This Ten News bulletin covers the first details that were revealed in court regarding evidence directly linking the suspect, Ivan Milat, to some of the murdered backpackers who had gone missing whi

The backpacker murders in the early 1990s left Australians sickened and horrified, and made headlines around the world.

This Nine News report from May 1994 reveal that a witness from the UK had identified the man who had robbed him and tried to kidnap him near the Belanglo State Forest years earlier.

Heath Ledger’s movie and television career as curated by the NFSA. Featuring his posthumous Oscar win for The Dark Night and his early career in Australia.

Directed by Gregor Jordan, Two Hands is a morality tale. Heath Ledger is Jimmy, a naïve 19-year-old who wants to make it big in Sydney’s infamous Kings Cross district.

Heath Ledger in the Yellow Kitchen at Jacksue Gallery, Perth, 1999.
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Part of the NFSA collection is a die-cast model of a Cinesound Film Unit FJ Holden panel van, similar to that featured in the classic Australian film Newsfront.