This prestigious event was held in Melbourne on Sunday May 27th, and promoted by Graeme Lancefield and Pina Theodoridis.  The quality of the contestants was the highest of recent years, and long time legend Don Mahoney was admitted into the Australian NABBA Hall of Fame.

The major class winners, plus others who qualified, will represent Australia at the NABBA World Championships/WFF Universe in Baden, Austria on June 9th and 10th.  GMV Productions will be there to record all the action.

The quality was extremely high and I would expect that our team of around 12 competitors will bring home some World titles.  Those who impressed me were NICK DEAN, the Junior Mr. Australia winner; IRMA MATTHEW in the Women's Masters Figure; TONY RIZZO who was a most deserving winner of the Men's Masters Division; JOANNE ROGERS in Ms. Physique; JOHNNY TRAYES (Mr. Personality) in the new Mr. Athletic Class.

In the Men's Open, all 4 class winners were in superb condition, with the mass and symmetry of LEE NEWMAN overcoming the incredible muscularity of SCOTT BURGESS for the overall title of Mr. Australia.

In the Women's Figure Class, TERRI ROBERTS of Adelaide won the Short Class from a superbly conditioned PAULINE NEWMAN and then went on to beat LEE ANNE VINCENT for the overall title - 4 votes to 3!

The Fitness winners were CONNIE GARNER for the women and a charismatic MIKHAEL EAST in the Men's division.  For the complete results click here. 

We will be releasing videos of this fantastic event just as soon as we've finished editing the FIBO video.