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Phyllis Corowa's father and grandmother were taken from Vanuatu to work on a Queensland sugar plantation. From the website Pacific Stories |
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Gregory Kopa, a Bougainville villager describes how he felt when geologists started to look for copper on Bougainville in the 1960s. From the website Pacific Stories |
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The story of how long-standing local opposition to a copper mine in Bougainville erupted into full-scale civil war. From the website Pacific Stories |
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In 1988, Meg Taylor began walking across the Highlands of Papua New Guinea to retrace the journey her father had made 50 years earlier. From the website Pacific Stories |
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Veteran ABC journalist, Sean Dorney, looks back on his time in Papua New Guinea covering the Bougainville crisis. From the website Pacific Stories |
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In 1938 Jim Taylor lead an epic 15 month exploratory patrol through the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. From the website Pacific Stories |
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Producer Janet Bell looks back on the life and work of the director of Land of the Morning Star, Mark Worth. From the website Pacific Stories |
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The Indonesian province of Papua has a turbulent history and rich culture. Yet it remains largely unknown. From the website Pacific Stories |
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Ni-Vanuatu writer and historian Anna Naupa discusses different views of South Sea Islander labour trade history. From the website Pacific Stories |
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Moira Kelly begs for funds from international charities to bring children from war-torn Albania to Australia for medical treatment. One of the children almost dies, but the results are worth the risks. From the website Australians At Work |
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Alister Grierson, director of the 2006 feature film "Kokoda" talks about historical accuracy and representing war experience on film. From the website Talkback Classroom - Learning Journeys |
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Donald Bradman’s bats are a reminder of how this cricket legend played himself into the record books, earning the status of Australian icon. From the website National Treasures |
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In 1912, Mawson's expedition arrived in the Antarctic. Little did they realise it was the windiest place on the globe. From the website Australians At Work |
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The Velvet Soap advertising campaign is a tongue-in-cheek reminder of Edmund Barton’s hand in formulating the White Australia policy. From the website The Prime Ministers' National Treasures |
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John Curtin’s journalistic instincts came in handy during World War Two when he kept the media onside with secret press briefings. He wore his AJA badge every day he was in office. From the website The Prime Ministers' National Treasures |
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Stanley Melbourne Bruce treasured Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s gift of a gold cigarette case throughout his life. From the website The Prime Ministers' National Treasures |
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Possibly our best loved Prime Minister, and a former train driver, Ben Chifley was rarely seen without his pipe, as he guided the country through the austere post-war years. From the website The Prime Ministers' National Treasures |
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Andrew Fisher’s tin lunch box reminds us that humble beginnings informed his political career: he went from union organiser to three-time Prime Minister, inventing the Australian ideal of a ‘fair go’ along the way. From the website The Prime Ministers' National Treasures |
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The disappearance of our seventeenth Prime Minister, Harold Holt, during a beach holiday sparked countless conspiracy theories. The items left in his briefcase are a significant time capsule of his last days as Prime Minister. From the website The Prime Ministers' National Treasures |
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William Hughes, “The Little Digger”, campaigned twice for national conscription to boost an Australian army decimated by World War One. From the website The Prime Ministers' National Treasures |
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Robert Menzies’ lifelong passion for home movies resulted in a surprisingly personal record of the war years, including footage of a young Princess Elizabeth. From the website The Prime Ministers' National Treasures |
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The classic 1919 silent movie The Sentimental Bloke is regarded as one of the greatest Australian films. From the website National Treasures |
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In the 1930s, a New Zealand-born horse called Phar Lap won the hearts of Australians and became one of our most loved and enduring icons. From the website National Treasures |
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In 2007 Australia celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, a giant steel arch resembling a coat hanger that has became one of world's most recognised structures and an engineering triumph. From the website Constructing Australia |
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The construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge was a massive investment for the NSW government. The cost was not only in monetary terms but also the destruction of significant areas of Sydney’s heritage and the loss of lives. From the website Constructing Australia |
