Miss Grand Australia is an annual national female beauty pageant in

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founded in 2014 by Nadasha Zhang, aiming to select the country's representatives to participate at its parent international pageant,

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. Its first two editions were held concurrently with Miss Supranational Australia before being held separately after the license was transferred to Dani Fitch in 2017. The reigning Miss Grand Australia is Mikaela-Rose Fowler from

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who was crowned on 15 July 2023 at the RACV City Club, she will represent the country in

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to be held on 25 October 2023 in

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Background

History

has usually been sending its representative to compete at the

since 2013. In 2013–2014, the license belonged to Nadasha Zhang, and was transferred to

Renera Thompson Muliagateli Renera Josephine Thompson is Miss Samoa Australia, who was crowned Miss Earth Australia 2013 on October 12 in Brisbane. In 2014, she was crowned Miss Grand Australia 2014 in Miss Supranational and Grand Australia 2014 pageant. She repr ...

in 2015, then to Dani Fitch and Amber Dew in 2017 and 2023, respectively. The first contest of Miss Grand Australia was held in parallel with Miss Supranational Australia in 2014, featuring 19 national finalists, of which "Renera Thompson" was named the winner. Thompson later participated in Miss Grand International 2014 in

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, where she was elected the third runner-up. Later in 2016, the contest was also held in parallel with Miss Supranational Australia, however, after the license was purchased by Dani Fitch in the following year, the Miss Grand Australia pageant has been arranged independently since then. Since their first participation in 2013, Australian representatives have consistently placed at least among the top 20 finalists, except in 2022. The highest performance was the first runner-up in 2015, obtained by who was later promoted to take over the winner title after the original winner, of the

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, had been dethroned. However, Parker was later delegitimized from the position in 2019 due to partaking in

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Editions

Titleholders

;Winner gallery File:Mikaela-Rose Fowler 2.png, Miss Grand Australia 2023
Mikaela-Rose Fowler File:Amber Sidney.png, Miss Grand Australia 2022
Amber Sidney File:Angolina Amores.png, Miss Grand Australia 2021
Angolina Amores File:Claire Parker.png, Miss Grand Australia 2015
Claire Elizabeth Parker File:Renera Thompson.png, Miss Grand Australia 2014

References

External links

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Miss Grand Australia official website
{{Miss Grand International titleholders, state=expanded

Recurring events established in 2014 Grand Australia