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At the scene
Zara Holt arrives at Cheviot Beach, the location where her husband had entered the rough sea and disappeared. Holt’s Press Secretary, Tony Eggleton, assists her through the media scrum. Zara meets...
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Prime Minister Billy Hughes visits BHP Steelworks, 1917
Newcastle’s history has been dominated by coal mining and the steel industry. The Broken Hill Proprietary Steel Works (BHP) opened in 1915 and continued to operate for 84 years, employing around 50,...
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After Mabo: Fiction of terra nullius
Peter Yu of the Yawuru and Bunuba, Kimberley Land Council, talks about Indigenous relationship to land and the High Court decision in Mabo v Queensland (No 2) (1992) 175 CLR 1. Paul Keating stresses...
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After Mabo: Law stick
John Howard responds to the High Court’s decision on the native title of the Wik and Thayorre peoples in Wik Peoples v Queensland (1996) 141 ALR 129. News footage shows a summit held by Aboriginal...
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Arthur Calwell: Peter Kocan appears in court
On 21 June 1966 Australia was shocked when Labor and Opposition Leader Arthur Calwell was shot at close range after attending an anti-conscription rally at Mosman Town Hall, Sydney. Peter Kocan...
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Arthur Calwell arrives at Essendon airport
Upon arrival at Essendon airport Calwell was surrounded by a tight circle of news reporters questioning him about the incident. Obviously tired, he answered their questions but couldn’t wait to get...
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Interview with Elizabeth Calwell
In the following days, GTV9 political reporter Tom Jones interviewed Arthur Calwell’s wife Elizabeth about how she is coping with the stress of the incident. The interview ends on a lighthearted note...
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Arthur Calwell: released from hospital
Calwell was released from hospital amidst a heavy police presence with media warned not to approach him or they would be arrested.
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Mabo: An Address to the Nation - The national interest
Prime Minister Paul Keating outlines the basic principles of the Mabo legislation, the Native Title Act 1993. While Indigenous Australians, landowners and governments will not get everything they...
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Delegates to the Australian Labor Party’s Easter Conference at the Trades Hall Melbourne Clip 2
This clip, shot outside Melbourne Trades Hall, shows individual shots of key Labor personalities attending the 1928 Victorian party’s Easter conference. Summary by Adrienne Parr.
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