How did Australia’s perennial pop sweetheart find his 1988 chart-topping song “Two Strong Hearts” unexpectedly implicated in current debates over hate speech laws? Does this suggest the states’ ...
The Australian youth radio station, Triple J, runs a vote every year for the best songs released in the previous 12 months (Triple J Hottest 100). There's, as you can imagine, usually an Australian ...
As Triple J prepares to broadcast the Hottest 100 Australian Songs on July 26, attention turns beyond the rankings to a broader cultural question: What defines an “Australian song”? Is it the ...
American Australian performer Joe Dolce’s 1980 one-hit wonder Shaddap You Face was recently inducted into the National Film and Sound Archive’s Sounds of Australia collection, which also named it ...