Images from the National Archives look back down the years at what became an election-night television institution
Main image: Soon-to-be prime minister John Gorton discusses the tally board results at Canberra’s Lyneham high school in 1969Television arrived in Australia in 1956 and
election-night live broadcasts started with the ABC from a small Sydney location. Each election soon became a television event and the rest of the networks started broadcasting as well
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