2008 WINNERS OF THE  CLW LEADERSHIP ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR WOMEN

The categories for the 2008 CLW Leadership Achievement Award for Women are:

Winner, Finalist, Short-listed and Highly Commended

It is a testament to the high calibre of the applicants that a new category of 'Highly Commended' was put in place  to recognise one of the candidates whose outstanding efforts over a considerable period of time, eleven years, deserves acknowledgement.

CLW and the Panel of Judges congratulates all the recipients of the Award who are recognised as Self-appointed leaders for their community leadership. The recipients were selected from a diverse group of women, all of whom are to be commended for defining a vision that addressed a specific community need and for galvanising enthusiasm with their collaborators to achieve notable outcomes.

I would like to sincerely thank ANZ, Australia Post and Avril Henry Pty Ltd for their Gold sponsorship of this prestigious Award for women. I would also like to thank the Panel of independent judges for their generous time and commitment in judging the applications and supporting the continuation of this Award.

The Panel of Judges who were involved with the 2008 Award other than myself were: Dr  Jocelynne  Scutt,  Barrister & Human Rights Lawyer, First Anti-Discrimination Commissioner, Executive Producer; Dr Shirley  Randell  AM,  Senior  Adviser, Senior Adviser Governance and Gender, SNV,  East  and  Southern  Africa  Region Rwanda; Dr  Lynette  Dumble,  Founder  and Director  of  Global  Sisterhood  Network;  Cheryl O’Connor,  CEO,  Australian  College  of  Educators; Moira Rayner, Principal Moira Rayner & Associates, formerly Commissioner for Equal Opportunity (Victoria), Director of the Office of the Children’s Rights Commissioner for  London, a Director of the National Federation of Australian Women and the Law Institute of Victoria, writer and lawyer; Dr Sarah Maddison, Senior Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, writer, media commentator for Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL) and a former Policy Officer for the NSW Department for Women; and Geraldine Robertson, Founder and Director of Women’s Web - Women's Stories, Women's Actions.

Applications for the 2009 Award will commence in September 2008. If you, or a woman you know has completed a self-initiated project in 2008, or is continuing the development of a self-initiated project for the community, I urge you to apply for this Award or nominate a woman. Recognition for leadership and achievements will not only benefit you personally but will reflect the immense potential of women's leadership and will encourage other women to assert their visions and work with others on collaborative visions.

'Be recognised for your leadership to transform the world around you.'

Diann Rodgers-Healey