Australia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019

Australia participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019 which was held in Gliwice, Poland. The Australian broadcaster ABC was responsible for choosing their entry for the contest. Jordan Anthony was internally selected to represent Australia in Poland.

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019
Country	Australia
National selection
Selection process	Internal selection
Selection date(s)	Artist: 1 September 2019 Song: 7 October 2019
Selected artist(s)	Jordan Anthony
Selected song	"We Will Rise"
Selected songwriter(s)	Jordan Anthony, MSquared
Finals performance
Final result	8th, 121 points
Australia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
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Background

Main article: Australia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Prior to the 2019 Contest, Australia had participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest since 2015. On 1 September 2019, it was announced that Jordan Anthony had been internally chosen by the broadcaster to represent Australia.^[1] Rabbone (born 16 December 2004)^[2] had previously, at the age of 14, auditioned for the eighth season of The Voice Australia, where he was mentored by Delta Goodrem and finished in fourth place. His song for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019 was "We Will Rise".

At Junior Eurovision

During the opening ceremony and the running order draw which both took place on 18 November 2019, Australia was drawn to perform first on 24 November 2019, preceding France.^[3]

Voting

The same voting system that was introduced in the 2017 edition was used, where the results were determined by 50% online voting and 50% jury voting. Every country had a national jury that consisted of three music industry professionals and two children aged between 10 and 15 who were citizens of the country they represented. The rankings of those jurors were combined to make an overall top ten.^[4]

The online voting consisted of two phases. The first phase of the online voting began on 22 November 2019 when a recap of all the rehearsal performances was shown on the contest's website Junioreurovision.tv before the viewers could vote. After this, voters also had the option to watch longer one-minute clips from each participant's rehearsal. This first round of voting ended on 24 November at 15:59 CET. The second phase of the online voting took place during the live show and began right after the last performance and was open for 15 minutes. International viewers were able vote for a minimum of three and a maximum of five songs.^[5] They were also able to vote for their own country's song. These votes were then turned into points which were determined by the percentage of votes received. For example, if a song received 10% of the votes, it received 10% of the available points.

Points awarded to Australia[6] Score Country 12 points  Russia 10 points  Poland  Ukraine 8 points  Georgia  Kazakhstan  Malta 7 points  Serbia 6 points  Netherlands 5 points  Armenia 4 points  Belarus 3 points 2 points  Italy 1 point  Ireland  Spain Australia received 39 points from the online vote

Points awarded by Australia[6] Score Country 12 points  Netherlands 10 points  France 8 points  Armenia 7 points  Kazakhstan 6 points  Belarus 5 points  Georgia 4 points  North Macedonia 3 points  Ukraine 2 points  Italy 1 point  Spain

Detailed voting results

Detailed voting results from Australia^[6]

Draw	Country	Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Average Rank	Points Awarded
01	Australia
02	France	4	3	4	3	12	2	10
03	Russia	12	17	16	16	10	15
04	North Macedonia	13	4	6	7	4	7	4
05	Spain	7	10	5	5	15	10	1
06	Georgia	10	13	18	1	3	6	5
07	Belarus	2	11	3	13	8	5	6
08	Malta	14	18	12	17	9	14
09	Wales	11	8	17	8	5	13
10	Kazakhstan	5	2	9	4	11	4	7
11	Poland	15	12	2	9	13	12
12	Ireland	16	16	13	12	16	16
13	Ukraine	3	7	10	6	17	8	3
14	Netherlands	1	9	1	2	1	1	12
15	Armenia	8	1	8	11	2	3	8
16	Portugal	18	15	14	18	18	18
17	Italy	9	5	7	10	7	9	2
18	Albania	17	14	15	14	14	17
19	Serbia	6	6	11	15	6	11

References

1. García, Belén (2 September 2019). "Junior Eurovision: It's Jordan Anthony for Australia!". ESCplus. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
2. Anthony, Jordan [@jordananthonymusic] (15 December 2022). "made it to 18 let the games begin 🫶🏼😉". Perth, Australia. Retrieved 2024-04-08 – via Instagram.
3. "This is the Junior Eurovision 2019 running order!". European Broadcasting Union. 18 November 2019. Archived from the original on 28 May 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
4. Granger, Anthony (15 November 2018). "Junior Eurovision 2018 – How Does The Voting Work?". Eurovoix.
5. "How to vote for your favourites in Junior Eurovision 2019". Junioreurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union. 22 November 2019. Archived from the original on 22 September 2020.
6. "Results of the Final of Gliwice-Silesia 2019". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 2 June 2021. Retrieved 2 June 2021.