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Mother and Son – The Money (1984)
Maggie Beare (Ruth Cracknell) has been hiding her pension cheques so that the government won’t know how much money she has. Her harassed son Arthur (Garry McDonald), would love to have some of that money to buy a new car ... [read more]
Plains Empty (2005)
An enthralling drama about a young married woman who, left alone in the mining fields, encounters a ghost of the past. [read more]
Don’t Blame the Koalas - Episode 1, Fate Steps In (2002)
When Mrs Medlow (Eileen McEwan) dies, Kate King (Basia A’Hern) and her brothers Mark (Shaun Loseby) and Chris (Henry Nixon) discover that some unknown English relatives have inherited their run-down wildlife park, Wallaby Park. They look forward to the arrival ... [read more]
Waterfront – Episode 1 (1984)
It’s 1928 and the waterfront unions in Melbourne are gearing up for a struggle with the shipowners who are trying to take away hard-won wages and working conditions from the wharfies. Meanwhile in Italy, Mussolini’s Blackshirts are forcing many Italian ... [read more]
Waterfront – Episode 2 (1984)
Max Woodbury (Jack Thompson) is the iconic Aussie bloke. He’d far rather spend an evening at the Tivoli with his girl (Noni Hazlehurst) than take on the responsibility of the wharfies’ union. When the union boss (Ray Barrett) dies of ... [read more]
Opening of the Prahran-Malvern Tramway (1910)
This silent historical footage filmed by Millard Johnson and William Gibson captures the opening of the Prahran-Malvern Tramway, Victoria, on 30 May 1910. [read more]
Living Hawthorn (1906)
Historical footage filmed by Melbourne-based chemists Millard Johnson and William Gibson in Hawthorn, Victoria. [read more]
Behind the Big Top (1949)
A documentary about the travelling Wirth’s Circus and Zoo that toured to Melbourne in 1949. The circus train arrives in town and workers (and elephants) help set up the big top for the main show. Inside the sawdust arena ... [read more]
Novel Method of Advertising Peace Bonds: The Lion and the Kangaroo (c1917)
A silent Australasian Gazette newsreel item featuring part of a parade in Melbourne. It shows signs advertising peace bonds erected on the cages of a lion and kangaroo belonging to the Colleano and Sole Brothers Circus. [read more]
Poetry In Australia – Judith Wright (1963)
The poet Judith Wright (1915-2000) is introduced by well-known ABC broadcaster John Thompson in an interview that covers aspects of her early life on the land, her art as one of Australia’s premier poets and her activism as an ... [read more]
Traffic Chaos Caused by Fusing of Electric Tram Wires (c1926)
This newsreel segment filmed by Gordon Gidney covers a traffic jam caused by the fusing of electric tram wires in Melbourne in the 1920s. [read more]
Chequerboard Revisited – Episode 6: That One Piece of Paper (2000)
The original Chequerboard program was made in black-and-white in 1972. Two boys were chosen from Liverpool Boys’ High School. Pat wants to leave school immediately at age 16 to try for work as a technician while Ken, who loves school, ... [read more]
The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello (2005)
In this animated film, the aerial navigator Jasper Morello (voiced by Joel Edgerton), accompanied by the academy biologist Dr Claude Belgon (voiced by Helmut Bakaitis), sets out on a voyage aboard the airship Resolution to establish a line of beacons ... [read more]
A Ticket in Tatts (1934)
George (George Wallace) gets fired from his job at a country grocer’s shop. He is hired by the local stud farm, where he has a favourite horse. Hotspur is fancied to win the Melbourne Cup, but big city crooks want ... [read more]
Balibo (2009)
Darwin, December 1975. Roger East (Anthony LaPaglia), a veteran Australian journalist, is approached by José Ramos-Horta (Oscar Isaac), the charismatic Secretary of Foreign Affairs for the government of East Timor. Ramos-Horta tells East that his fledgling republic, which has declared ... [read more]
Matlock Police – Episode 1, Twenty-six Hours (1971)
A group of hippies on a road trip arrive in the country town of Matlock just as a frightening chain of events takes place. First, town matriarch Miss Falconer (Sheila Florance) is robbed and left for dead in her home. ... [read more]
Bomb Harvest (2007)
Bomb Harvest follows Laith Stevens, an Australian bomb disposal specialist training a team in Laos to clear bombs left from the ‘secret war’ the US waged at the time of the Vietnam War. The film also tracks the locals, including ... [read more]
The Coca-Cola Kid (1985)
Concerned about profit margins in Australia, the Coca-Cola company sends its top trouble shooter Becker (Eric Roberts) to its Sydney office. The company’s Australian boss, Frank Hunter (Max Gillies), tells Becker about T George McDowell (Bill Kerr), an old-style soft-drink ... [read more]
Adventure Island – Episode 1174 (1972)
This is the second-last episode of Adventure Island and the last to be broadcast on a Thursday. It includes a farewell to Thursday regular Maxie Mouse (a puppet operated and voiced by Ernie Bourne), who reads Dorothea Mackellar’s iconic poem ... [read more]
Cyclone Tracy (1974)
This is an excerpt from an ABC radio broadcast featuring Mike Hayes (1944–2003), a senior journalist with the ABC in Darwin. He gives a first-hand account of the aftermath of Cyclone Tracy, down a poor-quality telephone line, to ... [read more]
