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A collage of iconic images featuring an image of Princess Diana, 'tank man', and 'napalm girl'

A man stands in front of a row of tanks.

ABC journalist Max Uechtritz taking shelter on a hotel balcony while covering the Tiananmen Square massacre

A man climbs aboard an army tank during pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square

"We'd like to think, obviously, that he got away and he lived and he's out there somewhere… but we'll absolutely never know,"
he said.

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US astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, wearing a space suit with a reflective helmet.

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin unfurl the American flag on the moon in June 1969

Terrified children, including 9-year-old Kim Phuc, are running after a South Vietnamese plane accidentally dropped napalm

Kim Phuc and Nick Ut look at the original negatives of the iconic "napalm girl" photo at the AP headquarters photo library

Wave Hill station handover

A sepia tinted photo of Gough Whitlam pouring a handful of sand into Vincent Lingiari's hand.

Princess Diana shakes hands with an HIV-positive man

"If a royal was allowed to shake a patient's hand, somebody at the bus stop or in the supermarket could do the same. That really educated people,"
he said.

A blonde woman holding a toddler in her arms and smiling

A young boy flees the fiery shores by boat during the Black Summer bushfires

"Both my boys were little legends, they were very calm … Finn drove the boat and my other son looked after the dog in the boat."

People gather on the Mallacoota boat ramp under a red haze.

"They had this time to gestate, they had this time to sink into the consciousness of the world. And then they became the icons that people could recognise as such."

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