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Charles Todd dreamt of constructing a telegraph line through the heart of the continent. From the website Constructing Australia |
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In 1870 Charles Todd, using explorer John McDouall Stuart's maps, organised and lead three teams to lay the overland telegraph wire. From the website Constructing Australia |
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The story of the struggle to cross a vast continent and build the telegraph line that would bring Australia to the world and the world to Australia. From the website Constructing Australia |
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There was enormous public and media speculation about whether the Victorian backed Burke and Wills or South Australia's Stuart expedition would be the first to cross the continent's interior. From the website Constructing Australia |
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After spending some time observing an Aboriginal tribe, Cook commits the most controversial act of the voyage: he claims the entire east coast of New Holland for Britain, without permission from the local inhabitants. From the website Captain Cook |
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Cook’s obsession with discovery continues as he searches for the mythic North West Passage, but is it a journey too far? Now retired and promoted to Post Captain, James Cook is bored. He jumps at the chance to take on a third great voyage: to find a fast route to China to secure Britain’s place in the lucrative tea trade. From the website Captain Cook |
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James Cook’s temperament has become unstable during the long and unsuccessful hunt for the North West passage. He picks a fight with the Hawaiians after a series of thefts by them from the ships and dies on the beach after a fierce battle. From the website Captain Cook |
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Cook takes on board an additional passenger, Polynesian priest and fellow navigator Tupaia. Tupaia shares his remarkable navigational skills, convinced that the notion of a great land mass is a European fantasy. From the website Captain Cook |
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In his first great voyage of discovery, James Cook is chosen to find and explore the 'Great Southern Land'. From the website Captain Cook |
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Written on board the Endeavour during his trip down under in 1770, James Cook’s journal records the beginning of Australia as we know it today. From the website National Treasures |
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When John Stuart crossed the interior of Australia, he did so in ignorance of the complex set of boundaries and rules for the use of shared resources that existed among the Aboriginal people. From the website Constructing Australia |
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Influential patrons help the bright boy James Cook to an apprenticeship in the merchant navy that would make him a ships’ master. But with an eye for the main chance Cook switches to the Royal Navy. From the website Captain Cook |
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Rare archival footage from 1910 shows camels carrying heavy supplies across the desert. Railway labourers are building the 1400 km railway that will finally link Western Australia with the Eastern States. From the website Australians At Work |
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Federation was a time of jobs and opportunities. With our 12,000 mile coast Australia needed a defence force. From the website Australians At Work |
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In 1913 the Basic Living Wage of 2 pounds 8 shillings a week is introduced. Politicians, including William Morris (Billy) Hughes, lay the Foundation Stone for the new National Capital in Canberra. From the website Australians At Work |
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The Velvet Soap advertising campaign is a tongue-in-cheek reminder of Edmund Barton’s hand in formulating the White Australia policy. From the website The Prime Ministers' National Treasures |
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Gold, more than any other single factor, transformed the Australian colonies. From the website Constructing Australia |
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In 1890 C. Y. O'Connor was recruited to work as Chief Engineer in the newly self-governing colony of Western Australia, where he formed a dynamic partnership with the colony's larger-than-life Premier, John Forrest. From the website Constructing Australia |
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Some sort of federation of the Australian colonies had been suggested as early as 1846. Ferocious political struggles over the shape of the new nation continued to the eleventh hour. From the website Constructing Australia |
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In the 1930s, a New Zealand-born horse called Phar Lap won the hearts of Australians and became one of our most loved and enduring icons. From the website National Treasures |
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James Scullin inspired the people when he offered to rent out The Lodge during the Depression, but his fierce nationalism is best revealed in his campaign to install an Australian-born Governor General. From the website The Prime Ministers' National Treasures |
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With its revolutionary approach to depicting the landscape and light, Tom Roberts’ Bailed Up is a painting that helped define Australia’s national identity. From the website National Treasures |
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Joe and Monica Leo are the descendents of ni-Vanuatu who helped build Queensland's sugar industry. From the website Pacific Stories |
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125 million sheep are spread across Australia. 90 thousand tons of lamb and 3 million tons of wool are exported annually. Australia truly rode to prosperity on the sheep's back. From the website Australians At Work |
