The 1960s | Four Corners over the decades

With a staff of six and a weekly budget of £480, Four Corners made its debut on Saturday the 19th of August, 1961.
Recorded in Sydney, copies of the program were flown around the country for broadcast. Australia’s first national TV current affairs program was on air.
The program helped Australians discover each other, and the world bringing extraordinary people and places right into their living rooms.
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[@MatthewSummerton]

What a reality shock to see an Australian man talk about how his is not recognised in his own country as an Australian.

[@thatbird2]

Yes. Those were the days when urban Aboriginal people had their own separate entrance into the zoos which cost them nothing because you couldn't charge fauna for looking at other fauna. Simply appalling.

[@thatbird2]

PS Also, during the Boer War, Aboriginal men went with the Australian contingent to South Africa as trackers and were subsequently refused re-entry into Australia because they were not citizens. Their descendants still live there.

[@alphabet_soup123]

This was fascinating. Thank you, hope to see more!

[@bcgibson22]

Never realised that the RSL had a political history

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