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By road (1988)

This is an Australia Post television commercial (TVC) advertising the Express Courier road service. [read more]

Express Courier (1988)

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

Land rights (2004)

John Safran identifies a tendency among left-wing people in inner Melbourne to put signs on their houses acknowledging the Wurundjeri people as the traditional owners of the land. He gets a group of local Aboriginal people (Lou Bennet, Corleen Cooper, ... [read more]

‘Nocturnal guests’ (1981)

Lou (Judy Davis) catches the last ferry to Balmain, after phoning Rob (Bryan Brown). He meets her on the wharf and takes her home. She tries to embrace him, not knowing that his wife is in the next room. After ... [read more]

‘It’s a signal … we’re receiving a signal’ (1994)

Nikki (Petra Jared) and Shane (Che Broadbent) play a trick on Mike (Zbych Trofimiuk). When the computer starts indicating signals from a different star, Mike is excited. He believes they are witnessing history. But when the radio signal is finally ... [read more]

Crime scene (2002)

The Kingsway major crime squad try to make sense of the crime scene, after the groom was gunned down at a wedding. Outside, Harriet Walker (Freya Stafford) speaks to the bride Francesca Decia (Bianca Biasi) while Sophia Marinkovitch (Brooke Satchwell) ... [read more]

A scenario we’ve long feared (2002)

Members of the CNNNN news team (Craig Reucassel, Julian Morrow) report breaking news on a high-speed car chase in Los Angeles. [read more]

A rude introduction (2003)

Mr Tachibana (Gotaro Tsunashima) waits outside the Port Hedland airport. Sandy Edwards (Toni Collette) arrives late, and with no idea of the proper way to greet a visitor from Japan. Mr Tachibana also has no idea of Australian manners – ... [read more]

‘I believe in a committee of one’ (1979)

Bruce Perkins is an unusual man. He’s an engineer by training. He believes in a great future for the north but as he sees it, not if there’s constant interference from Canberra. [read more]

‘I’ve come to help Alex’ (1980)

Sandra Rast (Carmen Duncan) is at the bedside of terminally ill son Alex (Mark Spain). Out of nowhere, Gregory Wolfe (Robert Powell) appears. Sandra and husband Nick (David Hemmings) watch as Gregory appears to cure Alex. [read more]

Matchmaking (1972)

At choir practice in the Mayfair Hotel, publican Mick Cassidy (John Meillon) introduces Stanley Evans (Harry Secombe) to local farmer Shirley Marshall (Maggie Fitzgibbon). Her brother, Pete (Peter Whittle), is not impressed. [read more]

Kuala Lumpur (c1930)

This clip features street scenes of Kuala Lumpur, including a Hindu Thaipusam festival; examples of colonial architecture; an open air wet market; hawkers and tea sellers. [read more]

Kangaroo to kangaroo (1983)

Explorer Dick Smith is on a round-the-world solo flight by helicopter. He is flying over Saudi Arabia when he radios a passing Qantas jet bound for London on the Kangaroo Route. QF2 provides Smith with some weather information. [read more]

Robbery under cars (1979)

As Lionel Darcy (Frank Wilson) receives a tip-off about a plot to rob his counting house, one of his armoured cars is robbed in a car park. Driver Dick Martin (Ed Devereaux) fights back, but his mate Nacker (Ted Hodgeman) ... [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]

Post box (c1988)

This is a 30-second Australia Post animated television commercial (TVC) promoting the correct addressing of mail. It shows a post box rejecting incorrectly addressed mail, finishing with the slogan: ‘If you get it right here, we’ll get it right ... [read more]

A double life unravels (2007)

Esther Blueburger (Danielle Catanzariti) is wandering the streets alone at night, very upset about a motorbike accident involving Sunni’s mother, Mary. She returns home after midnight. As she comes in the front door of the family home she is confronted ... [read more]

Stringybark Creek (2003)

Ned (Heath Ledger), Dan Kelly (Laurence Kinlan), Steve Hart (Philip Barantini) and Joe Byrne (Orlando Bloom) lie in wait at the police bush camp near Stringybark Creek. Ned has already shot Constable Lonigan (Peter Phelps) after the policeman refused to ... [read more]

From script to screen (1988)

Colin Rogers (John Hargreaves) and his writing partner Mike McCord (Chris Haywood) pitch a script to investor Malcolm Bennett (Dennis Miller). Colin and Mike clash during the making of the production. [read more]

‘Make sure you don’t drink too much’ (1977)

Kevin (Paul Couzens) comes home briefly on his birthday, to change, slap on some Brut-33, eat a sandwich and get out the door. His father warns him to keep the P-plates on his car; his mother warns him not to ... [read more]

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