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Huge, heavy and finless, the first Aussie surfboard was actually handmade by a visiting Hawaiian in 1914 using a piece of local wood. From the website National Treasures |
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Joe and Monica Leo embark on a journey to Vanuatu to recover a small part of their past. From the website Pacific Stories |
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Vika and Linda Bull talk about the importance of their heritage and connection to Tonga. From the website Pacific Stories |
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Alister Grierson, director of the 2006 feature film "Kokoda" talks about historical accuracy and representing war experience on film. From the website Talkback Classroom - Learning Journeys |
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Who decides what is taught in Australian History in schools? From the website Talkback Classroom - Learning Journeys |
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Author and Historian Nadia Wheatley writes about historical events in her fiction because history is a great story. From the website Talkback Classroom - Learning Journeys |
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Australia needs new migrants to populate the country and build a more prosperous nation. English lessons are available everywhere, including through correspondence and radio courses. From the website Australians At Work |
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Toula, an Australian-born Greek wife, is a Workers' Compensation officer. Breaking free from traditional Greek women's roles, she desires a career and creative freedom. From the website Australians At Work |
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Well-paid but back-breaking sugarcane work in North Queensland provided the initial resources for Giovanni's business. He and his family went on to create a now highly- successful imported tile business. From the website Australians At Work |
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Migrant women work long hours sewing garments at home for a few dollars an hour. Many are refugees and have little understanding of their rights or the chance of alternative employment. From the website Australians At Work |
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Arnhem Land in Australia's Northern Territory is the home of coastal Aboriginal People. On the beach it's time to play out one of the dramas of daily life - the return of the hunters. From the website Australians At Work |
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In 1966 a few Aboriginal families were living nomadic lives in the heart of Australia's Gibson Desert. Women would collect seeds from Woolybuck grass to make bread whilst their husbands searched for old spearheads and tools for hunting. From the website Australians At Work |
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Indigenous art is like topographic mapping of land and culture. Michael Nelson Tjakamarra works at painting concentric circles which represent sacred sites. From the website Australians At Work |
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The Yugal Cattle Co was given a grant of $336,000 to go into business running a cattle station. Their dreams of making money from cattle and beef export are big but there are problems. Traditional Indigenous laws are different from white man's law. From the website Australians At Work |
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Working at the end of the 19th century, Aboriginal artists Tommy McRae and Mickey of Ulladulla drew the world around them with an extraordinary vitality and sensitivity to detail. From the website Hidden Treasures |
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Noel Tovey survived a childhood of poverty, neglect, sexual abuse and racial prejudice to become a leading light in the arts as an actor, choreographer, writer and theatre director. From the website Australian Biography |
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The repatriation of aboriginal remains is an issue close to Aboriginal peoples' hearts and spirit and play a significant part of the reconciliation process. From the website Talkback Classroom - Learning Journeys |
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A broadcast studio at Radio Redfern in the late 80s. Christina Spurgeon talks about the importance of providing media services to remote Indigenous communities to the culture, identity and language of Aboriginal Australians. From the website From Wireless to Web |
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In the remote outback, a policeman sets out with two Indigenous stockmen to inspect the many hundreds of kilometres he patrols. His duties cover everything from punishing lawbreakers to acting as postmaster. From the website Australians At Work |
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The disappearance of our seventeenth Prime Minister, Harold Holt, during a beach holiday sparked countless conspiracy theories. The items left in his briefcase are a significant time capsule of his last days as Prime Minister. From the website The Prime Ministers' National Treasures |
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An artist and two drovers capture the beauty of 1200 head of cattle making their way across the outback in the last great Australian cattle drive. From the website Australians At Work |
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Aboriginal Elder and teacher Douglas Bon remembers Eddie Mabo and the landmark land rights case he fought. From the website Talkback Classroom - Learning Journeys |
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Civil rights activist Faith Bandler has made an enormous contribution to the peace movement and indigenous politics. From the website Australian Biography |
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Rosalie Kunoth-Monks is an actor, ex-nun and Aboriginal activist. From the website Australian Biography |
