ACLW Honours Roll

ACLW’s Honours Roll honours all the winners of ACLW’s Awards since 2006 whose achievements demonstrate their valuing of women in the Organisations and/or in the community.

Winners and Finalists of ACLW’s 2016 Diversity Award

2016 ACLW’s Diversity Champion Winners

• 1st place: Mariette (Mary) Cowley and Woman Benefiting, Winifred Nanala, both from Western Australia and Ljudan Michaelis-Thorpe from NSW
• 2nd place: Roxanne Smith from Queensland
• 3rd place: Angel Owen from Queensland and Woman Benefiting Amelia Telford from Victoria

‘Empowers Women in a Community or Organisation in Australia’ Category

• 1st place: Cynthia Balogh and Woman Benefiting Catherine Cervasio, both from Victoria
• 2nd Place: Sonia McDonald from Queensland and Shelley-Anne Brace from Queensland
• 3rd Place: The Gender Equity in Science Committee (GEiSC) at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research in Victoria and Associate Professor Marnie Blewitt from Victoria

‘Empowers Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) women in a Community or Organisation in Australia’

• 1st place: Hazara Women of Australia from NSW and Ansia Muradi from NSW
• 2nd Place: Tenneh Kpaka and Najeeba Wasefadost, both from NSW
• 3rd Place: The Olivetree Women’s Network from NSW and Indra Yanti from NSW

‘Empowers Women with a Disability in a Community or Organisation in Australia’ Category

• 1st Place: Women with Disabilities Victoria (WDV) and Samantha Winch from Victoria
• 2nd Place: Carly Findlay from Victoria and Kyrie Fuss from South Australia
• 3rd Place: Dagmar Jenkins from Victoria and a woman with a disability whose name cannot be released as the Woman Benefiting.

‘Empowers Older Women in a Community or Organisation in Australia’ Category

• Fay Hair and Kath Nelson, both from NSW

‘Empowers LGBTIQ Women in a Community or Organisation in Australia’ Category

• Rachel Nicolson from Victoria and Regan Barker from Victoria

‘Empowers Women Experiencing Disadvantage in a Community or Organisation in Australia’ Category

• 1st Place: Women and Mentoring (WAM) in Victoria and Juli Gansberg from Victoria
• 2nd Place: DVNSW and Woman Benefiting, Kay Schubach from NSW as well as Diversity Champion, Merredith Hillebrand and Peggy Maxwell. Both are from Victoria.
• 3rd Place: Natalie Scanlon from Victoria and Aarch Parekh also from Victoria

‘Empowers Rural, Regional and Remote Women in a Community or Organisation in Australia’ Category

• 1st Place: Lisa Kennewell from South Australia and Dr Nayana Parange also from South Australia
• 2nd Place: Robyn Bull from Queensland and Natalie McKirdy also from Qld
• 3rd Place: Energy Skills Queensland and Koorine Walker & Malvena Walker also from Queensland

Winners and Finalists of the ‘Empowers Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women in a Community or Organisation in Australia’ Category

• Diversity Champion Mariette (Mary) Cowley and Woman Benefiting, Winifred Nanala, both from Western Australia are the Winners of this Category. Due to cultural reasons, Winifred Nanala was unable to accept her prize which was a $10,000 AILC Training Package Scholarship to attend Certificate IV in Indigenous Leadership or Certificate IV in Business Governance Including accommodation and flights to and from the course from participant’s nearest capital city. As such Woman Benefiting Finalist in 2nd place, Ljudan Michaelis-Thorpe from NSW was presented with this prize. 2nd place Diversity Champion, Roxanne Smith from Queensland was unable to attend. In 3rd place is Diversity Champion Angel Owen from Queensland and Woman Benefiting Amelia Telford from Victoria.

Winners and Finalists of the ‘Empowers Women in a Community or Organisation in Australia’ Category

• Winners of this Category are Diversity Champion,
  Cynthia Balogh and Woman Benefiting Catherine Cervasio, both from Victoria; Coming
  in 2nd Place for this category is Diversity Champion Sonia McDonald from Queensland
  and Shelley-Anne Brace from Queensland as the Woman Benefiting; Coming in 3rd Place
  for this category is Diversity Champion The Gender Equity in Science Committee (GEiSC)
  at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research in Victoria and Associate
  Professor Marnie Blewitt from Victoria as the Woman Benefiting.

