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.

The commercial FM radio revolution began with a new decade, EON FM, 2DAY FM and FOX FM all launching within a month of each other in 1980.

Broadcast from 1984 to 2016, Take 40 Australia was the country’s longest running music countdown show.

‘Slip! Slop! Slap! jingle’ was written for the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria (now Cancer Council Victoria) campaign to combat high rates of skin cancer in Australia.  

Following an agreement between Kerry Packer and the Australian Cricket Board in mid-1979, World Series Cricket players were once again able to be selected for the 'official' Australian cricket team