Winners & Top 40: 2018

Announcing our 2018 Leadership Competition Winners! #C2CGirlsLead

We were thrilled to unveil EIGHTEEN winners of Country to Canberra's 2018 Leadership Competition - more champions than ever before! The 2018 winners are an exciting group of young female rural leaders, who submitted passionate videos, stories and ideas about navigating the road to gender equality. The winners were:

SA: Taylor-Jade Glover of Cummins, Abi Archbold of Victor Harbor, Madeline McShane of Port Lincoln

NSW: Nayani Navaneethan of Griffith, Grace Mudge of Dubbo, Blessy Fernandez of Goulburn

NT: Isabel Blundell of Nhulunbuy, Emma Angstmann of Nhulunbuy

VIC: Hannah Whytcross of Camperdown, Vanisre Rajasegaran of Warrnambool

QLD: Kate Perrett of Nanango, Shekinah Taderera of Port Douglas, Ameliija Swaffer-Selff

TAS: Sadie Buckland of Cygnet, Chloe Quillerat of Redpa

WA: Sarah Recklies of Kununarra, Hannah Bowden of Busselton, Sophie Luscombe of Vasse/Busselton

Click on their names to read the winners' biographies or view their entries below. The winners have won an all-expenses paid 'Power Trip' from 24-28 November 2018 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 a huge number of entries, 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 2019 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 2018

“Life is a roadtrip with twists and turns.  How can we support one another to navigate the road to gender equality?”

SA

Taylor-Jade Glover
Abi Archibold
Madeline McShane
Meesha Whittam
Nicole Wilson

NSW

Nayani Navaneethan
Grace Mudge
Blessy Fernandez
Ameliija Swaffer-Selff
Phoebe Weatherley
Stephanie Lunn
Claudia Thorne
Sophia Gibby-Loughrey
Imogen McDonald
Maika McGuir-Hanson

NT

Isabel Blundell
Emma Angstmann

VIC

Hannah Whytcross
Vanisre Rajasegaran
Erin McGuigan
Hayley Wason
Ellen O'Brien
Feebie Cosgriff-Camm
Jessica Addis-Shawyer

TAS

Sadie Buckland
Chloe Quillerat

WA

Sarah Recklies
Hannah Bowden
Sophie Luscombe
Ebony Williams
Emmy Silvester
Rebecca Gathmann-Brandt
Tia Hunt

QLD

Kate Perrett
Shekinah Taderera
Lauren Herlihy
Karrie Hills
Holly Weldon
Amelia Gane
Lily Breedon