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As Australia entered the new millennium, the nation was riding on a high from the major success of the Sydney Olympics.
Millions around the world watched Cathy Freeman win gold at the 400m final.
And over 200,000 people marched across Sydney’s Harbour Bridge, a gesture in support of reconciliation for First Nations Australians.
“There was just so much optimism and so much pride that was just flourishing in Australia around that time… we just relive those moments, we re-observe Australia as it was back in 2000,” Director-General of the National Archives of Australia, David Fricker, told SBS News.
Architect Marion Mahony Griffin: her positivity confronted pessimism
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Marion Mahony Griffin has long stood in the shadow of her husband, Walter Burley Griffin, but nowadays the couple are viewed as a partnership, rather like Christo and Jeanne-Claude. In
Paradise on Earth, the Museum of Sydney celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of a formidably talented woman.
It’s ironic that the MoS has presented a show about an outstanding architect and designer in such a fragmented form, with items squeezed in between bits of the permanent display while the major exhibition space resembles a children’s playground covered in graffiti. The awkward configuration of the building must take some of the blame, but the show is literally all over the place. The pandemic has made it difficult to secure loans but certain details, such as the elegant information b
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CITY Walk is getting into the holiday spirit with its “kaleidoscopic” Christmas tree, unique Christmas decorations designed by artist Stephen Mok, as well as family activities, giveaways and performances by local artists and roving carollers. Information here.
“DICKSON Sounds in the Village” has been bringing sounds alive in Dickson every Saturday for the past month, and will host its last performance featuring the Bec Taylor School of Music at Dickson Library courtyard, 11am-1pm, December 19. Information here.
Christmas classic “Elf” will be on show at the courtyard in front of the Dickson Post Shop… December 19
CLASSIC Christmas film “Elf”, starring Will Ferrell, will be on show at the courtyard in front of the Dickson Post Shop from 8pm, with entertainment from Lucy Sparkles and friends starting at 6pm, December 19. Information here.
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“What is the point of having an important document buried in an archive for decades, invisible and out of reach to the public?”
That is the question at the centre of an emotional tug-of-war over a historic travel document between the National Archives of Australia and the descendants of a Jewish family who fled Nazi Europe.
The visa was unearthed in September after a decades-long search for the heirloom the family believed to be lost.
The archives did not even know it held the document, until Linda Royal paid it $127.20 to search previously unopened files it held on her family.