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Why Scott Morrison's white, male music playlists matter

  • Written by Catherine Strong, Senior Lecturer, Music Industry, RMIT University

On Monday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison, in his latest attempt to brand himself a “man of the people”, released a Spotify playlist of his favourite songs. His fair dinkum credentials, however, quickly took a blow as the lack of Australian artists in the list was pointed out. Only one of the 146 songs was by an Australian band. (This...

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