The new NFSA documentary Steam on the Harbour showcases Darling Harbour as a busy railway goods yard, long before it became a Sydney tourist destination.

Go!! helped launch the 0-10 television network in 1964 and was ‘Australia’s swingin’est teenage show’. 

Still of Jacki Weaver in a 1965 television commercial for Rice Krinkles.

Fifty years ago, on 21 June 1966, Australia was shocked when Labor and Opposition Leader Arthur Calwell was shot at close range by 19-year-old Peter Kocan.

Watch Batman and Robin arrive at an Australian nightclub in this newsreel from 1966.