Ten sound recordings with cultural, historical and aesthetic significance have been added to Sounds of Australia for 2020. 

This cinema ad for the 1946 federal election encourages Australians to stay with the Labor Party, which has successfully led the country through the end of the Second World War.

Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared at Cheviot Beach, Victoria on 17 December 1967.

This is a three-minute excerpt from a five-minute Australian Labor Party television commercial for the 1966 federal election. The commercial has a captioned title, Vietnam.

This is a three-minute excerpt from a five-minute Australian Labor Party television commercial for the 1966 federal election.

This is a three-minute selection from a five-minute Australian Labor Party television commercial for the 1966 federal election.

A group of celebrities, led by Alison McCallum, sing the ALP It’s Time song for the 1972 federal election campaign. Summary by Adrienne Parr.

In his maiden speech to parliament, Mr Rudd (Bert Bailey) sets out his belief in 'the plain people’ as the backbone of Australian society.

Ann Rudd (Yvonne East) and Jim Webster (Grant Taylor) kiss on the terrace at the Webster’s swanky reception. Jim’s father Henry (Frank Harvey) is not impressed to see the Rudds at his party.

A delegation of local farmers asks Dad Rudd (Bert Bailey) to stand for the local seat, after the death of the sitting member.