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‘Why did you do this for me?’ (2005)
Eddie (David Wenham) has been sacked, but hasn’t yet told his wife. At Flinders Street Station in Melbourne he uses a payphone to line up an interview at a placement agency, but an elderly woman falls on the pavement as ... [read more]
Rehabilitation and re-education (1948)
This clip begins with a montage of people on the streets of postwar Japan. The narrator explains that the American Allied occupation forces are transforming Japan from a ‘military dictatorship’ into a democracy. The next sequence is about re-education and ... [read more]
Finish (2005)
Cars race through the dusty outback. Warwick Thornton talks to camera about the preparation for the race and the need to just finish it. He also speaks about how at the age of 34 he belongs to the demographic that ... [read more]
‘Everything is upside down’ (1990)
The tea party was ‘worth making a song and dance about’ but Rebecca (Hetherington), Blackboard and Mr Squiggle (both operated and voiced by Norman Hetherington) are waiting for Gus the Snail to arrive. In the meantime, it’s time for a ... [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]
Lightning strikes (1983)
Mr Telford (Martin Vaughan) arrives at the stables with his son Cappy (Steven Bannister). Telford tells Tommy the strapper (Tom Burlinson) to take Phar Lap for his morning workout and work him hard. On the training track, other trainers joke ... [read more]
Bougainville battlers (2000)
The clip describes the extent of the damage from 17 years of toxic waste and pollution from the copper mine, and how the people of Bougainville Island said 'no more’. As the customary owners of the land, the women were ... [read more]
Picking up Boo (1977)
Sandy (John Jarratt) waits in the car while Scollop (Mel Gibson) and Robbie (Phil Avalon) pick up Boo (Steve Bisley). Boo asks girlfriend Gloria (Karen Williams) to tidy up while he’s away. The four mates hit the road travelling north. ... [read more]
‘A genuine relationship’ (2008)
Narrator Rachel Perkins and interviewees Emeritus Scholar Inga Clendinnen and Associate Professor James Kohen impart the story of a cross-cultural relationship between Lieutenant Dawes and Aboriginal woman, Patyegarang. Readings of Dawes’s diaries reveal their conversations. [read more]
‘Had a car’ (2005)
Behind the wheel driving through the mining fields, Norman tells us that they used to get into his old Landrover to hunt kangaroo for meat, sometimes hitting the animal with the car. They would take about five or six 'roo ... [read more]
‘We can have justice’ (1992)
In this section of his speech, Keating documents the remarkable contributions of the Indigenous people of Australia in history, sport, the arts, the armed services, in all areas of Australian life. [read more]
Political hanging (1993)
Father John Brosnan, priest to hanged man Ronald Ryan, compares the Ryan hanging to that of Ned Kelly in that both were political. The judge, Sir John Starke, says that the then Victorian premier, Sir Henry Bolte, insisted that the ... [read more]
Coconut diesel (2000)
When Bougainville Island was blockaded in the struggle for independence, fuel quickly ran out. The local people, who had traditionally used the coconut tree for building and the fronds for roofing, also discovered a creative new use for the coconut ... [read more]
Swanston St Shamble (1944)
This is an excerpt from 'Swanston St Shamble’, one of the first jazz recordings of Graeme Bell’s Dixieland Band, from a session in January 1944. [read more]
An average day: out of control (2011)
Tom (Matthew Goode) fields repeated phone calls from two different women as he goes about his daily work of selecting food for his restaurant from the wholesalers. [read more]
Opening titles (1986)
This is the opening title sequence for season 1 of The Flying Doctors. The style and theme remained constant throughout its seven-year run with changes in content dictated largely by cast movements. Characters featured are Dr Tom Callaghan (Andrew MacFarlane) ... [read more]
Bedside manner (1989)
Anxious about competition from the 24-hour surgery up the road, Dr William Sharp (Michael Craig) has been urging his staff to adopt a more overtly caring attitude towards the clinic’s patients. As receptionist Julie Winters (Denise Roberts) sees off a ... [read more]
‘Swimmin’ … that’s for white fellas’ (1996)
Aboriginal kids cling to the fence that keeps them out of the pool area. In the pool, Koorine (Carrie Prosser) races a young girl (Megan Drury). They talk about being like Dawn Fraser and Esther Williams. Koorine’s friend convinces her ... [read more]
‘We have survived’ (1981)
In this clip we hear the landmark Aboriginal protest song 'We Have Survived’, as performed by No Fixed Address on the soundtrack of Wrong Side of the Road (1981). [read more]
