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Melbourne buildings (1910)
Title cards are intercut with static shots of well-known Melbourne public buildings and streets including the Treasury Building, Little Collins Street, Federal Parliament House, the General Post Office, Elizabeth Street, the Exhibition Building in Carlton Gardens and the Law Courts. [read more]
‘Don’t hurt her anymore’ (2011)
The women at Temple House refuge have a get-together in one of the rooms. They drink, sing and talk, acknowledging each other’s pain and sharing in the pleasure of their company. [read more]
Blackfella church (2005)
Tommy E Lewis talks about Frog Dreaming, and becomes passionate about the Dreaming as a religious belief, and the sacrilege committed by Western culture in their destruction of the land. Tommy arrives at Tennant Creek. [read more]
Nellie Melba (1927)
Dame Nellie Melba sings the national anthem, God Save the King, on the steps of Parliament House (now Old Parliament House), in Canberra at the official opening in 1927. The camera pans across the official party as the Duke of ... [read more]
‘Be elusive but don’t walk far’ (2005)
Eddie visits the site of a proposed major development to take soil contamination samples. He remembers his childhood sweetheart Amanda (Casey Peterson), whose father is the developer behind this new project. As he works, a crop-dusting helicopter gives him a ... [read more]
Water runs red (1993)
Rick climbs out of the window of the cinema and runs through the swamp. Sitting on the bed with his two sisters, he distributes the candy he has stolen from the cinema. Two white children pass by and ask the ... [read more]
Mail officers (1989)
This clip shows mail officers in a range of mail-sorting work at mail exchanges and mail centres. [read more]
Voodoo and Snoz (2003)
In this episode, seen here in full, Hoota and Snoz sit down to breakfast and Snoz finds a mini Hoota novelty item in the cereal pack. Whatever he does to the mini Hoota happens to the real Hoota. Hoota looks ... [read more]
Social justice (1991)
Michael Leunig sees our inability to say 'enough is enough’ as a problem while John Howard considers it to be the acceptable price of progress. [read more]
What Claire sees (2011)
Claire (Sigrid Thornton) describes what she saw on the day of the incident. In flashback, she hears a commotion outside her home and sees Wayne (Luke Ford) smashing his car into her husband’s Jaguar, while Greg (Vince Colosimo) is still ... [read more]
Conrad Martens’s New South Wales (1978)
Watercolourist Conrad Martens settled in NSW in 1835, remaining there until his death in 1878. He painted a valuable visual record of life in the young colony, and we see many examples of early Sydney. [read more]
Good mates (2005)
Craig Hamilton suffered a breakdown in 2000. He needed a good mate to talk to about the possibility of going public with his story. He found that friend in Paul Harrigan, the great Newcastle football legend. [read more]
Bondi Surf Carnival (1929)
This clip documents the spectacle of a large surf carnival on Bondi Beach in approximately 1929. The surf clubs march on the sand and lifesavers give a resuscitation demonstration. [read more]
Lawyers confer (2004)
David Hicks’s lawyer, Stephen Kenny, meets up with David’s father, Terry, and Michael Ratner, a lawyer from the Centre for Constitutional Rights in New York. Terry is trying to get a trial for his son. Both lawyers agree that the ... [read more]
Follow the signs (1998)
Private investigator Charles says the signs of adultery are easy to detect – new clothes, especially underwear, joining a gym, interstate trips and items on the credit card such as expensive restaurants. [read more]
Spirit work (1996)
Night-time. A man behind the wheel of a car. A desolate road. In voice-over, Shane Francis (David Ngoombujarra) talks about the spirits that are present in the work he does as a field officer for the Royal Commission into Aboriginal ... [read more]
Paper city (2006)
Woodman (voiced by Paul Fletcher) speaks to the Department of Debt about an outstanding payment they think he owes them. He believes it is a mistake. [read more]
Language first (1991)
Freda Glynn (director of CAAMA) talks about broadcasting in Aboriginal languages in areas where Aboriginal languages are the first language spoken. Phillip Batty (deputy director of CAAMA) talks about utilizing the national satellite in a way useful to ... [read more]
An amazing rescue (2006)
Captain Larsen’s rescue boat, The Antarctic, sank in the ice off Antarctica in 1902. His crew of 21 built a hut to live in until they were themselves rescued a year later. They were forced to eat penguins to stay ... [read more]
True story (2006)
Rupert Kathner (Ben Mendelsohn) announces his filmmaking vision: a projector atop the tallest city building screening his movies on white clouds in the sky, the entire world his audience. [read more]
