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Fraser has the numbers (1983)

Malcolm Fraser (John Stanton) is being interviewed by journalist Stuart Littlemore (playing himself). The Liberal leader will not be drawn on his party’s plans for the Supply Bill in the Senate. His desire to block Supply is assisted when a ... [read more]

Four Corners – The First Program (1961)

The very first broadcast of Four Corners went to air on Saturday 19 August 1961. There is no record of the program as it went to air but what remains is a compilation tape of the items that made up ... [read more]

Walk Into Paradise (1956)

As he’s heading for Australia on leave, senior patrol officer Steve McAllister (Chips Rafferty) is recalled to take a patrol into unmapped territory in the highlands of Australian-administered New Guinea. An old prospector, 'Sharkeye’ Kelly (Reg Lye), has discovered oil ... [read more]

Long Weekend (1978)

Peter (John Hargreaves) and his wife Marcia (Briony Behets) drive out of the city for a long weekend’s camping by the sea. They are barely speaking to each other and Marcia hates the outdoors. They get lost in the dense ... [read more]

Wambidgee (1962)

This puppet series, made by animator Robert Knapp, features the adventures of an Aboriginal boy called Wambigee. In the episode 'The Boomerang Maker’, Wambidgee makes a special boomerang for the chief of his clan. When Wambidgee travels to the ... [read more]

The Mavis Bramston Show – Series 2 Episode 1 (1965)

This is the first episode for 1965 of The Mavis Bramston Show, a weekly sketch and variety series featuring topical satire, sketches and songs. [read more]

The Cars That Ate Paris (1974)

Mild-mannered Arthur (Terry Camilleri) wakes up in a hospital in the quiet NSW country town of Paris after he and his brother have run off the road. The brother is dead. The mayor (John Meillon) takes Arthur under his ... [read more]

Floating Life (1996)

As China prepares to take control of Hong Kong in 1997, a Hong Kong Chinese family disperses around the world. Mr and Mrs Chan (Edwin Pang and Cecilia Fong Sing Lee), and two teenage sons, follow their second daughter Bing ... [read more]

HQ Kingswood Sedan: Holden, the Great Way to Move (c1971)

This is a black-and-white television advertisement for the Holden HQ Kingswood sedan. [read more]

Animal Kingdom (2010)

Josh Cody (James Frecheville), aka J, is a nervous 17 year old who moves in with his grandmother (Jacki Weaver), nicknamed ‘Smurf’, following the death of his junkie mother from an overdose. J’s mother had always kept him away from ... [read more]

It Isn’t Done (1937)

An English solicitor, Mr Potter (Leslie Victor), arrives at the Blaydon farm at Stony Creek, near Sydney. He tells Hubert Blaydon (Cecil Kellaway) that he’s the long-lost heir to an English estate. Now known as Lord Blaydon, Hubert sails for ... [read more]

‘The native problem’ (2005)

Historical footage of a newsreel titled The Native Problem in Queensland depicts John Bleakley, Chief Protector of Aborigines, removing Indigenous people to the mission reserves. [read more]

Lucinda Brayford (1980)

Lucinda Brayford (Wendy Hughes) is a lively and elegant but naive 18-year-old woman. Of her two suitors, Toorak socialite Tony Duff (Sam Neill) and British aristocrat Captain Hugo Brayford (Barry Quin), she chooses to marry the dashing, amoral Hugo who ... [read more]

Paper City Architects (2006)

Woodman (voiced by Paul Fletcher) is sent a mysterious bill by the Department of Debt. When he calls them to report the error, he gets tangled in a web of bureaucracy. [read more]

London, the Blitz, April 1941 (1941)

This clip from a home movie taken by Australian Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, captures London during the Blitz. It begins with an intertitle that introduces the subject and records that is ‘London the Blitz April 16th, 1941,’ 25 days ... [read more]

Angel Baby (1995)

Harry (John Lynch) falls instantly for Kate (Jacqueline McKenzie) when he sees her at the mental health clinic. She doesn’t hang around with psychos, she tells him, but her feelings change when she receives a sign from her favourite television ... [read more]

The Last True Action Hero (1995)

The fire and rescue service has always attracted recruits. The film follows young trainee fire fighters as they experience the dangers and challenges of their chosen profession. We learn that team thinking and reliance on others are key characteristics of ... [read more]

HMAS Sydney’s Carley float (2004)

A tiny, war-ravaged liferaft from the HMAS Sydney is our only physical link to Australia’s worst-ever naval disaster. [read more]

Grendel Grendel Grendel (1980)

The animated feature Grendel Grendel Grendel is introduced by co-producer Phillip Adams, who discusses the role of monsters in the human imagination as a prelude to the film’s ‘venerable’ monster, Grendel (voiced by Peter Ustinov). The film’s early sequences depict ... [read more]

The wool industry (1938)

A close-up of a ‘modern stud’ sheep is shown to be the product of a ‘century’s breeding’. Sheep are hand-shorn by manual clippers; a flock of sheep at shearing season is shown; sheering sheds are filled with men shearing sheep ... [read more]

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