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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

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Subject

  • Australian film
  • preservation
  • 1960s
  • 1980s
  • Australian television
  • 1930s
  • obituaries
  • 1950s
  • television
  • Australian music
  • Canberra
  • First Nations Australians
  • events
  • Arc cinema
  • Australian cinema
  • Australians & Hollywood
  • 1920s
  • archives
  • film
  • (-) 1970s

Date

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  • 2021
  • 2020
  • 2019
  • 2018
  • 2017
  • 2016
  • 2015
  • 2014
  • 2013
  • 2012

May 2023

Ivan Hutchinson, Jim Murphy and Geoff Owen-Taylor in a studio, comically wrapping long strips of film around themselves.
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Two On The Aisle
Two On The Aisle: Australian TV's first movie review duo

A recent videotape discovery shines a spotlight on Australian TV's first movie review duo and their program, Two on the Aisle, which debuted in May 1973.

BY
 Simon Smith
4 May 2023
Television

Nov 2022

John Farnham and Jeff Phillips wearing headphones and standing behind music stands during a session in the recording studio in 1970
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Happening Footage Found
Happening 72 - lost pop music TV footage recovered

You can now view the closing minutes of the final episode of Happening '72, featuring John Farnham, Ian 'Molly' Meldrum and more.

BY
 Simon Smith
17 November 2022
Sound
Television

Jun 2022

Evonne Goolagong-Cawley holding a wooden tennis racket and about to hit a tennis ball.
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Evonne Goolagong-Cawley
Evonne Goolagong-Cawley: Trailblazer of Australian Tennis

Johnny Milner takes a closer look at tennis legend Evonne Goolagong-Cawley's career – from Barellan to Wimbledon.

BY
 Johnny Milner
10 June 2022
Film

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

Dec 2021

A packed crowd at an early 1970s music festival in Australia
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1970s Music Festivals
Protest and Play at 1970s Music Festivals

Music festivals in the 1970s offered unprecedented opportunities for enterprising promoters and homegrown musicians, and were spaces where participants enacted ideals of counterculture and community building.

30 December 2021
Film
Sound

Dec 2021

Detail from a hand-drawn Christmas card showing Mr Squiggle carrying a golden glittery moon
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Mr Squiggle's Christmas cards

This collection of hand-illustrated greeting cards from Mr Squiggle creator Norman Hetherington to Pat Lovell is representative of a wonderful working friendship.

BY
 Jessica Bolton
14 December 2021
Documents
Television

Nov 2021

Four people are in a studio setting. Three of them sit behind a desk and the fourth stands. They are all looking at her. There is a film camera pointed at them that says ABC TV on the side.
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Calling the shots
The Women Who Made Australian Television 3 – Calling the Shots

In the third of a five-part series, Dr Jeannine Baker celebrates some of the female producers and directors working in Australian television in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

BY
 Jeannine Baker
29 November 2021
Oral History
Photographs
Television

Nov 2021

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The Young Doctors
The Young Doctors: Remembering the Popular Medical Drama

The Young Doctors made its debut on TCN 9 (Nine Network) on 8 November 1976, breaking new ground in medical drama.

BY
 Helen Tully
5 November 2021
Oral History
Photographs
Television

Oct 2021

Director Phillip Noyce, circa 1970
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Phillip Noyce
The Early Films of Phillip Noyce

John Brady looks at the early experimental films of Phillip Noyce including music festival documentary 'Good Afternoon' (1971).

BY
 John Brady
25 October 2021
Film
Photographs
Posters

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