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Coming from behind (1999)
In an interview accompanied by photos from his childhood, Wayne Bennett describes how, as a young boy, he made a vow to his mother that he would never drink or gamble. His younger brother Bob describes how he was able ... [read more]
A Cinderella station (1982)
When the Forshaw family bought their small station of just 200 square miles, they could only find enough money to buy the property without stock. Over the last decade, Elton and his boys have worked away from the station to ... [read more]
Mary shines but Max explodes (2009)
At her father’s grave, Mary (voiced by Toni Collette) looks at the little heart Max sent her, where it is written, ‘Love Yourself First’. She decides to take happiness into her life, marries her love Damien (Eric Bana), and writes ... [read more]
‘500 dollars just goes nowhere’ (1975)
Sitting out the front of the Collingwood Community School, amongst some of the students who are gathered around him, a staff member talks to camera about the limited resources the school has to work with. With only minor support from ... [read more]
Mertz and Mawson’s ‘terrible ordeal’ (1963)
Frank Hurley continues telling the story (begun in clip two) of the terrible journey made by Douglas Mawson, Xavier Mertz and Belgrave Ninnis, during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911–14. Mawson’s party, with two dog teams, set out on 10 ... [read more]
Time machine test run (2007)
Dr Plonk (Nigel Lunghi) is accidentally transported 10,000 years into the past and captured by spear-wielding natives. Plonk pulls the alarm bell, but his mute assistant Paulus (Paul Brickwell) cannot hear it. Plonk narrowly escapes being burnt alive in his ... [read more]
Shanty town (1981)
Unemployed people were forced to build their houses out of scrap and discarded materials. They established a trading post where clothing was donated. Indigenous Australians were not able to receive the dole and were issued meagre rations. One of the ... [read more]
Irian Jaya’s history (1993)
The United Nations gave Indonesia control of Irian Jaya in 1962, despite the protests of the Papuans. Some 20,000 people have since died in conflicts in the highland provinces between the indigenous people and the Indonesian army. [read more]
Camels, horses and buggies (2001)
A map of the Frew River area. A voice-over tells us about the inevitable conflict that occurred as a result of the pastoralists coming into contact with the Alyawawarra peoples. Sepia-toned footage (made to look like historic footage) of Indigenous ... [read more]
‘Peculiar indeed’ (1989)
Retracing the footsteps of explorer Ernest Giles, Ted Egan visits ‘one of the true marvels of the centre’, a valley that Giles called ‘Glen of Palms’. The valley is home to a species of palm tree that exists nowhere else ... [read more]
Harbour view and rabbit stew (1982)
Angus (Ross O’Donovan), 14-year-old wanna be rock star manager with blue hair, tries to enlist interest in his songs from a local band, The Wombats. At home later, his nana (Pat Evison) rinses out the blue dye as boarder Mrs ... [read more]
Leunig smells the flowers (1995)
Artist Michael Leunig explains why he and his wife don’t have a television set. [read more]
Porcupine Dreaming (2011)
A group of men smoke cannabis and talk about their totem animals. Ten-year-old Daniel (Daniel Connors) sits watching and listening to the men talking, and asks Linden (Christoper Edwards) about one of the paintings on the wall. When Daniel responds ... [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]
Two brothers face payback (2006)
As the men prepare for a big lunch of magpie-geese, cooked in the canoes on the swamp, the narrator (David Gulpilil) returns to the climax of the old story. Ridjimiraril (Crusoe Kurddal) and his brother Yeeralparil (Jamie Gulpilil) must stand ... [read more]
‘Stop filming’ (1987)
Filmmaker David Bradbury is filming Salvadoran protest song being sung by young people at a train station. A policeman tells him to stop as he does not have permission to film. The crew continues to film the event. [read more]
‘It doesn’t belong to us’ (2000)
The Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council are holding their executive meeting. The women express their objection to the presence and abuse of substances in their communities. [read more]
Nirvana (1997)
Zemka is the mother of twelve year-old Nirvana who has been killed by a shell in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War. She looks at the footage of her now-deceased daughter dancing that filmmakers Tahir Cambis and Alma Sahbaz had only ... [read more]
Truth and lies (1982)
Kate (Judy Davis) and Steve (Richard Moir) have become allies and lovers, united by the disappearance of Mary Ford. In bed, Kate tells him she blew up the bulldozers on his building site a year earlier. Before he can work ... [read more]
