ACF Peter Rawlinson Conservation Award Winners 1992–2019
1992 – Matthew Jamieson, for campaigning on global and regional issues, from mining and oil exploration in the Timor Gap, to corporate social responsibility and marine and coastal management.
1993 – David Allsop, for establishing Cairns & Far North Qld Environment Centre (CAFNEC) & working on Wet Tropics Heritage campaign.
1994 – Margaret Thorsborne, for conservation campaigning in Far North Qld, particularly Hinchinbrook Island.
1995 – Jill Redwood, for campaigning against the destruction of East Gippsland forests.
1996 – Elaine Cohen, for waste minimisation campaigning.
1997/8 – Jacqui Katona, for leading the traditional owners' campaign to stop uranium mining at Jabiluka
1999 – Chris Harris, for over 20 years' contribution to the environment movement, from the Franklin River to developing Earth Share Australia (an innovative fundraising program for the environment movement).
2000 – Frances Bray & Keith Campbell, for efforts to protect Lake Wollumboola on the NSW south coast.
2001 – John Corkill & Dailan Pugh, for work protecting forests in north east NSW through the North East Forest Alliance.
2002 – Beth Schultz & Peter Robertson, for more than 35 years combined work to protect south west forests of WA.
2003 – Nina Brown, for her pivotal media and communications support of the Indigenous campaign against a national radioactive waste dump proposal near Coober Pedy in South Australia.
2004 – Brian Purdue & Dennis Hirst, for their tireless work over 10 years to protect and restore the Hexham Wetlands at the mouth of the Hunter River.
2005 – Louise Morris, for her campaigning against uranium mining and for forest protection in the South West of WA to 2001, then in Tasmania. She was one of the Gunns 20 activists being sued by wood chipping and timber company Gunns Limited.
2006 – Clive Crouch, for grassroots environmentalism, promoting biodiversity in the Wimmera region of Victoria for more than 30 years.
2007 – Kevin Buzzacott, for highlighting the impacts of uranium mining and campaigning as an Indigenous community leader for over 20 years against Roxby Downs.
2008 – Stephen Leonard, for his contribution to environmental law reform.
2009 – n/a
2010 – Rising Tide, for tirelessly and fearlessly drawing attention to the looming climate crisis.
2011 – Fraser Island Defenders Organisation (FIDO) & Bundy on Tap: to the FIDO volunteers for defending Queensland’s Fraser Island from numerous threats over four decades, and a local group for succeeding in having single-use bottled water banned from sale in their NSW town of Bundanoon.
2012 – n/a
2013 – Glen Beutel, for his voluntary contribution to conservation through his work opposing the Acland Coal mine.
2013 Special Award – Jeffrey Lee, for saying no to millions of dollars to save his traditional land, Koongarra, so it could be included in Kakadu National Park for future generations.
2014 – n/a
2015 – Jack Wongili Green, for leading a campaign against the environmental pollution of his region from Glencore’s massive lead and zinc mine in the McArthur River and working with other Indigenous groups to regain ownership of their lands and establishing Indigenous ranger programs.
2016 – Micklo Corpus & Regina McKenzie Micklo Corpus: Keeping Kimberley frack free through camping at the gates of Buru Energy’s Yulleroo fracking site for over two years and counting. Regina McKenzie: Leading opposition to a nuclear waste dump proposal on Adnyamathanha land.
2017 – Forest campaigner Andrew Lincoln and the Goongerah Environment Centre (GECO) for their critical work surveying and defending Victorian native forests
2018 – Todd Dudley, for 20 years of protecting and restoring ecologically-significant landscapes in north-eastern Tasmania.
2019 – Shirley Wonyabong, Elizabeth Wonyabong and Vicki Abdullah in recognition of their their decades-long campaign to protect their country and culture from a proposed uranium mine at Yeelirrie in outback Western Australia.
2020 – Steve Meacher from the Friends of Leadbeater's Possum, for his work defending the critically endangered possum and its habitat, and Carolyn Ingvarson, for her inspirational leadership encouraging climate change action in the inner eastern suburbs of Melbourne.
2022 – Hamish Cumming, for the work, effort and resources he has committed to protecting the diminishing numbers of southern brolgas in south-western Victoria.
2023– The Barngarla Determination Aboriginal Corporation, for a successful seven-year campaign to protect their country in South Australia from the long-term threats posed by radioactive waste.