Powderfinger's Bernard Fanning and producer Nick DiDia talk with the NFSA's Sam Dignand about the making of the band’s iconic album, Internationalist.

For sheer whimsy, it is hard to go past the one minute and forty seconds of 'He’s My Blond Headed Stompie Wompie Real Gone Surfer Boy’ by the 14-year-old Little Pattie.

In November 1979, Australian band Mental As Anything released their debut album 'Get Wet' and launched a long career.

Jimmy Barnes pictured on stage with Archie Roach and band during the Flesh and Wood tour in 1993.

Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter talk about their experiences as members of the Stolen Generations.

The multi-award-winning Archie Roach song 'Took the Children Away' (1990), about the Stolen Generations, was added to the NFSA's Sounds of Australia in 2013.

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that the following article contains the names, images and voices of deceased persons.

The summer of 1963-64 saw a brief flowering of Australian surf music.

Hailed as Australia's finest singer, John Farnham's career spans 6 decades and has touched music, theatre, television and film. 

Enjoy more collection items celebrating Australian music legend, the one and only John Farnham.