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.

It’s impossible now to imagine Sydney without its white-sailed Opera House floa

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.

Gwen Plumb, Alistair Duncan, John Meillon, Tom Farley and Nellie Lampore in A Tongue of Silver, from ATN7/GTV9 anthology Shell Presents

As one half of the 'Leyland Brothers’, Mike Leyland traveled through the Australian outback when it was still something of a remote frontier and largely unknown to most Australians living in urban