Stories

NFSA curator Helen Tully writes about a time when listening to the airwaves or watching TV required a licence.

Veteran staff members Ian Gilmour and Janine Boyd share their personal history of three decades working at the NFSA.

Stewart Shannon reveals some of the tricks and secrets that the Collection Management team use to keep the NFSA collection safe.

Watch three amateur films from the 1950s and 60s on the theme of 'fashion’.

The first known Australian to make a commercially released recording, the long forgotten Syria Lamonte, is now preserved by the NFSA thanks to the kind donation of an 1898 recording acquired by Roger Neill.

We invited musician and composer Heinz Riegler to re-imagine a 1939 recording of a talking budgerigar that featured in the Art of Sound exhibition.

The NFSA has developed a project to ensure the preservation of LGBTQIA+ radio in our collection thanks to a bequest from the estate of Dietmar Hollman, a former presenter and producer of Gaywaves and gay rights activist.

The music of Peter Sculthorpe has influenced three generations of Australians more deeply than we perhaps realise.

The story behind 'Crocodile Creek', a community musical directed by Baz Luhrmann.

50 years ago today Melbourne’s fourth television channel, ATV Channel 0 (now Channel 10), broadcast its opening night gala variety show THIS IS IT and thanks to preservation by the NFSA you can watch some of it here. Part 2 of 2 in this series.