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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]

My father’s land (2000)

Teddy Briscoe makes the journey to buy horses with his family. Teddy tells us that Atekerr is his father’s country. [read more]

In a strange land (1990)

A country show is underway. Women compete in a wood-chopping event, children are entertained with a Punch and Judy show, Father Christmas makes an appearance. Aya (Eri Ishida) is cooking. A woman cautions her about using too much salt and ... [read more]

The land is sad (1993)

A sweeping aerial view of mountains jutting out of the flat desert-scape. A song of the area plays out in subtitles over the image. An elder tells us about the sacred Ancestor of this area, and his relation to him. [read more]

‘The wide brown land’ (1958)

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

‘Now I’m gonna walk the land’ (2009)

Eddie (Luke Carroll) decides to leave Perth and return to Kalgoorlie. He looks for his blue jacket which contains a stone given to him by his uncle to take home. He questions his cousin Charlie (Leon Burchill) and learns the ... [read more]

Living in the land of Oz (1976)

Dorothy (Joy Dunstan) takes off for the city to see The Wizard (Graham Matters), a rock idol who is giving his last ever concert that night. On the way she meets a dumb but likeable surfie (Bruce Spence) who doesn’t ... [read more]

An unlikely friendship (2003)

Van (Joe Le) returns to Carla’s (Daniela Italiano) backyard with a woman’s top he has stolen, hangs it on her Hills hoist clothes line, then goes to her flat and tells her it’s there. She asks if he has stolen ... [read more]

The Duke of Gloucester’s opening speech (1934)

On the steps of Parliament House in Melbourne, the Duke of Gloucester delivers a speech on behalf of his father King George V, which declares the city’s centenary celebrations open. At the conclusion of the speech, the crowd in attendance ... [read more]

The first inhabitants (1982)

Wandjuk Marika, the great artist and poet of the people of Arnhem Land in northern Australia, speaks to the historian Geoffrey Blainey of being one with the land and of his passion for land rights to assist his people to ... [read more]

Caterpillar (2004)

Thomas Stevens, Max Stuart and Peter Renehan all speak about the importance of the custodianship of the land, and explain that when the land is not cared for, the people get sick. [read more]

The great white hunter (1978)

Walking with his dog Cricket, Peter (John Hargreaves) finds a broken doll covered in moss. At a tidal lake, he discards his beer bottle and pretends he’s in a western, firing off his gun at nothing in particular. Back on ... [read more]

Spike the monotreme (1995)

Spike, the echidna, forages on land and then goes swimming to cool off. [read more]

‘What will they see?’ (2002)

Yvonne Margarula tells us about how she inherited a beautiful land, but asks what the children will see when they become adults. Footage of Ranger Mine, operational since 1979, shows the land being carved up, and a map locates the ... [read more]

Ode to a bulldozer (1948)

The clip shows the International TD-24 bulldozer at work performing an impressive array of land clearing tasks. [read more]

Pay and conditions (1988)

Faith Bandler, an Indigenous woman, tells of her experience of the Women’s Land Army. [read more]

The first time (1999)

Speedy McGinness tells us about his mother, and how he wishes to return her remains to Gurindji land – the place of her birth. [read more]

‘I’ll break your spirit, Rudd’ (1932)

Old Carey (Len Budrick) calls in a long-standing debt from Rudd, confiscating his livestock in an attempt to force him to sell a parcel of land. Dad refuses and declares he will never give him the land. As rain clouds ... [read more]

Human rights (2002)

Yvonne Margarula and Jacqui Katona, at an environmental award ceremony, talk about the human rights of the Mirarr people. They talk about the frontier approach of the mining companies in the taking of the Mirarr people’s land. [read more]

Work (1988)

Two women describe the hard physical work of the Women’s Land Army and express their pride in their achievements. Black-and-white stills and colour footage show the women at work. [read more]

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