The Sounds of Australia
The National Film and Sound Archive have added 11 pieces of audio to its Sounds of Australia registry that it says have resonated with Australians over the past 96 years. Here are some of them.
Transcript
00:00 [Music]
00:07 I got the menstruation blues.
00:18 Slip, slop, slap.
00:20 This summer, if you're going to flip a shrimp onto the barbie,
00:24 or slap on a chop, or just do anything under the sun,
00:28 don't forget to flip on a shirt, slap on a hat, and slop on a sunscreen.
00:34 A number 15 for maximum protection.
00:37 I'm the hot wind from the desert.
00:40 I'm the black soil of the plains.
00:43 I'm the mountains and the valleys.
00:46 I'm the drought and flooding rains.
00:50 I am the rock. I am the sky.
00:53 The rivers where they run.
00:56 The spirit of this great land.
01:00 I am Australian.
01:03 [Music]
01:08 Not much thunder is heard in the inland of Australia.
01:12 Around the coastline it is heard when water, hugging the earth,
01:16 sends on its moon-drawn tides to crash against the land,
01:20 beating against the thrust up arms of rock,
01:23 and the crushed up foam of breakers races to the beaches like a horde of angry rats.
01:28 [Music]
01:40 I only came to say goodbye,
01:45 because I've got to make you stay.
01:51 You surely know the reason why
01:56 I beg you not to go away.
02:02 (tires screeching)