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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
  • Radio
  • Television

Subject

  • 1960s
  • 1970s
  • 1990s
  • 1980s
  • Australian television
  • 1950s
  • Australian radio
  • NFSA Stories
  • 1920s
  • 1930s
  • Apollo 11
  • Australian film
  • Australian music
  • children's television
  • Don Bradman
  • exhibitions
  • film costumes
  • Starstruck exhibition
  • Sydney
  • (-) Moon landing

Date

  • (-) 2019

Jul 2019

Astronaut on the moon standing near the American flag
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Moon Landing: 1969, 1989 and 1999
Apollo 11 Moon Landing: News Footage from 1969, 1989 and 1999

For the 50th anniversary of the July 1969 Apollo 11 mission in 2019, we are sharing these news clips from 1969 and also from the 20th and 30th anniversaries of the Moon landing in 1989 and 1999.

BY
 Adam Blackshaw
15 July 2019
Film
Television

Jul 2019

Drawing of a space shuttle overlaid on blue concentric circles.
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The Loneliest Journey
Australian Radio Broadcast of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing

In 2019, 50 years after the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, the NFSA unearthed a rare recording of the historic event on Australian commercial radio, as it happened in 1969.

BY
 Ashlinn Harty
15 July 2019
Radio

Jul 2019

The surface of the Moon with the Sun visible in the background
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Original Moon Landing Broadcast
CSIRO Donates Rare NASA Moon Landing Broadcast to NFSA

A rare copy of the restored original TV broadcast of the July 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing, previously given by NASA to the CSIRO, will now be preserved at the NFSA.

BY
 Stephen Groenewegen
3 July 2019
Film

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