Key Points
- The 2024 additions include the first Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Australian to use recorded sound to document Aboriginal culture, hip hop, speeches, a theme tune, the launch of what is now SBS Audio, an advertising jingle for an iconic Australian beer, and the last known recording of a now-extinct species.
- The sounds are nominated by members of the public and then voted on by a panel of industry and NFSA sound experts.
- Snippets from the earliest broadcasts of the first in-language broadcasts on radio 2-E-A, short for Ethnic Australia, are part of ten new additions to the National Film & Sound Archive’s Sounds of Australia collection.
