Australia in the Europe's Best Song Contest

Member station
 National selection events
**Internal Selection**
* 2016-2023
 Appearances
 First appearance
 Best result

The participation of Australia in the Europe's Best Song Contest first began in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria, at the Europe's Best Song Contest 2016. Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), an associate member organisation of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), has been responsible for the selection process of their participants, since their debut in 2016. The first representative to participate for the nation at the 2016 contest were Fern McKoney feat. JonSmit with the song "Until Daylight Breaks", which finished in eighth place out of twenty-six participating entries, achieving a score of eighty-four points. Since their debut, Australia have never missed an edition of the contest.

## History

### 2016

On 27th August 2015, the Australian national broadcaster, Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), announced that they have been invited by the EBU to participate in the contest, and would be making their Europe's Best Song Contest debut at the 2016 contest in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria on the 17, 19 and 21 May 2016. The mechanism used at the time in order to select their representative was an internal selection. Fern McKoney and JonSmit, were the first participant to represent Australia, with the song "Until Daylight Breaks", which finished in seventh place in the second semi-final, receiving seventy-eight points, therefore qualifying for the final, and an eighth place, in the final, achieving a score of eighty-four points.

### 2017

On 31st October 2016, the Australian national broadcaster, SBS, announced that they would be participating at the 2017 contest in Budapest, Hungary on the 16, 18 and 20 May 2017. They carried on their format from 2016 and chose their singer and song internally. Donald McDonald, was the second participant to represent Australia, with the song "I Have to Tell You", which finished in fifteenth place in the first semi-final achieving a score of forty-four points, thus not qualifying for the final. This was the first time when Australia did not qualify for the final.

### 2018

On 25 August 2017, the Australian national broadcaster, SBS, announced that they would be participating at the 2018 contest in Kiev, Ukraine on the 15, 17 and 19 May 2018. They, once again, used an internal selection to select the singer and song. Chin Lee and Joanna O'Ross, were the third participants to represent Australia, with the song "Mischief", which finished in fifteenth place in the first semi-final achieving a score of forty points, thus not qualifying for the final.

### 2019

On 2 October 2018, the Australian national broadcaster, SBS, announced that they would be participating at the 2019 contest in Amsterdam, Netherlands on the 21, 23 and 25 May 2019. They, once again, used an internal selection to select the singer and song. Guy Stewart, was the fourth participant to represent Australia, with the song "Many Different Stories", which finished in third place in the second semi-final, receiving one hundred sixteen points, therefore qualifying for the final, ending Australia's two-year non-qualification streak, and twelfth place, in the final, achieving a score of ninety-two points.

### 2020

On 25th March 2019, the Australian national broadcaster, SBS, announced that they would be participating at the 2020 contest in Malmö, Sweden on the 19, 21 and 23 May 2020. They, once again, used an internal selection to select the singer and song. Matthew Trottes, was set to be the fifth participant to represent Australia, with the song "You've Infected Me". However, the contest had been cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

### 2021

On 13th May 2020, the Australian national broadcaster, SBS, announced that they would be participating at the 2021 contest in Malmö, Sweden on the 25, 27 and 29 May 2021. They, once again, used an internal selection to select the singer and song. Matthew Trottes, was chosen, once again, to be the fifth participant to represent Australia, with the song "Low", which finished in third place in the second semi-final, receiving one hundred and eight points, therefore qualifying for the final, and sixth place, in the final, achieving a score of one hundred and sixteen points. This is, as of 2021, Australia's best result in the contest.

## Contestants

 1st place
 2nd place
 3rd place
 Last place
 Disqualified/Withdrew

## Broadcasts and voting

### Commentators and spokespersons

The Austrlian broadcaster, SBS, sent their own commentator to each contest in order to provide commentary in the English language. Spokespersons were also chosen by the national broadcaster in order to announce the awarding points from Australia. The table below list the details of each commentator and spokesperson since 2004.