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John Safran discusses censorship in Australian media. From the website From Wireless to Web |
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The ruthless world of commercial television and its chase for ratings is compared to the programming motivations of the public broadcaster. From the website From Wireless to Web |
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Andrew Fisher’s tin lunch box reminds us that humble beginnings informed his political career: he went from union organiser to three-time Prime Minister, inventing the Australian ideal of a ‘fair go’ along the way. From the website The Prime Ministers' National Treasures |
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The Velvet Soap advertising campaign is a tongue-in-cheek reminder of Edmund Barton’s hand in formulating the White Australia policy. From the website The Prime Ministers' National Treasures |
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William Hughes, “The Little Digger”, campaigned twice for national conscription to boost an Australian army decimated by World War One. From the website The Prime Ministers' National Treasures |
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Possibly our best loved Prime Minister, and a former train driver, Ben Chifley was rarely seen without his pipe, as he guided the country through the austere post-war years. From the website The Prime Ministers' National Treasures |
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Stanley Melbourne Bruce treasured Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s gift of a gold cigarette case throughout his life. From the website The Prime Ministers' National Treasures |
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John Curtin’s journalistic instincts came in handy during World War Two when he kept the media onside with secret press briefings. He wore his AJA badge every day he was in office. From the website The Prime Ministers' National Treasures |
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Politics rarely produces impassioned romantics, which makes the hundreds of letters Joseph Lyons wrote to his adored wife and confidante, Enid, as fascinating as they are unexpected From the website The Prime Ministers' National Treasures |
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Robert Menzies’ lifelong passion for home movies resulted in a surprisingly personal record of the war years, including footage of a young Princess Elizabeth. From the website The Prime Ministers' National Treasures |
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The disappearance of our seventeenth Prime Minister, Harold Holt, during a beach holiday sparked countless conspiracy theories. The items left in his briefcase are a significant time capsule of his last days as Prime Minister. From the website The Prime Ministers' National Treasures |
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James Scullin inspired the people when he offered to rent out The Lodge during the Depression, but his fierce nationalism is best revealed in his campaign to install an Australian-born Governor General. From the website The Prime Ministers' National Treasures |
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The classic 1919 silent movie <cite>The Sentimental Bloke</cite> is regarded as one of the greatest Australian films. From the website National Treasures |
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The original handwritten score for <cite>Waltzing Matilda</cite> holds the story of a musical collaboration that created Australia’s national song. From the website National Treasures |
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The archival clip shows the ABC network as it was in the 1955. Tim Bowden reflects on the power of ABC broadcasts to unify states and cities across Australia. From the website From Wireless to Web |
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This encounter with highly regarded Australian poet Bruce Dawe allows us an insight into the motivation and methods of a very fine writer. His ability to express the drama and beauty of everyday life has made his work readily accessible to the general public. From the website Australian Biography |
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This encounter with highly regarded Australian poet Bruce Dawe allows us an insight into the motivation and methods of a very fine writer. His ability to express the drama and beauty of everyday life has made his work readily accessible to the general public. From the website Australian Biography |
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Stanley Melbourne Bruce treasured Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s gift of a gold cigarette case throughout his life. From the website The Prime Ministers' National Treasures |
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Australian film and television production is competing in a globalised world with big international production companies who market their product effectively to the world market. From the website From Wireless to Web |
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Australian content on television reflects our culture and our society. Mac Gudgeon celebrates the importance of <cite>Homicide</cite> in the history of Australian television production. Stuart Cunningham and Scott Goodings remember some of the popular dramas which showed Australians that they could love Australian programming. From the website From Wireless to Web |
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Liz Jacka provides a brief history of the debate on how to establish television broadcasting in Australia. Tim Bowden recalls the enthusiasm with which Australians embraced television. From the website From Wireless to Web |
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TV soap operas have the ability to reflect Australian society and culture and connect people through the shared memory of watching a television show. From the website From Wireless to Web |
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The role of community television in general and its role in training TV personalities. From the website From Wireless to Web |
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After spending some time observing an Aboriginal tribe, Cook claims the entire east coast of New Holland for Britain. From the website Captain Cook |
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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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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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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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In his first great voyage of discovery, James Cook is chosen to find and explore the 'Great Southern Land'. From the website Captain Cook |
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On James Cook’s second voyage of discovery he takes part in a grand scientific experiment to test a chronometer that the Admiralty hopes will allow navigators to measure lines of longitude. From the website Captain Cook |
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One of crime history's great unsolved cases - the mysterious deaths of Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler. From the website DIY DOCO |
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This humorous program takes a close look at Australia’s Cane Toad pest problem. From the website DIY DOCO |
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We follow the Melbourne Phoenix Netball Club - the players, coach and administrators - through the pain and passion of a year in elite-level amateur sport. From the website DIY DOCO |
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After a long battle with depression, Queensland rare chicken breeder Mark Tully is now on a mission to protect the endangered chickens to which he owes his life. From the website DIY DOCO |
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Come and have dinner with the Chakos family – four generations of Greek Australians with a love of life, celebration, ritual and food. From the website DIY DOCO |
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In an Indian call centre, graduates, keen for employment, learn how to communicate globally with diverse clients from the USA, Australia and the UK. From the website Screen Asia |
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Customer queries are often secretly diverted to Delhi call centres, where Indians are taught to speak and think like their American, British and Australian callers. From the website Screen Asia |
