Australia participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017 which took place on 25 November 2017, in Tbilisi, Georgia. The Australian broadcaster ABC is responsible for choosing their entry for the contest. Isabella Clarke was internally selected to represent Australia in Georgia. Her song for the contest, "Speak Up", was revealed on 7 October 2017.
Background.
Prior to the 2017 Contest, Australia had participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest twice since its debut in 2015, with the song "My Girls" performed by Bella Paige. In 2016, Alexa Curtis represented Australia with the song "We Are", achieving fifth place.
Before Junior Eurovision.
On 10 September 2017, it was announced that Isabella Clarke had been internally chosen by the broadcaster to represent Australia. Isabella's song "Speak Up" was revealed on 7 October 2017.
Artist and song information.
Isabella Clarke.
Isabella Clarke (born 31 May 2004) is an Australian singer who represented Australia at the 2017 Junior Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Speak Up". She started singing when she was nine. The last 2 years she has performed at The Victorian State Schools Spectacular in Australia
At Junior Eurovision.
During the opening ceremony and the running order draw which took place on 20 November 2017, Australia was drawn to perform fifteenth on 26 November 2017, following Serbia and preceding Italy.
Voting.
In 2017, a new voting system was introduced, in which 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.
The online voting consisted of two phases. The first phase of the online voting began on 24 November 2017 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 26 November at . 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 songs. 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.
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