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Land of the Long Weekend

With overtime at work increasing and penalty rates disappearing, how valid is Australia's reputation as the Òland of the long weekendÓ?
Series : Australian Experience, The | Year : 1994 | Total Duration : 54.5 Minutes | Producer : Susan Ardill
Director : Sue Brooks |
Phillip Gude, Victorian Minister for Industry and Employment, statement about Australia no longer being the lucky country
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Access No. 64685 | 21 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Anna Bourozikas, graduate journalist comments on long weekend no longer being part of the workplace
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Access No. 64686 | 18 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Elle Fa'ils, butler at Sheraton Towers comments on the weekend in her work life
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Access No. 64687 | 16 secs | 1990s | Southgate, Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Kieren Perkins, swimmer, comments on training and the weekend in his life
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Access No. 64688 | 28 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Mary Graham, philosopher, comments on Australian lifestyle and attitude
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Access No. 64689 | 27 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
B/W footage of group of male swimmers gathered together in front of camera.
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Access No. 64691 | 10 secs | 1920s | Bondi, NSW, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Family group in front garden playing with white Labrador dog. They are chasing the dog with a garden hose. There is a blue holden parked in the drive.
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Access No. 64692 | 3 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
B/W shot of young girls running across field.
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Access No. 64693 | 5 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
Boys playing tug-of-war. Large group of children in on hurdy gurdy in park (roundabout, razzle dazzle).
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Access No. 64694 | 5 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
Man applying suntan lotion to woman woman's upper chest. They are both in swimming costumes on the grass near a beach.
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Access No. 64696 | 4 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
Man lifts his son into the surf.
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Access No. 64697 | 3 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | Colour |
Man lying in the surf as wave covers him.
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Access No. 64698 | 3 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | Colour |
Lady laying on the sand.
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Access No. 64699 | 3 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | Colour |
4 middle aged men and women with arms linked dancing back and forth on grass area near beach. They are dressed in swimming costumes. Swimmers in the surf.
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Access No. 64700 | 6 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
HA swimming pool as swimmer doing back stoke crosses frame right to left. Followed by others doing freestyle.
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Access No. 64702 | 14 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Trade Unionists Celebrate Eight Hours - The March through the City - titles from an Australasian Gazette film on the introduction of eight hour day
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Access No. 64703 | 3 secs | 1920s | © National Film and Sound Archive | Colour |
Street procession - labour march for introduction of eight hour day
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Access No. 64704 | 13 secs | 1920s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © National Film and Sound Archive | B&W |
John Arrowsmith, labour historian, interview about eight hour day
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Access No. 64705 | 28 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Early settlers work. Men with picks breaking rocks, building cottages, ploughing fields
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Access No. 64706 | 21 secs | 1910s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
HA swimming pool as swimmers cross frame right to left. HA Swimmer crossing frame left to right at State Swimming Centre
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Access No. 64707 | 14 secs | 1990s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Workers packing trolley, business people in street. Pan along men on street in suits and hats
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Access No. 64709 | 31 secs | 1920s | © NFSA | B&W |
Professor Belinda Probert, social scientist, comments on wage levels, work and employment
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Access No. 64710 | 1 min 7 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Sue Castrique, writer and historian comments on work and society
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Access No. 64711 | 14 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
B/W archival footage of early settlers at work. Men at brick works, laying railway tracks, and chopping down trees, men at clay pottery, loading horse and cart pulling huge tree by horse
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Access No. 64712 | 39 secs | 1930s | © NFSA | B&W |
Sue Castrique writer and historian talking about men's work being worth more than women's work
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Access No. 64713 | 24 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Women in long dresses punching time clock or bundy clocks in factory, rows of women seated at coil winders on factory floor
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Access No. 64714 | 17 secs | 1900s | © New Deal Films | B&W |
Factory whistle blowing. Train station as commuters get off train.
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Access No. 64715 | 11 secs | 1930s | © NFSA | B&W |
Track past large group of men all seated at desks in office processing tax forms.
