This series profiles Australia's leaders, featuring career highlights and giving insights into the different eras in which they lead the nation. Stages 3-4 HSIE, English.

The Prime Minister is Missing 56m • Mystery, History • 2008 The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.

With Australia at war in Vietnam in 1967, suddenly Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared without a trace—an event unparalleled in the history of western democracy. Four decades after Harold Holt’s bizarre disappearance at Cheviot Beach, a coronial inquiry confirmed that he had accidentally drowned.

On 17 December 1967 Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared while swimming at Cheviot Beach, Victoria. This docudrama reconstructs Holt’s last days and examines controversial theories surrounding his death. A portrait of John Curtin, Prime Minister of …

How to Capture a Prime Minister is a documentary film about the fragility of democracy, the lifecycle of idealism, and the legacy of Australia’s most divisive Prime Minister. Experience the long forgotten story about the day the Australian Prime Minister was trapped during a student protest that veered dangerously out of control.

2023年10月31日 · In the aftermath at the dismissal of Gough Whitlam fifty years ago, the freshly elected Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser was at the centre of a turbulent incident at Monash University. Gary Newman's film How To Capture a Prime Minister looks back on this moment in history and the legacy of Australia's divisive leader.

Holt Government in Crisis is an excerpt from the documentary The Prime Minister is Missing produced in 2008. The Prime Minister is Missing With Australia at war in Vietnam in 1967, suddenly Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared without a trace—an event unparalleled in the history of western democracy.

In this 3-part series, presented by screen icon Jacki Weaver, we crack open a forgotten vault of Australian government films - now stored in the National Film and Sound Archive - that unearth a kaleidoscopic vision of Australia in the 1970s.

The prime ministership of Frank Forde, who was prime minister for seven days in 1945, was the shortest in Australian history. [10] Menzies served the longest, with eighteen years over two non-consecutive periods. [11] The current prime minister is Anthony Albanese, who assumed office on 23 May 2022. [9]

There have been 15 prime ministers from New South Wales, 10 from Victoria, 4 from Queensland, and one each from Western Australia and Tasmania. Note: Hughes became prime minister in 1915 as the member for West Sydney (NSW) but spent the bulk of his prime ministership (May 1917-Dec 1922) as the member for Bendigo (Vic).