Go-Betweens" Cattle and Cane added to National Film and Sound Archive The Go-Betweens, featuring Robert Forster (rear) and the late Grant McLennan (second from left), are an iconic Brisbane band. THE Go-Betweens" 1983 Queensland classic Cattle and Cane will be added to the Sounds of Australia registry today. Other iconic songs being added to the National Film and Sound Archive are Great Southern Land by Icehouse, Khe Sanh by Cold Chisel and Divinyls" Boys in Town. The collection of iconic Australian sounds, which includes songs, speeches, poems, radio reports and serials and even birdsong, was established in 2007. It already includes Down Under by Men at Work, the Vegemite jingle, Ken Howard's call of the 1941 Melbourne Cup and audio from Roy and H.G."s This Sporting Life. Tourism Australia has released a new advertisement with a new take on the famous Icehouse song Great Southern Land. The selection is made from public nominations of recordings more than 10 years old with cultural, historical and aesthetic significance reflecting life in Australia. Queenslanders who already feature in the archive include Oodgeroo Noonuccal's poem We Are Going, a 1928 Bert Hinkler message to Australia, Cairns jazz singer Georgia Lee's album Georgia Lee sings The Blues Down Under and opera singer Harold Blair performing Maranoa Lullaby. Slim Dusty's The Pub with No Beer, written by Gordon Parsons based on a poem by Queensland farmer Dan Sheahan about his local pub in Ingham, is already in the archive, as is a 1927 recording of Waltzing Matilda. Banjo Patterson wrote the lyrics while staying at Dagworth Station, near Winton, based on an incident at the station during a shearer's strike. The Saints" (I'm) Stranded was added in 2007 and Brisbane-raised Billy Thorpe is represented by Most People I Know (Think That I'm Crazy). Queensland indigenous songwriter Kev Carmody is listed for his co-write with Paul Kelly, From Little Things Big Things Grow. Have our biggest hit songs lost their distinctive Australian sound? We follow 30 years of quintessential Australian music Cattle and Cane was written by Grant McLennan and it evokes his childhood in north Queensland. It begins: "I recall a schoolboy coming home/Through fields of cane/ To a house of tin and timber/And in the sky a rain of falling cinders."" McLennan died in 2006. His co-founder of The Go-Betweens, Robert Forster, said yesterday: "The archive is a real history of Australia in sound and the fact Cattle and Cane is in there is a real career highlight for the group. The lyrics are like something Slim Dusty could have sung but it has this adventurous post-punk sound to it and the marriage of those two things is what we loved about it."" Don Walker of Cold Chisel said he was flattered by the inclusion of Khe Sanh in the registry. The song was released in 1978 and has become a national treasure. "Who'd have thought?," Walker said. It's an honour. I guess Khe Sanh is the obvious choice, either that or Flame Trees. Those two seem to poll quite well out there with listeners. Walker admitted he is highly protective of Khe Sanh, despite countless offers to use the song in advertising campaigns. It's never been used in an ad. I'm sure you could make a lot of money out of using it in ad. No Cold Chisel songs have been in ads. I think it's important. If a song means something to people that they don't suddenly see it on an ad. That's showing contempt for their feelings. Noel Mengel suggests five more iconic Queensland nominations for Sounds of Australia: Droving Woman, Kev Carmody A David Malouf reading from his book about his Brisbane childhood, 12 Edmondstone Street Brisbane (Security City), The Saints The whistle of a cane train I'm The Sheik of Scrubby Creek, Chad Morgan What Queensland sounds or recordings would you like to see added to Sounds of Australia? A song by The Bee Gees? The call of a bellbird? Rain on a tin roof? Submit your nominations below The 2014 Sounds of Australia are: They Always Follow Me, Syria Lamonte (1898) - popular music Speech at the Opening of the Columbia Gramophone Company Australian Factory, Admiral Sir Dudley de Chair KCB MVO (1926) - speech Concert in a Cave at Tobruk, Chester Wilmot, ABC Field Unit (1941) - spoken word, popular music Fireworks and The Orgasmic Opus, Dr Val Stephen (1967) - electronic music Khe Sanh, Cold Chisel (1978) - popular music Boys in Town, Divinyls (1981) - popular music Great Southern Land, Icehouse (1982) - popular music Cattle and Cane, The Go-Betweens (1983) - popular music Dingo, Vicki Powys (1990) - environmental sound Deadly Sounds, Vibe Australia (1993-2014) - Indigenous, radio broadcast