Every digital resource on Screen Australia’s Digital Learning site is tagged with descriptive terms. This list shows the resources which are tagged with ‘Prime Ministers’.
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Andrew Fisher’s Lunch Box
Andrew Fisher’s tin lunch box reminds us that humble beginnings informed his political career: he went from union organiser to three-time Prime Minister, inventing the Australian ideal of a ‘fair go’ along the way.
NSW / Stage 5 / History / Topic 1 Australia to 1914
National / Year 9 & 10 / Australian History / Australian Biography
National / Year 11 & 12 / History / Federation
National / Year 11 & 12 / History / Leaders
National / Year 9 & 10 / English and Media Literacy / Australian Biography
VIC / VELS Level 6 / English / Australian Biography
NSW / Stage 5 / English / Australian Biography
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Ben Chifley's Australia
For most of the 1940s Australian Labor Party had managed to be the automatic choice for those wishing for an intelligently progressive future.
National / Year 9 & 10 / Australian History / Post-World War 2 Society
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Ben Chifley’s Pipe
Possibly our best loved Prime Minister, and a former train driver, Ben Chifley was rarely seen without his pipe, as he guided the country through the austere post-war years.
NSW / Stage 5 / History / Topic 8 Australia's social and cultural history
NSW / Stage 5 / English / Storytelling
National / Year 9 & 10 / Australian History / Post-World War 2 Society
National / Year 9 & 10 / Australian History / Australian Biography
National / Year 11 & 12 / History / Leaders
National / Year 9 & 10 / English and Media Literacy / Australian Biography
VIC / VELS Level 6 / English / Australian Biography
NSW / Stage 5 / English / Australian Biography
NSW / Stage 6 Preliminary / Modern History / Part 3 Personalities in the Twentieth Century
NSW / Stage 6 Preliminary / Modern History / Part 2 National Studies - Australia 1945-1983
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Defeating the Drought
An estimated 100,000 people worked on the Scheme between 1949 and 1974, the year of its completion. Two-thirds of the them were immigrants from over 40 countries around the world. They changed the face of Australian society.
National / Year 9 & 10 / Australian History / Immigration
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Edmund Barton and the Velvet Soap Advertisement
The Velvet Soap advertising campaign is a tongue-in-cheek reminder of Edmund Barton’s hand in formulating the White Australia policy.
NSW / Stage 5 / History / Topic 1 Australia to 1914
National / Year 9 & 10 / Australian History / Federation
National / Year 9 & 10 / Australian History / Australian Biography
National / Year 11 & 12 / Australian Studies / White Australia Policy
National / Year 11 & 12 / History / Leaders
National / Year 9 & 10 / English and Media Literacy / Australian Biography
VIC / VELS Level 6 / English / Australian Biography
NSW / Stage 5 / English / Australian Biography
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Harold Holt becomes Prime Minister
One of the hardest working of Australia’s Cabinet ministers and after 32 years as a parliamentarian, Harold Holt reached the prime ministerial office in 1966.
National / Year 9 & 10 / Australian History / Australian Prime Ministers
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Harold Holt's Australia
Harold Holt’s prime ministership represented a major social shift from the tradition and conservatism of the Menzies era, to that of the ‘swinging sixties’.
National / Year 9 & 10 / Australian History / Post-World War 2 Society
National / Upper Primary / Civics and Citizenship / Australia in the 1960s
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Harold Holt’s Briefcase
The disappearance of our seventeenth Prime Minister, Harold Holt, during a beach holiday sparked countless conspiracy theories. The items left in his briefcase are a significant time capsule of his last days as Prime Minister.
NSW / Stage 5 / History / Topic 8 Australia's social and cultural history
VIC / VELS Level 6 / English / Television news
National / Year 9 & 10 / Australian History / Australian Biography
National / Year 9 & 10 / Australian History / Indigenous Studies
National / Year 9 & 10 / English and Media Literacy / Representation
National / Year 11 & 12 / History / 1960s
National / Year 9 & 10 / English and Media Literacy / Australian Biography
VIC / VELS Level 6 / English / Australian Biography
NSW / Stage 5 / English / Australian Biography
NSW / Stage 5 / English / Reporting
National / Year 11 & 12 / Australian Studies / Indigenous Studies
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Holt Government in Crisis
The disappearance of our seventeenth Prime Minister, Harold Holt, at Cheviot Beach in 1966 during a beach holiday sparked countless conspiracy theories and ultimately overshadowed his political accomplishments.
National / Year 9 & 10 / Australian History / Australian Prime Ministers
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James Scullin And The GCMG
James Scullin inspired the people when he offered to rent out The Lodge during the Depression, but his fierce nationalism is best revealed in his campaign to install an Australian-born Governor General.
