In this three part series, a diverse group of outstanding contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists reveal to pre-eminent curator Hetti Perkins how their art practice is driven by culture and heritage, political and personal preoccupations, dreams and imagination. Using the...
At just twenty four years of age Rebecca Richards has already carved her name into history becoming the first Australian Aboriginal person to be awarded the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University in her field of Anthropology.
Quenten Agius is the keeper of his generation's Dreaming stories. For him the Dreaming is his bible – an invisible force that guides him through life and connects all things. It is his role to hand these stories down to the next generation, keeping culture and traditions alive.
An urban perspective on non-Indigenous involvement in the reconciliation movement in Australia.
During the turbulent political climate of 1997 - 2000, the people's movement exploded to become one of the most significant social movements in this country. Through events such as the Sea of Hands in...
Ripples From Wave Hill is the definitive first-hand account of Australia's first successful land rights campaign as told by the Aboriginal people who fought for their land and the radicals who joined with them.
Ripples From Wave Hill recalls the momentous fight started 40 years ago by the Gurindji...
Australians have always been aware of great white sharks. They have split the community, and changed the rules. Off Perth's ocean beaches, sharks are attacking and killing more than ever before. While scientists look for a defence, Kim Allen an attack survivor with no degree is chasing the same goal.
Selected Episodes and clips from The Checkout are available from ABC Library Sales.
The Checkout is a satirical consumer affairs series presented by Julian Morrow and Craig Reucassel from The Chaser team, Kirsten Drysdale, Kate Browne, Scott Abbot, Zoe Norton Lodge and Ben Jenkins.
In each episode, The Checkout takes a no-holds-barred, irreverent...
DVD copies of the State Memorial Service for Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Faser are now available through ABC Library Sales.
On 27 May 2015 Scots' Church in Melbourne's CBD hosted the service for Mr Fraser, who was prime minister from 1975 to 1983 and died at the age of 84.
Among the dignitaries in attendance were Prime Minister Tony...
Episode 1: Bad Hair Decades
In the 70s Australia's closed economy was smashed by shock after shock. By the 80s we were suffering high unemployment & inflation. Radical reform was needed. Featuring Malcolm Fraser, John Howard, Bob Hawke and Paul Keating.
Episode 2: Growing Pains
In the 1980s the economy is radically overhauled by the Hawke/...
From a score of international locations Sam Neill confronts
the enduring power of the Anzac myth. Sharing his family’s
poignant war stories, he pursues forgotten truths that still haunt
our two countries’ histories today.
It's amazing to think that in the 1900s a mere tenth of the world's population lived and worked in cities. Today, it's more than half. With Australia's population set to double in the next 50 years, how will we keep our cities liveable? And what will the city of tomorrow look like? Catalyst reporter, Anja Taylor explores some innovative ideas to...
In this two-part special, Compass examines the Salvation Army in Australia, a trusted church-charity engulfed by allegations of sexual abuse in its former children’s homes.
Part 1
Reporter Caro Meldrum-Hanna travels through the regions of two states, riding with police and users, to tell the shocking story of towns and people in the grip of ice. She pieces together a disturbing picture: major international drug cartels are working with locally based outlaw motorcycle gangs to push ice out of the cities. It's a massive...
Nick McKenzie lifts the lid on a major scandal involving one of the country's biggest disability providers. How did a respected provider fail in its duty to the people it has sworn to protect and nurture?
Episode 1
Fixed rig cameras capture the day-to-day antics and artistry inside a busy tattoo studio on Sydney's Bondi Beach. This series reveals unique, entertaining and often poignant insights into why so many Australians get inked.
Episode 2
Fixed rig cameras capture the day-to-day antics inside a busy tattoo studio on Sydney s Bondi Beach' At...
Episode 1
Hannah Gadsby is a closet art scholar. Armed with her rapier wit and a desire to pick beneath the paint, she will travel across the continent on a mission to debunk the myths of the Australian identity as defined by our art.
Episode 2
Hannah Gadsby picks at hyper-masculine portraits to uncover a more feminine vision of this rugged...
In the vein of Hugh Fearnley-Wittingstall's River Cottage, Wild Kitchen uncovers Australian Indigenous chef Clayton Donovan's unique approach to food, while exploring the diverse landscape and culture of the north coast of New South Wales.
Larrikin host Donovan travels through the indigenous areas of the region, visiting farms and providores and...
Go behind the headlines and inside the heads of young Aussies as they experience the fun, anxiety, hope and confusion of Schoolies on the Gold Coast and in Bali.
The double DVD set also includes After Schoolies: Live with Tom Tilley, a live chat about the issues raised in the program which aired on ABC2 directly following the broadcast of Inside...
A profile of the highly regarded Australian Film Director, Fred Schepisi whose films include ‘Devil’s Playground’, ‘The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith’, ‘Evil Angels’, ‘Roxanne’, The Russia House’ and ‘Plenty’. The film opens at the country Christian Brothers boarding school where a priest first introduced Schepisi to movies, it follows him to...
A profile of Ernie Dingo, one of Australia’s finest contemporary actors. The documentary traces his career from his birthplace in the tiny Western Australian town of Mullewa, to Geraldton High school, to working as a sign writer in Perth to a career as a stand up comic, film actor and television personality.
This 1992 documentary profiles the influential environmental writer and poet Eric Rolls, whose books include ‘They All Ran Wild’, an account of the destructive species introduced into Australia, ‘Celebration of the Senses’, a vivid and personal account of the enjoyment of enjoying the senses and ‘Flowers of the Wide Sea’ a history of the Chinese...
A profile of Australia’s greatest sculptor Robert Klippel. Filmed at his waterfront home and studio in Sydney this documentary provides a rare insight into the life and work of a man who was one of the most significant sculptors of his generation and who, until the making of this film in 1992, had retreated from the pubic gaze.
Madison Stewart is a young woman with a passion for a creature of the deep that strikes fear in the hearts of most people - sharks. She has been face to face with every kind of shark around the world, but at an early age she realised that if sharks were endangered, so was their habitat. So Madison waved goodbye to the carefree life of other...
God in the Lodge examines the religious beliefs of Australia’s Prime Ministers from Federation to now. In recent years our Prime Ministers’ religious beliefs have become more public but in our increasingly secular age, it’s an aspect of political life rarely explored. Compass investigates the religious backgrounds of Australia’s Prime Ministers...
