Hindsight - Galleries
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Deadly Dust
- 28 images
- Published: 23/11/2008
It was once regarded as the 'magic mineral' but the deadly legacy of asbestos continues to mount. Australia now has the highest rates of the fatal asbestos cancer mesothelioma in the world.
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War in the Indian Ocean
- 18 images
- Published: 02/11/2008
In Australia, the public limelight of commemorative attention continues to be entirely dominated by the great battles and campaigns of the Atlantic, Europe, the Mediterranean, North Africa and the Pacific. On the other hand, in spite of the deployment of thousands of Australian military personnel, the Indian Ocean theatre rarely gets more than a passing mention in the history books.
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Tlatelolco: a Mexican palimpsest
- 15 images
- Published: 26/10/2008
In Mexico City, thousands of people marched through the streets to mark the 40th anniversary of a brazen and brutal repression of student protestors, carried out by the state on the eve of the Mexico City Olympic Games. The Tlatelolco massacre, as it became known, spilt yet more blood upon one of Mexico City's most significant historical and archaeological sites.
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Red Dust Travellers
- 50 images
- Published: 05/10/2008
Across one decade from 1950 to 1960, suburban Australians first began to venture inland to the Red Centre, along dirt tracks into the toughest desert country.
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It's a Furphy
- 17 images
- Published: 14/09/2008
'The Furphy story is the story of a word, a novel, and an intriguing approach to agricultural machinery. It is also the story of two brothers, Joseph and John Furphy, who lived and worked in Shepparton, Victoria, in the late 1800s and early 1900s.'
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The Pink House
- 12 images
- Published: 03/08/2008
Colour is the key to the life of Melbourne artist Lina Bryans, who contributed to Australian culture on many fronts. Bryans became an artist in the mid 1930s, a time when Melbourne artists were drawn in to battlelines around issues of modernism. She allied herself with no single party, but went on to become the centre of an artists' house in the 1940s.
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The Model Town and the Machine: A History of Yallourn
- 15 images
- Published: 08/06/2008
The story of a beautifully designed garden city with a thriving community of about a thousand families that was destroyed to make way for an open cut mine.
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The Model Town and the Machine: A History of Yallourn
- 15 images
- Published: 01/06/2008
The story of a beautifully designed garden city with a thriving community of about a thousand families that was destroyed to make way for an open cut mine.
