Sounds of Australia
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{{Infobox award
| name = Sounds of Australia
| image = The Fairlight CMI.jpg
| caption = The Fairlight CMI, the world’s first polyphonic digital sampling synthesizer, invented in 1979 by Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie, was added to the Sounds of Australia in 2015
| year = 2007
| presenter = National Film & Sound Archive
| eligibility = Eligible sound recordings must be Australian and at least 10 years old. The final selection is curated by a panel of industry experts and NFSA curators, with input from public nominations.
| awarded_for = The National Film and Sound Archive's annual capsule of iconic Australian audio moments.
| country = Australia
| website = {{URL|https://www.nfsa.gov.au/sounds}}
}}
The Sounds of Australia, formerly the National Registry of Recorded Sound, is the National Film & Sound Archive's selection of sound recordings deemed culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant and relevant for Australia. It was founded in 2007.
History
The National Registry of Recorded Sound was established in 2007{{cite web | last=Rosel | first=Rachael | title=Strewth! The best Aussie songs in The Sounds of Australia Archive | website=Starts at 60 | date=10 November 2019 | url=https://startsat60.com/media/opinion/nostalgia/sound-of-australia-archive-songs-nostalgic-aussie-music | access-date=7 August 2020}} by the National Film and Sound Archive to encourage appreciation of the diversity of sounds recorded in Australia, since the first phonographs made by the Edison Manufacturing Company were available in Australia in the mid-1890s.{{cite web | title=Sounds of Australia | website=Australian Screen Online | date=11 November 1975 | url=https://aso.gov.au/titles/collections/sounds-of-australia/ | access-date=12 August 2020}}
The earliest recording in the archive is "The Hen Convention", a song recorded before 15 January 1897 by an amateur sound recordist, Thomas Rome of Warrnambool, who imported the most modern equipment from the United States. The song features the voice of John James Villiers, also of Warrnambool. It is a novelty song, featuring imitations of sounds made by chickens.{{cite web|url=https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curated/hen-convention-thomas-rome|website=National Film and Sound Archive|title=The Hen Convention by Thomas Rome|first=Maryanne|last=Doyle|access-date=12 August 2020}}{{cite web | title=The Hen Convention: Notes | website=Australian Screen Online | date=11 November 1975 | url=https://aso.gov.au/titles/music/the-hen-convention/notes/|first=Maryanne|last=Doyle | access-date=12 August 2020}}
Other early sound recordings include Aboriginal Tasmanian women's songs (1899), Spencer and Gillen's 1901 recordings on wax cylinder of Arrernte, Anmatyerr, Kaytetye, Warumungu, Luritja , and Arabana peoples of central Australia{{cite web|url=https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curated/sounds-australia-2019|website=National Film and Sound Archive|title=Cylinder Recordings from Central Australia by Spencer and Gillen and Aboriginal communities (1901)|date=4 November 2019|access-date=12 August 2020}} (added in 2019{{cite web | last=Martin | first=Amy | title=National Film and Sound Archive adds Olivia Newton-John and John Farnham to Sounds of Australia registry | website=Canberra Times| date=7 November 2019 | url=https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6478292/olivia-newton-john-and-john-farnham-the-sounds-of-australia/ | access-date=12 August 2020}}), and Ernest Shackleton talking about his polar expedition in 1910.{{cite web|url=https://www.nfsa.gov.au/about/our-mission/sounds-australia|website=National Film and Sound Archive|title=The complete Sounds of Australia list|date=28 October 2016|access-date=12 August 2020}}
Description
As part of the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA), it is part of a "living archive", to share in many ways and to keep for future generations.{{cite web|url=https://www.nfsa.gov.au/about|website=National Film and Sound Archive|title=About|date=9 August 2016|access-date=12 August 2020}}
The Australian public nominates new sounds to be added each year, with final selections determined by a panel of industry experts and NFSA curators. There are usually about ten recordings added each year. They represent significant achievements in how we have recorded the sounds of our history and memory.
The criteria for nomination are wide: "they can be popular songs, advertising jingles, famous speeches, radio broadcasts, or any other sound recordings" – but they must be Australian and be more than 10 years old.{{cite interview | title=What are the sounds of Australia?|interviewer-first=Trevor|interviewer-last= Chappell|first=Thorsten|last= Kaeding | website= ABC Radio (Overnights)|format=Audio| date=20 April 2020| url=https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/overnights/sounds-of-australia-at-the-national-film-and-sound-archive/12187784 | access-date=12 August 2020}}
Recordings
In this table, "2007a" refers to the 2007 Foundation List (entries chosen before official voting began), while "2007b" refers to the first of the annual registry additions, also in 2007.
