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The biggest vet practice in the world (1984)
Veterinary surgeon, David Bradley, lives in Kununurra in north Western Australia. His practice stretches from Port Hedland Western Australia to Mt Isa Queensland and to Darwin and Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. Bradley flies himself to work, the distance ... [read more]
World government response to bird flu (2005)
How much should governments spend in preparation for the potential outbreak of airborne bird flu? The worst case scenario is catastrophic. [read more]
‘Without a care in the world’ (2006)
Zef (voiced by Jono Wood) and his little elephant brother Tutu (voiced by Emily Hunt) laughingly recount their latest adventures with playmate zebras while cooling off in a waterhole. The narrators, a pair of cheetahs (voiced by Len Firth and ... [read more]
The poet as novelist (1988)
This clip is from an interview Dinny O’Hearn conducted with David Malouf that ranges widely across his writing. He talks about writing two books concurrently and discusses his earliest novels, Johnno (1975) and An Imaginary Life (1978). [read more]
‘One of the world’s finest boulevards’ (1929)
This clip shows St Kilda Road and Flinders Street Station, Melbourne in approximately 1929. Commuters spill out of the train to the main intersection outside the railway station. [read more]
‘This is the real world, Eddie!’ (2005)
Eddie (David Wenham) and his wife Tanya (Frances O’Connor) argue one morning about money. She has lost her contract at the university, and hasn’t been able to tell him. He has always been the practical one of the two, but ... [read more]
‘The luckiest chicks in the world’ (2008)
Sisters Ella (Laura Gordon) and Taylor (Charlotte Gregg) leave a meeting with Alphonse Gangitano (Vince Colosimo) in a car driven by Carl Williams (Gyton Grantley). The sisters were due to testify against Gangitano after seeing him commit a murder. Gangitano ... [read more]
The Ginnane factor (2008)
American director Quentin Tarantino cites Antony I Ginnane as the leading producer of Australian exploitation movies. Ginnane and others involved in his film Snapshot (1978) discuss its marketing in the US, where it was released as The Day After ... [read more]
Red Cross activities (1919)
Female Red Cross volunteers are shown mixing ingredients and sifting flour to prepare cakes and biscuits, cutting and sewing material, and spinning wool at spinning wheels. [read more]
Food preparation (1919)
Female Red Cross volunteers weigh and cut up vegetables (including pumpkins and potatoes) and fill jars. Soldiers carve and paint wooden toy animals while the women make stuffed dolls. [read more]
‘We all have lives’ (1998)
A round table discussion with the chief justice of the High Court, Sir Gerard Brennan, and justices Mary Gaudron, John Toohey, Kenneth Hayne and William Gummow in which they reveal that they, also, live in the real world with families ... [read more]
Goodbye sunny New South Wales (1917)
Soldiers are despatched to the front during the First World War in a public parade in Sydney to encourage recruitment. [read more]
Five little Petals (1997)
The opening titles introduce the Petals and their world, a ramshackle garden that they call home. [read more]
Snowy Mountains Scheme opened (1974)
The Governor-General opens the Snowy Mountains Scheme in 1974. It is one of the world’s greatest engineering achievements. [read more]
Anzac Day 1946 (1946)
This colour home movie clip shows the official Anzac Day parade through central Sydney one year after the end of the Second World War in 1946. [read more]
Nightmare (1989)
The three characters – the Redhead (Robin Laurie), the Investigator (Rose Wanganeen) and the Hothead (Kaarin Fairfax) – each feel the threat from world events outside themselves. [read more]
Giving peace a chance (2003)
This clip features an interview with Sarah Davies, a Quaker who comes from a family of Quakers. Her grandfather was a conscientious objector during the Second World War. Sarah herself has travelled with the World Council of Churches to Israel ... [read more]
Down the drain (2005)
This is the opening sequence, introducing the real-world characters Mary Jane and Stanley Staines and their crazy, imaginative mutant friends and monster foes from the drain – a perilous and fascinating world that they enter through a portal in the ... [read more]
School (2004)
Ricco sits amongst a group of children roughly the same age as himself. They are learning about maps of the world, as well as Warlpiri. [read more]
Pauline Frederick (1924)
Pauline Frederick, a world famous actress from the stage and screen, poses for the camera showing off her new sophisticated bob haircut. She wears a cloche hat and a fox stole. [read more]
