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Suing the drug companies (2004)

Law firm Baum Hedlund undertook a class action for people suffering from the side effects of antidepressant drugs. Attorney Karen Barth says that the law firm was overrun with thousands of calls from victims. [read more]

The chief wakes up (1962)

This clip is from the twelfth and final episode of Wambidgee, 'The Chief Wakes Up’. Wambidgee wakes the chief from sleep and tell him that there is a crocodile in the creek. The chief feels too tired and tells Wambidgee ... [read more]

Arcades (1992)

The filmmaker visits Paris, firstly on a tourist barge on the Seine, then exploring its old shopping arcades. Meanwhile, academic and author Susan Buck-Morss describes Benjamin’s masterwork, Das Passagen Werk (1927–40), or The Arcades Project, that was built around a ... [read more]

Departing Australia (1948)

This clip from the first reel of a home movie filmed by Australian Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, begins with a title card that says ‘Journey to England’ which is followed by a crowd farewelling them from a wharf. Streamers ... [read more]

Adapting to the climate (1949)

A group of friends relax and keep cool under the shade of a gum tree in their garden. Two of them flip through an old photo album that contains photographs of the Australian snowfields and the snow gum – a ... [read more]

‘Hang by the neck’ (1975)

The villainous Liz (Margaret Laurence) visits the incarcerated Gary (Mike Ferguson) to taunt him about the murder for which she has set him up to take the blame. [read more]

Neurosurgery and the soul (1996)

Two neurosurgeons discuss the scientific and mechanical nature of their work and one lightheartedly wonders: if a soul exists, where it would show up on a scan? [read more]

Dancing in the dark (1989)

Kay (Karen Colston), Louis (Tom Lycos) and Gordon (Jon Darling) have driven to the outback, to get away from Sweetie (Geneviève Lemon) and visit Kay’s mother Flo (Dorothy Barry). Kay finds her mother is a changed woman. With the local ... [read more]

Freedom to the city – Edinburgh (1948)

This clip from a home movie filmed by Australian Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, begins with a title card that states ‘Presented by the Corporation of Edinburgh along with the Burgess Ticket conferring the Freedom of the City to Rt. ... [read more]

Queen of the Murray 1951 (c1943)

This clip from a colour home movie filmed by Ernest Gourlay Morris in 1951 shows some of the female competitors on a boat on the Murray River and on stage competing for the Queen of the Murray beauty contest at ... [read more]

‘Snap goes the Crunchie’ (c1966)

This black-and-white television advertisement for Crunchie is set on a sunny day with a group of young friends playing at the beach. As the Crunchie jingle plays, they eat and 'snap’ their Crunchie bars. The male voice-over describes the bright ... [read more]

The straight and narrow (2006)

A photograph of the Lapa footy team posing with a trophy. Clint 'Eastwood’ Cooke the 2004 A Grade Captain speaks about how there is no colour bar, and that the love of football and especially playing for Lapa is the ... [read more]

‘Remember … Cadbury’s Milk Tray’ (c1955)

This clip contains two 30-second advertisements for Cadbury’s Milk Tray chocolates. In the first, a young couple going to a show make the evening romantic with the purchase of Milk Tray chocolates. The second shows a male and female ... [read more]

‘They’ve sacked the boss’ (1993)

Wife of former Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, Margaret Whitlam, recalls the day that the Governor-General John Kerr sacked her husband on 11 November 1975. At the end of this clip Gough Whitlam is seen on the steps of Parliament House ... [read more]

‘Beer for the workers’ (1972)

As the office picnic progresses into the night, the partygoers get drunker, exposing simmering tensions. Clyde, a frustrated musician, tangles with a drunken colleague (Byron Kennedy), then punches the youngest member of staff, Peter (Philip Deamer), who leaves with his ... [read more]

Women walking along the beach (c1932)

Three women walk along the shoreline of Blackmans Bay Beach in Tasmania. They then cartwheel across the sand. The same women are shown later on, wearing different clothes, walking through scrub along a fence line. They climb over the fence. [read more]

‘God Save the Queen’ (1975)

This clip directly follows David Smith, official secretary to the Governor-General, reading a proclamation dissolving both houses of Parliament on the steps of old Parliament House, Canberra, on 11 November 1975, a few hours after the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, ... [read more]

It gets in the blood (2005)

Lauren Moret, a nuclear weapons scientist, says that when depleted uranium burns after use in weapons, the radioactive gas released into the atmosphere has deadly effects when ingested into the bloodstream of humans. [read more]

Going to the scan (2007)

Rachel has had a seizure. The medical staff must do a scan of her brain quickly to see from where in the brain the fits are originating, so they know where to operate. [read more]

Against narrative (1992)

Academic Michael Jennings discusses Benjamin’s ideas about narrative in the context of the Weimar Republic of the 1920s and early ‘30s. This is juxtaposed with early ‘90s street scenes from a newly unified Berlin, including the partly destroyed Berlin Wall. ... [read more]

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