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| style="width:275px;"| Recording or collection
! style="width:275px;"| Performer or agent ! style="width:75px;"| Release year ! style="width:50px;"| Addition year ! style="width:50px;"| NFSA |
|---|
| "The Hen Convention" Earliest extant Australian sound recording |John James Villiers |data-sort-value=1896|c. 1896 |2007a |452097 |
| "Chant Vénitien"
|1904 |2007a |301462 |
| ”The Landing of the Australian Troops in Egypt”{{efn|group=upper-alpha|A simulated recording of Australian troops. They are greeted by a brass band playing, "Advance Australia Fair".{{cite web | url = https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curated/landing-australian-troops-egypt-0 | title = The Landing of the Australian troops in Egypt | last = Byrnes | first = Paul | publisher = National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) | accessdate = 13 August 2020 }}}}
| |1915 |2007a |229758 |
| "Along the Road to Gundagai"
|1931 |2007a |332353 |
| "Give a Little Credit To Your Dad"/"Lonesome For You Mother Dear"
|1939 |2007a |190438 |
| "Swanston St Shamble"/"Two Day Jag"
|Graeme Bell's Dixieland Band |1944 |2007a |232811 |
| Tribal Music of Australia
|Indigenous Australians from the Yirrkala district in Arnhem Land; recorded by A. P. Elkin |1953 |2007a |242999 |
| "She's My Baby"
|1960 |2007a |291386 |
| 'Kerr's cur' speech
|1975, Nov. 11 |2007a |156392 |
| "Down Under"
|1981 |2007a |337398 |
| Fanny Cochrane Smith's Tasmanian Aboriginal Songs
|Fanny Cochrane Smith, recorded by Horace Watson |data-sort-value=1899|1899, 1903 |2007b |500445 |
| "My South Polar Expedition"
|1910 |2007b |562537 |
| Dad and Dave from Snake Gully First episode |George Edwards, and others |1937, May 31 |2007b |737158 |
| "The Majestic Fanfare" ABC radio news theme |Queen's Hall Light Orchestra; Charles Williams, conductor |1943 |2007b |737182 |
| "Maranoa Lullaby"
|1950 |2007b |245797 |
| Corroboree
|Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Sir Eugene Goossens, conductor; John Antill, composer |1950 |2007b |297286 |
| Jack Luscombe oral history
|Jack Luscombe; recorded by John Meredith |1953 |2007b |737269 |
| "Friday on My Mind"
|1966 |2007b |258900 |
| "(I'm) Stranded"
|1976 |2007b |322350 |
| "Jailanguru Pakarnu"
|1983 |2007b |244115 |
| "Country Gardens"
|1919 |2008 |510950 |
| "Waltzing Matilda"
|John Collinson, tenor; Russell Callow, piano |1926 |2008 |283469 |
| The 1930 Australian XI: Winners of the Ashes
|Don Bradman, Bill Woodfull, Clarrie Grimmett, Alan Kippax, Stan McCabe, Tim Wall |1930 |2008 |266765 |
| "The Aeroplane Jelly Song"
|Joy King |1938 |2008 |402848, 281850 |
| Theme from Blue Hills ("Pastorale")
|New Century Orchestra; Sidney Torch, conductor; Ronald Hanmer, composer |1949 |2008 |503205 |
| "A Pub with No Beer"
|1957 |2008 |190647 |
| Irkanda IV
|Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; John Hopkins, conductor; Peter Sculthorpe, composer |1967 |2008 |332275 |
| Bird and Animal Calls of Australia
|Recorded by Harold J Pollock |1968 |2008 |255276 |
| "Most People I Know (Think That I'm Crazy)"
|1972 |2008 |291714 |
| "We Have Survived"
|1981 |2008 |210397 |
| London recordings
|Newcastle Steelworks Band; Albert Baile, conductor |1924 |2009 |560469 |
| "Happy Little Vegemites"
|Betty Parker, Stephen Parker, Julia Parker, and Linda Marcy |1959 |2009 |537271 |
| Smoky Dawson and the Adventure of The Singing Bullet
|1955 |2009 |281755 |
| "My Country"
|Read by Dorothea Mackellar |1958 |2009 |328116 |
| Georgia Lee Sings the Blues Down Under
|1962 |2009 |511557 |
| In the Head the Fire
|South Australian Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Adelaide Singers, and other soloists and vocalists; John Hopkins, conductor; Nigel Butterley, composer |1966 |2009 |323123 |
| Lionel Rose wins the World Title
|1968 |2009 |283495 |
