The hula girl is a potent and sexually alluring image. Hula Girls: Imagining Paradise charts the history of the image and the changes each succeeding generation has imposed on it. This study guide has been written for secondary students. It provides information and suggestions for learning act...
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Bruce Petty takes us on an anarchic animated journey through the inner mechanics of the 'contraptions' that shape our lives, from art and sex to media and medicine. Human Contraptions will have relevance to students of Cultural Studies, Australian Studies, Studies of Society and Environment, Pol...
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The day struggling low-budget director Rupert Kathner met ex-barmaid Alma Brooks in 1939, they began a movie-making spree that took on the powerful cinema conglomerates, a police commissioner, the cultural cringe and a police posse all in their passionate pursuit to make the great Australian film...
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A recent poll by the CSIRO found that just 50% of Australians attribute climate change to human actions. The issue is no longer only a scientific argument - it's political, and increasingly becoming personal. We've never been more divided about who to believe and what to do. The discordant attitu...
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I Remember 1948 is Australia's first documentary to be produced in both Arabic and English by Australians of Arab descent. In this film, four speakers give eye-witness accounts of the tumultuous days of what is known to Palestinians as "Al Nakba", or the catastrophe: May 15th, 1948. On this day,...
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The Life and Legacy of Spike Milligan is a personal portrait of comic genius Spike Milligan through the eyes of his brother, three daughters and third wife. Each saw a very different side of this complex and multifaceted man who forever changed English comedy and trampled on the notions of decoru...
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Refugee families from Burma and Sudan discover the joys and challenges of their new Australian home. While the horrors of war and the confinement of refugee camps are behind them, the new lives of these families are not without struggle as they negotiate the everyday realities of settling in a ne...
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I'm Not Dead Yet is an 'unplugged' road movie which follows Australian country music legend Chad Morgan and his wife Joanie as they travel and perform throughout regional and outback Australia. Affectionately narrated by rock musician Tex Perkins, the documentary is an intimate portrait of an art...
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Psychopaths...they'll charm you, manipulate you, then ruin your life. But, not all of them with a gun or a knife. In this extraordinary documentary, suspected corporate psychopath Sam Vaknin goes in search of a diagnosis...was he born without a conscience? Unwittingly, the filmmaker becomes a tex...
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I, Spry is a dramatised documentary about the founding of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), and its history under its first director, Charles Spry. It explores some of the cold war politics of the period from 1945 to 1972, and raises important issues about the balance betw...
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This film is an intimate portrait of a young man who has become something of a national icon. In November 2006 Ian Thorpe, Australia's most successful Olympian, announced his retirement from competitive swimming. Aged 24 and the winner of nine Olympic medals, including five gold, he was adamant t...
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This study kit is based on the characters and story of a new animated feature film, Ice Age. The film will transport your students back to an a time of woolly mammoths, giant sloths and sabre-toothed tigers.
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A three-part documentary on the history of the White Australia Policy - from its incipience in 1901 to the 1980s - and its place in the history of today's multi-cultural Australia. Students can use the series as a source of knowledge and understanding about the development and overturning of the...
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One of the most consistent needs in human history has been the search for a longer life. It drives whole sectors of medical research and a massive trade in drugs and alternative medicines. In 2009, Australian scientist Elizabeth Blackburn and two colleagues, Jack Szostak and Carol Greider, were ...
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In A League Of Their Own follows Australia's first all-black football team through their first season in the big league in 2007 and 2008. After more than thirty years of running their own competition in a remote island community off the coast of Darwin, the Tiwi Bombers set out to prove that thei...
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In Limbo examines the harsh reality of the immigration debate through the vision and dedication of one man's struggle. For over five years Hoi Trinh, a Vietnamese Australian lawyer has been fighting for the rights of 2000 Vietnamese refugees stranded in the Philippines since 1989.
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In Search of Beethoven, acclaimed director Phil Grabsky's feature-length biographical film about the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven, is quite simply - like the subject it chronicles - brilliant. Demonstrating an astounding depth of research, coupled with a great feel for the music and a s...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has been referred to as a child prodigy, a genius, able to play beyond his years, able to compose beyond his years, unparalleled in composition, considered extraordinary. By the time he was six years old he could play the harpsichord and violin. The study guide to accompa...
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In the Company of Actors is a documentary featuring an ensemble of Australia's finest actors, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Anthony Weigh, Justine Clarke, Aden Young, Julie Hamilton and Annie Byron, as they prepare to perform the Sydney Theatre Company's production of Hedda Gabler at the prestigi...
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The story of the Australian teenagers who hacked into some of the most secure computer networks in the world, including NASA. In the Realm of the Hackers could be usefully linked to English, Legal Studies, SOSE/HSIE, Psychology, Counselling, Human Services, Computer Studies/ Information Technolo...
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For his ninth birthday, Omri receives a three-inch tall plastic Native American Indian and an old discarded cupboard that lead him on a journey of fantasy, adventure and discovery.
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Indonesia Calling: Joris Ivens in Australia is documentary about the making and significance of an earlier film - the 22-minute, 1946 documentary Indonesia Calling that Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens made secretly in Australia. This short film, Indonesia Calling, is one that was historically importa...
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A three part documentary series that traces the relationship between Indonesia and Australia since the Second World War. Journalist and radio broadcaster Mike Carlton, was a foreign correspondent for the ABC in Indonesia in the late 1960s and has maintained a keen interest in unfolding events th...
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This is a story of coal, communism, and the Australian prime minister who went to war against his own during the national miners' strike of 1949. Using rare archival footage and re-creations based on meticulous research, the dramatised documentary takes viewers into the corridors of power to sho...
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Suitable for Science and Technology at any level of secondary or tertiary education. Also for English, SOSE, Legal Studies, Justice Studies, International Law, Peace Studies, Economics, Future Studies, Media Studies.
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For six decades, since 1944, Jeff Carter has been photographing itinerant bush workers, fruit pickers, fishermen, shearers, drovers and battlers, capturing the mood of the country's working class. His work comprises one of Australia's most remarkable and historically significant archives - in all...
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On 7 February 2009, Australia suffered its worst bushfire disaster. Black Saturday claimed 173 lives, left almost 8000 people homeless and destroyed close to half a million hectares of Victorian bushland - equivalent to a quarter of a million football fields. 2300 homes were lost. One year on, In...
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Teachers are the unsung heroes of our community. Many people can remember at least one teacher who inspired them during their formative years - someone who played a pivotal role in their lives. In a series of four half-hour programs we follow four teachers to explore what makes them insiring and...
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Into the Shadows (Andrew Scarano, 2009) is an independently produced documentary that explores Australian film production and consumption. Inspired by the 2006 closing of Electric Shadows, a local independent cinema in Canberra, the film reveals how corporate multiplex cinemas have overtaken many...
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Hadi Mahood has been living in Melbourne, Australia, having fled Iraq in the first Iraq war. Watching the news broadcasts in Australia about the war in his country, he has many unanswered questions about the war and decides to return to the city of his birth, filming his journey and the many enc...
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