This episode of Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey looks at stories from the Sydney Push and early folk revival, a subculture popularised by critical thinking and 'critical drinking'.&n

Photography cadets with model, Sydney Morning Herald 1967 © Mervyn Bishop
Ink jet print, digital exhibition copy of gelatin silver photograph

Listen to a Q&A with the director of documentary Brazen Hussies (2020), Catherine Dwyer and influential feminist Elizabeth Reid.

Arnhem Land Popular Classics was the first record to bring widespread attention to the didjeridu (didgeridoo or dijeridoo), also known as the yidaki in Yolgnu. 

Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912–1990) was an Australian composer with an accomplished overseas career.

Alan Matthews, a former RAF pilot, runs Sunraysia Air Taxis, an aerial taxi service in the Mildura region.

Tim Bowden talks about how the introduction of TV in Australia in 1956 affected radio.

Tim Bowden describes the popularity of radio dramas and soap operas in the 1950s and 60s, before television took over people's attention in the evenings.

Writer Mac Gudgeon talks about the importance of Australian content on our screens – it reflects our culture and society. If we are unable to tell our stories, diversity will disappear.

In this clip, Tim Bowden talks about the influential and groundbreaking early ABC current affairs program, This Day Tonight