Credit: Office of the Official Secretary to the Governor-General, CC BY 3.0 Medical researchers, physicists, and archaeologists are among the more than 700 people celebrated today by the Australia Day 2025 Honours List for their achievements and services to the nation. Six individuals were appointed Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) for eminent achievement and merit of the highest degree, in service to Australia or to humanity at large. O…

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Former AFL player and MND campaigner Neale Daniher accepts the 2025 Australian of the Year Award.

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Hundreds of Aussies have been celebrated for their contributions to and impacts on society in this year’s Australia Day honours list.

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Lifetimes of service have been recognised in the Australia Day Honours List, including Indigenous lawyer Megan Davis and refugee advocate Gillian Triggs.

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T﻿wo of Australia's most prominent human rights lawyers, a leading infectious disease expert and a late Indigenous activist are among the recipients of the most prestigious titles in this year's Australia Day honours list, in the 50th year of the awards.Governor-General Samantha Mostyn announced today that 732 ﻿had been recognised in the annual honour roll.Six of those were handed the nation's highest ﻿honour, becoming a Companion of the Order o…

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Neale Daniher, a campaigner in the fight against motor neurone disease and a former champion Essendon footballer, is the 2025 Australian of the Year, Himself a sufferer from the deadly disease Daniher, 63, who lives in Victoria, co-founded the charity FightMND, that has raised and invested more than $100 million into research to seek a cure. Daniher was diagnosed in 2013. “Neale has lived his condition very publicly, even in the advanced stages …

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Motor neurone disease campaigner, former AFL champion Neale Daniher, is 2025 Australian of the Year

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