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Recipients 2021

2021 Awards

Australian of the Year
TAS Grace Tame
SA Tanya Hosch
WA Professor Helen Milroy
QLD Dr Dinesh Palipana OAM
NSW Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons AO AFSM
VIC Donna Stolzenberg
ACT Professor Brendan Murphy AC
NT Dr Wendy Page
Senior Australian of the Year
NT Dr Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr Baumann AM
TAS Brian Williams
VIC Bich Cam Nguyen
SA Professor Richard Bruggemann
WA Dr Richard Walley OAM
QLD Aunty McRose Elu
ACT Patricia Anderson AO
NSW Aunty Isabel Reid
Young Australian of the Year
SA Isobel Marshall
TAS Toby Thorpe
WA Grace Forrest
QLD William and Daniel Clarke
NSW Nathan Parker
ACT Tara McClelland
VIC Tayla Harris
NT Stuart McGrath
Local Hero
NSW Rosemary Kariuki OAM
NT Sergeant Erica Gibson
QLD Natasha Johnston
ACT Timothy Miller
TAS Edna Pennicott OAM
VIC Dr Kirby White
SA Russell Ebert OAM - In Memoriam
WA Rebecca Prince-Ruiz

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