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

Subject

  • Australian music
  • awards
  • preservation
  • Sounds of Australia
  • 2010s
  • archives
  • Australia Day
  • broadcast
  • community television
  • cooee cabaret
  • flood damage
  • folk festivals
  • hip hop
  • human rights
  • language
  • Matt Cornell
  • SEAPAVAA
  • singers
  • sound heritage
  • Waltzing Matilda

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

Oct 2011

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Our Audiovisual Heritage

National Film and Sound Archive CEO Michael Loebenstein delivered a speech to mark the UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage on 27 October.

BY
 Kylie Doherty
27 October 2011
Film
Radio
Sound
Television

Aug 2011

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Indigenous Representations

NFSA research fellow Anthony Linden Jones is looking at the representation of Indigenous culture in Australian film music, particularly focusing on films made before 1960.

BY
 Anthony Linden Jones
23 August 2011
Film
Sound

Jun 2011

A variety of vintage camera and an ipod are displayed
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Asia Pacific archiving

Rod Butler and Mick Newnham share the NFSA's preservation expertise in Noumea.

BY
 Rod Butler
29 June 2011
Film
Sound

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

May 2011

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Kavisha Mazzella

Kavisha Mazzella, winner of the National Folk Recording Award.

BY
 David Hogan
18 May 2011
Sound

Mar 2011

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Old 78 record sleeves

Sound Archivist Graham McDonald has compiled a selection of rare and beautiful record sleeve designs from Australia, USA, UK and the rest of the world.

BY
 Graham McDonald
29 March 2011
Sound

Mar 2011

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Cooee Cabaret Toowoomba

Cooee Cabaret has wrapped for 2011 after sell out shows.

BY
 Brendan Smith
16 March 2011
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

Feb 2011

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Radio Maubere

Visitors to the NFSA’s headquarters in Canberra will confront an intriguing element of recent Australian broadcasting history.

BY
 Vincent Plush
24 February 2011
Sound

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