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Canvas city begins to take shape (1963)
The aims of the Operation Blowdown test are set out and the troops clear a site in the Cape York rainforest for the location of the test team. [read more]
The new Felicity (1978)
Felicity’s rebellion is now in full swing. She has taken to wearing leathers and breaking into other people’s houses. After a night in Centennial Park, she discovers an old naked man lying near death in a derelict house. In him, ... [read more]
Empire Day pageant (c1915)
The camera captures a group on a horse and carriage; a woman dressed as Queen Victoria; and various groups of children in costumes. Two girls are dressed as Britannia and other children appear as Indians, Red Cross volunteers and Australian ... [read more]
‘They’re always wild to begin with’ (1956)
Having rescued a sick crocodile hunter (Pierre Cressoy), the patrol continues into the Western Highlands, to the place that 'Sharkeye’ Kelly has named 'Paradise Valley’. McAllister (Chips Rafferty) announces his intention to contact the villagers – his first obligation as ... [read more]
Civil administration training (c1963)
This clip outlines achievements in training of local Papua New Guineans by the Australian civil administration. [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]
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]
Expectations (1987)
Four women, born in the first half of the 20th century, talk about the expectations they had, as girls, for their own educations. The clip concludes with a montage of historical Education Department films promoting home science schools. [read more]
‘We’re keeping him’ (1974)
After his brother is killed in a car accident outside the small town of Paris, Arthur (Terry Camilleri) meets Len (John Meillon), the mayor, who leads the funeral procession. At a council meeting afterwards, the mayor complains about unemployed youth, ... [read more]
The great escape (1977)
There were just five shopping days to Christmas 1965 when Ronald Ryan (played by Bill Hunter in this re-creation) and Peter Walker initiated their escape from Pentridge Jail just after 2pm on a sunny Sunday afternoon. [read more]
Leeton state fruit cannery (c1926)
A row of women halve and stone peaches, which are fed via conveyor belt into a peeling machine. Women sort the damaged fruit from the good fruit. Another machine grades the peaches which are packed into cans by hand according ... [read more]
Djedbang-ari (1953)
'Djedbang-ari’ is a three-part Indigenous manikay (song) and dance from the Yirrkala district in the far north-east of Arnhem Land. [read more]
‘Place of thunder’ (2007)
This clip uses voice-over narration by Russell Crowe and a montage of etchings, drawings, photographs and video footage to chronicle the complex social and cultural history of the Maroubra area. It begins by describing first contact between European culture and ... [read more]
Restorative justice conference (1999)
Senior Sergeant Terry O’Connell opens the restorative justice conference where the offenders meet the family and friends of the murdered boy. Karl Kramer, one of the perpetrators, speaks first, saying how he deeply regrets his part in the murder. Douglas ... [read more]
The laundromat and the coffee shop (2002)
Locals come up with an original idea to solve a problem of access to laundry facilities; a community laudromat and coffee shop combined. It’s been going for a year and has brought a disparate community of isolated individuals together. [read more]
‘I can cope with that’ (1998)
Concert pianist, Hephzibah Menuhin (1920-1981) and her brother violinist Yehudi Menuhin are backstage after a performance. Heirs to the Aspro fortune, Lindsay and Nola Nicholas meet them and within months Hephzibah marries Lindsay and Nola marries Yehudi. Shirley Nicholas, Lindsay’s ... [read more]
Surfers Paradise (c1960)
A Surfers Paradise title card opens this segment which includes shots of typical Queensland holiday units, hotels and motels, and swimming pools. The main streets are filled with billboards and signs, motels, cafes and pubs. The ‘Beachcomber’ nightclub is shown ... [read more]
Lockie, ‘surf rat’ (2006)
Lockie (Sean Keenan) contemplates the ‘demented’ surf in his new home town and rides the waves. [read more]
The SETI project (1994)
Mike (Zbych Trofimiuk) is dismayed to find that Nikki (Petra Jared) is more interested in listening to Shane (Che Broadbent) explain his SETI project, than listen to his new Jimi Hendrix CD. [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]
