Miss Australia
History
Miss Australia award was started in the year 1954 until 2000. This event was successfully conducted for 45 years. Miss Australia was a major raised money event for the spastic centre of Australia. Miss Australia crown was made with silver, velvet blue and it was ornamented with more than 800 pearls. Miss Australia crown was made in japan and designed by Ernest Booth.
In 1908 an American newspaper has declared the 1st Australian beauty competition winner was miss Margaret frey and she was the most beautiful US woman in the world.
Australians rejected to grant this and started searching a girl to answer such as a contest on behalf of native womanhood. After few findings at last they recognizes Miss Alice Buckridge.
In 1911, 2nd Miss Australia competition was conducted at Sydney stadium and the result was Miss Milicent Mahy. After the second contest the beauty competition has stopped until 1928.
In 1928 the contest took place and Miss Beryl Mills was the Miss Australia and this was the first competition which was named as Miss Australia contest.
Miss Australia and The Spastic Centres of Australia
Mr Dowd was mainly strong that whatever was organized should be on a nationwide with all Spastic Centres in Australia contributing
1000 women have taken part yearly in the Quest during the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
In 1992, Miss Australia Quest was reformed to the Miss Australia Awards
The trappings occasionally associated with beauty competition such as the sceptre, sashes and crowns were referred to the collections in 1991
Famous Miss Australias
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Miss Australia Title holders
- 1908 – Alice Buckridge
- 1926 – Beryl Mills of Geraldton, Western Australia
- 1927 – Phyllis Von Alwyn of Launceston, Tasmania
- 1937 – Sheila Martin of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales
- 1946 – Rhonda Kelly
- 1947 – Judy Gainford
- 1948 – Beryl James
- 1949 – Margaret Hughes
- 1950 – 1952 No Miss Australia as a result of the dispute between Miss Australia 1949 and her chaperon.
- 1953 – Maxine Morgan
- 1954 – Shirley Bliss
- 1955 – Maureen Kistle
- 1956 – June Finlayson
- 1957 – Helen Wood
- 1958 – Pam Mackay
- 1959 – Joan Stanbury
- 1960 – Rosemary Fenton
- 1961 – Tania Verstak
- 1962 – Tricia Reschke[a]
- 1964 – Jan Taylor
- 1965 – Carole Jackson
- 1966 – Sue Gallie
- 1967 – Margaret Rohan
- 1968 – Helen Newton
- 1969 – Suzanne McClelland
- 1970 – Rhonda Iffland
- 1971 – June Wright
- 1972 - Krystyna Sztanska (Miss Victoria International)
- 1972 – Gay Walker
- 1973 – Michelle Downes
- 1974 – Randy Baker
- 1975 – Kerry Doyle
- 1976 – Sharon Betty
- 1977 – Francene Maras
- 1978 – Gloria Krope
- 1979 – Anne Sneddon
- 1980 – Eleanor Morton
- 1981 – Melissa Hannan / Leanne Dick
- 1982 – Jenny Coupland
- 1983 – Lisa Cornelius
- 1984 – Maryanne Koznjak
- 1985 – Maria Ridley
- 1986 – Tracey Pearson
- 1987 – Judi Green
- 1988 – Caroline Lumley
- 1989 – Lea Dickson
- 1990 – Rebecca Noble
- 1991 – Helena Wayth
- 1992 – Suzanne Lee
- 1993 – Joanne Dick
- 1994 – Jane Bargwanna
- 1995 – Margaret Tierney
- 1996 – Suzanne Haward
- 1997 – Tracy Secombe
- 1998 – Suellen Fuller
- 1999 – Kathryn Hay
- 2000 – Sheree Primer
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