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    15 Powerful Photographs That Will Change Your Perception Of Australia

    New exhibition reveals another side of Australian history.

    1. Migrants arriving in Sydney in 1966.

    2. Adelaide River in 1887.

    3. This gorgeous photo of a fashion model in 1939.

    4. The harshness of the Australian landscape in 1937.

    5. Aboriginal people fishing on the flooded Murray River in 1886.

    6. Max Dupain's iconic photo of a man sunbaking on a beach.

    7. What the General Post Office in Sydney looked like in 1892.

    8. What the Melbourne CBD looked like in 1903.

    9. Middle Harbour, Port Jackson in 1865.

    10. Two sisters looking out at the Three Sisters in 1898.

    11. Men relaxing for a tea break in the bush.

    12. This Tracey Moffatt photograph of children playing with a camera.

    13. Rosemary Laing's unsettling modern artwork.

    14. This iconic photograph of the Aboriginal land rights movement in Australia.

    15. And this little girl, who is just so done with the whole photo thing.