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‘Scarcely black at all’ (1978)
After a night in jail for drunkenness, Jimmie Blacksmith (Tommy Lewis) joins the Reverend Neville (Jack Thompson) and Mrs Neville (Julie Dawson), his guardians, for Sunday lunch. He promises never to do it again, and outlines his plan to get ... [read more]
Paul Keating multiple choice (1989)
Host Wendy Harmer interviews an audience member about then prime minister Bob Hawke’s resolution to clean up the language of politicians in parliament. [read more]
Prime Minister Andrew Fisher and King O’Malley (1913)
This clip shows prime minister Andrew Fisher and King O’Malley, minister for home affairs, laying a foundation stone each. There is a pan across the crowd in attendance. [read more]
About nomads (1996)
Robyn Davidson explains how she came to be attached for nearly two years, without speaking a common language, to one of the last bands of nomadic people roaming India as they have done for millennia. [read more]
New beginnings (1953)
Shot documentary-style, this early sequence shows the film’s four young Italian male migrants (Giuseppe Michelini, Luigi Borsi, Giuseppe Cusato, Giorgio Mangiamele) on deck and disembarking from their migrant ship in Melbourne. [read more]
‘From little things big things grow’ (1993)
This is the full version of 'From Little Things Big Things Grow’ recorded for Kev Carmody’s album 'Bloodlines’ (1993). [read more]
It Isn’t Done (1988)
Filmmaker Ken G Hall talks about directing Cecil Kellaway in It Isn’t Done (1937). [read more]
‘I can’t leave, not now’ (2006)
John (Mark Constable) tells wife Emily (Victoria Hill) he needs to help uncle Tom by righting wrongs of the past. Unaware that son Edward (Wiiliam Traegar) is listening, Emily angrily tells John that uncle Tom is dead. [read more]
A law of probability (2004)
Frankie (Claudia Karvan) and Tom (Brendan Cowell) talk on the lawn outside their house. After Tom’s recent trip to hospital to have his stomach pumped, Frankie is worried about him. [read more]
‘You’ve changed’ (1978)
Angela (Sigrid Thornton) accepts a lift from Daryl (Vincent Gil), her ex-boyfriend. Daryl cannot accept the end of the relationship and asks Angela why she has changed so much. [read more]
Stupid dog! (2000)
Horace reluctantly helps Tina find Max’s (Jordan White) dog Sherlock at the animal refuge. [read more]
‘Who’s this Mullet bloke?’ (2001)
Eddie (Ben Mendelsohn) visits Tully (Susie Porter) at the kindergarten where she works. She punches him in the mouth, as a warm welcome home. He is dismayed to find out she’s married to his brother Pete. In the police station, ... [read more]
Cornfield surfing in Nebraska (2008)
Jonno and Stefan surf a Nebraska cornfield. In South Dakota they meet Chad and surf the roof of his barn. [read more]
‘What did you do last night?’ (2000)
After making love with Andreas, Claire (Julia Blake) has breakfast with her husband John (Terry Norris), who asks what she did last night. After being vague, if not untruthful, she reveals she slept with another man but he refuses to ... [read more]
Gurindji country (1999)
Darwin sky at dusk, then a map that illustrates the distance between where Kingarli was buried and the place where she was born – the same place her son Speedy and daughter Kathy Mills are trying to have her returned. [read more]
‘Things to sort out’ (2006)
At the isolated farmhouse he has inherited, John (Mark Constable) hears voices from his past. He asks wife Emily (Victoria Hill) and son Edward (William Traegar) to stay at a motel while he sorts things out. [read more]
‘Wipeout’ (1982)
Paul Landers (Steve Railsback) and Chris Walters (Olivia Hussey) seize an assault vehicle from their hunters and lead a prison breakout. Government jets are dispatched to Camp 47, with orders to wipe out the facility if order is not restored. ... [read more]
Passionate about shoes (2004)
Not content with designing beautiful shoes, Donna-May Bolinger likes to dedicate each design to some imaginary muse. She shows us her latest, the shoe of a circus performer who she imagines was a highwire artiste during the 1920s and ’30s, ... [read more]
Like a bower bird (2003)
Naomi Goodsir talks about how she developed as a milliner. In the early days, she could only afford to flat pattern and so developed the origami style of designing her creations for which she’ll use any unusual material she finds. [read more]
Check out your new neighbours! (2004)
Fergus (Sean Ohlendorf) and his father Don McPhail (Brett Swain) arrive in Melbourne on the bus, and it’s an embarrassing experience for Fergus. Their arrival at their new home in front of Sophie (Megan Harrington) and Angela (Heli Simpson), two ... [read more]
