This newsreel item from 1953 shows the activities of schoolchildren in Australia

This clip from a home movie, filmed by Australian Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, shows Queen Elizabeth II arriving at Westminster Abbey in a horse-drawn carriage for her coronation on 2 June 1

Invitation for Melbourne-born Tenor William Herbert to attend, as a member of the choir, the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

Daybill poster for Australian release of the film Elizabeth is Queen (British Pathe, 1953), documenting the coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953.

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.