With the Socceroos and the Matildas having already won Australia's first Asian Cups, the time has never been more ripe for an assault on Europe, with Murray at the wheel of the victory bus.
Famous for the rich, authoritative tones that lend an air of gravitas to even the most frivolous sport reads, Murray was just as comfortable in the smokey surrounds of drinking dens across the country in his other life as a crooner, as he was behind the microphone of a commentary box.
His ability to pronounce even the trickiest of names in football rocketed him to cult status in 2014 when he laid chords of the vocal variety down on Vaudeville Smash's world game-inspired hit Zinedine Zidane.
Now a tweet from the vaudevillian Melbourne act has sparked a campaign set to rock - pun intended - speculation as to who will represent Australia in the showpiece European song extravaganza.
In a strange coincidence, Murray has recently been nicknamed 'John Farnham' in some quarters for the amount of work he has done on The World Game since his retirement from on air commitments last November.
Those barbs may carry more weight than first thought if Les is in fact chosen ahead of the likes of Kylie Minogue, Jessica Mauboy, Brett Lee and 90s rock gagsters TISM, who are in a on who should represent Australia.
In an eerie twist, the group - This Is Serious Mum - had a hit called What Nationality Is Les Murray?
... thickening the plot like the appearance of an extravagant bearded lady.
"I think it is a fascinating idea," Murray said. "Singing in it never occurred to me, but the important thing to understand is that it is a song contest, not a singer contest.
"If somebody thought it would be a good idea for me to do it I'd be happy to go along with it."
While Murray was keen to stress that Eurovision is a contest between original songs, not personalities, he did have a message for one of his rivals in contention to represent Australia.
"I would happily stand aside for Kylie Minogue."
This year's edition of the contest will be held in Vienna, Austria, from Wednesday 20 May to Sunday
24 May.
came as a direct result of SBS's ambition to increase Australia's presence at the kitsch-cool event after the success of Jessica Mauboy's performance in Denmark last year.
Executive supervisior of the Eurovision Song Contest, Jon Ola Sand, said: “At the very heart of the Eurovision Song Contest is the importance of bringing countries together to celebrate diversity, music and culture. We have admired and respected SBS’s support of the contest for many years now and wanted to extend the invitation for
Australia to join us in this special 60th anniversary.”
And who better to represent one of the key figures of SBS's development, a man who rose through the ranks from a subtitler to the station's most recognisable face - Les Murray.
