Andrew Barr is asking you all for nominations:
Nominations are sought for the 2013 Canberra Citizen of the Year Award and the Chief Minister’s Canberra Gold Award.
The Citizen of the Year Award, which is sponsored by The Canberra Times, will be presented by Chief Minister Katy Gallagher on 12 March 2013 – Canberra’s 100th birthday.
Nominations for [...]

Chief Minister Katy Gallagher has gonged the ailling Chamber of Commerce Supremo Chris Peters as the 2012 Canberra Citizen of the Year.
“Dr Peters has founded associations such as the Indigenous Business Chamber of Australia, the peak body providing a business chamber for indigenous business people and others with an interest in indigenous business and to [...]

Chief Minister Gallagher has happily annouced that she’s flogged off the Canberra Citizen of the Year award to the Canberra Times.
The award has been largely worthless after Jon Stanhope prostituted it out to everyone who was in Canberra on 18 January 2003, and everyone in Rotary a few years after that. But now the long [...]

Following on from Senator Lundy’s tweeted announcement the Chief Minister has now made an official announcement on Maureen Cane being named 2011 Canberra Citizen of the Year.
In presenting the award to Ms Cane, Mr Stanhope said, “Her decade as Chief Executive Officer of Communities@Work has been marked by the organisation’s success in providing valuable services [...]