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'One of the wonders of our time. A magnificent monument to your progress.' The Queen Mother, in a speech upon her arrival to Australia in 1958 says that the Sydney Harbour Bridge is 'perhaps the...
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Written to celebrate the opening of the much-awaited Sydney Harbour Bridge. Includes lines from 'Advance Australian Fair'. 'Folks from Manly gay, or over Mosman way. Now they can take a stroll across...
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Officially opened on 19 March 1932, the Sydney Harbour Bridge was a massive engineering undertaking that transformed the city.
For six years the two half-arches gradually drew closer together. A...
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A tribute to the world of pinball parlours and motorbikes, which Maria Venuti and Jeanne Little performed on The Mike Walsh Show in 1984.
The clip weaves together covers of the 1960s hits 'Born to Be...
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Before Paul Hogan (affectionately known as Hoges) became Mick Dundee in Crocodile Dundee (Peter Faiman, Australia, 1986) he starred in a series of tourism ads designed by the Australian Tourism...
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Pope John Paul II visited Australia in 1986 and spoke with the faithful at a ceremony inside the Sydney Opera House.
This compilation of footage shot by the Network Ten Eyewitness News team shows the...
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This is a compilation of footage from the NFSA collection featuring the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
See more relating to the Sydney Harbour Bridge in the curated collection.
The cover image is from The...
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This news report is from National Nine News on 28 May 2000 and covers the historic Walk for Reconciliation that took place that day. The report shows thousands of people walking across the Sydney...
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Jackie (Jo Kennedy) returns home as a celebrity, having made the news as a tightrope walker, in a stunt set up by her cousin Angus (Ross O’Donovan). She entertains the bar at the Harbour View Hotel...
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Jackie (Jo Kennedy) returns home as a celebrity, having made the news as a tightrope walker, in a stunt set up by her cousin Angus (Ross O’Donovan). She entertains the bar at the Harbour View Hotel...