This hand-coloured glass cinema slide shows The Queen in one of her first official portraits as taken by society photographer Dorothy Wilding.

Australian Diary 77: New Australians Live in Unusual Home is a short program from the Film Australia Library.

Jean Battersby was an early Melbourne compere of the ABC’s first daytime television program for women, Woman’s World.

Excerpt from an oral history interview with Joyce Belfrage by Graham Shirley, 2001. 

English-born Belfrage arrived at the ABC in 1958 as its first female Talks producer.

A clip from the documentary Project Teleview about the planning, building and opening of TVW 7, Perth, Western Australia in 1959.

Excerpt from Project Teleview (1959), a documentary about the planning, building and opening of TVW 7, Perth, Western Australia in 1959.

On the night of 16 September 1956, Molly Brownless was working in TCN9’s central control room and was responsible for ensuring the ‘first’ broadcast was transmitted without a hitch.

This photograph shows (left to right) Molly Brownless, producer Mike Ramsden and master controller Max Maxwell in the TCN9 control room on 16 September 1956. 

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.

The Star Theatre in Darwin at night.