| "I Am Woman"{{efn|group=upper-alpha|This recording is also preserved in the American National Recording Registry.[https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/national-recording-registry-inducts-sounds-of-elton-john--chicago--broadway-s--hamilton---mary-j.-bl/s/986b2312-27dd-4b66-bd41-3113e0cb2e57 "National Recording Registry Inducts Sounds of Elton John, Chicago, Broadway's 'Hamilton,' Mary J. Blige, Amy Winehouse, Minecraft and Microsoft". LOC.gov. Library of Congress.}}
|1972 |2009 |619633 |
| The Loner
|1973 |2009 |757646 |
| "Treaty"
|1991 |2009 |226648 |
| "Hinkler's Message to Australia"/"Incidents of My Flight"
|1928 |2010 |267488 |
| "Wrap Me Up In My Stockwhip and Blanket"
|1936 |2010 |365991 |
| Announcement of the declaration of World War II
|1939, Sep. 3 |2010 |188388 |
| Announcement of war with Japan
|1941, Dec. 8 |2010 |677049 |
| "Bye Bye Baby"
|1959 |2010 |271642 |
| Pick a Box
|Bob and Dolly Dyer |1963, Aug. 20 |2010 |569 |
| Just the Beginning
|Don Burrows Quartet |1971 |2010 |263853 |
| "Eagle Rock"
|1971 |2010 |300956 |
| Opening concert of the Sydney Opera House
|Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Sir Charles Mackerras, conductor; Birgit Nilsson, soprano |1973, Sep. 29 |2010 |766280 |
| Commentary of the 4 x 100 men's medley relay final at the Moscow Olympics
|1980, Jul. 24 |2010 |750967 |
| "We Are Going"
|Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) |1986 |2010 |699094 |
| Rebetika Songs
|Apodimi Compania |1987 |2010 |138939 |
| "From Little Things Big Things Grow"
|Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody |1993 |2010 |244410 |
| Redfern Park speech
|1992, Dec. 10 |2010 | |
| Recordings of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Straits
|Alfred Cort Haddon and others |1898 |2011 |8879 |
| "The Sailors"
|Stiffy and Mo |1927 |2011 |253375 |
| Ken Howard calls the Melbourne Cup
|Ken Howard |data-sort-value=1941|1941, 1952{{efn|group=upper-alpha|Contemporary articles and archived NFSA webpages suggest either the 1952 race or both races were the original selections;{{cite web | url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/kylie-the-melbourne-cup-and-a-natural-disaster-represent-aural-australia-20110817-1iydr.html | title=CKylie, the Melbourne Cup and a natural disaster represent aural Australia | work=Sydney Morning Herald| date=18 August 2011 | access-date=October 16, 2021}}{{cite web |url=http://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/sound/sounds-australia/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324141333/http://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/sound/sounds-australia/ |access-date=October 16, 2021 |archive-date=24 March 2012|title=Sounds of Australia // National Film and Sound Archive, Australia }} the site now only lists the 1941 race.}} |2011 |338699 |
| The maiden parliamentary speeches of Dame Enid Lyons and Dorothy Tangney
|Dame Enid Lyons, Dame Dorothy Tangney |1943–1944 |2011 |483285, 483102 |
| The Art of the Prima Donna
|1960 |2011 |321750 |
| "I'll Never Find Another You"
|1964 |2011 |82220 |
| Living in the 70's
|1974 |2011 |263933 |
| Report on Cyclone Tracy, Darwin
|Mike Hayes and Bruce Grundy |1974 |2011 | |
| "I Should Be So Lucky"
|1987 |2011 |376096 |
| Voss
|Australian Opera Chorus, Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Stuart Challender, conductor; Geoffrey Chard, Marilyn Richardson and other soloists; Richard Meale, composer; David Malouf, libretto |1987 |2011 |230032 |
| "The Black Watch"
|Percy Herford |data-sort-value=1907|c. 1907 |2012 |778653 |
| Sydney recordings
|Queenie and David Kaili |1927–1932 |2012 | |
| Grace Gibson Productions radio serials
|Various artists, produced by Grace Gibson |1944–c.1982 |2012 | |
| The Luise Hercus Collection, AIATSIS Audiovisual Archive
|1962–1997 |2012 | |
| "Royal Telephone"
|1963 |2012 |319442 |
| Patrol from Da Nang
|1966 |2012 | |
| A Track Winding Back
|Barry Humphries and Dick Bentley |1972 |2012 |1063868 |
| "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)"
|1975 |2012 |291607 |
| Tender Prey
|1988 |2012 |425260 |
| Aether
|2001 |2012 |567489 |
| "Hold Your Hand Out Naughty Boy"
|1913 |2013 |189112 |
| Yes, What?
