Winners & Top 40: 2017

Announcing our 2017 Leadership Competition Winners! #C2CGirlsLead

We were thrilled to unveil FOURTEEN winners of Country to Canberra's 2017 Leadership Competition - more champions than ever before! The 2017 winners are an exciting group of young female rural leaders, who submitted passionate videos, stories and ideas about how to create pathways to power for women. The winners were:

SA: Vanessa Vu of Renmark + Eliza Nelligan of Port Lincoln.

NSW: Rose Denovan of Bathurst + Eve Currie of Bathurst.

NT: Lara Stimpson of Nhulunbuy (Gove) + Shanae Klaas of Katherine.

VIC: Isabella Thomas of Daylesford + Rachelle Dowling of Yarragon + Taylor Kelsey-Shueard of Hamilton.

QLD: Merin Ward of Gladstone.

TAS: Georgia Stonehouse of Wynyard + Eleanor McCormack of Ulverstone.

WA: Navyaa Shukla of Karratha + Amy Astill of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.

Click on their names to read the winners' biographies or view their entries below. The winners have won an all-expenses paid 'Power Trip' in December 2017 to Canberra to meet Ministers & CEOs, attend a Powerful Women's Breakfast, tour Parliament, receive leadership and public speaking, mentorship and much more.

We were also delighted to unveil the Top 40 finalists, published below.

Thank you to everyone who entered the competition. We received the highest number of entries EVER, and all of the submissions were of phenomenal quality, making the selection process incredibly tough. It truly left us inspired by the future generation of young female rural leaders! If you weren't successful - we encourage you to enter in 2018 and to stay in touch, as we have multiple opportunities arising, from our Blogger Team to our Project Empower workshops. We want to do everything we can to help all young rural women achieve their goals #C2CGirlsLead

TOP 40 2017

From primary school to Prime Minister, how can we create strong pathways to power for women?

SA

 Vanessa Vu
Eliza Nelligan
Zara Grace Keller
Michelle Monaghan
Maia Trewartha
Baie Perryman

NSW

Rose Denovan
Eve Currie
Hannah Messner
Ruby Walker
Reba Nicholson
Emer Spora
Tess Levitzke

NT

Lara Stimpson
Shanae Klass
Ellen Ann Monsi
Amy Randell

VIC

Isabella Thomas
Rachelle Dowling
Taylor Kelsey-Shueard
Brittany Inglis
Tori Barnett
Julia Enter

TAS

Georgia Stonehouse
Eleanor McCormack
Sophie Adams
Ginger Rankin

WA

Navyaa Shukla
Amy Astill
Jessica Mustart
Jena MacDonald
Kate Kiely
Sophie Luscombe
Keasha Benjafield

QLD

Merin Ward
Arlie Sommerfeld
Ashlee Rynne
Ashleigh Hollins
Madeleine Johnston