The
Australian of the Year Award is given annually on
Australia Day
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. The national award is a major public event, televised nationwide. The Award also operates at the
State level. This page lists winners of the
South Australia
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state award, who are automatically finalists in the national competition.
Past winners of the South Australian of the Year Awards
*2002:
Robert Champion de Crespigny
Robert James Champion de Crespigny, AC (born 1950) is a multi-millionaire Australian businessman and founder of Normandy Mining Limited. Currently estimated with his ownership in PBE and Rutherford corporations his net worth is near 1B. In 2004 ...
, businessman
* 2003:
Malcolm Kinnaird
Malcolm Alexander Kinnaird AC DUniv FIEAust FTSE (1933–2014) was a South Australian engineer, joint founder of international engineering company Kinhill Engineering responsible for many major engineering projects including the Alice Spring ...
, engineer
* 2005:
Sister Janet Mead, nun
* 2006: Richard Hunter, Ngarrinjeri Elder
* 2008:
Mike Turtur, cyclist
*2009: Dr
Bill Griggs , medical doctor
* 2010:
Maggie Beer
Maggie Beer (born Margaret Anne Ackerman, 19 January 1945) is an Australian chef, food author, restaurateur, and food manufacturer. Beer is one of the judges on '' The Great Australian Bake Off'' alongside Matt Moran and is also a regular gues ...
, chef
*2011: Dr
, physicist
*2012:
Robyn Layton , social justice advocate
*2013:
Sonya Ryan, internet safety campaigner
* 2014:
Felicity-Ann Lewis, community leader
* 2015:
Gill Hicks ,
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* Mbé, a town in the Republic of the Congo
* Mbe Mountains Community Forest, in Nigeria
* Mbe language, a language of Nigeria
* Mbe' language, language of Cameroon
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, peace campaigner
* 2016: Dr
John Greenwood , burns surgeon
* 2017:
Kate Swaffer, dementia advocate
* 2018: Professor
David David , craniofacial surgeon
* 2019: Dr
Richard Harris
Richard St John Francis Harris (1 October 1930 – 25 October 2002) was an Irish actor and singer. He appeared on stage and in many films, notably as Corrado Zeller in Michelangelo Antonioni's '' Red Desert'', Frank Machin in '' This Sporting ...
, anaesthetist and cave-diver
* 2020: Dr
James Muecke , Eye surgeon and blindness prevention pioneer
* 2021:
Tanya Hosch
Tanya Hosch is an Indigenous Australian social activist and business executive. She has held leadership roles in sport, the arts, social justice and public policy. She was joint campaign manager of the " Recognise" campaign run by Reconciliatio ...
, Australian Football League executive
* 2022: Professor
Helen Marshall, vaccination researcher
References
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Lists of Australian award winners
South
Lists of people from South Australia