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A Queensland doctor who helped develop a vaccine against cervical cancer has been named the 2006 Australian of the Year.
Ian Frazer has spent the last 20 years working on a vaccine to combat the sexually-transmitted human papilloma virus (HPV), which causes more than two-thirds of cervical cancer cases.
There are half a million new diagnoses of the cancer recorded each year, including around 800 in Australia.
Born and raised in Scotland, Professor Frazer came to Australia in the early 1980s and went on to found the University of Queensland's Centre for Immunology and Cancer Research.
He follows the 2005 winner of the award, Fiona Wood, who shot to fame in 2002 for using her spray on skin to treat burns victims of the Bali bombings.
Whistleblower nurse Toni Hoffman, who saved countless lives by exposing the now-notorious "Dr Death" in 2004, is Australia's Local Hero in 2006.
Two years ago, Ms Hoffman blew the whistle on Dr Jayant Patel's work at the Bundaberg Base Hospital in south-east Queensland.
An inquiry into the matter unearthed a trail of horror stories, including bloody deaths on the operating table, limbs left unchecked until gangrenous, punctured bowels and spleens and the removal of wrong body organs.
In two years, Dr Patel is thought to have been responsible for at least 80 patient deaths.
This year's Young Australian of the Year lost her husband in the devastating east Asian tsunami.
Trisha Broadbridge and her husband, Victorian footballer Troy Broadbridge, were honeymooning on Phi Phi Island in Thailand on December 26, 2004 when the tsunami hit.
The 24-year-old works with young people through The Reach Foundation to improve their self-esteem and founded the Reach Broadbridge Fund in honour of her husband.
Along with the Melbourne Football Club, she also established the Broadbridge Education Centre on Phi Phi Island.
NSW's first qualified indigenous nurse took out the 2006 Senior Australian of the Year.
Sally Goold, now a Queenslander, founded the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses, which works to increase the number of indigenous people in her profession.
Ian Frazer has spent the last 20 years working on a vaccine to combat the sexually-transmitted human papilloma virus (HPV), which causes more than two-thirds of cervical cancer cases.
There are half a million new diagnoses of the cancer recorded each year, including around 800 in Australia.
Born and raised in Scotland, Professor Frazer came to Australia in the early 1980s and went on to found the University of Queensland's Centre for Immunology and Cancer Research.
He follows the 2005 winner of the award, Fiona Wood, who shot to fame in 2002 for using her spray on skin to treat burns victims of the Bali bombings.
Whistleblower nurse Toni Hoffman, who saved countless lives by exposing the now-notorious "Dr Death" in 2004, is Australia's Local Hero in 2006.
Two years ago, Ms Hoffman blew the whistle on Dr Jayant Patel's work at the Bundaberg Base Hospital in south-east Queensland.
An inquiry into the matter unearthed a trail of horror stories, including bloody deaths on the operating table, limbs left unchecked until gangrenous, punctured bowels and spleens and the removal of wrong body organs.
In two years, Dr Patel is thought to have been responsible for at least 80 patient deaths.
This year's Young Australian of the Year lost her husband in the devastating east Asian tsunami.
Trisha Broadbridge and her husband, Victorian footballer Troy Broadbridge, were honeymooning on Phi Phi Island in Thailand on December 26, 2004 when the tsunami hit.
The 24-year-old works with young people through The Reach Foundation to improve their self-esteem and founded the Reach Broadbridge Fund in honour of her husband.
Along with the Melbourne Football Club, she also established the Broadbridge Education Centre on Phi Phi Island.
NSW's first qualified indigenous nurse took out the 2006 Senior Australian of the Year.
Sally Goold, now a Queenslander, founded the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses, which works to increase the number of indigenous people in her profession.
A Queensland doctor who helped develop a vaccine against cervical cancer has been named the 2006 Australian of the Year.
Ian Frazer has spent the last 20 years working on a vaccine to combat the sexually-transmitted human papilloma virus (HPV), which causes more than two-thirds of cervical cancer cases.
There are half a million new diagnoses of the cancer recorded each year, including around 800 in Australia.
Born and raised in Scotland, Professor Frazer came to Australia in the early 1980s and went on to found the University of Queensland's Centre for Immunology and Cancer Research.
He follows the 2005 winner of the award, Fiona Wood, who shot to fame in 2002 for using her spray on skin to treat burns victims of the Bali bombings.
Whistleblower nurse Toni Hoffman, who saved countless lives by exposing the now-notorious "Dr Death" in 2004, is Australia's Local Hero in 2006.
Two years ago, Ms Hoffman blew the whistle on Dr Jayant Patel's work at the Bundaberg Base Hospital in south-east Queensland.
An inquiry into the matter unearthed a trail of horror stories, including bloody deaths on the operating table, limbs left unchecked until gangrenous, punctured bowels and spleens and the removal of wrong body organs.
In two years, Dr Patel is thought to have been responsible for at least 80 patient deaths.
This year's Young Australian of the Year lost her husband in the devastating east Asian tsunami.
Trisha Broadbridge and her husband, Victorian footballer Troy Broadbridge, were honeymooning on Phi Phi Island in Thailand on December 26, 2004 when the tsunami hit.
The 24-year-old works with young people through The Reach Foundation to improve their self-esteem and founded the Reach Broadbridge Fund in honour of her husband.
Along with the Melbourne Football Club, she also established the Broadbridge Education Centre on Phi Phi Island.
NSW's first qualified indigenous nurse took out the 2006 Senior Australian of the Year.
Sally Goold, now a Queenslander, founded the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses, which works to increase the number of indigenous people in her profession.
Ian Frazer has spent the last 20 years working on a vaccine to combat the sexually-transmitted human papilloma virus (HPV), which causes more than two-thirds of cervical cancer cases.
There are half a million new diagnoses of the cancer recorded each year, including around 800 in Australia.
Born and raised in Scotland, Professor Frazer came to Australia in the early 1980s and went on to found the University of Queensland's Centre for Immunology and Cancer Research.
He follows the 2005 winner of the award, Fiona Wood, who shot to fame in 2002 for using her spray on skin to treat burns victims of the Bali bombings.
Whistleblower nurse Toni Hoffman, who saved countless lives by exposing the now-notorious "Dr Death" in 2004, is Australia's Local Hero in 2006.
Two years ago, Ms Hoffman blew the whistle on Dr Jayant Patel's work at the Bundaberg Base Hospital in south-east Queensland.
An inquiry into the matter unearthed a trail of horror stories, including bloody deaths on the operating table, limbs left unchecked until gangrenous, punctured bowels and spleens and the removal of wrong body organs.
In two years, Dr Patel is thought to have been responsible for at least 80 patient deaths.
This year's Young Australian of the Year lost her husband in the devastating east Asian tsunami.
Trisha Broadbridge and her husband, Victorian footballer Troy Broadbridge, were honeymooning on Phi Phi Island in Thailand on December 26, 2004 when the tsunami hit.
The 24-year-old works with young people through The Reach Foundation to improve their self-esteem and founded the Reach Broadbridge Fund in honour of her husband.
Along with the Melbourne Football Club, she also established the Broadbridge Education Centre on Phi Phi Island.
NSW's first qualified indigenous nurse took out the 2006 Senior Australian of the Year.
Sally Goold, now a Queenslander, founded the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses, which works to increase the number of indigenous people in her profession.