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Give me the money (1979)
Missing girl Leilani (Amanda Berry) tells her new friend Zane (David Lourie) that she knows someone who wants to buy his supply of LSD. Unemployed Paul (Bryan Brown) decides to rob a supermarket, but ends up shooting a cop. ... [read more]
‘One little hit ain’t gonna do no harm’ (1975)
At a party, Gerry (Carol Porter) runs into Linda and Toby (Bert Cooper), two friends trying to stay off heroin. Lou (Gary Waddell) offers Linda a free hit, to prove her lack of resolve. [read more]
Don Bradman in England (1930)
Don Bradman is interviewed in 1930 while on tour in England. It is an informal interview, with Bradman talking casually as he puts on his cricket jumper and jacket. Bradman discusses the dull light in England, his cricket ambitions, Jack ... [read more]
A tribute to Tamworth (1995)
Townsfolk and visitors to the Tamworth Country Music Festival pay tribute to the town. [read more]
Library of grief (1993)
We see war graves in Europe, and learn about the ongoing responsibilities of the War Graves Commission to maintain the 1,000 cemeteries along the Western Front. Some bodies are still being found from the First World War. [read more]
A forbidden love (2005)
Anne and Trish, the sisters of the filmmaker, speak about the racism experienced by their father Colin when he first began dating their mother Gloria. [read more]
A win at last (1995)
The under-16 soccer team from Clifton Hill, Melbourne, claims its first win after many defeats. [read more]
Soccer assimilation (1995)
Club secretary and under-16 manager Stan Stokes talks about the process of assimilation of all the team members of the soccer club. The boys come from Greek, Turkish and Vietnamese backgrounds. [read more]
Papunya: a different world (1993)
The 'black and white urban band’ Djaambi arrives at the remote Aboriginal community of Papunya to find no audience, minor flooding and bleak housing conditions for the locals. The band hopes that their visit to the community will leave a ... [read more]
Four dollars a fortnight (1987)
In 1946, Indigenous station workers in the north west of Western Australia went on strike. Strikers Sam Coppin and Crow Yougarla explain the pay and conditions and their decision to strike. Their testimonies are interspersed with historical footage of Indigenous ... [read more]
A river to be turned (1952)
The first stages of the Snowy Mountains Scheme are detailed, from the survey and hydrology crews measuring river flows at the Snowy headwaters, to the Guthega project (the first project to be completed), now underway. [read more]
‘You’re never gonna get out of this place’ (2002)
Lena (Dannielle Hall) is sitting in a bus shelter. Her brother Liam (Mundurra Weldon) skids to a halt on his bike. Liam asks for money. A police car drives by. All eyes are on the vehicle. Lena is talking to ... [read more]
Fourth Liberty Loan (1943)
In close-up a soldier screams ‘fire’ and a barrage of bombing in a nightscape is subtitled with text while voice-over urges the public to contribute to the Fourth Liberty Loan. ‘War costs big money: the boys are ready. So back ... [read more]
Australian wilderness (1980)
Bob Brown paddles along the tranquil final stretches of the Franklin River. This is as it must have looked even before the first Europeans arrived in Tasmania. [read more]
Unprotected forests in danger (1991)
Over footage of a beautiful old growth forest, narrator Noni Hazlehurst explains that, at the current rate of deforestation, Australia’s unprotected forests could no longer exist in 250 years’ time. The forest’s native animals are shown as the narrator explains ... [read more]
‘My final statement’ (2004)
Euthanasia campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke says he advises many people intent on suicide. Seventy-nine-year-old Lisette Nigot writes her final letter. [read more]
Across the colour bar (2005)
Historical footage is intercut with an interview with Flora Hoolihan, daughter of Leandro Illin and Kitty Clarke. She tells of her mother being pursued by the police. We also see historical footage of children eating at a table in a ... [read more]
A passing evolutionary novelty (1994)
Cockroaches have been on earth for 300 million years. Humankind may seem like a passing evolutionary novelty by comparison. Cockroaches are remarkable survivors being highly sensitive to smell and air movement. [read more]
Petrol sniffing (2000)
Botj (Sean Mununggurr) sniffs petrol after fighting with his friends Lorrpu and Milika. He trashes the women’s community centre, concentrating his anger on the paintings of the Yolngu’s totem animal, the crocodile. He then lights a cigarette. [read more]
Jobs versus environment (1992)
Local businessman Steve Bishopric, boating down a river with Peter Garrett, suggests ecotourism as a solution. [read more]
