Tame Impala clean up at ARIAs 2015

Perth band Tame Impala have cleaned up at this year’s ARIA awards, picking up no less than five trophies for their musical output in the past 12 months.

The band were nominated for a total of seven awards, acknowledging their latest album Currents.

Another big winner at this year’s ARIAs is Courtney Barnett with three trophies including the award for Best Independent Release for Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit.

Singer Tina Arena has used her ARIA Award ‘Hall of Fame’ induction speech to highlight issues of gender inequality in the music industry.

She says women in the music industry should be still acknowledged by their work, not by their gender or their age.

It follows debate that some government stations still refuse to play a fair proportion of music by female artists.  Antonino Tati