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The media (1954)
This clip shows the process by which the PMG must meet the needs of the media during Queen Elizabeth II’s 1954 royal tour. [read more]
A woman in charge (1990)
At a car accident scene, Georgia Rattray (Sonia Todd) finds herself having to make a decision about whether to move a car that might crush an injured passenger who is a known drug dealer, or first save the injured driver, ... [read more]
Roly ‘visits’ Honolulu (1986)
Nurse Ophelia Cox (Gosia Dobrowolska) discovers Wally (Philip Quast) and Eddie (Kelly Dingwall) have created a fake Honolulu for their father, Roly (Allan Penney). Ophelia threatens to tell Roly but Wally convinces her to join the hoodwink. [read more]
The hunt (1980)
Two brothers take to the water in a small boat. They crash through the ocean in search of the dugong. [read more]
‘Things grow and you kill ‘em’ (1987)
In the highlands of Tasmania in 1933, Ruby and Henry Rose live by snaring wallaby and possum for meat and skins. They have adopted a homeless boy as their son, Gem. Henry (Chris Haywood) skins wallabies without sentiment but Gem ... [read more]
‘We found one’ (1954)
Ted King (Chips Rafferty) is questioned by Sergeant Charlie White (Charles Peverill) about the body he found at sea. Ted’s daughter, Rusty (Ilma Adey), welcomes him ashore and his American offsider, Jack Janiero (Rod Taylor), tells Ted that company boss ... [read more]
‘Who do I live with now?’ (1997)
Bojan (Kristof Kaczmarek) quits his remote job with the Hydro-Electric Commission to live with daughter Sonja (Rosie Flanagan) in Hobart. Bojan takes her to a dilapidated house he calls a ‘wog flat.’ [read more]
The Lodge (1953)
This clip from the Menzies home movie collection shows the Lodge in snow as well as Spring. [read more]
The Sudan (1945)
Muslim pilgrims from Nigeria pick cotton in the agricultural fields of the Sudan to fund their journey to Mecca. The cotton is bagged and transported by camel and rail to the ginning factories (see clip three) where the seed is ... [read more]
The fittings (2003)
Alex Perry runs through the A to Z of designing a wedding dress for the big day. It’s all about negotiating the demands of the bride, her mother and the bridesmaids. [read more]
‘You’re fired, Yusep’ (1954)
Janiero (Rod Taylor) picks a fight with Yusep (Lloyd Berrell), who has lent company equipment to local deadbeat Grundy (Reg Lye). Yusep’s girlfriend, Serena (Francis Chin Soon), watches the brawl before Ted (Chips Rafferty) intervenes. [read more]
Merriman arrives (1954)
A traditional dance is held to welcome company boss Peter Merriman (Charles Tingwell) to Thursday Island. Ted’s daughter, Rusty (Ilma Adey), offers to show him around the island. [read more]
‘It’s a constant struggle’ (2003)
A group of women that includes Jackie Kelly, a Federal Parliamentarian and a Junior Minister in the Howard Liberal Government, talk about how to deal with their children’s acquisitiveness. Jackie Kelly recalls growing up in a family of six children, ... [read more]
Uni types and Popeyes (2007)
Buffer (Jeremy Lindsay Taylor), Charge (John Batchelor) and Blake (Matthew Holmes) talk women and toxins over their meal. Their banter is interrupted by the arrival of Federal Agent Martina Royce (Yvonne Strechowski). Meanwhile Nav (Saskia Burmeister) and Leading Seaman Communicator ... [read more]
The claim (1989)
This clip introduces Murray Island in the Torres Strait and some of the plaintiffs involved in the claim for native title over the island – James Rice, Father Dave Passi and Koiki 'Eddie’ Mabo. [read more]
The island (2005)
Dr Claude Belgon (Helmut Bakaitis) watches from the shadows as Jasper Morello (Joel Edgerton) is attacked by the creature they discover on the island. [read more]
The contestants (1911)
Against the backdrop of foliage, the first 15 contestants sit for the camera. The girls, dressed in their best attire, are seated next to large numbered cards. At what seems to be the prompt of an off-screen suggestion, some of ... [read more]
The dismissal (2004)
Malcolm Fraser discusses events preceding the dismissal of the Whitlam government on 11 November 1975. [read more]
‘My Ferrari, my surf’ (1991)
Les Murray talks of his formative years as a poet – his discovery of Australian poetry while at school, his time as a student at the University of Sydney, teaching himself to write and meeting other poets in coffee shops. [read more]
The breakout (2008)
Kamimura (Kuni Hashimoto), the Japanese prisoner leading the outbreak, addresses his fellow prisoners and prepares them for the glory of imminent death. The men then begin their breakout in a brief sequence that quickly segues into a flashback set in ... [read more]
