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Forty years after Simon Townsend's Wonder World! first went to air on 3 September 1979, we celebrate this landmark children's TV program.
Simon Townsend's Wonder World! (1979–87) was Australia's...
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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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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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Listen to a Q&A with the director of documentary Brazen Hussies (2020), Catherine Dwyer and influential feminist Elizabeth Reid.
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Listen to a Q&A with cast and crew members of the iconic Australian film Sunday Too Far Away. The film's star, Jack Thompson, turns 80 on 31 August 2020.
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This collection of hand-illustrated greeting cards from Mr Squiggle creator Norman Hetherington to Pat Lovell is representative of a wonderful working friendship.
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Adored by Australian television audiences for decades, we list 12 reasons to love Jeanne Little.
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Fifty years ago, on 15 October 1970, Australia's worst-ever industrial accident occurred when the West Gate Bridge collapsed into the Yarra River in Melbourne, killing 35 people.