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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

  • Sound
  • Oral History

Subject

  • Australian film
  • oral history
  • television
  • 1930s
  • journalists
  • animation
  • First Nations Australians
  • radio
  • silent films
  • sound
  • 1920s
  • 1940s
  • 1970s
  • 1990s
  • First World War
  • Northern Territory
  • preservation
  • sound preservation
  • wax cylinder
  • (-) recorded sound

Date

  • (-) 2015

Jul 2015

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Tamworth Country Music Festival
Country stars give old technology a new spin

The NFSA's Graham McDonald records Australian country music stars and emerging artists on lacquer disc at the Tamworth Country Music Festival.

BY
 Stephen Groenewegen
20 July 2015
Sound

Jul 2015

John Hutchinson with Peter Burgis of the National Library of Australia in 1980.
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John Hutchinson's life of sound
John Hutchinson's life of sound

John Hutchinson dedicated many years to recording the sounds of Western Australia's wildlife, environment and people. Sound archivist Tessa Elieff writes about his life.

BY
 Tessa Elieff
8 July 2015
Oral History
Sound

Jun 2015

Bruce Thomas, Chair of the Wangka Maya’s Board of Directors (left), shakes hands with John Hutchinson (right)
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John Hutchinson's legacy
John Hutchinson's legacy of sound

Sound archivist Tessa Elieff reports from a ceremony of appreciation for WA field sound recordist John Hutchinson that took place during Reconciliation Week.

BY
 Tessa Elieff
25 June 2015
Oral History
Sound

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