Malmo 2024: Why is Australia in Eurovision?
06 May 2024 SBS, Australia’s broadcaster of the Eurovision Song Contest, released an interesting podcast in three parts over the past week that detailed Australia’s history in Eurovision and tried […]
06 May 2024 SBS, Australia’s broadcaster of the Eurovision Song Contest, released an interesting podcast in three parts over the past week that detailed Australia’s history in Eurovision and tried […]
28 March 2024 Ever since Australia’s first appearance at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2015, there’s been a problematic element to it. The familiar cry of “Australia is not in […]
28 February 2019 Ukraine will not participate in the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv after a calamity of events and political grandstanding that saw their national final winner, […]
13 February 2019 Australia have been confirmed to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest for the next 5 years, up until 2023. The decision was made by the Eurovision Song […]
9 March 2017 #WEGOTLOVE is the song and #WEGOTAGOODONE sums it up. Bang on one minute past midnight last night Australian eastern time, Jessica Mauboy’s song that she’ll sing for […]
14 February 2018 Forming one half of Australia’s commentary team for the Eurovision Song Contest between 2009 and 2016, Julia Zemiro admits Australia’s involvement made it weird, particularly in a […]
15 April 2017 The fiasco over Julia Samoylova’s and Russia’s appearance at Eurovision Song Contest of 2017 in Kyiv reached its predictable conclusion when the European Broadcasting Union announced Russia […]
24 April 2016 Christer Bjorkman, Sweden’s Melodifestivalen and Eurovision guru, made headlines during the week when he slammed Terry Wogan, Britain’s former BBC commentator, for making Eurovision irrelevant and kitsch […]
20 February 2016 Picture it. You’re watching the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final live from Vienna and the jury voting has just finished. It shows Sweden first on 353 […]
10 January 2016 Only two years ago I wrote a scathing critique on Australia’s chances of ever competing in the Eurovision Song Contest, citing our disrespect and mockery of the contest, […]