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Canberra Today 21°/24° | Tuesday, March 19, 2024 | Digital Edition | Crossword & Sudoku

Lyn Mills’ social event of the week

FOUR fabulous women made history this year with a girl-power sweep of the Australian of the Year Awards at the Australia Day-eve party that celebrates who we are and those who’ve made a significant contribution.

Their causes and passions are different, but each has made a major contribution to our society and came from a formidable field of finalists across the four categories that give recognition to our young, seniors, local heroes and, of course, the Australian of the Year who for 2015 is Rosie Batty.

We will never forget her heartbreaking articulating of the scourge of domestic violence after the death of her son and have watched as she emerged as the champion of the cause.

Senior Australian of the Year is Jackie French, who lives in the beautiful Araluen Valley and, as an award-winning writer, is the current Children’s Laureate and director of the Wombat Foundation.

Drisana Levitzke-Gray, as the Young Australian of the Year is an advocate for the deaf. She gives voice to so many with Auslan, her first language.

Social entrepreneur Louise Davidson is Australia’s Local Hero and the founder and CEO of GIVIT, an online portal to get donated goods to those who need them. Go girls!

 

 

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