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After 96 years under British rule, in 1970 Fijian independence was restored. In the centre of celebratory events was HRH the Prince of Wales. This film provides a record of the official ceremony on 10 October that saw the handover of the constitutional instruments. It includes the reading of a message from Her Majesty the Queen by the Prince of Wales and the official speech by the Prime Minister Ratu Sir Kamises Mara in which he talks about the determination to build a strong, united Fiji, rich in its diversity. The film also depicts ceremonies and performances from the various cultural groups that comprise the people of Fiji. Finally, we follow Prince Charles to the places he tours which include the old capital, Levuka, as well as Taveuni, Savusavu, Nadi, Tavua, Labasa and Lautoka. Produced by the Australian Commonwealth Film Unit and the Fiji Government Public Relations Office Film Unit for the Government of Fiji. Copyright - 2011 National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Producer: Frank Bagnall Director: John Shaw DOP/Cinematographer: Leo Elia ACS, Kerry Brown, David Sanderson, Rob Wright Jnr Narrator/Presenter: Narrator: Max Meldrum.
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Couper, Lexxie
Publication Date 
2017
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Libby
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Rossell, Judith
Publication Date 
2018
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BOUNDLESS EBOOK, EPUB
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Baker and Taylor
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With Australia at war in Vietnam in 1967, suddenly Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared without a trace""an event unparalleled in the history of western democracy. The nation was in shock and disbelief at the shattering news, hoping for a miracle for the man who famously declared it was "all the way with LBJ". Police led a 'softly softly' investigation and concluded accidental drowning. But at the height of Cold War paranoia, persistent doubts about his disappearance fuelled rumour and wild speculation. Why did Holt go into such violent surf that day? Had he chosen a bizarre way out of a difficult situation? Why were police withholding crucial facts? What had they overlooked? Holt himself left tantalising clues that challenged the official explanation. This is the story of the Prime Minister's secret world in the months before he disappeared, a world of betrayal, blackmail, political treachery, a poisonous feud, mounting physical and mental strain, and near-death experiences. Reconstructed from eyewitness accounts, this dramatised documentary examines the political implications of the Prime Minister's disappearance and reveals explosive new aspects of the case. A Screen Australia Making History Production in association with Blackwattle Films. Developed and produced in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Copyright - 2011 National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Australian Broadcasting Corporation 2008 Executive Producer: Anna Grieve Producer: Peter Butt, Sally Regan (Co-producer) Director: Peter Butt Writer: Peter Butt DOP/Cinematographer: Calvin Gardiner Narrator/Presenter: Helen Morse Featured People: Malcolm Fraser,Tony Eggleton, Lawrence Newell, Dr Martin Simpson, Sam Holt, Paul Hart, Robert Macklin, Ainsley Gotto, Thomas Frame, Noel Collins, Alan Stewart Principal Cast: Normie Rowe, Tony Llewellyn-Jones, Nicholas Hope
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Barunga, in the Northern Territory, hosts an annual festival of Aboriginal sport and culture. In 1988, 200 years after the British flag was raised in Sydney, the festival took on a special meaning. Prime Minister Bob Hawke was invited to attend and the Festival organisers had high expectations of a political outcome. Wenten Rubuntja, Chairman of the Central Land Council, Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Chairman of the Northern Land Council, John Ah Kit, Director, of the Northern Land Council and Pat Dodson, Director of the Central Land Council, worked together to prepare a major petition representing many clans from the Northern Territory. In the form of a large collaborative painting in which clans expressed their story for Country, and a written document, the petition asked the Prime Minister to recognise the government's obligations to Aboriginal people and for agreement to commence negotiations for an Aboriginal Treaty. Presenting the painting and statement to the Prime Minister, Galarrwuy Yunupingu's speech expressed the need to change the relations between white and Aboriginal Australia, to make it right!. Bob Hawke's speech in reply made a clear commitment to commence Treaty negotiations in the life of the present Parliament, but this was not to happen. Kim McKenzie's beautifully filmed portrait of the festival, the preparations, the sport activities, the singing and dancing, the tensions prior to Hawke's arrival, eloquently captures the cultural and political importance attached to the Festival by the participants and by the thousands of spectators.
