TAGGED: 1970s
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Adored by Australian television audiences for decades, we list 12 reasons to love Jeanne Little.

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Yolngu elder Mithili Wanambi talks about the importance of his people living on their traditional clan lands in this excerpt from Djungguwan at Gurka'wuy (1976).

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Scott Goodings talks about how TV soap Number 96 became a phenomenon in the early 1970s, coinciding with a freeing up of the arts

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Writer Mac Gudgeon talks about the importance of Australian content on our screens – it reflects our culture and society. If we are unable to tell our stories, diversity will disappear.

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In this clip, Tim Bowden talks about the influential and groundbreaking early ABC current affairs program, This Day Tonight

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Ray Edmondon describes how, following the advent of television in 1956, newsreels in Australia shared the common fate of cinema newsreels in other parts of the world.

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Television news cameraperson Reg Boulter talks about being part of the first camera crew to film after the West Gate Bridge collapse on 15 October 1970.

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Television news cameraperson Ron Ashmore talks about filming at the site of the West Gate Bridge collapse on 15 October 1970.

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We mark World Day for Audiovisual Heritage and Home Movie Day with footage of Australia's top overseas travel destinations.

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On 15 October 1970, Australia's worst-ever industrial accident occurred when the West Gate Bridge collapsed into the Yarra River in Melbourne, killing 35 people.