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Life before contact (2008)
Narrator Rachel Perkins re-tells stories from the Dreamtime and historian Professor Marcia Langton of the Yiman-Bidjara Nation, historian Professor Janet McCalman and writer Bruce Pascoe of Boonwurrung Heritage weigh in on the unique prehistory experience of Australian Indigenous peoples. [read more]
Threshing at Allora (1899)
Farm workers feed wheat sheaves into a threshing machine. A conveyor belt transports the processed wheat to a large stack. In the foreground, a team of horses brings a loaded cart of wheat to the machine. [read more]
‘Honest Toil March’ (1924)
This 1924 gramophone recording of W Rimmer’s ‘Honest Toil March’ is performed by the Australian Newcastle Steelworks Band. [read more]
Growing up Muslim in America (2003)
Faiz Khan is a medical doctor born and raised in the USA. He’s never been trained as a preacher but since 9/11 he feels he should speak out as a Muslim whose own faith sits comfortably in our post-modern ... [read more]
Peace! (1945)
This clip shows joyous celebrations erupting in Sydney streets at the declaration of peace after the Japanese surrender. Footage includes enormous crowds crammed shoulder to shoulder in the city. A tracking shot from a moving vehicle shows the famous image ... [read more]
House meeting (2001)
Dirk (Francis McMahon) calls a house meeting. Nina (Sophie Lee) lays down the rules to new tenant Sam (Emily Hamilton). [read more]
Debate (1988)
At a community meeting, a young man debates with Joe Leahy about the profit split of their Kaugum coffee plantation. Leahy explains how he is the one taking the risk with the bank loan. [read more]
Mary MacKillop (1994)
Using stills, interviews and voice-over, this clip describes Mary MacKillop as a woman of initiative and leadership, with a vision for providing services to the needy on a national level. Her independence raised the ire and resentment of the bishops ... [read more]
Upstairs, downstairs (1989)
In the salon, the women work long hours for very little pay while the women they attend to are the socialites of Sydney society. Mrs Darcy-Twining (Pat Bishop) and her mousey daughter (Lucinda Jones) arrive at the salon expecting to ... [read more]
Caves and swamps (1964)
This clip, shot in Malaysia (then Malaya), shows cave and tunnel formations, and details the difficulties of negotiating the local swamps. [read more]
Min Min light (2007)
Mavis Malbunka, a Western Arrernte elder, tells the story of the Min Min light and its relationship to Tnorala. [read more]
Work (1988)
Two women describe the hard physical work of the Women’s Land Army and express their pride in their achievements. Black-and-white stills and colour footage show the women at work. [read more]
‘All human endeavour is folly’ (1997)
Opening titles then an aerial point of view of broadcast towers, suburbia and cityscape as Robert (Mathew Dyktynski) in voice-over contemplates the ‘illusion of choice’. Settling finally on the warehouse which contains fledgling community radio station Raw FM, we enter ... [read more]
Banana plantations (1955)
A couple drives through banana country on the coastal border of Queensland and New South Wales. Their car pulls up at a banana plantation where they alight and meet with the owner. A voice-over explains the growing and harvesting process. ... [read more]
Modern alchemy (2004)
Inventor John Walker has found a way of turning landfill into compost, a form of contemporary alchemy. It’s a system capable of functioning on a huge scale, very economically. [read more]
Operation Overland pipeline (1954)
As part of Operation Overland, a man dressed in diving gear is lowered into the water to work on the 36-mile oil pipeline. Workers drain parts of the Werribee River so the line can be placed under the riverbed. The ... [read more]
Applying sanctions (1973)
Robert Moore introduces the two guests and the very partisan audience for this debate about whether Australia should take sides in the future of Rhodesia. The first question is to Senator Sheil about whether sanctions are a good idea. He ... [read more]
Evelyn goes into mourning (1999)
Evelyn Spence (Maya Stange) gets her head shaved and moves into a cage. Her husband has just died from dysentery and this is part of the mourning ritual of the villagers. The pearl trader Mick Carpenter (Rufus Sewell) checks on ... [read more]
Unemployed (1982)
Three of the characters are introduced – the first lines up for three jobs with ten hopefuls, the next gets the sack because casual staff comes cheap in an economic downturn and another stays at home to mind her sister’s ... [read more]
Bombs dropped (2007)
Laith Stevens, bomb disposal expert, examines a bomb in the ground and talks to locals about the danger. Bombs are moved and loaded onto airplanes. Over historical footage of bombing, Laith Stevens talks about the number of bombs dropped. [read more]
