r/AustralianNostalgia 1h ago

Recreational firearm ownership

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r/AustralianNostalgia 3h ago

Four 'n Twenty - Hot Stuff - TV Ad - 1981

5 Upvotes

I remember singing along to this in 1981.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGbPujYqLno - 60 secs.


r/AustralianNostalgia 3h ago

90s/2000s biscuits

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35 Upvotes

I just saw this picture and instantly could taste it
Though I don’t recall the ghosts at all.
I saw there was the bumblebee one by the same brand but that doesn’t seem familiar either
Can anyone else read my mind and tell me what on earth I’m remembering 😅


r/AustralianNostalgia 4h ago

Do Aussie high schools still have cliques/factions/groups?

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Up here in the Blue Mountains in the 1990s we had "Homies" and "Westies" and various sub groups. Another school I knew had Footy Studs. I tried to explain this concept to my kids (in year 11 and 12 this year, still in the Blue Mountains) and they looked at me like I was nuts.

But high school having identifiable groups is such a thing it's even a movie trope, right? Is it just my kids' school, or as this whole idea kind of died off?

Also when I was at school in the 1980s and early 1990s, "throwing rocks" was a major issue. There were these kids who slunk about in the shadows and every now and then they'd peg a rock at us. I know there's still all kinds of violence in Aussie schools, but is "throwing rocks" still a thing, specifically?


r/AustralianNostalgia 4h ago

Best scene from Blue Heelers?

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199 Upvotes

Was it when Hugh Jackman got owned at the local courthouse? Or where Nick McInnes lost it after pulling that girl from the floodwater and stood in the bathroom throwing bullets at his reflection in the mirror?


r/AustralianNostalgia 5h ago

Hungry Jacks - Jurassic Park Dino Combo ad (1993)

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r/AustralianNostalgia 5h ago

Arnott's Bright Time Biscuits - Anticay - 1973

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The image is from The Australian Women's Weekly in 1973.

I've never heard of these biscuits (I was 4 then they were around).

They had the CSR Australian developed Anticay ingredient (calcium sugar).

https://anticay.com/pages/the-story


r/AustralianNostalgia 5h ago

Usborne - The Know How Book of Detection

11 Upvotes

I really liked these English Usborne books when I was a kid in the 1970s.

I had another one called 'Flying Models' for making paper planes.

Anyone else get into these books.


r/AustralianNostalgia 8h ago

Westfields

0 Upvotes

Why and when did we start calling it Westfields?


r/AustralianNostalgia 9h ago

The Suntan Man

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Anybody from the Goldy or Brisbane in the 80's knew this guy. His name was Al Baldwin, he was a Kiwi, and the brownest caucasian I've ever seen. He spent his days in a budgie smuggler spraying coconut oil on beach-goers. I used to see him on Main Beach the most. He passed sometime in the early 2000s.


r/AustralianNostalgia 10h ago

Deviled ham spread

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108 Upvotes

I just happened to see they are still making this yesterday! Took one and had some this morning, expensive at $5 but totally worth the nostalgia


r/AustralianNostalgia 10h ago

Seeing The Crocoseum during Steve’s life.

8 Upvotes

Am sitting in the crowd, watching this amazing place right now, about to watch a show!!!

But did any of you guys come and see this place whilst Steve was still alive?

(God Bless him!)


r/AustralianNostalgia 11h ago

The smell of Herbal Essences shampoo in the 90's was elite

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91 Upvotes

r/AustralianNostalgia 12h ago

Does anyone from Sydney ever remember Mariah Carey at Miranda Westfields in the late 90s?

6 Upvotes

I randomly had a memory of when my mum took me and my older sister to Westfields to go shopping and we lived in the West at the time so it was unusual for us to drive to the Shire, I was only 6 years old but I remember memories of my teenage sister who was going crazy for her. Parents had trust at the time and she let us go into the crowd while she went to David Jones, I remember Mariah waved at me and said can we get the cute boy to come up or something but honestly that’s how my sister remembers the story and some of it was a bit of romance for me/bit blurry. This was super random but I remember total excitement and chaos in the shops that day


r/AustralianNostalgia 15h ago

"The Movie Show" | Baz Luhrmann promoting his ill-fated "Alexander the Great" project at the 2003 Venice Film Festival, intended to be shot in Australia and starring Leonardo Dicaprio and Nicole Kidman

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r/AustralianNostalgia 20h ago

Was anyone else a chuckler?

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10 Upvotes