Madeleine Cowe crowned Miss World Australia
Mary Ward
Madeleine Cowe has been named Miss World Australia in a ceremony at Melbourne's Crown Palladium on Friday night.
The law student, from Tully in Far North Queensland, was first runner up in the Miss Universe Australia pageant last year.
Maminydjama Maymuru misses out on the crown
Queenslander Madeleine Cowe has been crowned Miss World Australia while the competitions first Indigenous woman to represent the NT at the pageant, Maminydjama Maymuru, missed out. Vision courtesy ABC News 24.
But while Cowe may be representing Australia at the Miss World pageant in December, all eyes were on Northern Territory finalist Maminydjama Magnolia Maymuru, the teenager from Arnhem Land who made headlines worldwide in May when she became the first Indigenous woman to represent the territory at the pageant.
The Yolngu woman grew up in Yirrkala in North East Arnhem, where she still works as a sports and recreation officer.Maymuru, 19, finished in the final 10 of the pageant, which sells itself as promoting "beauty with a purpose".
She was "discovered" by a model manager as a year 11 student in Darwin while getting money out an ATM, but put her modelling career on hold until she had finished her studies.
She made her catwalk debut at NT Fashion Week in 2015, after she had finished her year 12 exams.
While she may not have come home with the title, competing in Miss World certainly has opened a lot of doors for Maymuru's modelling career.
The teenager was recently named the face of Melbourne's Chadstone Shopping Centre, a role Maymuru described as "a dream come true".
"I want to be a role model so that beauty is seen as universal, no matter what colour, size or shape you are", she said.
The Miss World Australia national final was held at Melbourne's Crown Palladium on Friday night.
Although most of the ceremony went off without a hitch, there was a - literal - slip up when it came to crowning Cowe.
As Miss World Australia 2015 Tess Alexander came to place the crown on Cowe's head, she appeared to raise her hands in excitement, causing the slip off her head.
Luckily, it was caught by Alexander, and Cowe held it in place as she walked across the stage.
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/beauty/madeleine-cowe-crowned-miss-world-australia-20160722-gqc4ps.html
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