\n\t\t\t\t\tIn Canberra, questions were raised over the Australian delegation to Vienna and why the SBS Jury voted Israel so low.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Eurovision became a talking point at yesterday\u2019s Senate Estimates Committee, largely around SBS costs, but also the Australian Jury.<\/p>\n
SBS Managing Director Jane Palfreyman confirmed SBS did send staff to Vienna, Austria for the event.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a small number of staff. In terms of the payment that you referred to we obviously have a partnership payment to the Eurovision Broadcast Union. I can\u2019t share that. That is commercial in confidence, as [are] a lot of our content acquisition deals, as you can appreciate. Sharing them would disadvantage us\u2026,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a small cohort, I think it\u2019s in the order of two or three people, but I\u2019m very happy to share that with you\u2026.. We have usually a publicist and someone from the content team who oversees the content obligations.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms. Palfreyman suggested the SBS team would have been on the ground \u201ca matter of days\u2026 there\u2019s the semi finals and the finals\u201d but TV Tonight understands around two weeks covers rehearsals, PR events and broadcasts.<\/p>\n
Senator Henderson also enquired to the process for selecting the Australian Jury.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll take that on notice and come back to you. I imagine there\u2019s some criteria, .so we come back to you on notice, Senator,\u201d said Ms. Palfreyman.<\/p>\n
The jury consisted of Kelley Abbey, Erica Padilla, Hans the German (Matt Gilbertson), Indiana Massara, Mitch Churi, Michael Ross, Millie Millgate (EBU requires at least two jurors to be aged 18 \u2013 25).<\/p>\n
\u201cCan you just take me through how people did vote, and how does SBS tabulate the voting?\u201d asked the Senator.<\/p>\n
Clare O\u2019Neil is the Director of Corporate Affairs and Head of Codes and Compliance said, \u201cSBS doesn\u2019t have anything to do with the public vote. You have to log on to the Eurovision EBU framework and I think it\u2019s about 70 cents a vote. It\u2019s a limit of 10 votes per person, and you can vote for as many different countries, or you can give all your votes to one country. That\u2019s all. We don\u2019t get any visibility of that at all at SBS.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked if the Jury collaborates on voting, she replied, \u201cI\u2019m not aware of it, unfortunately, Senator. I\u2019m sorry. There is a sort of Jury show, so the jury votes are generally based on a different performance, perhaps, than the one that might be in the grand final. I don\u2019t want to speculate. I\u2019m not sure how the Jury reaches its decision.\u201d<\/p>\n
Senator Henderson asked, \u201cMs. Palfreyman, is it possible to explain how the Jury appointed by SBS gave zero votes to Israel when Israel was ranked so highly and came in second in the competition?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSenator, I think it comes back to the criteria and how the Jury reached their votes. I think we\u2019ll answer that when we take it on notice as to how they reached their outcomes.,\u201d she replied.<\/p>\n
Ms. O\u2019Neil clarified the United Kingdom came last in the Australian Jury voting with Look Mum No Computer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe United Kingdom is often much maligned as a Eurovision entrant, so Israel was not last, but they were certainly down the order, and we\u2019ll come back to you.\u201d<\/p>\n
For the record, Australia was one of only three countries that gave Bulgaria 12 points in both the Public and the Jury votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Canberra, questions were raised over the Australian delegation to Vienna and why the SBS Jury voted Israel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-701170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}