Digital resources tagged with ‘national interest’

Broadcaster control

Liz Jacka details the history of broadcaster control and the introduction of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board.

Censorship in Media

John Safran discusses censorship in Australian media.

Gold Rush in the West

Gold, more than any other single factor, transformed the Australian colonies.

In My Father's Footsteps

In 1988, Meg Taylor began walking across the Highlands of Papua New Guinea to retrace the journey her father had made 50 years earlier.

Joseph Lyons’ Love Letters

Politics rarely produces impassioned romantics, which makes the hundreds of letters Joseph Lyons wrote to his adored wife and confidante, Enid, as fascinating as they are unexpected

Newsreels before sound

Newsreels included events of both political and social importance and were screened all day long in specially designed cinemas.

Road to Progress -- Peter Butt interview

For producer and director Peter Butt, making My Father, My Country was both an adventure and a chance to discover Papua New Guinea's past.

Stuart Crosses the Continent

There was enormous public and media speculation about whether the Victorian backed Burke and Wills or South Australia's Stuart expedition would be the first to cross the continent's interior.

William Hughes and the 1916 Conscription Badge

William Hughes, “The Little Digger”, campaigned twice for national conscription to boost an Australian army decimated by World War One.