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‘The TV war’ (1979)

Tasmanian Neil Davis recalls how he went to Vietnam as a cameraman and correspondent in 1964 at the start of the war, and remained there for all the war, working for Visnews. He talks about his first experience under fire, ... [read more]

The war is the news (1988)

The slowly disintegrating Goddard family are watching the news. They are painfully aware that their son, Phil (Nicholas Eadie) is in Vietnam as a conscript. The evening news shows the terrible and soon to become iconic photo of the South ... [read more]

Red Cross activities (c1919)

Female Red Cross volunteers are shown mixing ingredients and sifting flour to prepare cakes and biscuits, cutting and sewing material, and spinning wool at spinning wheels. [read more]

Food preparation (c1919)

Female Red Cross volunteers weigh and cut up vegetables (including pumpkins and potatoes) and fill jars. Soldiers carve and paint wooden toy animals while the women make stuffed dolls. [read more]

‘In your time there was the war’ (1985)

Mike (Daniel Cordeaux) is from 1985 and he just wants to go home, to Sydney. He thinks the Clan Murray are crazy hippies, but when they encounter some outsiders, the mutant wanderers, he is astounded as Katrin (Rebecca Rigg) shoots ... [read more]

High school students against war in Vietnam (1970)

A pupil from Castle Hill High School delivers a speech about the support from students from the steps of Sydney’s town hall to a huge crowd of protestors against the Vietnam War at a moratorium rally. [read more]

A world away (2005)

It’s a period of eager anticipation. John Stephenson from South Yorkshire and his 12-year-old son Tyler are learning survival skills that they hope to apply when they are living in the Australian bush. The Irish and English families are asked ... [read more]

The sailors part two (1927)

The Sailors is a recorded version of a theatrical comedy routine by vaudeville performers Stiffy (Nat Phillips) and Mo (Roy Rene). You can listen to part two of The Sailors here in its entirety. Part two is the second side ... [read more]

‘To show mercy where war shows none’ (1940)

The Red Cross provides assistance for servicemen fighting overseas. Scenes of battle and war contextualise their work. A recovering serviceman becomes a ‘son, brother, father and sweetheart’. By helping the Red Cross, the narration explains, ‘you help him too’. [read more]

Lionel Rose fighting Harada (1968)

Radio announcer Ron Casey calls the closing minutes of the bantamweight world title fight between Lionel Rose of Australia and 'Fighting’ Harada of Japan on 26 February 1968. [read more]

Winning by two lengths (1922)

Spud Murphy (John Cosgrove) calls out for used bottles and Skinny Smith (Dinks Paterson) hawks rabbits before the two of them engage in friendly banter. Meeting with Sally (Yvonne Pavis) and Tottie (Joy Revelle), they race their carts through Woolloomooloo, ... [read more]

Chases and more chases (2000)

Escaping from the ‘Hide and Seek’ gang, Eugénie (Xaris Miller) and Warwick (Matthew Vennell) run into her father Ray Sandler (Brett Climo). When he discovers Detective Gurney (Martin Jacobs) is after them, he sends them to Alloway House. The mystery ... [read more]

‘The gentleman’s war is over’ (1979)

In a lonely, windswept hill camp, far out in the veldt, Captain Hunt (Terence Donovan) instructs Captain Taylor (John Waters) to execute Boer prisoners brought in by Morant (Edward Woodward). When Morant queries the order to shoot prisoners, Hunt tells ... [read more]

Concentration camp war trials (1985)

SS Guards from the Belsen concentration camp are put on trial before a British military court, with sentences ultimately ranging from hanging to release. The narrator wonders why the British Army did not pursue more of the guards who escaped. [read more]

Family at war (1994)

Tessa (Pamela Rabe) has begun to see visions of her mother and father in the house. At the kitchen table, she explains to her new friend, Millie (Olivia Patten), why she never had kids. Her father went a bit crazy ... [read more]

Random APEC security checks (2007)

In this stunt from The Chaser’s War on Everything, Chas Licciardello poses as a security officer working for APEC and asks members of the public to undergo random checks. [read more]

‘Dead landscape’ (2000)

Out in the bush, ecologist Wyn Jones says that Australian bushland is not necessarily devoid of life if no mammals are visible. He points out that many animals are nocturnal and that other species like birds and insects can flourish ... [read more]

‘The end of creation’ (2003)

In a series of images and sound, filmmaker Anna Brionowski tells the story of her aunt, Dr Helen Caldicott’s struggle to end nuclear warfare. Frank Gaffney from the Center for Security Policy and actor-activist Martin Sheen give opposing views. [read more]

Two rescues (1975)

Michael Fitzhubert (Dominic Guard) has spent the night on Hanging Rock, looking for clues. When his servant Albert (John Jarratt) finds him the next day, he is exhausted and unable to speak. As he’s stretchered off the mountain, he hands ... [read more]

On the war in Iraq (2004)

At a conference in Jakarta, Malcolm Fraser speaks out against going to war in Iraq. [read more]

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