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South Australian Of The Year
The Australian of the Year Award is given annually on Australia Day. The national award is a major public event, televised nationwide. The Award also operates at the State level. This page lists winners of the South Australia state award, who are automatically finalists in the national competition. Past winners of the South Australian of the Year Awards *2002: Robert Champion de Crespigny , businessman * 2003: Malcolm Kinnaird , engineer * 2005: Sister Janet Mead, nun * 2006: Richard Hunter, Ngarrinjeri Elder * 2007: Professor John Ralston , physical chemist * 2008: Mike Turtur, cyclist *2009: Dr Bill Griggs , medical doctor * 2010: Maggie Beer , chef *2011: Dr Tanya Monro, physicist *2012: Robyn Layton , social justice advocate *2013: Sonya Ryan, internet safety campaigner * 2014: Felicity-Ann Lewis, community leader * 2015: Gill Hicks , MBE, peace campaigner * 2016: Dr John Greenwood , burns surgeon * 2017: Kate Swaffer, dementia advocate * 2018: Professor David David , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Of The Year Award
The Australian of the Year is a national award conferred on an Australian citizen by the National Australia Day Council, a not-for-profit Australian Government-owned social enterprise. Similar awards are also conferred at the state and territory level. History Since 1960 the award for the Australian of the Year has been bestowed as part of the celebrations surrounding Australia Day, during which time it has grown steadily in significance to become one of the nation's pre-eminent awards. The Australian of the Year announcement has become a notable part of the annual Australia Day celebrations. The official announcement has grown to become a public event, and the Canberra ceremony is televised nationally. The award offers an insight into Australian identity, reflecting the nation's evolving relationship with world, the role of sport in Australian culture, the impact of multiculturalism, and the special status of Indigenous Australians. It has also provoked spirited debate about t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felicity-Ann Lewis
Dr Felicity-Ann Lewis (born 1957) is a former mayor of the City of Marion and South Australia's Australian of the Year for 2014. She received a Centenary Medal for service to the community, particularly as Mayor, City of Marion. Lewis has worked towards reconciliation with Aboriginal people and was on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander War Memorial Fundraising Committee. She has also worked to assist settlement for refugees and migrants. She received a Doctorate of Education from University of South Australia in August 2013 and is a retired senior lecturer in Health Education at Flinders University. Local government Lewis served four terms as mayor of Marion between 2000 and 2014. She was also National President of the Australian Local Government Association. She defeated Raelene Telfer once and Bruce Hull twice to hold the position of mayor of Marion. Lewis did not have to contest the position in 2003. The 2010 mayoral election saw sitting Mayor Felicity-Ann Lewis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Of The Year
The Australian of the Year is a national award conferred on an Australian citizen by the National Australia Day Council, a not-for-profit Australian Government-owned social enterprise. Similar awards are also conferred at the state and territory level. History Since 1960 the award for the Australian of the Year has been bestowed as part of the celebrations surrounding Australia Day, during which time it has grown steadily in significance to become one of the nation's pre-eminent awards. The Australian of the Year announcement has become a notable part of the annual Australia Day celebrations. The official announcement has grown to become a public event, and the Canberra ceremony is televised nationally. The award offers an insight into Australian identity, reflecting the nation's evolving relationship with world, the role of sport in Australian culture, the impact of multiculturalism, and the special status of Indigenous Australians. It has also provoked spirited debate about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Jarvis
Timothy John Jarvis (born 7 May 1966) is an English and Australian explorer, climber, author, environmental activist, and documentary filmmaker. He is best known for his numerous Antarctic expeditions, particularly his attempted Antarctic crossing in 1999 and the period recreations of historical treks by Sir Douglas Mawson and Sir Ernest Shackleton. Early life and education Timothy John Jarvis was born on 7 May 1966 in Manchester, England. His father being an accountant for the company that distributed Tiger Balm, he grew up in Malaysia in the 1970s, and then attended United World College of South East Asia (UWCSEA) in Singapore. This school incorporated a lot of outdoor activities and "learning by doing". After first studying for a BA (Hons) degree in geography at the University of Brighton in England in 1988, Jarvis earned an MSc in environmental science at the Cranfield Institute (Cranfield, Bedfordshire) in 1993. In 1996 he joined an unsupported expedition that crossed a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taryn Brumfitt
Taryn Brumfitt (born ) is an Australian body positivity advocate, writer, photographer, and filmmaker, known for founding the Body Image Movement and for her 2016 documentary film '' Embrace''. The crowdfunded film ''Embrace Kids'', intended for use in schools, was released in 2022. Early life and education Brumfitt was born in . She attended Unley High School in the Adelaide suburb of Netherby. Career Brumfitt was first a photographer. After the birth of her third child, she considered cosmetic surgery, as she was unhappy with the appearance of her body, but took up body building instead. Brumfitt founded the Body Image Movement in 2012. The Body Image Movement describes itself as "on a quest to end the global body-hating epidemic" and "working to put an end to body loathing and spread the message of body loving". It aims to recruit a Body Image Movement Global Ambassador Program (BIMGAP), of people who will spread its message internationally through social media and lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Marshall (medical Researcher)
