This clip looks at the closure of Canberra’s independent Electric Shadows art-house cinema in December 2006.

Canberra is never thought of as the film capital of Australia, but one film from the 1970s put the city front and centre, and played an important role in highlighting the need for a viable commerci

Demonstrator premiered at Cinema Center on 5 April 1971. VIP guests included Noel Ferrier, Mike Walsh, Malcolm Fraser, Ian Sinclair, Ralph Hunt, the High Commissioner of Sin

Colin Winchester was an Assistant Commissioner in the Australian Federal Police (AFP). He is also Australia’s most senior police officer to have been murdered.

The Royal Canberra Hospital closed on 27 November 1991 despite protests from Canberra residents, many of whom had been born there.

This slide shows Walter Burley Griffin's Preliminary Plan of 1913 with his proposal for roads, water features and land use for the central area of Canberra.

This slide shows a plan, two cross-section drawings and a longitudinal section drawing of the road between Vernon, which Walter Burley Griffin also called the Civic Centre, and Market Centre, which

The NFSA has acquired 24 glass slides by Walter Scott Griffiths illustrating his alternative vision for Australia’s future capital city.

These 24 glass slides show detailed plans of an alternative design for the city of Canberra.

This slide shows two plans, two longitudinal sections and a cross-section of the main avenues, now known as Commonwealth Avenue and Kings Avenue, including the points where they cross over the lake