Anti-domestic violence campaigner Rosie Batty has been named Australian Of The Year for 2015


It was in February 2014 that Rosie ex husband killed their 11 year old son Luke with a cricket bat in front of onlookers after Luke's cricket training session



Australian Of The Year winners:

1960: Sir MacFarlane Burnet
1961: Dame Joan Sutherland
1962: Jock Sturrock
1963: Sir John Eccles
1964: Dawn Fraser
1965: Sir Robert Helpmann
1966: Sir Jack Brabham
1967: The Seekers
1968: Lionel Rose
1969: The Lord Casey (Richard Casey)
1970: Cardinal Sir Norman Gilroy
1971: Evonne Goolagong
1972: Shane Gould
1973: Patrick White
1974: Sir Bernard Heinze
1975: Sir John Cornforth and Major General Alan Stretton
1976: Sir Edward "Weary" Dunlop
1977: Dame Raigh Roe and Sir Murray Tyrrell
1978: Alan Bond and Galarrwuy Yunupingu
1979: Neville Bonner and Harry Butler
1980: Manning Clark
1981: Sir John Crawford
1982: Sir Edward Williams
1983: Robert De Castella
1984: Lowitja O'Donoghue
1985: Paul Hogan
1986: Dick Smith
1987: John Farnham
1988: Kay Cottee
1989: Allan Border
1990: Fred Hollows
1991: Peter Hollingworth
1992: Mandawuy Yunupingu
1993: Not Awarded
1994: Ian Kiernan
1995: Arthur Boyd
1996: John Yu
1997: Peter Doherty
1998: Cathy Freeman
1999: Mark Taylor
2000: Sir Gustav Nossal
2001: General Sir Peter Cosgrove
2002: Patrick Rafter
2003: Fiona Stanley
2004: Steve Waugh
2005: Fiona Wood
2006: Ian Frazer
2007: Tim Flannery
2008: Lee Kernaghan
2009: Mick Dodson
2010: Patrick McGorry
2011: Simon McKeon
2012: Geoffrey Rush
2013: Ita Buttrose
2014: Adam Goodes
2015: Rosie Batty

Former chief of the Australian army David Morrison has been named the 2016 Australian Of The Year