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Video: Last of the servos

Brisbane’s Buckland Auto is one of the last legitimate ‘servos’ – where petrol is pumped for you and a grease monkey tinkers out back

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Aboriginal kangaroo dance of Western Australia

Traditional Aboriginal culture is being kept alive in south-western WA

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Video: Life on a longline fishing boat

These men of the sea live a tough life, working hard on a longline fishing boat.

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Video: Day in the life of a female truckie

From behind the wheel of her truck, this unlikely young livestock carter is committed to keeping Australia’s beef industry moving.

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Video: reviving the art of old trades

In workshops around the country, skilled Australian artisans are toiling and tinkering in an effort to save some of our oldest trades.

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Songlines of the Lurujarri Heritage Trail

The Lurujarri Heritage Trail is an opportunity to experience Aboriginal connection to country.

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Fighting for the Franklin: archive footage

SEVEN YEARS OF campaigning to save the Franklin River from a similar fate to that of Lake Pedder culminated in the 1982 -blockade at Warner’s Landing, in which 1300 people were arrested. Domestic and international focus on the campaign grew as popular celebrities including Sir Yehudi Menuhin, -Barry Humphries, Eartha Kitt, Claudio and Lesley Alcorso,… View Article