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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

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  • Photographs
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  • Posters
  • Oral History
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  • (-) Television

Subject

  • Australian television
  • television
  • 1970s
  • 1960s
  • 1980s
  • guest contributor
  • news coverage
  • Canberra
  • obituaries
  • 1990s
  • oral history
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  • popular music

Date

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  • 2015
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Nov 2021

Cartoon character Ginger Meggs riding his bicycle, looking back over his shoulder with his thumb up
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Happy 100th Ginger Meggs
100 Years of Ginger Meggs

Ginger Meggs, Australia’s longest-running comic strip character, has chalked up a century. The NFSA marks the milestone with newly digitised footage of Ginger and his creator James Charles Bancks.

BY
 Mel Bondfield
12 November 2021
Film
Television

Sep 2015

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Canberra time capsule
Canberra time capsule

Discover the history of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, through these items from the NFSA collection.

BY
 Adam Blackshaw
7 September 2015
Film
Radio
Sound
Television

Jul 2013

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Squizzy Taylor

Curator Tenille Hands looks at the lost 1920s Australian sporting film starring Squizzy Taylor, the Melbourne gangster and subject of Underbelly: Squizzy (2013).

BY
 Tenille Hands
26 July 2013
Posters
Television

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