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An unlikely friendship (2003)
Van (Joe Le) returns to Carla’s (Daniela Italiano) backyard with a woman’s top he has stolen, hangs it on her Hills hoist clothes line, then goes to her flat and tells her it’s there. She asks if he has stolen ... [read more]
Adventure Island – Episode 1174 (1972)
This is the second-last episode of Adventure Island and the last to be broadcast on a Thursday. It includes a farewell to Thursday regular Maxie Mouse (a puppet operated and voiced by Ernie Bourne), who reads Dorothea Mackellar’s iconic poem ... [read more]
Tennant Creek – Sacred Dances (1999)
We are introduced to Tennant Creek through the eyes of the Moonga Moonga dancers (lady dancers), and the women’s dances belonging to this area. [read more]
Trespass (2002)
A documentary about Yvonne Margarula and the Mirarr people’s fight against the mining companies. Trespass is part of the Nganampa Anwernekenhe series produced by Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) Productions. Nganampa Anwernekenhe means 'ours’ in the Pitjantjatjara and ... [read more]
The Duke of Gloucester’s opening speech (1934)
On the steps of Parliament House in Melbourne, the Duke of Gloucester delivers a speech on behalf of his father King George V, which declares the city’s centenary celebrations open. At the conclusion of the speech, the crowd in attendance ... [read more]
Australia (1934)
Semi-professional filmmaker Gordon Donkin, accompanied by his wife, travelled more than 25,000 kilometres over 18 months filming throughout Australia. The resulting documentary presents a comprehensive and realistic picture of life and work in 1930s Australia with an emphasis on the ... [read more]
McLeod’s Daughters – Welcome Home (2001)
After the death of her father Jack, Claire McLeod (Lisa Chappell) is trying to get on with running the family cattle station, Drover’s Run. But the business is in serious debt and the men on the station are not taking ... [read more]
Difficult Pleasure: A Portrait of Brett Whiteley (1989)
A biographical documentary that follows Australian artist Brett Whiteley as he travels from his studio in Sydney to London. Whiteley started painting in the 1960s in London and Paris before returning to Sydney. He has painted landscapes, portraits, tributes to ... [read more]
One Night the Moon (2001)
One Night the Moon is a film based on events that took place in 1932, about a young girl who goes missing on the night of a full moon. Her family, though desperate to find her, fail to employ the ... [read more]
Mabo: An Address to the Nation (1993)
On 15 November 1993, Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating addresses the nation on his government’s response to the High Court Mabo decision which recognised native title for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. Outlining the history of the Mabo court case ... [read more]
Federal Capital Commission: Anti-Fly Campaign (c1928)
In 1929 the Federal Capital Commission’s Health Department launched a campaign to reduce blowfly and housefly numbers in Canberra. This public relations film produced by the Commission explains its anti-fly campaign. It depicts a series of familiar situations in which ... [read more]
Masterpiece Special – Wole Soyinka (1997)
The Nobel Laureate for literature in 1986, Wole Soyinka is in Australia for the 1997 Melbourne Writers’ Festival. He’s talking to Andrea Stretton about his early life in his native Nigeria and the terrible fate of his friend and fellow ... [read more]
Babakiueria (1986)
This is a drama pretending to be an ethnographic documentary examining the customs of the white natives of ‘Babakiueria’, from the perspective of the country’s black colonisers. Babakiueria is named as a result of first contact between the colonisers and ... [read more]
Desert Tracks (1997)
A film that speaks about the Pitjantjatjara people’s efforts to preserve vital cultural information in order to care for land by turning to tourism. [read more]
Skippy – Be Our Guest (1968)
Clancy (Liza Goddard) unwisely decides to go riding in the bush on the day her mother Mrs Merrick (Jessica Noad) is scheduled to visit. Thrown from her horse, dazed and lost, she is discovered by a group of Aboriginal men. ... [read more]
A Trip Along the River Murray (1925)
Surveying the settlements, townships and arable lands along the path of the Murray River, this silent documentary emphasises the river’s significance in Australia’s agricultural and natural history. [read more]
Poetry In Australia – Judith Wright (1963)
The poet Judith Wright (1915-2000) is introduced by well-known ABC broadcaster John Thompson in an interview that covers aspects of her early life on the land, her art as one of Australia’s premier poets and her activism as an ... [read more]
The Square (2008)
Married construction site manager Ray (David Roberts) is having an affair with Carla (Claire van der Boom), a neighbour who lives across the river in a leafy southern Sydney suburb. Carla persuades him to help her steal a bag of ... [read more]
Oyster Farmer (2004)
Jack Flange (Alex O’Loughlin) takes a job as an oyster farmer on the Hawkesbury River, north of Sydney. To help his sister (Claudia Harrison), who’s recuperating after a car accident, he robs an armoured van at the Sydney Fish Markets ... [read more]
The Sound of One Hand Clapping (1997)
In a remote Tasmanian worker’s camp in the winter of 1954, Slovenian immigrant Maria Buloh (Melita Jurisic) abandons husband Bojan (Kristof Kaczmarek) and their three-year-old daughter Sonja (Arabella Wain). Sent to live with family friends for many years, eight-year-old Sonja ... [read more]
