Waleed Aly has won the 2016 Gold Logie award for Best Personality on Australian TV.
Accepting the award, he made reference to criticism he and fellow nominee, SBS News veteran Lee Lin Chin, received in the lead up to the awards.
"Do not adjust your sets: there's nothing wrong with the picture. If you're in the room, I'm sure there's an instagram filter you can use to return things to normal, it will be fine."
Waleed Aly is a prominent Muslim and accepting the award, he said he was aware of the significance his win has to some other people.
"I want to claim this award on behalf of a couple of people, people like this guy I call Dimitri, who none of of you will know. He came up to me about a week ago and did something that most people don't do. He didn't come up to me and wish me good luck: he came up to me, and through gritted teeth commanded me to claim this award tonight. And it was a bit scary. But he communicated something to me which was that this really, really mattered to him."
He recounted a story about an industry insider who told him he could not use his real name, 'Mustafa', because he believed that he would not be given jobs if he did.
"To Dimitri and Mustafa, and everyone else with an unpronounceable name - like, I don't know, Waleed - I just really want to say something. I'm incredibly humbled that you would invest in me in that way, but I'm also incredibly saddened because you deserve more numerous and worthy avatars than that. And I don't know if and when that's going to happen. But if tonight means anything it's that the Australian public, our audience, as far as they're concerned, there's absolutely no reason why that can't change."
SBS News veteran Lee Lin Chin missed out on the top prize, but said she was proud to be nominated.
"I'm profoundly sincere when I say it is about time we are accepted into the whole pantheon of television in this country."
Alex Dimitriads won Most Outstanding Actor for his role in the SBS Drama 'The Principal'.
Australian actress Noni Hazlehurst, best known for her role in the ABC children's show, Playschool, was inducted into the Logies Hall of Fame.
"For many decades Playschool has been a safe haven for small children in an increasingly complex media landscape and world. I started to see the world through the preschoolers' eyes to see how free and unafraid they are to just 'be'. They haven't yet been conditioned. But also how easily frightened and overwhelmed they are. How easily abused, and particularly how empathetic they are. No child is born a bigot."
Among the other award-winners, Jessica Marais won Best Actress for her role in Love Child, and Erik Thompson won most popular actor for his role in '800 Words'.
Deborah Mailman won Most Outstanding Actress for her role in 'Redfern Now'.
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