Google Doodle is honouring the late Australian country singer and songwriter Slim Dusty, 22 years after he won the Outstanding Achievement award at the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Music Awards.
Also in 2000, he became the first performer to have his voice broadcast to Earth from space. Astronauts in the spaceship Columbia beamed Dusty’s recording of Waltzing Matilda, the song he sang to close the Sydney Olympic Games, back to Earth as they orbited over Australia.
