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Bougainville healing (2000)
When the people of Bougainville Island were blockaded for forcibly closing the copper mine they had to relearn their traditional ways of medicine. We see them gathering, preparing and applying traditional medicine as they talk in voice-over. [read more]
Napperby (2000)
Interspersed with historical footage showing Napperby, Teddy Briscoe tells us about past musters and the many Indigenous men involved in them. Teddy tells us all the areas where mustering took place. [read more]
Songs with Mara (1995)
Over footage of the dancers rehearsing, the artistic director of the Australian Dance Theatre, Meryl Tankard, talks about how she tries to get the best out of her dancers. She also explains her use of dance combined with voice to ... [read more]
Local woodchopping competition (c1954)
This clip records one of the feature events of a local show in Canberra – the woodchopping competition. Male competitors, dressed in their Chesty Bonds singlets, take part in a race for the quickest woodchop. [read more]
PK chant (1976)
Islanders play cricket as the narrator (Jerry W Leach) explains the local customs of the game. One team gets an opposing player out then performs the 'PK’ chant, then an exit dance. [read more]
‘It started 15 years ago…’ (2000)
This clip begins with a montage that fills in the backstory from episode one, showing Eugénie’s gumshoe dad Ray (Brett Climo) escaping through a Russian forest and discovering a baby girl in the back seat of his car. Eugénie (Xaris ... [read more]
Canada’s leaders (c1941)
This clip from a Menzies home movie features the Prime Minister of Canada, McKenzie King, and the Governor General of Canada, the Earl of Athlone and his wife Princess Alice. [read more]
New York Yacht Club (1984)
Australia’s 12-metre yacht, Australia II, challenges America’s Liberty in the America’s Cup in 1983. The New York Yacht Club tries to have the yacht disqualified, but the Australian side is finally allowed to compete. [read more]
Dalma Edwards (2001)
Effie (Mary Coustas) interviews 80-year-old cosmetic surgery enthusiast Dalma Edwards. Edwards explains how she first received plastic surgery after a car accident at age 22 and became a lifelong devotee. [read more]
Philomac escapes Henty’s brutality (2007)
Storytellers Donald Kemarr Thompson and Alec Petyarr Peterson begin the story of Willaberta Jack with the brutal treatment Henty inflicted on Philomac, including chaining him up overnight to a metal block cemented into the ground. They explain how Philomac escaped ... [read more]
‘I can’t go on like this’ (2000)
After arguing and physically tussling with her husband, Claire (Julia Blake) arrives on Andreas’s (Charles Tingwell) doorstep in an emotional state. She tells him she can’t go on like this, then that she wants to stay with him overnight. He ... [read more]
Ex-servicemen rally at Melbourne Cricket Ground (1954)
This clip from a home movie, filmed by Australian Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, begins with an excited crowd at the Melbourne Cricket Ground as they stand and take off their hats on the arrival of Queen Elizabeth II and ... [read more]
Opening of Melbourne Hospital (c1918)
This clip shows Mrs Grice, other guests and members of hospital staff at the opening of the New Melbourne Hospital. It begins with an exterior of the hospital building, followed by shots of the corridors and patient wards filled with ... [read more]
Exeter Family Study (1995)
The Exeter Family Study examined health, school performance, social life, behaviour and self-esteem in children of divorced parents. Dr Rosemary Dunlop of Macquarie University says that research shows that children successfully ‘put it behind them.’ Sister Aileen Shanahan of Aquinas ... [read more]
Darkening my skin (2004)
An elderly Aboriginal woman, Laurel Cooper, tells the story of her birth and early life in the bush and her mother’s attempts to keep her concealed from the police troopers by darkening her skin. [read more]
Rooftop party (1927)
This clip from a silent black-and-white cinema advertisement for Castlecrag Estate, a newly built suburb of Sydney, shows a group of women, possibly including Marion Mahoney, Walter Burley Griffin’s wife, enjoying afternoon tea overlooking Middle Harbour. It also shows a ... [read more]
Strange happenings (1988)
Eddie Cleary (Steven Vidler) discovers dead birds and a mysterious black circle in a field. His brother, Richard (Ritchie Singer), hears a high-pitched tone. Local cop Skinner (Vincent Gil) mocks Richard’s attempt to find water on his dry property. [read more]
1988 nothing to celebrate (1988)
Footage of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy established at Mrs Macquarie’s Chair. Tiger Bayles from 88.9 radio (today’s Radio Skid Row) reports on the events of the day. [read more]
‘We have survived’ (1981)
In this clip we hear the landmark Aboriginal protest song 'We Have Survived’, as performed by No Fixed Address on the soundtrack of Wrong Side of the Road (1981). [read more]
