We’re taking a light-hearted look at the mean(ish) mums of Australian film and TV. Meet mums that drink and smoke, mums that scheme, mums that swear, new mummies at screaming point, and mums you wouldn’t want to meet in a dark alley.

The NFSA hosts a post-screening Q&A with director Jane Castle and producer Pat Fiske of the documentary When the Camera Stopped Rolling.

Mr Neville (Kenneth Branagh) tells the police inspector (Roy Billing) that the three escaped girls must be following the rabbit-proof fence north, to their home.

Female Forum is a segment on The Mike Walsh Show where a panel of prominent women act as agony aunts for a letter-writer in need of guidance.

Art has always been Betty Churcher's (1931–2015) private and public passion. As an educator and a gallery director, her vision was to make people see art as accessible and relevant.

Born of Chinese parents, Lily (1917–2001) became a housemaid for a European family after leaving Darwin Public School at 14.

This is probably the film’s most controversial scene, as well as the most harrowing, partly because it’s different to the way Doris Pilkington Garimara describes her abduction in the book.

A black-and-white cinema advertisement for Kraft Vegemite outlines the benefits it has if added to one’s diet, especially for children and infants.

We bring you a recording of our conversation with Jocelyn Moorhouse when she visited the NFSA in 2019 to discuss her book, 'Unconditional Love: A Memoir of Filmmaking and Motherhood'.

At the Moore River Aboriginal settlement, Molly (Everlyn Sampi) is called out of the assembly to be inspected by Mr AO Neville (Kenneth Branagh), the Protector of Aborigines.