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Boy meets girl (2002)

Charlie (Wayne Munro) is in the shop. His head is turned by a stranger from the city. Charlie is getting served when he notices the stranger has dropped her wallet. Charlie rings the stranger with the intention of returning her ... [read more]

Manmoyi (2001)

Kamarrang of the Bordoh clan introduces himself and the Narbalek band to us. They come from Manmoyi, 200 kms from Oenpelli in Arnhem Land. Kamarrang tells us how the band has been established to teach the children the traditional songs, ... [read more]

Childhood influences (2003)

John Macumba talks about his childhood experiences and his burgeoning interest in media that came from listening to the radio. [read more]

Blinky’s fire brigade saved us all! (1992)

Blinky’s (Robyn Moore) fire brigade has put out a dangerous fire and, although he is in trouble with his mother, Mrs Koala (also Robyn Moore), everyone now thinks his fire brigade is a good idea – including Miss Magpie (Robyn ... [read more]

White power (1992)

Hando (Russell Crowe) drinks milk after a wild all-night party. His friend (Stephen Hall) has to return to his naval base. Hando gives him a Nazi salute as he goes. Hando explains his belief in white supremacy, and his admiration ... [read more]

‘We’d have to start to get political’ (2008)

Narrator Rachael Perkins gives national and international political context to the times of Edward ‘Koiki’ Mabo. A voice-over, derived from Eddie’s diaries and the recollections of his family, give reasons as to why he began his fight for rights. [read more]

Dulkaninna Station (2000)

George Bell of the Dulkaninna Station and his family have relied on the mailman for over a century. Mail was first delivered by camel, then Kruse delivered it by truck and now it comes by light aircraft. Bell and Kruse ... [read more]

Making dreams come true (1999)

Third and final contestant Kristin takes the hot seat and answers three multiple choice questions on her way to a possible one million dollars. [read more]

Castlecrag Estate (1927)

This clip from a silent black-and-white cinema advertisement from about 1927 for Castlecrag Estate, a new suburb overlooking Sydney’s Middle Harbour, shows panoramic shots of the surrounding scenery, a woman with a dog looking out to the harbour and newly ... [read more]

The silly faces of George Wallace (1999)

Stand up comic and film star George Wallace struts his stuff in this compilation of his film roles. [read more]

Massacre (1980)

Manganinie (Mawuyul Yanthalawuy) survives the slaughter of her tribe. [read more]

Arkhand Path Festival (2004)

For the Sikhs of northern NSW, the religious tradition of Arkhand Path has been celebrated in the area since a Sikh community came from the Punjab to Australia in the 1880s to farm bananas and sugar cane. [read more]

Grange 51 (2005)

A young Koori boy, Willy Jackson is on the stand. Sam (Aaron Pedersen) is his defense lawyer. It becomes clear that the magistrate is unsympathetic to Sam’s position. Sam offers the magistrate his non-existent bottle of vintage Grange 1951 as ... [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]

‘Dirty little bugger’ (2007)

Charlie (Luke Ford) draws rude self-portraits as he and his brother Thomas (Rhys Wakefield) sit at home. Their parents return from a sex and pregnancy class, where Maggie (Toni Collette) has had one of her ‘attacks’, due to high blood ... [read more]

‘Sarong Body Magic’ (1968)

A woman’s voice-over accompanies a figure seen from the waist down wearing a Berlei ‘Sarong Body Magic’ girdle. Two versions of the girdle – a pant and panty girdle – are shown on the figures. As the girdle adjusts to ... [read more]

Myanmar’s child soldiers (2002)

Myanmar contains one of the greatest concentration of child soldiers in the world. Rebel groups like the KLNA (Karen Liberation Army) are in conflict with government forces along the Myanmar-Thai border. ‘Hoh’ is a former child soldier who deserted ... [read more]

About nomads (1996)

Robyn Davidson explains how she came to be attached for nearly two years, without speaking a common language, to one of the last bands of nomadic people roaming India as they have done for millennia. [read more]

‘Feel like going back home’ (2009)

Willy (Rocky McKenzie), Uncle Tadpole (Ernie Dingo), Annie (Missy Higgins) and Slippery (Tom Budge) travel north to Broome. In the combi they sing the Pigram Brothers’s song 'Feel Like Going Back Home’. Stopping for fuel Willy meets Roadhouse Betty (Magda ... [read more]

Postcode squares (1988)

This is an Australia Post television commercial (TVC) promoting the organisation’s new corporate image and its new electronic systems of sorting mail. [read more]

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