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2025 NT Senior Australian of the Year Michael Foley OAM
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1/20/2025
Meet your Australians - 2025 NT Senior Australian of the Year Michael Foley OAM. ACM is proud to be media partner for the 2025 Australian of the Year Awards.
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I have lived in the Northern Territory for nearly 50 years and in that time I have done
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so many things, it's hard to remember them all, but the most wonderful thing that I've
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ever done is set up an organisation called Seniors of Excellence of the Northern Territory
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and in that program we acknowledge and we celebrate the amazing and the wonderful things
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that ordinary people do for others who are in a situation where they need assistance,
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they need a little love and understanding. Nominations come to us from across the length
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and the breadth of the Northern Territory, Aboriginal communities, small villages, larger
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towns and the cities of Darwin and Alice Springs, so it's all embracing. In 2014, our very first
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awards presentation, we acknowledged 22 wonderful people. In 10 years we have acknowledged 185.
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As an example of that, this is our little award that we present to each and every one
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of our Seniors of Excellence. The really wonderful thing about our program is that we acknowledge
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and celebrate every nomination that comes in, regardless of whether they are professors,
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doctors or the bloke that comes in and mows your lawn. Every one of these wonderful people
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have done amazing things and we have found them and said thank you. My goal now is to
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take that program into Australia where other Australians can be acknowledged and celebrated.
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I am all about saying thank you. You are wonderful. You've done a great job.
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