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The first public screening of a movie was held at the Athanaeum Hall in Melbourne.
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This was the first feature film ever made, it was directed by Charles Tait and filmed around the city of Melbourne.
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On the 23 of November, the first Australian radio broadcast commenced, the people of Sydney eagerly gathered around the radio.
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At the beginning of the war, there was censorship imposed, this meant that The department of information took control of the ABC's 7 pm bulletin.
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Margret Doyle became the first-ever female presenter on Australian National radio
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Ken G Hall was the first Australian to win an Academy Award in the category for Best documentary for his documentary “Kokoda Front Line!”
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early in 1948, there were experimental trials of FM radio
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Talkback radio was started in Perth on 6PR, it was later introduced to Sydney station 2SM and then Melbourne station 3AW
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In 1975 coloured television was invented and by the year 1978 almost two-thirds of every household in Sydney and Melbourne had one. This was one of the primary causes to a 35% decrease in national cinema grosses in 1976.
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This movie changed the way the world and Australians viewed themselves. It also brought a lot of tourists to Australia and to the place the movie was filmed.
