Stories behind award winners

Lauren McKinnon wasted no time in putting her scholarship money to good use, flying out the morning after the awards dinner for an RMIT study tour of Zurich and Berlin.
“It is exciting to be able to learn more about design over there and see some work of designers I have admired for years,” she said.
Sian Johnson was a voracious reader who became fascinated by the work of journalists and would now love to work in digital news.
Sian intends to use her scholarship to further equip her in this regard by buying a DSLR camera and completing a short course in photography.
Dani Rothwell is determined to give a voice to the voiceless in society, a quest she found during her secondary schools years when several classmates took their own lives.
She pursued journalism studies, wound up Monash Union of Berwick Students president and lobbied for a Headspace Centre in Narre Warren.
She would eventually like to end up as a national political reporter.