The winners of this year’s J Awards will be announced at the end of this month, celebrating homegrown artists’ originality, creativity and technical excellence.
This year the J Awards have added a new You Done Good award, presented to someone who has made an impact on the industry through outstanding achievement, social change or altruistic endeavours.

The 2019 J Award nominees:

Ben Harvey & Liam Stapleton finish up at triple j on Friday 1 November, having decided to take up another opportunity next year with Nova 91.9 in their hometown of Adelaide.
 

Each November triple j celebrates local Aussie talent through live music, radio and TV specials and the highly coveted J Awards, forming a month-long celebration of Australian music aptly named Ausmusic Month.

Big Day Out was the world’s biggest touring music festival and for music fans, it was an Australian rite of passage, every band on the planet wanted to be on the line-up, and the backstage parties were legendary.
 
But what made it so successful and why did it collapse?
 

triple j Hack host, Tom Tilley, sat down with Sir David Attenborough in one of his most candid conversations so far.
 
In the interview Sir David slams Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s support for new coal mines and explains why he’s singled out Australia on climate change, saying "You are the keepers of an extraordinary section of the surface of this planet, including the Barrier Reef, and what you say, what you do, really, really matters."
 

Journalist and presenter is the host of ‘Sexism in the City’ and co-host of ‘The Few Who Do’, Jan Fran will host of this year’s OzPod conference.
 
Newly announced speakers include Marlee Silva, whose grassroots social media movement to empower Indigenous women led to the ‘Tiddas 4 Tiddas’ podcast.
 

triple j is teaming up with RÜFÜS DU SOL for 2019’s triple j Unearthed remix competition.
 
The Sydney dance trio have generously handed over the stems to their single ‘New Sky’, taken from the group’s critically acclaimed album Solace.
 
The remix competition is open to Australian producers, beatmakers, rappers, bands or vocalists, to take RÜFÜS DU SOL’s song and make it their own.

Hit Southwest is still at the top but triple j was the biggest mover, up 4.3 overall and leapfrogging into second place in the latest Xtra Insights survey for Bunbury.
 
ABC South West WA eased slightly and dropped back to third, but still in front of Triple M Southwest.
 
This is the first survey of the area since October 2016, and the first since HOT FM and Radio West Bunbury were renamed Hit and Triple M.