Peter Rawlinson Award
The Peter Rawlinson Award is an annual Australian environment award from the Australian Conservation Foundation. It comes with $3,000 and a plaque, and is given to people who have made outstanding voluntary contributions to the Australian environment. The prize honors Dr Peter Rawlinson, an environmental campaigner and researcher who served as ACF Treasurer and Vice President and died while doing field work in Indonesia in 1991.
Recent winners:
- Jack Wongili Green — for activism against the McArthur River zinc mine.
- Glen Beutel — for opposing a coal mine in Acland, Queensland, as the last landowner in the ghost town.
- Fraser Island Defenders Organization — for four decades of protecting Fraser Island, including preventing logging and helping its World Heritage listing.
- Bundy on Tap — for leading the campaign to ban the sale of plastic water bottles in Bundanoon, NSW.
- Rising Tide — for drawing public attention to the climate crisis through high-profile activism.
- Stephen Leonard — environmental lawyer focused on climate justice and environmental law reform.
- Kevin Buzzacott — Aboriginal elder of the Arabunna nation, for two decades highlighting uranium mining impacts and promoting a nuclear-free Australia.
- Clive Crouch — Nhill-based activist promoting biodiversity in Victoria’s Wimmera region over about 30 years.
- Louise Morris — decades of campaigning against uranium mining and for forest protection in southwestern Western Australia and Tasmania; one of the Gunns 20 activists sued by Gunns Limited.
- Nina Brown (Greenie Mula) — Irati Wanti campaign coordinator for the Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta, helped defeat a nuclear waste dump proposal in South Australia.
- Dailan Pugh and John Corkill — for their contributions to the North East Forest Alliance of New South Wales.
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