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General description of termite colonies with an account of the functions and behaviour of the various castes which comprise them, with special reference to Australia.*
Describes the restoration of a large rock painting in Central Australia, with associated acts and dances. The ritual features the phallic ‘act’ of a legendary sexual hero.
Wildlife study of the numbat, a small marsupial that eats termites.
An emotive plea for the preservation of Australian forests, and particularly of the rain forests of the Hastings River area. Portrays the destruction of huge areas of forest in the past 200 years since the...
John Pilger’s account of the colonisation of Australia and the struggle for Aboriginal land rights in the past and present.
For 100 years the Aboriginal cowboys of the Kimberleys in Northern Australia were the workforce of the cattle industry based on their land and their labour. In 1967 when they were granted equal rights and...
Shows echidnas in the field and in the laboratory - their feeding behaviour and the suckling of the young. An animated sequence explaining how the fertilized egg develops is followed by actual film of the...
All species of pine trees are susceptible to attack by the wood wasp, ‘Sirex noctillio’. When Sirex was first discovered on the Australian mainland in 1961, the softwood plantations of Southern Australia...
Explains the causes and effects of salinity in the soils of the Western Australian wheat belt and the Murray-Darling irrigation settlements. Discusses methods of correcting these problems, stressing the need...
For the aborigines in Australia there is concern as well as apathy, a problem for a government unused to racial issues, and a fierce militancy with black overtones already familiar in other parts of the world.
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