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‘I don’t want any juvenile nonsense’ (1992)

At auditions for the school play, students have to pair up to play a love scene. Linda (Joelene Crnogorac) is delighted when the mysterious new boy Andrew (Eamonn Kelly) arrives and Mr Snapper (Esben Storm) puts Andrew and Linda together ... [read more]

Weighing into the argument (2000)

Presenter Rachael Oakes-Ash recalls the dreaded day when she and her fellow schoolgirls were weighed. She interviews schoolgirls about their attitude to dieting. [read more]

Mick answers the door (1988)

Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski) has been kidnapped by Colombian drug boss Luis Rico. Mick has intercepted the film that Rico wants, so he waits for a contact. The assassin is swiftly taken out, and he tells Mick where they’re holding ... [read more]

‘Beautiful one day, strung up the next’ (2000)

Franky (Bruce Hutchison) is dragged into the police station and interrogated. The police want to know what made him go on his murderous spree. [read more]

‘Anybody here?’ (2003)

Steve (Gary Sweet) arrives home from the office and has trouble getting into his house. Finally entering to find the vestibule dark and quiet, he smiles to himself, thinking he’s about to encounter a surprise birthday party. But when he ... [read more]

The St Kilda Esplanade on Boxing Day (c1913)

This silent clip shows the St Kilda esplanade and foreshore on Boxing Day 1913. People relax on the grass, enjoy amusement rides at Luna Park and swim at the beach. [read more]

Practising at Lords (1930)

Members of the team practise batting in the nets at Lords Cricket Ground. Players smile for, and walk past, the camera. A pan of the bowlers practising in the nets is followed by more players captured casually in close up. ... [read more]

‘I come from the country’ (1938)

After capturing an escaped chicken, stagehand Joe Blake (George Wallace) becomes an unwitting magician’s assistant, on stage with a frustrated Mysto (Alec Kellaway). Joe tells Mysto a story about his prize bull Stanley, from back home on the farm. [read more]

The radicalised Reverend (1987)

Father Brian Gore blesses the new chapel on Negros Island in the Philippines. In voice-over Father Gore recalls his conservative Catholic upbringing in Australia, his initial experience as a priest serving the rich middle class and his radicalisation as he ... [read more]

‘Smutty but sharp’ (1971)

After only three issues of Bolo, Kevin Agar (John Duigan) is struggling to pay even the printer. Back in the office, his friend (Alan Finney) says he is willing to write on any topic. Another (John Romeril) has composed a ... [read more]

‘We can’t be beaten’ (2006)

A montage of black-and-white photos shows Luc and his mother at a younger age, and the suburban houses of Yagoona. Back in the present, we meet the team of friends – ex-junkie Boof (Jason McGoldrick); Terry the supermarket worker (Steven ... [read more]

‘The boys are going to knuckle’ (1983)

The rain forces everyone to down tools and go to the pub, where Johnny (Harry Hopkins) tells Mike (Colin Friels) that he wants to dissolve their partnership. Mike challenges him to a fight, and everyone lines up to watch. [read more]

‘Dich, teure Halle’ (1973)

Among the works performed at the official opening concert at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall on 29 September 1973 was the celebrated aria from Act Two of Wagner’s opera Tannhauser (1845). ‘Dich, teure Halle’ was sung by Swedish soprano ... [read more]

‘A fair go for the working people’ (1955)

This is a partly dramatised, newsreel-style sequence depicting the WWF’s appeal to the broader labour movement for help in fighting amendments to the 1954 Stevedoring Act. Waterside workers’ wives prepare food parcels and union organisers conduct rallies ... [read more]

A common experience (1988)

Michael Mansell from the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre talks about the treatment of Aborigines by whites during the history of Australian colonisation. Footage shows preparation for the protest march against the Australian Bicentenary as it prepares to leave Redfern oval. [read more]

The quick way to cut down trees (1933)

Wayne Ridgeway (Dick Fair, credited as Grant Lyndsay) has gone to work for Clive Sherrington (John Warwick), after recuperating from a horse fall at Enderby Station. While setting explosives to fell trees, Ridgeway recognises the man who knocked him off ... [read more]

The recruiting blokes came through town (2010)

The soldiers are being taken to their new location, the Messines Ridge in Belgium, when Woodward (Brendan Cowell) strikes up a conversation with the father and son under his command. Jim Sneddon (Alan Dukes) explains that his son Walter (Alex ... [read more]

‘Don’t hurt her anymore’ (2011)

The women at Temple House refuge have a get-together in one of the rooms. They drink, sing and talk, acknowledging each other’s pain and sharing in the pleasure of their company. [read more]

‘I’m finished with the church’ (1980)

Having fallen in love with Jack (Simon Burke), Joe (Patrick Phillips) is heartbroken when the parish priest, in the confessional, tells Jack their association is a mortal sin. Jack decides he must end their ‘affair’, to him an intense though ... [read more]

Water runs red (1993)

Rick climbs out of the window of the cinema and runs through the swamp. Sitting on the bed with his two sisters, he distributes the candy he has stolen from the cinema. Two white children pass by and ask the ... [read more]

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