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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

  • Television

Subject

  • Canberra
  • preservation
  • Australian film
  • women in radio
  • news coverage
  • radio serials
  • television
  • 1950s
  • Australian music
  • obituaries
  • 1940s
  • Art of Sound
  • radio
  • 1920s
  • film
  • music
  • archives
  • Far North Queensland
  • Fractured Heart
  • Franklyn Barrett

Date

  • (-) 2013

Jul 2013

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Bee Gees in Canberra, 1974

On Thursday 26 September 1974, a global musical phenomenon arrived in Canberra.

BY
 Bronwyn Barnett
5 July 2013
Television

May 2013

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Southern Queensland time capsule
Southern Queensland time capsule

Discover the history of Southern Queensland through these films and songs from the NFSA collection.

BY
 Beth Taylor
2 May 2013

May 2013

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Shooting 'Demonstrator', 1970

Behind-the-scenes glimpses of a film shot in Canberra in the forefront of the Australian film revival of the 1970s.

BY
 Bronwyn Barnett
2 May 2013
Television

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