National Treasures

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The Prime Ministers' National Treasures with Warren Brown

Warren Brown reveals the emotional lives of Australian prime ministers through 12 objects they used every day or otherwise adored. Items include Robert Menzies' home movie camera, Joseph Lyons' love...

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Australia's Heritage: National Treasures

Chris Taylor reveals the secrets behind a fascinating mix of treasures from Australia’s National Heritage List. In the third season of five-minute documentaries in the National Treasures series,...

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Investigating National Treasures with Warren Brown

Take a road trip of discovery with Warren Brown as he reveals a fascinating mix of national treasures drawn from collections across Australia. The political cartoonist, columnist and history 'tragic...

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National Treasures from Australian History

Discover the stories behind some of Australia's beloved – and also lesser-known – national treasures.

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Waltzing Matilda songsheet

Most Australians know that Banjo Paterson wrote the lyrics to 'Waltzing Matilda' but who wrote the music? And what does it have to do with a rather oddly titled song called 'Go to the Devil and Shake...

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Edmund Barton and the Velvet Soap Advertisement

The first Prime Minister of Australia, Edmund Barton, was born in Sydney on 18 January 1849 and qualified as a lawyer from the University of Sydney after lecturing in Classics. A passionate...

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Endeavour Journal

What is Australia’s greatest book? In the National Library of Australia there is a 743-page volume that could lay claim to the title. It is Lieutenant James Cook’s journal, written on board the...

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Wattie Creek

Wattie Creek entered Australian folklore as the birthplace of the Aboriginal land-rights movement when Prime Minister Gough Whitlam visited the Gurindji people to grant them deeds to their land. The...

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Harold Holt’s Briefcase

The disappearance of our seventeenth Prime Minister at Cheviot Beach sparked countless conspiracy theories and ultimately overshadowed his political accomplishments. At the height of the Cold War,...

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Joseph Cook's Yarra Bell

Joseph Cook became Australia's sixth Prime Minister in 1913. Before that, he established the Royal Australian Navy when he was Defence Minister. The HMAS Yarra was a torpedo boat destroyer and one of...