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Footy Chicks (2006)
Footy Chicks enters the world of AFL, league and union footballers and the women who pursue them. It explores the heady mix of alcohol, peer pressure and sexual desire, and the slippery boundary between having a good ... [read more]
We Aim to Please (1976)
We Aim to Please is an experimental feminist film that challenged the way the image of women had been produced by and for men. Made collaboratively by Margot Nash and Robin Laurie, who also appear in it, the film is ... [read more]
CNNNN: Chaser Non-stop News Network – Lunchgate (2002)
CNNNN: Chaser Non-stop News Network is a fictional 24-hour Australian news channel mimicking the formats of shows like US television’s CNN and Fox News. The show is presented as an 'interruption’ in the ABC's usual programming, to ... [read more]
My South Polar Expedition (1910)
Sir Ernest Shackleton and four men, with four Manchurian ponies, attempted to be the first to reach the South Pole in 1908. In this recording, he tells how the loss of the last pony almost killed one of the men ... [read more]
Treaty (1991)
This is an Aboriginal pop song from the 1990s with a powerful political message. [read more]
Country Gardens (1919)
Percy Grainger’s own performance of his best-known composition, ‘Country Gardens’, captured on a piano roll. [read more]
Honest Toil March (1924)
This is the earliest disc recording of an Australian brass band. It was made in 1924 by the prize-winning Newcastle Steelworks Band, who were drawn from the ranks of the BHP steelworks. [read more]
Lionel Rose Wins the World Title (1968)
This is the radio call made over the telephone from Tokyo by Ron Casey describing Lionel Rose winning the world bantamweight boxing title from Japanese fighter Harada in 1968. [read more]
Mister Prime Minister – Joseph Aloysius Lyons (c1966)
Joseph Aloysius Lyons served as Prime Minister of Australia from 1932 to 1939. Academics, Lyons’s widow Dame Enid Lyons and political figures, including former prime minister Sir Robert Menzies, discuss Lyons’s life and times. [read more]
Yindi: The Last Koala? (1996)
This docu-drama follows Yindi, a koala on Australia’s east coast. Yindi is still a tiny baby in the pouch when his mother is injured in a car accident and he must be hand-reared. After mother and baby are returned to ... [read more]
Where Death Wears a Smile (1985)
Where Death Wears a Smile explores the experiences of two Australian soldiers, Walter Steilberg and Alex McClelland, who were thrown into Theresienstadt concentration camp near Prague in Czechoslovakia. This Nazi camp had a prison nearby known as the the 'Small ... [read more]
Butterfly Island – Series 1 Episode 1 (1985)
The Wilson family run an unspoilt resort on Butterfly Island, despite financial troubles and strong competition from new glamorous resorts nearby. In this first episode of the series, a young Vietnamese refugee (Phu An Chiem) arrives and unwittingly becomes involved ... [read more]
Chinese Take Away (2002)
Chinese Take Away is an adaptation by filmmaker Mitzi Goldman of a one-woman theatre production written and performed by Anna Yen. Yen seeks to learn about a family tragedy and tells the complex story of the three generations of her ... [read more]
McLeod’s Daughters – Welcome Home (2001)
After the death of her father Jack, Claire McLeod (Lisa Chappell) is trying to get on with running the family cattle station, Drover’s Run. But the business is in serious debt and the men on the station are not taking ... [read more]
River of No Return (2008)
River of No Return documents the life of Frances Daingangan (also known as Frances Djulibing), who lives in the remote community of Ngangalala in central Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. She narrates her childhood experience living a traditional lifestyle ... [read more]
ABC Children’s TV Club – Monday Showcase (1961)
Monday Showcase is a magazine-style program for children from the series ABC Children’s TV Club. This episode opens with the continuing story of 'Aroora the Red Kangaroo’ (by Leslie Rees) followed by Phidias and his Art Gallery, an art ... [read more]
Man of Flowers (1983)
Charles Bremer (Norman Kaye), a retired, wealthy aesthete, regularly hires Lisa (Alyson Best), a young female artist’s model, to strip for him to the soundtrack of a Donizetti aria. Charles writes letters to his dead mother, plays church organ, loves ... [read more]
Ken Howard Calls the Melbourne Cup (1941)
In this recording from 1941, sports broadcaster Ken Howard calls the Melbourne Cup. [read more]
Sea Patrol – Cometh the Hour (2007)
Patrol ship HMAS Hammersley’s navy service is coming to an end: she is due to be decommissioned and her crew relocated. She heads out on her last voyage, in pursuit of villain Rick Gallagher (Martin Lunes) and a shipment ... [read more]
Message Stick – Tent Boxers (2001)
Tent Boxers tells the story of the Aboriginal men who travelled across Australia with tent-boxing troupes in the mid-twentieth century. The film documents this travelling-show phenomenon through a combination of interviews with former tent boxers, historical footage and still images. [read more]
