This second drop dives deeper into the undercurrents of 1984: a year when Australian music unsettled, seduced and provoked.

In 1984, Prime Minister Bob Hawke officially opened the National Film and Sound Archive’s new headquarters in Canberra. Fast forward 40 years, and the echoes of 1984 still reverberate.

NFSA Curator Crispian Winsor marks the 40th anniversary of INXS' chart-topping fourth studio album, The Swing.

Released in 1983, Horace Goes Skiing is the second instalment of the Horace series created by William Tang for Beam Software.

Women on the Line has been running since 1986.

The Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association’s radio station 8-KIN has been broadcasting since 1982.

In response to the changing technological and media landscape of the late 1980s, Aboriginal Elders from Fitzroy Crossing lobbied for a radio station to broadcast local news, stories and music in La

In the early 1980s, Rick Tanaka brought Japanese pop and rock to Sydney’s airwaves via his show Tokyo Hit Beat.

Digital clock radios became very popular in the 1970s, allowing users to wake up to the radio in the mornings rather than a loud intrusive alarm noise.

Community radio first went to air in the early 1970s and, by the 1980s, around 50 community radio stations were broadcasting across Australia.