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Bravery Co. was born to a girl called Emily. A dreamer and a traveller, a collector and a designer, she spent her days as an Art Director in a bubble of colour and happiness. Then she got sick. Real sick. She got cancer. Not once, not twice but three times. And do you know what, she beat it. Not once, not twice but three times. Inspired by her own experience of chemo, cancer, naps, and turbans, she's on a mission to create some cool cancer headwear in the hope to give bravery to others going through something she knows only too well. Emily and Bravery Co. is located in Melbourne, Australia. www.braveryco.com.au

Sally Hepworth is the New York Times bestselling author of nine novels, most recently Darling Girls. Her novel, The Mother-In-Law (2019), has been optioned for a TV series by Hollywood actress and producer, Amy Poehler. Drawing on the good, the bad and the downright odd of human behaviour, Sally writes incisively about family, relationships and identity. Her domestic thriller novels are laced with quirky humour, sass and a darkly charming tone. Sally's novels are available around the globe in English and have been translated into 20 languages. She has sold more than one million books worldwide. Sally lives in Bayside Melbourne with her family. www.sallyhepworthauthor.com

Proud Local. Since 1981. ________________________________________ For 43 years, Sports Conscious has been delighting customers in Brighton with a unique range of premium outdoor and sporting fashion brands. Every day, the passionate team of experts lead by Andy Stuart Menteth provides the highest level of customer service. It’s just one of many reasons why Sports Conscious become known as “that store”. Andy continuously searchs the globe for innovative, sustainable, and environmentally conscious brands whose products are kind to the planet. From well known to small up-and-coming, he is proud to partner with these brands and take the time to deeply understand their products. This allows the store to offer the very best customer service, ensuring customers get the perfect fit for their needs every time. Premium Global Brands ________________________________________ Always Pivoting Andy selects only the world’s best outdoor and sports fashion labels, combining premium quality products with expert local knowledge. The team closely work with each brand to provide the widest selection of products, and in many cases these are Australian exclusive to Sports Conscious

Possum Portraits was founded in Bayside in 2021 The timing was significantly influenced by COVID, in the sense that I had just moved to Melbourne with my Aussie husband and then 6 month old daughter in late January 2020. We had not been in the country 6 weeks when the first lockdown was announced in March. I knew no one and was being kept from making friends by continuous lockdowns for the better part of 2 years; so I decided to found a charity that was based on work I had been doing in Germany since 2018 (drawing infant loss portraits) in order to give myself a purposeful project and feel like I was working towards a goal. I first came to infant loss portraiture through the encouragement of my sister, who is a midwife. Pregnancy and Infant Loss in Australia -Over 110,000 families affected by perinatal loss each year in Australia - That is 6 stillbirths and 2 neonatal deaths a day, while a miscarriage occurs every 3.5 minutes -This is despite Australia having one of the three top performing healthcare system in the world - 1 in 4 pregnancies ends in loss; which means that far from being uncommon, the reason we don’t commonly hear mention of it is because perinatal loss is still shrouded in social taboo - This attitude is unhelpful to grieving parents, who often don’t feel seen, heard or supported in their needs after bereavement Possum Portraits’ Operations - we supply hospitals across Australia with free grief resources for bereaved parents - midwives and other caregivers refer parents to our continuity of care service after loss - we specialise in free commemorative keepsake portraits of so-called “angel babies”. This is a grief support service no other charity in the world offers - parents who wish to receive a portrait apply through our website and supply reference photographs of their baby to base our portrait on. In concert with parents, our professional portrait artists then design a portrait for parents which will allow them to remember their baby in a way that meets their wishes. For example, parents may only have poor quality phone pictures of their stillborn or only have photos that show their baby connected to medical equipment. Our hand-drawn portraits allow for details present in photographs to be left out, or for various reference photos to be combined in a single portrait. - This approach allows us to give parents family portraits with their baby when they may have no such photos in real life, or to show angel babies with their surviving siblings, which we get asked to do often. I’m short, a portrait offers many commemorative possibilities beyond photography and is a crucial alternative for parents to have access to after loss - we pay our artists for the specialist and highly skilled nature of the work that they do. As an organisation, we are mainly funded by donations. - we also run a training program in compassionate perinatal bereavement care for midwives which is endorsed by the Australian College of Midwives - our first academic research study with Monash University is due to commence in July 2023 Why commemoration matters - keepsakes have been shown to improve mental health outcomes after perinatal bereavement   www.possumportraits.org

