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Shickered (1935)

Grandad Rudd (Bert Bailey) and Mr Banks (Bill Stewart) leave the pub in a state of complete inebriation. Mr Banks offers Mr Rudd a lift on his horse. Back at the Rudd household, Mrs Banks (Marie D’Alton) and her daughter ... [read more]

Olympic Dam (2007)

Filmmaker David Bradbury goes to Olympic Dam (BHP Billiton mine site), near Roxby Downs in South Australia. When he tries to film, he is stopped by a security guard. He finds another way to film, shooting footage from a ... [read more]

Dreams (1984)

A young girl practises the piano and dreams of becoming a renowned concert pianist whilst her cat dances, juggles and dreams of fish. [read more]

Unmarried, pregnant and alone (2006)

After more than 30 years, a woman recalls the most terrifying moment of her life as if it were yesterday. It was the 1960s and she was pregnant in a country town. Too afraid to tell her family, she fled ... [read more]

Postpak (1988)

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

‘You embarrass us’ (1994)

Muriel (Toni Collette) joins her friends, once the in-crowd from high school, at a local club. Tania (Sophie Lee) has discovered her new husband is having an affair. The others invite Tania to dump him and come on a holiday ... [read more]

‘Never lie to me’ (1991)

Martin (Hugo Weaving) and new friend Andy (Russell Crowe) look at the pictures Martin took the previous night, when they took an injured cat to the vet. Martin asks Andy to describe each picture in less than ten words. He ... [read more]

‘Al Qaeda eats here’ (2011)

Hakim (Robert Rabiah) reveals he has been the butt of racist practical jokes and insults by his colleagues. [read more]

Mimic warfare (1917)

This Australasian Gazette exclusive story from 1917 shows troops from the Engineers’ Depot rehearsing a raid on enemy trenches. Soldiers are instructed by their commanding officers by telephone. [read more]

Toula wants to dance (1998)

Ari (Alex Dimitriades) dances a males-only traditional Greek dance in the ‘Steki’, admired by the man he has gone there to meet, Sean (Julian Garner) and Sean’s date, Ariadne (Katerina Kotsonis). The whole place is silenced when Johnny (Paul Capsis) ... [read more]

‘I just want a room’ (1986)

Frank (John Hargreaves) comes to rent the spare room at Malcolm’s house. He has seen a notice in the milk bar up the street, but he’s surprised to hear that Mrs T (Beverley Phillips) and the neighbour Jenny (Judith Stratford) ... [read more]

Clever daughters, wayward son (1999)

Victor (Linal Haft) has lunch with his three daughters as his only son Bo (Russell Dykstra) arrives home from prison. Bo’s father will not allow him into the house so he dumps his gear in the shed. While Victor commiserates ... [read more]

Oratory (1990)

One of the important men in the village is speaking very loudly and angrily about how people in the village are not ready for any celebration and that Waiko and his family are in too much of a hurry. Waiko ... [read more]

‘Swimmin’ … that’s for white fellas’ (1996)

Aboriginal kids cling to the fence that keeps them out of the pool area. In the pool, Koorine (Carrie Prosser) races a young girl (Megan Drury). They talk about being like Dawn Fraser and Esther Williams. Koorine’s friend convinces her ... [read more]

Esther’s duck is murdered (2007)

At her mother’s insistence, Esther Blueburger (Danielle Catanzariti) returns her pet duckling, 'Normal’, to school for the weekend so it will be out of the way during her bat mitzvah. On her return to school, she goes to a science ... [read more]

‘A kind of tribe’ (1969)

Rex Stapleton (Bruce Anderson) explains his idea of a new tribe of young urban intellectuals to Sarah Gardiner (Eileen Chapman), at a party. Noel Oakshot (David Turnbull) declares he’s no longer a part of that tribe, especially if it pretends ... [read more]

‘You hardly even knew him’ (2002)

Charlie (Vince Colosimo) has already privately complained about a crying woman who he reckons had only met Gavin twice. When she can’t stop crying he loses his temper and shouts at her. [read more]

Montclare, 1950 (1982)

Linda Stevens (Jacki Kerin) reads her mother’s diary. In 1950 Montclare was converted into a retirement home. [read more]

Background (2007)

As part of the medical process Rachel talks with a psychologist, Dr Marie O’Shea. [read more]

Poetry (1980)

Three elderly women residents of the Kurmala Nursing Home, in Sydney, read poetry which they have written about their experiences of old age. [read more]

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