JULIA Gillard’s “Misogyny Speech” is one of 10 pieces of audio content that have been have been inducted into the NFSA’s Sounds of Australia registry in 2022, it was announced today (December 13).

In addition to the then Prime Minister Gillard’s famous 2012 speech, current affairs reporting in the selection for the year includes 17 hours of radio broadcast live by Radio Redfern on January 26, 1988, when more than 40,000 people took part in the largest march in Sydney since the Vietnam moratorium.

The first known audio from an Australian Governor-General makes the list, as does “Stayin’ Alive” by The Bee Gees, a live concert recording from the Horrie Dargie Harlequintet, which became Australia’s first gold record, Jack Lumsden’s war tune “Digger” and the theme tune from “Neighbours”.

The jingle “Out With The Old And In With The New”, which helped introduce Decimal currency to Australians in 1965, along with Sister Janet Mead’s No 1 pop-rock version of “The Lord’s Prayer” also join the list.

The NFSA’s Sounds of Australia registry was established in 2007. Sounds are nominated every year by a public vote and voted on by a panel of audio industry experts. The NFSA selects them on the strength of their cultural, historical and aesthetic relevance, and their ability to inform or reflect life in Australia.

The 2022 Sounds of Australia, in chronological order, are:

1. Farewell address, Hallam Lord Tennyson – 1904
2. Digger, Jack Lumsdaine – 1942,
3. Horrie Dargie Concert, The Horrie Dargie Harlequintet – 1952
4. The Drover’s Dream; The Bullockies’ Ball, The Bushwhackers – 1956
5. Out with the old and in with the new [decimal currency jingle], Ted Roberts (lyricist) – 1965
6. The Lord’s Prayer, Sister Janet Mead – 1973
7. Stayin’ Alive, The Bee Gees – 1977
8. Neighbours theme song, Barry Crocker (Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent) – 1987
9. Bicentenary protest coverage, Radio Redfern – 1988
10. The Misogyny speech, Julia Gillard – 2012