|Rex Dawe and others |1936–1940 |2013 |143364 |
| "Bombora"
|1963 |2013 |291724 |
| The Land Where the Crow Flies Backwards
|1964 |2013 |244102 |
| "The Real Thing"
|1969 |2013 |338066 |
| "I Still Call Australia Home"
|1980 |2013 |291702 |
| Improvisations in Acoustic Chambers
|Ros Bandt |1981 |2013 |230121 |
| This Sporting Life
|1986–2008 |2013 | |
| Recording of a superb lyrebird at Healesville, Victoria
|Greg Wignell |1987 |2013 | |
| "Took the Children Away"
|1990 |2013 |376653 |
| "They Always Follow Me"
|Syria Lamonte |1898 |2014 |1251712 |
| Speech at the opening of the Columbia Graphophone Company Australian factory
|1926 |2014 |774314 |
| Concert in a cave at Tobruk
|Recorded by Chester Wilmot, ABC Field Unit |1941, Oct. |2014 |1341683 |
| "Fireworks" and "The Orgasmic Opus"
|Dr Val Stephen |1967 |2014 |1131993 |
| "Khe Sanh"
|1978 |2014 |260154 |
| "Boys in Town"
|1981 |2014 |296374 |
| "Great Southern Land"
|1982 |2014 |428036 |
| "Cattle and Cane"
|1983 |2014 |736789 |
| Recording of a lone dingo
|Vicki Powys |1990 |2014 |1221379 |
| Deadly Sounds
|Vibe Australia; hosted by Rhoda Roberts |1993–2014 |2014 |696283 |
| Message recorded at Mena Camp, Cairo
|Second Lieutenant Henry Miller Lanser |1914 |2015 |1488057 |
| "Love Will Find a Way"
|1926 |2015 |273694 |
| "Argonauts Row"
|1941 |2015 |569911 |
| Aboriginal recordings on the north-west coast
|John Hutchinson |1959 |2015 |1275952 |
| Sampling sounds
|1979–1989 |2015 | |
| "I Was Only 19 (A Walk in the Light Green)"
|1983 |2015 |376284 |
| "Like Wow – Wipeout"
|1985 |2015 |305311 |
| "Alive and Brilliant"
|1993 |2015 |803963 |
| "LSD"
|1995 |2015 |1458675 |
| "The Nosebleed Section"
|2003 |2015 |661178 |
| "When Father Papered the Parlour"
|1912 |2016 |189178 |
| "Life Without Love"
|Frank Coughlan's Trocadero Orchestra |1937 |2016 |268433 |
| "Skippy the Bush Kangaroo"
|1968 |2016 |495512 |
| "C'mon Aussie C'mon"
|The Mojo Singers |1978 |2016 |409679 |
| "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda"
|1980{{efn|group=upper-alpha|The NFSA uses the 1980 recording, but lists it by the year of its composition, 1971.}} |2016 |82399 |
| "Power and the Passion"
|1982 |2016 |217837 |
| "Sounds of Then (This is Australia)"
|1985 |2016 |220914 |
| Antarctica: Suite for Guitar and Orchestra
|Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra; Nigel Westlake, composer |1997 |2016 |1461560 |
| "My Island Home"
|1995 |2016 |263311 |
| "Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car"
|1998 |2016 |370632 |
| "Sweet Spirit Hear My Prayer"
|Marie Narelle |1910 |2017 |189109 |
| "Our Don Bradman"
|Len Maurice |1930 |2017 |190535 |
| Australia's Amateur Hour
|AWA |1940–1958 |2017 | |
| "Louie the Fly"
|1962 |2017 |281802 |
| "I Remember You"
|1962 |2017 |303276 |
| "Play School Theme (There's a Bear in There)"
|Various performers |data-sort-value=1966|1966, 1976, 1987, 2000, 2011 |2017 | |
| "Love Is in the Air"
|1977{{cite web | last=McCabe | first=Kathy | title=Here are the 10 recordings inducted to the Sounds Of Australia list | website=News.com.au| date=23 October 2017 | url=https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/from-love-is-in-the-air-and-not-pretty-enough-to-louie-the-fly-this-is-the-sound-of-australia/news-story/e92c32b9135fdea3d41bf3d72aec57c1 | access-date=12 August 2020}} |2017 |310545 |
| Brand New Day (Milliya Rumarra)
|1981 |2017 | |
| "Don't Change"
|INXS |1982 |2017 |315857 |
