Australia Highlanders

The Australia Highlanders Pipe Band (formerly Nunawading) of Melbourne, Australia formed in 1956. Since that time, the band has become one of the most successful pipe bands in Australasia, achieving success in both national and international competitions.

Current Grade 1 Victorian Champions and World Championships finalists, the Australia Highlanders are a major force in the competition arena. Since 2001, the band has captured 27 first places and 4 second prizes from 31 competitions within Australasia. Internationally, the band finished 3rd at the 2008 Ulster Championships, and is a World Championships finalist. AusHigh, as they are affectionately known, are taking big steps on the World stage.

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    • 1. At 2:27pm on 15 Aug 2009, pipe_lover wrote:

      Without a doubt the Australian Highlanders are the best pipe band ever! They are a million times better than The Vic Police and definitely deserve to win!!!! WOOOOO!!!

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    • 2. At 3:36pm on 15 Aug 2009, intunepiper wrote:

      pipe_lover - maybe you should get a clue as to what a good pipe band is before publicly displaying your ignorance. At least the Vic Police attempted some musical expression and bothered to tune their drones.

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    • 3. At 02:05am on 16 Aug 2009, pipe_lover wrote:

      This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the House Rules.

    • 4. At 07:17am on 16 Aug 2009, Pipe down wrote:

      pipe_lover, you are not in tune with what makes a good pipe band

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    • 5. At 09:29am on 20 Aug 2009, MrMac wrote:

      It's a shame that whenever this band is mentioned someone feels the need to compare them to Vic Police, get over it, it's been 11 years!! For all intents and perposes they don't exist anymore. You may as well claim Nunawading deserve to win because they are better than Muirheads.

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    • 6. At 1:57pm on 20 Aug 2009, AlBoyle wrote:

      Your comments pipe lover are very immature and uneducated. If you look at the band you will see that we have several players that are ex Vic Police including myself. If you knew anything about Australia Highlanders you would know that and we still have many friends in the Vic Police band. A comparison of the bands is just plain stupid.

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