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Sticking together (1985)

Warrigal (Tommy Lewis) is confronted with the reality of losing his 'brother’ Captain Starlight (Sam Neill) as the gang makes plans to escape to America. Meanwhile, the troopers are perfecting a killing machine to ambush the outlaws while Jim’s wife ... [read more]

‘As much right as anybody’ (1986)

The girls walk into a cafe for milkshakes. They are told to drink them at the counter. Trilby (Kristina Nehm) urges her family to sit down in a booth. The white patrons taunt them with racist remarks. [read more]

Road traps (1974)

Sir Laurence Hartnett is the former managing director of GMH. He comments that our roads are still a trap for drivers, with lanes suddenly merging without warning and inappropriate road signs that confuse and frustrate the driver, ... [read more]

‘I will survive’ (1994)

Priscilla, the bus, has broken down in the desert. An Aboriginal man (Alan Dargin) invites the three drag artists to his nearby camp, where they put on an impromptu show. Everyone joins in, including a didgeridoo player. [read more]

My place (1988)

Sally Morgan talks about writing the book My Place. Lois Olney talks about being adopted and raised as a middle class person. Helen Corbett, the Executive Officer for the Aboriginal Legal Service in Perth talks about Indigenous women dying in ... [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]

‘I want to dance with you’ (1992)

Scott (Paul Mercurio) dances alone while Fran (Tara Morice) watches from a hidden vantage point. She tells him that she likes his rule-breaking style and wants to partner him at the Pan Pacific championships. [read more]

Winning and losing (1994)

Tears and triumphs follow the end of the game. Boys and men talk frankly about winning, losing and crying. [read more]

‘I’d really like for you to be there’ (1998)

Headmaster Carson (John Gregg) invites student Marco (Danny Raco) to be his partner at an inter-school lawn bowls competition. Meanwhile Zac (Luke Jacobz) and Tess (Katherine Hicks) continue to explore Tess’s belief in the paranormal. When Zac confides in Tess ... [read more]

What price courage (1987)

Dan is the parachute instructor and Adrian’s mate. Adrian is a member of the Australian Special Air Service (SAS) but is having trouble with his training jumps. Dan wants his mate to succeed, not the least because they went ... [read more]

Cash for comment (1999)

John Laws had already been ‘outed’ in a previous program for changing his views about Australian banks in return for money. Laws uses the airwaves at Radio 2UE to put his side of the story and rail against his critics ... [read more]

‘I like Aeroplane Jelly’ (1938)

A popular radio jingle advertising an Australian brand of jelly crystals. The song was recorded in 1938 and broadcast on Sydney radio in the 1940s – up to 100 times a day. [read more]

Triumph (1992)

At the Pan Pacific championships, Doug Hastings (Barry Otto) starts a handclap in support of son Scott (Paul Mercurio) and his partner Fran (Tara Morice). Scott and Fran give a thrilling exhibition of their rule-breaking paso doble. The crowd goes ... [read more]

About my mother (2003)

AJ Rochester is a feisty thirty something who describes the day she met her birth mother and how surprised she was to discover it was the attractive woman who ran the local pub. [read more]

No equality of opportunity (1973)

Bishop Lamont lived in Rhodesia for 30 years until he was expelled from the country by Ian Smith and his minority white government. He believes passionately in equality for everyone in southern Africa and he argues that Ian Smith’s non-democratic ... [read more]

A master of camouflage (1989)

The landscape of arid central Australia is scoured and the plateaus worn down to gibber desert. It’s impossible to imagine that any living thing could survive in this environment but the shingleback lizard manages well because it can survive without ... [read more]

‘Treated with respect’ (1995)

Andrea Stretton asks Tim Winton whether he could ever really be happy with an adaptation, given that his work is very much about the use of language and not just story-line and plot. He generously declares that so long as ... [read more]

‘You’ve changed’ (1978)

Angela (Sigrid Thornton) accepts a lift from Daryl (Vincent Gil), her ex-boyfriend. Daryl cannot accept the end of the relationship and asks Angela why she has changed so much. [read more]

Pressure to perform (1998)

Primary school girls compete to be chosen for the Australian gymnastics team. Pressure is on the young gymnasts as they train at the Western Australian Institute of Sport. The girls and coaches are interviewed in 1994 and then in 1996. [read more]

‘White gold of Australia’ (1935)

The great granddaughter of Biddy O’Shea has flown to the Northern Territory station run by Frank Morrison, great grandson of James, to talk about their future together, but they disagree about his ‘prehistoric’ views of a woman’s role. Frank (Franklyn ... [read more]

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