Revealed: The First 10 Entries Into Australia’s National Songbook

No AC/DC, no Chisel: Australia’s National Songbook revealed

Waltzing Matilda and Midnight Oil made the cut, as did a dancefloor banger about asylum seekers. But Australia’s first official National Songbook has no room yet for AC/DC, Cold Chisel or You’re the Voice.

Revealed: The first 10 entries into Australia’s National Songbook

A mix of household names, cultural treasures and left-field inclusions headline the inaugural list.

New songbook captures 'living collection of our unofficial national anthems'

The initiative celebrates and preserves the songs and songwriters that helped shape Australia's cultural identity.

Australia finally has its own songbook – and these are the first 10 tunes

There are some big names among the first 10 songs to be included in Australia’s inaugural National Songbook – and some huge ones that are missing.

The songs that define us

There’s a National Songbook we’ve all been humming along to subconsciously that has never been made official – until now. The National Songbook, initiated by the National Film and Sound Archives and APRA, celebrates the songs that gave voice to Australian stories – and the first 10 songs inducted are bangers. While Midnight Oil front-man Peter Garrett addressed the National Press Club today, across town his band’s song Beds Are Burning was laude…