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Mining Boom
Mining Boom is an animated workplace comedy aimed at adults. It follows an eclectic team of FIFOs (Fly-In-Fly-Out temporary workers) as they slip up, cover up and shortcut their way through remote...
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Walkabout episode 7, 'Rum Jungle’
This episode focuses on uranium mines located in the Northern Territory near Darwin. It follows the journey of Charles and Elsa Chauvel as they travel from the Katherine River to Katherine, then...
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Alyawarre Country: Houses
Sepia-toned footage of a re-enactment of white pastoralists in conflict with local Indigenous people is intercut with an interview with two elders telling us the tale of how the white people took...
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First Australians: We Are No Longer Shadows - 'Campaign of fear', Episode 7
Father Frank Brennan, Eddie’s daughter Gail Mabo of the Meriam and Manbarra Nations and Donald Whaleboat of the Meriam Nation, talk about Eddie ‘Koiki’ Mabo and the outcomes of the trial. Narrator...
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First Australians: We Are No Longer Shadows - Discriminatory legislation, Episode 7
Narrator Rachel Perkins and Father Frank Brennan explain legislation brought in by the Queensland government to quash Mabo’s land claim. Barrister Bryan Keon-Cohen QC and historian Professor Marcia...
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Barrier Story
Broken Hill, the "Barrier City", stands in one of Australia's most desolate regions in western N.S.W. Barrier Story captures the bustling, industrious and prosperous city of Broken Hill in the 1950s...
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Steam on the Main North
An NFSA documentary showcasing the history of the NSW Hunter region as a major transport network. It features footage from the Hunter shot by transport enthusiast and cinematographer Roger McKenzie,...
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Alyawarre Country: Camels, horses and buggies
A map of the Frew River area. A voice-over tells us about the inevitable conflict that occurred as a result of the pastoralists coming into contact with the Alyawawarra peoples. Sepia-toned footage (...
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Alyawarre Country: The grinding stone
Reggie Camphoo Pwerl and Donald Thompson Kemarre tell us about what Indigenous people used to carry with them when they travelled everywhere on foot – the main tool being the grinding stone. Images...
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The Old Man and the Inland Sea: 'I'm telling you the law'
Walking through the mining fields, Norman tells us how the old people used to work the fields, but the young people don’t work anymore, and drink too much grog. Norman says that white people arrived...
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