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 Playboy Playboy is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine. It was founded in Chicago in 1953, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. Notable for its centerfolds of nude and semi-nude models (Playmates), "Playboy" played an important role in the sexual revolution and remains one of the world's best-known brands, having grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc. (PEI), with a presence in nearly every medium. In addition to the flagship magazine in the United States, special nation-specific versions of "Playboy" are published worldwide. The magazine has a long history of