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The couple spent more than twenty years advocating and campaigning for survivors of child sex abuse, after two of their three daughters were abused by a Catholic priest in Melbourne. Their advocacy helped bring about the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

Human rights medal A stylized bronze figure stands on a round base, reaching up with one arm to hold a striped sphere. Two dotted circular patterns appear in the lower right corner on a white background. Nominees