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Kay Nesbit (2001)

Effie (Mary Coustas) interviews gunshot victim Kay Nesbit. [read more]

They say opposites attract (1998)

Greg (Tamblyn Lord) loves Vicki’s (Susie Porter) playfulness but also tries to dampen it down. He wonders whether he’ll ever get his medical degree because she is such a distraction. His no-sex-before-marriage attitude drives her crazy but she redirects her ... [read more]

‘I know it can’t last’ (1965)

Nick (George Dixon) embraces Margot (Janina Lebedew). Margot knows their love cannot last. [read more]

‘Win some, lose some’ (1978)

Tony (Richard Moir) greets his old friend Jerry Maguire (Chris Haywood), who arrives in a souped-up Holden Monaro. Jerry explains that he’s doing well in his criminal pursuits, due to a new philosophy – look out for number one. [read more]

Abuse of language (1997)

Soyinka tells Andrea Stretton that, for him, society’s biggest traitors are those who abuse language: tyrants like Hitler that use their great oratorical and persuasive skills to mock human progress. [read more]

Hello Birdmann (2011)

Lucy (Emily Browning) vists her friend, Birdmann (Ewen Leslie). [read more]

‘That’d be a mistake’ (2008)

Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman) is confronted by cattle baron Neil Fletcher (David Wenham). Fletcher offers to buy Faraway Downs and use his influence to save Nullah (Brandon Walters) from being removed to a mission. Lady Sarah refuses his offer. [read more]

Ange and Annie (2007)

Ange and Annie were dating and decided to cool off. In this clip we witness their reunion. [read more]

For better and for worst (1993)

On home video, we see Ann and Jim exchange vows as they wed in prison in 1991. Jim expresses his love for his wife. Interviewed two years later, Jim describes how, upon release from prison, he killed her with a ... [read more]

Life’s expectations (1997)

An ethnic young man outlines his wishes for life: money, success in business and community respect. [read more]

‘I don’t believe in women’s lib’ (1994)

Over footage of her daily activities, Christine Waters, 35 year-old stepmother to three teenage sons, talks about her life with Ces. She acknowledges that she went against her parent’s wishes when she married, at 17, a man 22 years older. [read more]

Understory (1994)

Historical photographs and drawings of Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples and townships are intercut with contemporary images of Brisbane. [read more]

Dumb idiotic eating trauma (2000)

Presenter Rachael Oakes-Ash interviews dietician Matt O’Neill, who says that DIET stands for Dumb Idiotic Eating Trauma. He says dieting makes you fat. Fashion editor Charlotte Dawson says women diet to impress other women. [read more]

‘You can see all that?’ (2001)

Danny (Noah Taylor) has his palm read by Anya (Romane Bohringer). [read more]

‘I can’t go on like this’ (2000)

After arguing and physically tussling with her husband, Claire (Julia Blake) arrives on Andreas’s (Charles Tingwell) doorstep in an emotional state. She tells him she can’t go on like this, then that she wants to stay with him overnight. He ... [read more]

‘Stupid and infantile’ (1987)

On a return visit to Melbourne, Frank has had a heart attack. In hospital, Frank (Leo McKern) insists he will go back up north as soon as he can go, with or without Frances (Julia Blake). She reassures him that ... [read more]

Banned album covers (2002)

John Safran talks about album covers that were revised after their initial release. [read more]

Churchill feeding swans (1948)

This clip from a home movie filmed by Australian Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, in 1948 shows Sir Winston Churchill feeding swans, smoking a cigar and walking up to, and looking inside, a brick farmhouse. [read more]

Aussie bities (1956)

In this 1956 film Keith F Adams displays a funnel web spider and poisonous caterpillars on his hand as he says that they ‘should be considered highly dangerous’. Tiger, his fox terrier, digs up some mulga ants that sting him. [read more]

On location (2007)

Tom Chandon (Rob Carlton) and Nick (Darren Gilshenan) interview Daphne (Lynne McGimpsey) of ‘Aussie Pooch Mobile’ for Helen’s (Penne Hackforth-Jones) dog tribute video. [read more]

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