Europe to Lose Eurovison song contest

To mark the 60th year of the Eurovision Song Contest, Australia has been allowed to join the competition for the first time. Eurovision is incredibly popular in Australia, although the land of Kylie has never previously taken part in the festival of high camp. This also means that there will be 40 countries competing.
Eurovision Song Contest executive supervisor Jon Ola Sand said:

It’s a daring and at the same time incredibly exciting move. It is our way of saying; let’s celebrate this party together!

At the very heart of the Eurovision Song Contest is the importance of bringing countries together to celebrate diversity, music and culture. We have admired and respected SBS’s support of Eurovision for many years now and wanted to extend the invitation for Australia to join us in this special 60th Anniversary of the Contest. It would be remiss of us to throw the world’s biggest party and not invite our Australian friends, who have such a long history and connection with Eurovision.

darknessss wrote:Oh please...give to the aussies...and let em keep it ....

the sooner the better.......

Irn Bru wrote:

darknessss wrote:Oh please...give to the aussies...and let em keep it ....

the sooner the better.......

No-one likes us or votes for us anymore anyway. Maybe the Aussies will bung us a few votes - they like us don't they? Mother country and all that.

The Song Contests’ popularity initially was credited to Australia’s large European immigrant population; Eurovision providing a moment where the large communities of Greeks, Italians, Turkish, Serbian, Maltese, Irish, etc. could share wonderful moment of nostalgia and national identity. However, by the mid 1990s, the attraction grew into much more – fuelled by second-generation Australians and a younger audience tuning in to listen to the ‘hilarious’ BBC commentary of the infamous Terry Wogan. Due to the high popularity of Wogan over this period, for most Australian viewers the affinity with the British coverage still exists and the views held and discussed in the commentary have created a lasting legacy.

Irn Bru wrote:
So what are we going to get? Something like Tie me Kangaroo Down Sport or something similar? With a trip to Australia the following year up for grabs I'd say Australia are a sure bet to win it.

We could even get Waltzing Matilda ringing out.

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Nems wrote:Damn!
When I read the headline I thought it was being scrapped.
What a disappointment

Nems wrote:Damn!
When I read the headline I thought it was being scrapped.
What a disappointment

Eilzel wrote:This is of course the start of Europe's reconquest of the entire globe- and getting mouthy colonials like veya to once again sing from the hymn sheet of the civilised continent ;-)