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This Nine News report from May 1994 reveal that a witness from the UK had identified the man who had robbed him and tried to kidnap him near the Belanglo State Forest years earlier.

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This clip is from a news bulletin that appeared during Network Ten's morning current affairs program Good Morning Australia on 26 January 1988.

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Excerpt from interview with George Negus as part of the NFSA's Oral History program.

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Journalist Sandra Sully remembers the experience of reporting the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York, and talks about the importance of preserving news coverage.

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Journalist Mal Walden talks about his experience covering Cyclone Tracy in December 1974.

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Fifty years ago, on 21 June 1966, Australia was shocked when Labor and Opposition Leader Arthur Calwell was shot at close range by 19-year-old Peter Kocan.

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Australia converted to decimal currency on 14 February 1966. As the jingle says 'Clink go the cents folks, clink, clink, clink. Changeover day is closer than you think.'

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Christmas drivers taking the coast road out of Canberra in 1974 had to face the rapidly deteriorating 'horror highway'.

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On Thursday 26 September 1974, a global musical phenomenon arrived in Canberra.

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Police, bomb threats, barbed wire, protests ... A tour by the Springboks rugby union team in winter 1971 galvanised anti-apartheid protesters and transformed Canberra.