SBS language broadcasts added to iconic Sounds of Australia collection

Ten extraordinary audio recordings illustrating Australia’s cultural and political landscape have been added to the National Film & Sound Archive’s Sounds of Australia collection.

SBS broadcasters Ivana Bacic-Serdarevic and Vesna Lusic (SBS)

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.