
australian music awards remove best female artist category to be 'inclusive'
I just wanted to express my disappointment at the removal of the Best Female Artist category at the ARIA awards. The award is now just Best Artist and guess what - a male won. To be more ‘inclusive’ they have now been ‘erasive’. The female category, around since the late 1980s, is gone forever. No female winner this year. In a year when the bad behaviour of male music executives was highlighted it was probably sweet revenge to do away with female awards. And at the same time