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A wilderness revealed (1982)
The Carnarvon Gorge has a very special appeal to contemporary visitors like John Marr, who is leading this expedition of mostly amateurs through the gorge. There’s a sense that the place meant something special for the Aborigines who had a ... [read more]
Testing for disease (1992)
Bryan Smith is in Denmark to report on the latest research into the prevention of cervical cancer. The pap smear test is used to pick up early signs of cervical cancer in women. There is a much more accurate means ... [read more]
Strategy, planning and communication (1999)
When the wandering tribes from Africa reached the end of South-East Asia, they looked out across the sea to another land mass just 90 kilometres away, Australia. With remarkable planning and design skills, they built and provisioned sea-worthy vessels to ... [read more]
The negotiators (1968)
Rio Tinto in Australia was unable to commit to Lang Hancock’s iron ore find without the input of the parent company in Britain, so Hancock confronted the Chairman and CEO in London – Sir Val Duncan read more]
To cross the Nullarbor Plain (1984)
Having been thwarted by what he described as a massive horseshoe-shaped salt pan to the far north of Adelaide, Edward John Eyre (played in this reenactment by Paul Mason) decided, against government advice, to continue east to west from the ... [read more]
Jack captures Masura (2008)
Masura (Shingo Usami), lying down, has just finished remembering the events depicted in a flashback: in a combat zone in the south-west Pacific the exhausted Masura was ordered by his commanding officer to get back on his feet and march ... [read more]
Ghost (1984)
The Japanese POWs were apprehensive about going home after the war. In interview, Mr Takahara speaks about his return to a family that had already conducted his funeral and called him a ghost. [read more]
‘They look after you down here’ (1976)
We see waterside workers using machinery. The voice-over describes how mechanisation has greatly reduced the hard labour required for the job and the number of employees needed. Current 'wharfies’ confess to little knowledge of 'the old days’. [read more]
‘My place’ (1988)
This clip features time-based portraits of patrons in an Erskineville pub and residents of an aged care facility in Campsie, Sydney. [read more]
Escape to Earth (2000)
The opening titles introduce us to Cybergirl (Ania Stepien). The start of the episode sets up Cybergirl’s arrival, her pursuit by replicants Isaac (Ric Anderson) and Xanda (Jennifer Congram), and introduces Jackson Campbell (Craig Horner) and his father Hugh (Mark ... [read more]
‘Show me to the officer’s dugout’ (2010)
Captain Woodward (Brendan Cowell) asks the young shell-shock victim Private Tiffin (Harrison Gilbertson) to take him from the miners’ underground HQ to the officers’ dugout. [read more]
Radio days (1979)
Shannon Jones (Liddy Clark) and her colleagues Reggie (Alfred Bell), Andy (John Warnock) and Hilda (June Collis) are recording a radio serial, Ma and Her Little Darling. Sound effects are done live in the studio and the cast collapse in ... [read more]
‘So where are youse from?’ (2008)
Tarek (Les Chantery) and Nabil (Buddy Dannoun) buy drinks for two glamorous Caucasian Australian women in a trendy inner-city nightclub, but their attempts at small-talk are strained, especially when it comes to the subject of their Lebanese Muslim heritage. Later, ... [read more]
‘Feel like going back home’ (2009)
Willy (Rocky McKenzie), Uncle Tadpole (Ernie Dingo), Annie (Missy Higgins) and Slippery (Tom Budge) travel north to Broome. In the combi they sing the Pigram Brothers’s song 'Feel Like Going Back Home’. Stopping for fuel Willy meets Roadhouse Betty (Magda ... [read more]
‘All I have to offer you is me’ (2009)
Delilah (Marissa Gibson) nurses Samson (Rowan McNamara) back to health. She bathes him in the water trough, gives him fresh clothes to wear and makes him a meal. As Samson sits in the wheelchair listening to music on the radio, ... [read more]
‘One penny per tintinnabulation’ (1956)
Reverend Lambeth (Ralph Richardson) stops to top up his overheating car radiator and is greeted by Smiley (Colin Petersen) and his best friend Joey (Bruce Archer). Smiley has a bruised cheek from a fight; the Reverend approves of what he ... [read more]
A delivery to King Billy (1956)
The crooked publican has tricked Smiley (Colin Petersen) into making a delivery of opium to the blacks’ camp across the river. This is supposed to be 'out of bounds’ to whites, but Smiley has clearly been there before. He gives ... [read more]
Street life in Rimside (2003)
At a loose end, Beau takes a stroll through the streets of Rimside. [read more]
‘Polite circles’ (1970)
John wants to remove his father as head of the Masons’ newspaper and needs his brothers to support his plan. His wife Kathy (Anne Haddy) meets with his brother David (Kevin Miles) to try and get his vote. David then ... [read more]
Meet the Ferals (1994)
Opening titles introduce the Ferals. Modigliana the cat (voiced and operated by Mal Heap) and Rattus (voiced and operated by David Collins) are fighting again. Mixy (voiced and operated by Emma De Vries) the rabbit interrupts to ask why. Derryn ... [read more]
