Born on Ukerebagh Island in northern NSW, Neville Bonner (1922–1999) started his working life as a ringbarker, canecutter and stockman.

This collection profiles some of the most extraordinary Australian women of our time.

Flo Bjelke-Peterson (1920–2017) was a National Party Senator for Queensland, and was also well known as the wife of former Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen.

Another production technique often utilised on Martin/Molloy was cutting up real interviews and inserting questions from Tony or Mick to create a fake interview with a real person.

Some sort of federation of the Australian colonies had been suggested as early as 1846.

Ferocious political struggles over the shape of the new nation continued to the eleventh hour.

On 20 October 1966, United States President Lyndon B Johnson arrived in Australia for the first ever Presidential visit to Australia.

A banner proclaiming ‘Honneur et Patrie’ (Honour and Fatherland) appears at the start of this newsreel footage. We then see the Treaty of Versailles, signed by the Allied powers.

The NFSA collection contains over 100 political glass slide advertisements from 1917 to 1976.

Neville Bonner grew up on the banks of the Richmond River and started his working life as a ringbarker, canecutter and stockperson.

This is a story of personal tragedy, political rivalries, corruption and trial by media that nearly tore apart Australia at the moment of its birth.