What would you put in a time capsule to depict life in Australia?

Question

I saw that Yahoo7 are collecting submissions for a time capsule - www.yahoo7.com.au/timecapsule - and it got me thinking what are the best things to put in it.
I was thinking music, photos and maybe newspapers that have been copied to DVD....but what else?

Answer 1

There are so many things that should be in a time capsule like this, so the best way is to get as many things in digital format as possible to complement the real objects. Hopefully, though, it would be more like a pyramid in size so that you can fit real things in it. I would include in digital format where possible and real objects
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- Newspapers, including National and Local papers
- Copies of magazines that will depict life e.g. for teenagers, fashion, design, the state technology is in etc.
- Photos of Australia from sites like Flickr because they show the real Australia but also include major sites like the Opera House etc.
- DNA (real) and as much information as possible on all our Australian animals
- Video of the Falcon and Commodore cars in petrol format - petrol may not be used by the time it is opened!
- Australian icons like a BBQ and the Hills Hoist/washing line
- Videos of Australian sporting legends at their best
- Australian and Aboriginal flags
- Aboriginal items like a didgeridoo, boomerang, artworks (both traditional and modern-fusion), illustrated dreamtime stories etc.
- recipes for food and drink including beer, Tim Tams, and other popular items
- Hansard reports from parliament
- Aerial pictures of the country so that you can see how cities grow, forests shrink and our water sources change
- Records from the census to show how many different cultures are here
- A snapshot of the internet from the day that the time capsule is closed as that will show the many world views that there are on Australia. When looking at this beautiful country you need to look at it in context and that requires all the related information.

Answer 2

A live Australian.....

or I would include a copy of the Australian Women's Weekly. Its a mag that has been around since forever and if you look through old copies its like stepping back in time - even the ones from during world war 2, and the 1980s.

Answer 3

1,A whole slab of XXXX
2,A cricket bat and ball
3 A picture of the Bridge and Opera House
4 an oval shaped ball
5 Pictures of wallaby,emu and kangaroo
6 A boomerang[with instructions how to use!]
7 A hat withh dangling corks[no instructions [let them guess!]
8 A Ken Done picture of the harbour[that'll fool 'em!]
9 A sall piece of Red Rock[Ayers marked]
10 Pictures of Elle Mcpherson,Mr Howard and Chips Rafferty![the good ,the bad and the Ugly]

Answer 4

I'm not from Australia but i'm guessing the capsule would need to be pretty big.
I'd be putting things like a kangaroo, a surfboard with a shark bite in it.. seashells...
Umm... I don't know actually. Maybe just put in some photos that would be easier LOL.

and a recording of the accent.

Answer 5

Both the Australian and the Aborigine flags, a pair of thongs, a can of beer (VB or XXXX), zinc cream (coloured of course), a jar of Vegemite, a tape of Home and Away and Neighbours (just to confuse them), a ticket to all codes of football and if the capsule was big enough a Hills Hoist clothes line and a Victa mower.

Answer 6

I think that you first of all need to put things depicting the aboriginal culture. Then something of the history. music DVD of all the different cultures that now make up Australia.
A newspaper but not sure which year to usesome kind of dried food etc.

Answer 7

Just put a keg of beer in the ground that'd pretty much cover you
seriously though, beer one of every Australian kind (VB, 4X, Boags, Cascade, Fosters etc.), and what's beer without a BBQ so Chuck on of those in to (You know we're the only country who eats they're national emblem... if you get the chance try Kangaroo it's great BBQ).
Thongs, a beach towel, and buggie smugglers (striped speedo style bathers).
something depicting almost every type of sport, so things like footballs, cricket bat/balls, lawn bowls, hockey sticks, basketballs, netballs etc.
you'd have to put a wig in there to depict the great Aussie mullet (sorta died out of late, but making a come back).
A stuffed dingo, and other types of wild life
A number of aboriginal things, like dot-paintings, a boomerang, and a didgeridoo.
the wrap the whole thing up in an Australian flag/ aboriginal flag, and bury it...

Answer 8

Life in Australia? Here a my suggestions?

1) Surf board to show Auzzie's love for the beach!
2) Photographs of communitys from around Australia .. To show actual people who lived at the time.

Answer 9

I would stick a photo/postcard of one of the big cities to show how advanced they are. Big headlines that appeared in the paper (Good positive ones not bad ones) I would stick a badge that showed and said "Save the....(eg koalas). i would add some red sand to depict the Australian outback and maybe even a picture of aboriginal cave drawings to show the history and also a picture of uluroo!

Answer 10

Born a Fox's answer made me laugh. You almost fitted all the possible steroetypes in there!
I think you need to add a baggygreen cap, a cricket world cup victory DVD, some tim-tams, VB, a how to BBQ book, a footy and rugby jumper, and a model of a Holden Ute.