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Beginnings of Eureka (2005)
Drawings and archival photographs depict the events that lead to the battle between gold miners and authorities at the Eureka Stockade. It describes the emergence of Peter Lalor as the leader of the Stockade and how the diggers used the ... [read more]
The lady in question (1981)
At the dating agency, Peter (Norman Kaye) is 'introduced’ by proxy to a prospective partner, a young woman called Patricia. He fears he’s too old but the consultant says she needs a mature man. Peter has to pay an extra ... [read more]
First documentary (2004)
Frank Hurley filmed and photographed one of the first expeditions to the Antarctic in 1913. Mike Gray of the Fox Talbot Museum and Joanna Wright of the Royal Geographical Society comment on the significance of the work. [read more]
Today’s nuns (1992)
By the early 1990s it was likely that the Roman Catholic order of nuns, the Sisters of Mercy, was going to die out. Women who have chosen to stay in the order explain their reasons for staying, and talk about ... [read more]
Coming out to the family (1997)
This is a searingly honest moment in which Adam’s parents truthfully tell how they felt when Adam told them he was gay. They had anticipated the continuance of the family name and a mess of grandchildren. Nevertheless they stood by ... [read more]
Launching the lifeboat (1933)
This montage of still and moving images taken by Frank Hurley shows the launching of a lifeboat during the Antarctic expedition led by Ernest Shackleton in 1914-16. As indicated on the map, they hoped to sail the boat 800 miles ... [read more]
£70,000 production nears completion (1926)
This newsreel clip from 1926 shows a scene from the film For the Term of His Natural Life in production at the Australasian Films’ Bondi studio, Sydney NSW. A cameraman on a moving platform, or dolly, shoots the scene ... [read more]
Ngadjonji country (2005)
Bill Homenko, an elderly descendent of Russian immigrants talks to camera about his childhood recollections. Ngadjonji country, around Rosser River, is the thousand-year-old home of Kitty Clarke’s people. Historical stills are intermixed with re-enactments of Kitty Clarke’s mother’s first glimpse ... [read more]
‘Why was I adopted?’ (1985)
Le explains to Lindy how she came to be adopted – he was captured by Viet Cong, their village was bombed and her mother was trying to walk to Saigon with all the children and no food. She gave baby ... [read more]
Before the revolution (2006)
Four Australian women remember the world of their youth. They are from different backgrounds and cultures and yet for each of them the future meant finding Mr Right and settling down to raise a family. There was no information readily ... [read more]
‘Seven of them, and I’m only 20!’ (1973)
The children are all trying to make it up to their father (Leonard Teale) after the dinner disaster, but unfortunately Bunty (Mark Shields-Brown) and Baby (Tania Falla) just make it worse. It’s all too much for Esther (Elizabeth Alexander) who ... [read more]
Heat of the Pilbara – ‘white with salt’ (2006)
Blue skies, as the camera pans down, the frame rests on 'Wickham, Western Australia’. A Torres Strait man recalls how he came to work on the railway and stayed. As he describes his experiences we see film of black and ... [read more]
Singing history (1993)
Carmody is flipping through records. He stops to examine a book. He tells us about the images from the book, of kangaroos and landscape drawn from within white sensibility. He shows us many images of Aboriginal people, and how Aboriginal ... [read more]
Walkabout (2002)
After a screening of Walkabout (1971) in a cinema, David is speaking to fans at the cinema. Interviews with Justine Saunders, Gary Foley, Professor Marcia Langton and David Stratton give background information to both Indigenous cinema and David’s influence ... [read more]
Fighting a fire (1920)
The whole family joins a desperate battle to save the fencing around the crops, to no avail. Youngest son Joe (Arthur Wilson) thinks the fire is a splendid sight. Dad (Percy Walshe) sees it as potential ruin. Mrs Rudd (Beatrice ... [read more]
This child, Zita (2003)
Aggie Abbott tells of how, when Zita returned to her mother after years of being absent, her mother said that her daughter was dead. Ron Wallace, Zita’s husband, talks about Zita’s experience of being immersed within Western society and alienated ... [read more]
We Are Going (1987)
Aerial views of Minjerriba (Stradbroke Island), and Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) walking along the beach with children. Oodgeroo tells us the inspiration for her poetry, and its role in personal and political resistance to white oppression. [read more]
‘Brussels sprouts’ (2005)
Still photographer Carol Jerrems made a short film in 1975 featuring 15-year-old schoolboys from Heidelberg Tech. Most of them had been expelled and, in Carol’s words, preferred ‘bashing, beer, sheilas, gang bangs, gang fights, billiards, stealing and hanging about’. [read more]
Dion the artist (2006)
Joie Boulter speaks about having Dion’s artwork applied to T-shirts as a way to raise funds. We see examples of Dion’s artwork now applied to T-shirts. All royalties raised from the merchandise are put into a trust fund for Dion. ... [read more]
Uranium supply a moral obligation (1981)
The then South Australian Minister for Mines and Energy, Roger Goldsworthy, says that Australia has a moral obligation to supply energy to the world. Arthur Baillie, a barman from Radium Hill, recalls the days of the mining town’s success. [read more]