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Charles Perkins’ involvement in the Freedom Ride through rural New South Wales in the early 1960s played a crucial role in demonstrating that Aboriginal people could begin to stand up for themselves. From the website Australian Biography |
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By the early 1960s, it was clear that Indigenous people were not being assimilated — discrimination against Indigenous people continued and many Indigenous people refused to surrender their culture and lifestyle. The assimilation policy had failed. From the website Australian Biography |
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Deputy Chief Minister Marion Scrymgour and Aboriginal Tent Embassy representative Robert Craigie discuss the representation of Aboriginal people in Australian political institutions. From the website Talkback Classroom - Learning Journeys |
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Northern Territory Art Gallery Curator Franchesca Cubillo talks about the life of acclaimed Arrente artist Albert Namatjira (1902-1959) and his citizenship granted in 1957. From the website Talkback Classroom - Learning Journeys |
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The strength of democracies is founded on the breadth of the representation of it's parliamentarians. From the website Talkback Classroom - Learning Journeys |
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Students and the Honorable Mal Brough look at how best peak bodies work for the community they represent. From the website Talkback Classroom - Learning Journeys |
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In 1963 the Aboriginal Elders at Yirrkala presented the Federal Government with a bark painting, the title deed to their country. From the website Talkback Classroom - Learning Journeys |
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The axemen established camps throughout the eucalypt forests in the early 20th century. Their job was a combination of skill and stamina, harvesting giant trees for the rapidly growing hardwood industry. From the website Australians At Work |
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Possibly our best loved Prime Minister, and a former train driver, Ben Chifley was rarely seen without his pipe, as he guided the country through the austere post-war years. From the website The Prime Ministers' National Treasures |
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Powerhouse Museum Curator Dr Kimberley Webber looks at how collections bring to life Australian stories in museums. From the website Talkback Classroom - Learning Journeys |
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Prime Minister Robert Menzies opens the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor, and marvels at nuclear energy being a relatively new phenomenon in the world. From the website Australians At Work |
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An egg is collected from a woman's ovary and placed in a test tube to be fertilised by her husband's sperm. Once the embryo is growing normally it is placed back in the uterus. From the website Australians At Work |
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What does it feel like to be a soldier at war? Tense young Australian soldiers creep through the Vietnamese jungle, ever on the alert for the Viet Cong. From the website Australians At Work |
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It may be just a small red vinyl suitcase but for Vietnamese refugee Cuc Lam it’s a symbol of a new beginning in a new country. From the website National Treasures |
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A World War 1 digger reflects on his work as a runner in the trenches at Gallipoli. Hopping across the trenches in full view of the Turkish snipers, the average life of a runner was 24 hours. From the website Australians At Work |
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Prime Minister William Morris (Billy) Hughes' Conscription Referendum failed twice, in 1916 and 1917. From the website Australians At Work |
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A small lifeboat, retrieved from the shores of Gallipoli, is a direct link to the first Anzacs and the day that helped forge Australia’s identity. From the website National Treasures |
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Norman Lindsay’s The Magic Pudding is one of our best-loved children’s books and the central character, one of our great Australian anti-heroes. From the website National Treasures |
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When our troops were sent off to war in 1914, industry in Australia boomed. Steel was necessary for guns and ships. From the website Australians At Work |
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Stanley Melbourne Bruce treasured Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s gift of a gold cigarette case throughout his life. From the website The Prime Ministers' National Treasures |
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The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Sir Mark Oliphant helped to create the bomb, but even though it ended the war he can never reconcile himself to the loss of civilian life. From the website Australians At Work |
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Weary Dunlop and his elderly comrades return to the site of the Thai-Burma railway. As prisoners of war they each had to dig three cubic metres of earth a day, virtually with their bare hands. From the website Australians At Work |
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A tiny, war-ravaged liferaft from the HMAS Sydney is our only physical link to Australia’s worst-ever naval disaster. From the website National Treasures |
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Alister Grierson, director of the 2006 feature film "Kokoda" talks about historical accuracy and representing war experience on film. From the website Talkback Classroom - Learning Journeys |
