NATURALLY AUSTRALIA
This series explores eight significant geographic features of the Australian landscape.  Each program looks at the physical geography of the features, including their geological history and the interaction of people with these environments. 

©ABC Education  (2 x 60 minute volumes)
DVD Format  $264.00  ABD143
or DVDs available individually
 

Naturally Australia - Volume 1
The Great Australian Bight
The Great Australian Bight, a dramatic and arid coastline is uniquely beautiful.  This program looks at how the coastline came to be and explores the dynamic nature of the area and coastal features including the caves, blowholes and sand-dunes.
The Daintree
The Daintree, with its thousands of different plants, birds and animals, is one of the richest rainforests in Australia.  This program looks at how the Daintree survived the earth’s climatic changes, and the importance of the forest to the Ku Ku Yalangi Aboriginal people.
The Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef is the largest system of coral reefs in the world and supports an amazing variety of marine life.  We go underwater to look at the living coral, see how the reefs came into existence, witness the amazing life the reefs support, and discover the major natural and introduced factors which affect the growth of the reefs.
Uluru
A look at the geological history of Uluru, the largest monolith in the world, alongside the traditional Aboriginal view of the rock’s features as explained in creation stories.

(4 x 15 minute episodes)
DVD Format  $154.00  ABD144
 

Naturally Australia - Volume 2
The Franklin River
The Franklin River is one of the most famous wild rivers in the world.  This program looks at the geological evolution of this world heritage listed site and how it continues to change today.
The Simpson Desert
The Simpson is one of the greatest sand dune deserts in the world.  Discover how the desert’s dunes were formed and how plants and animals have adapted to the desert.  This program also looks at other land types in the desert such as “Breakaway Country”, Gibber Plains and rivers.
Lake Eyre
Located in the driest region of Australia and lying below the sea level, Lake Eyre is the largest salt lake in the world, formed during changing climatic conditions in the distant past.
The Murray River
The Murray River is the single, longest, continuous waterway in Australia.  This program looks at how the river was formed and how it has changed through natural causes and as a result of human use.

(4 x 15 minute episodes)
DVD Format  $154.00  ABD145

ONCE UPON AUSTRALIA 

An exciting animated look at how Australia's continental wanderings have shaped the animals that lived here. From dinosaurs to primeval monotremes, from ancient labyrinthodonts to giant kangaroos, this fascinating program shows how life's constant changing echoes the constant changing of the continent itself.

©ABC Television  (30 minutes)
DVD Format  $66.00  ABD317

OUR HISTORY

Using documentary and archival footage and stills, along with light-hearted animated interpretations of events, this absorbing program will capture the attention of children and provide them with a comprehensive overview of how Australia developed as a country.

©ABC Education  (2 x 80–100 minute volumes)
DVD Format  $275.00  ABD125
or DVDs available individually

Our History Volume 1
Indigenous Australians
Three 10 minute segments explore what life was like for the indigenous people before Europeans arrived – how they lived, how they gathered food, tasks performed within tribes, the different roles of the men, women and children.  (30 minutes)
Colonists Arrive
The challenges faced by Governor Phillip and the colonists on arrival in Australia – how to house and feed the new settlers, the effect this had on the indigenous people and the land, how this led to increased tensions between the two races and finally, the long grind toward reconciliation.  (50 minutes)

DVD Format  $154.00  ABD126

Our History Volume 2
Australia over Time
Seven 10 minute segments examine the difference between life today and life back then with a particular emphasis on food and schooling and how these things have developed over the years.  Other segments include Koalas, Rabbits and the development of National Parks.  (70 minutes)
The Snowy Scheme
A look at why the Snowy Scheme was built and the effect it has had on Australia’s population, the food we grow, and the land itself.  (30 minutes)

DVD Format  $154.00  ABD127

Journalist Bill Peach retraces the journeys of the early Australian Explorers who opened up the great unknown areas of Australia in the nineteenth century.  Dramatised re-enactments and on camera comments by Bill Peach vividly demonstrate the difficult feats and the proudest moments of these famous early Australians.

