Arena has won several awards , including seven ARIA Awards and the World Music Award for best-selling Australian artist , which she received in both 1996 and 2000 . In 2009 she was awarded the Knighthood of the Order of National Merit by the President of the French Republic , Nicolas Sarkozy , for her contributions to French culture . She is the first Australian to have received that order of state . In November 2015 she was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame at the annual awards ceremony
awards ceremony
ARIA Music Awards of 2015
Tina Arena