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Peterson arrives (1967)
Constable Peterson (Konrad Matthaei) is met by Sergeant Miller (Ronald Morse) and tracker Jubbal (Ed Devereaux) upon his arrival at Coopers Creek. Peterson tells Miller and his wife (Marie Clark) he’s on special assignment. [read more]
History (2008)
A boy (Joel Edgerton) speculates on his father’s stories, silences and past as a Lithuanian refugee. [read more]
A new day (1979)
Private eye Larry (John Flaus) gets the news that Leilani (Amanda Berry) has been found. As surfers take to the early waves at Palm Beach, fugitive Paul (Bryan Brown) wakes up in his hideout on the cliffs, as the police ... [read more]
‘What will they see?’ (2002)
Yvonne Margarula tells us about how she inherited a beautiful land, but asks what the children will see when they become adults. Footage of Ranger Mine, operational since 1979, shows the land being carved up, and a map locates the ... [read more]
Aircraft workshop (1926)
Men work on various parts of planes inside an open hanger at an airfield. Men file and chip away at pieces of timber. Another man inspects a plane propeller which is then shown being attached to the front of a ... [read more]
Central Square (1928)
From an elevated position above Central Square (now Railway Square) in Sydney, the camera films the bustle of the streets at rush hour where people transfer from trams to trains and suburban trams to take them out of the city. ... [read more]
A war of nerves (2002)
Australia’s 'chocolate soldiers’ were all that stood between Australia and the highly trained and jungle-prepared Japanese forces. They were called 'chocos’ or 'chocolate soldiers’ because it was thought they would melt in the heat. The aim of the 'chocos’ was ... [read more]
Relationships between men and women (1995)
The curator of Australian drawings at the National Gallery of Australia, Andrew Sayers, displays Joy Hester’s work. He comments on the clarity of her portraits. Janine Burke, biographer and author, comments on Hester’s influences. [read more]
Child road accident (1998)
The ambulance is called to assist fifth grader Peter, the victim of a car accident. Paramedic Tony Cuthbert comments on the need to insist on hospital care sometimes. [read more]
Sherlock is missing (2000)
Lauren (Jasmine Ellis) is horrified to discover that the nelf Horace (Frank Gallacher) has tricked her. Max’s (Jordan White) dog Sherlock has been sent to the animal shelter instead of the nelves. [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]
This is not your land (2002)
Vaughn (Damian Pitt) and Lena (Dannielle Hall) come to a cornfield. Both hungry, they decide to help themselves to the crop. The farmer catches them in the act. A heated exchange between Vaughn and the farmer leads to Lena questioning ... [read more]
Australian fauna and landscape (1930)
Members of the expedition party and others stand around the site of a large termite mound. Title cards then introduce the next sections which show a shark being caught, crocodiles being hunted, and cockatoos in flight. A pan across the ... [read more]
Family portraits (1926)
Members of the Gidney family sit or stand in the garden of their Mount Eliza home and pose for the camera. They smile, laugh, wave and talk in front of the camera. [read more]
‘Good evening’ (1978)
In the opening segment of The Naked Vicar Show, stars Ross Higgins, Kevin Golsby and Noeline Brown talk about political figures of the day. [read more]
‘No killing, no injuries, no mines’ (2004)
This clip is taken from the last few minutes of the film. Habiba is a victim of a landmine in Afghanistan who now has an artificial leg as a result. She speaks movingly about her wish for an end to ... [read more]
A small scientific satellite (1967)
In this clip the WRESAT Project is outlined, construction of the cone is shown, and a range of experiments carried out to test the satellite’s structural design are detailed. [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]
No time to waste (2007)
Fadi, the coach of his son’s Under 6 soccer team, holds a postmortem with the boys. Ahmed, one of the ICRA volunteers, collects the freshly printed ‘All Eyez on Youth’ posters and flyers and sets about distributing them. Back ... [read more]
