Left After Breakfast

From Outback to Ocean. Chill to sounds shaped by the warm, coastal environments of the Top End

Songs from the Easter Rising of 1916. Music does more than accompany history. It preserves it, amplifies it, and sometimes even inspires it.

Strum Stories from Folk Files. In the early 1960s Peter Paul and Mary helped popularise the folk music revival.

Songs of a singular voice. Her gift brought the beauty of Irish song to the global stage,

Halo or Hoax? Legend audit of St Patrick, the fact,the myth ,the marvel.

Greetings for International Womens' Day 2026. Joined by Lynne Schroeder of https://www.youtube.com/@ExploreWithLynne

Seaman Dan’s music combines blues, hula and jazz with the traditional music of his Torres Strait Islander culture. His combination of ‘Ailan’ style music and beautiful baritone voice takes you to a place where you can...

Songwriter, itinerant laborer, and union organiser, Joe Hill was well known in hobo jungles, on picket lines and at workers' rallies. Thanks in large part to his songs and to his stirring, well-publicised call to his...

Possibly the best Australian song of all time is Bogle's tribute to the soldiers who died in the First World War, and a passionate protest against the whole concept of war. Plus more anti-war songs

On a plaque dedicated to Ewan MacColl in London, the inscription includes: "Presented by his communist friends 25.1.1990 ... Folk Laureate – Singer – Dramatist – Marxist ... in recognition of strength and singleness of...

Faith Petric (1915 - 2013) was a political radical, musician, mother, and worker who united folk music and activism through almost a century of American social movements. Over her long and purposeful life, she inspired...

Ted Egan - folklorist, raconteur, songwriter and performer - lived in Australia's Northern Territory from 1949 until his death in 2025. After a 25-year career in the Public Service, he worked for the Dept of Aboriginal...

The music of the late, great Alistair Hulett, singer, songwriter, punk rocker and Co-founder of Socialist Alernative

The story of Eureka in song

The Shearers' Strike of 1891 saw more than 1000 men downing shears to march through the streets of Barcaldine demanding better conditions from graziers and for the 'recognition of unionism'.Lasting four months, the...