The clip begins with a black-and-white photograph of the Murray Island Courthouse taken in November 1898.

 A romantic tour of Heron Island and the Great Barrier Reef.

A TV community advisory announcement detailing preparedness for cyclones in northern Australia.

A scriptwriter and a director argue their approaches to the problem of a comprehensive documentary about Australia: one favours an experimental style, the other a more conventional approach.

Frank (Leo McKern) and his companion Frances (Julia Blake) open a bottle of French champagne to celebrate their arrival in Port Douglas.

The harvester is operated by a person seated on one side of the machine. The camera films, from various positions, the harvester as it is guided along the edge of the cane field.

This short film takes a look at the life of Queensland sugar cane cutters.

Life in Cairns is 'sort of relaxed', says the narrator.

On a return visit to Melbourne, Frank has had a heart attack. In hospital, Frank (Leo McKern) insists he will go back up north as soon as he can go, with or without Frances (Julia Blake).

After the coup has been foiled, Stacey (Ray Barrett) meets Cathy, the child/woman (Janet Scrivener), at a café. As her godfather, he had given her a golliwog, when she was eight.