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They say opposites attract (1998)
Greg (Tamblyn Lord) loves Vicki’s (Susie Porter) playfulness but also tries to dampen it down. He wonders whether he’ll ever get his medical degree because she is such a distraction. His no-sex-before-marriage attitude drives her crazy but she redirects her ... [read more]
Marfan syndrome (2005)
This clip opens with a child’s drawing and a photo of Jabe as a young girl. In a black-and-white sequence, a doctor measures Jabe before we see her shopping at a Chinese market. On a model streetscape, a camera tracks ... [read more]
‘I know it can’t last’ (1965)
Nick (George Dixon) embraces Margot (Janina Lebedew). Margot knows their love cannot last. [read more]
‘Everyone thinks you’re odd’ (1996)
Vicki-Anne (Rebecca Frith) is horrified to see that her sister Dimity (Miranda Otto) has come home late one night with Ken Sherry (George Shevtsov). Vicki-Anne bangs on Sherry’s front door, interrupting their attempt to get intimate. Dimity rushes home and ... [read more]
Abuse of language (1997)
Soyinka tells Andrea Stretton that, for him, society’s biggest traitors are those who abuse language: tyrants like Hitler that use their great oratorical and persuasive skills to mock human progress. [read more]
‘That’d be a mistake’ (2008)
Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman) is confronted by cattle baron Neil Fletcher (David Wenham). Fletcher offers to buy Faraway Downs and use his influence to save Nullah (Brandon Walters) from being removed to a mission. Lady Sarah refuses his offer. [read more]
Ange and Annie (2007)
Ange and Annie were dating and decided to cool off. In this clip we witness their reunion. [read more]
Life’s expectations (1997)
An ethnic young man outlines his wishes for life: money, success in business and community respect. [read more]
Understory (1994)
Historical photographs and drawings of Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples and townships are intercut with contemporary images of Brisbane. [read more]
Dumb idiotic eating trauma (2000)
Presenter Rachael Oakes-Ash interviews dietician Matt O’Neill, who says that DIET stands for Dumb Idiotic Eating Trauma. He says dieting makes you fat. Fashion editor Charlotte Dawson says women diet to impress other women. [read more]
‘You can see all that?’ (2001)
Danny (Noah Taylor) has his palm read by Anya (Romane Bohringer). [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]
‘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]
Villawood (2005)
Schoolgirl Ja’mie King (Chris Lilley) has discovered one of her 85 Sudanese World Vision sponsor children, Sonali (Nyathan Hoth Mai), has escaped to Australia and is in Villawood Detention Centre. Ja’mie and her friend Brianna (Emma Clapham) visit Sonali at ... [read more]
Banned album covers (2002)
John Safran talks about album covers that were revised after their initial release. [read more]
Churchill feeding swans (1948)
This clip from a home movie filmed by Australian Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, in 1948 shows Sir Winston Churchill feeding swans, smoking a cigar and walking up to, and looking inside, a brick farmhouse. [read more]
Aussie bities (1956)
In this 1956 film Keith F Adams displays a funnel web spider and poisonous caterpillars on his hand as he says that they ‘should be considered highly dangerous’. Tiger, his fox terrier, digs up some mulga ants that sting him. [read more]
On location (2007)
Tom Chandon (Rob Carlton) and Nick (Darren Gilshenan) interview Daphne (Lynne McGimpsey) of ‘Aussie Pooch Mobile’ for Helen’s (Penne Hackforth-Jones) dog tribute video. [read more]
‘I am Australia’ (1983)
Over a campfire near his home in Broken Hill, German migrant Werner Hollmayer explains to filmmaker Juergen Corleis his feelings for his adopted country and how migrating here has changed him. [read more]
