An extract from an ABC TV obituary of actor Chips Rafferty, featuring an interview with director Ken G Hall talking about Rafferty's contribution to Australian film.

The opening shot of a car tyre spinning and squealing in the red dirt sets the tone for this trailer for the US release of Wake In Fright, where it was re-titled Outback.

This short trailer effectively shows the dramatic improvement in sharpness and colour between the 2009 restoration of Wake In Fright by AtLab and the original negative from 1971.

In 1959, Johnny O'Keefe claimed he had 40 suits all worth over 100 pounds each.

This is a segment of a longer recording made in 1972 for an unidentified radio station where Johnny, in brief grabs, introduces himself and gives his thoughts on various social issues.

Throughout the late 1960s and into the ’70s, Johnny O'Keefe continued to perform and release records.

Filmmaker Phillip Noyce was tasked with recording the 1971 Aquarius Arts Festival held at the Australian National University in Canberra.

Excerpt from Bert Newton Radio show in 1977. Bert asks Graham about his mentor Clifford Nicholls Whitta (Nicky). 

Music festivals in the 1970s offered unprecedented opportunities for enterprising promoters and homegrown musicians, and were spaces where participants enacted ideals of counterculture and community building.

In January 1970, 5 months after Woodstock, the small NSW town of Ourimbah hosted Australia’s first major music festival.