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A sign reading 'beyond this point nudity is permitted'.

A few dozen people walking down the beach, some nude others wearing clothes.

Nudists with slogans painted on their backs attend a protest rally near Byron Bay.

Large crowds of nude people running into the water with red caps on.

Brendan Jones and a female friend on a cruise, both wearing hats

A large group of people pose with their bums on show on a cruise

man and woman standing unclad on beach with dog facing away from the camera with sea in the background.

"We've got a long way to go in Queensland before we can even think about getting a nude beach, which is really, really sad because we have the best weather. It's crazy."

A sign at Point Impossible beach lists the etiquette required

A sign at Point Impossible nude beach.

A group of naked people with green sarongs at the beach.

"You're underwater and you're covered by the water, so people don't sort of parade around nude, it's more about just being able to throw off the shackles of life and have a bit of a laugh. And accepting all types of bodies in all shapes and sizes."

A woman smiling at the Sydney Skinny event. She is wrapped in a green sarong.

A group of naked people sit on the edge of a swimming pool, which backs on to bushland

"The bathers are getting skimpier and skimpier so maybe it might just be a natural evolvement that we get to be nude on Gold Coast beaches, who knows?"

Three nude men stand with their backs to the camera holding winning ribbons

A sign at the beach saying Southside Nude Beach, next 1km

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