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In this Nine News footage from 18 December 1967, journalists interview Deputy Prime Minister John McEwen and then Treasurer William McMahon as they arrive at Parliament House.
Even before Holt...
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Tony Eggleton was Prime Minister Harold Holt's Press Secretary and close adviser. He was called upon to explain Holt's disappearance during nationally televised press conferences.
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Radio and television carried news of Harold Holt’s disappearance on 17 December 1967. This clip is from the documentaryThe Harold Holt Mystery (Ten Network, 1985).
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Is Harold Holt still alive? Did he commit suicide? Was he drunk or drugged? Did he secretly belong to a crime syndicate? Was he a Chinese Communist spy?
With the media and others battling to...
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Zara Holt arrives at Cheviot Beach, the location where her husband had entered the rough sea and disappeared. Holt’s Press Secretary, Tony Eggleton, assists her through the media scrum. Zara meets...
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Newcastle’s history has been dominated by coal mining and the steel industry. The Broken Hill Proprietary Steel Works (BHP) opened in 1915 and continued to operate for 84 years, employing around 50,...
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Peter Yu of the Yawuru and Bunuba, Kimberley Land Council, talks about Indigenous relationship to land and the High Court decision in Mabo v Queensland (No 2) (1992) 175 CLR 1. Paul Keating stresses...
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John Howard responds to the High Court’s decision on the native title of the Wik and Thayorre peoples in Wik Peoples v Queensland (1996) 141 ALR 129. News footage shows a summit held by Aboriginal...
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On 21 June 1966 Australia was shocked when Labor and Opposition Leader Arthur Calwell was shot at close range after attending an anti-conscription rally at Mosman Town Hall, Sydney. Peter Kocan...
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Upon arrival at Essendon airport Calwell was surrounded by a tight circle of news reporters questioning him about the incident. Obviously tired, he answered their questions but couldn’t wait to get...