For three years Australia has graced the Eurovision Song Contest stage and earned praise for our professionalism and our musical artistry.

This year, we may go down in Eurovision history (even though it was technically not us) for another Australian tradition: streaking.

During the telecast of the grand final, broadcast from the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, a known Ukrainian prankster, Vitalii Sediuk, draped in an Australian flag, attempted a stage incursion while lowering his pants.

Sediuk was removed quickly from the stage by security personnel at Kiev's International Exhibition Centre.