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- First in a Seven Up! (1964) like series examining the lives of three teenage girls in South Australia during the 1970s. A sort of 14Up Australia, the series has spawned three more installments and looks at issues such as boys and sex, abortion, marriage, pregnancy, career paths, and education.
- A dramatised programme which tells the story of two young children who are sexually abused by their uncle. It traces the history of the abuse, the behavioural changes in the children, the feelings of betrayal and guilt, the effects on the family, the role played by a school teacher in the disclosure of the abuse, the emotions experienced by the parents and the ultimate support needed by the child victims.
- Focuses on the failure of governments and mainstream Australian society to address the misery and ruin that 200 years of indifference, arrogance and ignorance has wrought on Aboriginal society. Includes interviews with black Australian
- Short documentary feature examining the 1982 Adelaide Festival of Arts in Adelaide, South Australia. Performances that are featured include original archival footage of the State Theatre Company of South Australia performing Patrick White's "Signal Driver"; the Sydney Theatre Company' s production of David Hare's "A Map of the World"; Playbox Production's performance of Sam Shepard's "Buried Child"; Pina Bausch's Kontakthof Wuppertaler Tanztaler; Graeme Koehne's "Sinfonietta" by the University of Adelaide's Elder Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra; and a live performance by cabaret act Circus Oz.
- A man from a semi-traditional Aboriginal community makes his first visit to a large city for medical treatment. The experience of sudden separation from family; home and familiar surroundings; and the communication gap between the white hospital staff and many Aboriginal patients is demonstrated in a dramatised recall of the man's time in the city.
- A docu-drama about one able-bodied and four disabled people vacationing on a houseboat in South Australia. Examines attitudes, psychology, public opinion, problems and issues relating to being handicapped with a physical disability. Made about a decade before the director helmed the Academy Award winning movie Shine (1996).
- Aboriginal people are encouraged to revive traditional food gathering activities or to participate in nutrition-related projects; explanation of bush medicine; mothers are helped to understand the changes in nutrition required by young babies; a man from a semi-traditional community makes his first visit to a large city to seek medical treatment.
- Shows several nutrition-related projects initiated by Aboriginal communities who encourage other groups to make use of human and natural resources to begin similar projects. Bush food is compared to that which may be purchased in towns and cities and the need for an understanding of the nutritional value of food is emphasized. Aboriginal people are encouraged to revive traditional food gathering activities or to participate in nutrition-related projects in order to develop a higher nutritional status for their respective communities.
- Behind the scenes on-location documentary about the making of Sunday Too Far Away (1975), the first feature length movie produced by the South Australian Film Corporation. Features locations such as Port Augusta, the Port Augusta Town Hall and Carriewerloo Station, all in South Australia, Australia. Features on the set filming footage and interviews with director Ken Hannam and star Jack Thompson.
- Documentary about the cranio-facial unit at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in Adelaide, South Australia and the work done in cranio-facial surgery to perform facial reconstruction of disfigured faces. Case study examines a Vietnamese woman whose disfigured-face was caused by a napalm explosion during the Vietnam War.