| "Not Pretty Enough"
|2001 |2017 |529136 |
| "Caro Mio Ben"
|1903 |2018 |757100 |
| "Freshie"/"After the Dawn"
|Sydney Simpson and his Wentworth Café Orchestra |1926 |2018 |196416 |
| Binny Lum Collection
|Binny Lum and interviewees |1955–1967 |2018 | |
| "Come Closer to Me"
|1959 |2018 |322824 |
| "I've Been Everywhere"
|1962 |2018 |306316 |
| "Girls in our Town"
|1976 |2018 |287049 |
| "Solid Rock"
|1982 |2018 |303972 |
| Songlines: Songs of the East Australian Humpback Whales
|Mark Franklin (The Oceania Project) |1992–2008 |2018 |1543251 |
| "These Days"
|1999 |2018 |463749 |
| Gurrumul
|2018 |758793 |
| Cylinder recordings from Central Australia
|Baldwin Spencer, Francis James Gillen and Aboriginal communities |1901–1902 |2019 | |
| Twilight of the Gods (Die Götterdämmerung)
|1928 |2019 |273004 |
| "I'm the Sheik of Scrubby Creek"
|1952 |2019 |275674 |
| Prestophone master tape ("Old Rugged Hills"/"Rhythm of Corroboree", "When My Homeland is Calling"/"Maranoa Moon") |1955–1956 |2019 |249178 |
| "The Man from Snowy River"
|1956 |2019 |193755 |
| "You're the One That I Want"
|Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta |2019 |222298 |
| "Up There Cazaly"
|1979 |2019 |290258 |
| "You're the Voice"
|1986 |2019 |296286 |
| "Truly Madly Deeply"
|1997 |2019 |499765 |
| Wild Swans
|Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra; Elena Kats-Chernin, composer |2005 |2019 |721303 |
| "Starlight"
|Hamilton Hill |1907 |2020 |1543945 |
| "Étude de concert in F minor"/"Étude de concert in A flat major"
|1933 |2020 |401155 |
| Olympic Games, Melbourne 1956: Opening and closing ceremonies Official souvenir recordings | |1956 |2020 |312957, 312955 |
| Nausicaa: Opera in Three Acts
|Athens Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Carlos Surinach; Peggy Glanville-Hicks, composer |1961 |2020 |701032 |
| Arnhem Land Popular Classics
|David Blanasi (didgeridu), Djoli Laiwanga (vocals), and other performers; recorded by La Mont West Jr. |1963 |2020 |210787 |
| "Because I Love You"
|1971 |2020 |320598 |
| "It's Time"
|Alison MacCallum and others |1972 |2020 |253356 |
| "True Blue"
|1986 |2020 |224765 |
| "Tomorrow"
|1994 |2020 |295091 |
| Martin/Molloy
|Tony Martin and Mick Molloy |1995–1998 |2020 | |
| "The Absent-Minded Beggar"
|John J Virgo |1900 |2021 |1621951 |
| "Where the Dog Sits on the Tuckerbox"
|Jim Davidson's Dandies and Dick Cranbourne |1938 |2021 |190972 |
| First parliamentary sitting broadcast: Announcement of Victory in Europe
|Ben Chifley and Robert Menzies |1945, May 8 |2021 |81384 |
| "He's My Blonde Headed, Stompie Wompie, Real Gone Surfer Boy"
|Little Pattie and The Statesmen |1963 |2021 |315308 |
| "Heading in the Right Direction"
|The Renée Geyer Band |1975 |2021 |259069 |
| Gaywaves
|Gaywaves Collective, 2SER |1979–2005 |2021 | |
| The Man from Snowy River soundtrack
|1982 |2021 |286452 |
| "Wide Open Road"
|1986 |2021 |420900 |
| Apology to The Stolen Generations
|2008, Feb. 13 |2021 |759728 |
| "Somebody That I Used to Know"
|2011 |2021 |1064570 |
| Farewell Address to Australia
|1904, Jan. 20 |2022 | |
| "Digger"
|1942 |2022 |190905 |
| Horrie Dargie Concert
|The Horrie Dargie Harlequintet |1952 |2022 |281525 |
