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Boys’ boarding school (1981)
Michael Blakemore remembers that excellence in sport was the main criteria for success in his boarding school. [read more]
‘You reckon we’re doing any good by being here?’ (1979)
Harry (Graham Kennedy) sets Bung (John Hargreaves) straight about the War: the 'commos’ will win and no-one at home in Australia will thank them for going. He tells Dawson (Graeme Blundell) that the rich don’t fight wars, but that poor ... [read more]
‘Jack was different’ (2001)
David Meredith (Matt Day) visits his brother Jack Meredith (Simon Lyndon) who is at an army training camp before being sent off to fight the great fight in some foreign land. Tragedy strikes, just as David is discussing his brother’s ... [read more]
Shoved in front of a camera (1996)
When Judy Davis was chosen to play the lead in My Brilliant Career (1979), she was 23 and a recent graduate of NIDA. Under the gentle prompting of interviewer Andrea Stretton, Judy Davis recalls the ... [read more]
Between Japan and Australia (1989)
This clip begins with Chiaki Foster speaking to camera about her love of bingo and poker machines. She is filmed playing bingo and heard in voice-over speaking about the friends she has made. Her daughter reflects on her mother’s enjoyment ... [read more]
Corporate image (1988)
This is an Australia Post television commercial (TVC) promoting the organisation’s new corporate image. [read more]
McDonaldising prisons (2000)
A range of experts express concern that privatised prisons in Australia have increased the available cells in prisons, leading to an increase in the prison population. Interviewees include Father Peter Norden of Jesuit Social Services and Richard Bourke, secretary of ... [read more]
‘Multiple personalities’ (1997)
Costume designer Lizzy Gardiner interviews the head of drama for the Seven Network, Jonathan Holmes, about the longevity of young soap stars. Gardiner also speaks to Isla Fisher about being a star of TV serials. Fisher says she has to ... [read more]
An honourable man (1974)
Prime Minister Billy Hughes (Martin Vaughan) and his secretary, Percy Deane (Harold Hopkins), are playing golf to unwind from the stresses of parliament. The conscription referendum has just been lost by Hughes. His golf ball disappears into the rough. Angry ... [read more]
‘Sam Griffiths’ (1953)
As part of an oral history recorded by John Meredith, Jack Luscombe sings ‘Sam Griffiths’, a satirical political song about a Queensland politician of the late 19th century. [read more]
Menzies home movies (2006)
This montage of clips from the Menzies Home Movie Collection features footage from Menzies’ wartime tour in 1941, including Tobruk, Palestine, Cairo, Jerusalem, Khartoum and England during the Blitz. It ends with close-ups of the ‘Rulers of England’ including the ... [read more]
Carnival scenes, Melbourne (1918)
This clip includes scenes from a carnival held in aid of blind returned soldiers in May 1918. Consisting of a combination of still and panning shots, the scene captures groups of people in the crowd including a singing group dressed ... [read more]
Beyond belief (2007)
In interviews, two Jordanians – journalist Rana Husseini and Dr Amal A Sabbagh (experts on honour killings) – both dispute Khouri’s claims in the book and enumerate factual errors. Interwoven with these interviews are re-enactments, animations and Khouri reading from ... [read more]
Three friends reunited (2000)
Lorrpu (John Sebastian Pilakui) dreams of when he and his friends were initiated, as Botj (Sean Mununggur) arrives back from three months in jail. Their friend Milika (Nathan Daniels) is a young football star, but he and Lorrpu have been ... [read more]
‘This is a black country’ (2005)
Greg tells us that there is no such thing as an Aboriginal person. There are Waddi Waddi, Gubbi Gubbi, Warlpiri, but the Aboriginal person does not exist. He offers an explanation of the necessity to strengthen blood ties. [read more]
‘Bonza is tops, Bonza is ace!’ (1992)
Poss (Erin Pratten) is astonished when the spruikers from the ‘Bonza’ cereal TV advertisement come right out of the TV set and into the living room. They persuade Poss and her friend Kim (Maria Nguyen) that buying ‘Bonza’ breakfast cereal ... [read more]
Backyard betting (1938)
This newsreel segment begins with a title card which sums it up nicely: ‘slums, illegal gambling and SP bookmaking is a real and vital problem confronting the governments of Australia today’. Following newspaper headlines, the story unfolds to place illegal ... [read more]
Social justice (1991)
Michael Leunig sees our inability to say 'enough is enough’ as a problem while John Howard considers it to be the acceptable price of progress. [read more]
Civil administration training (c1963)
This clip outlines achievements in training of local Papua New Guineans by the Australian civil administration. [read more]
Presidential vs Westminster system (1971)
The eminent Papuan politician John Guise is asked whether he favours a presidential or Westminster parliamentary style of government for his newly emerging country. Guise insists that whatever system is chosen must be the one that best suits the needs ... [read more]
