TAGGED: 1980s
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This is part of a personal collection of VHS tapes featuring popular music video clips from 1987–1991.

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The cover to this 1988 comic Hoppy the Kangaroo shows how global animation giant Disney has incorporated Australiana into its repertoire – and this wasn't the first time either.

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This striking poster for the band No Fixed Address features their name emblazoned across a map of the whole continent, symbolising solidarity with all First Nations Austra

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Now that’s what I call jockey shorts!

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When is a bowling pin also an Australian pop culture artefact? When it's signed by members of the Cockroaches – the pub rock band founded in 1979, two of whose members later formed the Wiggles.

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What’s better than watching Humphrey B Bear on TV while eating breakfast? Watching Humphrey B Bear while eating breakfast off a Humphrey B Bear porcelain plate! 

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Stereoscopic technologies have been around since the early 18th century, with each generation adapting them for contemporary use.

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This publicity portrait was taken in 1981, the same year that Olivia Newton-John’s worldwide hit song ‘Physical’ was released.

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First appearing on television in 1972, Fat Cat and Friends was a popular 30-minute children’s program in the 1970s and '80s.

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It's one thing to have a talking doll, but what about a talking doll that can recite some of Australia's most loved phrases of the 1980s?