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All in a day’s work (1983)
Provisionary Constable Webber (Simon Burke) is on patrol with his more senior sergeant (Bill Hunter). When an alarm sounds at a local furrier, they’re sent to investigate. The rookie Constable is sent to check the back entrance while Sergeant O’Rourke ... [read more]
Dog watching (2006)
A car crawls along the street, and the boy in the front seat is looking intently at the dogs he sees on his journey. Dion Beasley is being driven around by his carer Joie Boulter so that Dion can indulge ... [read more]
‘What’s your favourite car, Australia?’ (c1976)
The ad features a montage of Australian outdoor scenes including the beach, sporting events (yachting, golf, cricket and football), the Australian flag and native fauna. These are intercut with 1970s Holden models. The advertisement employs a jingle sung by a ... [read more]
‘Life is beautiful’ (1991)
Marta (Sheila Florance) is dying. She has locked the door on her son and the landlord, but she allows Anna (Gosia Dobrowolska) into the flat. Anna gives Marta a dose of morphine, rather than see her taken back to hospital. ... [read more]
Patsy chooses a coffin (1999)
Bo (Russell Dykstra) takes his mother Patsy (Jeanie Drynan) to the funeral parlour, to choose a coffin. He runs into one of his classmates, Swifty (Marin Mimica), who has turned his woodworking classes to good use. Swifty offers his old ... [read more]
Rooftop party (1927)
This clip from a silent black-and-white cinema advertisement for Castlecrag Estate, a newly built suburb of Sydney, shows a group of women, possibly including Marion Mahoney, Walter Burley Griffin’s wife, enjoying afternoon tea overlooking Middle Harbour. It also shows a ... [read more]
‘She’s gone Tam, she’s dead’ (1985)
Excited with her selection for the State netball trials, Tam (Nadine Garner) runs home to tell her mother. Met by her uncle Mike (Nicolas Eadie) and crying brother Steve (Paul Smith), she is confronted with the news of her mother’s ... [read more]
‘You have cheesemaker’s hands’ (2004)
Tucked away in a beautiful valley in north-east Tasmania, is the tiny town of Pyengana where John Healy and his family have been raising dairy cattle and making cheddar cheese for over 100 years. [read more]
Miles jumps in (1991)
‘Dingo’ Anderson (Colin Friels) and Billy Cross (Miles Davis) visit a famous jazz club in Paris. Billy asks the bandleader, an old friend (Onzy Matthews), if his friend can sit in. ‘Dingo’ makes a big splash, but the place erupts ... [read more]
What is it like to die? (2003)
Children splash around in a desert waterhole. Penny (Kirsty McDonald), face down in the water, is holding her breath. Suddenly, she is pulled up. Her cousin Steven (Rhimi Johnson Page) demands to know what she was doing. She tells him, ... [read more]
‘No pecking order in poo’ (2006)
In the midst of a large outdoor festival, Kenny (Shane Jacobson) has to deal with a casual employee – a university student – who thinks the work is beneath him. When the uni student (Ant Keogh) tells him that a ... [read more]
Caring for a pet is hard work! (2005)
B Max has invented a robotic rabbit to keep the white rabbit company but it doesn’t work. Razzles makes a list about how to look after the rabbit, and in an animated sequence each of the dogs shows what they ... [read more]
Australian attitudes in the 1970s (1973)
Daddy Cool band member Ross Hannaford talks about how both city and country Australians are restless and wanting change. [read more]
Good mates (2005)
Craig Hamilton suffered a breakdown in 2000. He needed a good mate to talk to about the possibility of going public with his story. He found that friend in Paul Harrigan, the great Newcastle football legend. [read more]
‘We all need to keep calm’ (1997)
While making his deliveries, stock and station agent Bob (Bill Hunter) has spotted the car of the local policeman parked outside a neighbouring farmhouse. Interviewed later, he suggests the policeman should be ‘carpeted’ for dereliction of duty. His wife Gwen ... [read more]
‘A Milk Tray day today’ (c1955)
This clip contains three short advertisements, all with the jingle 'sing toora-lay it’s a Milk Tray day today’. The first is set in a fairground with a couple riding on a carousel. The man offers the woman Milk Tray chocolates ... [read more]
Barred (1993)
The 'blue heelers’ are relaxing at the Imperial Hotel after work when Bruce McLaren (Josh Picker) arrives. He’s just been released on bail after being charged with the rape of his girlfriend Sally-Anne. When Chris Reilly (Julie Nihill) orders him ... [read more]
Turning point (2003)
Bernie explains her struggles over the years to reach a competitive level of horseracing. She admits she couldn’t do it by herself, leading her to join forces with trainer Paul Sutherland. Bernie turns a corner with a thrilling win in ... [read more]
How democracy actually works (2001)
You can watch How Democracy Actually Works here in its entirety. In this episode of Leunig Animated, narrated by Sam Neill, Leunig’s little Man learns how our votes really count in the political process. [read more]
Lookin’ for a fight? (2004)
Urged on by his ever optimistic alter ego (Sean Ohlendorf), the not-so-brave Fergus (Sean Ohlendorf) rescues asthmatic Lambert (Michael Harrison) from local bully Richmond (Marcus Costello) and his mate Declan (Steven Bahnsen). Saved by a wheelie bin, Fergus escapes in ... [read more]
