Leadership Competition Top 40

Our 2021 Leadership Comp Winners!

We are thrilled to unveil 15 winners of Country to Canberra’s 2021 Leadership Competition – more amazing champions of gender equality and empowerment! The 2021 winners are an exciting group of young female rural leaders, who submitted passionate videos and stories about gender equality and rural Australia.

Click on their names to read the 2021 Winners’ biographies:

NSW: Elora Guirguis of Wagga Wagga and Jorja O’Brien of Young

SA: Tegan Senar of Auburn and Emily Sparrow of Kapunda

VIC: Clara Linn of Mirboo North and Hannah-Leesha Moodley of Mildura

QLD: Charlize Appleton of Belyando; Charters Towers, Samantha Dendle of Biloela, Lil O’Connor of Toowoomba and Sithmi Konara of Rockhampton (Darumbal Country)

TAS: Heidi Berry of Premaydena and Midway Point, and Eloise Piper of Ulverstone

NT: Maree Adams of Nhulunbuy

WA: Millie Patterson of Geraldton and Aimee Telford of Bunbury

We are also delighted to unveil entries from the Top 40 finalists, published below.

Thank you to everyone who entered the competition. We received a huge number of entries, making it incredibly difficult to select finalists and winners. If you weren’t successful – we encourage you to enter in 2022 and to stay in touch, as we have multiple new opportunities coming soon! We want to do everything we can to help all young rural women achieve their goals #C2CGirlsLead