Blind Australian of the Year

Finalists to be announced Thursday 13th October. Winner to be announced at the Awards Gala, Friday 28th October. Come join the celebrations! Tickets still available here: www.blindaustralianoftheyear.com.au/tickets

If you weren’t able to make it to the 2021 Blind Australian of the Year Awards evening we’ve put together a little highlights reel. It beautifully captures the uplifting and inspirational outlook our finalists have on life. Congratulations to all involved. 

Please enjoy this short video as we announce the 2022 Blind Australian of the Year award winner and present Dr Paul Harpur with his certificate. 

We are both humbled and astounded by the incredible support the Blind Australian of the Year Awards received for 2022. The calibre of nominations across Australia is to be highly commended and to say the judging board had their work cut out for them is an understatement. An amazing 58 nominations were submitted this year

Nastasia (Nas) is an accomplished journalist and a passionate advocate for diversity, inclusion, and for the rights of people with disabilities. She has made an outstanding contribution to the way people with disabilities are portrayed in the mainstream media, by supporting them to tell their own stories, their own way. Nas lost her sight when

Associate Professor Paul Harpur is a leading international and comparative disability rights legal academic. He has held many positions including recently 2020 academic fellow of the Harvard Law School Project on Disabilities. He is the holder of a prestigious Fulbright Future Scholarship entitled “Universally Designed for Whom? Disability, the Law and Practice of Expanding the

Arkan Yousef was a teacher in Iraq for 19 years before he started losing his sight. Fearing life as a blind man in his hostile home country, he fled to Greece and then Australia in 2006. The losing of his sight was the biggest hardship to encounter but he never lost his passion for teaching;