| "The Drover’s Dream"{{efn|group=upper-alpha|The media release also includes the B-side of the record: "The Drover's Dream"/"The Bullockies' Ball".{{cite web | url = https://www.nfsa.gov.au/julia-gillards-misogyny-speech-neighbours-theme-tune-bicentenary-protests-all-become-sounds | title = Julia Gillard's misogyny speech, Neighbours theme tune, Bicentenary protests all become Sounds of Australia | publisher = National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) | accessdate = 13 December 2022 }}}}
|Alan Scott and The Bushwhackers |1955 |2022 |301526 |
| Decimal currency jingle
|1965 |2022 |205358 |
| "The Lord’s Prayer"
|1973 |2022 |335577 |
| "Stayin' Alive"
|1977 |2022 |322493 |
| Neighbours theme song
|1987 |2022 |301375 |
| Bicentenary protest coverage
|1988, Jan. 26 |2022 | |
| Misogyny speech
|2012, Oct. 9 |2022 | |
| "Anvil Chorus"
|P.C. Spouse |1927 |2023 |190551 |
| Sweet Nell of Old Drury
|Nellie Stewart and others |1931 |2023 |307950 |
| Death of a Wombat
|Ivan Smith, author; George S. English, composer; Alastair Duncan, narrator; Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by Nicolai Malko |1961 |2023 |366622 |
| "I Only Came to Say Goodbye"
|1961 |2023 |315918 |
| "The Loved One"
|1966 |2023 |798901 |
| "Howzat"
|1976 |2023 |314105 |
| "Menstruation Blues"
|1977 |2023 |139169 |
| Harry Williams and the Country Outcasts
|Harry and Wilga Williams and the Country Outcasts |1979 |2023 |235611 |
| "Slip! Slop! Slap!" jingle
|Peter Best and Phillip Adams; Cancer Council Victoria |1981 |2023 | |
| "I Am Australian"
|Judith Durham, Russell Hitchcock, and Mandawuy Yunupingu |1997 |2023 |321473 |
| Concerto of the Greater Sea
|Joseph Tawadros; Australian Chamber Orchestra |2012 |2023 |1053312 |
| Address to the Women's International Radio League
|1945, May 28 |2024 | |
| Speaking Clock
|Gordon Gow and the Postmaster-General's Department |1954 |2024 | |
| Doctor Who theme
|Ron Grainer, composer; Delia Derbyshire, musician and arranger |1963 |2024 | |
| Victoria Bitter advertisements
|John Meillon, George Patterson Agency |1968 |2024 | |
| Jimmie Barker collections
|Jimmie Barker |1968–1972 |2024 | |
| Earliest 2EA broadcasts in language
|1975, Jun.–Aug. |2024 | |
| "Kickin' to the Undersound"
|1992 |2024 | |
| "Chains"
|1994 |2024 | |
| Last call of the Christmas Island pipistrelle
|2009, Aug. 26 |2024 | |
| Inaugural speech to Australian Parliament
|2013, Nov. 12 |2024 | |
= Notes =
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Statistics
The most recent recording on the list is Aboriginal former senator Nova Peris' inaugural speech to Parliament,{{Cite web |last=Thrower |first=Matt |title=Sounds of Australia 2024: Inside our Sounds |url=https://www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/sounds-australia-2024-inside-our-sounds |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241219050206/https://www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/sounds-australia-2024-inside-our-sounds |archive-date=19 December 2024 |access-date=6 January 2025 |website=National Film and Sound Archive of Australia}} while the oldest is Percy Herford's 1896 recording "The Hen Convention".[https://aso.gov.au/titles/collections/sounds-of-australia/ Collection - National Registry of Recorded Sound at ASO - Australia's audio and visual heritage online]
See also
References
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External links
- {{Official|https://www.nfsa.gov.au/about/our-mission/sounds-australia}}
Category:2007 establishments in Australia
Category:Australia history-related lists
Category:Australian music awards
Category:Awards established in 2007