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Banjo’s place (c1965)
A nostalgic look at life in the district of old Jindabyne, long before the advent of the Snowy Mountains Scheme. [read more]
Blackfella’s law (2002)
After the death of the fanatic, the tracker (David Gulpilil) and the follower (Damon Gameau) are captured by the local tribe in this area. They have also captured the fugitive (Noel Wilton), an Aboriginal man of a different clan. The ... [read more]
Missionary Hawaii (2005)
Stephen Eisenman, author and Professor of Art History in Illinois, explains the negative impacts of colonialism and imperialism on traditional Tahitian life. English missionaries reformed the ‘sinful natives’ of Hawaii and French missionaries converted many Tahitians to Christianity. The invention ... [read more]
Unity is strength (1987)
Premier Bjelke-Petersen says the union protest will be a 'fizzer’ and adds in his own inimitable style, 'don’t be bulldozed into anything that you don’t want to be bulldozed into’. Unionists protest outside Queensland Parliament and are arrested under the ... [read more]
Asylum seekers at work (2002)
Afghan asylum seekers are good employees in the rural Victorian town of Loxton. The then Minister for Immigration, Phillip Ruddock, argues that they are not necessarily entitled to permanent status. [read more]
Italy revisited (1993)
Kavisha Mazzella visits Italy to find traditional songs. She interviews musicologist Professor Ugo Vuoso about how the songs are recorded for posterity. [read more]
Social justice (1991)
Michael Leunig sees our inability to say 'enough is enough’ as a problem while John Howard considers it to be the acceptable price of progress. [read more]
Debutante ball (1988)
Longreach’s debutantes are presented to the accompaniment of the bagpipe. [read more]
Yaks in Tibet (1986)
Tibetan graziers move their families and yaks 30 to 40 kilometres for fresh feeding lands. They pay no taxes but support the local school teacher. [read more]
Irian Jaya’s history (1993)
The United Nations gave Indonesia control of Irian Jaya in 1962, despite the protests of the Papuans. Some 20,000 people have since died in conflicts in the highland provinces between the indigenous people and the Indonesian army. [read more]
Hurley’s composites (2004)
Photographer Frank Hurley achieved some of his greatest wartime photographs by combining several photos into one. Stephen Burton of the Australian War Memorial shows how it is done. Australia’s official wartime historian, Charles Bean, was outraged. He branded the photographs ... [read more]
Safe drilling (1963)
Illustrates safe preparation for drilling and safe drilling methods on the Snowy Mountains Scheme. [read more]
Birthday party (c1932)
This clip, shot by the Archibald family, shows a little girl’s birthday party in the early 1930s. Girls, all dressed in white dresses and with bobbed hair, play 'Ring-a-ring o’ roses’ and 'Oranges and lemons’ before they sit down to ... [read more]
Mill township (1920)
This clip from an industrial documentary is an observational look at a township built in the 1920s for the timber workers. [read more]
Vocational training for returned soldiers (1919)
In 1919 returned First World War soldiers, accompanied by their wives, inspect various forms of vocational training such as building construction, making Sunshine harvesters, assembling cars and bricklaying. The clip begins with the three returned servicemen with their partners ... [read more]
Farming classes at Dookie Agricultural College (1919)
This clip from a brief documentary shows an observational look at returned First World War servicemen in 1919 as they train to be farmers at Dookie Agricultural College and commence work at Merbein, Victoria. It begins with a title card ... [read more]
The opening of Murray 1 Power Station (1969)
The Murray 1 Project, in the Snowy Mountains Scheme, is officially opened by Prime Minister Harold Holt in July 1967. [read more]
Talbingo Dam site is cleared (1969)
Shows the cycle of drilling, firing and hauling of materials in the construction of Talbingo Reservoir on the Snowy Mountains Scheme. [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]
Our Don Bradman (1982)
In an excerpt from the 1931 Australasian Films featurette That’s Cricket, Don Bradman, regarded as the greatest cricketer of all time, addresses the camera. We hear the popular song Our Don Bradman written by Jack O’Hagan and performed by Art ... [read more]
