In this short clip Weekend Sunrise presenter Jessica Rowe does a round-up of events happening around Australia in connection with Australia Day.

Half the population of Sydney, which was 1.2 million at the time, came to witness the Sydney Harbour Bridge opening.

Paul Hogan and the Sydney Harbour Bridge star in this cheeky ad produced for the Australian Tourism Commission promoting Australia as a tourist destination for Americans.

This is a compilation of footage from the NFSA collection featuring the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

A model of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera House on the set of post-apocalyptic Sydney, created for Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (George Miller and George Ogi

Pope John Paul II visited Australia in 1986 and spoke with the faithful at a ceremony inside the Sydney Opera House.

Ice skating duo Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean were sports superstars in Australia, and around the world, in the 1980s.

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 To

A tribute to the world of pinball parlours and motorbikes, which Maria Venuti and Jeanne Little performed on The Mike Walsh Show in 1984.

To mark the 50th anniversary of the first raising of the Aboriginal flag in July 1971, proud Kamilaroi yinarr (woman) Cheree Toka writes about what the Aboriginal flag means to her.