Don't be shy, nominate a Local Hero: Catherine Keenan

Updated June 21 2016 - 4:04pm, first published 4:03pm
Catherine Keenan, 2016 Australia's Local Hero.  Pic: NADC
Catherine Keenan, 2016 Australia's Local Hero. Pic: NADC

Catherine Keenan, co-founder and executive director of The Sydney Story Factory, was named Australia’s Local Hero in the 2016 Australian of the Year awards. Here she reflects on her year ...

Catherine Keenan with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on January 25, 2016.  Pic: NADC
Catherine Keenan with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on January 25, 2016. Pic: NADC

No-one was more surprised than me when Malcolm Turnbull announced, on Australia Day this year, that I was the 2016 Australian of the Year Local Hero. There are some unflattering photographs of me at that moment – think stunned mullet - that prove this.

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