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Access No. 64716 | 5 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
Man unloading coal from crane, black dust.
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Access No. 64717 | 4 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | Colour |
Men working in factory making trains
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Access No. 64718 | 30 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
Alan Trumble Managing Director Diamond Cut International, talking about many jobs available to Australians in the 1940s, the lucky country.
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Access No. 64719 | 28 secs | 1990s | Thornbury, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Train wheels in motion. Young boy as train passes.
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Access No. 64720 | 6 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
Water skiers in formation. Couples dancing, women wearing flared dresses.
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Access No. 64722 | 8 secs | 1950s | © NFSA | Colour |
Beer drinkers in pub, one drains glass.
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Access No. 64723 | 6 secs | 1950s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Lifesavers rowing out to sea, POV inside boat.
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Access No. 64724 | 3 secs | 1950s | © NFSA | Colour |
Woman in garden of suburban house hanging out washing . Pre school aged girl with dog in background.,
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Access No. 64725 | 3 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
HAS car travelling down road.
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Access No. 64726 | 3 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | Colour |
Baby in stroller waving Red Ensign Australian flag with young girl wearing crown at street procession.
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Access No. 64727 | 4 secs | 1950s | © NFSA | Colour |
Milk crate, young boy drinking milk, Factory workers shovelling coal. Worker as Forman enters left of frame. Shoppers in fruit market.
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Access No. 64728 | 19 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | Colour |
Cricket game on beach - boy on beach throws ball to camera. Boy hits ball.
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Access No. 64733 | 6 secs | 1970s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Phillip Gude Victorian Minister for Industry and Employment talking about Australians being spoilt with natural resources and education, rising to challenges of global neighbours to work harder.
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Access No. 64735 | 31 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Professor Belinda Probert social scientist,talking about changes in civilised society, standard of employment, expectation
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Access No. 64736 | 45 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Man jogging, hot and perspiring, side view, hand held camera, CU on feet jogging
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Access No. 64737 | 52 secs | 1990s | Centennial Park, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Computer screen with graphs of Production and Efficiency.
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Access No. 64738 | 3 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Rear view female workers in sewing factory. Cathy Cipriano, one of the pressers at Diamond Cut International talking about working 100%. Electronic device measuring efficiency. Sewing machine as material is fed through.
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Access No. 64739 | 37 secs | 1990s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Xanana Mala one of the machinists at the Diamond Cut International textile factory talks about electronic device that measures efficiency. Factory floor, supervisor Jennifer Evens talking to female workers.
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Access No. 64744 | 34 secs | 1990s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Jennifer Evens supervisor at Diamond Cut International textile factory talking about pressure of getting workers to do extra hours to meet orders.
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Access No. 64747 | 30 secs | 1990s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Alan Trumble Managing Director Diamond Cut International, talking about Australia letting cheap imports into countries and the competition with OECD countries
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Access No. 64751 | 57 secs | 1990s | Thornbury, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Cathy Cipriano and others at work as machinists in Diamond Cut International textile company. Signs up in factory about efficiency. Alan Trumble Managing Director saying Australian Government says they must compete with Asian competition. Pressers at work. Supervisor Jennifer Evens talking about pushing workers. Foot on pedal of sewing machine.
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Access No. 64752 | 52 secs | 1990s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Rear view nurse assisting elderly patient to walk. Nurses seated with paperwork, writing notes during handover meeting. Male and female nurse, supervisor talking. Mornington Peninsula Hospital
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Access No. 64756 | 39 secs | 1990s | Frankston, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Nurse Vanessa McGrath walking to camera, heading to patients room, pulls screen around patients bed, dresses wound. CU talking to camera talking about pressure of cost cutting on nurse patient ratio. Pulls back curtain. Mornington Peninsula Hospital
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Access No. 64761 | 27 secs | 1990s | Frankston, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Two nurses approach patient in bed. Jill Linklater, Director of Nursing, talking about economic force behind change and being positive about managing the change. Two nurses studying patient notes, one talking, one writing. Elderly patient in bed. Tubes. Patient's legs being strapped. Mornington Peninsula Hospital
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Access No. 64766 | 55 secs | 1990s | Frankston, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Nurse McGrath picks up first aid tray and heads down corridor, hand held camera. Enters ward and crosses to old patient. Mornington Peninsula Hospital,
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Access No. 64773 | 14 secs | 1990s | Frankston, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Professor Belinda Probert, social scientist talking about people being productive but that other factors have been forgotten.