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Manne, Kate
Publication Date 
2017
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Libby
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Couper, Lexxie
Publication Date 
2016
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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 show how Labor Party leader Ben Chifley took on and defeated the growing forces of communism in Australia. The film examines the complex issues that the conflict raised and introduces the major players in the dispute, including Attorney-General Evatt, Immigration Minister Arthur Calwell, Chifley's "spin doctor" Lloyd Ross and his brother Edgar Ross, a Communist Party executive and driving force behind the strike. It portrays a fascinating era of Australian history rarely seen on screen. A former train driver from Bathurst, Chifley was a working-class hero, a Labor Party icon and "man of the people". But his actions flew in the face of Labor values and tradition when he believed it was in the interests of post-war Australia. Chifley introduced draconian laws to prevent unions accessing funds to support the strike and sent in the army to replace striking miners""so defeating the Communist Party leadership that controlled the militant union. It was a battle he was determined to fight and win in the interests of the nation, despite knowing it would probably cost him government. A Screen Australia Making History production. Produced in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Copyright - 2011 National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Executive Producer: Penny Robins Producer: Perry Stapleton Director: Geoff Burton Writer: Geoff Burton, Bob Ellis DOP/Cinematographer: Joel Peterson Narrator/Presenter: Heather Mitchell Principal Cast: Tony Barry, Tracy Mann, Lorna Lesley, Kieran Darcy-Smith, Russell Kiefel, Rhys Muldoon, Bruce Venables
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Using Robert Menzies' World War II diaries and remarkable 16mm film, Menzies and Churchill at War lifts the lid on a bitter behind the scenes battle between Winston Churchill and the Australian Prime Minister as the fate of Australia hangs in the balance. It follows Menzies to London during the dark months of 1941 as he takes on the British Prime Minister over the strategic direction of the war, telling the story of Menzies' political epiphany from his own point of view. The film introduces the controversial theory that Menzies became so alarmed by flaws in Churchill's leadership that he considered taking over himself. With Australia under threat of a Japanese attack, Menzies struggled to convince the autocratic British leader to send reinforcements to Singapore. The unequal struggle eventually cost Menzies his prime ministership, but out of it he developed a new vision for Australia and built a constituency of middle-class voters who swept him back to power to become Australia's longest serving prime minister. A Screen Australia Making History Production in association with 360 Degree Films. Produced with the assistance of Film Victoria. Developed and produced in association with the Australia Broadcasting Corporation. Copyright - 2011 National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Film Victoria Executive Producer: Alex West, Mark Hamlyn Producer: John Moore (Producer), Lisa Horler (Line Producer) Director: Steve Jodrell Writer: John Moore, Mick Cummins, Steve Jodrell DOP/Cinematographer: Darrell Martin. Narrator/Presenter: Jennifer Vuletic Principal Cast: CAST Robert Menzies Matthew King Winston Churchill Charles 'Bud' Tingwell Fred Shedden Dennis Coard Pattie Menzies Margot Knight Clement Attlee Noel Herriman Lord Beaverbrook Chris Waters Lord Cranborne Simon Rogers General Dill Barry Friedlander Anthony Eden Tim Hughes Admiral Pound Peter Nicholls Archibald Sinclair Ian McTear Sir Kingsley Wood Tim Bell Colin Bednall Richard Askin Rab Butler Adam Crouch Alexander Cadogan John Dicks Maurice Hankey William Gluth.
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Between 1910 and 1970 in Australia, 1 in 3 children were removed from Aboriginal families and placed in institutions and foster homes. These children, in most cases, were never to see their family again. The film tells 3 stories of Aboriginal people who were removed. Bobby Randall: a singer/songwriter, recalls the traumatic experience of being placed in a mission dormitory at the age of 4. He describes the experience of 'shrinking' emotionally. Bobby spent 9 years searching for his mother and eventually found out she had died soon after he was taken. Cleonie Quayle: a mother of four, remembers at the age of 5 being enticed into the back seat of a large black car. She thought she was going off for a holiday, waved to her mother but all she could see were tears in her eyes. Cleonie spent the next 12 years in foster families where she experienced sexual abuse. Her mother later died an alcoholic. Cleonie's story is one of courage and survival. Daisy Howard: a Kimberley woman, was separated from her half-sister May fifty years ago. Daisy was removed to a cattle station where she worked as a domestic, and later to a mission where she eventually married, while May grew up in the bush with her parents. The two sisters re-unite in the film recalling and comparing their experiences. The stories are combined with interviews with two well-known Australian historians Marcia Langton and Henry Reynolds who describe the racist assumptions behind these policies. Removing children was a deliberate government policy and the end aimed for was the eventual disappearance of Aborigines as a people. Illustrated with striking archive footage and a first person narration by Aboriginal director Darlene Johnson. The film ends with the contemporary debate in Australia - how the current Prime Minister John Howard, while recognising past wrongs and expressing his 'regret', refuses to make an official apology and say 'sorry' on behalf of the Australian nation.
