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Every year the rag trade descends on student fashion parades to vet the hottest young designers and for the students at the fashion studio in east Sydney, getting noticed is the name of the game. With four weeks to go it's time for Ben, Heidi, Janna, Stan and Karen to pull out the stops as the deadline shrinks for the big parade. Behind the scenes, fashion design teacher Nicholas Huxley pushes students to take the final steps across the catwalk and into the industry.
Since it migrated 'out of India', Buddhism has shown a remarkable ability to adapt across race, language and culture barriers. What became the dominant spiritual tradition of the East has now taken root and is flourishing in the West. Buddhism's universal appeal undoubtedly lies in the astonishing plurality of philosophies and practices that are contained in this ancient and evolving tradition. Yet through them all, the Buddha himself is and remains the ultimate ideal.
Series on high profile Australian dynasties revealing intimate personal stories behind some of Australia's best known family names. Compelling snapshots of our colourful history.
The second series of Dynasties profiles six remarkable Australian families, from the Bunyip aristocracy‚ to sporting legends. This absorbing series is Australian history told through first hand accounts of family life: The Wentworths, Australia's greatest colonial dynasty; The Roses, a working class sporting family; The Boyds, five generations of celebrated artists; The Marikas, an influential Aboriginal family; The Kidmans, Australia's cattle kings; and The Belgiorno-Nettis family, Italian migrants who rose to be great industrialists and patrons of the arts.
THE FIFTH CONTINENT is a passionate and personal story of six different European émigrés who travel to Australia to realise their hopes and dreams. Emil Trifinoff escapes the fear of communism in his homeland of Bulgaria with nothing but the shirt on his back. Greta Silvers and Tom Keleman come to Australia as displaced persons and orphans. George Pappas escorts his two sisters in the hope of making the family fortune. Joan King flees England afraid the cold war will become a real one, while Lou Klepac arrives as a young teenager anticipating the adventure of a life time.
In 1969, the country was prosperous and the original A BIG COUNTRY program examined the Country Women's Association’s attempts to stay relevant in the context of the fast changing and increasingly feminist late '60s. The group was in rapid decline and leaders of the CWA claimed that the 'members were not moving with the times' and that they needed to change their ways or risk fading away forever. This film takes a look at the CWA in the present day as they attempt to loosen the shackles of tradition and bring in young blood, while staying true to their original objectives.
A celebration of the life and career of James Gleeson, Australia's most important and startling Surrealist artist, to mark his 80th year. Gleeson has practised as painter, poet, draftsman and collagist since the early 1930s. This documentary traces his career from suburban Northbridge, Sydney, Gleeson's home since the 1950s, to the Sydney art world of the 30s, London, Paris and Venice in the 40s, and back to the present. Gleeson is caught in the act of creation, and conducts a tour of his home, his first technical college, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and the Sydney fish markets. The program includes views of his masterpieces, including the disturbing and horrific 'The Citadel', which was refused exhibition in England in 1948.
Twenty-five years ago Papua New Guinea achieved independence, without fighting and bloodshed, ending 69 years of Australian sovereignty. This is the personal and authoritative account by Sean Dorney of how this nation has fared since independence.
For many survivors of the Holocaust the horror has returned. When Renee Symonds placed her mother in a nursing home, her mother's dementia not only worsened, but the loss of her home, family and freedom, as well as her new surrounds, triggered memories suppressed for 60 years. Renee, a psychotherapist, and the nursing home, embarked on a groundbreaking program to identify the 'triggers' and treat Holocaust survivors experiencing these psychotic episodes.
On May 17, 1995, Christine Anu stepped out on stage at the Metro Theatre, a sizzling 24-year-old girl with a fresh volume of Australian music, three dancers that could move and a voice that burns. It was a debut to remember. Christine became a major name overnight and a new Australian sound waved its Torres Strait Island flag. SALTWATER SOUL rides the wave of Christine's first year in the music business.
The lives and loves of veterans from Sydney's swing era. Once society's rebels, many of these musicians and dancers are now in their 70s and classed as senior citizens. Rather than acquiescing to the image of geriatrics, these older 'teenagers' are still out for a good time. The Shaw Nuff Swing Band has a regular Sunday afternoon gig at the Maroubra Bowling Club which attracts a loyal crowd. The crowd says this gig is 'our life. It's been like an injection into our heart and soul, how lucky we are to have this chance to relive our time again. It keeps us young and we love it.' Negotiating the ups and downs of health, romance and, horror of horrors, the loss of the gig, these swingers respond to life's challenges with vivacity, humanity and joy.
In the exotic Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, a small mining company experiences the ultimate culture clash when they find themselves in the middle of a tribal war. For ten years, the exploration company Oil Search has successfully operated a power plant on an isolated New Guinea outpost. They have always maintained good community relations with their business partner the Huli tribe, who have lived there for several centuries. One morning, an Oil Search community relations officer and Huli tribesman is the victim of a savage knife attack. The company suddenly finds itself in the middle of the violent cycle of tribal revenge and payback.
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