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Senator Dorothy Tangney: Maiden Speech radio – 1944

A recording of the first woman elected to the Australian Senate reading her maiden speech.

She’s My Baby music – 1959

One of the biggest hits for Australia’s first rock’n'roll star.

Smoky Dawson and the Singing Bullet radio – 1955

Smoky Dawson rescues his young friend Billy from two villains in this classic episode of the Smoky Dawson radio show.

Swanston St Shamble; Two Day Jag music – 1944

The first published recordings of Graeme Bell’s Dixieland Band made in Melbourne in 1944.

Sydney Opera House Opening Concert music – 1973

A magical night in the history of Australian music: the first official concert in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall.

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Theme From ‘Blue Hills’ radio – 1949

This is the theme from the long-running ABC radio serial Blue Hills (1949–76).

Treaty music – 1991

Aboriginal pop song from the 1990s with a powerful political message.

Tribal Music of Australia music – 1953

These are the first commercially available recordings of Australian Aboriginal music.

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Voss music – 1987

Voss is an opera about the fateful outback expeditions of Ludwig Leichhardt, as recreated by Patrick White in his iconic novel.

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Waltzing Matilda music – 1926

This was the first recording of Australia’s national song.

We Are Going spoken word – 1986

Oodgeroo Noonuccal reads her haunting poem ‘We Are Going’ in 1986.

We Have Survived music – 1981

The No Fixed Address version of Bart Willoughby’s ‘We Have Survived’ has became an unofficial anthem for Australia’s Aboriginal community.

Wrap Me Up With My Stockwhip and Blanket music – 1936

New Zealand-born Tex Morton created an awareness that country and western music could be an Australian form as much as it was an American form.

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