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Australia Day Award Winners 2022

The winners of the 2022 Australia Day awards were announced at ceremonies across Greater Shepparton today.

Douglas Tuhan was announced as the overall Greater Shepparton Citizen of the Year, with Georgie Waser named Greater Shepparton Young Citizen of the Year. Jeanette Ryan (Dec.) was announced as the Greater Shepparton Senior Citizen of the Year and Tatura Water Tower Mural Project was named Greater Shepparton Community Event of the Year. Jason Carter was the winner of Greater Shepparton Australia Day Sports Award.

Greater Shepparton City Council Mayor, Cr Kim O’Keeffe congratulated all award recipients and acknowledged the contributions they have made to Greater Shepparton.

“We are very lucky to have so many individuals who continue to make meaningful and profound impacts in Greater Shepparton. It was great to acknowledge them in the way of an Australia Day award,” Cr O’Keeffe said.

“I would particularly like to acknowledge the significant contribution over many years of Jeanette Ryan, who unfortunately passed away very recently – we pay tribute to her work, and we send our sincere condolences to Jeanette’s family.

"Thank you to those who took the time to submit a nomination to recognise their fellow citizens, it is wonderful to see both individuals and groups making positive changes for their community and it is important that we recognise them.”

Awards were presented in Shepparton, Toolamba, Tatura, Dookie, Murchison and Mooroopna and the Greater Shepparton Citizen, Young Citizen, Senior Citizen, Sports Award and Community Event of the Year were chosen from these regional winners.

Winners

Overall Greater Shepparton	Recipient
Citizen of the Year Young Citizen of the Year Senior Citizen of the Year	Douglas Tuhan Georgie Waser Jeanette Ryan (Dec.)
Community Event of the Year	Tatura Water Tower Mural Project
Sports Award of the Year	Jason Carter
Shepparton	Recipient
Citizen of the Year Senior Citizen of the Year	Lloyd Healey William (Bill) Brown
Young Citizen of the Year	Georgie Waser
Community Service Award	Mathew Boyle & Ashlie Napolitano
Toolamba	Recipient
Community Event of the Year	Toolamba Recreation Reserve Committee – Town War Memorial
Tatura	Recipient
Citizen of the Year Senior Citizen of the Year Community Event of the Year Sports Award	Douglas Tuhan Robert (Robbie) Crawford Tatura Water Tower Mural Project Jason Carter
Dookie	Recipients
Citizen of the Year Young Citizen of the Year Senior Citizen of the Year	Paula Ludeman Daisy Bowmaker Jeanette Ryan (Dec.)
Community Event of the Year	Dookie Carols on the Balcony – The Covid Way
Murchison	Recipient
Senior Citizen of the Year	John Ferguson
Mooroopna	Recipient
Citizen of the Year	Peter Kelton