Wirth's Circus arrives at Geelong and prepares for a performance.

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Made soon after the Second World War ended, this promotional film from the National Film Boa

This recording, sung in Italian, is from the opera Don Carlos by Verdi.

This song was originally composed by Dorothy Stewart for the Australia Day dinner held by the Australian Society of New York in 1940.

Marjorie Stedeford was a jazz singer who was known for her deep voice. She was born in Melbourne in 1909 and started her musical career there in the late 1920s.

This song was composed by the American jazz musician and arranger, Don Redman, and by American songwriter, Buck Ram.

It is performed by Australian jazz and swing singer Barbara James.

Gladys Moncrieff was one of the great stars of the Australian musical stage for more than 35 years – described by many as Australia’s Queen of Song (a title that had originally had been given to Ne

A newsreel featuring the fe

This newsreel item from 1941 shows a canoe derby on Throsby Creek, Newcastle. It was of a fund-raising event to aid the purchase of a Spitfire aircraft during the Second World War.