TAGGED: 1980s
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Still image from the music documentary Cold Chisel Last Stand (1983) showing a section of the crowd at one of the concerts held at Sydney's Entertainment Centre. 

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Gillian Armstrong’s effervescent rock musical comedy Starstruck features outrageous costumes designed by Terry Ryan and Luciana Arrighi and influenced by the kitsch aesthetic of

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In this recording of Chook the lyrebird, made for ABC TV in 1987, the bird's call resembles the sound of workers.

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Excerpt from the documentary Australia Now (1983), featuring Michael Hutchence. 

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'Mick catches barramundi – Sue invites him to New York. Mick kisses Sue.

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Stills photographer Robert McFarlane captured this image on the set of The Year My Voice Broke (John Duigan, Australia, 1987).

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'Starstruck (Gillian Armstrong, Australia, 1982) is about being a kid with dreams', remarked Ross O'Donovan, who plays Angus, in an interview celebrating the NFSA's newl

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Nicole Kidman was only 20 years old when she was cast in the role of Rae Ingram in Phillip Noyce's psychological thriller Dead Calm (Australia, 1989).

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‘Don’t Change’ was released as a single from INXS’ third album Shabooh Shoobah, in October 1982.

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Director Bruce Beresford's Breaker Morant (Australia, 1980) was a tense psychological drama of injustice and brutal pragmatism in which the British put a group of Australians on trial