The radio telescope at Honeysuckle Creek near Canberra transmitted the first images of Neil Armstrong on the moon

Hundreds of thousands of excited fans greeted the band in the staid South Australian capital at the peak of global Beatlemania

The smiling faces of Anzac landing forces are captured before the most storied Australian engagement of the first world war

Image of the distraught Soviet official being dragged across the tarmac to a plane waiting to take her to Moscow became an enduring emblem of the cold war in Australia

On 19 March 1932 the Sydney Harbour Bridge opened to the public. The official opening was controversially interrupted by Francis de Groot

The first visit to Australia by a reigning monarch took in a sheep show in rural New South Wales

Twelve people died when the Lake Illawarra bulk carrier struck the bridge connecting Hobart across the Derwent River in 1975

Nuclear tests conducted in South Australia from 1956 resulted in swaths of countryside obliterated and decades of highly contaminated land

The Northern Territory mine, opened in 1954 to help supply the UK and US atomic weapons programs, has left a huge pollution problem