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2025 QLD Senior Australian of the Year Dr Bronwyn Herbert
Australian Community Media
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1/20/2025
Meet your Australians - 2025 QLD Senior Australian of the Year Dr Bronwyn Herbert. ACM is proud to be media partner for the 2025 Australian of the Year Awards.
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I've worked as a social worker until I was 81 years old.
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I've worked with a lot of people who are experiencing domestic violence
00:11
and we worked through those issues.
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And then I also worked with people in homelessness
00:17
and I became a manager of a homeless program
00:20
for families with children.
00:22
And as time went by,
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I noticed that some of the children were returning
00:28
and I wondered what we could have done differently
00:31
to prevent this intergenerational homelessness.
00:34
I decided that I wanted to do my Master's
00:37
to achieve better outcome with the things that I was doing
00:41
and so I worked on that
00:44
and I decided I'd do my PhD when I was in my 80s.
00:50
For my PhD, I worked on homeless families as voices
00:56
telling me how they felt about their homeless experiences
01:00
because there's not much written about that
01:03
and I want to hear how they felt about the parenting they received,
01:07
the education, the schooling they had and their employment
01:12
and later their relationships and the housing they now currently have.
01:17
So that's the area I worked on,
01:19
looking at what the children felt about their homeless experiences.
01:24
I would like to see a wraparound service
01:27
with children and their whole families
01:31
because they all need support when they're homeless.
01:35
This would involve supporting parents with their parenting role,
01:41
helping them to discipline safely
01:44
and would look after the children, support them to go to school
01:50
and to get a better education.
01:53
I loved working with people
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and I loved helping them to become stable in their housing.
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My aim in life is to help people make a positive change in their lives
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that they could experience happiness and enjoy living daily.
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