Ten sound recordings with cultural, historical and aesthetic significance have been added to Sounds of Australia for 2016. 

'Mother Send the Doctors Away' is a track from Apodimi Compania’s album Rebetika: Songs of Greece (1986).

In this clip, Oodgeroo Noonuccal reads her poem ‘We Are Going’ in full to an appreciative audience at the Harold Park Hotel in Sydney in 1986.

Summary by Michael Weir

This clip includes the final 30 seconds of commentary of the 4 × 100 men’s swimming medley relay at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

Summary by Martin Ford

Among the works performed at the official opening concert at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall on 29 September 1973 was the celebrated aria from Act Two of Wagner’s opera Tannhauser

This 30-second clip includes the instrumental introduction and first verse of 'Bye Bye Baby’, as performed by Col Joye and the Joy Boys with backing vocals from the Sapphires.

This clip features two complete sides of a gramophone record.

This is an excerpt from the garden scene in Act One of Voss.

This is a 30-second clip from I Should Be So Lucky, a pop-dance song performed by Kylie Minogue.

The title track of the 'Living in the 70’s' album, recorded during June and July 1974 at the TCS Studios in Melbourne.