Winners and Finalists of the ‘Empowers Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) women in a Community or Organisation in Australia’

• The Winners of the category, ‘Empowers Culturally
  and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Women in a Community or Organisation in Australia’
  are Diversity Champion Hazara Women of Australia from NSW and Ansia Muradi from
  NSW as the Woman Benefiting. Coming in 2nd Place for this category is Diversity
  Champion Tenneh Kpaka and Najeeba Wasefadost, both from NSW as the Woman Benefiting.
  In 3rd Place for this category is Diversity Champion The Olivetree Women’s Network
  from NSW and Indra Yanti from NSW as the Woman Benefiting.

Winners and Finalists of the ‘Empowers Women with a Disability in a Community or Organisation in Australia’ Category

• The winner of the Empowers Women with a Disability
  in a Community or Organisation in Australia category is Diversity Champion, Women
  with Disabilities Victoria (WDV) and Samantha Winch as the Woman Benefiting. Coming
  in 2nd Place for this category is Diversity Champion Carly Findlay from Victoria
  and Kyrie Fuss from South Australia as the Woman Benefiting. Coming in 3rd Place
  for this category is Diversity Champion Dagmar Jenkins from Victoria and a woman
  with a disability whose name cannot be released as the Woman Benefiting.

Winners and Finalists of the ‘Empowers Older Women in a Community or Organisation in Australia’ Category

• The Winner of the Category, Empowers Older Women
  in a Community or Organisation in Australia Category is Diversity Champion, Fay
  Hair and Kath Nelson as the Woman Benefiting, both from NSW.

Finalists of the ‘Empowers LGBTIQ Women in a Community or Organisation in Australia’ Category

• The Winners of this Category are Diversity Champion,
  Rachel Nicolson from Victoria and Regan Barker from Victoria as the Woman Benefiting.

Winners and Finalists of the ‘Empowers Women Experiencing Disadvantage in a Community or Organisation in Australia’ Category

• Winners of the category, Empowering Women Experiencing
  Disadvantage in communities and Organisations in Australia is Diversity Champion,
  Women and Mentoring (WAM) in Victoria and Juli Gansberg from Victoria. There is
  a tie in 2nd Place for this Category – Diversity Champion DVNSW and Woman Benefiting,
  Kay Schubach from NSW secured 2nd place as well as Diversity Champion, Merredith
  Hillebrand and Peggy Maxwell as Woman Benefiting. Both are from Victoria. Coming
  in 3rd Place for this category is Diversity Champion Natalie Scanlon from Victoria
  and Aarch Parekh also from Victoria as the Woman Benefiting.

Winners and Finalists of the ‘Empowers Rural, Regional and Remote Women in a Community or Organisation in Australia’ Category

• The Winners of this Category are Diversity Champion
  Lisa Kennewell from South Australia and Dr Nayana Parange also from South Australia
  as the Woman Benefiting. Coming in 2nd Place for this Category is Diversity Champion
  Robyn Bull from Queensland and Natalie McKirdy also from Qld as the Woman Benefiting.
  Coming in 3rd Place for this Category is Diversity Champion Energy Skills Queensland
  and Koorine Walker & Malvena Walker also from Queensland as the Women Benefiting.

Winners of the 2015 SWECO Award

• Carol Hanlon – WINNER OF CATEGORY: Empowering
  Women in a Community or Organisation in Australia

Carol Hanlon is recognised for her work establishing the BPW Business
Incubator Women in Business Online Training & Mentoring Project and in developing
the business skills and business growth potential of women in new or existing small
businesses.

• Maternity Choices Australia: WINNER OF CATEGORY:
  Empowering Women in a Community or Organisation in Australia

Maternity Choices Australia is recognised for enabling women to become
effective and informed maternity consumer advocates and developing a Consumer Representative
Training Program to achieve this.

