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G.P. – Toss a Coin (1989)
G.P. is a television drama about the professional and personal lives of the staff at the Ross Street Surgery, a busy suburban medical practice run by doctors William Sharp (Michael Craig) and his nephew Robert Sharp (John McTernan). In this ... [read more]
We Are Going (1986)
This is a rare recording of Oodgeroo Noonuccal (formerly known as Kath Walker) reading her poem ‘We Are Going’ at the Harold Park Hotel in Sydney 1986, recorded by the ABC. [read more]
Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate – ‘Remember ... Cadbury’s Milk Tray’ (c1955)
These two black-and-white television advertisements for Cadbury’s Milk Tray chocolates date from the 1950s. [read more]
Chequerboard Revisited – Episode 5: You Can’t Have A Child That’s Ugly (2000)
In 1969, the ABC documentary program Chequerboard, made a program about child performers. Thirty-one years later, two of them agreed to be filmed for Chequerboard Revisited. [read more]
Clarke, Robin JH: Sydney Diary (1950)
In this 1950s silent home movie footage, we spend a typical evening with the Clarke family at their Wahroonga home in North Sydney. [read more]
‘Life upside down’ (1996)
Late teen Lebanese-Australian Billal, permanently brain damaged from a car accident, is undergoing an operation for the third time. The surgeon explains that fluid has built up in Billal’s brain causing him to gain weight and to exhibit disinhibited violent ... [read more]
‘Everybody’s free to feel good’ (2006)
Mr Jonathon’s dancers have had ten minutes to regroup after Tenille has collapsed on stage in the grand final. Their routine leaves the audience gasping – especially Miss Elizabeth (Jane Hall), who’s appalled at the political grandstanding in Mr Jonathon’s ... [read more]
A survivor (1976)
Harry Butler puts his hand into a rocky crevice and brings out a brown tree snake, also called the territory tiger. While expertly handling the snake, he tells us that this creature is one of the fauna that has thrived ... [read more]
Death in Brunswick (1990)
Carl (Sam Neill) takes a job as cook at a seedy nightclub in Brunswick, an inner suburb of Melbourne. He is verging on being an alcoholic loser until he meets Sophie (Zoe Carides), the club’s 19-year-old barmaid. They fall passionately ... [read more]
A Cold Summer (2003)
A Cold Summer depicts the dysfunctional entanglement of three damaged young individuals in Sydney, two of them old female school friends, the third a male alcoholic living in his car. Bobby (Teo Gebert), who has absented himself from his ... [read more]
Lockie, ‘surf rat’ (2006)
Lockie (Sean Keenan) contemplates the ‘demented’ surf in his new home town and rides the waves. [read more]
Poetry In Australia – Judith Wright (1963)
The poet Judith Wright (1915-2000) is introduced by well-known ABC broadcaster John Thompson in an interview that covers aspects of her early life on the land, her art as one of Australia’s premier poets and her activism as an ... [read more]
Jack and Jill: A Postscript (1970)
Jack Anderson (Tony Ward) lives in a condemned house with his mother (Jean Higgs) and lodger Stan (Stanley Randall) in the Melbourne working-class suburb of Maribyrnong. Gillian O’Keefe (Judy Leech), a middle-class kindergarten teacher, lives across the Maribyrnong Creek from ... [read more]
Bad Boy Bubby (1993)
Bubby (Nicholas Hope) has spent all of his 35 years locked in one room. His mother (Claire Benito) feeds and washes him like a baby, but she also uses him for sex. She has raised him to believe that if ... [read more]
Death Defying Acts (2007)
In Edinburgh, Mary McGarvie (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and her daughter Benji (Saoirse Ronan) entertain audiences with a psychic act that depends on trickery. They spy on members of their audience and steal from them so they can dramatically reveal insider knowledge ... [read more]
‘I have imagined you every day …’ (1985)
Lindy (Marillac Johnston) and her father Geoff (John Walton) meet Le (Quang Chinh Dinh) at the airport. It is a nerve-wracking moment for everyone. Lee makes an immediate claim on Lindy, calling her Mai, and thanking Geoff ‘You have been ... [read more]
False alarm (2007)
Jim (Ben Oxenbould) is taking holidaymakers Adam (Andy Rodoreda), Grace (Diana Glenn) and Lee (Maeve Dermody) out on the water in a dinghy in search of a good place to fish. They settle in a quiet spot, drop anchor and ... [read more]
Browne, George: Our movie memories 1928–1934 (1928)
This silent black-and-white 9.5 mm home movie compilation by amateur filmmaker George Browne shows the Browne family and friends enacting Kate of the Cactus Country, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Good Queen Bess. They were recorded between 1928 and 1934. [read more]
‘Don’t hurt her anymore’ (2011)
The women at Temple House refuge have a get-together in one of the rooms. They drink, sing and talk, acknowledging each other’s pain and sharing in the pleasure of their company. [read more]
Torque – Series 1, Episode 8 (1974)
A roundtable discussion arising out of the unacceptable road toll in Australia is introduced by program presenter Peter Wherrett and convened by Four Corners (2008) journalist Jim Downes. Those taking part include: Dr Michael Henderson, head of the traffic accident ... [read more]
