To celebrate its 80th birthday, the ABC created 80 Days That Changed Our Lives to showcase audio visual treasures from the ABC's 80-year-old archives.
Large or small, a single day or months and years, moments of high drama or a gradual shift in attitude, the 80 events featured on this site were documented by the ABC because they made an impact at the time. Looking back at these moments, it's easy to see how certain events mark changes in the way Australians have lived and thought about the world and their place in it.
Historian and ABC Producer Catherine Freyne (ABC Radio National Hindsight) spent four months in the ABC archives, scouring for radio and television programs that capture these memorable events. She sought out the rare and the iconic, including footage that hasn't been seen since the original broadcast. Although every event in our history could not be covered, the result is a brilliant collection of special memories - a look at how we were.
The ABC archives cover the audio-visual history of Australian news, current affairs, documentaries, entertainment, education and sport since 1932 when the ABC's made its first broadcast.
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