The Australian Adult Industry Awards (AAIA®) is an annual award that has been given out for outstanding achievements in the Australian adult industry since 2001. The Australian Adult Industry Awards (AAIA®) commenced in 2001 and is designed to showcase outstanding achievements in the Australian adult industry, including awards for strippers, adult retail shops, film and video production, men’s bars, brothels, escort agencies, and everything associated with the adult industry, Australia wide. The aim of the AAIA® is to establish legitimacy and mainstream acceptance or the industry and its participants. Winners of the awards can proudly display their winning logo as ‘a badge of honor’, which has fast become a sought-after prize. The AAIA® has been founded, owned, and operated by industry legend, sex expert, and

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Maxine Fensom Maxine Fensom (born 30 August 1958) is an Australian entrepreneur well known in the adult industry for founding a number of strip clubs, strippers’ agencies, themed events and adult online stores. She also is the owner, and the founder and estab ...

since its conception. Maxine is well known in the adult industry for founding a number of strip clubs, strippers’ agencies, themed events, and adult online stores. In addition to being the founder of the Australian Adult Industry Awards, Fensom is also the founder and owner of the national Miss Erotica and Miss Dream Girl pageants. In 2004, the organizers of the awards were persuaded to be a partner of the

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(ATO) to get 16,000

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s of Australia to declare their income. As part of the effort, the ATO decided to sponsor the event. John Lark won the lifetime achievement award in 2006 for his contribution to the industry as a producer of 20 films featuring Australian "stars", including

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and Kelly Blue, in late 1980s.Claire Halliday,
Naked ambition
, ''The Age'', 15 July 2007. Retrieved 26 October 2008.

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Past winners of the Adult Industry AwardsWinner of Best Newspaper and Website
2001 establishments in Australia Awards established in 2001 Australian awards Australian pornography Pornographic film awards {{film-award-stub