This month sees the ABC’s annual AusMusic Month—an initiative the ABC started over twenty years ago. The claim: “All Aussie, all music, all month”. But just how “All Aussie” is the ABC’s AusMusic Month? It is not uncommon to hear a program of Australian musicians performing works by foreign composers. Is this truly Australian music? An Australian pianist performing Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 17, The Tempest? Beethoven was born in Germany, lived much of his life in Austria and never lived in Australia or visited Australia. Surely this is not “All Aussie”. But, by the reasoning that the ABC employs,…