Australia in WorldMusic Song Contest

Australia can participate in the WorldMusic Song Contest. This country located in Oceania debuted in the first edition. Australia won the contest three times.

History
Australia was announced as participating country at the first edition. ABC was invited to participate and selected Dean Lewis to represent the country. He finished at the fourth place. Australia selected The Veronicas to represent Australia in Hong Kong. They won this edition. Bacause of their victory, Australia hosted the third edition. This was the first time in the history of the contest that a country won the festival in two consecutive editions and take the victory on home soil. Here, they finished for the first time out of the top ten.

In the next edition, hosted by Sweden, Australia finished again at the first place. Australia indicated that it wanted to organize the next festival, but a little later it was decided not to have a new edition. This was due to the ungoing international political deadlock.