/ 08 December 2021

Sounds of Australia inductees named

Image source: NITV
Image source: NITV

“Sorry” is what then-PM Kevin Rudd said to Indigenous Aussies in 2008 – and now the speech has been inducted into the National Film and Sound Archive’s (NFSA) Sounds of Australia for 2021. It joins the soundtrack to 1982 film The Man from Snowy River, Gotye and Kimbra’s 2011 smash-hit Somebody I Used to Know, Jim Davidson’s Dandies’ Where The Dog Sits On The Tuckerbox from 1938, 1986’s Wide Open Road by The Triffids; and Renee Geyer’s 1975 classic Heading In The Right Direction. And Gaywaves – a groundbreaking community radio program dealing with LGBTIQ+ issues that ran on 2SER between 1979 and 2005 – also received a nod. The 10 new inductees join 150 sounds currently in the NFSA’s Sounds of Australia archive, which date back to 1896. Pump it up…

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