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14th May 2016

People can’t decide whether to be amused or annoyed that Australia might win the Eurovision Song Contest

What are you doing here?

Matt Tate

There would be surely be nothing more Eurovision, nothing more gloriously non-sensical, than Australia winning a competition it doesn’t really belong in.

Australia (which, if you didn’t know, is on the other side of the world) is competing in the Eurovision Song Contest for the second year running. Despite taking place in a different continent, the event is a smash hit down under, pulling in around three million viewers each year.

Eurovision has been broadcast on Australian network SBS for 30 years. SBS is part of the European Broadcasting Union and that seems to be solid enough for the competition’s organisers to allow them a slot.

Australia’s entrant for this year’s competition was Dami Im, with a song called ‘Sound Of Silence’. She seemed to break the unwritten rules of Eurovision by actually putting forward a half-decent tune.

The internet can’t decide what to make of it all…

https://twitter.com/darren_bell/status/731581944283201536

 

https://twitter.com/joshgnosis/status/731576541134495744

https://twitter.com/jonoBLITZ/status/731576397270032384

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Eurovision