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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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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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Australia's Working Class Man, Jimmy Barnes, has been performing in front of audiences for more than four decades as a solo artist and with Cold Chisel, and he shows no signs of slowing down.
He has...
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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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'There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around | That the colt from old Regret had got away...'
Based on Banjo Paterson's poem of the same name, The Man from Snowy River was a...
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In 2018 the 21st Commonwealth Games took place on the Gold Coast, Queensland.
Seventy-one nations competed in 275 events across 18 sports. It was the fifth Commonwealth Games to be held in Australia...
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Submerge yourself in 80s goodness with glimpses of fashion, music, technology, film, television, radio, sport and advertising from the decade.
The 1980s was all about excess: greed was good, hair...
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Ten sound recordings with cultural, historical and aesthetic significance were added to Sounds of Australia for 2014.
Established in 2007, the Sounds of Australia is the NFSA’s selection of sound...
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Cold Chisel are the quintessential Aussie band who wrote the soundtrack for a generation.
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This retro Woman's Day TV ad from 1982 uses race-calling to sell issues during Melbourne Cup week.