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Walking on water (1988)

There’s a brooding calm before the next storm breaks over the paperbark swamp. The jacana chicks are hatching, watched over by their concerned male parent, while the mother is protecting her patch from other predatory female jacanas. [read more]

Surfer girl (2004)

Brett (Zachary Garred) makes Hannah (Lynn Styles) enter the surfing competition to maintain the story they told his mother Jackie (Kirsty Hillhouse). Hannah can barely swim and almost drowns in the shallows. She is utterly furious with him. [read more]

Candy (1978)

When a passerby (Colin McEwan) enters a jeans store, he gets more than he bargained for with shop assistant Berys (Laurel McGowan) who prefers him to use her ‘boutique name’, Candy. [read more]

What’s she doing in your bedroom at 7 am? (2004)

In the middle of the night, Hannah (Lynn Styles) comes though the portal from Ireland and arrives in Brett’s (Zachary Garred) bedroom in Perth at 7 am. She soon finds herself trying to explain to Brett’s mother Jackie (Kirsty Hillhouse) ... [read more]

‘You’re not taking the Kingswood!’ (1978)

Ted Bullpitt (Ross Higgins) is not keen on the idea when his wife Thel (Noeline Brown) suggests a second honeymoon in Paris. Their son (Kevin Golsby) announces that he is heading to Tibet. [read more]

Hell on wheels (1981)

An injured Max (Mel Gibson) has returned to the settler’s camp, after his car has been destroyed. He offers to drive the oil tanker for their breakout attempt. Humungus’s men line up to await his charge. Humungus has put Wez ... [read more]

Home to Galway (2004)

After her dramatic first visit to Australia, it’s early morning when Hannah (Lynn Styles) finally returns to her boarding school in Galway. Her roommate Tara (Danielle Fox-Clarke) is suspicious. Snooping around, she is surprised to find beach sand in Hannah’s ... [read more]

Life in exile (1985)

Colonel Berry (Simon Chilvers) has been put in charge of this POW camp when all he yearns for is to be at the battlefront with the Australian troops. Meanwhile, the internees are homesick for their homeland and their culture, ... [read more]

Desperate times (1984)

The wharfies have been locked out and replaced by scabs. Their union boss Sam (Ray Barrett) has been jailed under a Federal government emergency powers act and his place taken by the union secretary (Chris Haywood) who doesn’t have the ... [read more]

‘The car from Australia’ (c1962)

Holden cars at the shipping docks await export to overseas markets. A voice-over chronicles the expansion of the Holden brand to 46 territories outside Australia, including New Zealand, Thailand, Singapore, Malaya and North Borneo. We see Holden cars in some ... [read more]

A new science (2008)

This clip is set after Truganini and George Robinson have moved the remaining population of Indigenous Tasmanians to Flinders Island. Professor Lyndall Ryan explains the scientific rationalisation of the high death rate of the Tasmanian Aboriginal People. Rachel Perkins’s narration ... [read more]

The Henderson kids (1985)

The title sequence is followed by a recap of the first episode, The Crash, in which Alice Henderson (Diane Craig) holds firm against an approach by Mr Wheeler (Peter Whitford) to buy the family property at Haven Bay. The fact ... [read more]

‘She’s gone Tam, she’s dead’ (1985)

Excited with her selection for the State netball trials, Tam (Nadine Garner) runs home to tell her mother. Met by her uncle Mike (Nicolas Eadie) and crying brother Steve (Paul Smith), she is confronted with the news of her mother’s ... [read more]

‘Good evening’ (1978)

In the opening segment of The Naked Vicar Show, stars Ross Higgins, Kevin Golsby and Noeline Brown talk about political figures of the day. [read more]

‘The vermin have inherited the earth’ (1981)

Max (Mel Gibson) is now a desert wanderer, in a world where petrol is the only currency. He drives ‘the last of the V8 Interceptors’, a remnant of the days when he was a highway patrolman. As the film begins, ... [read more]

Shell shock (1981)

Max (Mel Gibson) and the Feral Kid (Emil Minty) are alone now on the tanker. All their support crew have been killed defending it. One of the attackers has his metal claws stuck in Max’s shoulder. Max’s shells have spilled ... [read more]

A person in trouble (2007)

A tragedy unfolds at Bondi Beach when lifeguards are unable to locate a man last seen struggling to stay afloat at the southern end of the beach where there is a dangerous rip. With no friends or family reporting a ... [read more]

Unemployment queues (1984)

The hard times are biting and when workers are put off it’s always the migrants who go first. Then there’s a desperate wait for work in a long and humiliating queue. [read more]

‘It was the best thing to do’ (2008)

It is 1830 and European settlement has begun in Tasmania. Narrator Rachel Perkins sets the scene for the resulting inter-racial tension and violence dubbed the Black War, the harsh world Truganini is born into. This clip introduces her personality and ... [read more]

‘The last Tasmanian’ (2008)

Narrator Rachel Perkins recounts Truganini’s concerns about her burial and the resting place of her body after her death. Darlene Mansell, historian Professor Marcia Langton of the Yiman-Bidjara Nation, and writer Bruce Pascoe of Boonwurrung Heritage, discuss Truganini’s government-given status ... [read more]

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