Any geographer will tell you that Australian is nowhere near Europe. So why is it a competitor at the Eurovision Song Contest? The Australians are ardent consumers of pop music—it was in Oz that ABBA got jolted into world fame. And they’re mad for Eurovision. In a reward for decades of getting up at the crack of dawn in Australia to watch the show, its organizers gave them membership. Here’s a love letter to the many years of great Aussie pop music.
