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Beauty pageant bid to better represent Australia's diversity

Image: Magnolia Maminydjama Maymuru (L) and Beza Mickan-White

Image: Magnolia Maminydjama Maymuru (L) and Beza Mickan-White Source: SBS

For the first time in the pageant's history, Miss World Australia has an Indigenous finalist and a finalist of African descent. Image: Magnolia Maminydjama Maymuru (L) and Beza Mickan-White (SBS)


Organisers have been pushing for greater diversity in the competition, which has been criticised in the past for not reflecting multicultural Australia.


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