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A Girl's own story

Australia, 1984
film

Set in the Beatlemania of the 1960s, this is a stylised account of girlhood - where perversion is innocent, family is strange and adulthood lonely. From the d..

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This Day Tonight: The 1967 Referendum

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The Place Across the River

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Faces 1976–1996

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What little girls are made of (TEFC)

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