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The jumper (1990)
The squad is too busy to take on any more work and their boss (John Clayton) is trying to deflect any further commitments for his overworked team. Suddenly there’s a call – someone is threatening to jump from a tall ... [read more]
‘Still beautiful when you’re asleep’ (1998)
Gordon (Peter Fenton) and Cynthia (Sacha Horler) wake after a rough night. He has told her he doesn’t love her anymore; she refuses to accept it. Drunk and miserable the night before, she broke a plate on his head. In ... [read more]
The great escape (1977)
There were just five shopping days to Christmas 1965 when Ronald Ryan (played by Bill Hunter in this re-creation) and Peter Walker initiated their escape from Pentridge Jail just after 2pm on a sunny Sunday afternoon. [read more]
A conquering people (1963)
Judith Wright says that, for Australians, the wealth of our nation has become more important than the wellbeing of its people. [read more]
The one day of the year (1962)
The high point of the Melbourne Royal Agricultural Show each day is the Grand Parade. For this great moment each year, the workhorses are brushed, combed and groomed to take their place in the parade. [read more]
The white ‘invaders’ rule instead (1928)
The Duke of York opens the new Parliament House in Canberra on 9 May 1927, before assembled dignitaries. His speech recalls the great men who worked to federate Australia and the ‘gallant men and women who laid down their lives ... [read more]
Delegates 2 (1928)
This clip, shot outside Melbourne Trades Hall, shows individual shots of key Labor personalities attending the 1928 Victorian party’s Easter conference. [read more]
The poet as novelist (1988)
This clip is from an interview Dinny O’Hearn conducted with David Malouf that ranges widely across his writing. He talks about writing two books concurrently and discusses his earliest novels, Johnno (1975) and An Imaginary Life (1978). [read more]
Thinking for itself (2006)
Reporter Hayden Turner is meeting ASIMO, the world’s most sophisticated robot. It has been created by a car company in a secret laboratory in Japan, where the reporter is not even allowed to show the faces of the engineers ... [read more]
Applying sanctions (1973)
Robert Moore introduces the two guests and the very partisan audience for this debate about whether Australia should take sides in the future of Rhodesia. The first question is to Senator Sheil about whether sanctions are a good idea. He ... [read more]
‘Voices in the dark’ (2006)
John (Mark Constable) believes he has seen Tom (Don Barker), his dead uncle. He hides his thoughts from wife Emily (Victoria Hill), who begins to suspect something is wrong. [read more]
Delie meets her destiny (1983)
Philadelphia Gordon – Delie (Sigrid Thornton) – accompanied by her Uncle Charles (Charles Tingwall) arrives in Echuca. She sees the great River Murray for the first time and meets her soul mate, Brenton Edwards (John Waters). [read more]
‘Your blood runs with the river’ (1983)
The growing attraction between Brenton (John Waters) and Delie (Sigrid Thornton) is resolved over an evening meal on the otherwise deserted Philadelphia. [read more]
‘I’m a bloody drover’ (1981)
This sequence shows the early morning ritual of the chief drover and his crew. They face yet another day of droving to keep the flock alive and moving from one waterhole to another along the long paddock. Apart from a ... [read more]
A delivery to King Billy (1956)
The crooked publican has tricked Smiley (Colin Petersen) into making a delivery of opium to the blacks’ camp across the river. This is supposed to be 'out of bounds’ to whites, but Smiley has clearly been there before. He gives ... [read more]
‘A cosy little niche’ (1979)
After journalist Jenny Smith (Jacki Weaver) insists on venturing further inland to hunt for insurgents – and hopefully a good story – she finds herself stranded in the bush overnight with 'the Buffer’, Petty Officer Johnston (Danny Adcock). After a ... [read more]
Night watch (1980)
Rod Carson (Ian Gilmour) and Vic Richards (Harold Hopkins) are both on night watch. They get talking over a cigarette and Carson asks Richards why he seems to bear him a grudge. [read more]
The Convincing Ground massacre (2007)
Walter Saunders, from the Kilcarer Gilgar clan of the Gundidj-Mara peoples, tells the story of the Convincing Ground massacre in Portland Bay, Victoria, while others talk of its legacy. [read more]
Gallipoli boat (2004)
A small lifeboat, retrieved from the shores of Gallipoli, is a direct link to the first Anzacs and the day that helped forge Australia’s identity. [read more]
Seeing clearly (2011)
The bed-bound Elizabeth Hunter (Charlotte Rampling) is starting to rally after her stroke, buoyed by the thought of seeing her grown children later in the day. Basil (Geoffrey Rush) and Dorothy (Judy Davis) have both arrived in the country but ... [read more]
