The Peter Rawlinson Award is an annual

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n environment

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by the

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consisting of $3000 and a plaque made to individuals who have made an outstanding voluntary contribution to the Australian environment. It commemorates Dr Peter Rawlinson's contribution as an environmental campaigner and researcher. Rawlinson was an ACF Treasurer and Vice President and a biologist and conservationist who died while doing field work in Indonesia in 1991.

Prize winners

2015 award

Won by Jack Wongili Green, for his activism against

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2013 award

Won by Glen Beutel, for his advocacy to prevent the development of coal mine in

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as the last landowner left in the

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2011 award

Won by two organizations,

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Defenders Organization and Bundy on Tap. The first for its efforts in protecting Fraser Island over four decades including preventing logging and having it added to the

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inventory. Bundy on Tap was awarded for its work on the ban of sale of plastic water bottles in

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2010 award

Won by the organization, Rising Tide for bringing public attention to the climate crisis after high-profile actions through activism.

2008 award

Won by Stephen Leonard, an environmental lawyer whose work focuses on litigating

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and environmental law reform.

2007 award

Won by Aboriginal activist and elder of the

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nation, Kevin Buzzacott for two decades of work highlighting the impacts of uranium mining and promoting a nuclear free Australia.

2006 award

Won by Clive Crouch, a grassroots environmentalist from

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in Victoria, for his work promoting biodiversity in Victoria's

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region over the last 30 years.

2005 award

Won by

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, who has spent a decade campaigning tirelessly against uranium mining and for forest protection in the South West of Western Australia to 2001, then in Tasmania. She is one of the ''

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'' activists being sued by wood chipping and timber company

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2003 award

Won by Nina Brown, known locally in

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as Greenie Mula, an Irati Wanti campaign co-ordinator for the

Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta The Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta is a council of senior Aboriginal women from Coober Pedy, South Australia.

and giving them media and communications assistance to help defeat a nuclear waste dump proposal in South Australia.