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Coffee Break: Australia Day

Amy Shark and The Current's Jill Riley
Amy Shark and The Current's Jill RileyNate Ryan | MPR

by Anna Reed

January 26, 2018

It's Australia Day - the official national day of Australia.

Today signifies the arrival in 1788 of the First Fleet of British ships at Port Jackson, New South Wales and the raising of the Flag of Great Britain at Sydney Cove by Governor Arthur Phillip.

But it also signifies the start of Triple J's Hottest 100 - a listener-voted countdown of the best tunes of the year - which is how we discovered Jill's BFF Amy Shark, who was voted No. 2 in 2006's countdown. We know Australians really get into this countdown because 2.3 million people voted this year.

We're excited to see what artists come out of this year's countdown. And for now let's do our own countdown of great Australian musicians - except by countdown we mean Coffee Break.

For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what Australian musicians do you want to hear?

Respond with your song ideas in the comments below.

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