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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]
Under pressure (2000)
Pressure mounts for workers Trieu (Nguyen Thi Ngoc Hien), Uncle Le (Hieu Phan), Yen (My Lingh Thi Nguyen) and Linh (Suong Tran) as the day wears on in the garment factory and unexpected mishaps threaten the delivery. Trang (Deborah Le) ... [read more]
Wupa (1999)
Shots of landscape around Tennant Creek. The women sit near the creek named Juan Wargal, where they talk about land, children and the Dreaming. Wupa is the name of the dam, and the hill is called Dinkali. [read more]
Solo dance on Bungan Beach (c1936)
A solo dancer performs a dramatic contemporary dance routine on the shoreline of Bungan Beach. His routine contains arm gestures and facial expressions as well as leaps and lunges. As he dances, the ocean water licks his feet. The clip ... [read more]
‘My babies’ (2004)
Toma is both passionate about his eggplants and keen to show off his invention, an ingenious machine which helps with the picking. His wife works along side and afterwards it’s home to the barbie where both of them explain one ... [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]
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]
Mercenaries, misfits and missionaries (1996)
Peter Barter, the Governor of Madang Province, comments that democracy thrives in Papua New Guinea after twenty years of independence. [read more]
Startled away (1998)
Della (Ursula Yovich) sits on the floor next to a guitar. Alvin (Trevor Jamieson) comes home, and quietly attempts to get on the swag with his promise wife. He climbs onto the swag beside her ever so carefully. Della stirs, ... [read more]
Dear Cathy (1986)
This is an Australia Post television commercial (TVC) advertising postage by airmail. [read more]
‘I wanted to be someone else’ (2007)
A woman reflects on her arrival in Australia with her mother as a Cambodian refugee. She wonders about her absent father, who her mother will not tell her about. [read more]
Test cricketers (c1926)
This newsreel from about 1926 shows Australian cricketers, including Warren Bardsley and WM Woodfull, while on tour in England. It also features English cricketer JB (Jack) Hobbs. The Australian cricket team walk onto the field at Headingley Oval, England. Highlights ... [read more]
I’ll walk (2002)
Shane (John Moore) and Robby (Wayne Munro) have just been thrown out of a hotel, and now walk the streets of Alice Springs. Shane doesn’t want to walk home and breaks into a car. Shane harasses Robby to get into ... [read more]
Avon Dam (c1927)
This clip begins with members of the Archibald family and their friends walking towards the camera across a wooden bridge. Among the family members present are John Ernest Archibald, his wife Ellen Kay Archibald and children John Muir and Helen ... [read more]
‘I don’t need good done to me’ (1978)
Felicity Bannister (Kerry Walker) has told her parents she has been raped by a prowler, but she has refused to be examined by the family doctor. At breakfast, her mother (Ruth Cracknell) suggests a day at the hairdresser, to help ... [read more]
‘I interfaced with your primitive circuitry’ (2000)
Cybergirl (Ania Stepien) and Jackson (Craig Horner) get to know each other as Cybergirl demonstrates her superpowers by influencing the electrical equipment in the bus. [read more]
Safety first (c1936)
This 11-minute short drama, seen here in full, teaches children about the road rules and road safety. [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]
Cheryl descends into hell (1997)
Back on the streets and while under the influence of heroin, Cheryl tells us her story. She was raped by her father at 10 years of age, had a child and her mother threw her out of home at aged ... [read more]
Researching family history (1996)
Bernadette Yhi Riley undertakes research into the life and career of her great-grandfather, Aboriginal tracker Alexander (Alec) Riley. We see her researching her family history in archives, libraries and at Dubbo Gaol. [read more]
