Nature nerd Dr Ann Jones travels through the Indo-Pacific region to find the dedicated people bringing our planet's amazing animals, plants and ecosystems back from the brink.
Rage is a popular all-night Australian music video program broadcast on ABC1 on Friday nights, Saturday mornings and Saturday nights. It was first screened on the weekend of Friday, 17 April 1987. With Soul Train and Video Hits no longer being produced, it is the oldest music television program currently still in production as of 9 November 2012. Rage starts anywhere between 11pm and 1am, the program is classified 'M' or 'MA 15+' through until 6am Saturdays and finishes at 11 am on Saturdays and at 6:30 am on Sundays. Rage is also broadcast on the international satellite channel Australia Network on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
Countdown was a long-running popular weekly Australian music television show broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from 8 November 1974 until 19 July 1987. It was created by Executive Producer Michael Shrimpton, producer/director Robbie Weekes and record producer and music journalist Ian "Molly" Meldrum. Countdown was produced at the studios of the ABC in the Melbourne suburb of Ripponlea.
Countdown was the most popular music program in Australian TV history. It was broadcast nationwide on Australia's government-owned broadcaster, the ABC and commanded a huge and loyal audience. It soon exerted a strong influence on radio programmers because of its audience and the amount of Australian content it featured. For most of the time it was on air, it also gained double exposure throughout the country by screening a new episode each Sunday evening, and then repeating it the following Saturday evening. The majority of performances on the show were lip synched.
Molly Meldrum, the program's talent co-ordinat
Filmed over two years across the UK, Europe and the US, this two-part documentary follows 76-year-old retired builder, John Shipton's tireless campaign to save his son, Julian Assange.
This series explores the harshest yet most beautiful regions on Earth - The Poles. The human stories, the natural history and the science are woven to tell a rich tale of an unknown world.
Plasmo is an Australian children's science fiction claymation TV series that consisted of a half-hour short film made in 1989 followed by thirteen 5-minute episodes made in 1997 which aired on the ABC, and 24 other countries. The series was certified a G rating.
Plasmo Mega Studios, the show's production company, was founded in 1993 "with the express purpose of producing the stop motion animation series". The company closed down 11 years later in 2004.
Plasmo models were featured in the 1998 Canberra Design and Construction Exhibition Concepts, at the National Film and Sound Archive.
According to Anthony Lawrence, he "devised, wrote, directed, co-produced and co-animated" the series.
Lawrence has uploaded all 13 episodes in a playlist on his YouTube channel, as well as excerpts of his 20 minutes documentary in a separate playlist.
Do you know which former Prime Minister was present at the hanging of Ned Kelly? Or which two Prime Ministers worked as miners before they became leaders? From the Australian Prime Ministers Centre at the Museum of Australian Democracy, this series profiles Australia's Leaders, featuring their career highights and giving insights into the different eras in which they lead the nation. Each three-minute episode examines one Prime Minister and is brought to life with extensive archival material.
The series follows the adventures of a brother and sister as they try to discover the whereabouts of their scientist father, whilst being pursued by an evil woman and her henchman.
Set in the fictional Bollygum National Park, the series follows Blinky Bill, Mrs Magpie, Angelina Wallaby and Walter Wombat from the original _Blinky Bill_ books by Dorothy Wall, and adds new characters such as Charlie Goanna, Eric Echidna, Sybilla Snake and Kerry Koala from the neighbouring fictional Acadia Ridge park.
Swing and soft voters decide elections, and there are more of them than ever. Casey Briggs charts how the tectonic plates of Australian politics are shifting and what it means for who wins the Federal Election in 2025.
Former director and chief curator of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Edmund Capon explores the story of Australian art through the country's rich cultural traditions stretching back 30,000 years.
Hunter was an educational Australian children's television series that aired in the late 1980s and early 1990s on the ABC. Twenty-four episodes were filmed and produced in Hobart, Tasmania, by ABC Hobart between 1985 and 1985, although the series was repeated often on ABC TV until 1992.
It focused around a man, known as "Hunter", investigating, or "hunting" for information. His clothing was akin to an old English detective. Hunter's favoured mode of transport was a bicycle adorned with a bright small triangular flag at the end of a pole. He was played by Philip Sabine.
His companions included "Computer Cat", represented by a puppet on the show, and a mouse, represented by a live mouse named Albert, which often ran around in the brim of his hat. He was also occasionally joined on his adventures by his niece Minnie. CC was made by Jennifer Davidson, founder of Terrapin Puppet Theatre, which is based in Hobart.
The theme song to the show included the lyrics "What, why, where and when, that's Hunter!".
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Animal Shelf is a children's model animation series that airs on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Australia, and Kidzone on TVNZ 6 in New Zealand. It used to air on Playhouse Disney, now on CITV there. The concept for the program was initially taken from the book series written and illustrated by British writer Ivy Wallace. In the UK, it was released on videos in 1997-1999 from Walt Disney Home Video and in early 2000s by Carlton Home Entertainment and Video Collection International. Animal Shelf is aimed at a pre-school audience.
The Animal Shelf was made by Cosgrove Hall Films.
From Australia's scorching desert heart to pristine rainforests in the north, we'll meet the biggest and the smallest marsupials, the rarest and the most successful as we journey to see the Wonder of Marsupials.
Three young adults with intellectual disabilities fly the nest and move into a new home for 10 weeks. If it works out, they can stay on and call The Dreamhouse home.
This provocative series takes us to the frontline of Australia's drug war on ice.
Through unprecedented access, we follow the stories of Meth lab busts, front line importation arrests at the docks with Task Force Polaris, decontamination of suburbs by the clean up crews, forensic teams tracing precursors and toxicologists investigating human impact from passive Meth cooking.
An extraordinary story of the hard-fought rise and dramatic fall of a visionary Australian Prime Minister during one of the country's most turbulent eras.
Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler? is an Australian documentary film about the mysterious deaths of Dr Gilbert Bogle and Mrs Margaret Chandler in Sydney, Australia in 1963. Although it was assumed the couple were murdered, police investigators could find or produce no evidence that it was actually murder. The documentary, directed and written by Australian documentary film maker Peter Butt, presents unique evidence to suggest the couple died from hydrogen sulphide poisoning emanating from a river.
Navy Divers is a four-episode Australian observational documentary series that debuted on the ABC1 on 28 October 2008. The program follows 27 men training to enter the clearance diver branch of the Royal Australian Navy, into which only 14 will be accepted.