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Kylie Minogue – the highest selling Australian-born artist of all time – is inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2011.
Having known her for most of her career, an emotional Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum is...
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Twenty days after becoming Australia's 23rd Prime Minister, Bob Hawke speaks to Mike Walsh about the election campaign and his plans for Australia's future.
As well as stories about fashion, music...
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Malcolm Fraser (1930–2015) became Prime Minister following the dramatic dismissal of the Whitlam Government in November 1975. He held the office for over 7 years.
Fraser later became co-chair of the...
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Narrator Rachel Perkins sets the scene for the apology to the Stolen Generations given by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on 13 February 2008. Interwoven are the personal experiences of Sue Gordon AM of...
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This cinema ad for the 1946 federal election encourages Australians to stay with the Labor Party, which has successfully led the country through the end of the Second World War. The clip shows the ad...
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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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Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula has become a place of pilgrimage for many Australians.
For the centenary of the landing of Australian and New Zealand troops in 2015, over 10,000 people made the...
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Prime Minister Bob Hawke presents Simon Townsend with an award for the 1000th episode of Simon Townsend's Wonder World!.
With the Australian national anthem playing in the background, the prime...
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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 footage shows...
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The official opening of the Heidelberg Golf Club was declared by the then Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Mr Stanley Bruce on Saturday the 23rd of June 1928. This was an important event for the...