Thursday, July 23, 2009

Striking brains prevail over Miss World jury


Cameras are flashing, beautiful women are posing, onlookers are craning for a look - Miss World Australia is in town.
"It's [about] using your beauty for good not evil," says Melbourne's Lisa Anne Hammer - one of 20 young women from around the country who were in Sydney last night for the finals of a competition that began in 1951.
And it seems little has changed over the past 58 years. They parade in bikinis, they get judged on etiquette, as well as their looks.