{"id":755645,"date":"2026-06-23T19:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/755645\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T19:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:16:09","slug":"is-the-next-australian-of-the-year-in-geelong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/755645\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the next Australian of the Year in Geelong?"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE search for the 2027 Australian of the Year has begun, with people encouraged to nominate people making a difference in their local area.<\/p>\n

The awards, run by the National Australia Day Council, rely entirely on public nominations and recognise Australians whose work, leadership and service are helping strengthen communities across the country.<\/p>\n

National Australia Day Council interim chief executive Todd Ashurst said every nomination began with someone taking the time to recognise another person\u2019s contribution.<\/p>\n

\u201cA nomination can shine a light on extraordinary Australians whose work is improving lives, strengthening communities and helping shape the nation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The awards recognise outstanding Australians across four categories: Australian of the Year, Senior Australian of the Year, Young Australian of the Year and Australia\u2019s Local Hero.<\/p>\n

Nominations close on 31 July and can be submitted online at australianoftheyear.org.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE search for the 2027 Australian of the Year has begun, with people encouraged to nominate people making…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-755645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}