KEMIRA - DIARY OF A STRIKE
The film deals with one of the most determined attempts by workers to challenge the right of companies to make mass dismissals of workers on solely economic pretexts. In September 1982, at the height of the economic recession, Australian Iron and Steel, a subsidiary of Australia's largest company BHP, announced its intention to retrench 400 miners from six coal pits which supplied the company's Wollongong steelworks.
WATERLOO
Waterloo - a 50 minute documentary completed in 1981, is an historical account of the 1970’s battle by residents of this inner Sydney suburb to save the area from slum clearance and redevelopment by public housing authorities. In the early 70’s the state government initiated a massive scheme to pull down inner city terraces (‘slums’) to build new high rise public housing estates.
PORT BOTANY: A PLANNING DILEMMA
A documentary that examines the environmental and community impacts of the Botany Bay port development and the conflicts between the different parties involved.
ADDISON ROAD DROP-IN
A ‘process video’ by Tom Zubrycki that looks at some of the marginalised young people who come to the Addison Road Drop-In Centre in Marrickville.
THE PAINTERS & DOCKERS STRIKE
A video made by Tom Zubrycki and Russ Hermann, in collaboration with members of the Federated Ship Painters And Dockers Union of Australia, covering the strike over the principle of flow-ons from parent awards.
COLLINGWOOD COMMUNITY SCHOOL
A profile of an independent community school in Melbourne pioneering innovative educational practises.
THE INNER CITY TAPE
A collaborative community video made in conjunction with the Inner Sydney Resident Action Group. Through the eyes of it’s residents it tells the story of the threat to the survival of inner-city Sydney in the face of development.
WE HAVE TO LIVE WITH IT
A 'process video' made in conjunction with a residents-led campaign to close down a container terminal in the Sydney suburb of Balmain.
FIG ST FIASCO
A 'process video' used in conjunction with a residents-led campaign to stop a freeway decimating inner-Sydney suburbs of Glebe and Ultimo.
Marilyn Richardson IN CONCERT
Marilyn Richardson and David Miller give a recital at a vineyard in the Hunter Valley, NSW.