Printed glass slide featuring the lyrics the song I'll Be Home for Christmas (If Only in my Dreams).

Take a trip down memory lane into the suburbs of Adelaide. Christmas in Australia is a mid summer festival, with temperatures rising high.

Take a trip down memory lane into the suburbs of Adelaide. Christmas in Australia is a mid summer festival, with temperatures rising high.

Art imitates life in one of the final episodes of Random House, an Australian radio drama about the Random family.

Commissioned in 1947 as government propaganda, master documentary filmmaker John Heyer transformed this film about the standardisation of rail gauges into a heroic poem to the nation.

Seven-year-old Maurene Edson sings 'Deep in the Heart of Texas' live on 5AD radio.

A look inside an early childcare centre located in Brisbane in the late 1940s.

Champion racehorse Bernborough wins the 1947 Ahern Memorial 10,000 at Doomben.

As the first day of the Australian summer looms, this 1948 clip from Australian Diary looks at a day trip to Manly Beach.

This home movie was filmed in spring 1941.