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Tagged: 1970s
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Storm Boy, the classic Australian film based on Colin Thiele's novel, is now 40 years old.
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See the funniest, most splendiferous and bizarre moments on a show that had five million Aussies a week turning on their TV sets in the 1970s and 80s.
Host Mike Walsh AM OBE entertains viewers with a...
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Wake in Fright is a classic from the early days of the 1970s Australian film renaissance. The film was restored by the NFSA and re-released in 2009.
It had been thought lost for decades until the...
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Dubbed 'the mother of rock', Lillian Roxon was the most influential rock journalist in the world from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s.
One of the first writers to take rock music seriously, her...
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Forty years ago, on 27 February 1979, one of Australia’s most addictive soap operas debuted on Network Ten.
It finally came to an end after nearly eight years and 692 episodes, on 11 December 1986....
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According to prolific cult director Brian Trenchard-Smith, Ozploitation is 'genre homage through an Australian lens: boisterous, anti-authoritarian, wide angle'.
Trenchard-Smith should know – he made...
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The art of poster-making flourished in Poland following the Second World War. There were two main state institutions that commissioned artists to create posters: Film Polski (Polish Film) and...
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For a generation of Australian music fans, Cold Chisel are the Aussie pub rock band who broke the mould and whose songs are celebrated as anthems.
Cold Chisel formed in Adelaide, South Australia in...
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‘MIRANDAAAAAA!’
When asked to name five Australian films, from any time, many people include Picnic at Hanging Rock in their list. A key factor in its enduring appeal is its plot – the mysterious...
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Homicide, Australia’s first police drama series, premiered in Melbourne on HSV7 on 20 October 1964.
The landmark Crawford Productions' series profiled murder cases handled by the fictional detectives...