• Antoinette Braybrook – WINNER OF CATEGORY: Empowering
  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women in a Community or Organisation in Australia

Antoinette Braybrook is recognised for her work ensuring excellence of
operational service delivery to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander victim/survivors
of family violence and for raising awareness amongst key stakeholders for early
intervention and prevention programs to curb family violence in Aboriginal communities.

• Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre (AILC)
  – WINNER OF CATEGORY: Empowering Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women in
  a Community or Organisation in Australia

The Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre is recognised for its ‘Governing
Girls Master Class’ series which provides knowledge and skills that help Indigenous
women transition from entry and middle-level organisational roles to more senior
leadership roles.

• Tracey Sawyer – WINNER OF CATEGORY: Empowering
  Women in a Community or Organisation Overseas

Tracey Sawyer is recognised for her work developing and facilitating
the Permaculture Training Project to empower Massai women in Tanzania to become
first-time farmers, improve family nutrition and enter the local economy.

• Matthias Tomczak – WINNER OF CATEGORY: Empowering
  Women in a Community or Organisation Overseas

Matthias Tomczak is recognised for his work developing SAWA-Australia
and enabling SAWA-Australia to empower women in Afghanistan through education, training
and funding.

2015 SWECO FINALISTS

• Jessica Barlow is recognised for her work to
  curb unnecessary digital alteration of images of women in magazines and in the media.
• Lindy Chen is recognised for her work developing
  stronger trade ties between Australia and China and empowering women entrepreneurs
  in their businesses.
• Dr Jackie King is recognised for her work in
  founding and establishing Project Deborah to empower Jewish Women through professional
  and personal development capacity building opportunities.
• Kath Mazzella OAM is recognised for her work
  in breaking down the barriers and stigmas associated with gynaecological and sexual
  health of women and in establishing the International Gynaecological Awareness Day
  (IGAD).
• Carole Shaw is recognised for her work empowering
  African refugee women and building their capacity to represent themselves, their
  families and their communities in relevant socio-political contexts in Australia.
• Australian Women’s Sport and Recreation Association
  (AWRA) is recognised for its e-Mentoring Program to assist women in sport to achieve
  their identified leadership aspirations and goals.
• Safe From Harm by Flemington & Kensington
  Community Legal Centre and Moonee Valley Legal Service is recognised for its achievement
  to raise awareness about family violence amongst CALD communities in public housing
  estates in Flemington and Ascot Vale and to build trust between cultural groups
  and legal services.
• Dr Ruth Mirams and Mikaela Jade are recognised
  for their digital story telling projects through Digital Rangers which enables inter-generational
  cultural narrative mapping, training of Indigenous youth and Aboriginal and Torres
  Strait Islander leadership in the digital economy.

Winners of the 2014 SWECO Award

• Women’s Health Goulburn North East (WHGNE) in
  Victoria for developing a No Interest Loans Scheme (NILS) specifically for disadvantaged
  women exiting family violence and for assisting financially disadvantaged women
  since 2009 through mentoring women to regain their financial confidence and capability,
  and reduce their financial dependence on abusive ex-partners.
• Raise Foundation in Sydney for the Bump Program
  for young mums aged between 13 and 23 that brings women together across the generations,
  challenges stereotypes, empowers with education and inspires girls to be the best
  women they can be, hence breaking the cycle of social, economic and emotional disadvantage.
• Women’s Legal Service (Tasmania) Inc for their
  Girls Gotta Know, an interactive mobile website app and an Australian first for
  the delivery of legal information and resources to young women aged 14-24.
• The Jewish Taskforce Against Family Violence
  (JTAFV) in Victoria for their book WILL MY RABBI BELIEVE ME? Will He Understand?
  that provides culturally appropriate and sensitive ways for the clergy and professionals
  to respond to disclosures of family violence, abuse and sexual assault. This book
  is being used as an educational tool in by Police chaplains, rabbis, educators and
  social workers across Australia, England, Canada, the USA and South Africa.
• Nasiba Akram for sponsoring Afghani refugee women
  and children in the camps of Pakistan and India and empowering female members of
  the Australian Afghan community to do the same as well as for strengthening educational
  opportunities for boys and girls within war torn Afghanistan.

