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In the 1960s, the Australian government created Life in Australia as a marketing tool to sell potential 'New Australians' from Europe the idea of a prosperous, happy life down under.
All 12 films...
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The NFSA is now making available episodes of the 1960s Life in Australia series from the Film Australia Collection in stunning 4K HD.
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Three siblings starred in a film. Forty years later, they watched themselves on screen for the first time.
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Grace Yen, who immigrated to Melbourne from Taipei, Taiwan, interviewed by Binny Lum.
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An Aboriginal protest march took place on Australia’s bicentenary 26 January 1988. An Aboriginal speaker describes the invasion of Australia and the resulting problems of dispossession and poverty....
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'Come over to the sunny side [of the globe] now'. Directed at British citizens, this UK television advertisement promotes migration to Australia in 1967.
Directed at fathers, it advertises an...
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Gustav Kovacs Home Movie, Migrating to Western Australia, 1951. Pioneering Hungarian film maker Gustav Kovacs emigrated to Australia on board the ship 'Anna Salen' and arrived in Fremantle on 31st...
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This film shows an idyllic picture of life in the Victorian capital of Melbourne in the mid 1960s.
The female lead is played by Adelaide born actress Elspeth Ballantyne, who would find success in the...
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Episode 1 of the Life in Australia series.
This series was made to encourage immigration to Australia and to highlight the various social activities, employment and educational opportunities and...
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Its famous Opera House was still under construction, but Australia's largest city was already a busy metropolis in 1966.
Sydney's population had just reached three million, and while its skyline was...