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Australia was rocked in 1978 by the explosion of a massive bomb placed in a rubbish bin outside the Sydney Hilton Hotel. A dramatic reinvestigation of this unsolved crime. On the 13th of February 1978 at 12:40 am, a massive bomb which had been placed in the rubbish bin outside the Sydney Hilton Hotel exploded, devastating a whole city block. Three people were killed and seven seriously injured. The noise of the explosion could be heard as far way as Bondi Beach.. At the time, the Australian Prime Minister and eleven visiting heads of state were resident in the Hilton Hotel. Right from the beginning the police said it was a terrorist conspiracy. They claimed the Ananda Marga religious sect was responsible. But for ten years, no person or group claimed responsibility, and the police by their own admission could find no evidence - not even enough to question anybody. At the same time, former police constable Terry Griffiths, a victim of the bomb blast, campaigned for a full and open inquiry. While recovering from his horrific injuries Griffiths received information which alleged it was the security forces themselves who were responsible for the blast, part of a sinister official conspiracy.. Through a series of stylised re-enactments and studio interviews Conspiracy tells the gripping and dramatic story of the Sydney Hilton Hotel bombing. A huge security operation had been mounted for what was the first Commonwealth Heads of Government Regional Meeting and yet the bombers somehow slipped through the cordon. Was the bomb itself made in a commonwealth government laboratory? Was a bomb disposal unit waiting nearby as part of a pre-arranged plan? Why were the Army bomb sniffer dogs called off just a few days before? Was there a police observation vehicle watching the hotel and did someone from that vehicle make the bomb warning call? Why were almost all of the bomb fragments simply swept up and thrown away? And why was a rubbish bin in a high security area left unchecked and unguarded? It is many years since these questions were first raised. Now they are being asked in Federal parliament.
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Allies is a landmark documentary from 1983, made at the time of Bob Hawke's unequivocal embrace of the American alliance. The film explores Australia-US relations during the Cold War: the setting up of ASIO to appease American agencies worried about Communist influence; the Petrov Affair and disunity in the Labor Party; and the determination of Sir Robert Menzies to follow the US into Vietnam. It's the story also of the "covert wars" in South-East Asia, especially Indonesia, and Australia's role in support of US policy and intervention. Allies looks at the time when Australia went "all the way with LBJ", and the days when secret US bases were established. It then looks at the heady days of the Whitlam election and the promise to restore "integrity" and "dignity" to Australia's foreign policy, and explores how Nixon, Kissinger and the CIA really reacted to Whitlam's government. Interviews with former CIA officials Frank Snepp, Victor Marchetti and Dr Ray Cline show how deeply disturbed the US intelligence agencies were by the new Labor government. Convicted spy Christopher Boyce, former CIA director William Colby, Prime Minister John Gorton, Clyde Cameron, David Combe, Alan Renouf and US ambassadors to Australia, Marshall Green and Ed Clark, also have much to say. The film stands today as a document of rare authenticity. Made without a narrator, and with discreet use of archival images, the film is told entirely by people who participated at first-hand in the events and by contemporary academic observers (among them Des Ball). All credit to Wilkinson this early in her distinguished career as a journalist and political commentator for not only securing such an extraordinary range of interviewees, and not only coaxing them into such frank and revealing reflections, but also for pulling all of these elements together into such a coherent and forceful whole. "President Lyndon B. Johnson always thought that Australia was the next large rectangular state beyond El Paso, and treated it accordingly" - Marshall Green, US Ambassador to Australia, 1973-75.
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