Australian Politics Collection
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This diverse collection of documentaries offers a multifaceted exploration of Australian politics, society, and culture. From grassroots activism in "There Goes Our Neighbourhood" to high-level political intrigue in "The Search for the Palace Letters," these films provide insight into various aspects of Australian governance and social issues. The collection touches on Indigenous rights with "Servant or Slave," environmental concerns in "A Crude Injustice," and legal matters in "The Highest Court." It also delves into Australian cinema history with "Hunt Angels" and explores the country's relationship with Asia in "The Men Who Would Conquer China."
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When politicians and property developers threatened to take over Waterloo, Sydney and force public housing battlers to the city fringe, they didn't expect locals to fight back the way they did.
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This remarkable documentary tells the story of Professor Jenny Hocking, the historian who took on the Australian Government and HM Queen Elizabeth II in a landmark legal battle - and won.
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A documentary that reveals the underbelly of the global aid and investment industry. It's a complex web of interests that span the earth from powerful nations and multinational corporations to tribal and village leaders. This documentary offers unique insights into a...
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The film shows how David Gulpilil was always working to bridge the gap between the tribal Aboriginal and Western worlds.
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'Breaking the News' gets behind the scenes of news and current affairs reportage in Timor-Leste to challenge those who think a free press automatically comes with independence.
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POLITICS - PROTEST - PROFANITY
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Farmers struggle for compensation after an oil spill.
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The fight to save the Leard State Forest a controversial coal mining project.
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In Australia, during the era of the Stolen Generations, thousands of Aboriginal girls were taken from their families and pressed into domestic servitude by the Australian Government.
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A New Yorker his Hong Kong business partner join forces to take on China.
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On Australia Day 1988, the thoughts and attitudes of ordinary Aussies are revealed.
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US political bases in Australia at Pine Gap near Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.
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No law can operate that is not considered ‘constitutional’ by the High Court of Australia. For the first time cases have been filmed as they actually happen in the Court, showing first-hand the characters and drama of the High Court of Australia, the pinnacle of legal...
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A dramatic reinvestigation of Australia's most notorious unsolved crime - the massive bomb blast outside the Sydney Hilton Hotel in 1978.
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The career of High Court Justice Michael Kirby.
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In the late 1930s, Alma Brooks and Rupert Kathner began a movie-making spree.
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Two Salvadoran refugees negotiate survivor's guilt.
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In 1982, a mine closure united a community. Kemira: Diary of a Strike is the first Australian film to document the organisation of an Australian strike.
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Eccentric British developer Lord McAlpine has a dream - an urge to create a whole new civilisation in Australia's North based around the town of Broome in the remote north of Western Australia.
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While the Indonesian army continues to dominate the indigenous inhabitants of West Papua, three friends gather in Melbourne to record outlawed folk songs with renowned Australian rock musicologist David Bridie.
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