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

Subject

  • animation
  • Arc cinema
  • archive
  • Australia
  • Australian film
  • classical music
  • Disney
  • film preservation
  • First World War
  • home front

Date

  • (-) 2015

Jun 2015

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Calendar stars

Pat Easterbrook, Positive Ageing Officer at the Alpine Shire in Victoria, tells how a group of older people stepped inside some of Australia’s best-loved movies for a day.

BY
 Pat Easterbrook
3 June 2015
Photographs

Apr 2015

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Edna Leer

Documents and artefacts curator Jenny Gall looks at a sheet music collection recently donated to the NFSA, and what it reveals about home-front life during the First World War.

BY
 Jenny Gall
25 April 2015
Photographs

Apr 2015

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Towards a level playing field

Bronwyn Dowdall and Shevaun O'Neill discuss the attention economy and what it means for archives today.

BY
 Bronwyn Dowdall
& SHEVAUN O'NEILL
9 April 2015
Documents
Film
Object
Oral History
Photographs
Posters
Radio
Sound
Television

Jan 2015

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Disney at the NFSA

To mark the beginning of our Disney classics season at Arc cinema, Miguel Gonzalez explores some of the Disney items held in the NFSA collection.

BY
 Miguel Gonzalez
5 January 2015
Film
Photographs
Sound

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