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‘Do you believe in God?’ (2005)

At a Saturday morning cricket match, Nick (William McInnes) asks his colleague Andy (Anthony Hayes), the journalist who covered the death on the train tracks the night before, if he believes in God. Andy glares at him, like he has ... [read more]

‘Most children adore Vegemite’ (1948)

As young mothers take their children to baby health centres, clinics and day nurseries around the country, a male voice-over outlines the good work that these places are doing for young Australians. In the waiting room of a baby health ... [read more]

Cremation (1988)

The workers explain the cremation process in explicit detail. [read more]

Family killing (1994)

Three sisters, Chessy, Josie and Natalia, now teenagers, recall how their father shot their mother and then himself in front of them. [read more]

‘So where are youse from?’ (2008)

Tarek (Les Chantery) and Nabil (Buddy Dannoun) buy drinks for two glamorous Caucasian Australian women in a trendy inner-city nightclub, but their attempts at small-talk are strained, especially when it comes to the subject of their Lebanese Muslim heritage. Later, ... [read more]

A deal and a bet (1958)

Smiley (Keith Calvert) arrives home with Sergeant Flaxman (Chips Rafferty). His mother (Margaret Christensen) thinks he’s in trouble again, but the policeman explains their new deal: if Smiley can be of good behaviour long enough to get eight nicks on ... [read more]

Straight talk from an ex-girlfriend (1999)

Barky (Marty Denniss) goes to see his former girlfriend Lanny (Leah Vandenberg) at the bookshop where she works. She asks him about his brother Wace. Barky is upset when she says that his failure to talk to his brother is ... [read more]

Crime scene (2002)

The Kingsway major crime squad try to make sense of the crime scene, after the groom was gunned down at a wedding. Outside, Harriet Walker (Freya Stafford) speaks to the bride Francesca Decia (Bianca Biasi) while Sophia Marinkovitch (Brooke Satchwell) ... [read more]

‘I need you’ (2007)

Alex (Shaun Evans) meets Taylor (Scott Mechlowicz) outside a hostel in Kings Cross, Sydney. They spend a night carousing with two girls that Taylor knows. Alex wakes up beside one of them the next morning as Taylor takes a Polaroid. ... [read more]

‘This strange and fascinating people’ (1986)

Presenter Duranga Manika (Michelle Torres) describes her fascination with white people and their customs and explains how she spent six months living with a ‘typical white family’ (Tony Barry, Cecily Polson, Kelan Angel, Margeurita Haynes). She also asks members of ... [read more]

‘Invite me again, alone’ (2009)

In the wake of his brother Tom’s death, John Keats (Ben Whishaw) visits Mrs Brawne (Kerry Fox) and her children, Fanny (Abbie Cornish), Toots (Edie Martin) and Samuel (Thomas Brodie-Sangster). Fanny presents Keats with a pillowslip she has embroidered and ... [read more]

Beech trees (1983)

The Antarctic beech trees grow to 50 metres and lives for up to 1,000 years in the cool temperate rainforest. As children we learn to fear forests as the home of witches and wolves. But this forest is full of ... [read more]

Husbands see red over Purple (1973)

Alvin relaxes in a pool, with friends. He is determined to give up sex. He asks Tina (Elli Maclure) if she agrees that their friendship is based on an absence of sex – she asks how he knows that it ... [read more]

Emperor penguin rookery (1993)

After being snowed in for five days the husky dog team pulls the sledge with two men aboard to observe the emperor penguin rookery in the Antarctic. [read more]

Distorted beliefs (1996)

Images of skulls and physiognomies of Indigenous peoples are treated as scientific specimens and data. [read more]

Bush coconut (1999)

A group of women are collecting bush coconuts, with a younger woman climbing the tree to collect them. She throws them down to the older women. A woman breaks one open whilst holding it in the palm of her hand, ... [read more]

Spiny anteater (1995)

The echidna can adjust to harsh conditions by living underground and reducing its body temperature to reach a state of suspended animation, or torpor. We see a scientist measuring the animal’s heartbeat. [read more]

Off to war (1973)

In 1899, Australian volunteers set sail for South Africa to fight in the Boer War. 'Breaker’ Morant was one of them. A soldier sketched Morant and sent it to 'The Bulletin’. [read more]

Mush (1993)

It’s minus 40 degrees in the Antarctic, as the husky dog team pull the sledge with two Australians aboard. [read more]

An open letter (2005)

Monica tells us why she felt obliged to make public her letter to her cousin, Cardinal George Pell, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney. It’s a heart-rending appeal to a family member to treat her as a human being and ... [read more]

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