Pioneering Indigenous dance songs, an election jingle and a true-blue classic are immortalised

A man plays a didgeridoo at an Australia Day event Source: AAP

As part of the Sounds of Australia project, each year the public is asked to nominate recordings that have helped shape Australian history and culture.

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”What we are looking for is impact on Australia. So that doesn't have to be just popularity. it could be significance in a whole range of different ways”, NFSA curator Nick Henderson said.