Melbourne Awards – previous winners

Winners from 2010 to 2022

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  2020 Arts and Culture Champion

  Arts Project Australia is a creative social enterprise supporting artists with intellectual disabilities by promoting their work and advocating for their inclusion within the broader contemporary art sector.
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  2020 Digital Innovation Champion

  Extraordinary times call for exceptional responses. When COVID-19 hit, emergency physician Dr Martin Dutch devised a software solution to transform the way patients are screened, triaged, monitored and treated.
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  2020 Business Champion

  Providoor is a food delivery platform created by renowned chef, Shane Delia, that connects Melbourne’s best restaurants with customers Victoria wide.
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  2020 Community Champion

  In April 2020, Cory Memery founded the Public Housing Residents Network, bringing together people from all levels of government and a diverse mix of community groups and service providers to help address the needs of public housing residents during the pandemic.
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  2020 Essential Services Champion

  When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, BOYE Medical Group set out to deliver quality PPE to support Melbourne’s frontline health workers in their time of need.
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  2020 Youth Champion

  At just 18, Aayushi Khillan is the youngest ever Australian selected for a governmental board. In her position on the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority, she has been an indispensable leader throughout COVID-19.
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  2020 Melburnian of the Year

  Douglas Hilton is the sixth director of Melbourne medical research institute WEHI, the Lorenzo and Pamela Galli Chair in Medical Biology and head of the Department of Medical Biology in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne.