[1] A panel of 100 music personalities were asked to list the "ten best and most significant Australian songs of the past 75 years".
The top ten songs, in numerical order, were announced on 28 May 2001 at the APRA Awards.
[1] The next twenty were not ordered and had been released nearly four weeks earlier, on 2 May, in a media statement by APRA representative Debbie Kruger.
1 listed song "Friday on My Mind" with Harry Vanda of The Easybeats guesting on guitar.
3 was shown on video introduced by Senator Aden Ridgeway as an Indigenous spokesperson on reconciliation.