For important COVID-safety and visitor information please see Visit Us
Tagged: Australian history
Video
Presenter Duranga Manika (Michelle Torres) describes her fascination with white people and their customs and explains how she spent six months living with a ‘typical white family’ (Tony Barry, Cecily...
Video
This is a story of personal tragedy, political rivalries, corruption and trial by media that nearly tore apart Australia at the moment of its birth.
In the late 1800s, two men shared a vision for...
Video
The story of the struggle to cross a vast continent and build the telegraph line that would bring Australia to the world and the world to Australia.
This is an excerpt from Constructing Australia: A...
Video
The story of the struggle to cross a vast continent and build the telegraph line that would bring Australia to the world and the world to Australia.
This is an excerpt from Constructing Australia: A...
Video
The story of the struggle to cross a vast continent and build the telegraph line that would bring Australia to the world and the world to Australia.
This is an excerpt from Constructing Australia: A...
Video
TV presenter Peter Luck describes the tragic details of the 1960 kidnapping, ransom demand and murder of 8-year-old Bondi boy, Graeme Thorne, whose parents had just won the lottery, in This Fabulous...
Video
Four women, born in the first half of the 20th century, talk about the expectations they had, as girls, for their own educations. The clip concludes with a montage of historical Education Department...
Video
Jean Curthoys, Anne Summers, Edna Ryan and Marjory Thomas talk about feminism and their quests for a better education. Summary by Adrienne Parr.
Video
Narrator Rachael Perkins gives national and international political context to the times of Edward Koiki Mabo. A voice-over, derived from Eddie’s diaries and the recollections of his family, give...
Video
Historian Professor Marcia Langton of the Yiman-Bidjara Nation describes the Protection Board as the real enemy of Aboriginal people, particularly in relation to the Half-Caste Act developed by the...