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Australia at Eurovision
Australia first sang at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2015 and has entered eleven contests. It has never won; its best result is 2nd place, in 2016.
- 11
- contests
- 0
- wins
- 2nd
- best
- first song
- 2015
- contests
- 11
- wins
- none
- best result
- 2nd — 2016
- second place
- 1 — 2016
- in the final
- 8 of 11 tries since semi-finals began in 2004
- sung in
- English (11), Yankunytjatjara (1)
Every song
All twelve entries, newest first. The year opens the story of that contest; the name opens the artist.
| Year | Artist | Song | Result | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Vienna | Delta Goodrem | “Eclipse” English | 4th of 25 | 287 |
| 2025 Basel | Go-Jo | “Milkshake Man” English | Out in semi-final 2 (11th of 16) | 41 |
| 2024 Malmö | Electric Fields | “One Milkali (One Blood)” English, Yankunytjatjara | Out in semi-final 1 (11th of 15) | 41 |
| 2023 Liverpool | Voyager | “Promise” English | 9th of 26 | 151 |
| 2022 Turin | Sheldon Riley | “Not the Same” English | 15th of 25 | 125 |
| 2021 Rotterdam | Montaigne | “Technicolour” English | Out in semi-final 1 (14th of 16) | 28 |
| 2020 Rotterdam | Montaigne | “Don't Break Me” English | Contest cancelled | — |
| 2019 Tel Aviv | Kate Miller-Heidke | “Zero Gravity” English | 9th of 26 | 284 |
| 2018 Lisbon | Jessica Mauboy | “We Got Love” English | 20th of 26 | 99 |
| 2017 Kyiv | Isaiah | “Don't Come Easy” English | 9th of 26 | 173 |
| 2016 Stockholm | Dami Im | “Sound of Silence” English | 2nd of 26 | 511 |
| 2015 Vienna | Guy Sebastian | “Tonight Again” English | 5th of 27 | 196 |
Points for a song that went out in a semi-final are its semi-final points. Before 2004 there were no semi-finals: every song sang on the one night.
Sent more than once
The one act Australia has sent to more than one contest.
- Montaigne 2020 (cancelled), 2021
On air at home
The channels that carried the contest in Australia, year by year, and who commentated where our source names them. Newest first.
- 2026
- SBS Courtney Act and Danny Estrin
- 2025
- SBS Courtney Act and Tony Armstrong
- 2024
- SBS Myf Warhurst and Joel Creasey
- 2023
- SBS Myf Warhurst and Joel Creasey
- 2022
- SBS Myf Warhurst and Joel Creasey
- 2021
- SBS Myf Warhurst and Joel Creasey
- 2019
- SBS Myf Warhurst and Joel Creasey
- 2018
- SBS Myf Warhurst and Joel Creasey
- 2017
- SBS Myf Warhurst and Joel Creasey
- 2016
- SBS, SBS Radio 4 Julia Zemiro and Sam Pang
- 2015
- SBS One Julia Zemiro and Sam Pang
- 2014
- SBS One Julia Zemiro and Sam Pang
- 2013
- SBS One Julia Zemiro and Sam Pang
- 2012
- SBS One Julia Zemiro and Sam Pang
- 2011
- SBS One, SBS HD Julia Zemiro and Sam Pang
- 2010
- SBS One Julia Zemiro and Sam Pang
- 2009
- SBS Julia Zemiro and Sam Pang
- 2008
- SBS TV (semi-finals) Julia Zemiro, Paddy O'Connell and Caroline Flack
- SBS TV (final) Julia Zemiro and Terry Wogan
- 2007
- SBS TV (semi-final) Paddy O'Connell and Sarah Cawood
- SBS TV (final) Terry Wogan
- 2006
- SBS TV (semi-final) Paddy O'Connell
- SBS TV (final) Terry Wogan
- 2005
- SBS TV (semi-final) Paddy O'Connell
- SBS TV (final) Terry Wogan
- 2004
- SBS TV Des Mangan
- 2003
- SBS TV Des Mangan
- 2002
- SBS TV Terry Wogan
- 2001
- SBS TV Effie Stephanidis and Terry Wogan
- 2000
- SBS TV
- 1999
- SBS TV
- 1998
- SBS TV
- 1997
- SBS TV
- 1996
- SBS TV
- 1995
- SBS TV
- 1994
- SBS TV
- 1993
- SBS TV
- 1992
- SBS TV
- 1991
- SBS TV
- 1990
- SBS TV
- 1989
- SBS TV
- 1988
- SBS TV
- 1987
- SBS TV
- 1986
- SBS TV
- 1985
- SBS TV
- 1984
- Network 0–28
- 1983
- Channel 0/28 Terry Wogan
- 1981
- 2EA, 3EA
- 1971
- Network 7
In our contest stories
Lines about Australia from our story of each contest. Follow a link for the rest of that night.
- 1980 Johnny Logan
Ireland won with "What's Another Year", written by Shay Healy and sung by Johnny Logan — born in Australia, and singing for his parents' country.
- 1983 Who came
Far away, the contest found a new audience. It was shown in Australia for the first time, in Sydney and Melbourne.
- 2014 A smaller contest
Australia was not competing, but it was noticed.
- 2015 Australia
Australia's SBS had been showing the contest for more than thirty years to a large and loyal audience.
- 2015 Australia
In February 2015 the EBU announced that, to mark the anniversary, Australia would be allowed to compete.
- 2016 The result
Australia, invited back after its guest appearance, won the jury vote.
- 2016 The result
Ukraine's Jamala was second with the juries and second with the public, and that was enough: 534 points, to 511 for Australia's Dami Im and 491 for Russia's Sergey Lazarev.
- 2020 What happened instead
Several countries ran their own votes on the songs that would have competed. Both Sweden's and Australia's were won by the same one: Iceland's "Think About Things", by Daði og Gagnamagnið.
- 2021 The result
Australia failed to reach the final for the first time.
- 2026 The result
Australia was fourth and Italy fifth.
Results as published by the European Broadcasting Union. “Not in the line-up” means no song from Australia was in that year’s contest, whatever the reason. Spotted a mistake? Tell us and we’ll fix it.