Act of Necessity
An Australian couple strive to prove that chemical companies have polluted the water supply, giving their daughter leukemia.
Ian Munro
Pamela Williams
Casts & Crew
Angie Milliken
Mark Owen-Taylor
Wendy Strehlow
Tim McKenzie
Lauren Hewett
Also Directed by Ian Munro
Using the 'real life' documentary style, this drama observes two years in the life of the Byrne family as they become involved in the complicated legal path that leads to a fully defended custody hearing in the Family Court. The Byrne family are played by actors, with real-life lawyers and members of the judiciary in the legal roles.
Portrays the stories of discrimination experienced by two women of different backgrounds - Jessica, a photographer, who experiences harassment at the newspaper she works for after her rapid promotion and Lelicia, a Filipino nurse whose foreign qualifications are ignored by her employers.
Johnson and Friends is an Australian children’s television programme broadcast on ABC from 12 November 1990 to 25 December 1995. It was produced by Film Australia and lasted seven seasons. In the UK it was shown in the 1993 on TCC, CBBC, and then on UK Living's Tiny Living strand for under-fives. It was aired in the United States as a segment on the Fox Cubhouse, an educational children's program on Fox, from 1993 to 1996.
Magic Mountain is an live-action Australian children’s television programme broadcast on the ABC from 1997 to 1998. It was released on video, but there has been no DVD release yet. It is a full-body puppet series aimed at 2-5 year olds. The series was last repeated on ABC1 in January and February 2004. The ABC's Magic Mountain website was removed during September 2010 when the new ABC Kids website was introduced.