Happy Federation Day! 🇦🇺 #australia #australiamonth

Australia Month — Day Three 🇦🇺
Happy Birthday Mel Gibson 🎉

Mel Gibson was born in Peekskill, New York, but he grew up in Australia after moving here as a young bloke. Australia is where his career was forged — and where the world first took notice.

🎬 Gallipoli (1981)
One of Australia’s most iconic films, set during World War I, telling the story of young Aussie soldiers and the ANZAC spirit. Powerful, tragic, unforgettable.

🔥 Mad Max
The film that helped put Australian cinema on the global map. Raw, original, and unmistakably Aussie.

Mel Gibson has always been fearlessly creative, outspoken, and honest — a true leader in film and storytelling. Australia played a huge part in shaping his journey, and his work helped shape ours.

Happy Birthday Mel.
Australia thanks you 🇦🇺
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie — oi, oi, oi! 🎥🇦🇺

On holiday today, having a yarn in a hot tub with a bloke from Norfolk Island.
We get talking history, as you do — and he tells me about The Bounty.

Perfect timing.
It’s Mel Gibson’s birthday, and he starred as Fletcher Christian in The Bounty (1984).
I’ve never seen it — but I’m fixing that tonight. Trailer link below 👇

What makes the story wild is the man at the centre of it all: William Bligh.

Bligh was the captain of HMS Bounty, famously overthrown in the Mutiny on the Bounty in 1789 — one of the most famous mutinies at sea in history.

But that’s not the end of his story.

Years later, the same William Bligh became Governor of New South Wales.
In 1808, he was overthrown again — this time on land — during the Rum Rebellion, the only successful armed coup in Australian history.

Let that sink in.

A man mutinied against at sea…
Later becomes a colonial governor…
Then is deposed again by soldiers and rum traders.

Was Bligh an incompetent tyrant?
Or a hard, uncompromising reformer ahead of his time?

Either way, his life sits right at the heart of the forces that shaped early Australia:
empire, authority, rebellion, survival, and people pushing back.

That’s what I love about travelling — random conversations with strangers that open up the deep, strange, fascinating history of our nation.

I’m watching The Bounty tonight.
Check out the trailer below.

God bless Australia. Happy Australia Month. 🇦🇺⚓

https://youtu.be/cEaxoITrpWU?si=4KtDTZDIHVjWj3yH

POWERFUL

Yo! The Australia Month playlist 🇦🇺🎶 Day 4

Had a chopper slapping one together today. Still a work in progress, but we’re sitting at almost 50 songs so far.

Check it out. We’ll keep adding more.
Make your own and drop it in the comments.

Gotta get in that Australia Month vibe.
This’ll be on at work, at barbies, all January — just soaking up the Australiana.

God bless you all.

https://music.apple.com/au/playlist/pl.u-xlyNEylIJMEPe1A?a=join&it=bkqm9qkuOBAzVWwS9Q4xQ

🇦🇺 Australian Month — Day 5 — Victory at Bardia | 5 January 1941

On this day in WWII, Australian troops won their first major battlefield victory.

At Bardia, Libya, the 6th Australian Division smashed a heavily fortified Italian stronghold once thought impregnable — capturing 45,000 enemy troops and collapsing the Axis position in eastern Libya.

Bardia proved Australian soldiers could defeat entrenched forces and set the tone for Tobruk, El Alamein, and beyond.

🇦🇺 January 1–26 — Australian Month
God bless Australia. 🇦🇺

White men: curing cancer, unlocking the history of our ancestors

Migrant women:

🇦🇺 Happy Australia Month! 🏏

On January 6, 1930, Aussie sporting legend Sir Donald Bradman scored an incredible 452 for New South Wales* — the highest individual first-class innings in the world at the time! 📆🔥

Bradman went on to be one of the greatest cricketers ever — 29 Test centuries, a 99.94 Test average, and his famous 334 vs England in 1930 still echoes through cricket history.

Today I taught my 3-year-old to hit a cricket ball, and watching his love for batting, bowling & running reflects that Aussie sporting spirit — courage, competition, and always having a go.

That same spirit — inspired by heroes like The Don — can help make Australia even greater than ever before.

Happy Australia Month! 🇦🇺🏏

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley says the terms of reference for a potential federal Royal Commission must include radical Islam and far-left Neo-Nazi extremism, before struggling to clearly define what she means by the ideologies she wants included.

🇦🇺 Australia Month — Day 7
Aussie Inventions Day 🇦🇺

Today we celebrate Australian inventions — proof that many of the world’s best solutions don’t come from government, but from between the ears of Aussies 🇦🇺🧠

Men and women using creativity, grit, and problem-solving — gifts God’s placed in them — to make life better, safer, and more practical.

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🛠️ Just some of what Australia’s given the world:

• Wi-Fi 📶
• The Black Box flight recorder ✈️
• The Ute 🚙
• The Hills Hoist 👕
• The Victa rotary lawnmower 🌱
• The dual-flush toilet 🚽
• The electric drill 🔩
• The Cochlear implant (bionic ear) 👂
• The heart
pacemaker ❤️
• Zinc sunscreen 🏖️
• The Esky ❄️
• The stubby holder 🍺
• The wine cask (goon bag) 🍷
• The notepad 📝
• Polymer banknotes 💵
• Spray-on skin (burn treatment) 🩹

And that’s just scratching the surface.

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Australia’s best ideas aren’t behind us — they’re ahead of us.
If we can invent our way into the modern world, we can invent our way through the challenges we face today.

God bless Australian inventors.
God bless Australia 🇦🇺
Happy Australia Month

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