Winners of the 2013 SWECO Award

• The National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples
  (Congress) is commended for establishing gender equity as a founding principle in
  its Constitution and for implementing this principle in its management and governance
  of the Congress.
• Angela Yin is commended for her self-appointed
  leadership, commitment and dedication to raising awareness and celebrating the achievements
  of women through the establishment of Queensland Justices Association International
  Women’s Day project.
• Julie Verner Mackay is commended for her self-leadership,
  and for designing and developing a program in response to stakeholders needs. Her
  motivation to give women the opportunity to access a leadership development program
  that focuses on self-leadership and enables women to recognise their capacity to
  lead using their innate strengths, are exemplary.
• Sarah Patricia Valentine is commended for her
  self-appointed leadership and shaping her desire to empower other women personally
  and professionally in Bellarine, Victoria through the Bellarine Business Women venture.

Winners of the 2012 SWECO Award

• Kat Armstrong in recognition of her sustainable
  community initiative, Women in Prison Advocacy Network (WIPAN)
• Ludo McFerran in recognition of her sustainable
  community initiative for the introduction of domestic violence entitlements to periods
  of paid leave and other rights in industrial instruments
• Karen McFadzen in recognition of her sustainable
  organisational initiative to achieve gender diversity at the executive level in
  Cisco Technical Services Team across Asia Pacific, Japan, and Greater China
• Yolanda Vega in recognition of her sustainable
  community initiative for establishing the Australian Women Chamber of Commerce and
  Industry (AWCCI). In recognition of their sustainable organisational initiative,
  Women Take the Wheel to encourage women to pursue a career in the Transport and
  Supply Chain industry
• Transport and Logistics Workforce Advisory Group
  (TLWAG-Q) team: Bill Potter, Sal Petroccitto (Chair), Roz Shaw, Peter Garske, Skye
  Naismith, Louise Perram-Fisk, Peter Biagini, Rick Ralph, Vince Aisthorpe, Tom Wiltshire,
  Greg Muscat, Michael Thirgood, Jo Hammond, Tim Maloney, Hal Morris, Col McKenzie
• Transform Team in the Department of Transport
  and Main Roads Queensland: Louise Perram-Fisk (Director), Monique Ricci, Callum
  Fraser, Nicole Holyer, Megan Kelly, Robyn Francis, Siobhán McCarville, Tess Baxter,
  Kathryne Phillis, Ally Reilly, James Southwood, Kylie Fennell, Linda MacDonald,
  Cara FitzGerald, Sara Kursius

Advancement of Women in the Workplace Award (AWWA)

Winners of the 2010 AWWA Award

• Radmila Desic from Construction Skills Queensland
  for her outstanding initiatives to attract, recruit, retain and train women in the
  construction industry.
• Louise Perram-Fisk whose Inspiring Women Series,
  designed to support women to develop their careers and empower their lives within
  the Queensland Public sector is now an ongoing program for the Queensland Government.
• Commander Jennifer Wittwer for her Navy Women’s
  Leadership Program, designed to provide Navy female leaders with the opportunity
  to attend, and participate in, various external leadership development events in
  support of the Navy’s Leadership and Values Cultural Reform Strategy now named,
  New Generation Navy.
• Commander Michelle Fyfe and Acting Senior Sergeant
  Erica Silwood from Western Australia Police for establishing the Western Australian
  Police Executive Committee for Women (ECW) and its Women in Leadership Strategy.
• Inspector Nada McDonald of New South Wales Police
  Force for supporting and developing women within the Force through implementation
  of strategies aligned to achieving workplace goals.

