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The AIR Awards of 2010 is the fifth annual Australian Independent Record Labels Association Music Awards and was an award ceremony at The Forum Theatre, in Melbourne, Australia on 1 October 2010. The event was again sponsored by German liquor brand, Jägermeister.
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