TAGGED: Second World War
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This rare home movie footage from 1939 features the Australian rugby union team en route to the UK – and a tour that would never take place due to the outbreak of war.

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Andrew Garfield as American Army Medic Desmond T Doss in a scene from Hacksaw Ridge.

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This ABC recording features the Victory in Europe (VE Day) Federal Parliamentary announcement of the end of Second World War hostilities in Europe.

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Ten sound recordings with cultural, historical and aesthetic significance have been added to Sounds of Australia for 2021. 

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This episode of The Sullivans (1976–83) features 8-year-old Kylie Minogue in her first TV acting role.

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Amateur filmmaker Neville Govett talks about his footage of Brisbane at the end of the Second World War in September 1945.

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This ABC News Canberra report profiles Kurt Fearnley AO – one of Australia’s most recognised and successful athletes.

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Tom Uren (1921–2015) was one of the most respected Labor politicians of his generation.

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Sir Marcus Oliphant (1901–2000) was a founding father of the Australian National University in Canberra and a former Governor of South Australia.

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Inga Clendinnen (1934–2016) was a writer, academic and historian whose work on Aztec and Mayan cultures and the Holocaust has been praised around the world.