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In 1803 when the British arrived to establish a penal colony there were some 4000 aborigines on the island of Tasmania. By 1876, after a few decades of systematic persecution and atrocity, they had been...
An account of the Australian Northern Land Council’s inaugural meeting in January 1977. At the same time the council met traditional owners of the Alligator Rivers region in the Northern Territory to...
Ethnographic record of a pukumani (bereavement) ceremony of the Tiwi of Melville Island, off the coast of Australia. Made at the request of the Mangatopi family of Snake Bay, the ceremony was held for the...
An account of the natural history of the Great Barrier Reef, its discovery by French and British navigators in the 18th century, and the threat posed to the reef’s unique formation and fauna by ocean...
Documents the construction and placement of a steel oil platform designed to be permanently fixed on the sea floor up to 80 kilometres off the Victorian coast in the Bass Strait. The design had to last up to...
Introductory or background material for courses in marine biology.*
On Coniston Station, north-west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia, cattle are mustered and yarded. The lease is held by a European, but the stockmen are Anmatjara people, whose...
This film was made for the Faculty of Law at Monash University as an introduction to the law of evidence. Its aim is to explore the possibilities of film as an aid to teaching law. Based on the fact that it...
The life of Central Australian nomads who still keep camels today. Scenes of the capture and nose-pegging of a wild camel, a contemporary ceremony and a cross-country journey to Papunya settlement. Unlike...
A series of dances (eight in all) from Cape York, Australia. Carvings of the ancestral hero, sharks, wallabies, crocodiles, snakes, lizards and flying foxes are used in the dances. Also covers the...
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