Without deliberately setting out to, organisers realised they had booked a lineup where 50 percent of the acts were either female solo artists or included female members. HuffPost Australia chatted to a few of them to get their thoughts about how women are included (or not) at the festival level in Australian music. "There are so many, not only females but other diverse musicians, doing such incredible things, that you should work your festival around them. "Then they start to come out of the woodwork and develop their own talent and creativity, and become new female acts, then there are more female musicians to actually put on the thing. "When there weren't as many women on the bill, there would be one or two types of female artists and now we get such a range.

Source: Huffington Post October 23, 2017 08:15 UTC