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Jenny has a wacky side (1997)
Guy (Richard Roxburgh) tells Jenny (Frances O’Connor) off for how badly she has set the table for dinner. His parents (Genevieve Mooy, Michael Ross) arrive and Jenny mischievously explains why each object in the big pile now on the table ... [read more]
Decision time (2007)
Filmmaker Janet Merewether discusses the year she was born and what the situation for women was at the time. The film then shifts to a highly stylised scene of the filmmaker with a suitcase standing outside a toy house and ... [read more]
Illywhacker (1986)
The unreliable narrator Herbert Badgery (Les Foxcroft) sits behind bars in a pet shop. He tells a tale – which he acknowledges is a lie – about the goanna seen in the opening image. But Herbert has a larger, possibly ... [read more]
Insulin (1997)
Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical Company supplies six million people with insulin each day. Twelve-year-old diabetic James Jarvis interviews Dr Richard Di Marchi about insulin. [read more]
Possums and goannas (1920)
After a long journey to their new home, a slab bark hut in pristine bushland, the Rudds settle down to sleep, with seven people in the two beds. A possum and then a goanna come to investigate their new neighbours. [read more]
‘Lousy, no-good bludgers’ (1998)
Brett (David Wenham) provokes a fight with Jackie (Jeanette Cronin), Glenn’s girlfriend, as the police arrive at the front door. Sandra (Lynette Curran) tries to jolly her son along, then defends him against the cops. Michelle (Toni Collette) and Glenn ... [read more]
‘Nothing to lose’ (2002)
At Sydney airport, Barry Ryan (Bryan Brown) collects his nephew Darcy (Sam Worthington), who’s returning from his service in Vietnam. Barry introduces his crew – ‘Hollywood’ Riley (William McInnes) and Norm (Andrew S. Gilbert) – and offers Darcy a job. ... [read more]
‘That’s the Rinso way’ (1946)
An opening credits sequence introducing the stars of Easy Does It is accompanied by a musical soundtrack. The first scene is at a grocery counter where a grocer (Dan Agar) attempts to sell a box of Rinso to his customer ... [read more]
‘I like Aeroplane Jelly’ (1959)
A spaceship enters the Earth’s atmosphere and lands amongst a crowd of curious humans. Two aliens bounce out of their rocket-shaped craft. A journalist quickly pounces on the duo and asks: ‘why have you come down from outer space?’ to ... [read more]
‘Where cat from?’ (1993)
Bubby (Nicholas Hope) dresses up like his mother and ‘plays’ with the cat, which he has tied to the chair. He calls the cat ‘Bubby’ and speaks to it with the same phrases his mother (Claire Benito) uses on him. ... [read more]
Logan lets off steam (1983)
Lila (Robyn Nevin) and her husband George (Peter Whitford) rush to the train station. Logan (John Hargreaves) is leaving town, without signing the papers which would allow them to adopt his son, PS. Logan is drunk, along with Lila’s sister ... [read more]
Picking at the soul of the game (2007)
As training concludes with the customary bathtub full of tinnies, coach Jack Cooper (Matthew Johns) takes Grub (Matt Nable) aside to discuss the judiciary hearing. Jack warns him his style of game is dead. Grub declares his style of play ... [read more]
Shaming the trunks (1993)
Flora (Anna Paquin) and the Maori children play a sexually suggestive game amongst the trees, watched by the Maori women. Mr Stewart (Sam Neill) stops Flora, telling her never to behave that way. He makes her scrub the trunks, during ... [read more]
Addressing the housing problem (1957)
People in inner-city Sydney live in garages and temporary dwellings in backyards, unable to complete building their homes. The narration, spoken by Leonard Teale, lists reasons why proper housing is not affordable: lack of finance, insufficient loans for home building, ... [read more]
Tough times (2008)
At the Oasis youth centre, Captain Paul Moulds of the Salvation Army refuses to cash a cheque for a disturbed young man who threatens to burn the place down. The young man has to be restrained. Moulds then speaks about ... [read more]
The new boy in the school of hard knocks (1980)
Tasmanian star recruit Geoff Hayward (John Howard) arrives at the club to face strong resentment from the less well-paid players and the coach, Laurie Holden (Jack Thompson). As the season begins, the football media asks some tough questions. [read more]
‘Dead doesn’t mean dead’ (2006)
The news of what the men did has hit the media and the victim’s Aboriginal relatives charge that it was racism that kept them from reporting it immediately. Billy (Simon Stone) and his girlfriend Elissa (Alice Garner) are woken in ... [read more]
Entitled to a title (1937)
Hubert Blaydon (Cecil Kellaway) answers the door to an English lawyer in a bowler hat. Mr Potter (Leslie Victor) has come from England to bestow an inheritance. Mr Blaydon is really Lord Blaydon, with an estate in England. Mrs Blaydon ... [read more]
No future (1996)
Night-time. White lines disappear into the darkness as a solitary car drives along a lonely stretch of country road. Files stacked beside the driver tell us that he is a field officer for the Royal Commission into Deaths in Custody. ... [read more]
Camels, horses and buggies (2001)
A map of the Frew River area. A voice-over tells us about the inevitable conflict that occurred as a result of the pastoralists coming into contact with the Alyawawarra peoples. Sepia-toned footage (made to look like historic footage) of Indigenous ... [read more]