An Artist, Podcaster, Author & Consultant - leading a very busy life. Heading into retirement Andrew wanted a plan and decided it put it on paper and help others with his story. So he wrote a book and It’s called "My Future’s So Bright…I Gotta Wear Shades", it’s a practical workbook including 18 fun but life changing exercises, a signature Goal Setting tool, Planning checklists and Bucket List ideas designed for those seeking reason and meaning in Retirement. It's my hope that the information in the book will help people to: • Define their purpose in this next phase of their life, • Have sufficient self-belief to design this next phase, and • Build a roadmap to achieve their dreams and goals. If can help others along their journey of self-discovery to find reason and meaning in retirement, to find their purpose and the motivation to chase that purpose, then I would consider the book a success

A Career educator who has dedicated her working life to developing better people through positive leadership. Meg has continued her personal development in an educational journey through Melbourne's elite private schools including Trinity Grammar, Caulfield Grammar, Scotch College, Brighton Grammar and now Mentone Girls Grammar. Meg has a proven track record in developing People and Culture. It is no surprise she has moved through the ranks and is respected as one of Melbourne's leading figures in the education space. Her experience across the spectrum of Co Education at Caulfield Grammar and single sex at Scotch College and Brighton Grammar have prepared her well for the role at Mentone Girls Grammar School as Deputy Principal and Head of Senior School. mentonegirls.vic.edu.au brightongrammar.vic.edu.au

Olympian & Leading sporting administrator, Kitty Chiller has been appointed as a Member (AM) of the Order of Australia (General Division) for her significant services to sport. Kitty Chiller AM has been honored for her work in Modern Pentathlon as both a competitor and senior administrator, plus a broad range of achievements across 35 years in domestic and international sport. Ms Chiller’s services to Modern Pentathlon as a competitor include being the first ever female to represent Australia in Pentathlon at the Olympic Games (Sydney 2000); earning the world number one ranking and being a winner of 7 World Cup medals. As an administrator, Ms Chiller has been the President of Modern Pentathlon Australia, President of the sport’s Oceania Confederation while also serving as a Executive Member of the sport’s international governing body. Outside of her extensive Modern Pentathlon achievements and contributions, Ms Chiller has been the CEO of Gymnastics Australia, President of the Oceania Gymnastics Union and is an Executive Member of the International Gymnastics Federation. Currently, she is the Deputy CEO of the National Sports Tribunal.

Gabby Kanizay is a young adventurer who on May 14th, 2022, became the youngest Australian to summit Everest. While Everest alone is quite literally the highest point for many adventurers to aim for, it wasn’t quite enough for Gabby, who went on to summit the adjacent Lhotse (the world's 4th Highest peak) on May 15th. Prior to Everest, Gabby was also the youngest woman to ever summit Cho Oyu, the world's 6th highest peak, meaning at only 19, she has summited 3 peaks over 8,000 metres. All these incredible achievements have been with the support of her family, friends, and global community, but importantly Gabby repays this, forever encouraging others to go to greater heights. As a gifted and hardworking athlete, a friendly, humble, and fun approach to life and those around her has come to define Gabby. Her ambitious goal setting, infectious energy, and self-effacing attitude have given her support from the people closest to home and around the world alike. Gabby has been profiled in Australian, Himalayan, and Nepalese media for her mountaineering efforts even as a 16-year-old. For an idea conceived when she was only 14, to climb Everest, along with the support of her parents Gabby hasn’t looked back. Within 8 weeks of this conversation, she was trekking to Everest Base Camp with her mother Jane. Her passion for adventure and commitment to the process shows through her accomplishments as an athlete and triathlete too and her passion for adventure is undeniably omnipresent in all of her endeavors. http://gabbykanizay.com/  

