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Chanel Contos is an Australian student and sexual consent activist. She became known globally in 2021, following the responses to her request for young Australian women to report on their sexual assault experiences.
Awardee, Brittany Higgins has become the figurehead and inspiration for a new force, an influence in reminding previously silenced women that they indeed have a voice.
The Ednas Recipient list, 2021 –
The Grand Stirrer Award. For inciting others to challenge the status quo.
Mehreen Faruqi joined the NSW Legislative Council in June 2013, the first Muslim woman elected to any Australian Parliament. She spearheaded the campaign in opposition to the infamous ‘Zoe's Law' Bill which threatened women's control of their bodies and which...
Amanda Hill, a feminist lesbian of Aboriginal background, is a lifelong challenger of gender stereotypes. A community worker across South West Sydney, in youth and women's refuges, health and resource centres, and currently as Manager of the Liverpool Women's Health...
Throughout her life as a writer, feminist, human rights activist, and former professional model, Tara Moss has spoken out for the rights of women and children. She is currently addressing cyber space and its potential to promote hatred of women. She is known for her...
Sally's work with ASU members in planning, implementing and winning the 2012 Equal Pay case improved the wages of tens of thousands of women across Australia, and set a precedent for improving wages in other women-dominated industries. Her key involvement with Destroy...
Dorothy McRae-McMahon has been a feminist trailblazer since the 1970s, in women's liberation, in human rights, in anti-apartheid, against the Vietnam War and, most disturbingly for conservative society, in religious and spiritual matters. Dorothy has been a Minister...
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We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we work and live, and we pay our respects to Elders past and present.
We acknowledge the sorrow of the Stolen Generations and the impacts of colonisation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Edna Ryan Awards supports the Uluru Statement from the Heart, the call for a First Nation's Voice enshrined in the Australian Constitution and a Makarrata Commission to oversee agreement-making and truth-telling.
