List of Australian Local Hero Award recipients
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The Local Hero Award commenced in 2003.
The Local Hero Award acknowledges extraordinary contributions made by Australia
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The Local Hero Award acknowledges extraordinary contributions made by Australia
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- 2010 Ronni KahnRonni KahnRonni Kahn is best known for founding the Australian food rescue charity OzHarvest.Kahn was the 2010 winner of the Australian Local Hero Award...
- 2009 Graeme Drew
- 2008 Jonathon WelchJonathon WelchJonathon Welch is a choral conductor and singer from Melbourne, Australia.Welch was the 2008 winner of the Australian Local Hero Awardin recognition of his work with The Choir of Hard Knocks, a choir made up of homeless and disadvantaged singers from Melbourne...
- Director of The Choir of Hard KnocksThe Choir of Hard KnocksThe Choir of Hard Knocks is a choir consisting of homeless and disadvantaged people formed in Melbourne, Australia. It came to prominence as the subject of a five-part Australian Broadcasting Corporation documentary television series broadcast in 2007.... - 2007 Shanaka Fernando - founder of Melbourne not-for-profit restaurantRestaurantA restaurant is an establishment which prepares and serves food and drink to customers in return for money. Meals are generally served and eaten on premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and food delivery services...
group 'LentilLentilThe lentil is an edible pulse. It is a bushy annual plant of the legume family, grown for its lens-shaped seeds...
As Anything' (pun on rock group Mental as AnythingMental As AnythingMental As Anything are an Australian New Wave–rock music band formed at an art school in Sydney in 1976. Their most popular line-up was Martin Plaza on vocals and guitar; Reg Mombassa on lead guitar and vocals; his brother Peter "Yoga Dog" O'Doherty on bass guitar and vocals; Wayne "Bird"...
) - 2006 Toni HoffmanToni HoffmanToni Ellen Hoffman received the 2006 Australian of the Year Local Hero Award for her role as a whistleblower in informing Queensland Politician Rob Messenger about Jayant Patel a surgeon who was the subject of the Morris Inquiry and later the Davies Commission. She originally began to raise doubts...
- 2005 Ben Kearney - TasmaniaTasmaniaTasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...
n environmentalistEnvironmentalistAn environmentalist broadly supports the goals of the environmental movement, "a political and ethical movement that seeks to improve and protect the quality of the natural environment through changes to environmentally harmful human activities"... - 2004 Donna Carson
- 2003 Mr Brian Parry AFSMAustralian Fire Service MedalThe Australian Fire Service Medal is awarded for distinguished service by a member of an Australian fire service.The AFSM was introduced in 1988, and replaced the Imperial awards of the Queen's Fire Service Medal for Gallantry and the Queen's Fire Service Medal for Distinguished Service...