AUSTRALIA
SBS News
December 10, 2018
Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard has received this year’s annual Blue Knot Award.
Former prime minister Julia Gillard has received an award for her role in establishing the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
On Monday, the Blue Knot Foundation – National Centre of Excellence for Complex Trauma gave Ms Gillard its annual Blue Knot Award in recognition of her “foresight, determination and courage”.
The organisation, which works with survivors of childhood trauma, presents the award each year to “leaders whose work and efforts inspire communities to unite in support of survivors”.
“The commission was not only a beacon of light and truth but it has been the harbinger of real change,” president Dr Cathy Kezelman said.
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