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Access No. 64775 | 24 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Colour Television Commercial for Aerogard with slogan -Óhave a good weekendÓ.
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Access No. 64776 | 40 secs | 1990s | © Reckitt & Coleman | Colour |
Edward Fitzgerald, Sheraton Towers Brasserie talking about traditional weekend. Taking reservations on telephone. Talks about how penalty rates for working at the weekend are impractical in economic environment.
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Access No. 64777 | 1 min 26 secs | 1990s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
HAS guests enter Sheraton Towers hotel foyer. HAS escalator. Waiter crosses dining room to serve customers. Waiter in kitchen
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Access No. 64780 | 37 secs | 1990s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Prof Belinda Probert, social scientist talking about working hours
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Access No. 64786 | 30 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Computer screens showing rosters for Sheraton Towers
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Access No. 64787 | 20 secs | 1990s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Peter Hourigan, compu-clock development manager for PCS Technology, talking about flexible system of working hours and days.
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Access No. 64788 | 46 secs | 1990s | Adelaide, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Elle Fa'ils, female butler, showing how hotel bathroom is serviced. She talks about working at weekends.
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Access No. 64789 | 1 min 32 secs | 1990s | Sheraton Towers, Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Recreational lawn bowls, golf, cricket. Young swimming at river. Family having picnic by river, billy can boiling on camp fire. People by river, bridge nearby horse and bicycle crossing.
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Access No. 64791 | 42 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
POV tram as it travels along looking out toward department store windows advertising Sunday opening. Pedestrians on footpath.
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Access No. 64801 | 17 secs | 1990s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Elise Callander, Manager of Employee Relations, Coles Myer, talking about retail opening hours
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Access No. 64802 | 40 secs | 1990s | Prahan, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Exterior Coles store at night. Customer shopping in Coles store. Empty check out terminals at supermarket, security guard standing in background.. Bridge Road Florists sign - Open 24 Hours. Parking station at night. Cleaner mopping shopping arcade floor at night.
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Access No. 64803 | 32 secs | 1990s | Prahan, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Peter Hourigan, compu-clock development manager for PCS Technology talks about the casual work force
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Access No. 64810 | 40 secs | 1990s | Adelaide, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Prof Belinda Probert, social scientist talks about flexibility of hours in workforce
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Access No. 64811 | 52 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Boy ringing school bell
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Access No. 64812 | 2 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
VS of bells and clock faces and ÒSeikoÓ gold clock on wall - Melbourne Central. Cement mixer truck and other traffic crosses busy intersection in foreground to reveal a large Telecom advertising sign on road saying ÒYou're lateÓ
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Access No. 64813 | 28 secs | 1990s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA/Eric Breitbart | Colour |
Jack and Sue Castrique talking about time
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Access No. 64815 | 29 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Low angle under water shot of swimmers. Swimming race, Kieren Perkins in international race (Barcelona Olympics) with commentators discussing his race.
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Access No. 64816 | 35 secs | 1990s | © IOC | Colour |
Prof Belinda Probert, social scientist, talks about time and work and people being less balanced in comparison to her parents time.
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Access No. 64818 | 58 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Anna Bourozikas, graduate journalist talks about finding ways to occupy time when unemployed
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Access No. 64819 | 1 min 9 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Time-lapse shot of Sydney Harbour Bridge and harbour at night taken from McMahons Point on North Shore
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Access No. 64820 | 10 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Digital Arts | Colour |
Mary Graham, philosopher, talks about time in Aboriginal culture.
