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Future Leaders is a national Initiative about leadership and the future of Australia. It seeks to involve, inform and inspire young people.
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The Future Leaders Awards recognise and reward young Australians who have shown strong leadership and potential. The Awards also aim to inspire others to engage in environmental and community issues and make a difference.
Nominations are now open for 2010.
For further details and nominations click on the links below.
Future Leaders Innovator Award
The Future Leaders Innovator Award recognises young people who create new ways of achieving positive change and inspiring others.
Future Leaders Indigenous Awards
Future Leaders has provided one hundred and eight Indigenous young people with Awards this year. The Future Leaders Indigenous Awards 2010 recognise Indigenous students who show strong leadership and academic potential. The Award recipients receive $1,000.00 to assist with education expenses in Years 11 and 12.
Future Leaders Environment Award
The Future Leaders Environment Awards recognise and reward young Australians who have shown outstanding environmental leadership. They also aim to inspire others to engage in environmental issues. Schools throughout Australia may nominate Year 12 students for the Awards.
The winner of the Award will receive a fully funded Fellowship to participate in an Earthwatch Expedition to Australia or New Zealand.
Helen Handbury Leadership Award
The Helen Handbury Leadership Awards mark the outstanding contribution that the late Mrs Helen Handbury has made to community development in rural & regional Australia. The Awards recognise Year 12 students in rural & regional Australia who have shown outstanding community leadership.
The winners of the award each receive a fully funded international trip to experience community development in another culture.
Future Leaders Writing Prize
The Future Leaders Writing Prize is designed to recognise and reward talented young writers. It aims to encourage expressive and creative writing.
Australian Year 11 and 12 students are invited to submit a piece of writing (800 to 1,000 words).
The essays can be fiction or non-fiction and on any topic.
Future Leaders Jazz Award
The Future Leaders Jazz Award is conducted in conjunction with the Melbourne International Jazz Festival. It is designed to recognise and reward talented young solo jazz musicians.
Australian secondary schools are invited to submit recordings of performances by Year 11 and 12 singers and instrumentalists for the Award.
The winner will receive $1,000 and be invited to perform at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival www.melbournejazz.com
Future Leaders Future Justice Award
The Future Leaders Future Justice Award recognises Year 12 students who have
shown leadership and initiative on intergenerational equity, future justice.
Future justice is concerned with what those living today leave behind for
future generations.
Future Leaders Cultural Awards
The Future Leaders Cultural Awards are conducted in conjunction with The Centre for Cultural Partnerships. They recognise young people from refugee communities who show strong leadership through the arts.
Innovator Award Winner
Hugh Duffie
Toowoomba, Queensland
Jazz Award Winners
Ruvarashe Ngwenya
Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School, Victoria
Aaron Entresz
Guilford Young College, Tasmania
Finalists
Emily Benson, Ravenswood School, New South Wales
Chris Bourgeois, Keira High School, New South Wales
Aaron Entresz, Guilford Young College, Tasmania
Brodie Mcallister, Marist College Ashgrove, Queensland
James Mustafa, Wesley College, Victoria
Ruvarashe Ngwenya, Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School, Victoria
Chris O’Dea, Newtown High School of Performing Arts, New South Wales
Ruvarashe and Aaron played at the Opening Concert of the Melbourne
International
Jazz Festival in Federation Square on 1 May.
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