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Rosemary Eather, the host of TEN’s Good Morning With Rosemary, wore this improvised spacesuit, fashioned from a sparkling gold suit and a fish bowl from the props department, to mark the

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Poster for the Sights & Sounds of 69 Music Festival, held at the Sydney Town Hall in May 1969. Val Hogdson was the poster artist.

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Excerpt from a vinyl record produced by the Macquarie Broadcasting Service (MBS) News Division called The Loneliest Journey.

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Excerpt from a vinyl record produced by the Macquarie Broadcasting Service (MBS) News Division called The Loneliest Journey.

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This is an excerpt from a recording of the launch of the Apollo 11 space craft, which was broadcast on 2GB radio and later commercially released as a vinyl disc.

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In 2019, 50 years after the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, the NFSA unearthed a rare recording of the historic event on Australian commercial radio, as it happened in 1969.

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Why did a tiny advertisement in the Classifieds section of The Canberra Times on 2 September 1969 lead to hundreds of Canberrans flocking to the goods yard of Canberra Railway St