TAGGED: Sydney
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Five years before the first Mardi Gras, a national Gay Pride festival took place in Australian capital cities in September 1973. We share news footage of the Sydney demonstration and interviews with LGBTQIA+ activists.

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The Great Strike of 1917 achieved little for those who stopped work, yet it remains one of the

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From the balconies of the Sydney Opera House, you can see the glittering lights of Luna Park

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Cinesound Review takes its audience behind the scenes of radio station 2UW, ‘always on the air, broadcasting atop of the State Theatre, Sydney’.

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Curator Nick Henderson shares excerpts from the home movies of Ken Garrahy, which are unique for documenting gay social life in Sydney in the 1960s.

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When Ken Garrahy came to Sydney as a young man, a whole new world

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Guest contributor Diane Minnis looks back at news file footage of the seminal lesbian and gay rights protests that followed the first Mardi Gras in Sydney, 1978.

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Can you help us identify these Sydney locations from landmark 1920s films made by the McDonagh sisters?

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This collection presents highlights from Commonwealth Games held in Australia in 1938, 1962, 1982 and 2006.

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Poster for the 1938 NSW Government film A Nation is Built (Frank Hurley) featuring an Aboriginal man with a shield and spear standing with a sailing ship behind him, above is a Britis