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Kiddies of Queensland Enjoy Outings in their Billy Carts: Rockhampton

This segment from Kiddies of Queensland Enjoy Outings in their Billy Carts: Rockhampton features a group of children riding goats and sitting in buggies that are being pulled by goats.

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The Ten Commandments: live prologue, Far North Queensland

In 1925, Paramount Pictures employed Australian film director Franklyn Barrett (The Breaking of the Drought, A Girl of the Bush) to manage the North Queensland tour of the silent

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The Maryborough Railway Employees’ Picnic

This footage from 20 March 1938 is from the Maryborough Railway employees’ picnic held at Scarness, Queensland.

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Birth of The Courier-Mail newspaper

The first edition of The Courier-Mail newspaper was published on 28 August 1933 as a result of a merger between the Brisbane Courier and the Daily Mail.

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1970s Brisbane – fire, tornado and flood

This short clip covers the Whiskey Au Go Go fire, a tornado in 1973 and the 1974 Brisbane flood. 

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First State of Origin, 1980

The State of Origin is an annual rugby league series between the New South Wales Blues and the Queensland Maroons. 

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A history of the Ekka

This clip from a Seven News Brisbane special includes early footage from the Royal Queensland Show, or Ekka ('Exhibition') for short.

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Gold Coast holiday: home movie

The NFSA has a number of home movies of Gold Coast holidays. This clip from the 1970s is an excerpt from home movies shot by Eileen Smith.

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Australian Biography: Ray Whitrod

Ray Whitrod (1915–2003) came to national prominence in 1976 when he resigned as Queensland's Commissioner of Police as a protest against corruption.

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Australian Biography: Flo Bjelke-Peterson

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.