Leadership Competition Top 40
Our 2019 Leadership Comp Winners!
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We are thrilled to unveil EIGHTEEN winners of Country to Canberra’s 2019 Leadership Competition – more amazing champions of gender equality and empowerment! The 2019 winners are an exciting group of young female rural leaders, who submitted passionate videos and stories about gender equality and rural Australia. The winners are:
SA: Bethany Castle of Kingston SE + Sienna Putland of Parndana.
VIC: Lucy Borchier of Koonoomoo + Anna Scott of Inverloch.
QLD: Eliza Lyall of Almaden + Kara Trimble of Mareeba + Jasmine Thompson of Charters Towers + Heather Proud of Roma.
TAS: Freya Cooper of Mayberry + Maggie Sheehan of Ulverstone.
NT: Tahli Stimpson of Nhulunbuy + Ianna Lalim of Katherine.
WA: Jaimee Whirledge of Busselton + Kyla Ramos of Harvey.
Click on their names to read the winners’ biographies or view their phenomenal entries below. The winners have scored an all-expenses paid ‘Power Trip’ to Canberra to meet Ministers & CEOs, attend a Powerful Women’s Breakfast, tour Parliament, receive leadership and public speaking, long-term mentorship and much more.
We are also delighted to unveil 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. It was truly our toughest year yet. If you weren’t successful – we encourage you to enter in 2020 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
TOP 40 2019
Overcoming the odds – how can we push through barriers to achieve gender equality?