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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
TarraWarra Museum of Art: An Enduring Passion tells the story of the birth of Australia's first significant privately funded public art museum. Designed by architect Allan Powell, the museum was the vision of Eva Besen and Marc Besen who began collecting Australian art in the 1950s. Their friendships with artists included Leonard French, John Olsen, Jeffrey Smart and Fred Williams. "The Besen Collection is the dream collection of Australia. I'm able...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
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 National Gallery of Australia's extraordinary Indigenous collection as the springboard, we travel with Hetti through cities and desert communities, museums and...
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
You'll find them across Australia - hidden in museums, libraries and people's homes - the national treasures that bring our history to life. National Treasures is a series of entertaining short films hosted by the irrepressible Warren Brown - political cartoonist, columnist, adventurer, history "tragic" and vintage car buff. In each instalment Warren, drawing pad in hand, takes a road-trip of discovery. Over 15 episodes he reveals the objects, bric-a-brac...
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This film is a pioneering documentary series that fuses history, genealogy and dramatic reconstruction to reveal for the first time, the stories of these forgotten women and their experiences in the strange and harsh new world of Colonial Australia. The series is the first to deal with the establishment of the enterprise that would give birth to the Australian nation and the roles that Irish females, both women and girls, played in its formation....
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
One-hundred million years ago Australia, as part of the great southern continent known as Gondwana, was inhabited by a unique species of dinosaur - the Muttaburrasaurus. Evidence of this dinosaur has not been found anywhere else in the world.. This program uses highly detailed and accurate models and an imaginative combination of animation and documentary footage to trace the existence of Muttaburrasaurus, revealing its habitat and behavioural patterns...
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A study of the various styles of Aboriginal rock art found in Kakadu National Park and Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. The film is narrated by a world authority on this subject, George Chaloupka, a field anthropologist with the Museum and Art Galleries Board of the Northern Territory. He takes the audience on a trip to the park and explains the background to some of the unique and beautiful rock paintings to be found in this area. Aboriginal...
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Mr Strehlow's Films follows the life story and work of Australia's pre-eminent and most controversial anthropologist and Arrernte linguist, TGH (Ted) Strehlow. It traces his life from his childhood at Hermannsburg as the son of Lutheran missionaries to his days as a patrol officer and translator in Central Australia. Growing up on the mission with Aboriginal people in the early 1900s, Ted Strehlow spoke the Arrernte language fluently. In later years,...
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In 1933, a state of panic erupted in Darwin after five Japanese fishermen and three white men were killed by Aboriginal clansmen on the east coast of Arnhem Land. Donald Thomson, a young anthropologist working in the field, was appalled by calls for a punitive expedition. Thomson suspected the Aboriginal men were resisting invasions of their land and had acted in self defence. At the same time, he was aware that the official policy of "protection"...
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This set of 5 short films is compiled into one program. NIGHT PATROL (Munga Wardingki Patu) Night Patrol is an all-women group who undertake to try to keep the peace in their community. On any given night the patrollers may come across a domestic dispute where they can intervene and attempt some sort of resolution or perhaps transport one of the parties to another place; a gang of petrol-sniffing youths who may be carted back to their parents or simply...
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Originally shown at IMAX theaters, this exploration of Antarctica takes you to continent beyond imagination. Discover Antarctica's wildlife and, through the words of explorer Robert Scott, relive the brutal hardships, wonders, and isolation of the first men on this frontier.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A million or more years ago, during the Ice Age, Australia was home to a wide range of extraordinary giant animals. None was quite as bizarre or fearsome as Thylacoleo, the meat-eating marsupial lion. Pound for pound, this creature had the most powerful bite of any mammal, living or extinct. Even though it was at the top of the ancient Australian predators, Thylacoleo was eventually toppled from its throne, dying out along with all the rest of the...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
6th edition.
Language
English
Description
This test preparation book focuses on 600 words commonly used on the TOEIC. Words are taught in 50 vocabulary-building lessons that focus on American English as it is used in today's business, industry, communications, and cultural activities. All activities are formatted like the actual questions on the TOEIC exam and help students develop test-taking skills. Examples of practical English usage touch on such subjects as contracts, marketing, banking,...
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