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The Commonwealth Games

This collection presents highlights from Commonwealth Games held in Australia in 1938, 1962, 1982 and 2006.

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Living in the Walter Taylor Bridge

Australian Diary 77: New Australians Live in Unusual Home is a short program from the Film Australia Library.

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Christmas lights winners - Brisbane

Finalists in Brisbane radio station 4KQ's annual Christmas lights competition are announced with a look at many of the impressive entries.

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Brisbane Dreaming: Shimmering in the sun

This 1994 documentary is about the original Indigenous custodians of the Brisbane area.

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Brisbane Dreaming: Understory

This clip shows historical photographs and drawings of Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples and townships are intercut with contemporary images of Brisbane.

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The Maryborough Railway Employees’ Picnic

This footage from 20 March 1938 is from the Maryborough Railway employees’ picnic held at Scarness, Queensland.

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The last trams in Brisbane, 1969

The Brisbane tramway network served the city between 1885 and 1969.

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Brisbane City Mission: Shelter, food and clothing

Over a montage of slum housing in the city of Brisbane, a voice-over talks of the plight of the poor and ‘indecently housed’.

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Brisbane City Mission: Re-use and redistribution for relief

This is a moving portrait of the charity work of the Brisbane City Mission for the poor at a time when many people struggled financially because of the Depression.

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Birth of The Courier-Mail newspaper

The first edition of The Courier-Mail newspaper was published on 28 August 1933 as a result of a merger between the Brisbane Courier and the Daily Mail.