6 July 2026 It might be a song, a podcast, a radio broadcast, a speech, a sporting moment, a field recording, a movie or TV score, or...
13 May 2026 Most media organisations got some benefit from Labor Treasurer Jim Chalmers' budget, delivered last night. Facing a range of budgetary challenges from wars, rising...
31 March 2026 Nine standout pieces of audio illustrating Australia’s cultural and political life and environment have been added to the Sounds of Australia collection as the National Film and Sound Archive launches a new website for national audiences. Established in 2007, the Sounds of Australia is the NFSA’s capsule collection of sound recordings with cultural, historical and… Read More
5 February 2026 Deadline 2025 has now passed. That was the name of the initiative run by the National Film and Sound Archive and The Data and Digital...
10 January 2026 From your intrepid Wendy Jane Whalley. Yes, you know me from all those emails you get, but sometimes I venture out to go and visit...
6 August 2025 Legendary Australian performer, singer and entrepreneur Col Joye has died, aged 89. As a singer he enjoyed numerous hits in the late 50s, 60s and...
2 May 2025 2025 celebrates CAAMA (Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association)'s 45th anniversary and their role as an advocate for cultural exchange, inclusion, and empowerment of Aboriginal people. This year too is Deadline 2025, with the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) saying tape that is not digitised now will in most cases be lost forever.
23 April 2025 Rob Davidson is the founder, vice-president and treasurer of community station Braidwood FM in NSW. In 2004 he created the radio series Flashback Featured Artist that...
26 March 2025 Australia's national and community broadcasters have all received extra funding in the federal budget, delivered by Treasurer Jim Chalmers last night. AFTRS also got some...
11 December 2024 Ten more powerful and iconic audio recordings illustrating Australia’s cultural and political life and environment have been added to the National Film & Sound Archive (NFSA)’s Sounds of Australia collection. Included are the talking clock, the first Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Australian to use recorded sound to document Aboriginal culture, hip hop and Tina Arena, speeches, a theme tune and the launch of what is now SBS Audio.
9 August 2024 ArtSound FM has been awarded a significant grant from the Community Broadcasting Foundation (CBF) to support the Canberra community station to replace their ageing transmitter...
30 May 2024 I want to start with a happy memory, literally, of sharing a workplace with legendary radio announcer Bob Rogers, who died on May 29 at...
14 May 2024 The Treasurer Jim Chalmers has delivered his 2024 Federal Budget in Canberra. For media and media related organisations it was a steady budget, with few...
12 April 2024 Many of you will know, have heard, spoken to, and even worked with Kevin Hillier (who celebrated 50 years in radio in 2023) and Sarah...
8 February 2024 As part of the National Film and Sound Archives Radio 100 celebrations, the NFSA has partnered with the Centre for Media History at Macquarie University for...
22 January 2024 Roger Summerill OAM has documented more than fifty years as an Australian radio announcer, manager and trainer in a new e-book, available now, called My...
9 May 2023 In one of the most significant moves announced in tonight's Federal Budget, the ABC and SBS will move to 5 year funding arrangements as a...
25 October 2022 Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers delivered his first Federal Budget tonight, with benefits for broadcasters in what he called "a solid and sensible Budget" for uncertain...
6 October 2020 The federal government’s delayed 2020/21 budget, released tonight, is a high spending stimulus plan that hopes to maintain economic activity long enough for Australia to...
30 June 2020 $5.5 million has been put aside by the government over four years for the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) to support the digitisation of...
7 November 2019 Ten new titles have been inducted into the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia registry of sound recordings that have helped shape our...
6 September 2018 Nominations for the National Fim and Sound Archive's 2018 collection of Sounds of Australia close on 16 September. You can nominate your favourites, as long...
7 June 2018 The CEO of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Jan Müller, today outlined the strategy for Australia’s national media archive into the future....
25 October 2017 Ten sound recordings with cultural, historical and aesthetic significance have been added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia collection for 2017. ...
9 May 2017 Nothing too drastic in the budget outcomes for ABC, SBS, ACMA, NFSA and AFTRS The ABC will lose almost 50 more jobs in the...
2 May 2017 NFSA celebrates 50 years of talk Radio Until 17 April 1967, talkback radio was illegal in Australia. 'Fifty years ago, listeners first enjoyed the possibility...
2 November 2016 Midnight Oil’s Power and the Passion, Christine Anu’s Island Home and The Wiggles’ Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car are three of the 10...
4 February 2016 Cathy O'Connor, CEO of Nova Entertainment, has recorded an Oral History interview with Sandra Odorisio at the NFSA ( National film and Sound Archive of...
19 November 2014 A recording from the ABC's Archive Unit has been added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia collection. ABC war correspondent Chester...
3 September 2014 The National Film and Sound Archive is in the final week of nominations for this year's Sounds of Australia registry. NFSA wants radioinfo readers to...
