The crowd at the second State of Origin rugby league game in Sydney, 2009
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Rugby league

Stories from our collection
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A woman wearing pale face and body paint and a pale dress with red shadings stands on a dusty dirt road as smoke rises on the horizon.
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NFSA Player

The Buwindja Collection

The Buwindja Collection, now available to stream on NFSA Player, celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander trailblazers, icons and dreamers.
Image: Spear (2015)
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NFSA Player
Curator Vick Gwyn being filmed while standing next to the thong dress from The Adventures of Priscilla movie, which is displayed on a mannequin
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Film costumes

The NFSA holds a significant collection of film and TV costumes.
Image: Curator Vick Gwyn with the thong dress from The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
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Kylie Minogue with her head tossed back and eyes closed, wearing a blue dress
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Collection

Kylie Minogue

We pay due at-tension to the highest selling Australian-born artist of all time.
Photo by William Baker
Kylie's career
50 fun facts
Josephine Baker holds up two fingers in an animated discussion with a man through a ticket window.
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Collection

The Taussig Stills Collection

The NFSA holds thousands of classic Hollywood and European film stills collected by Hans Taussig.
Image: Josephine Baker in La Sirene des Tropiques (France, 1927)
Hollywood stills
Taussig stories
People looking at items in an exhibition space.
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Exhibition

Australians & Hollywood Exhibition

Australians & Hollywood celebrates the people and stories behind our films. Now updated to include ELVIS, The Power of the Dog and more.
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Book tickets
A Melbourne tram travelling to St Kilda in the early 20th century
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Collection

Public transport

Explore historic footage of over 100 years of public transport in Australia.
Image: Melbourne tram en route to St Kilda Beach
Transport
Trains, trains, trains!
Darwin businesswoman Lily Ah Toy, smiling
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Collection

Australian Biography

Filmed interviews with notable Australians talking about their lives.
Image: Lily Ah Toy
Women
Men
An animated goose squawks at two women seated at an outside table in a scene from the video game Untitled Goose Game
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Article

Gaming and Australian culture

A look at how video games have intersected with Australian popular culture since the 1970s.
Article
Collection
A mix of white and First Nations people dressed in 1950s clothes dancing together.
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Guest Writer

NFSA Restores: The Coolbaroo Club

Stephen Kinnane reveals the story behind the award-winning documentary about Perth's Coolbaroo League.
Image: The Coolbaroo Club (1996)
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Colourised image of a Tasmanian tiger pacing its cage in Hobart Zoo
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Tasmanian Tiger in Colour

View the extraordinary colourised footage from the NFSA collection of the last Thylacine in captivity.
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