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Australia was rocked on February 13, 1978, when a bomb placed in a garbage bin outside the Hilton Hotel exploded in a garbage truck killing three people. Many years later, Australia's most significant political crime, remains unsolved. This documentary focuses on the question of whether the bombing was part of a conspiracy involving security organisations.
October 20, 1998 is the 25th anniversary of the official opening of the Sydney Opera House by the Queen. Jorn Utzon, the architect, was awarded the first prize in a competition to design an Opera House for Sydney. In 1957 he flew to Australia to begin work on the construction of the greatest building Australia has ever seen and, indeed, one of the finest achievements of modern architecture. Utzon was forced from the project in 1966 and has never returned to Australia. This film will chart the dramatic course of the creation of a masterpiece and the tragic, sometimes funny, and compelling story of its conception and construction.
In 1962, while the Sydney Opera House was still a mass of concrete foundations, another building went up on Sydney Harbour. It was relatively modest by comparison to its monumental neighbour, a modernist apartment block on another peninsula diagonally opposite Bennelong Point - Blue's Point Tower. That building, a 25-floor tower from internationally acclaimed architect Harry Seidler, has come to be described as the "most hated building on Sydney Harbour". Why does Utzon's vision capture our imagination and Seidler's, smaller but no less dramatic statement, repel us? This is the quintessential story of mid-century modernism, and perhaps of all architectural endeavour - brutal or beautiful? Seidler was no stranger to controversy nor to accolades. He typified the practice of mid-century modernism in Australia more than any other. From the moment he arrived in Sydney his private homes were in demand and his uniquely stylised and innovatively engineered tower blocks came to dominate city skylines all over the country. His vision and his personality cannot be ignored.
In the last four years of his life, Lionel Murphy was at the centre of an historic battle to retain his position on the High Court in Australia. While the film concentrates on this period and the events leading up to it, in a wider sense, it uses the dramatic story of Murphy as a vehicle to consider some more fundamental issues about law. The film tackles the problem of police and security surveillance of the individual in Australian society and in particular, of prominent political and legal figures.
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