Tim Wilson has served as the Federal Liberal Member for Goldstein since 2016, and is the Assistant Minister to the Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction. Tim the MP for Goldstein and is the Minister responsible for building Australia’s industrial future and driving job creation, while reducing our emissions. He is the only Member of the House of Representatives that has completed postgraduate studies in climate science, has studied ‘transitioning to a carbon neutral economy’ at Cambridge and carbon accounting at Murdoch University. He previously served as the Chair of the House of Representatives’ Standing Committee on Economics. In that role he led a campaign against the Labor Party’s proposal to push hundreds of thousands of Australian retirees below the poverty line, and oversighted the implementation of the Hayne Royal Commission, including exposing industry super funds stealing and wasting member’s money. Tim was formerly Australia’s Human Rights Commissioner. In that role he worked with all layers of government to reform laws to stop and prevent terrorism and to improve economic opportunities for Indigenous Australians. Tim is a passionate person with a deep passion for everything our democracy has to offer. www.timwilsonmp.com.au

The Bayside Master Chef Paul Raynor has spent a lifetime honing his culinary skills in Europe working in 5 Star Hotels and gaining a wealth of knowledge from his time with renowned Chefs Albert & Michel Roux Snr who operated the first restaurant in the UK to be gain three Michelin stars. Making the big move to Melbourne he spent time at the Stoke House, Werribee Mansion, and Georges before taking the plunge into Bayside and taking over the Brighton Baths. Paul has never looked back in his time at the Baths and now operates the Restaurant, Cafe, Fish & Chips, and the Health Club. He is a passionate and determined person with a humble drive to please and satisfy his customers as the custodian of the Iconic Brighton Baths. www.middlebrightonbaths.com.au www.brighonbathshealthclub.com.au

In 2011, Fiona observed the extent to which schools are under-resourced in Fiji. Her solution to this problem was to establish The Fiji Book Drive to deliver resources to these schools. Fiona realised that improving literacy is key to affecting the most positive change in developing countries. All schooling is compulsorily done in English in Fiji. By profession, Fiona is an English teacher and has taught in deprived schools in East London and private schools in Melbourne. She wanted to have a positive impact on the world. When Fiona was on the island Kadavu, Fiji, in 2011, she had a light bulb moment and decided to send books and school resources to remote primary schools. Fiji Book Drive has established and has now provided 103 libraries and helped 33 kindergartens in remote Fijian islands with 190,000 books. Directly assisting at least 6000 families. Kadavu is the fourth biggest island in Fiji and Fiji Book Drive has helped nearly all the schools there multiple times. The books are selected according to the needs of the individual school. Schools are now reporting improvements in spoken English and reading. Fiona says; “We do this because education empowers students and communities.” One of the keys to education is having the right resources. Fiona believes there are more than enough educational resources in Australia and that these can be redirected to Fiji, where many schools are under-resourced. The mission is to improve educational outcomes and therefore life opportunities for students of Fiji through increased access to educational resources, predominantly focussed on literacy. To re-purpose books, computers, and educational resources, taking them out of the hands of those that do not need them and into the hands of those that do. To operate in the most sustainable manner possible: keeping resources from landfills and only sending the most durable goods. Fiji Book Drive is a registered charity with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission. Fiji Book Drive has Donor Gift Recipient (DGR) status in Australia and financial contributions are tax-deductible. www.fijibookdrive.org www.fijibookdrive.org/donate

Recruited to the VFL by the Fitzroy Football Club. He debuted in 1977 and played mostly at half-forward or in a forward pocket wearing the number 12 guernsey. He was noted for his explosive power, and kicked numerous World of Sport "Goals of the Week", typically on bursting runs down the flanks. His emphasis on strength training and muscular physique pre-empted what was to be more common in later decades. His most notable moment being kicking the winning goal during the final seconds in the 1986 Elimination Final against Essendon. He went on to play 210 games for 395 goals with the club until his retirement in 1989 - his final game being for the Reserves in their Premiership win over Geelong that year. During his career, he represented Victoria in the State of Origin on four occasions. Conlan kicked 10 goals in one game against Footscray in 1984. In March 2012 Conlan became the chief executive officer of AFL Queensland. Rising daily at 3.25 am Michael follows a low-intensity health and well-being Regime that finishes with a swim in the bay with his beloved Brighton Icebergers.   https://www.pantry.com.au/ https://www.afl.com.au/ https://www.fitzroyfc.com.au/