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Shearing and plotting (1933)
As the shearing reaches full speed at Waratah Station, the overseer Fletcher (Les Warton) tells Clive Sherrington (John Warwick) to deliver a package from the car when he goes to see Morgan. He jokes that it contains ‘baby food’ for ... [read more]
‘Australia’s ideal family car’ (1957)
A young family climb into their Holden and drive through the suburbs as the voice-over narration describes the car’s suitability for a family. A close-up of the internal steering mechanism demonstrates the re-circulating ball bearings which make steering smoother. The ... [read more]
The rice farm (1991)
Filmmaker Dennis O’Rourke offers to buy Thai prostitute Aoi a rice farm if she will stop practising prostitution. Aoi gives her response. [read more]
‘Where have you been?’ (1985)
Fran (Noni Hazlehurst) has disappeared, leaving her friend and neighbour Marge (Annie Byron) to look after Fran’s three kids. When Fran returns home after three nights away, she introduces Jeff (Alan Fletcher), a barman she picked up on the first ... [read more]
Environment versus progress (1996)
Christine starts to build her house constructed from recycled materials in idyllic Byron Bay. Her world is shattered when the local council approves a quarry next to her house that will mine for gravel for 23 years and create noise. [read more]
‘Some things in life you just can’t control’ (2006)
Katrina (Emily Barclay) flies into a rage after an argument with Rusty (Michael Dorman), her boyfriend. When she finds her car blocked in, she dumps her baby and takes the keys to his most prized possession, a Valiant Charger. At ... [read more]
Remembering mother (1983)
Lisa (Alyson Best) is getting dressed after her weekly strip for Charles (Norman Kaye) when she notices a photograph of a woman on the wall and asks him who it is. He tells her it’s his mother. What follows is ... [read more]
‘We really got the short straw, didn’t we?’ (1988)
Johnno (Damien Walters) releases crabs from their traps which angers the fishers. His sister Julie (Rebecca Sykes) tries to protect Johnno but his father (John Waters) is furious. [read more]
Barred (1993)
The 'blue heelers’ are relaxing at the Imperial Hotel after work when Bruce McLaren (Josh Picker) arrives. He’s just been released on bail after being charged with the rape of his girlfriend Sally-Anne. When Chris Reilly (Julie Nihill) orders him ... [read more]
David the recidivist (1999)
David has absconded from a youth training centre. He talks about how he just wants to live his own way, while his case officers discuss his criminal activities and his future. [read more]
Safe and sound and secret (1997)
Brian (Bill Young) has taken Nell (Monica Maughan) to the hospital, where her daughter works. Jim (Tony Barry) has been driving all over the district trying to find Nell, his wife. When he sees that she is safe, he is ... [read more]
GAM (2005)
US journalist William Nessen interviews soldiers from the Free Aceh Movement (GAM). GAM’s chief spokesman, Sofyan Daoud, explains that GAM is fighting the Indonesian Government for self-rule. [read more]
Tea’s up (1968)
Musgrave Station is a busy crossroads in the far north of Queensland. Every day, planes come into the station airfield to refuel. Both passengers and pilots find a ready cup of tea from the station owner’s wife, Mary Hales. She ... [read more]
Menzies home movies (2006)
This montage of clips from the Menzies Home Movie Collection features footage from Menzies’ wartime tour in 1941, including Tobruk, Palestine, Cairo, Jerusalem, Khartoum and England during the Blitz. It ends with close-ups of the ‘Rulers of England’ including the ... [read more]
Collecting roots and dye (2005)
A group of women walk through bush collecting Merrepen and natural dyes to make dilly bags. The women tell us a good time to collect Merrepen is during the wet season when the spear grass is very dense and long. ... [read more]
Old Jindabyne (1965)
As the waters of Lake Jindabyne, part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme, begin to rise, we take a last look at old Jindabyne. [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]
Kitchen discussion (1989)
Joan Walker (Judi Farr) asks Dr Steve Harrison (Michael O’Neill) if it is OK for her granddaughter Zoe Walker (Liberty Lee) to go back to school when she has tested positive for HIV. Do they need to inform the ... [read more]
You can be anything (1987)
Lilli (Judy Davis) takes Ally (Claudia Karvan) out for lunch. Overwhelmed when Ally talks about her father, Lilli cries in the toilet. [read more]
For what purpose? (2005)
Frank Byrne, Stolen Generations senior case workers Heather Shearer and Justin Howard, director Mitch Torres and Julie Hayden from the Department of Indigenous Affairs sit around a table. They are looking at the yellow pages of an old file that ... [read more]
