At a press conference held at the Sydney Opera House on 5 March 2015 at 09:30 Australian Eastern Standard Time (22:30 4 March 2015 GMT), it was announced that the Australian public broadcaster, SBS, had internally selected Guy Sebastian to represent Australia at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest [REF].
Sebastian was not the only Australian participating in the 2015 contest; Australian soprano Mary-Jean O'Doherty participated as a member of Genealogy, a group representing Armenia that consisted primarily of Armenian diaspora [REF].