TAGGED: 1960s
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This short newsreel clip from 1964 looks at controversial 'topless' women's swimwear. It notes the changes in women's swimsuits since the 1920s.

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Please be advised that this video contains strobe effects and flashing lights

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Brett Whiteley, Australian avant-garde artist, is interviewed by Binny Lum in London, England in 1964.

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This clip shows the restored opening of Go!! episode 117, transmitted on 28 November 1966, featuring Johnny Young.

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For sheer whimsy, it is hard to go past the one minute and forty seconds of 'He’s My Blond Headed Stompie Wompie Real Gone Surfer Boy’ by the 14-year-old Little Pattie.

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This film features the wonderful camerawork of Ron Taylor.

Taylor had worked with The Commonwealth Film Unit on a number of films and his work was well regarded here and overseas.

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Olivia Newton-John (1948–2022) singing ‘When I Grow Up’ on the live music television show Boomeride (1965).

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This is a segment from the Parliamentary debate in 1965 concerning Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War.

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Black-and-white historical interview footage gets the response of white folk to Aboriginal people.

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Young children in Moree are given permission to go to the swimming pool with the university students led by Charles Perkins.