https://www.nfsa.gov.au/sites/default/files/featured/image07-2018/nfsa_pres_lightblue_bird_0.png
TAGGED: Activism
Article
A Short History of First Nations Filmmaking in Australia

Within a generation, First Nations filmmakers have become a vibrant presence in the centre of filmmaking in Australia.

Article
Lesbian and Gay Rights Protests of 1978

Guest contributor Diane Minnis looks back at news file footage of the seminal lesbian and gay rights protests that followed the first Mardi Gras in Sydney, 1978.

video
Asset
Eyewitness News: Gay rights protests - extended footage, August 1978

Ten News file footage of a gay rights demonstration that saw 300 people march from the fourth National Homosexual Conference at Paddington Town Hall to Taylor Square and Hyde Park in Sydney, 27 Aug

video
Asset
Eyewitness News: Gay rights protests - extended footage, July 1978

Please note: this clip contains descriptions of violence and some scenes of violent arrest. The last three minutes of this clip are silent.

video
Asset
Eyewitness News: Gay rights protests, August 1978

Ten News file footage of a Gay Rights demonstration and and anti-abortion demonstration that took place at Hyde Park on 27 August 1978.

video
Asset
Eyewitness News: Gay rights protests, July 1978

File footage of a Gay Rights protest from 15 July 1978 that went through Sydney CBD, William Street, Kings Cross, outside Darlinghurst Police Centre to Hyde Park.

video
Asset
Australian Biography: Jack Mundey

Jack Mundey (1929–2020) became a national figure in the early 1970s when he led the Builders' Labourers Federation's famous 'green bans'.

video
Asset
Australian Biography: Faith Bandler

Faith Bandler (1920–2015) was a descendant of South Sea Islanders. She was born in Tumbulgum, NSW.

image
Asset
The National Times:The Radicals Hit Forty, article

Pages from The National Times newspaper on 7 December 1984. The article highlighted is about Simon Townsend and his stance against conscription during the Vietnam War.