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Tagged: Australian history

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Babakiueria: 'This strange and fascinating people'
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...
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Constructing Australia: Pipe Dreams - Gold Rush
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...
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Constructing Australia: A Wire Through The Heart - A Wire to the World
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...
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Constructing Australia: A Wire Through The Heart - A Massive Undertaking
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...
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Constructing Australia: A Wire Through The Heart - The Vast Centre
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...
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This Fabulous Century: Graeme Thorne
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...
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Snakes and Ladders: Expectations
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...
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Snakes and Ladders: Feminism
Jean Curthoys, Anne Summers, Edna Ryan and Marjory Thomas talk about feminism and their quests for a better education. Summary by Adrienne Parr.
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First Australians: We Are No Longer Shadows - 'We'd have to start to get political', Episode 7
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...
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First Australians: Freedom For Our Lifetime - A 'final solution', Episode 3
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...
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