The sound of chirping birds, archival news reports and a Kylie Minogue song are among more than 70 sound recordings considered to have cultural and historical significance by the National Film and Sound Archive.
In 2007, the archives began a collection known as the Sounds of Australia which are recordings judged to be worthy of preservation because they inform or reflect life in Australia.
Each year the public gets to nominate new sounds to be added to the collection with a panel of experts determining the final selections.
This year's new additions have just been announced which include songs by Archie Roach, Russell Morris and the late Peter Allen.
"Took the Children Away" by Archie Roach is among this year's editions to the Sounds of Australia.
It's a song Archie Roach penned after encouragement from his Uncle Banjo Clark who had vivid memories of Roach and his sisters being forcibly removed from the Framlingham Aboriginal reserve in south-west Victoria.
It was first released in 1990, a time when the plight of the Stolen Generations was gaining public prominence.
Took the Children Away was revered with an international Human Rights Achievement Award and Archie Roach says he's pleased the song has been added to the National Film and Sound Archive.
"It's a great honour, it's pretty significant because the Film and Sound Archives, and that means it will be there to be preserved, you know, all throughout history, every culture, you know, has stories and story tellers, past down from, you know, from generation to generation, these stories and so, it's pretty significant, yeah, it's a way of preserving history, keeping that story and song, yeah, it's significant in that way."
"Indigenous people are getting on with life and you've got healing groups and you know, Stolen Generations organisations around the country, there of course was the apology (national apology by then PM Kevin Rudd to the Stolen Generations in 2007) from the Prime Minister five years ago or so, yeah I think people are more aware now, you know, of what took place and, so yeah, there's been a lot of change and ways of, I don't know, dealing with the repercussions of the past policy, yes."
