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Miss Jamaica stage fall, Bangkok

Miss Universe contestant suffered serious head injury in stage fall, update reveals

Miss Jamaica Gabrielle Henry requires constant medical supervision weeks after falling off the stage in Bangkok.

  • Tom Housden

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Miss Universe Australia finalist Sheridan Mortlock wears second-hand clothes - and wants the world to know it.

The two women giving the Miss Universe Australia competition a makeover

Sheridan Mortlock is a Miss Universe Australia finalist and a political student. If she doesn’t need a new outfit for the Miss Universe competition, do you need one for Friday night?

  • Brittany Busch
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Putting the bite on Queen Vic

While Whitlam wings it in the class war.

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When honesty is the blast policy

And baseball is a series of parochial events.

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Periodical takes a base hit

It meant the world.

Moraya Wilson is crowned Miss Universe Australia .

A beauty queen, a failed hotel and the ghosts of Gordon Gekko

A week ago, Moraya Wilson was crowned Miss Universe Australia. Now, financial regulators are deregistering 10 companies under her name. Her friends claim she knew nothing about them.

  • Cameron Houston
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The August 20 Edition

In our cover story this week, stunning Argentinian model and wellness entrepreneur Valentina Ferrer shows her style in our gorgeous fashion shoot.

Common Hours “Nip of Licorice” dress, $1900. Balenciaga “Witch” boots, $3850.

Why this former Miss Argentina has a special connection with Australia

Valentina Ferrer provides a sneak peek into her adventurous life and reveals what brings her to our shores.

Poppy Capella, the national director of the event in Indonesia (centre) with contestants.

‘Body checks’: Miss Universe cuts ties with Indonesian franchise over sex harassment claims

Six contestants in Indonesia’s Miss Universe pageant have filed complaints with police and accused local organisers of asking them to strip to their underwear for “body checks” for scars or cellulite. Some contestants said they were photographed topless.

Miss Universe Indonesia Laksmi DeNeefe Suardana, pictured with her mother Janet DeNeefe, is farewelled from Jakarta airport before the pageant in the US.

Beauty queen takes leaf out of mother’s book in Miss Universe bid

Her Australian mother founded a successful writers’ festival in the shadow of the Bali bombings. She is taking the island to the world in her own way.

  • Chris Barrett