Leadership Achievement Award for Women (LAAW)

Winners of the 2009 LAAW

• Dr Jill Tomlinson, Australian Federation of Medical
  Women (AFMW) for empowering medical women with leadership skills and improved networking
  and mentoring opportunities
• Julie Gale, founder and Director of Kids Free
  2B Kids for her work in raising the issue of the early sexualisation of children
  in advertising and the media.
• Stephanie Taylor for creating the Learning &Development
  Professionals Forum
• Kath Mazzella for her vision in Gynaecological/Sexual
  issues
• Melissa Hughes for creating an ongoing support
  group for women and families
• Dr Cathy Kezelman for addressing the needs of
  adults surviving child abuse in the Australian community
• Margaret Hardy for developing the Significant
  Women of the CentralCoast books to record women’s stories
• Lynne Schulz for raising awareness about the
  problems faced by multiple birth loss families and for surviving multiple birth
  children
• Justine Kelly for promoting eco friendly fashion
  in less developed countries
• Stacey Irving and Terania Shanahan for co-founding
  AWARE, an organisation dedicated to raising awareness in the local community about
  global humanitarian issues, promoting equality and sustainable development.

Winners of the 2008 LAAW

• Sarah Elston and Caitlin Grigsby for turning
  around a small scale Blue Stockings university event to a community celebration
  of women’s achievements within Gippsland to fund and encourage the education of
  women from diverse backgrounds, particularly students from Monash Gippsland and
  VCE Latrobe Valley schools.
• Juliet Bourke for being the driving force behind
  the Taskforce on Care Costs (TOCC) since its inception in 2003. The Taskforce on
  Care Costs was a strategic alliance between business and community organisations
  to investigate the relationship between work and the cost of care and to advocate
  reforms.
• Helen Anne Clarke for initiating support for
  women in drought affected areas of NSW through the “Hand to the Land” and “Renewal
  for Rural Women” Programmes
• Paula Curotte in founding the “Soufflé Sisters,”
  a choir for women, singing uplifting music for the community
• Danielle Ecuyer for founding the Women for Change
  Alliance to create awareness about climate change and sustainability
• Rhonda Obad for founding the Bridge Back to Life
  Foundation to help children and youth who are at risk.
• Margaret Mary Gurry was awarded the Highly Commended
  Award for founding and co-ordinating for eleven years the Friday Night School for
  students of non-English speaking backgrounds.

Winners of the 2007 LAAW

• Emma Kirkwood for her tremendous effort in raising
  awareness and funds for the silent issue of Stillbirth through founding the Stillbirth
  Foundation
• Jessica Brown for her achievements to break the
  cycle of abuse and suffering in Australian teenage girls by giving them a positive
  role model and having them attend a twelve month personal success program called
  the SISTER 2 sister Project.
• Indu Balachandran who developed for Youth Challenge
  Australia a Program that provides exchange and development opportunities for young
  people in Australia and India.
• Liz Everard for the Body Esteem Project in Western
  Australia for women affected by eating disorders such as Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa
  and body image problems.
• Gainore Atkins for developing the Hobsons Bay
  Women’s Referral Service in Victoria for women experiencing domestic violence or
  other abuse situations.
• Celia Bray for the Festival of Dreams Project
  in Tasmania for helping young people realize their potential and move beyond obstacles
  posed by lack of jobs, lack of support and services.

Winners of the 2006 LAAW

• Hélène Gonski for what she achieved on a grand
  scale in relation to raising and working on the issue of grandparenting, that up
  till then had not been given any mainstream focus.
• Melanie Mumford for influencing change in refugee
  and asylum seeker policy by sending a clear message that Australians support the
  fair treatment of refugees.
• Louise Bannister for creating the six month Well
  and Able program that aimed to be an inclusive, fun, affordable fitness and social
  inclusion program in the form of a weekly fitness class with an individual program
  developed for each woman followed by social activities.
• Christina Borisavljevic for establishing a Counselling
  and Support Service in Boambee East, NSW where she together with others, provide
  free counselling for members of the community and the disadvantaged.
• Mary Hollingworth for reviving the Glen Innes
  Show Society Ladies Auxiliary committee of forty-five years standing and achieving
  outstanding outcomes for the catering/hospitality needs of the Show.
• Kathryn Keen is being recognised for providing
  an online Ozark and Ozbird communications and information network for wildlife carers
  across Australia.