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Ambassadors for the Recognition of Women
Lead Ambassadors
The Hon Dame Margaret Guilfoyle DBE
Former Senator for Victoria and Former Liberal Minister (VIC)
The Hon Joan Kirner AM
Former Premier of Victoria (VIC)
New South Wales
Ms Betty Johnson AO
National Secretary, Older Women's Network; advocate and lobbyist for the Australian Pensioners' and Superannuants' Federation
Ms Gabrielle Molnar
Executive Director, Hamilton James & Bruce; Telstra Young Business Woman of the Year 2000
Mrs Rosemary Sinclair AO
Co-founder of the National Association for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect and former Director of Life Education Australia.
Mrs Margaret Smith AO Former National President Country Women's Association of Australia; Board Director Rural Women's Advisory Council, Graincorp Foundation and the NSW Committee on the Ageing.
Mrs Carla Zampatti AM Chairman of SBS, award winning fashion designer and business woman.
Mrs Margaret Fulton OAM Patron of the Australian Food Media Club and Honorary Governor of University of Sydney Nutrition Research Foundation.
Victoria
Ms Tan Le Business Development Director, SASme; Young Australian of the Year 1998; community leader and role model
Ms Eve Mahlab AO Executive Director, Mahlab Investments; Founder Mahlab Group of Companies; Board Director Westpac, 1982 Australian Business Woman of the Year
Western Australia
Lady Jean Brodie-Hall AM Award winning landscape architect and conservationist, Fellow of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects.
Ms Priya Cooper OAM
Multiple Gold Medal winning Paralympian; Australian Team Captain, Atlanta Paralympic Games; Young Australian of the Year Achiever 1999
Queensland
Ms Sallyanne Atkinson AO
Special Representative for Queensland, South East Asia, Queensland Government; Former Lord Mayor, Brisbane; Deputy Mayor Olympic Village, 2000 Games; Former Senior Trade Commissioner
Cr Deirdre Ford AM
Cairns City Council, Local Government Women's Association, international speaker on domestic violence and issues affecting children and families.
Dr Cherrell Hirst AO Chancellor, Queensland University of Technology; former Director of the Wesley Breast Clinic, 1995 Queenslander of the Year.
South Australia
Professor Freda Briggs Professor of Child Development, University of South Australia; Senior Australian of the Year 2000; Inaugural Australian Humanitarian of the Year 1998
Ms Anne Skipper AM Director, Teleran Group (communication and marketing); Chair International Year of the Family SA 1995.
Dr My-Van Tran OAM Associate Professor and Coordinator, Asian Studies, School of International Studies, University of South Australia
Tasmania
Ms Jane Bennett Production Manager, Ashgrove Farm Cheese; ABC Radio Australian Rural Woman of the Year 1997; Young Australian of the Year Achiever 1998
Ms Melissa Carlton OAM Multiple medallist at the Paralympic Games; Australian Sports Medal 2000
Northern Territory
The Hon Justice Sally Thomas AM Judge, Supreme Court of the Northern Territory since 1992
Australian Capital Territory
Dr Liz Dennis Program Leader CSIRO Plant Industry; winner of the inaugural Prime Minister's Prize for Science 2000
Air Vice Marshall Julie Hammer AM CSC, Deputy Chief Information Officer, Department of Defence, is the highest ranked woman in the Australian Defence Force; the only woman in the history of the Australian Defence Force to achieve starred rank; and the Australian Capital Territory - Australian of the Year 2005 recipient.
Professor Sheryle Moon Managing Director of Wildtwo Pty Ltd - a knowledge services company. 1999 Telstra Business Woman of the Year
Professor Judith Whitworth AC Director of the John Curtin School of Medical Research