Acknowledgements
Recipients 2017

2017 Awards

Australian of the Year QLD Emeritus Professor Alan Mackay-Sim NSW Deng Adut VIC Paris Aristotle AM WA Andrew Forrest TAS Rosalie Martin NT Andrea Mason SA Kate Swaffer ACT Alan Tongue
Senior Australian of the Year NT Sister Anne Gardiner AM QLD Professor Perry F Bartlett FAA SA Patricia Buckskin PSM WA Peter Kenyon NSW Dr John Knight AM VIC Lois Peeler AM TAS Margaret Steadman ACT Dick Telford
Young Australian of the Year SA Paul Vasileff WA Abdullahi Alim NSW Arthur Alla VIC Jason Ball NT Bridie Duggan TAS Mitch McPherson QLD Taj Pabari ACT Heidi Prowse
Local Hero VIC Vicki Jellie ACT Stasia Dabrowski OAM TAS Anthony Edler SA Reginald George Heading QLD Yasmin Khan WA June Oscar AO NT Tejinder pal Singh NSW Josephine Peter