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

Subject

  • television
  • acquisitions
  • Australians & Hollywood
  • Baz Luhrmann
  • Catherine Martin
  • Catherine Martin series
  • costumes
  • Picnic at Hanging Rock
  • children's television
  • collections
  • costume design
  • costume designers
  • NFSA
  • NFSA collection
  • oral history
  • 2010s
  • early Australian television
  • film
  • production design
  • The Women Who Made Australian TV

Date

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  • 2021
  • 2020
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  • 2018
  • 2017
  • 2016
  • 2015
  • 2014
  • 2013
  • 2012
  • 2011
  • 2010

Mar 2023

Full-length, wide shot of actor Nicole Kidman in a scene from the film Australia. She's standing in the dusty outback wearing a safari-style outfit of a beige skirt, belted shirt and hat with long dark brown boots.
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Spotlight on: Catherine Martin
Spotlight on: Catherine Martin

Curator Jenny Gall has taken a deep dive into the career of Oscar-winning designer Catherine Martin and her film collaborations with Baz Luhrmann from Strictly Ballroom (1992) to ELVIS (2022).

BY
 Stephen Groenewegen
8 March 2023
Documents
Film
Object
Photographs

Mar 2023

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio in a behind the scenes still from the film The Great Gatsby. He is wearing a white suit and is seated on a tan-coloured couch in the corner of a room. He's looking directly at the camera. Out of the windows behind him you can see a city skyline.
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Catherine Martin: Australia, The Great Gatsby
Catherine Martin: Designs for Australia and The Great Gatsby

Curator Jenny Gall concludes her series of articles charting the career of Catherine Martin and her celebrated collaboration with director Baz Luhrmann.

BY
 Jenny Gall
6 March 2023
Documents
Film
Photographs

Mar 2023

Satine and Christian embrace in her chambers while Toulouse-Lautrec peers down at them from outside a heart-shaped window, in a scene from Moulin Rouge!
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Catherine Martin: Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge!
Catherine Martin: Designs for Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge!

Curator Jenny Gall continues her series of articles charting the career of Catherine Martin and her celebrated collaboration with director Baz Luhrmann.

BY
 Jenny Gall
1 March 2023
Documents
Film
Object
Photographs

Feb 2023

Close up of some green sequinned fabric.
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LGBTQIA+ Collection
LGBTQIA+ Pride Collection at the NFSA

The NFSA is proud to support the LGBTQIA+community. Here's how you can explore LGBTQIA+ content from our collection online.

17 February 2023
Documents
Film
Object
Photographs
Posters
Radio
Sound
Television

Jan 2023

Costume polaroids form Strictly Ballroom featuring Paul Mecurio and Tara Morice
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Catherine Martin: Strictly Ballroom Costumes
Catherine Martin: Costumes designs for Strictly Ballroom

Curator Jenny Gall continues her series of articles charting the career of Catherine Martin and her celebrated collaboration with director Baz Luhrmann.

16 January 2023
Documents
Film
Object
Photographs
Posters

Aug 2022

A smiling woman seated in a TV studio surrounded by children.
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At home with Rosemary Eather
The Women Who Made Australian Television 5: Rosemary Eather

Dive into the personal collection of wildly popular TV presenter Rosemary Eather, now held by the NFSA.

BY
 Jeannine Baker
3 August 2022
Documents
Photographs
Television

Jan 2022

A woman sitting behind a news desk in a TV studio looking directly into the camera.
https://www.nfsa.gov.au/sites/default/files/article/hero_image01-2022/2021-highlights-hero-final_the-newsreader.jpg
2021 at the NFSA
NFSA Acquisition Highlights of 2021

View and listen to highlights of what our curatorial team collected in 2021.

BY
 Mel Bondfield
27 January 2022
Documents
Film
Object
Oral History
Photographs
Radio
Sound
Television

Dec 2021

Detail from a hand-drawn Christmas card showing Mr Squiggle carrying a golden glittery moon
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Mr Squiggle's Christmas cards

This collection of hand-illustrated greeting cards from Mr Squiggle creator Norman Hetherington to Pat Lovell is representative of a wonderful working friendship.

BY
 Jessica Bolton
14 December 2021
Documents
Television

Oct 2021

A crowd of people (some seated and some standing). They are watching a television set through a shop window.
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The Beginnings of Television
The Women Who Made Australian Television 1 – The Beginnings of Television

In the first of a five-part series, Dr Jeannine Baker looks at the vital – and often unrecognised – role that women played in bringing the first Australian TV programs to air.

BY
 Jeannine Baker
11 October 2021
Documents
Film
Oral History
Photographs
Television

Dec 2020

Still frame from virtual reality production Whadjuk showing Aboriginal men in the water and a ship on the horizon
https://www.nfsa.gov.au/sites/default/files/article/hero_image12-2020/2020-highlights-hero-2_whadjuk.jpg
2020 at the NFSA
NFSA Acquisition Highlights of 2020

View and listen to highlights of what we collected in 2020, including an emotional eyewitness account of the Victorian bushfires and exclusive interviews on the impact of COVID-19.

BY
 Mel Bondfield
16 December 2020
Documents
Film
Object
Oral History
Radio
Sound
Television

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