16 Things Australians Did Before the Law Changed

Sixteen everyday habits from Australia between the 1960s and the 1990s, and the law that ended each one, with the state, the date and the source on screen. Subscribe for more everyday Australia:    / @beyondthebitumen   These laws did not arrive everywhere on the same day, and some ended long after the 1990s. Where a date differs by state, or we could only confirm one state, the video says so instead of guessing. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro: the habits that became illegal 0:37 1. Seatbelts 1:13 2. Children in cars 1:35 3. Drink driving 2:11 4. Motorcycle helmets 2:21 5. Bicycle helmets 2:48 6. The back of the ute 3:17 7. Open speed limits 3:47 8. Cigarette ads on TV and radio 4:28 9. Smoking indoors 5:17 10. Cracker Night 5:50 11. The cane at school 6:24 12. Unfenced backyard pools 6:40 13. Asbestos 7:01 14. Women in the public bar 7:30 15. The marriage bar 8:00 16. Equal pay 8:21 The dates, all in one place 9:37 Your turn What did your childhood get away with, and which state did you grow up in? Tell us in the comments. SOURCES (more in the pinned comment) National Archives of Australia, "Tobacco advertising ban in Australia" fact sheet: https://www.naa.gov.au/help-your-rese... RACV, "50 years of mandatory seatbelts": https://www.racv.com.au/about-racv/ne... Australia Post, "Buckle Up: 50 years of seatbelts": https://collectables.auspost.com.au/s... Boughton, "Evaluation of Child Restraint Legislation", 1979: https://trid.trb.org/View/145178 ; peer-reviewed NSW child-restraint paper: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles... Vulcan & Cameron, "Victoria's pioneering random breath testing program", 1997: https://trid.trb.org/View/477082 Foldvary & Lane, motorcycle helmets in Victoria, 1964: https://trid.trb.org/View/140049 CDC MMWR, "Mandatory Bicycle Helmet Use, Victoria, Australia", 14 May 1993: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwr... Government of Western Australia, media statement on utility and tray-top trucks, 1 Nov 1999: https://www.wa.gov.au/government/medi... Read, "Open speeds on Northern Territory roads: not so fast", Medical Journal of Australia 2015: https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2015/2... Bryan-Jones & Chapman, BMC Public Health 2006;6:192: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles... ; ABS on Tasmanian smoke-free areas: https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.... ; Queensland Government statement: https://statements.qld.gov.au/stateme... ; Tobacco in Australia, Cancer Council Victoria: https://www.tobaccoinaustralia.org.au... Encyclopedia of Melbourne, Fireworks / Cracker Night: https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/E... ; Queensland Parliament Hansard, 13 April 1999: https://documents.parliament.qld.gov.... Victorian Government, "Corporal punishment, suspension and expulsion": https://www.vic.gov.au/corporal-punis... ; New Matilda, 28 Jun 2016: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/28/the... Queensland legislation, Standard Building By-laws (Swimming Pool Fencing) Order 1991: https://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/vi... NSW Asbestos Coordination Committee, "When was asbestos banned in Australia?": https://www.asbestos.nsw.gov.au/safet... Merle Thornton, Queensland Review 14(1), 2007: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa... ; NFSA: https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/it... Parliamentary Education Office, "Marriage bar abolished": https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-par... ; "Equal pay case": https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-par... Left out (not sourced well enough): leaded petrol, smoking on domestic flights, the age to buy cigarettes, New South Wales fireworks, the school cane in South Australia and Western Australia. ABOUT THE IMAGES The illustrations are AI-generated, not photographs of real events, and are labelled on screen. The narration is a synthetic voice. The law cards use only the dates in the sources above. Music: "Nebula" by The Grey Room / Density & Time