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We Are Going (1987)
Aerial views of Minjerriba (Stradbroke Island), and Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) walking along the beach with children. Oodgeroo tells us the inspiration for her poetry, and its role in personal and political resistance to white oppression. [read more]
The Great Depression (1976)
With the country in the grip of the Depression, Caddie (Helen Morse) has to be smarter and quicker than everyone else if she wants to secure a job. She rises before dawn to read the 'situations vacant’ ads, posted outside ... [read more]
‘We’re all friends’ (1980)
Romayne, a Sunshine Home drama group member, introduces us to the idiosyncrasies of some of the other members. [read more]
Who gets the profits? (1948)
An elderly pensioner is another victim of inflated prices. While his ‘hands helped to build this country’, he lives in a run-down house and has to save his cigarette butts because tobacco is too expensive. In the wealthier suburbs ... [read more]
‘What are we fighting for?’ (1940)
Red (Grant Taylor) gives his horse some water during a long and tortuous patrol in the desert. An officer tells him to save it for himself. Red, Jim (Chips Rafferty) and Larry (Pat Twohill) cool off on the dunes. They ... [read more]
Power of the atom (1981)
In the mid 1950s above ground atomic tests are carried out in South Australia. The bomb is dropped by aircraft and the blast is seen. Various people recall the tests including RAAF driver Ric Johnston, RAAF wireless operator ... [read more]
‘No thin-hipped women’ (1997)
Ralph (Matt Day) is nervous as he prepares to leave his parents’ property in western Queensland, bound for Nashville. His father (Roy Billings) has to stiffen his resolve, and give him some good advice about women. Ralph’s mother (Annie Byron) ... [read more]
‘One of the most fantastic flights ever made’ (1946)
After mechanical failure stops them from taking part in the Centenary Air Race from Australia to Britain, Kingsford Smith (Ron Randell) and PG Taylor (playing himself) decide to attempt the Pacific crossing to the US, but starting from Australia. Smithy’s ... [read more]
The little town of Katherine (1958)
Charles and Elsa Chauvel have come through the dry outback to camp on a riverbed just outside the little town of Katherine. Elsa gives the viewer a tour through voice-over commenting on shots of the town. [read more]
The spirit people (1968)
Percy Trezise is a pilot who searches for Aboriginal rock paintings in his spare time. He’s uncovered some magnificent paintings of the ancestral spirits known as Quinkan beings, who are of special significance to the Aboriginal people of the Peninsula. ... [read more]
General disquiet on the Western Front (1918)
The Australian prime minister, Mr WM Hughes, arrives at one of the châteaux used as headquarters by the Australian Imperial Force during 1918, accompanied by the newly appointed commander of the Australian Corps, Lieutenant-General Sir John Monash. Later, the deputy ... [read more]
60,000 km around the world (1983)
Explorer Dick Smith arrives at Fort Worth, USA, completing his solo voyage around the world by helicopter. Press and family greet him. [read more]
Gold tax (2005)
In Victoria in the 1850s the introduction of a gold license was extremely unpopular. Although many diggers wanted it abolished immediately, the question of the license could not be separated from more complex questions about government revenue and taxation policy. ... [read more]
A ride in the old bus (1934)
Mr McBride (Frank Bradley) takes Monty (Frank Leighton) to Mascot to meet the ‘flying parson’ (Eric Colman). Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, playing himself, offers to take them for a joyride over Sydney. [read more]
‘Halls Creek drop-in centre’ (2001)
Sergeant Neil Gordon befriended an Aboriginal boy who now resides with him. The local kids are often there playing pool and socialising and consequently Sergeant Gordon has labelled his home the 'Halls Creek drop-in centre’. [read more]
‘What’s your name? What’s your father?’ (1978)
Laura (Susannah Fowle) arrives in the refectory at her new school, an upper class ladies’ college in Melbourne, carrying a cake made by her mother. She is frightened and alone. The deputy headmistress, Miss Chapman (Patrick Kennedy) tries to be ... [read more]
‘Make them feel inferior’ (1995)
Babe (voiced by Christine Cavanaugh) is humiliated in his first attempt to control a pen of sheep. Fly (voiced by Miriam Margolyes) tells him that pigs are inferior, which he doesn’t believe. Rex (voiced by Hugo Weaving) feels his honour ... [read more]
Dependency (1986)
Over photographs of happier times, both during her relationship with Steve, and from the time before, Liz quotes her mother and some feminist writers and deliberates on her struggle with dependency on a lover, and on the general nature of ... [read more]
Campaign in Capricornia (1946)
Deputy Prime Minister and member for Capricornia, Frank Forde, speaks directly to his electorate prior to the federal election on 28 September 1946. [read more]
The Emden sails to war (1928)
The Emden puts to sea, from the harbour at Tsingtao (Qingdao) on the Chinese coast, a German colony. Old sailors and enthusiastic crowds farewell the ship, as the radio brings further news from Europe. The war that began a few ... [read more]
