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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
  • Oral History
  • Photographs
  • Television

Subject

  • Australians & Hollywood
  • Arc cinema
  • events
  • interviews
  • screenings
  • Jenny Cooney
  • Australian actors
  • guest contributor
  • NFSA Presents: Inspired
  • Australian films
  • obituaries
  • Dr John Milner
  • Canberra
  • Archie Roach
  • 1970s
  • Australian television
  • Deep Dive
  • NFSA building
  • Ruby Hunter
  • sport

Date

  • (-) 2022

Feb 2022

A woman kneeling down to adjust a television, c1950s.
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Women's and Children's Programs
The Women Who Made Australian Television 4 – Women's and Children's Programs

In the fourth of a 5-part series, Dr Jeannine Baker reveals some of the women who shaped and redefined television content for women and children.

BY
 Jeannine Baker
28 February 2022
Oral History
Photographs
Television

Feb 2022

Jimmy Wang Yu skydiving in The Man from Hong Kong
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Ozploitation!
Ozploitation films from the 1970s and 1980s

Johnny Milner takes a look at the low-budget Australian genre filmmaking of the 1970s and 1980s.

BY
 Johnny Milner
21 February 2022
Film

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