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==Honours and awards== |
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Johnston was appointed a [[Member of the Order of Australia]] (AM) in the [[2014 Queen’s Birthday Honours (Australia)|Queen’s Birthday Honours of 2014]], for service to the community through a range of organisations promoting the welfare and rights of children.<ref name=”am”>{{Cite It’s an Honour |ausawardid=1150065 |date=9 June 2014 |recipient=Mrs Hetty Margarete Johnston |award= Member of the Order of Australia|postnominal=AM |citation=For significant service to the community through a range of organisations promoting the welfare and rights of children.|access-date=12 May 2021 }}</ref> In 2015, she was named the Queensland Australian of the Year.<ref>{{Cite press release |title=2015 Queensland Australian of the Year Award Recipients Announced |date=24 October 2014 |publisher=National Australia Day Council |url=https://www.aoty.com.au/news-and-media/media-releases/article/?id=2015-queensland-australian-of-the-year-award-recipients-announced |work=Australian of the Year Awards}}</ref> |
Johnston was appointed a [[Member of the Order of Australia]] (AM) in the [[2014 Queen’s Birthday Honours (Australia)|Queen’s Birthday Honours of 2014]], for service to the community through a range of organisations promoting the welfare and rights of children.<ref name=”am”>{{Cite It’s an Honour |ausawardid=1150065 |date=9 June 2014 |recipient=Mrs Hetty Margarete Johnston |award= Member of the Order of Australia|postnominal=AM |citation=For significant service to the community through a range of organisations promoting the welfare and rights of children.|access-date=12 May 2021 }}</ref> In 2015, she was named the Queensland Australian of the Year.<ref>{{Cite press release |title=2015 Queensland Australian of the Year Award Recipients Announced |date=24 October 2014 |publisher=National Australia Day Council |url=https://www.aoty.com.au/news-and-media/media-releases/article/?id=2015-queensland-australian-of-the-year-award-recipients-announced |work=Australian of the Year Awards}}</ref> |
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==In Popular Culture== |
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Johnston is notable for appearing in several segments of [[A Current Affair]] alongside reporter [[Ben Fordham]] which covered the antics of child molester turned self-proclaimed writer and advocate Geoffrey Leonard, which became an [[internet meme]] due to the bizarre behaviour and comments from Leonard in the interviews. Johnson, in one of the segments, remarked that Leonard is ‘a very disturbed man’ <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIBxx_ijpO4</ref> <ref>https://www.smh.com.au/national/outcry-over-sydney-pedophiles-web-site-20060304-gdn2zd.html</ref>. |
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==References== |
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Latest revision as of 03:09, 18 October 2024
Australian activist
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Hetty Johnston |
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| Born |
Hetty Margarete van Velsen 27 September 1958 |
| Known for | Child Protection Activism |
| Title | Founder of Bravehearts |
| Political party | Independent (since 2001) |
| Other political affiliations |
Democrats (1996-2001) |
Hetty Margarete Johnston AM (born 27 September 1958), is the founder of Bravehearts Inc., an organisation advocating for better child protection in Australia. She remains a lobbyist who often highlights and promotes action against paedophilia within media, families, schools and in the general community.[1][2]
Johnston has published a book detailing her beliefs called In the Best Interests of the Child.[3]
Johnston was the Australian Democrats candidate for Fadden at the 1996 federal election, and she was an independent Senate candidate for Queensland at the 2004[4] and 2019 federal election. At the 2001 Queensland state election, Johnston stood as an independent in the electorate of Springwood.[5]
She ran for Mayor of Logan City in October 2015, but she withdrew to care for her elderly mother.[6][7][8] Johnston also unsuccessfully ran as an independent candidate for the seat of Macalister in the 2017 Queensland state election.[9]
Johnston was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours of 2014, for service to the community through a range of organisations promoting the welfare and rights of children.[10] In 2015, she was named the Queensland Australian of the Year.[11]
