Catching up in the NT
What a reunion! The Australia Day Council of the Northern Territory recently caught up with the incredible 2024 NT Local Hero Witiyana Marika and 2024 Senior Australian of the Year Yalmay Yunupingu. Such impactful representation from East Arnhem!
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Town Team Movement, co-created by 2023 WA Local Hero Jimmy Murphy, have created the Town Team Playbook. It provides ideas, tips and tricks for making positive change in your place, plus links to some of their most important How To Guides and resources.
Download nowCHANGEMAKERS IN OUR COMMUNITY
This year's Australian of the Year Luncheon in South Australia (SA) features melanoma researchers Professors Georgina Long AO and Richard Scolyer AO.
They'll be joined by SA's state award recipients for an afternoon learning about groundbreaking health, environmental and social change initiatives.
Witiyana takes to the stage again
Still touring tirelessly with original members and fresh talent from the next generation, audiences know Yothu Yindi for their legendary stage shows and for injecting new fire into classic songs like Treaty. 2024 NT Local Hero Witiyana Marika, one of the band's founding members, took to the stage recently in both Melbourne and Brisbane. Did you know Yothu Yindi have been nominated for 12 ARIA Awards and won eight?
Read more about WitiyanaPeter's off to Paris 2024
2023 WA Young Australian of the Year Peter Bol has qualified for the 2024 Australian Olympic team once again. He says: "I'm grateful for the unwavering support of my team and the community that has been with me every step of the way. While being selected is a major milestone, I am now preparing for the next stage of my training as I venture to the mountains in New Mexico."
Read more about PeterShort Back & Sidewalks delivers first regional service
Short Back & Sidewalks has started delivering regional service following support received from the Federal Government and Lotterywest - which both came off the back of founder Craig Hollywood's 2022 WA Local Hero Award win! Their regional expansion will encompass 11 major regional centres in WA.
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Jo nabs 2024 ACT Woman of the Year
2024 ACT Australian of the Year Joanne Farrell can add another award to her title. The founder of Build Like A Girl has been awarded 2024 ACT Woman of the Year. The recipients of the 2024 ACT Women’s Awards were announced ahead of International Women's Day.
Read moreRaising resilient kids
2019 Australian of the Year Dr Richard Harris SC OAM says he learnt something profound from the young boys he saved in Thailand. 2024 WA Senior Australian of the Year nominee Maggie Dent 2024 spoke with Richard about what he believes is the secret to raising resilient kids in her podcast, 'The Good Enough Dad.'
Listen nowThese are just some of the things Tiahni has been up to...
South Australia's 2024 Young Australian of the Year Tiahni Adamson, Senior Australian of the Year Sister Meredith Evans and Local Hero Rachael Zaltron OAM led a record-breaking International Women's Day Luncheon for South Australian Business Chamber. Tiahni was also a guest speaker at the 2024 Alice Springs Youth Conference. Plus, she recently facilitated a climate panel at the iconic WOMADelaide!
Listen to Tiahni's keynote on IWDThe Year that Made Me
2024 TAS Senior Australian of the Year Reverend Jim Colville AM established Colony 47 in 1973 to provide for people in need who were shunned by the church. Listen on ABC's The Year that Made Me as Jim shares how 1973 set him on his path.
Listen nowCompassionate Communities Australia launches
2023 WA Australian of the Year Professor Samar Aoun has launched Compassionate Communities Australia. The not-for-profit soon to be charity aims to become a hub of knowledge and skills for community-led solutions that lead to social and systems change. It supports communities to reclaim and own their central role in caring, dying and grieving.
Learn moreDylan on Playschool
"There’s a chair in there and Dylan as well..." Keep an eye out for 2022 Australian of the Year Dylan Alcott AO later this year when he makes appearance on the iconic Playschool on the ABC! Dylan was also recently at Austin's South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference & Festivals. He delivered a solo keynote, ‘Disability Made Sexy - Capturing a Global Market of 1.3 billion people.’
Listen to Dylan's SXSW keynoteMelanoma March
Melanoma Institute Australia’s Co-Medical Directors and 2024 Australians of the Year, Professor Georgina Long AO and Professor Richard Scolyer AO, urged Australians to join the national Melanoma March campaign to raise vital research funds and stop the glamourisation of tanning.
Learn more and donateINSPIRING INCLUSION FOR LASTING CHANGE THIS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
Auspire – Australia Day Council WA hosted an online lunch with She Codes Australia founder, Kate Kirwin, and para-athlete and disability advocate, Madison Heady, to discover their motivations, journeys, impacts and aspirations for a more inclusive, equitable future.
Coercive control will become a crime in Queensland
Coercive control will become a crime in Queensland after historic laws passed state parliament. Adults will face a new standalone offence – expected to come into force next year – that carries a jail sentence of up to 14 years. 2022 QLD Australians of the Year Sue and Lloyd Clarke, parents of Hannah Clarke, played a pivotal role in advocating for the laws.
Read moreFran's final hurruh
She was the first female nurse to study medicine in Tasmania. After an incredible career spanning decades, 2023 TAS Senior Australian of the Year Dr Frances Donaldson has decided to hang up her stethoscope. Fran's retirement after 64 years was covered across lots of Tassie local media - and rightly so. This energetic 81-year-old has been hailed as a groundbreaker and mentor for women in medicine.
Read about FranTaryn heads to Texas
It’s a speaker’s dream to be involved in SXSW, one of the biggest cultural events in the world. 2023 Australian of the Year Taryn Brumfitt headed to Austin, Texas in March to deliver a presentation as part of their Culture track on a topic that’s very close to her heart: Changing our Minds about Changing our Bodies.
Listen nowPERCEPTIONS ON DISABILITY
Legally blind barrel racer and 2019 SA Local Hero Megan McLoughlin relies on echolocation to determine where to guide her trusty horse in the arena.
Megan's been working with the ABC on a project called Real Ability, which focuses on changing people's perception on disability.