Fabio Cavadini

A young boy creates a world of puppet friends using pieces of rubbish found in the street.

One thousand power workers went on strike against the South East Queensland Electrical Board (SEQEB)in February 1985 in protest against the introduction of contract worker hire. This documentary details the industrial relations dispute between the ensuing Joh Bjelke Peterson coalition government and the Electrical Trades Union in Queensland, Australia during 1985.

A young leader is devastated when Borroloola Town Camps receive water contamination notices only to rediscover hope in the healing power of culture.

Buried Alive exposes some of the ugly truths about the nature of Western Democracy, the world media and third world colonialism. But the story of East Timor also presents the potential for individuals to effect change. The history of East Timor from its time as a Portuguse colony, rise of Fretilin Party, declaration of independence, civil war, desertion by Portugal and the rest of the world and invasion by Indonesia. Shows the struggle of Jose Remos-Horta to draw attention and support at the United Nations for the plight of East Timor.

Weeks before the closure of a Wollongong coal mine, a group of 31 miners occupied the pit and established themselves 5 kilometres underground. The strike, which caught the imagination of the whole country, was documented from the inside by documentarian Tom Zubrycki.

Exposé of the ill-treatment of Aboriginal workers by white men. A dramatised documentary about the June 1957 Aboriginal strike on Palm Island reserve, off the north Queensland coast.

Describes life on the Aboriginal reserve of Palm Island in Queensland. Old men from Dyirbal language group tell stories of the massacres and poisoning of their people when they first came in contact with the white settlers.

Australian documentary about the New South Wales Builders' Labourers' Federation, 1940-1975.

A team of landowners challenge the large Australian-based mining company, BHP as it goes about securing guarantees of total immunity against legal action following years of environmental damage to the land and rivers in Papua New Guinea's remote Western Province.

In 1989, the landowners of Central Bougainville closed one of the world's largest copper mines that was destroying their land. It remains closed to this day. In response, a blockade was imposed around the island. From scratch, the Bougainvilleans built their own schools, they revived their traditional bush medicines, they used solar and hydro power to generate electricity, but the most fascinating invention was the use of fermented coconut oil as a substitute for fuel. "An Evergreen Island" is a story of courage, survival and persistence - of inventiveness, imagination and creativity on a little-known Pacific island.

Through a case scenario set in Pyrmont, one of Sydney's inner city suburbs, the film explores community responses to the community consultation process surrounding major urban redevelopment plans. Traditionally a working class area, Pyrmont has borne the brunt of urban residential demolition. Pyrmont's future includes a major casino complex, heliport, marinas and more. Where does a social mix community fit within this vision of the future, occurring under the guise of urban consolidation? - https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/the-screen-guide/t/concrete-city-1994/7266/