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Donald Bradman’s bats are a reminder of how this cricket legend played himself into the record books, earning the status of Australian icon. From the website National Treasures |
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In 2007 Australia celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, a giant steel arch resembling a coat hanger that has became one of world's most recognised structures and an engineering triumph. From the website Constructing Australia |
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The construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge was a massive investment for the NSW government. The cost was not only in monetary terms but also the destruction of significant areas of Sydney’s heritage and the loss of lives. From the website Constructing Australia |
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Producer and director Oliver Howes reflects on French Polynesia's colonial history. From the website Pacific Stories |
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The French colonists discouraged and suppressed Tahiti's traditional culture but it is now re-emerging. From the website Pacific Stories |
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When John Stuart crossed the interior of Australia, he did so in ignorance of the complex set of boundaries and rules for the use of shared resources that existed among the Aboriginal people. From the website Constructing Australia |
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Charles Todd dreamt of constructing a telegraph line through the heart of the continent. From the website Constructing Australia |
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In 1870 Charles Todd, using explorer John McDouall Stuart's maps, organised and lead three teams to lay the overland telegraph wire. From the website Constructing Australia |
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The story of the struggle to cross a vast continent and build the telegraph line that would bring Australia to the world and the world to Australia. From the website Constructing Australia |
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There was enormous public and media speculation about whether the Victorian backed Burke and Wills or South Australia's Stuart expedition would be the first to cross the continent's interior. From the website Constructing Australia |
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Cook’s obsession with discovery continues as he searches for the mythic North West Passage, but is it a journey too far? Now retired and promoted to Post Captain, James Cook is bored. He jumps at the chance to take on a third great voyage: to find a fast route to China to secure Britain’s place in the lucrative tea trade. From the website Captain Cook |
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Captain James Cook’s untimely return to Hawaii ended with his violent death, the details of which are portrayed in numerous conflicting illustrations. From the website Hidden Treasures – Inside the National Library of Australia |
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Omai, a young Tahitian warrior who joined Captain James Cook’s second voyage, had his portrait painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds and inspired a spectacular pantomime at Covent Garden. From the website Hidden Treasures – Inside the National Library of Australia |
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Through his passion for collecting, New Zealander Rex Nan Kivell invented a new aristocratic identity. From the website Hidden Treasures – Inside the National Library of Australia |
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Captain James Cook’s untimely return to Hawaii ended with his violent death, the details of which are portrayed in numerous conflicting illustrations. From the website Hidden Treasures – Inside the National Library of Australia |
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125 million sheep are spread across Australia. 90 thousand tons of lamb and 3 million tons of wool are exported annually. Australia truly rode to prosperity on the sheep's back. From the website Australians At Work |
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First Fleet captain John Hunter’s sketchbook showing life in Botany Bay was copied from the work of his talented young midshipman, George Raper. From the website Hidden Treasures – Inside the National Library of Australia |
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Influential patrons help the bright boy James Cook to an apprenticeship in the merchant navy that would make him a ships’ master. But with an eye for the main chance Cook switches to the Royal Navy. From the website Captain Cook |
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Rare archival footage from 1910 shows camels carrying heavy supplies across the desert. Railway labourers are building the 1400 km railway that will finally link Western Australia with the Eastern States. From the website Australians At Work |
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Federation was a time of jobs and opportunities. With our 12,000 mile coast Australia needed a defence force. From the website Australians At Work |
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In 1913 the Basic Living Wage of 2 pounds 8 shillings a week is introduced. Politicians, including William Morris (Billy) Hughes, lay the Foundation Stone for the new National Capital in Canberra. From the website Australians At Work |
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Gold, more than any other single factor, transformed the Australian colonies. From the website Constructing Australia |
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Some sort of federation of the Australian colonies had been suggested as early as 1846. Ferocious political struggles over the shape of the new nation continued to the eleventh hour. From the website Constructing Australia |
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In 1890 C. Y. O'Connor was recruited to work as Chief Engineer in the newly self-governing colony of Western Australia, where he formed a dynamic partnership with the colony's larger-than-life Premier, John Forrest. From the website Constructing Australia |
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Joe and Monica Leo embark on a journey to Vanuatu to recover a small part of their past. From the website Pacific Stories |
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Joe and Monica Leo are the descendents of ni-Vanuatu who helped build Queensland's sugar industry. From the website Pacific Stories |
