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Uranium blockade (1999)
Anti-uranium mining protestors block the road access to Jabiluka in the Northern Territory. The mining company issues trespass notices and the NT police clear the road, making several arrests. [read more]
‘Can’t get much better than her’ (2007)
Pete (Khan Chittenden) and Jerry (Nathan Phillips) get drunk and stoned in their usual hangout, a culvert beneath a bridge, before going to the pub. Pete is keen on a girl there, but Cheryl (Gillian Alexy) chooses Jerry. Kenwood (Anthony ... [read more]
Don Bradman’s captaincy (1982)
Former international cricketer Bill O’Reilly recalls Don Bradman’s captaincy during the 1937 and 1938 test cricket series. [read more]
Food and shelter (1974)
A public centre is set up as a temporary refuge for people displaced by the cyclone. Meals are provided along with medical services such as typhoid and tetanus vaccinations. [read more]
Thirty dollars worth of talk (1981)
In Kings Cross, Sydney, Rob (Bryan Brown) asks Lou (Judy Davis) if he can talk to her about Lisa. She leads him to the hotel room where she takes her clients, requesting $30 for 15 minutes. Remembering her friend makes ... [read more]
Husband (1998)
Elvis Maginnis (Marcus Graham) is in his office at K for Kleen Dry-cleaning when he gets a call from his new girlfriend Carmen Francis (Belinda McClory). She has shocking news and, despite the misgivings of his employees Stella Kinsella (Alison ... [read more]
Barred (1993)
The 'blue heelers’ are relaxing at the Imperial Hotel after work when Bruce McLaren (Josh Picker) arrives. He’s just been released on bail after being charged with the rape of his girlfriend Sally-Anne. When Chris Reilly (Julie Nihill) orders him ... [read more]
School, activities, food and leisure (c1962)
Children run in races at the centre’s sports day, while parents look on. Some of the children play tunnel ball outside one of the housing quarters. The kindergarten provides toys and games for younger children. On the bowling green, older ... [read more]
Kitchen discussion (1989)
Joan Walker (Judi Farr) asks Dr Steve Harrison (Michael O’Neill) if it is OK for her granddaughter Zoe Walker (Liberty Lee) to go back to school when she has tested positive for HIV. Do they need to inform the ... [read more]
Escape to Earth (2000)
The opening titles introduce us to Cybergirl (Ania Stepien). The start of the episode sets up Cybergirl’s arrival, her pursuit by replicants Isaac (Ric Anderson) and Xanda (Jennifer Congram), and introduces Jackson Campbell (Craig Horner) and his father Hugh (Mark ... [read more]
‘Bye Bye Baby’ (1959)
This 30-second clip includes the instrumental introduction and first verse of 'Bye Bye Baby’, as performed by Col Joye and the Joy Boys with backing vocals from the Sapphires. [read more]
‘Sex doesn’t kill you’ (2006)
In a dramatic re-creation, police bring in Geoffrey Chandler (Nicholas Hope) to identify the body of his dead wife (Octavia Baron Martin) at the morgue. In voice-over we hear a contemporary interview with Chandler, describing being treated with suspicion by ... [read more]
Finish (2005)
Cars race through the dusty outback. Warwick Thornton talks to camera about the preparation for the race and the need to just finish it. He also speaks about how at the age of 34 he belongs to the demographic that ... [read more]
Rehabilitation and re-education (c1948)
This clip begins with a montage of people on the streets of postwar Japan. The narrator explains that the American Allied occupation forces are transforming Japan from a ‘military dictatorship’ into a democracy. The next sequence is about re-education and ... [read more]
‘Who are you, Steve?’ (2003)
On the videotape, Alexandra (Helen Buday) displays the vibrator Steve (Gary Sweet) gave her on her birthday and accuses him of buying it for his pleasure only. She calls it a machine, and says that in his eyes it makes ... [read more]
Bougainville battlers (2000)
The clip describes the extent of the damage from 17 years of toxic waste and pollution from the copper mine, and how the people of Bougainville Island said 'no more’. As the customary owners of the land, the women were ... [read more]
Cousins (2000)
Vinnie (Kelton Pell) is sitting beneath a tree in the park, sketching from an old photograph. Franky (Bruce Hutchison) approaches him with a photo of his own. In the photograph are both their mothers, who it turns out, are sisters, ... [read more]
‘Treated with respect’ (1995)
Andrea Stretton asks Tim Winton whether he could ever really be happy with an adaptation, given that his work is very much about the use of language and not just story-line and plot. He generously declares that so long as ... [read more]
One degree (2005)
As Jasper Morello (Joel Edgerton) reflects on the navigational error which resulted in a man’s death and may have cost Jasper his career, his wife Amelia (Jude Beaumont) hands him the letter assigning him to his next voyage. [read more]
‘Everything is upside down’ (1990)
The tea party was ‘worth making a song and dance about’ but Rebecca (Hetherington), Blackboard and Mr Squiggle (both operated and voiced by Norman Hetherington) are waiting for Gus the Snail to arrive. In the meantime, it’s time for a ... [read more]
