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Jan 2019
Popstar and TV personality Jimmy Hannan walking down the aisle at the Sydney Stadium with a crowd of people around him.

Jimmy Hannan: a winning smile

Vale Jimmy Hannan, who passed away on 7 January 2019, at the age of 84. We celebrate his life and work, and acknowledge his kind donation to the NFSA.

By Beth Taylor / 8 Jan 2019
Photographs
Sound
Television
Aug 2018
Actor Heath Ledger striking a dramatic pose with his arms out, one leg up in the air and his mouth open wide and eyes shut. He is in a yellow kitchen.

Heath Ledger exhibition

Audiences are about to discover the man behind the camera in the NFSA’s new exhibition Heath Ledger: A Life in Pictures.

By Miguel Gonzalez / 7 Aug 2018
Film
Jun 2018
The five band members of Cold Chisel standing in a row on a pier with water in front and behind them.

Celebrating Cold Chisel

Cold Chisel are the quintessential Aussie band who wrote the soundtrack for a generation.

By Mel Bondfield / 12 Jun 2018
Sound
May 2018
Singer Jimmy Barnes pictured from the chest up, in a black t-shirt and sitting in front of a mixing deck in a recording studio.

Barnesy: Rock Icon

We're shining a light on the phenomenal career of Australian rock legend Jimmy Barnes.

By Mel Bondfield / 28 May 2018
Sound
Huge crowd on the Sydney Harbour Bridge during the Walk for Reconciliation. Some people are waving Australian and Aboriginal flags.

Newscaf: Reconciliation Walk

A look back at the historic Walk for Reconciliation across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on 28 May 2000, through footage from the NFSA News and Current Affairs Program.

By Mel Bondfield / 24 May 2018
Television
Mar 2018
Singer Jeff St John in a recording studio, seated in a wheelchair, wearing headphones and singing with eyes closed into a microphone.

Vale Jeff St John

We pay tribute to one of Australia’s greatest rock voices.

By Thorsten Kaeding / 9 Mar 2018
Sound
Feb 2018
Parliament House in Canberra

Newscaf: Apology to the Stolen Generations

The prime minister apologised to Australia's Indigenous peoples on 13 February 2008. We revisit the story through footage from the NFSA News and Current Affairs Program.

By Adam Blackshaw / 12 Feb 2018
Television
Nov 2017
Michael Hutchence of INXS in concert, singing while seated on a loudspeaker

Remembering Michael Hutchence

Twenty years after his tragic passing, we pay tribute to one of Australia's most dynamic rock stars.

By Mel Bondfield / 21 Nov 2017
Sound
Oct 2017
Black and white glass slide of a person with a sheet over their head pretending to be a ghost

19th century ghost photos

These 19th century photographic glass slides purport to show images of both the living and the dead.

By Adam Blackshaw / 27 Oct 2017
Photographs
Sep 2017
A packed stadium of people witnessing the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games. Matilda the huge mascot of the games is on the field along with lots of school children.

Reliving the 1980s

Our 100th curated collection is all about the 1980s, and it stars Charles and Diana, Kylie and Dannii Minogue, Edna Everage, David Attenborough, Linda Burney, Ken Done, Michael Hutchence and many, many more.

By Beth Taylor / 4 Sep 2017
Film
Photographs
Television