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A teacher at a call centre college in India takes students through some general knowledge about 'Downunder Australia'. From the website Screen Asia |
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The training program for employees at a call centre in India and the protocols and procedures they must follow. From the website Screen Asia |
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The effects of Australia’s role in the mass adoption of Vietnamese babies during the fall of Saigon, Vietnam, in 1975. From the website Screen Asia |
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The Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin recounts her 1960s childhood and her awakening to women's oppression. From the website Screen Asia |
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Bangladeshi poet Taslima Nasrin reflects about her mother’s life and her own responsibility, through her writing, to changing the lives of women globally. From the website Screen Asia |
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The effects of Australia’s role in the mass adoption of Vietnamese babies during the fall of Saigon, Vietnam, in 1975. From the website Screen Asia |
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The effects of Australia’s role in the mass adoption of Vietnamese babies during the fall of Saigon in Vietnam, in 1975. From the website Screen Asia |
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Surfie Shane is at Yallingup beach in Western Australia where he lives. Shane was one of the babies adopted through the ‘Operation Babylift’ airlift from Saigon, Vietnam, in 1975. From the website Screen Asia |
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Shane Bolt was one of 281 children airlifted out of Saigon in April 1975 at the end of the Vietnam War and brought to Australia. He was adopted by a Western Australian family. Shane’s Australian mother, Frea, remembers how the family fought anti-Asian sentiment in Perth. From the website Screen Asia |
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Shane Bolt is at Yallingup beach, Western Australia, and reflects on the good fortune of his life, family and culture. From the website Screen Asia |
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Professor Huong, a cellist, was a member of the Hanoi Symphony Orchestra in the 1960s during the Vietnam War. He survived the war by hiding in an underground refuge in rural village near Hanoi. From the website Screen Asia |
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Tuan observes that his father’s reunion with the Xuan Phu villagers is just like a family reunion. His father was a cellist in the Hanoi Symphony Orchestra that took refuge in the village during the Vietnam War. From the website Screen Asia |
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Four generations of Professor Huong’s family share a meal. The professor is concerned that his son, Tuan, will not follow his profession in classical music. From the website Screen Asia |
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The effects of Australia’s role in the mass adoption of Vietnamese babies during the fall of Saigon, Vietnam, in 1975. From the website Screen Asia |
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William Hughes, “The Little Digger”, campaigned twice for national conscription to boost an Australian army decimated by World War One. From the website The Prime Ministers' National Treasures |
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An excerpt from a live 'eviction' episode of the popular reality TV series <cite>Big Brother</cite>. Scott Goodings describes his experience of watching reality TV. From the website From Wireless to Web |
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Bruce Dawe reads his poem "Little Red Fox". This encounter with highly regarded Australian poet Bruce Dawe allows us an insight into the motivation and methods of a very fine writer. His ability to express the drama and beauty of everyday life has made his work readily accessible to the general public. From the website Australian Biography |
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Australian ‘prehistory’ is the time before written language was used to record information. Culture was passed from one group to another, and from one generation to the next, in oral form, ceremonial dance, and through rock and bark visual art. From the website First Australians |
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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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James Scullin inspired the people when he offered to rent out The Lodge during the Depression, but his fierce nationalism is best revealed in his campaign to install an Australian-born Governor General. From the website The Prime Ministers' National Treasures |
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Writer and political activist Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s poetry represents and captures the growing reaction by a new generation of indigenous Australians against the long-standing colonial mentality. From the website First Australians |
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A broadcast studio at Radio Redfern in the late 80s. Christina Spurgeon talks about the importance of providing media services to remote Indigenous communities to the culture, identity and language of Aboriginal Australians. From the website From Wireless to Web |
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When it comes to the education system, have accounting and information replaced wonder and imagination? From the website Human Contraptions |
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Newsreels included events of both political and social importance and were screened all day long in specially designed cinemas. From the website From Wireless to Web |
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This encounter with highly regarded Australian poet Bruce Dawe allows us an insight into the motivation and methods of a very fine writer. His ability to express the drama and beauty of everyday life has made his work readily accessible to the general public. From the website Australian Biography |
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A young boy plays along with a musical game during one of the many ABC broadcasts for children. Children from around Australia tune into a kindergarten broadcast over the ABC. Tim Bowden remembers the ABC children's program <cite>The Argonauts</cite>. From the website From Wireless to Web |
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Behind the scenes of a recording of a popular radio soap of the 1940s. Tim Bowden recalls his father listening to popular radio series <cite>Mrs Obbs</cite> and the personalities who brought the characters to life. From the website From Wireless to Web |
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Stuart Cunningham explains how innovations in technology have transformed television content. From the website From Wireless to Web |
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Electrified, digitalised then globalised, the media machine has created fantasy so spectacular that it makes the truth look badly acted. From the website Human Contraptions |
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Cook takes on board an additional passenger, Polynesian priest and fellow navigator Tupaia. Tupaia shares his remarkable navigational skills, convinced that the notion of a great land mass is a European fantasy. From the website Captain Cook |
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The disappearance of our seventeenth Prime Minister, Harold Holt, during a beach holiday sparked countless conspiracy theories. The items left in his briefcase are a significant time capsule of his last days as Prime Minister. From the website The Prime Ministers' National Treasures |
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John Safran, Megan Spencer and Scott Goodings discuss the nature of programming at SBS. From the website From Wireless to Web |
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Working at the end of the 19th century, Aboriginal artists Tommy McRae and Mickey of Ulladulla drew the world around them with an extraordinary vitality and sensitivity to detail. From the website Hidden Treasures |
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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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John Safran talks about the use of 'doorstopping' in current affairs programs. Scott Goodings traces the celebrity and entertainment value of today's news broadcasts to the 'news wars' of the late 1980s. From the website From Wireless to Web |