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Tagged: Prime Ministers
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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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Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared at Cheviot Beach, Victoria on 17 December 1967.
No trace of him was ever found and the case remains one of Australia’s greatest mysteries. How could the leader...
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The prime minister apologised to Australia's Indigenous peoples on 13 February 2008. We revisit the story through footage from the NFSA News and Current Affairs Program.
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The disappearance of Prime Minister Harold Holt, on 17 December 1967, remains one of Australia’s greatest mysteries.
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As Canberra celebrates its centenary, Jennifer Coombes highlights Raymond Longford's footage of the naming of Canberra.
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One of Canberra’s, and Australia’s, most dramatic events was the reading of the proclamation of the dismissal of the Whitlam Labor government on the steps of Parliament House on 11 November 1975....
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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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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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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...
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Alfred Deakin was Australia's second prime minister and held the position three times.
Deakin was also a journalist and wrote anonymous newspaper articles, even while he was Prime Minister, calling...