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Mad Bastards (2011)
After visiting his brother in prison, TJ (Dean Daley-Jones) returns to the Kimberley region of Western Australia to try and reconnect with his teenage son, Bullet (Lucas Yeeda), who has been in trouble with the law. Local policeman Texas (Greg ... [read more]
The singing chef (1952)
In the kitchen of a small restaurant, while watching over boiling pots of soup, a cheerful singing chef (entertainer Bobby Limb) shares the secret of his delicious evening meals – he uses Nestlé's packaged soups. As the soup impresses the ... [read more]
The national interest (1993)
Prime Minister Paul Keating outlines the basic principles of the Mabo legislation, the Native Title Act 1993. While Indigenous Australians, landowners and governments will not get everything they want from the legislation, Keating says the national interest will be served. [read more]
Sleeping Beauty (2011)
University student Lucy (Emily Browning) works a number of jobs – medical researcher’s guinea pig, waitress, part-time escort. Unable to pay her rent, and threatened with eviction by her flatmates, she answers an advertisement in a student newspaper to become ... [read more]
The mug politician (1991)
Jim McClelland had been a minister in the Whitlam Labor Government (1972-1975). He talks to Dinny O’Hearn about being a politician and his naivety in thinking that this meant changing the country. Instead he discovered that it’s all about power. [read more]
Boxing Day (2007)
Chris (Richard Green), a convict serving out the remainder of his sentence in home detention, is determined to stay both on the wagon and out of trouble. He’s carefully preparing a Boxing Day lunch for his estranged family when an ... [read more]
The editing experiment (2001)
Using Sophie (Gemma Bishop) in her wheelchair to shoot dolly shots ends in tears when Ross (Alex Tsitsopoulos) accidentally tips her out. Meanwhile Oscar (Damien Bodie) shows Anna (Lucia Smyrk) how he has edited the footage he shot of her ... [read more]
‘It’s just us’ (1972)
Aliens broadcast a warning on the radio. Shirley’s mother Rita (Marion Johns), her father Reg (John Llewellyn) and suitor Harold (Helmut Bakaitis) don’t take any notice. Shirley tells the gang it’s up to them to help the aliens. [read more]
Winter of Our Dreams (1981)
After the body of a young heroin addict is found in Sydney Harbour, Rob (Bryan Brown) tries to find out why she committed suicide. He and the dead girl Lisa (Margie McCrae) were lovers at university, united by their political ... [read more]
The Kokoda Trail (1972)
This clip shows students from Scots College on the final leg of their seven day trek through the Owen Stanley Ranges towards Kokoda in Papua New Guinea. They navigate their way across a makeshift log bridge over a fast flowing ... [read more]
‘I’m a practising Catholic’ (1972)
Sonia (Lynn Rainbow) discovers why she will always be ‘the other woman’ to Gordon (Joe James), a married man; his wife (Shirley Cameron) won’t divorce him because of her Catholicism. [read more]
Troops head to the docks (1915)
On a damp Sydney morning, during the First World War, lines of Australian cavalry and infantry march down to the docks while others arrive by tram. The bustling crowds – umbrellas in hand – are shown waiting around and walking ... [read more]
‘The drugs always come first’ (2006)
Candy (Abbie Cornish) and Dan (Heath Ledger) have rented a shack in the country after Candy’s miscarriage. Her parents come for Sunday lunch but the chicken is past its use-by date, and still frozen solid by lunchtime. Candy gets angry ... [read more]
DAAS Kapital – Faith (1992)
Giant global conglomerate Shitsu Tonka Corporation has taken over the earth. The Doug Anthony All Stars (Tim Ferguson, Richard Fidler and Paul McDermott) are stranded aboard Titanic 2, a giant submarine carrying the world’s great art treasures and historic artefacts. ... [read more]
Come the revolution (1985)
When the men arrive at the pub to celebrate the end of the strike at the factory, Mick Mendel’s younger brother, the firebrand communist agitator, Jakob (Swawomir Wabik), is furious, and calls them scabs for not holding out. The men ... [read more]
Arranged marriage (1975)
Murat (Ilhan Kuyululu) returns from Turkey. He tells Ayhan (Sait Memis Oglu) that his father has chosen a bride for him. [read more]
Bookmark – Tim Winton (1995)
Andrea Stretton introduces the wonderful children’s books of Jeannie Baker whose then newest work is The Story of Rosie Dock (1995), a magical journey into central Australia. There’s also a 1995 film adaptation of Tim Winton’s novel, That Eye, the ... [read more]
‘We shall only be gone a little while’ (1975)
After their picnic lunch, school friends Miranda (Anne Lambert), Marion (Jane Vallis) and Irma (Karen Robson) ask permission from their French mistress Mademoiselle de Portiers (Helen Morse) to go for a walk around the base of the rock. Overweight Edith ... [read more]
Old mates (1973)
Inspector Lawson (Charles Tingwell) investigates Buddy Rand (Fred Cullen) about the previous night’s robbery and murder. [read more]
First Australians – Episode 3, Freedom For Our Lifetime (2008)
The third episode of the First Australians series begins in 1860 in Victoria and, through the lives of Simon Wonga and William Barak, explores broader issues facing Aboriginal people in these times. The threat of extinction hovers over the ... [read more]
