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Royal Sydney Sheep Show – wool fashions

The highlight of this newsreel segment about Australian sheep is a model in woollen clothing walking down the catwalk with a huge ram by her side.

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Deep Dive: Sunday Too Far Away

Listen to a Q&A with cast and crew members of the iconic Australian film Sunday Too Far Away.

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The Postwar Wool Boom

With 125 million sheep spread across the country, and 90 thousand tons of lamb and 3 million tons of wool exported annually, Australia truly rode to prosperity on the sheep’s back.

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A Farmer's Life In Drought

It hasn’t rained for 18 months and 5,000 sheep have already perished. Farmer Max Russell is desperate to save his remaining flock and hands them over to a drover.

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A Nation is Built: The wool industry

A close-up of a ‘modern stud’ sheep is shown to be the product of a ‘century’s breeding’.

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Australasian Gazette: Sheep Dog Trial

A largely static wide shot of a typical Australian showground captures a sheepdog trainer and his sheepdog herding three sheep into a pen. Summary by Elizabeth Taggart-Speers.

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The Squatter’s Daughter: Shearing and plotting

As the shearing reaches full speed at Waratah Station, the overseer Fletcher (Les Warton) tells Clive Sherrington (John Warwick) to deliver a package from the car when he goes to see Morgan.

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The Squatter’s Daughter: The quick way to cut down trees

Wayne Ridgeway (Dick Fair, credited as Grant Lyndsay) has gone to work for Clive Sherrington (John Warwick), after recuperating from a horse fall at Enderby Station.

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The Squatter’s Daughter: Flammable finale

As the rescue party escorts the 3,000 sheep to safety, Clive (John Warwick), Joan (Jocelyn Howarth) and Wayne (Grant Lyndsay) are still caught in the fire.

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Dipping Sheep

A farmer pushes sheep underwater with a plunger as they pass through an arsenic sheep dip.

Summary by Elizabeth Taggert - Speers