Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025

Australia was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song "Milkshake Man", written by Amy Sheppard, George Sheppard, Jason Bovino, and Marty Zambotto, and performed by Zambotto under his project Go-Jo. The Australian participating broadcaster, the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), internally selected its entry for the contest.

Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025
Eurovision Song Contest 2025
Participating broadcaster	Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)
Country	Australia
Selection process	Internal selection
Announcement date	25 February 2025
Competing entry
Song	"Milkshake Man"
Artist	Go-Jo
Songwriters	Amy Sheppard George Sheppard Jason Bovino Marty Zambotto
Placement
Semi-final result	Failed to qualify (11th, 41 points)
Participation chronology
◄2024 • 2025

Australia was drawn to compete in the second semi-final, which took place on 15 May 2025. Performing during the show in position 1, Australia was not announced among the top 10 entries of the first semi-final and therefore did not qualify to compete in the final. It was later revealed that Australia placed 11th out of the 16 participating countries in the semi-final with 41 points.

Background

Main article: Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest

The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) had broadcast the Eurovision Song Contest in Australia since 1983, and the contest had gained a cult following over that time, primarily due to the country's strong political and cultural ties with Europe. Paying tribute to this, the 2014 semi-finals included an interval act featuring Australian singer Jessica Mauboy.^[1] Australian singers had also participated at Eurovision representing other countries, including Olivia Newton-John (United Kingdom 1974), two-time winner Johnny Logan (Ireland 1980 and 1987), Gina G (United Kingdom 1996), and Jane Comerford as lead singer of Texas Lightning (Germany 2006).^[2]

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) invited SBS to participate in the contest representing Australia for the first time in 2015, as a guest participant to celebrate the 60th edition of the event, being granted automatic entry into the final along with the "Big Five" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom) and the host country (Austria).^[3] It had since competed in every edition of the contest, i.e. nine times, being required to qualify from its semi-final since 2016. In 2024, it entered the song "One Milkali (One Blood)" by Electric Fields, which failed to qualify for the final, ending in 11th place in the first semi-final with 41 points.^[4]

Before Eurovision

Internal selection

On 25 February 2025, SBS announced that it had internally selected the Australian entrant and entry for the contest, and revealed them that day: the entrant was Go-Jo with the song "Milkshake Man". The song was written by Go-Jo alongside Amy Sheppard, George Sheppard, and Jason Bovino, all current or former members of the band Sheppard, which competed in the first edition of Eurovision – Australia Decides in 2019 with "On My Way".^[5]

At Eurovision

The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 took place at St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland, and consisted of two semi-finals held on the respective dates of 13 and 15 May and the final on 17 May 2025.^[6] During the allocation draw held on 28 January 2025, Australia was drawn to compete in the second semi-final, performing in the first half of the show.^[7] Go-Jo was later drawn to open the semi-final.^[8] At the end of the show, the country was not announced among the 10 qualifiers, and Australia did not qualify for the final.^[9]

Voting

Points awarded to Australia

Points awarded to Australia (Semi-final 2)^[10]

Points	Televote
12 points
10 points
8 points
7 points
6 points	Latvia  Lithuania
5 points	Finland  Malta  United Kingdom
4 points
3 points	Denmark  Ireland
2 points	Austria  Germany Rest of the World
1 point	Czechia  Georgia

Points awarded by Australia

Points awarded by Australia (Semi-final 2)[10] Points Televote 12 points  Israel 10 points  Finland 8 points  Malta 7 points  Latvia 6 points  Denmark 5 points  Greece 4 points  Luxembourg 3 points  Austria 2 points  Ireland 1 point  Lithuania

Points awarded by Australia (Final)[11] Points Televote Jury 12 points  Israel  Greece 10 points  Finland  Latvia 8 points  Sweden  Malta 7 points  Greece  Austria 6 points  Estonia  Sweden 5 points  Malta  Poland 4 points  Albania  Denmark 3 points  Austria  Estonia 2 points  Latvia  Finland 1 point  Poland   Switzerland

Detailed voting results

Each participating broadcaster assembles a five-member jury panel consisting of music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent. Each jury, and individual jury member, is required to meet a strict set of criteria regarding professional background, as well as diversity in gender and age. No member of a national jury was permitted to be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently.^[12] The individual rankings of each jury member as well as the nation's televoting results were released shortly after the grand final.

The following members comprised the Australian jury:^[13]

• Andrew Lambrou
• Robbie Buck
• Claire Rebecca Howell
• Kylie Alexandra Burtland
• Simone Nicoloso Dow

Detailed voting results from Australia (Semi-final 2)

Draw	Country	Televote
		Rank	Points
01	Australia
02	Montenegro	15
03	Ireland	9	2
04	Latvia	4	7
05	Armenia	12
06	Austria	8	3
07	Greece	6	5
08	Lithuania	10	1
09	Malta	3	8
10	Georgia	13
11	Denmark	5	6
12	Czechia	11
13	Luxembourg	7	4
14	Israel	1	12
15	Serbia	14
16	Finland	2	10

Detailed voting results from Australia (Final)^[11]

Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Norway	23	14	21	18	13	20		22
02	Luxembourg	5	15	20	15	18	16		17
03	Estonia	17	9	1	13	9	8	3	5	6
04	Israel	21	13	19	19	19	22		1	12
05	Lithuania	26	12	2	9	11	11		20
06	Spain	13	16	8	17	20	17		15
07	Ukraine	24	23	26	11	21	24		21
08	United Kingdom	14	17	9	12	4	13		19
09	Austria	7	2	18	3	7	4	7	8	3
10	Iceland	25	21	3	16	25	15		11
11	Latvia	6	4	4	2	8	2	10	9	2
12	Netherlands	16	10	25	23	24	19		16
13	Finland	9	8	12	6	5	9	2	2	10
14	Italy	20	25	11	22	22	21		14
15	Poland	15	6	10	5	2	6	5	10	1
16	Germany	10	22	13	25	12	18		12
17	Greece	4	1	16	7	1	1	12	4	7
18	Armenia	19	19	17	24	14	23		23
19	Switzerland	3	7	14	10	15	10	1	24
20	Malta	1	20	15	4	3	3	8	6	5
21	Portugal	18	24	23	21	23	25		25
22	Denmark	2	11	22	8	6	7	4	13
23	Sweden	11	5	5	1	17	5	6	3	8
24	France	12	3	6	20	16	12		18
25	San Marino	22	26	24	26	26	26		26
26	Albania	8	18	7	14	10	14		7	4