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Creation of the world (1982)

The Aboriginal dreaming was the creation of earth and humans. Forty thousand years of Indigenous continuous human society makes our history unique. A montage of the Australian landscape and Indigenous rock paintings is accompanied by a voice-over narration by Jack ... [read more]

Sins of the father (2003)

Archival photographs show the children of Carrolup during the mission days. Dr John Stanton, Director of the Berndt Museum of Anthropology, gives a background to the Carrolup mission. Mervyn Hill, former Carrolup inmate, offers a personal recount of his days ... [read more]

The development of freestyle swimming (1952)

This clip shows the different techniques and styles used in freestyle swimming from the 1880s through to the development of the trudgen style and Australian crawl. Former Australian swimming champions demonstrate the techniques used by past pioneers of the style. ... [read more]

The world of Hidden Valley (2004)

Ricco wanders through the Alice Springs Library, where he comes across a publication that features his biological grandmother in ceremonial dress on the cover, dancing in protest. We also meet Diana, the new addition to the Ricco’s foster family – ... [read more]

The faith of Father Dixon (1993)

In re-enactment, Father Dixon speaks to a couple that saw Max Stuart at a carnival at the time of the murder, providing an alibi. Over historical footage of Westminster, we hear that a plea to stay the execution of Stuart ... [read more]

Shimmering in the sun (1994)

Aerial shots show modern day Brisbane. The voice-over narration tells us of the legacy of natural phenomena and Indigenous culture upon which the city of Brisbane is built. [read more]

Songs in the paints (2007)

The artist explains that he thought his use of the image, including his choice of colours, was pretty harmless, but the traditional owners highlight the laws and customs surrounding the reproduction of the Wandjina imagery including the use of colour. [read more]

The end of an era (1958)

This is the end for old Adaminaby. Some of the residents have already moved their homes to the new site on trucks, others have simply taken what they could and moved on. [read more]

Porridge to the rescue (2005)

Stanley has gone to get some of his mother’s infamously awful, rock-hard porridge. It’s the one thing that doesn’t dissolve in the acid. Unfortunately he meets the bullies the Lupin Lupes again, just as he is about to pour the ... [read more]

Adapting to the climate (1949)

A group of friends relax and keep cool under the shade of a gum tree in their garden. Two of them flip through an old photo album that contains photographs of the Australian snowfields and the snow gum – a ... [read more]

Freedom to the city – Edinburgh (1948)

This clip from a home movie filmed by Australian Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, begins with a title card that states ‘Presented by the Corporation of Edinburgh along with the Burgess Ticket conferring the Freedom of the City to Rt. ... [read more]

Removal and the kinship system (2006)

This clip shows historic footage of the removal of the people from the Charles Creek mission station and Aboriginal people working in the pastoral industry. Agnes talks about the removal of the entire mission station to Santa Teresa; her experience ... [read more]

Pies in the oven (2005)

Mark Olive completes cooking the emu pie. [read more]

Park consultations (1998)

The Whites Creek Valley Park is under the jurisdiction of the Leichhardt Council in Sydney. The plans for the park have been in progress for 50 years. The council plans to demolish two houses and change the usage of part ... [read more]

‘Snap goes the Crunchie’ (1966)

This black-and-white television advertisement for Crunchie is set on a sunny day with a group of young friends playing at the beach. As the Crunchie jingle plays, they eat and 'snap’ their Crunchie bars. The male voice-over describes the bright ... [read more]

‘He calls it the Dreamtime’ (2008)

Rachel Perkins, as narrator, and Max Stuart of the Arrernte Luritja Nation, explain the origin of the term ‘the Dreamtime’ and its importance in Arrernte life. Historians Dick Kimber, Professor Marcia Langton of the Yiman-Bidjara Nation, Gordon Briscoe, a Maraduntjara ... [read more]

The straight and narrow (2006)

A photograph of the Lapa footy team posing with a trophy. Clint 'Eastwood’ Cooke the 2004 A Grade Captain speaks about how there is no colour bar, and that the love of football and especially playing for Lapa is the ... [read more]

‘Beer for the workers’ (1972)

As the office picnic progresses into the night, the partygoers get drunker, exposing simmering tensions. Clyde, a frustrated musician, tangles with a drunken colleague (Byron Kennedy), then punches the youngest member of staff, Peter (Philip Deamer), who leaves with his ... [read more]

Women walking along the beach (1932)

Three women walk along the shoreline of Blackmans Bay Beach in Tasmania. They then cartwheel across the sand. The same women are shown later on, wearing different clothes, walking through scrub along a fence line. They climb over the fence. [read more]

All that promise (2000)

Grant was an adorable child star who could dance and sing and play the drums. He gave it all away when the kids at school teased him about his work in television ads. Later when he tried to get back ... [read more]

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