Unusual build-up for Eurovision

Kate Miller-Heidke of Australia poses during a presentation of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest participants in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, May 12, 2019.(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Kate Miller-Heidke of Australia during a presentation of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest participants in Tel Aviv, Israel Source: AAP

Early Wednesday morning Australian time, Kate Miller-Heidke will take to the Eurovision stage in the first semi-final of the song contest.


It has been an unusual build-up to the event, being held in Tel Aviv…with security concerns and calls for a boycott over the Israeli government’s treatment of Palestinian territories.


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