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  1. 14 hours ago

    "Skirts were tossed up, but no kilts" on this St Patrick's Day March in Sydney, 1986. Photo by Peter Solness

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    10 years ago today, the wreckage of the HMAS Sydney was found. The Sydney's entire crew perished when it was sunk by the Kormoran during WW2. Pic of crew arriving in Circular Quay, Feb 1941, by F.J. Halmarick.

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  3. Mar 13

    Stephen Hawking appears via hologram at Sydney Opera House on April 25, 2015. The English theoretical physicist and author has died aged 76. Photo by Prudence Upton

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  4. Mar 13

    (2/2) The bell on display. A month or so after these photos were taken, Kaolmel stole the bell again, and fled to Melbourne where he buried it in Royal Park. Investigators recovered the bell in December of 1933, and it was returned to Sydney.

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  5. Mar 13

    (1/2) Two men holding the bell from the German cruiser S.M.S. Emden, Australian War Museum, Sydney, 14 March 1933. The bell had just been found buried in the Domain, after it was stolen in August 1932 by a German immigrant, Charles Kaolmel. Staff photo

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  6. Mar 13

    Coop's Shot Tower, Knox Place, in 1954. Constructed in 1890, it was the tallest building in at the time. Now under a glass dome, the tower is part of the Melbourne Central Shopping Centre.

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  7. Mar 12

    Two boys wading in the Gloucester River, located in the Mid North Coast hinterland of New South Wales, ca. late-1920s. Photo by Herbert Fishwick

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  8. Mar 12

    Queen's Bridge in , in 1947.

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    Ferry passengers at Circular Quay, Sydney, on 13 March 1928. Staff photographer

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  10. Mar 11

    150 years ago today, a would-be assassin shot the visiting Duke of Edinburgh at Clontarf, in northern Sydney. From the Sydney Morning Herald, March 13, 1868. Read the full story here:

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  11. Mar 11

    Peter Temple, the first crime writer to win Australia’s most significant literary award, the Miles Franklin, has died aged 71. Front page story on Temple's win from The Age June 23, 2010. Photo by Dallas Kilponen

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  12. Mar 9

    Nancy Anderson, one of 2000 marchers in the 1969 May Day parade in Sydney.

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  13. Mar 7

    Zelda D'Aprano chains herself to the front doors of the Commonwealth Centre in in 1970 to protest in favour of women's rights.

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  14. Mar 7

    Happy International Women's Day! Activist, journalist and radio commentator Linda Littlejohn (1883–1949), NSW, ca. 1925. In her novel Life and Lucille (1933) she dramatized the need for divorce reform and financial independence for women. Staff photo

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  15. Mar 6

    Jeff St. John sings the national anthem at the opening ceremony of the 2000 Paralympic Games, in Homebush, Sydney, on October 18, 2000. The veteran rock singer and disability advocate has died aged 71. Photo by Rick Stevens

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  16. Mar 6

    A freak hail storm hits the track at Flemington Racecourse, after race six, causing the rest of the meeting to be abandoned. March, 2010.

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  17. Mar 5

    Jim Cairns leads an anti-nuclear bomb and anti-France protest along Swanston Street, in 1972.

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  18. Mar 4

    Woman in hat embracing young man. Date, subject and location unknown. Damaged slide. Staff photographer

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    🌈Celebrating 40 years of Sydney Gay & Lesbian ! ! 🌈 Check out more photos from the here: Photos:

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    Australian film director Ken G. Hall (left) farewells British actor Cecil Kellaway in Sydney on 10 January 1939. Hall was the first Australian to win an Academy Award, for his 1942 newsreel 'Kokoda Front Line'. Staff photo

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