Amazing Australians is a website dedicated to highlighting those members of the community who devote their hearts and minds to helping others.
There are many selfless Australians among us who make a great difference to the lives of those they touch, Australians who give a piece of themselves every day just to help out one of their fellow humans.
These people are the unsung heroes of our community who you may pass in the street or see at a local sporting event, people who may otherwise blend into the background of society.
Amazing Australians celebrates these wonderful people and their contributions, contributions which make Australia a better place.
CEO of The Eye Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation that represents medical eye specialists in Australia and New Zealand.Most people's bad day at work might involve a parking ticket or a jammed photocopier but Belinda Sullivan's bad day involved the risk of untimely death. It was when she was holding a gun to a man's head - a man who was threatening to kill her - that Belinda decided that what she really neede ...
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The PCYC Young Person of the Year who overcame his own troubles with police during his teenage years to help other young people in Sydney's inner west.Sam Johnson first stepped into the Glebe PCYC at the age of 14, when he spent an afternoon planting trees as part of a school excursion, but his current role at the club goes well beyond donning a pair of gardening gloves. As an activity officer, the now 21-year-old's duties range fr ...
Lithgow Information and Neighbourhood Centre staff member who has raised over $80,000 for Batten Disease and coordinates the Josephite Foundation NILS Scheme in the Lithgow area.When their son Michael was born in 2000, Julie Murnane and her husband Leo never suspected that just three years later he would be diagnosed with Batten Disease, an extremely rare genetic degenerative disorder. “He started off fine, kickin ...
Mahboba Rawi Founder and Director of charity Mahboba’s Promise.Mahboba Rawi drew inspiration from her own traumatic experiences and cultural background to establish Mahboba’s Promise, a charity dedicated to helping the women and children of Afghanistan.Mahboba’s Promise exists to help Afghani refugees by providing financial aid and by increasing Australian awareness of their plight. Mahboba and her vol ...