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November 23rd 1923 was the date of the first licensed radio broadcast in Australia, by 2SB in Sydney (renamed 2BL). The story of broadcast radio was highly political, commercially competitive and steeped in controversy by Kevin Poulter
Standard Telephones and Cables’ name was chosen to imply that STC was the standard by which others would be judged. That is probably a bit of a stretch, but you can at least say that the three Australian-made radios covered in this article from the mid-1950s have striking appearances that are definitely of their era. by Associate Professor Graham Parslow