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Traditional Polynesian dancing was suppressed by missionaries. It is now an important part of tourism and a means of cultural power. From the website Pacific Stories |
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Vika and Linda Bull talk about the importance of their heritage and connection to Tonga. From the website Pacific Stories |
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Toula, an Australian-born Greek wife, is a Workers' Compensation officer. Breaking free from traditional Greek women's roles, she desires a career and creative freedom. From the website Australians At Work |
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Australia needs new migrants to populate the country and build a more prosperous nation. English lessons are available everywhere, including through correspondence and radio courses. From the website Australians At Work |
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Migrant women work long hours sewing garments at home for a few dollars an hour. Many are refugees and have little understanding of their rights or the chance of alternative employment. From the website Australians At Work |
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Well-paid but back-breaking sugarcane work in North Queensland provided the initial resources for Giovanni's business. He and his family went on to create a now highly- successful imported tile business. From the website Australians At Work |
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Indigenous art is like topographic mapping of land and culture. Michael Nelson Tjakamarra works at painting concentric circles which represent sacred sites. From the website Australians At Work |
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<cite>Aboriginal People in the Gibson Desert</cite> is an excerpt from the film <cite>Desert People</cite> (51 mins), produced in 1966. In 1966 a few Aboriginal families were living nomadic lives in the heart of Australia's Gibson Desert. From the website Australians At Work |
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Moira Kelly begs for funds from international charities to bring children from war-torn Albania to Australia for medical treatment. One of the children almost dies, but the results are worth the risks. From the website Australians At Work |
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For producer and director Peter Butt, making <cite>My Father, My Country</cite> was both an adventure and a chance to discover Papua New Guinea's past. From the website Pacific Stories |
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Producer and director Dennis O'Rourke believes Bikinians did not fully understand why they left their home in the 1940s. From the website Pacific Stories |
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The axemen established camps throughout the eucalypt forests in the early 20th century. Their job was a combination of skill and stamina, harvesting giant trees for the rapidly growing hardwood industry. From the website Australians At Work |
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Producer and director Nick Adler talks about living in Tonga during the making of <cite>Fit for a King</cite>. From the website Pacific Stories |
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Artists working in different media have created a visual time capsule showing Melbourne in the late 1800s. From the website Hidden Treasures – Inside the National Library of Australia |
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Phyllis Corowa's father and grandmother were taken from Vanuatu to work on a Queensland sugar plantation. From the website Pacific Stories |
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Prime Minister Robert Menzies opens the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor, and marvels at nuclear energy being a relatively new phenomenon in the world. From the website Australians At Work |
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An egg is collected from a woman's ovary and placed in a test tube to be fertilised by her husband's sperm. Once the embryo is growing normally it is placed back in the uterus. From the website Australians At Work |
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What does it feel like to be a soldier at war? Tense young Australian soldiers creep through the Vietnamese jungle, ever on the alert for the Viet Cong. From the website Australians At Work |
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It may be just a small red vinyl suitcase but for Vietnamese refugee Cuc Lam it’s a symbol of a new beginning in a new country. From the website National Treasures |
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Ni-Vanuatu writer and historian Anna Naupa discusses different views of South Sea Islander labour trade history. From the website Pacific Stories |
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A World War 1 digger reflects on his work as a runner in the trenches at Gallipoli. Hopping across the trenches in full view of the Turkish snipers, the average life of a runner was 24 hours. From the website Australians At Work |
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When our troops were sent off to war in 1914, industry in Australia boomed. Steel was necessary for guns and ships. From the website Australians At Work |
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Norman Lindsay’s <cite>The Magic Pudding</cite> is one of our best-loved children’s books and the central character, one of our great Australian anti-heroes. From the website National Treasures |
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A small lifeboat, retrieved from the shores of Gallipoli, is a direct link to the first Anzacs and the day that helped forge Australia’s identity. From the website National Treasures |
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The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Sir Mark Oliphant helped to create the bomb, but even though it ended the war he can never reconcile himself to the loss of civilian life. From the website Australians At Work |
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A tiny, war-ravaged liferaft from the HMAS Sydney is our only physical link to Australia’s worst-ever naval disaster. From the website National Treasures |
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Weary Dunlop and his elderly comrades return to the site of the Thai-Burma railway. As prisoners of war they each had to dig three cubic metres of earth a day, virtually with their bare hands. From the website Australians At Work |