Santa rides a tram down Bourke Street in Melbourne in 1959.

Takes a look at the preparations for the Melbourne Olympics. An overview is given of the main Olympic sites at Olympic Park, including the Olympic Swimming and Diving stadium.

More than one million train passengers a day go through the gates at Flinders Street Station, Melbourne in 1953. It is claimed to be the largest one-station traffic in the world.

The Yarra River begins in the highlands, 70 miles from Melbourne, winding its way through the city to Port Phillip Bay.

Situated in Mosman, on the north shore of Sydney, Taronga Park Zoo was officially opened on 7 October 1916.

This Cinesound Review newsreel details the competition for the architectural design of the Sydney Opera House in 1957.

At Eventide, the government-run home for the aged and infirm, a Brisbane City Mission welfare officer pays a visit to those within the ground’s hospital wards.

The boys at Westbrook Farm Home for Boys in Queensland’s southeast sleep in open wards.

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit Brisbane in 1954, just two years after Elizabeth became Queen of England and the Commonwealth.

In the third of a five-part series, Dr Jeannine Baker celebrates some of the female producers and directors working in Australian television in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.