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Prize Criteria

Nominations could focus on one specific activity or achievement, or on a contribution over an extended period, and should specifically address at least one of the following criteria:

  • Outstanding achievement in financial counselling and/or consumer advocacy;

  • Achievement in undertaking law reform, campaign work, community development, and/or community education.

The Committee considering the nominations also considers the extent to which nominees reflect the values of the sector as set out in the Australian Financial Counselling Code of Ethical Practice, including respect, professionalism and social justice.

Nominations

If someone you know has contributed significantly to the financial counselling sector in the past year, please nominate that special person by filling out this form. 

 

It's a huge honour to be nominated. You'll make that person's day.​

Prize Criteria

Nominations could focus on one specific activity or achievement, or on a contribution over an extended period, and should specifically address at least one of the following criteria:

  • Outstanding achievement in financial counselling and/or consumer advocacy;

  • Achievement in undertaking law reform, campaign work, community development, and/or community education.

The Committee considering the nominations also considers the extent to which nominees reflect the values of the sector as set out in the Australian Financial Counselling Code of Ethical Practice, including respect, professionalism and social justice.

Nominations

If someone you know has contributed significantly to the financial counselling sector in the past year, please nominate that special person by filling out this form. 

 

It's a huge honour to be nominated. You'll make that person's day.

 

 

 

Nominations open Monday 23 January 2023.

Nominations close Monday 13 March 2023.

2022 Winner's

Alan Gray & Greta Hunter

Alan Gray

Alan is a master of working through problems at a grassroots level while at the same time gathering data for national campaigns. Alan applies his skills in journalism, small business, and community campaigning to financial counselling. He is passionate about financial justice and always looks for the big picture and the pathway to change. Allen has worked in and out of Arnhem land for the past two years, and he has worked in the Kimberley and Nationally. Alan's nominees say he is as comfortable at a negotiating table in Canberra as he is digging us out of a bog in the great sandy deserts. Senator pat Dodson invited Alan to speak to the First Nations caucus in Canberra. 

 

Allen's greatest skill is described as his ability to take time with people to let their stories unfold to learn and understand and to tailor his assistance accordingly. In the last four years, Allen's work with other agencies, clients and the media, as part of the funeral insurance campaign and in the Telstra campaign, has contributed to debt being written off to the tune of more than $800,000. This work has helped more than for more than 110 First Nations people.

 

Alan has provided mentoring and guidance to financial capability workers, helping them to obtain become financial counsellors. 

 

Alan became a justice of the peace to help his remote clients get documents certified. Bush Money Mob is a financial counselling agency he established with his wife, Judith. It is in the Kimberley region of WA and specialises in helping remote Aboriginal people. This agency has recently been funded, allowing Bush Money Mob and other organisations to build on this work.

Greta Hunter

Greta is a financial counselling pioneer who started her journey in 1993, almost 30 years ago, before a financial counselling diploma existed. Greta has contributed to training units to train new financial counsellors. She has trained more than 40 financial counsellors and has contributed to developing resources that have helped professionalise financial counselling.

 

Greta has been a great advocate for reliable funding models for the sector. She believes this to be essential, to ensure that financial counselling is a sustainable and viable career option. Greta has worked towards greater cooperation between financial counsellors and creditors to deliver sustainable solutions for vulnerable clients. This work has paved the way for a lot of the work financial counsellors do today. Greta's wealth of knowledge has greatly supported the Murwillumbah/Tweed Financial Counselling Service at the Lismore District Financial Counselling Service. 

Past Winners

2011 Fran Manuela

2010 Jillian Fletcher

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