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2025 VIC Australian of the Year Neale Daniher AO
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1/20/2025
Meet Your Australians - 2025 VIC Australian of the Year Neale Daniher AO. ACM is proud to be media partner for the 2025 Australian of the Year Awards.
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Hi, my name is Neil Danaha. I have motor neurone disease. It is a progressive disease that
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takes your ability to move, speak, swallow and breathe. I call it a beast of disease
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as there is currently no major treatments or cure. When I was diagnosed in 2013 I was
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told the lifespan was around three years and there was no hope. I didn't like the sound
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of that, so we have set up the Fight M&T Foundation to give those diagnosed in the
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future some hope. Neil is an incredible human being. He will do whatever he can to work
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through any problem that he comes up against. When Neil was diagnosed he was told to just
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tick off his bucket list, but the type of person that he is he decided that he wanted
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to do something with the time he had left to try and find a treatment and cure for motor
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neurone disease. So ten years on we have 15 clinical trials, we have 600 people that
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have had the option to go on trials and we have 30 drug development projects. But we
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also have a lot of money now going into research teams and supporting researchers, which when
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he was diagnosed there wasn't very much of that around. Our impact has included injecting
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over $100 million into medical research in Australia. This has been a real game changer
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in the fight against MND as we now fund a small industry of researchers whose aim is
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to find treatments. We have brought medical trials to those living with MND in Australia
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and we have driven great awareness to the fight. However until we find a cure the fight
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will not end. Neil's incredibly passionate about Fight MND.
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He wants to see a world where MND no longer is a terminal illness. He's worked incredibly
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hard and I know he'll continue for as long as he possibly can, even though life is getting
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harder and harder for him. Having no hope is devastating. We wanted to
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change that narrative. We want to give those diagnosed hope. Our mission is a world without
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MND. Until then we hope the community continues the fight with us.
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