EUROVISION 2024:

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has described the choice of electro-pop duo Eclectic Fields as Australia’s representatives at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest as “wokeness gone mad”.

Mr Dutton said selectors had shown a “distinct political bias” by rejecting his own four-piece band ABBAT (main picture) that includes himself and several current and former Liberal Party identities.

The local broadcaster of the contests, SBS, said Electric Fields, comprising keyboardist Michael Ross and vocalist Zaachariaha Fielding, (below) will perform at this year’s Eurovision contest in Sweden starting with semi-finals on 7 May and the grand final broadcast around the globe on 11 May.

The lyrics of their song entry One Milkali (One Blood) uses Yankunytjatjara, an Aboriginal language of the Anangu peoples to honour Fielding’s connections to the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands of South Australia.

But Mr Dutton claimed the choice would prove to be “far too woke for Eurovision judges”.

“The choice SBS has made is just not Right,” he said. “Let’s face it we don’t need a First Nations’ voice to Eurovision, or anywhere for that matter. Eurovision has enough languages already.

“I can only assume that the decision-makers at SBS, who probably came here by boat, were intent on picking a woke lefty band.

“But their blatant discrimination against my band will prove to be their undoing.

“Like all successful Eurovision entries, our song has a simplicity of lyrics combined with a great deal of repetition. We sing a lot of it in such a high key that only dogs can actually hear it.

“We tried it out on audiences in Dunkley at the weekend and it was a real winner.

“That’s why I’m urging SBS to rethink and choose my band to show the rest of the world exactly what Australia is made of,” Mr Dutton said.

He and his band members then broke into their own proposed Eurovision entry song, one of Mr Dutton’s own compositions titled No! No! No! with lyrics consisting entirely of its title sung repeatedly by all band members with no musical accompaniment.

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