NSW / Stage 5 / History / Topic 3 Australia between the Wars
National / Year 9 & 10 / Australian History / Great Depression
National / Year 9 & 10 / Australian History / Great Depression
National / Year 9 & 10 / English and Media Literacy / Identity
National / Year 11 & 12 / History / Leaders
National / Year 11 & 12 / History / The Depression
National / Year 9 & 10 / English and Media Literacy / Australian Biography
VIC / VELS Level 6 / English / Australian Biography
VIC / VELS Level 6 / English / Australian Identity
NSW / Stage 5 / English / Australian Biography
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John Curtin’s Australian Journalists’ Association Badge
John Curtin’s journalistic instincts came in handy during World War Two when he kept the media onside with secret press briefings. He wore his AJA badge every day he was in office.
VIC / VELS Level 6 / English / Australians at war
NSW / Stage 5 / History / Topic 4 Australia and World War 2
NSW / Stage 5 / English / Storytelling
National / Year 9 & 10 / Australian History / Australian Biography
NSW / Stage 5 / English / Australians at war
National / Year 11 & 12 / History / World War 2 - Homefront
National / Year 11 & 12 / History / Leaders
National / Year 9 & 10 / English and Media Literacy / Australian Biography
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Joseph Lyons’ Love Letters
Politics rarely produces impassioned romantics, which makes the hundreds of letters Joseph Lyons wrote to his adored wife and confidante, Enid, as fascinating as they are unexpected
NSW / Stage 5 / History / Topic 3 Australia between the Wars
National / Year 9 & 10 / Australian History / Great Depression
National / Year 11 & 12 / History / Leaders
National / Year 9 & 10 / English and Media Literacy / Australian Biography
VIC / VELS Level 6 / English / Australian Biography
NSW / Stage 5 / English / Australian Biography
QLD / Year 11 & 12 / English / Representation
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Menzies - Early life and the Empire
In 1941 Australia’s Prime Minister Robert Menzies, like most Australians, would have thought of England as the ‘home country’.
National / Year 9 & 10 / Australian History / Australian Prime Ministers
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Menzies and Churchill
Menzies traveled to London during the dark months of 1941 where he took on British Prime Minister Churchill over the strategic direction of the war.
National / Year 9 & 10 / Australian History / World War 2
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Robert Menzies’ Camera
Robert Menzies’ lifelong passion for home movies resulted in a surprisingly personal record of the war years, including footage of a young Princess Elizabeth.
NSW / Stage 5 / History / Topic 4 Australia and World War 2
NSW / Stage 5 / History / Topic 5 Australia in the Vietnam War Era
National / Year 9 & 10 / Australian History / Australian Biography
National / Year 11 & 12 / History / World War 2 - Homefront
National / Year 11 & 12 / History / Leaders
National / Year 9 & 10 / English and Media Literacy / Australian Biography
VIC / VELS Level 6 / English / Australian Biography
NSW / Stage 5 / English / Australian Biography
NSW / Stage 6 Preliminary / Modern History / Part 3 Personalities in the Twentieth Century
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Stanley Melbourne Bruce's Cigarette Case
Stanley Melbourne Bruce treasured Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s gift of a gold cigarette case throughout his life.
VIC / VELS Level 6 / English / Australians at war
NSW / Stage 5 / History / Topic 3 Australia between the Wars
NSW / Stage 5 / History / Topic 2 Australia and World War 1
National / Year 9 & 10 / Australian History / World War 1
National / Year 9 & 10 / Australian History / Australian Biography
NSW / Stage 5 / English / Australians at war
National / Year 11 & 12 / History / Leaders
National / Year 9 & 10 / English and Media Literacy / Australian Biography
National / Year 9 & 10 / English and Media Literacy / Australians at War
VIC / VELS Level 6 / English / Australian Biography
NSW / Stage 5 / English / Australian Biography
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The Death of Harold Holt
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.
National / Upper Primary / Australian History / Prime Minister Holt
National / Year 9 & 10 / Australian History / Australian Prime Ministers
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The Effect of Cartoons
Bruce Petty investigates the effects of political satire and cartooning.
National / Year 7 & 8 / Civics and Citizenship / Citizenship in a democracy
National / Year 9 & 10 / Society and Environment / Social Systems
National / Year 11 & 12 / Political Studies / Contemporary political and social issues
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William Hughes and the 1916 Conscription Badge
William Hughes, “The Little Digger”, campaigned twice for national conscription to boost an Australian army decimated by World War One.
VIC / VELS Level 6 / English / Gender issues
NSW / Stage 5 / History / Topic 2 Australia and World War 1
National / Year 9 & 10 / Australian History / Australian Biography
NSW / Stage 5 / English / Gender issues
National / Year 9 & 10 / English and Media Literacy / Gender issues
National / Year 11 & 12 / History / Leaders
National / Year 11 & 12 / History / Leaders
National / Year 9 & 10 / English and Media Literacy / Australian Biography
VIC / VELS Level 6 / English / Australian Biography
NSW / Stage 5 / English / Australian Biography
QLD / Year 10 / SOSE / Australian History
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