A Toowoomba woman who founded the region’s only women’s support centre is among the winners of the 2024 Alison Woolla Memorial Award which recognises local leadership in the fight against DFV.

A passionate educator, campaigner and speaker together with a southeast Queensland council have been announced as the winners of the LGAQ annual award for local leadership in preventing DFV.

Nominations have opened for the LGAQ’s third annual $5,000 Alison Woolla Memorial Award for local leadership in preventing domestic and family violence.

The LGAQ extends its heartiest congratulations to Aurukun Shire Council Mayor, Councillor Keri Tamwoy, on being named ‘Person of the Year’ at the 2021 National NAIDOC Awards. 

Following last year’s successful DFV awareness events in councils right across Queensland, the LGAQ is again calling on councils to get involved in the Red Bench Relay.

Vital, life-changing support to protect another from domestic abuse has been recognised with the 2021 Alison Woolla Memorial Award for Local Leadership in Preventing Domestic and Family Violence.

Nominations have opened for the Local Government Association of Queensland’s (LGAQ) second annual Alison Woolla Memorial Award for local leadership in preventing domestic and family violence.

The Red Bench Project was launched in 2019 by the Red Rose Foundation, encouraging the installation of red benches as permanent reminders that domestic violence occurs
within our communities—but that we have the power to ‘change the ending’.

Indigenous women leading the way in domestic and family violence prevention.

Seven councils across Queensland participated in the Red Rose Foundation’s inaugural Red Bench Relay in 2020, marking the beginning of an annual domestic violence education campaign.

LGAQ staff ‘voted with their feet’ today, walking against domestic and family violence in a ‘Red Bench Relay’.

May Ballie and Myrtle Foote were jointly  announced today as the winners of the Alison Woolla Memorial Award 2020 at this year’s Local Government Association of Queensland (LGAQ) Annual Conference.

Three finalists are in the running to win the LGAQ's inaugural Alison Woolla Memorial Award.

Mossman residents have a brighter streetscape to enjoy after becoming part of the Red Rose Foundation’s Red Bench Project.

The Alison Woolla Award acknowledges those individuals who are making a significant, local contribution to awareness and prevention of domestic and family violence (DFV).