Comments by "John D" (@johnd8892) on "You Would Only Hear This at a Pub in Australia..." video.

  1. His team being the first to fly across the Pacific Ocean in the late twenties under severe difficulties was a huge achievement.
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  2. Melbourne had many unofficial names used in its first years, including Batmania, Barebrass, Bearport, Dutergalla, Bareheep and most popularly "the Settlement". The first official name proposed was Glenelg. But Governor Sir Richard Bourke overruled this, and on his visit in March 1837 decided on Melbourne — after the then British Prime Minister William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, who resided in the village of Melbourne in Derbyshire in the English Midlands. Some of these early names derived from hearing the original native tribes names for parts of their land. Newspapers from Tasmania of the time most commonly refer to Barebrass for a while until Melbourne was declared as the official name. Batmania having the most jokey attraction but least recorded in any documents from the time. The new name Naarm recently cropping up being the traditional Aboriginal name of Melbourne. Naarm is the traditional lands of the Kulin Nation. The Kulin Nation is a collective of five Aboriginal clans: Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung, Wathaurrung, Taungurung and Dja DjaWrung.
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  3. The Battle Of Brisbane was so significant that even the History Guy made an episode about it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx_GuNizRNk
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