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Bodalla (2000)

Romaine walks around Bodalla, New South Wales, the place where she grew up working on a bean farm. [read more]

Kate’s search for a partner (1997)

The clip shows Kate at home and at work while in voice-over she tells us about herself. Kate is an artist and mother to five-year-old Liam. It’s five years since her last serious relationship. Kate is seeking a life partner ... [read more]

Constructing the arch (1931)

A view of the main bearing and arch ribs shows the two sides of the cantilever arches almost meeting. The bottom chord of one of the bridge panels is erected, weighing 61 tonnes. The panel is lifted by crane and ... [read more]

Alma enters the picture (2006)

Rupert Kathner (Ben Mendelsohn) is having trouble selling his film to production houses. As unimpressed studio executives watch his film in the cinema, Alma Brooks (Victoria Hill), a secretary, enters with cups of tea and eagerly watches the footage. Brooks ... [read more]

‘The Americans are coming’ (2005)

The US forces are to use Shoalwater Bay in central Queensland for a training base. Military officials say they are concerned about the environment and acting responsibly. Some locals are concerned about the pollution possibilities especially if depleted uranium (DU) ... [read more]

The last of the Mohicans (1962)

The old 'bottle-oh’ has worked for seven days a week, year in and year out, collecting empties. He’s never used the whip on his mare and talks about her as though she is a person. The iceman is another of ... [read more]

The eggs transform (1905)

The hen that lays the golden eggs transforms into a beautiful woman who is joined by her fellow chicken women in a dance in full-stencilled colour. The dance ends as the golden hen lays another mound of golden eggs. [read more]

Romance (1997)

The team give up on the petrol station shooting case for the night, frustrated at their lack of progress. It’s New Year’s Eve. Jane Halifax (Rebecca Gibney) is at home supposedly profiling suspects but is instead toasting a photograph of ... [read more]

Avian flu in Hong Kong (2005)

In 1997 Avian flu erupted in Hong Kong. The government destroyed all chickens and the outbreak was contained. Virologists Robert Webster and Albert Osterhaus talk about the potential for human transmission. [read more]

It’s only natural (1998)

Professor Roger Short, biologist, says that the bonds of love that help keep the family unit together serve to protect the offspring. [read more]

‘A bit of a squeeze’ (1977)

Kevin (Paul Couzens) has offered Anne (Eva Dickinson) a lift home from the pub. Instead he picks up Bob (Carl Stever), some alcohol, and they head for the local lover’s lane. Anne has never met Bob and she fancies Kevin, ... [read more]

Women join the war effort (1943)

Gwennie (Muriel Steinbeck) is just one of the thousands of women who have joined the war effort – she works in a munitions factory putting trinitrotoluene, or TNT, into shells. She explains that in the last war women 'couldn’t ... [read more]

Darwin Airport in the 1960s (1962)

Passengers cross the tarmac to board the new Boeing 707 jet aircraft. It stops in Singapore, Bangkok, Calcutta, Karachi, Cairo, Rome and London. [read more]

‘Dad is going to kill you’ (1990)

Gordon Farkas (Steve Bisley) has been pulled over after a big night out at a girlie bar. While he was there, Danny (Ben Mendelsohn) and his mates Vangeli (Angelo D’Angelo) and Mark (Damon Herriman) have switched engines on Farkas’ car, ... [read more]

On the road (1987)

Buster (Rebecca Smart) the city kid has been kitted out for her new life in the bush and her father (Bryan Brown) is setting a cracking pace as they walk to his next farm job because, as he says, 'if ... [read more]

Footscray street scenes (1971)

Pans and high-angle shots capture the streets, buildings, shopfronts and signs of the inner-west Melbourne suburb of Footscray in 1971. A Ferris wheel is operating in the Nicholson Street Mall and crowds gather for a baby competition run by Bradley’s ... [read more]

The frontline of the factory (1942)

A man is ready to leave for his night shift at the munitions factory when his young daughter, Topsy, runs up to him. Her mother has said that he works 'awful hard making bombs’ so that the Germans can’t attack ... [read more]

Distributor under construction (1973)

Tree surgeons and DMR workers relocate an ornamental tree in the path of the distributor. The supporting steel false work emphasises the height of the new structure. Concrete decks of the north and southbound carriageways are ... [read more]

An attack on the Sabbath (1949)

Government soldiers have taken up positions around the Eureka Stockade, early on the morning of 3 December 1854. The miners do not expect an attack on the Sabbath. It begins with a signal from a bugler. The miners react quickly, ... [read more]

The wool industry (1938)

A close-up of a ‘modern stud’ sheep is shown to be the product of a ‘century’s breeding’. Sheep are hand-shorn by manual clippers; a flock of sheep at shearing season is shown; sheering sheds are filled with men shearing sheep ... [read more]

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