Triple J to move Hottest 100 away from Australia Day after ‘Invasion Day’ concerns
ABC youth network Triple J will be moving its Hottest 100 countdown from Australia Day to January 27, the national broadcaster has announced.
In recent years, the network has come under pressure to move the Hottest 100 after criticism from Indigenous communities and organisations that holding the show on ‘Invasion Day’ is insensitive and inflammatory.
like Triple J
And just when I thought Alan Jones had run out of stories to “outrage” his listeners with………along comes this beauty!
That’s called leadership.
Political correctness gone mad yet again.
@ Matt R
Hardly “political correctness gone mad”.
It’s called democracy, Triple J polled their listeners and the majority voted to move the date.
If you actually listened to the J’s you would have heard it & would have had your chance to participate to keep it the same, clearly you don’t or you wouldn’t have a sense of “political correctness gone mad”
Bravo to the J’s for listening to their audience.
Avoids those pesky Wednesday Australia’s Days, and will likely stay on whatever the Saturday is in the weekend post or prior Australia Day, probably a good result all round, especially for ABC’s PR department.
Nova puts on an aussie day countdown.
Is there a reason why Triple J has decided to move its Hottest 100 to the day designated has International Holocaust Memorial Day?
Did you participate in the survey by any chance?
If you did you’d know the questions were a stitch up and not at all created in a way to elicit a fair result. The results are also only a ‘representative sample’ of the survey, and not the raw data itself. Wonder why that’s the case?
Kinda makes you think.
Without “Invasion Day” there would be no JJJ, no ABC…and most of us wouldn’t be here. Does “the J’s” audience realise this?
Fact 1: Lawrie Zion liked the look of a 4ZZZ idea and released the Hot 100 back on March 5 1989 (Sydney voters only).
Fact 2: Hot 100 went national in 1990.
Fact 3: Renamed Hottest 100 in 1991 to resolve 4ZZZ conflict.
Fact 4: No Hottest 100 in 1992 as it was ‘best song of all time’ and the same bands were dominating year to year.
Fact 5. In 1993 Hottest 100 became ‘best song of the past year’.
Fact 6. In 1994 the states and territories got together and unified and ratified Australia Day as January 26th.
So, the Hottest 100 officially precedes Australia Day! The ABC and 2JJJ can do what they want with the Hottest 100 under the ‘first in, best dressed’ rule (prior tempore, prior jure).
The indignation of the LNP and the right-wing whingers is merely to divert from the divisions in the LNP.
And oh the irony. There is no Joy in that Division and it is not Love that is Tearing Them Apart.
Yes I did.
I voted to change the date if it matters.
It hasn’t always been on Australia Day & Aus day has only been a nationally recognised holiday since 1994.