[1][2] The ARIA Awards ceremony was held on 28 November 2017 and was broadcast from the Star Event Centre, Sydney around Australia on the Nine Network.
[3][4] Final nominees were announced on 10 October 2017 at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
[2][6][7] The ARIA Awards ceremony introduced a new category: ARIA Music Teacher of the Year Award, which is publicly voted.
[1][5] The category is open to any teacher working in a school, kindergarten, early childhood centre, youth centre or private tuition music school running a music program around the country.
[8] Daryl Braithwaite was inducted into the Hall of Fame as a solo artist; his band, Sherbet, was admitted in 1990.