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Access No. 64821 | 55 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Night sky of stars in rotating time-lapse movement with rocks in silhouette at bottom of screen and a single shooting star.
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Access No. 64822 | 8 secs | 1990s | © Digital Arts | Colour |
Computer sitting on desk. Compu clock, digital display.
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Access No. 64825 | 8 secs | 1990s | © Fim Australia | Colour |
Peter Hourigan, compu-clock development manager for PCS Technology talking about computers in recording employees hours of attendance at work
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Access No. 64828 | 59 secs | 1990s | Adelaide, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Jill Linklater , Director of Nursing, Mornington Peninsula Hospital talking about nurses, staffing and management roles. Prof Belinda Probert, social scientist, talking about management and budgets and the cutting of resources
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Access No. 64829 | 2 mins 4 secs | 1990s | Frankston, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview with Peter Hourigan, compu-clock development manager for PCS Technology, talking about hours of work and management
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Access No. 64831 | 50 secs | 1990s | Adelaide, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
High -rise office building at night. Business people working back at night, shot through window.
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Access No. 64832 | 32 secs | 1990s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Prof Belinda Probert, social scientist, talks about people working back in office at night and productivity
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Access No. 64833 | 38 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Female walker with Walkman and mobile phone. Female jogger slows to walk.
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Access No. 64834 | 25 secs | 1990s | Centennial Park, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Professor Julian Disney, social policy analyst, talks about the divide between over employed and under employed. Martin Feil interview at Ernst & Young Chartered Accountants office talks about the future for children in workforce and international competitiveness. Interview with Elise Callander, Manager of Employee relations at Coles Myer talks about changes of careers in one lifetime
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Access No. 64836 | 2 mins 36 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Paper delivery from jeep driving along suburban streets. Rolled up newspaper landing on grass. Pull back as it is picked up by young woman. She goes into house and looks through employment section of newspaper, marking jobs.
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Access No. 64839 | 38 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
Anna Bourozikas, graduate journalist talks about unemployment and the depressive effects. Martin Feil of Ernst & Young Chartered Accountants talks about imports supporting a system of overworked and underpaid labour in third world countries.
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Access No. 64847 | 2 mins 30 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Cathy Cipriano, presser, with Diamond Cut International clothing factory. Shots of her ironing. CU iron. HAS factory. Interview with Alan Trumble, Managing Director talking about making employees redundant.
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Access No. 64849 | 1 min 30 secs | 1990s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Anna Bourozikas graduate journalist talks about lack of choice in workforce. Martin Feil of Ernst & Young Chartered Accountants talks about opportunities for the norm are reducing. Land of long weekend is over.
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Access No. 64853 | 1 min 20 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
LS of man running. MS of woman running , weights in hand . CU of feet. On park jogging track.
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Access No. 64855 | 22 secs | 1990s | Centennial Park, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Professor Julian Disney talks about advantages of Australia in attracting overseas business, political stability, economic rationalism. Phillip Gude, Victorian Minister for Industry and Employment talks about about the divide of wealth in Australia and unemployment. Interview with Anna Bourozikas, graduate journalist about her anger over unemployment. Prof Belinda Probert, social scientist, talks about addressing economic rationalism
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Access No. 64858 | 4 mins 21 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Children playing on roundabout (hurdy gurdy, razzle dazzle)
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Access No. 64863 | 3 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
MS of group of male swimmers in full swimming costumes smiling at camera
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Access No. 64864 | 6 secs | 1930s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
MS of a young boy turning to face camera
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Access No. 64865 | 4 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
LS of two barefoot girls racing away from camera across large open paddock.
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Access No. 64866 | 8 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
John Arrowsmith, labour historian, talks about need for fundamental changes to society
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Access No. 64867 | 16 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Time-lapse of Melbourne's Flinders Street Station and city high rise buildings. Time-lapse of train pulling into station and commuters alighting, moving up escalators.
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Access No. 123262 | 9 secs | 1990s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © Tourism Victoria | Colour |
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