Recipients of the 2025 Premier’s Anzac Prize are embarking on an extraordinary journey, creating meaningful and memorable experiences while developing a more sophisticated understanding of local and international perspectives. Recipients are spearheading fundraising initiatives to support returned veterans, delving into the lives of Australian service personnel 100 years after they went to fight, and then honouring their legacies during the upcoming tour of the Western Front battlefields.
Our 2025 Prize recipients are young leaders making history come alive.
Their journey includes honing research skills at the 3-day Young Historians Workshop in Brisbane and taking their historical discoveries back home to inspire local primary school students. And finally, they will travel to Europe to visit sites of World War I significance in London, Paris, northern France and Belgium—places where the echoes of Anzac courage and sacrifice still resonate.
Prize recipients with the Honourable Sam O’Connor MP, Acting Minister for Education, Major General (MAJGEN) Stephen Day DSC AM, RSL Queensland State President, Vicki McDonald, State Librarian and CEO of State Library of Queensland, Rebecca Hall, Assistant Director-General, Policy, External Relations and International, Department of Education, Simone Fuller, Executive Director, Department of Education International, Susan Brook, Acting Director, Global Engagement, Department of Education International.
Recipients of the 2025 Premier's Anzac Prize
Allegra Bradley—Proserpine State High School
Amelia Turnbull—Mary MacKillop College
Charlie Mudge—Aquinas College
Dustin McGuire—Marsden State High School
Estera Job—Somerville House
Karen Hooshmandi—Mountain Creek State High School
Lucy Hallett—Goondiwindi State High School
Saxon Miller—All Saints Anglican College
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Morgan Suchoronzcak—Murgon State High School
Dane Ponting—Fraser Coast Anglican College