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Musical paralysis (1995)
Australian composer Ross Edwards went to London to study composition. He worked obsessively in a damp flat and began to feel claustrophobic, which affected his work. He moved to the countryside of Yorkshire in Northern England and slowly began to ... [read more]
Dingo farm (1997)
Dingo farming is legal in Victoria. Dingo farms breed puppies for sale as domestic dogs. [read more]
Home to Galway (2004)
After her dramatic first visit to Australia, it’s early morning when Hannah (Lynn Styles) finally returns to her boarding school in Galway. Her roommate Tara (Danielle Fox-Clarke) is suspicious. Snooping around, she is surprised to find beach sand in Hannah’s ... [read more]
Forgetting about the past (1985)
Stuart Wilkins (David Kennedy) goes to a Sydney boarding school to find his son Tommy (Jamie Agius). The Catholic principal (Rhys McConnochie) tells him to come back when he has arranged it with the child’s mother. The boy’s grandfather (Ray ... [read more]
Radio astronomy (1950)
This clip introduces radio astronomy as a new branch of science that uses radio equipment rather than telescopes to study the stars and sun. A series of shots illustrate the design of the equipment. Receiving machines measure the intensity of ... [read more]
Singing history (1993)
Carmody is flipping through records. He stops to examine a book. He tells us about the images from the book, of kangaroos and landscape drawn from within white sensibility. He shows us many images of Aboriginal people, and how Aboriginal ... [read more]
‘You’ve ruined my children’ (1998)
Ari (Alex Dimitriades) comes home to a hostile reception from his father Dimitri (Tony Nikolakopoulos) and his mother Sophia (Eugenia Fragos), after being out all night. His father calls him an animal and tries to physically intimidate him; his mother ... [read more]
Contacts are not mates (1990)
Police Sergeant Micky McClintock (Gary Sweet) has abseiled down dozens of stories of one of the city’s tallest buildings to place himself in a position to talk to a 'jumper’, someone who’s threatening to suicide. [read more]
Hiding the pension cheques (1984)
Maggie (Ruth Cracknell) is convinced that if she doesn’t cash her pension cheques then the government will never know how much money she has and take some from her as taxation. [read more]
Cuc Lam’s suitcase (2004)
It may be just a small red vinyl suitcase but for Vietnamese refugee Cuc Lam it’s a symbol of a new beginning in a new country. [read more]
Ceremony day (2000)
Over images of food preparation, the narrator (Helen Anu) tells us that people also come from the other islands for the tombstone opening, as the people of the Torres Strait have many family connections. The covering of the tombstone is ... [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]
Farey family picnic (1932)
The Farey family enjoy a picnic on a river bank in the 1930s. They drink tea and throw stones into the river. Leslie Francis Farey captures this simple family picture on 16mm film, providing a social record for others to ... [read more]
Yeeralparil tries to be tricky (2006)
We are now in the older story, right back with the first ancestors. Ridjimiraril (Crusoe Kurddal) has gone hunting because his three wives are acting up. Banalandju (Sonia Djarrabalminym) and Nowalingu (Francis Djulibing) fight with each other. When all the ... [read more]
Li meets Liz (2009)
In the US, Li (Chi Cao) spots a student ballerina (Amanda Schull) practising and goes to help her. They talk and laugh as he holds her in the air. [read more]
Ocean Girl’s mysterious past (1995)
Jason (David Hoflin), Brett (Jeffrey Walker) and the kids from Orca find a spaceship buried beneath the sand in the badlands on Neri’s (Marzena Godecki) tropical island. Neri finds a way into the spaceship under the water, and she and ... [read more]
‘Togetherness’ (1964)
In this regular segment, Mavis Bramston stars Gordon Chater, Barry Creyton and Carol Raye present satirical ‘news items’ before launching into a rendition of ‘Togetherness’. Written by Barry Creyton, the song was performed every week, interspersed with spoken verses about ... [read more]
Loggers versus greenies (1990)
Loggers and greenies discuss issues as the environmentalists set up a blockade to prevent logging. Confrontation leads to accusations like 'parasites’ as the two sides confront each other at the logging site. [read more]
Making measurements (2005)
Mike Russ is no newcomer to the show. He’s introduced with a clip from one of the original Inventors programs from 1980, when he was a young man with a bright idea. Twenty years later, he’s still inventing. This time ... [read more]
‘Where are you blokes from?’ (1994)
After a drunken night at a pub in Broken Hill, the three drag artists – Mitzi (Hugo Weaving), Felicia (Guy Pearce) and Bernadette (Terence Stamp) – awake to find their bus defaced with an anti-gay slogan. They leave the city ... [read more]
