of Flags" was broadcast on SBS around 9:15am on 9 May 2014, during the network's first screening of the second semi-final. The following day at 7:30pm, SBS aired Mauboy's Road to Eurovision documentary about her Eurovision journey from Darwin to Denmark. Then at 8:30pm, SBS aired a repeat of the second semi-final featuring Mauboy's performance. On 16 May 2014, she performed "Sea of Flags" on Sunrise from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. On 3 August 2014, Mauboy performed the song at Hampden Park in Glasgow, Scotland at the closing ceremony of the 2014 Commonwealth Games, to mark the handover of the Games from Glasgow to Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, host of the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Eurovision performance Mauboy performed "Sea of Flags" to an estimated television audience of 20 million viewers on 8 May 2014 (Denmark time) / 9 May 2014 at 6:20am (Australian time). Prior to her performance, Mauboy met with The Crown Princess Mary of Denmark and her children Prince Christian and Princess Isabella. Mary came backstage to wish her good luck and to let Mauboy know she would be attending her performance with her husband, The Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark. Mauboy's performance began with a video featuring SBS host Julia Zemiro and a group of Australians, in front of the Sydney Opera House, skyping the Eurovision organisers from a giant screen attached to the Sydney Harbour Bridge, begging to be included in the competition. The video then showed the entire Australian continent being lifted up in the air by helicopters and dropped on top of Europe, in an attempt to make Australia eligible for the competition. A group of dancers then appeared on the Eurovision stage dressed as budgie smugglers, drag queens, lifeguards, outback farmers, Sydney Swans AFL players, surfers, shearers, tennis players and giant koalas and kangaroos. The dancers performed a musical number to a song with lyrics that suggested some ways Australia could make itself at home in Europe. As Mauboy performed, a backdrop of images of the Australian landscape appeared across the giant screens. News.com.au noted that "the crowd waved their flags and cheered her on as she strutted the enormous platform." At the end of Mauboy's performance, a man dressed as an astronaut, waving a double-sided Australian and Aboriginal flag, floated down onto the stage and uttered the words: "It's one small step for Europe, one giant leap for Australia." Helen Davidson