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Tagged: 1980s
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Celebrating the career of Australia's most successful recording artist, Kylie Minogue.
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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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Kylie Minogue is the highest selling Australian-born artist of all time.
With an incomparable recording career that began in the 1980s and continues into 2020, she's explored pop, dance, indie rock...
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The NFSA has announced it is collecting Australian video games for preservation. But video games have long had an impact on the NFSA collection.
The clips in this curated collection capture some of...
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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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Mad Max 2 – retitled The Road Warrior in the US – is a standard-bearer for successful sequels and one of the greatest action movies of all time.
Released in Australia at Christmas 1981, it was to...
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The third and fourth Mad Max movies – Beyond Thunderdome and Fury Road – were released 30 years apart.
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) co-starred Mel Gibson and Tina Turner and was co-directed by...
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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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'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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Jeanne Little's catch cry 'Ooooh aaah! Dahling!' is bound to bring back happy memories for viewers of Australian daytime television from the 1970s to the 2000s.
Falling into television 'accidentally...