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Wrangles and rows (1964)
A very serious speech about the dangers of war and the responsibilities of the Australian people. Menzies delivered it after returning home from Great Britain as the justification for going overseas and to thank his colleagues who looked after the ... [read more]
‘A stripling, on a small and weedy beast’ (1982)
Jim Craig (Tom Burlinson) has joined the crack horsemen in pursuit of the wild brumbies, but the men baulk at following the mob down a precipitous decline. As Harrison (Kirk Douglas) declares the mob has beaten them, Craig shows his ... [read more]
Experts are appointed (2007)
The complete spectrum of humanity is represented on a committee appointed to work out why the world does not function properly, says the narrator (Tom Baker). The members will examine the past and talk to anyone 'who might have given ... [read more]
A safe central spot (1986)
Alone in her flat at night, overlooking the harbour, Liz reads Marge Piercy, talks about her psychiatrist, and laments the loss by theft of Steve’s poems. Evoking the mind-states depicted in the film Gaslight, she ponders the vagaries of her ... [read more]
‘I can’t forgive them’ (1993)
Margaret Whitlam, wife of former Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, scorns the Governor-General, John Kerr and caretaker Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser for the way in which they won victory for the Liberal Party. [read more]
Closing Heard Island (1956)
After seven years, the Australian research station at Heard Island is closing, its resources redirected toward the Antarctic continent. The expedition members, some of whom worked hard to establish Heard Island, now have to dismantle most of the camp. Loading ... [read more]
November victory (1955)
On 8 November 1954, Federal Parliament authorised a Bill to secure the right of employers to recruit labour for the waterfront, overturning the tradition of waterside labour being picked by the union. This clip dramatises the campaign that made the ... [read more]
‘Shoot straight’ (1973)
Voice-over accompanied by still photos details the judicial process leading to the execution of 'Breaker’ Morant and Peter Hancock – Australian soldiers attached to the British Army in the Boer War 1899-1902. A re-enactment of the execution is well ... [read more]
Talisman Sabre (2005)
The clip details the relationship between Australia and the US regarding weapons testing. A 20-year memorandum of understanding signed between the US and Australia in 2005 allows the two countries to carry out exercises in Australia including the use of ... [read more]
My brother’s keeper (2007)
Bra Boys members recall how their group started in the early 1990s. For Sunny and Koby Abberton and Jack Kingsley the Bra Boys were a means of survival. Aboriginal former pro-surfer Maurice Cole touches on the darker side of the ... [read more]
Circus song (1993)
A song 'The Last Circus’ plays under a montage of circus scenes, including clowns, acrobats, animals performing and kids reacting. [read more]
Yakutat, Alaska (2008)
Jonno and Stefan travel to Yakutat, Alaska. They are welcomed by Jack, proprietor of the Icy Waves surf shop. [read more]
Sacred tree (1984)
Historical footage of Gove mine. In the middle of the mine is a roped off tree, preserved 'at great cost to the mine’ because it is sacred to the Aborigines. [read more]
Stereotyping at Fairfax (1911)
This clip shows two men at Fairfax creating a block for a page of the Sydney Morning Herald, then making a matrix from the type with the use of a stereotyping technique. [read more]
Creation story (1991)
An aerial view of Arnhem Land where artist David Malangi lives. Narrator Ernie Dingo introduces the cosmology encapsulated within Aboriginal creation stories before introducing us to Malangi and his family. [read more]
Elvis is alive (1993)
Voice-over sums up the fate of both Dixon and Stuart over black-and-white stills of the two. Then we cut to the present day Max Stuart, driving along in his home country, now much older. He philosophises about what people think ... [read more]
Medicine (1987)
Sophia Whist (Robin Laurie) opens the pages of her evidence book and imparts the story of women’s historical exclusion from medical practice. Marjory Thomas talks about the difficulties faced by Jessie Freeman, one of the first women to study medicine ... [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]
‘A big book’ (2004)
Sweeping aerial views show Mparntwe (Alice Springs). Voice-over narration tells us that the landscape of Mparntwe was created by ancestral beings as they travelled through the country. Elder Max Stuart explains the principles of the Dreaming, and that it is ... [read more]
Heather Henderson (2006)
An excerpt from a 14 minute interview with Heather Henderson, the daughter of Australian Prime Minister RG Menzies, in which she talks about her father’s home movies. Mrs Henderson describes how the home movies of London during the Blitz capture ... [read more]
