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national regional social affairs reporter Erin Parke

Wet T-shirt contests remain wildly popular in northern Australia, despite being in decline internationally

It is a warm night in Broome and the pub is packed with locals and tourists, clutching cold drinks in the palm-tree-lined beer garden.

Music is pumping and there is adrenaline in the air.

The crowd is mesmerised by half a dozen women dancing seductively on stage, plucking at wet white T-shirts while beaming men tip jugs of water over their gyrating bodies.

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