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Keating Speech: The Redfern Address (1992)

On 10 December 1992, at the official opening of the United Nations International Year of the World’s Indigenous Peoples in Redfern Park New South Wales, the then Prime Minister the Honourable Paul J Keating made a landmark speech which influenced ... [read more]

The con and the shrink (1995)

Prison psychologist Louisa Correlli (Deborra-Lee Furness) meets convicted felon Kevin Jones (Hugh Jackman) for the first time and is concerned by his apparent inability to perform simple tasks. The damage seems to have been done by an unreported beating that ... [read more]

The Birdsville Track (1954)

A pan across a skeleton-littered desert of ‘prehistoric bones’ sets the scene. As the camera sweeps across this vast landscape, the voice-over narration tells of the Aborigines, explorers, settlers, prospectors and drovers who travelled up and down the land defying ... [read more]

Go the guts (2002)

Gary Black’s voice (Nathan Phillips) introduces the story: The Prospect Bay Australian Rules football team has made the grand final for the first time in years. The coach, the local butcher (Kevin Harrington), gives a post-game rant to his young ... [read more]

A Big Country – The Prices (1979)

A pioneering family has taken over a cattle station at Cape York and is trying to make a go of it. [read more]

Running the gauntlet (1995)

Louisa Correlli (Deborra-Lee Furness) runs the daily gauntlet from the gate of Blackstream Prison past the inmates in the exercise yards to her place of work in the prison’s psychology unit. [read more]

The rules of the game (1987)

This is an Australia Post television commercial (TVC) promoting Intelpost, the international electronic postal service. [read more]

‘The colour of the bricks’ (1999)

Surfer Daisuke (Toshiyuki Chiba) is about to return to Japan to work for his father, a butcher. He captures the people and places around him on camcorder, including his housemates Hana (Mikiko Ooka) and Tetsu (Jun Iwasaki). [read more]

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]

The Wintergarden Theatre (1929)

This silent clip begins with a title card announcing that the Wintergarden Theatre is the 'first theatre in the world to present a completely new invention in Talking Picture Equipment’. This is followed by an exterior shot of the Wintergarden ... [read more]

The one day of the year (1962)

The high point of the Melbourne Royal Agricultural Show each day is the Grand Parade. For this great moment each year, the workhorses are brushed, combed and groomed to take their place in the parade. [read more]

Going Down (1983)

Karli (Tracy Mann) is going to New York to escape her out-of-control life in Sydney. On her last night, three girlfriends take her out on the town. Jackie (Julie Barry) buys some speed at a nightclub as a going away ... [read more]

Starring – the house (1988)

The real estate agent (Peter Felmingham) comes to look over the Georgallis family home and makes a few suggestions on how it could be improved for sale, upsetting most of the family along the way. His reaction to Con’s masterpiece ... [read more]

‘Mind the curve’ (1988)

In 1885 Melbourne introduced the cable tram for citizens to commute. The clip includes shots of children and adults in and on horse-drawn vehicles, bicycles and a steam-hauled train. We also shots of a steam tram in Sydney. There are ... [read more]

The Black Road: on the front line of Aceh’s war (2005)

American journalist William Nessen visits Aceh, the Northern Province of Indonesia, to report on Aceh’s struggle for independence from the Indonesian Government. Nessen makes friends with the Indonesian army commander in order to gain access to information and filming opportunities. ... [read more]

The natural vegetation of the alpine country (1955)

The make-up and ecological function of the alpine country’s natural vegetation is detailed. By the 1950s continual clearing for grazing pasture had destroyed much of this natural environment. [read more]

The service begins (1965)

This clip is from a black-and-white live broadcast of a Catholic church service in the Mary Magdalene Roman Catholic Church in Rose Bay. The cantor begins a hymn and the congregation join in as the choirboys and the clergy arrive ... [read more]

The drawbridge skit (1972)

Sir Lancelot uses a novel way to solve the problem when the drawbridge is up. He is followed by Merlin who also gets into the castle fairly easily but the unfortunate Jester is not so lucky. [read more]

The Silver Brumby – Friends of the High Country (1996)

In this, the first episode of 39 in The Silver Brumby series, Thowra (John Higginson) meets the beautiful Boon Boon (Rebecca Gibney) who is greatly taken by him. Unfortunately, she is The Brolga’s (John Stanton) daughter so the young couple ... [read more]

The battle for the Middle East (2002)

One of the great artillery battles of the Second World War was fought in the desert near El Alamein. The extent of the battle was seen from the air by an Australian fighter pilot who later shot down an Italian ... [read more]

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