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Grace Gibson (1983)
Texan born Grace Gibson immigrated to Australia in 1934. She set up a radio serial production company. Her company produced 30,000 quarter hour programs for Australian radio. Grace comments on those times in Australia. [read more]
Imperial Tractors stock (1937)
This clip from a silent black-and-white Imperial Tractors cinema advertisement shows a portion of the tractor stock at the AH McDonald & Co Imperial Tractors warehouse. [read more]
View of Brisbane, c1929 (c1929)
Aerial views show Brisbane’s city centre as well as rural settings by the Brisbane River in approximately 1929. [read more]
Distorted beliefs (1996)
Images of skulls and physiognomies of Indigenous peoples are treated as scientific specimens and data. [read more]
What’s wrong with being Greek? (c1988)
Nikos feeds his birds and Sophia plays with makeup before the family sits down to dinner. On their way to school, Nikos tells Sophia it’s about time she started doing her own maths homework. [read more]
Changing, ongoing (2003)
Interspersed with shots of Areyonga community, Frank Djara tells how he communicated health issues through painting, and by talking about sickness to his people. [read more]
Barry Humphries’s ode to Arthur Boyd (1994)
Australian comedian, Barry Humphries recites an ode to painter Arthur Boyd at the opening of a Boyd retrospective exhibition. [read more]
Hellfire Jack (1985)
An introduction to John Curtin, Australian prime minister, 1941–45. [read more]
Coonabarabran, 1932 (1986)
Kylie Tennant talks about going to Coonabarabran to marry Roddy and her short-lived membership of the Communist Party. [read more]
Young David Williamson (1994)
Australian playwright, David Williamson, returns to his country school. He recalls the embarrassment of being tall and the beginnings of his interest in writing. [read more]
Insulin (1997)
Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical Company supplies six million people with insulin each day. Twelve-year-old diabetic James Jarvis interviews Dr Richard Di Marchi about insulin. [read more]
Everything’s been done before (1988)
Dancer Betty Pounder describes how theatre company JC Williamson would send a director overseas to see the latest play or musical. They would then bring back the production to Australia and the company would perform it here. She recalls performing ... [read more]
‘I don’t hate Aboriginal people’ (1996)
Ray (Bryan Brown) finds David (Ernie Dingo) asleep at a waterhole after both men have spent the night in the desert. Ray talks about his father who was also a Northern Territory policeman, who used to take children from their ... [read more]
Never being able to touch (2005)
At the taxi depot, Yuri (Ewen Leslie) asks Sarita (Leah Vandenberg) for a drink at the pub. They talk about the Hasidic rules against touching. Yuri suggests they go away together, but she is shocked by his suggestion. [read more]
World’s oldest living culture (1988)
An Aboriginal protest march took place on Australia’s bicentenary 26 January 1988. An Aboriginal speaker describes the invasion of Australia and the resulting problems of dispossession and poverty. She also says it is a day to celebrate the survival of ... [read more]
I can’t comfort my child’ (1997)
A montage of crying babies is followed by Tracey talking about her worst moment of postnatal depression. We see Simon caring for the baby. Tracey talks about the moment when the toll on Simon, exhausted after four months of caring ... [read more]
Family killing (1994)
Three sisters, Chessy, Josie and Natalia, now teenagers, recall how their father shot their mother and then himself in front of them. [read more]
‘I’m right into passion’ (1989)
Ted Egan visits opal town Mintabie and Yvonne, an old friend who lives there. [read more]
‘I can’t forgive them’ (1993)
Margaret Whitlam, wife of former Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, scorns the Governor-General, John Kerr and caretaker Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser for the way in which they won victory for the Liberal Party. [read more]
