Australia in Colour” is the history of Australia told through a unique collection of cinematic moments brought to life for the first time in color.”
#Video length: forty nine minutes and fifty one seconds.
🔴 🎥 🇦🇺 Australia in Colour Episode 1: Outpost of the Empire
“Modern Australia was born on January 1, 1901, when six British colonies united. Agriculture and mining transformed the country. “Australia in Colour” is the history of Australia told through a unique collection of cinematic moments brought to life for the first time in color.”
#Video length: fourty nine minutes and fifty one seconds.
🔴 🎥 🇦🇺 Australia in Colour. Episode 1: Outpost of the Empire
“Modern Australia was born on January 1, 1901, when six British colonies united. Agriculture and mining transformed the country. “Australia in Colour” is the history of Australia told through a unique collection of cinematic moments brought to life for the first time in color.”
#Video length: fourty nine minutes and fifty one seconds.
"An estimated 90,000 Kenyans were slaughtered in the Kikuyu uprising while just over a thousand were hanged on a portable gibbet. Some 160,000 were detained in internment camps where torture was routine.
"One of Britain’s victims was US President Barack Obama’s paternal grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, who was arrested in 1949, and tortured by having pins inserted under his fingernails."
Kitson brought to Belfast his experiences in Kenya, fighting the Kikuyu Land and Freedom Army (exotically dubbed the “Mau Mau” by the British) in the early 1950s where he honed a practice of using “turned” or “converted” rebels into “counter-gangs”.
"The battle of the Bogside was an important catalyst for change, triggering a determined British government intervention that ended the unionist monopoly on power. But it also marked the beginning of 30 years of violent conflict that would claim the lives of more than 3,600 people and bring untold suffering."