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Living in the 70’s (1974)

The title track of the Living in the 70’s album, recorded during June and July 1974 at the TCS Studios in Melbourne. The album, produced by Ross Wilson from the band Daddy Cool, broke all previous sales records for ... [read more]

‘My final statement’ (2004)

Euthanasia campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke says he advises many people intent on suicide. Seventy-nine-year-old Lisette Nigot writes her final letter. [read more]

‘I want to be a writer’ (1979)

Harry Beecham (Sam Neill) has waited two years for Sybylla (Judy Davis) to agree to marry. As drought grips the land again, he comes for an answer, but Sybylla explains why she cannot. [read more]

The boys came out (2001)

In this clip, we hear from people who have lost direct family members in the Coniston Massacre in 1928. A map of the area from Coniston to Jarra Jarra shows the territory in which whites massacred Indigenous men, women and ... [read more]

Collective unconscious (1996)

Filmmaker George Miller explains the universal appeal of cinema, using Mad Max as an example. [read more]

North end excision (1994)

White pastoralist Grant Martin has inherited the property from his forefathers. Harry Dixon, an Aboriginal stockman, has been granted an excision of land for his family and a friend’s. Harry has lived on the property for 33 years and has ... [read more]

The year in review (1971)

This clip includes scenes of anti-apartheid demonstrations against South African sporting teams; John Gorton’s tour of Vietnam; William McMahon becoming Prime Minister; a wool fashion parade staged in the New Guinea Highlands; an unusual wedding celebrated underwater at Sydney’s Marineland; ... [read more]

‘I don’t mean you’ (2001)

In 1984 the Uberoi family has to leave India to escape the anti-Sikh riots. The filmmaker’s sister Zoe describes her distress when a school friend criticises the Sikhs but says she means nothing against Zoe personally. [read more]

‘Voices in the dark’ (2006)

John (Mark Constable) believes he has seen Tom (Don Barker), his dead uncle. He hides his thoughts from wife Emily (Victoria Hill), who begins to suspect something is wrong. [read more]

Life on the Hawkesbury River (2005)

The Aboriginal participants introduce the Europeans to some of the bush tucker of the region. Only John and his wife are prepared to try the worm-like carbora, although they know they’ll be a rich source of protein. Luckily a river ... [read more]

What was this pain about? (1986)

Liz affirms her commitment to love, but vows never to repeat (or at least try never to repeat) the experience of loss she has felt after the end of the relationship with Steve. She quotes Neil Finn, Bob Dylan and ... [read more]

Pre-Cambrian to present time (c1940)

Fossils began to form in the rock in the Hunter Valley, NSW, 1,400,000,000 years ago. [read more]

‘The dingo’s got my baby!’ (1988)

At a camping ground near Uluru (Ayers Rock), Lindy Chamberlain (Meryl Streep) witnesses a dingo carrying her baby Azaria from a tent. Michael Chamberlain (Sam Neill) begins a search in the darkness. [read more]

Looking for Warri and Yatungka (1997)

The Gibson desert. A voice-over tells us of the plight of Warri and Yatungka, two Mandildjara people who broke tribal marriage laws, and fled into the desert. To the outsider, the narrator tells us, this land would mean certain death. [read more]

‘The wide brown land’ (1958)

Dorothea Mackellar recites the first stanza of her most famous poem, recorded in 1958. [read more]

‘There’s more to life than this’ (1979)

Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis) tells younger sister Gertie (Marion Shad) of her desire to escape a life of rural drudgery. Her frustrations increase when she’s sent to drag her father out of the pub. [read more]

Desert Rats (2006)

Aaron reads the paper while Vinnie mows the lawn. Over family stills and clips showing Aaron performing in Dead Heart and Water Rats, Aaron describes how Vinnie always turned to him to be looked after, and how, with a lack ... [read more]

Go away (1978)

Essie Coffey gives the children lessons on Aboriginal culture. She speaks of the importance of teaching these kids about their traditions. Aboriginal kids are forgetting about their Aboriginal heritage because they are being taught white culture instead. [read more]

Ten years too fast (2005)

Willy talking to camera about what has happened in the last ten years. In 2001 he went to university but left because of the pressure, in 2002 he lost his mother. Willy speaks of the impact the loss of his ... [read more]

Socks and the ‘swingletree’ (1910)

Sir Ernest Shackleton describes the loss of Socks the pony into the crevasse, and the accident which saved Frank Wild’s life – the broken ‘swingletree’ connecting horse and sledge. [read more]

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