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‘Surfie chick or nobody’ (1981)

On the bus to school, Debbie (Nell Schofield) and her best friend Sue (Jad Capelja) try to suck up to the head of the surfie chick clique, Tracey (Sandy Paul). When she gets into a fight on the floor of ... [read more]

Then came happiness (1931)

Taking a narrative form, this advertisement from 1931 begins with Helen hanging out the clothes. Her daughter, Joan, brings her the mail and she opens an invitation to a bridge night which happens to be on the same night as ... [read more]

Steel rails (c1920)

Lengths of molten steel pass through a large machine that rolls them into rails for use in the Trans-Continental Railway. The molten steel snakes its way down the track before withdrawing again. The camera shifts position to capture this process ... [read more]

‘I wish I could understand you’ (1968)

When two Aboriginal men take her by the arms to lead her away from a contaminated waterhole, Clancy is initially scared. However when they offer her fresh water and something to eat at their camp she realises their good intent ... [read more]

The rice farm (1991)

Filmmaker Dennis O’Rourke offers to buy Thai prostitute Aoi a rice farm if she will stop practising prostitution. Aoi gives her response. [read more]

Refugee Studies Centre (2002)

Hoi Trinh is an Australian-Vietnamese lawyer. Oxford University has accepted him into one of the few academic courses dealing with refugees in the world. The clip shows Hoi in class with his teachers Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill and Professor Andrew Shacknove. [read more]

‘Holden’s number one’ (c1966)

This black-and-white television advertisement for Holden sedans and wagons incorporates the 'Holden’s Number One’ jingle. The cars feature prominently in three scenarios – a suburban family going on holiday, a group of friends on a skiing weekend, and an affluent ... [read more]

‘You’ve got yourself a man’ (c1970)

This clip shows three different ads from the late 1960s or early 1970s which feature the tagline 'when you get Roses, you’ve got yourself a man’. In the first ad, two young women sit in a train carriage. One (played ... [read more]

Bondi bush baby (1936)

Chut explores his forest world, hopping about madly, as his mother keeps a watchful eye. He encounters many strange things – a koala moving from one tree to another and a bossy emu that chases him, until an older kangaroo ... [read more]

‘Give it a go’ (1980)

Jean Paget (Helen Morse) tells solicitor Noel Strachan (Gordon Jackson) of her first meeting with Joe Harmon (Bryan Brown) while on an enforced trek across Malaya with a group of fellow Englishwomen and their children. Among others in the flashback ... [read more]

David the recidivist (1999)

David has absconded from a youth training centre. He talks about how he just wants to live his own way, while his case officers discuss his criminal activities and his future. [read more]

‘Do you want the truth or what I said?’ (2007)

Television presenter Ray Martin asks Norma Khouri if she believes she would be killed if she returned to Jordan. In another interview, Norma defends some of her ‘untruths’ in the book. This is intercut with David Leser, watching the interview ... [read more]

Wild river (1980)

Bob Brown takes a rubber dinghy through some spectacular rapids at the head of the Franklin River in Tasmania. In voice-over he recalls his first trip down the river and the powerful impact it had on him. [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]

Unemployed (1982)

Three of the characters are introduced – the first lines up for three jobs with ten hopefuls, the next gets the sack because casual staff comes cheap in an economic downturn and another stays at home to mind her sister’s ... [read more]

Painters and Dockers strike (1976)

Over a ballad recounting the main events in the Painters and Dockers dispute, a montage of images sets the scene at the Garden Island docks. People with placards and signs enter an inner-city building. In the foyer of the ... [read more]

‘A Milk Tray day today’ (c1955)

This clip contains three short advertisements, all with the jingle 'sing toora-lay it’s a Milk Tray day today’. The first is set in a fairground with a couple riding on a carousel. The man offers the woman Milk Tray chocolates ... [read more]

‘Get us out of this hellhole’ (2004)

The First Fleet is on its way to Botany Bay. Governor Arthur Phillip (Sam Neill), Reverend Johnson (Garry McDonald) and Lieutenant Clarke (Jack Davenport) discuss the colony’s prospects over dinner. Down below, the convicts scrabble for leftovers. When Clarke visits ... [read more]

A free and individual voice (1996)

In this interview with Andrea Stretton, Salman Rushdie argues that writers are a considerable threat to authoritarian regimes. He thinks it’s because the writer works alone with pencil and paper and therefore cannot be controlled, unlike the worlds of theatre ... [read more]

Meet the Mazas (1997)

Lisa Maza recalls her school years when she auditioned for roles and froze up. Her sister Rachael excelled at auditions and went on to become a television presenter. [read more]

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