Media/Communication

Julia Zemiro has been an extraordinary role model and mentor for women across a wide variety of media roles, including stand-up comedy and improvisation, both of which are male dominated fields.

Awardee, Denise Thompson is an independent scholar who has been writing about feminism and the status of women for over four decades.

Awardee, Emily Mayo mentors young women unionists and has been involved in the founding of ground-breaking campaigns and movements like ‘Destroy the Joint’. 

Awardee, Journalist activist Jess Hill has led a significant national public crusade to build awareness of the domestic violence crisis through the writing of her award-winning book ‘See What You Made Me Do’ and the follow up TV series on SBS.

Awardee, Sunita Gloster is an advisor to UN Women Australia (UNWA), and the driving force behind the gender equality campaign that asked #whenwillsheberight?

For consistent promotion of feminist perspectives in the media.

Erika Addis is one of Australia's most highly regarded cinematographers and has worked in film and television since graduating in cinematography at the Australian Film and Television School in 1979. In an area of the media still highly dominated by men, Erika has been...

In 2015, Monica Davidson's thesis, Climbing the Celluloid Ladder, raised the issue of gender equality in the flm and  television industry, which had been dormant for years. Many  in the industry believed the issue had been dealt with in the 70s, 80s and 90s, and no...