Helen Siobhan Marshall (born 1962) is an Australian medical researcher who is Professor of Vaccinology at the University of Adelaide. She was named the South Australian of the Year for 2022. Early life and education Marshall's mother was a nurse and her father a general practitioner. She completed her schooling at Pembroke School, Adelaide in 1979. Marshall graduated from the University of Adelaide with an MBBS in 1988. She returned to the university for postgraduate studies, receiving a Masters in Public Health in 2004 and a Doctorate of Medicine in 2011. She has also completed an international Advanced Vaccinology Course at the Pasteur Institute in France. Career As a medical student, Marshall worked for a time in Western Samoa, which she has said has "guided her interest" in vaccinology. She then undertook paediatric training at the Women's and Children's Hospital in Adelaide, where she saw the impact of serious infections from diseases without vaccines available. Marshall f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanya Hosch
Tanya Hosch is an Indigenous Australian social activist and business executive. She has held leadership roles in sport, the arts, social justice and public policy. She was joint campaign manager of the " Recognise" campaign run by Reconciliation Australia from 2012 to 2016. At her appointment as social inclusion manager to the Australian Football League (AFL) in June 2016, she became the first Indigenous person and the second woman appointed to an executive position in the AFL. Early life and education Hosch's birth mother, a white woman, was of Welsh origin, while her birth father is a Torres Strait Islander man. She was adopted by a white Australian woman and Aboriginal man after her parents' 16-year-old eldest child was killed in a car accident. The fact that she was adopted was never hidden from her, and her adoptive home was a loving, caring and stable one, although money was tight and her parents worked very hard. She experienced racism at school, which affected her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Muecke
James Sunter Muecke (born 1963) is an Australian ophthalmologist working in Adelaide, South Australia. He was the 2020 Australian of the Year, having been South Australian of the Year. He was sworn in as South Australia's Lieutenant Governor on 27 January 2022, succeeding Brenda Wilson, and was succeeded by Richard Harris. Early life Muecke was born in Adelaide and raised in Canberra. He lived in Washington, D.C., as a child while his father worked for the Australian embassy. He attended Canberra Grammar School from 1976 to 1981. After failing to get into medicine at the University of Sydney by one mark, Muecke returned to Adelaide to study medicine at the University of Adelaide, graduating in 1987. He later trained as an ophthalmologist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and subspecialty training in eye cancer in London Professional life Muecke began his career working in Kenya for 12 months. After his ophthalmology training, he worked for a year at Saint John Eye Hospital in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Australia Day Council
The National Australia Day Council (NADC) is a non-profit social enterprise owned by the Australian Government and is the national coordinating body for the Australian of the Year awards and Australia Day. It was established in 1979 and incorporated as a government-owned business in 1990. Australian Natives' Association was one of the chief promoters of Australia Day as a national holiday, and in 1946 formed an Australia Day Celebrations Committee in Melbourne to formalise its efforts. Similar bodies emerged in other states, and a Federal Australia Day Council (FADC) was formed to coordinate their efforts. In 1979, with the FADC's agreement, the organisation was replaced by a government-sponsored National Australia Day Committee. The committee was initially headed by former Olympian Herb Elliott. In 1985, it was renamed the National Australia Day Council, with former tennis player John Newcombe as president. The organisation became an incorporated public company in 1990. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Harris (anaesthetist)
Richard James Dunbar Harris is an Australian anaesthetist and cave diver who has served as the Lieutenant Governor of South Australia since 2024. Harris is best known for having played a crucial role in the Tham Luang cave rescue. He has dived to 245m (804 ft) and is the first person known to have breathed hydrogen on a rebreather. Harris was awarded 2019 Australian of the Year along with his dive partner Craig Challen. Education and medical career After completing school at St Peter's College in Adelaide, South Australia, Harris completed a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at Flinders University in 1988. He subsequently completed anaesthetics training in the United Kingdom and New Zealand. Harris has worked on medical assistance teams in natural disasters in the Pacific region and taken part in Australian Aid missions to Vanuatu. He worked as an aeromedical consultant and anaesthetist for the South Australian Ambulance Service's medical retrieval serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David David (surgeon)
Professor David John David (born 21 December 1940) is an Australian surgeon. He is a specialist in the area of craniofacial surgery and plastic & reconstructive surgery of the Head and Neck. He was the founder of the Australian Craniofacial Unit. David was created a Companion of the Order of Australia in the 1988 Australia Day Honours. He was named 2018 South Australian Australian of the Year in October 2017. An alumnus of Rostrevor College, David retired from clinical practice on 30 June 2018 but continues to teach in medical surgery and allied professions as Clinical Professor of Craniofacial Surgery at the University of Adelaide. The Australian Craniofacial Unit was founded in Adelaide by David in 1975. It remains one of only two such units in the world (the other is in Dallas). Before establishing the unit in Adelaide, he studied under Paul Tessier in France, who is regarded as the father of modern craniofacial surgery. Personal David has been married twice. He has four c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Swaffer
Kate Swaffer (born 1958) is an Australian civil rights campaigner, and activist for the rights of people with dementia and older persons globally, and for dementia to be managed as a disability. This is to enable equal access to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), of people with dementia who are people with acquired disabilities. She was awarded Australian of the Year for South Australia in 2017, and was announced the 2018 Global Leader of the 100 Women of Influence in Australia. Early life Swaffer was born in a farming community on Eyre Peninsula in 1958. She is married, and has two adult sons. Her first career was nursing, having worked in dementia and aged care and then operating theatres; she is also a retired chef having run her own hospitality businesses for ten years. She subsequently worked in health care sales. Swaffer was diagnosed with a rare young onsedementiashortly before her 50th birthday. Subsequently, she completed a Bachelor of Arts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
