This excerpt of an ABC radio interview consists of a first-hand account from a survivor of Cyclone Tracy – ABC radio news journalist Mike Hayes.

This is the theme music and opening announcement from the long-running ABC radio drama Blue Hills (1949–76).

Summary by Matthew Davies

Recorded by the ABC in Sydney on 21 April 1944, Senator Dorothy Tangney reads the maiden speech that she originally presented in the Senate in Canberra on 24 September 194

Dame Enid Lyons reads her maiden speech, originally presented in the House of Representatives in Canberra on 29 September 1943.

Summary Maryanne Doyle

In a national broadcast Prime Minister Curtin announces that Australia is now at war with Japan.

Summary by Maryanne Doyle

ABC war correspondent Chester Wilmot (1911-1954) pioneered the use of recording equipment in the field.

With the news of the passing of Don Burrows, Australia has lost a giant and pioneer of modern Australian jazz.

This is Passing the Bach, the opening track on the Don Burrows Quartet’s seminal jazz album ‘Just the Beginning’ (1971).

Summary by Brenda Gifford

Ten sound recordings with cultural, historical and aesthetic significance have been added to Sounds of Australia for 2019. 

The multi-award-winning Archie Roach song 'Took the Children Away' (1990), about the Stolen Generations, was added to the NFSA's Sounds of Australia in 2013.