Selected from the Film Australia Collection, the clips in this collection show everyday Australians at work in a variety of contexts.

Nurses are frantic as they rush from patient to patient, working under increased patient-to-nurse ratios.

Two people removed from their families as children to enter into servitude, Margaret Tucker and Bill Reid, speak of their experience growing up.

The clip begins with historical footage of King Burraga who speaks about equal rights and justice for Aboriginal people.

This is a clip from the NFSA Restores digital restoration of Lousy Little Sixpence (Alec Morgan and Gerry Bostock, Australia, 1983).

This segment from an Australasian Gazette newsreel shows waterside workers unloading perishables from a ship, possibly part of the New South Wales General Strike of 1917.