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Demand for rental subsidies (1939)
Men and women sign a petition for a 'Fair Rents Court’. This is followed by a sequence of news headlines about the petition. A letter drop is sent to rent payers urging them to demand a rent subsidy. More news ... [read more]
In and around Hamilton District (1920)
Fruit pickers pick peaches off trees and empty their bags into a trough. They then sort the peaches into crates and hammer them closed for transportation. Four women arrive by truck and eat the peaches, demonstrating how delicious the peaches ... [read more]
Surfer girl (2004)
Brett (Zachary Garred) makes Hannah (Lynn Styles) enter the surfing competition to maintain the story they told his mother Jackie (Kirsty Hillhouse). Hannah can barely swim and almost drowns in the shallows. She is utterly furious with him. [read more]
Working as a dominatrix (2005)
Jabe is lying on the floor behind a small toy house. She lifts off the roof and we see a television inside. Jabe watches herself speaking with a friend. Images of Jabe working as a dominatrix are intercut with an ... [read more]
Evelyn clashes with everyone (1999)
Evelyn Spence (Maya Stange) takes the side of the villagers against Reverend Macgregor (John Howard) at a funeral because he wants them to use the Christian graveyard and change their usual practices. Upon her return home, she and Dr Phillip ... [read more]
Wokabout Marketing (1996)
Andrew Rose is a marketing executive based in Port Moresby. He organises a troupe of actors who perform vignettes in remote villages to promote the purchase of Western goods. Omo, the washing powder, is demonstrated. [read more]
Mustering (1996)
Tess (Kym Wilson) musters cattle with her new team – Rosa (Mercia Deane-Johns), Jodie (Simone Kessell), Becky (Maya Stange) and Meg (Kris McQuade) – and is delighted when they are joined by her previously reluctant sister Claire (Tammy MacIntosh). Claire’s ... [read more]
‘I’m going to Nashville’ (1997)
Ralph (Matt Day) attempts to fix the car after driving through the night with Boyd (Richard Roxburgh) and Patsy (Miranda Otto), two big-city types in a rush to get to Sydney. Boyd’s impatience causes an injury to Ralph’s hand. He ... [read more]
Graeme Murphy (1988)
Choreographer Graeme Murphy directs dancers in rehearsal for a cricket ballet. We then see the Sydney Dance Company performing the ballet, and end with Murphy talking about what he looks for in Australian dancers as we see a rehearsal of ... [read more]
Getting a job (1969)
Molony is driving through the suburbs of Canberra talking to interviewer Robin Hughes about how he went about finding a job after so many years in the church. Without a reference from his former colleagues, and too proud to ask ... [read more]
‘We need you’ (1996)
Stockman Patrick (Robert Mammone) has broken the news to his girlfriend Becky (Maya Stange) that he is leaving town after a falling out with the McLeod sisters. He and the other staff are unwilling to take orders from a woman ... [read more]
Misty fantasises about adoption (2006)
Spit (James Fraser) angers Misty (Lee Cormie) by claiming to have a special bond with Fearless (Sullivan Stapleton), who is down on the beach with Teresa (Victoria Hill). Three nuns appear in Misty’s daydream, reassure him that he is the ... [read more]
Nobody is listening (2007)
Newspaper editor Rami Khouri argues that modern political history has generated terrorism and that the situation will worsen if this is not recognised. Journalist Robert Fisk notes that when new footage of Osama Bin Laden surfaces the focus is always ... [read more]
Bondi bush baby (1936)
Chut explores his forest world, hopping about madly, as his mother keeps a watchful eye. He encounters many strange things – a koala moving from one tree to another and a bossy emu that chases him, until an older kangaroo ... [read more]
‘Who’s paying my bus fare?’ (2003)
Johnny Spitieri (David Wenham) is giving evidence before the Criminal Intelligence Commission, inquiring into the corrupt dealings of a Gold Coast accountant, Warren Halliwell. Spitieri confuses the QC, Mr Dent (Jonathan Biggins), and then demands to know who’s paying his ... [read more]
Collective unconscious (1996)
Filmmaker George Miller explains the universal appeal of cinema, using Mad Max as an example. [read more]
‘Look and put’ (1988)
Australian landscape painter Clifton Pugh explains how he approaches painting the Australian bush from a subjective viewpoint. [read more]
‘Little baby one’ (1993)
A family are looking for bush potato, a much-loved favourite. Women using tools to dig up the potato show us that it takes great effort to gather it – but, we are told, the expenditure of energy is worth it. [read more]
Li’s first triumph (2009)
Li’s (Chi Cao) first public appearance in a leading role with the Houston Ballet is a triumph – one watched with pride by his US mentor Ben (Bruce Greenwood) from the audience, and his girlfriend Liz (Amanda Schull) at home ... [read more]
One way trip (2009)
With the din of humming bees ever-present, Australia’s largest live honeybee exporter, Warren Taylor, gives a tour of his apiary. Bees are being smoked out of their hives, collected and crated to be shipped off to the United States in ... [read more]
