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ABC video clips sourced for the Australian curriculum in partnership with Education Services Australia
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Feature Collection
- History of the Environment Movement
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The history of the environment during the 1970s and 1980s. This collection covers the emergence of an awareness of the importance of the natural environment and the damage done to it without appropriate urban planning and controls. It covers television programs reporting on political campaigns by environment activists over the preservation of ancient Aboriginal rock carvings, the dumping of coal waste at Coalcliff in NSW, Victoria’s Alpine forests and of the flooding of Lake Pedder. Other programs question the membership of representatives of mining companies and oil companies, the main polluters of the environment, of the organisations set up to protect the environment. Stunning footage of Lake Pedder is included as well as interviews with activists maintaining a vigil at Lake Pedder.
Learning Areas
The ABC Video Library contains clip collections focused on key areas in the Australian curriculum. Learning areas currently covered are:
History Collections
- Contributions of people to Australian society Year/s 6-10
- History of the Environment Movement Year/s 10
- Post-war Indonesia Year/s 11-12
- Rights and freedoms Year/s 6-13
Science Collections
- Energy: sources, alternatives and issues Year/s 6-10
- Environmental issues Year/s 6-10
- Natural and man-made impacts on ecosystems Year/s 6-12
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- Public Reserves [3:36]
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- Network
- ABC Nationwide
- Broadcast
- 1980
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- Beggs's fight for Sydney harbourside reserve, 1980
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- Poverty And Welfare [2:53]
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- Network
- ABC Four Corners
- Broadcast
- 1968
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- African Americans and 'white man's' welfare, 1968
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- Video Clip
- Carbon Impact [3:15]
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- Network
- ABC Catalyst
- Broadcast
- 2009
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- Local carbon study wins schools science prize, 2009
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- Video Clip
- US Income Disparity [2:01]
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- Network
- ABC Four Corners
- Broadcast
- 1968
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- African-American professionals paid less, 1968
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- No Fair Deal [4:12]
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- Network
- ABC Four Corners
- Broadcast
- 1968
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- Continuing African-American disadvantage, 1968