©ABC Television (10 x 30 minute programs)
DVD Format (5 discs)  $440.00  ABD129
or DVDs available individually, $99.00 each volume

Peach’s Explorers Volume 1
The Prison Walls
The Blue Mountains surrounding the settlement of Botany Bay were like prison walls.  More land was needed.  This program retraces the steps of Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson as they set off in 1813 on their epic journey to cross the Blue Mountains in search of new grazing and farming land.
Across The Great Divide
Follows the journeys of Evans, Oxley and Cunningham as they cross the Great Dividing Range and discover rich grazing country where the colony’s first inland town of Bathurst is established. 
DVD Format  $99.00  ABD130

Peach’s Explorers Volume 2
Overland to Port Phillip
Hamilton Hume was one of the few Australian born explorers.  William Hovel was an English ex sea captain.  This program follows their establishment of an overland route from Sydney to Melbourne which survives today as the Hume Highway.
The Secret Of The Rivers
Follows Captain Charles Sturt’s expeditions, assisted by Hume and Macleay, which discovered the Darling, Murrumbidgee and Murray Rivers.  These epic journeys covered over 5,000 kilometres in an open whaleboat, travelling as far as the southern ocean.
DVD Format  $99.00  ABD131

Peach’s Explorers Volume 3
Australia Felix
This program looks at the explorations of Sir Thomas Mitchell, a very temperamental surveyor and map maker who discovered the “Australia Felix”or Western Victoria.  Also looks at Henty’s discoveries of Western Victoria.
The Pinnacle Of Fame
Paul Strzelecki, a Polish Geologist/Scientist, discovered Mount Kosciusko and named it after a patriot from his homeland.  He also claimed discovery of  “Gippsland”, a discovery that was later correctly attributed to Angus McMillan.
DVD Format  $99.00  ABD132

Peach’s Explorers Volume 4
East To West
In 1840, Edward John Eyre led an expedition to cross from Adelaide to the west coast of Australia.  Four volunteers joined him including John Baxter and Wylie, an aboriginal.  The country was desolate and unforgiving but Eyre and Wylie eventually arrived at Albany.  
East To North
Ludwig Leichhardt led an expedition from the eastern settlements north to Port Essington in Northern Australia.  Edmund Kennedy was asked by the Governor to explore the land between that explored by Leichhardt and Mitchell.  Of the thirteen who set out, only three survived.
DVD Format  $99.00  ABD133
 
Peach’s Explorers Volume 5
South To North
The race to cross Australia from south to north was inspired by inter-colonial rivalry between South Australia, which financed John McDougall Stuart’s expedition, and Victoria, which financed Burke and Wills expedition.  Stuart’s expedition was ultimately successful with him finally breaking through the centre to the north coast.
The Desert Explorers
Explorers Warburton, Gosse, Forrest and Giles battled the Great Sandy Desert, the Gibson Desert and the Great Victorian Desert in the last epic adventure in Australian exploration. 
DVD Format  $99.00  ABD134

The discovery of gold changed the course of Australia's history.  The population tripled, inland towns sprung up on what had been vast sheep runs and convict transportation ended.  Gold generated enormous wealth, led to new transport networks and hastened the introduction of a representative democracy.  Bill Peach presents dramatic reconstructions, archival photographs, documents and folk songs from the goldfields which all create the atmosphere and excitement of the gold rush.

©ABC Television (5 x 50 minute programs)

DVD Format (5 discs)  $330.00  ABD135
or DVDs available individually, $66.00 each.

Finders Keepers
The discovery of the first payable goldfield in Australia, near Bathurst in New South Wales, was made by Edward Hargraves, John Lister and William Tom.  It was the first of many finds across New South Wales and Victoria.
DVD Format  $66.00  ABD136

Eureka
One of the key events in Australian political history was the dramatic confrontation at the Eureka stockade, where miners organised a doomed resistance against the police and the army, in a revolt against the harsh and expensive licensing system.
DVD Format  $66.00  ABD137

Life on the Goldfields
Life on the goldfields after the Eureka Stockade was colourful and violent, with gold seemingly so plentiful that miners showered the stage with nuggets when their favourite actresses appeared. Out of this free-wheeling era emerged the beginnings of a new society.
DVD Format  $66.00  ABD138

The Golden Age
Within ten years of the first Australian gold rushes, a new era of gold mining began.  Big companies and massive machines replaced the smaller digger and the entire population benefited through the development of coach lines and railways.
DVD Format  $66.00  ABD139

Land of Gold
The last great gold strikes at Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie in Western Australia proved that the country was indeed a "land of gold". Following the economic crash of the 1890s and the exhaustion of the goldfields at Ballarat and Bendigo, the rich fields of the west rescued Australia from the depths of depression and have contributed to the country's economy right up to the present day.
DVD Format  $66.00  ABD140