Australian Playboy Australian Playboy Australian Playboy was an Australian imprint of "Playboy" magazine. In 1979 Kerry Packer's ACP Magazines secured the Australian rights to "Playboy" magazine. "Australian Playboy" featured similar content to the lead US edition, and included interviews, feature articles and entertainment reviews. The magazine would rely heavily on the US edition for pictorials, and thus reprinted many pictorials featuring popular US Playmates and celebrities including Pamela Anderson, Erika Eleniak and Anna Nicole Smith. An Australian Playmate of the Year would be crowned annually. The first edition issued February 1979, featured Rosemary Paul on the cover and Karen Pini as the
Playboy written words in the non-Braille magazine, but no pictorial representations. Congress cut off funding for the Braille magazine translation in 1985, but U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Hogan reversed the decision on First Amendment grounds. The growth of the Internet prompted the magazine to develop an official web presence called "Playboy" Online or Playboy.com, which is the official website for Playboy Enterprises, and an online companion to "Playboy" magazine. The site has been available online since 1994. As part of the online presence, Playboy developed a pay web site called the "Playboy Cyber Club" in 1995 which features online chats,