Australia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017

On 10 September 2017, it was announced that Isabella Clarke had been internally chosen by the broadcaster to represent Australia. She started singing when she was nine. The prior two years she had performed at The Victorian State Schools Spectacular in Australia.^[3] Clarke's song "Speak Up" was revealed on 7 October 2017.^[4]

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.^[5]

In 2017, a new voting system was introduced, in which the results were determined by 50% online voting and 50% jury voting. Every participating broadcaster assembled 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.^[6]

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 15:59 CET. 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 to vote for a minimum of three and a maximum of five songs.^[7] 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.

Points awarded to Australia[8] Score Country 12 points  Netherlands 10 points  Italy 8 points  Ireland  Ukraine 7 points  Belarus  Georgia  Poland  Russia 6 points  Portugal  Serbia 5 points  Armenia 4 points  Macedonia 3 points  Malta 2 points  Cyprus 1 point  Albania Australia received 79 points from the online vote

Points awarded by Australia[8] Score Country 12 points  Russia 10 points  Georgia 8 points  Belarus 7 points  Ukraine 6 points  Poland 5 points  Malta 4 points  Albania 3 points  Armenia 2 points  Serbia 1 point  Macedonia

Detailed voting results from Australia^[8]

Draw	Country	Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Rank	Points
01	Cyprus	15	15	15	11	12	15
02	Poland	5	6	8	3	6	5	6
03	Netherlands	11	14	7	13	9	12
04	Armenia	2	9	13	9	5	8	3
05	Belarus	9	2	2	4	7	3	8
06	Portugal	14	13	3	7	13	11
07	Ireland	10	12	14	15	15	14
08	Macedonia	12	3	1	14	11	10	1
09	Georgia	1	4	9	2	4	2	10
10	Albania	7	5	5	10	10	7	4
11	Ukraine	6	10	6	5	1	4	7
12	Malta	3	7	12	8	3	6	5
13	Russia	4	1	4	1	2	1	12
14	Serbia	8	8	10	6	8	9	2
15	Australia
16	Italy	13	11	11	12	14	13