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Bodalla (2000)

Romaine walks around Bodalla, New South Wales, the place where she grew up working on a bean farm. [read more]

Honey ant (2005)

A group of women sitting on the ground digging with digging sticks. One of the women speaks about how the poison that will be dumped by the government will destroy their bush foods – honey ants, goannas, kangaroo, emu, bush ... [read more]

Theme From ‘Blue Hills’ (1949)

This is the theme music and opening announcement from the long-running ABC radio drama Blue Hills (1949–76). [read more]

Always on my mind (2006)

Football players lined up ready to train, it is night-time. Non-Indigenous player Brad Taaffe speaks of three generations of his family growing up with Aboriginal people. Brad’s wife is Aboriginal, and Taaffe talks about the absence of racism. Chris ‘Offo’ ... [read more]

Advertising peace bonds (c1917)

This clip shows a horse-drawn wagon and car carrying animal cages belonging to the Colleano and Sole Brothers Circus, as they travel down a Melbourne street. Signs advertising peace bonds are erected on the cages of a lion and kangaroo. ... [read more]

‘Make him show you’ (1968)

This is part two of a television advertisement for three Holden HK sports coupes: the Monaro, Monaro GTS and Monaro GTS 327. The advertisement includes a jingle and male voice-over. [read more]

‘We can’t be beaten’ (2006)

A montage of black-and-white photos shows Luc and his mother at a younger age, and the suburban houses of Yagoona. Back in the present, we meet the team of friends – ex-junkie Boof (Jason McGoldrick); Terry the supermarket worker (Steven ... [read more]

Hell on wheels (1981)

An injured Max (Mel Gibson) has returned to the settler’s camp, after his car has been destroyed. He offers to drive the oil tanker for their breakout attempt. Humungus’s men line up to await his charge. Humungus has put Wez ... [read more]

Iron battleships (2000)

HMS Warrior was built by the British in 1860 to be the most advanced and deadly warship of its time. She carried 26 guns, was fuelled by coal and could sail at 14 knots. The Warrior heralded a new ... [read more]

Two sisters (2002)

Marnie (Carmen Glynn-Braun) is preparing breakfast for her younger sister (Savannah Glynn-Braun). The younger sister complains about being sick and says she does not want to go to school. Marnie ignores her protests, and walks her to the bus stop, ... [read more]

Judgement day (2005)

A secret surfing competition has been set up between Anna (Mara Scherzinger) and Joe (Matt Rudduck) to determine which of them gets the coveted seventh spot in the Solar Blue Surf Academy. Joe has chosen The Gallows, a treacherous surfing ... [read more]

‘Wearing out instead of rusting out’ (1978)

The Dulhuntys are going about their evening chores after a day on the lake. [read more]

Parcel Post (1988)

This is an Australia Post television commercial (TVC) promoting the organisation’s new corporate image and the Parcel Post service. [read more]

Lyons becomes prime minister (c1966)

In March 1931 Joe Lyons left the ruling Labor Party. He joined the new United Australia Party and became prime minister in January 1932. [read more]

Discovery is just a word (1984)

Historical footage of Indigenous people in both cultural activity and in the process of being institutionalised in the mission church. [read more]

Engineering works (c1926)

A steel saw, made from a plain steel disc without teeth, cuts through the girders using only friction. A man turns a wheel which pulls the disc through to cut the girder. The cut girder is then lifted by a ... [read more]

A safe central spot (1986)

Alone in her flat at night, overlooking the harbour, Liz reads Marge Piercy, talks about her psychiatrist, and laments the loss by theft of Steve’s poems. Evoking the mind-states depicted in the film Gaslight, she ponders the vagaries of her ... [read more]

Someone else’s land (2005)

Joanne Garngulkpuy talks about why people come to Darwin. John Greatorex tells us the history of the missions in the area, and how the different clans that were centralised in the settlements ended up living on land belonging to other ... [read more]

Tobacco (2001)

A young woman and two older women tell us the stories passed on from their old people about the massacre of Aboriginal people by white men in 1928. Painted depictions of the story run beneath the voice-over, giving it a ... [read more]

Henry ‘Breaker’ Morant (1973)

Using stock footage to accompany the voice-over, the narrator tells us, in detail, of the disputed circumstances of Morant’s birth in England, and of his arrival in Australia in 1884. We learn that as a young man in Western ... [read more]

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