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A mix of white and First Nations people dressed in 1950s clothes dancing together.
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Article

NFSA Restores: The Coolbaroo Club

18 August 2023
VIEW
Artist Richard Bell seated in his studio in front of one of his works: a coloured Indigenous map of Australia with the words PAYE THE RENT across it
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Deep Dive: You Can Go Now

Watch a filmed conversation with First Nations artist Richard Bell at the NFSA.
24 August 2023
A fire ant seen at close quarters on a branch
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Science and Innovation

Science Week stories about spray-on skin, conservation, biosecurity, drones and more.
14 August 2023
Three white children, two boys and a girl, laughing and smiling together on a boat at sea. The youngest boy and girl are wearing colourful jumpers while the older boy wears a denim jacket.
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1990s TV shows for tweens

Remember the boom in Australian science-fiction and fantasy TV for kids in the 1990s?
Wendy Hanna  / 
9 August 2023

Category

  • Film
  • Sound
  • Television
  • Object
  • Radio
  • Photographs
  • Posters
  • Documents
  • (-) Oral History

Subject

  • oral history
  • Alice Springs
  • Broome
  • community television
  • crime drama
  • First Nations Australians
  • FM
  • jazz
  • language
  • media
  • musicians
  • offspring
  • sound heritage
  • television

Date

  • (-) 2011

Dec 2011

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Keeping Our Story

A personal perspective on the early days of remote Indigenous media groups.

BY
 Chris Guster
21 December 2011
Film
Oral History
Radio
Sound
Television

Nov 2011

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2011: the year of Aussie drama

TV acquisitions curator Helen Tully looks at the current and past state of Australian-produced television drama.

BY
 Helen Tully
21 November 2011
Oral History
Television

Oct 2011

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Oral History by Ken Berryman
National Oral History Conference

Ken Berryman reports on 'The Art of Interviewing for Film', a panel session hosted by the NFSA at the 17th National Oral History Conference.

BY
 Ken Berryman
19 October 2011
Oral History

Jun 2011

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Vale Barry William Woods

Jazz drummer Barry Woods has passed away in Sydney. Carla Teixeira looks at his life and legacy.

BY
 Carla Teixeira
21 June 2011
Oral History
Sound

Mar 2011

Bill Armstrong, 2011
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Bill Armstrong

Bill Armstrong, radio pioneering and sound recording legend is this year's winner of the Cochrane Smith Sound Heritage Award.

BY
 Matthew Davies
16 March 2011
Oral History
Sound

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