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Donald Bradman’s status as an Australian icon is without question. But can just one of the bats he used to enter the record books sum up his unparalleled cricketing career?
Warren Brown pulls on the...
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Despite being one of the greatest Australian films ever made, the 1919 silent movie The Sentimental Bloke was almost lost to the audiences of today. So how was it recovered?
Warren Brown visits the...
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If you were forced to leave your home forever, what would you take with you?
Vietnamese refugee Cuc Lam took family photos and jewellery but sacrificed one precious possession to buy a suitcase, now...
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How did bohemian artist Norman Lindsay, famous for painting provocative nudes, end up producing one of Australia’s best-loved children’s books?
Cartoonist James Kemsley reveals the legend behind the...
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CSIRAC was the first fully automatic electronic digital computer to be built in Australia. It was also one of the first in the world, so why didn't Australia become a computer superpower?
Warren...
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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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Surfing may well be a quintessential Aussie pastime but who introduced us to the modern-day art of boardriding?
Warren Brown gets the lowdown from former world champion surfer Midget Farrelly. He...
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Football, meatpies, kangaroos and Thomson cars?
Herbert Thomson was the first person to design, build and market a wholly Australian-made car, 50 years before the first Holden.
Warren Brown talks to...
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How did a lifeboat, left to rot on the shores of Gallipoli, come to have pride of place at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra?
Curator John White tells the story of this little boat’s tumultuous...
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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...