Dissing our local awards shows is a national pastime I can generally get behind, but the knee-jerk cynicism flooding social media after last night’s ARIA Awards is ludicrous.

“Are the ARIAs even relevant any more?” people ask. Well, maybe not when our commercial TV broadcasters air the ceremony on delay after winners have already been publicly announced, and then interrupt the whole thing mid-telecast so they can squeeze in an episode of Big Brother .

Network 10 was the problem last night, ditching the live broadcast to their affiliated streamer Paramount+, but Channel Nine did the same thing last year and the year before. Maybe if we want our main Australian music awards to be more relevant, our broadcasters could start by treating them as more than an annoying afterthought each yea

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