Miss Hewitt began her sporting career as a competitive swimmer and surf life saver before converting to triathlon and winning a bronze medal at the New Zealand U23 Championships and being selected for the National Team. After competing in triathlon for less than half a year she won the U23 World Championships in Gamagori, Japan.
She has since gone on to win a total of 27 medals at World Cup, World Triathlon Series and World Championship events, including a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games. She has posted 25 consecutive top ten placings in elite races dating back over the past two years. She has represented New Zealand at the , and Olympic Games. In she was ranked number two in International Triathlon Union tables and launched the Andrea Hewitt Foundation the same year to support young triathletes.
Miss Hewitt is Patron of the Canterbury Triathlon Academy and had coached sessions with junior triathletes in Christchurch since joining the sport in Ms Huria managed the communications strategy for Ngai Tahu during the negotiation and post-settlement periods, ensuring iwi members were kept well informed about the status of negotiations. Following the Christchurch earthquake she established the Mana Waitaha Charitable Trust, which developed the infrastructure and land zone reform at Tuahiwi to enable tribal members to live on their traditional land.
Ms Huria is Acting Chair of her local marae at Tuahiwi, where she has led the development of a strategic plan and fundraised to build the whare extension. Ms Margaret Jefferies is Chair of Project Lyttelton, a grass-roots organisation engaged in innovative community projects, and has been involved as a volunteer for 13 years.
She previously chaired the Lyttelton community radio station and helped set up the Lyttelton Harbour Business Association. Ms Jefferies set up three national conferences called Spirit at Work, which looked at spirituality in the workplace. She was instrumental in the professionalisation of the Trust in terms of how it was structured and run. She was instrumental in recruiting a capable Board before stepping down as Chairperson and remains a current Board member. As an active member of the Friends of the ATWC she has helped organise and volunteer at numerous fundraising events and has been a rostered volunteer cook for the Granger Grove programme for more than 20 years.
She taught Community Education cooking classes for 28 years. She was a Brownie Leader from and was District Commissioner for Selwyn from until the early s. Mrs Kenderdine has been Secretary of the New Zealand Specialist Cheesemakers Association since its inception in and a driving force of the awards organising committee since the inaugural Champions of Cheese awards. Ms Hilary King has worked in special education in Auckland, around New Zealand and internationally for the past 27 years, with a particular focus on music, drama and the arts.
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Ms King has a background as a performer and worked at Arohanui Special School from to This team was tasked with providing education for students who had been institutionalised for years and were only now taking part in school life, requiring the development of innovative and highly specialised teaching practices. Over a number of years she was instrumental in providing education through music for students with severe disabilities. She has since contributed to special education at various schools and as an independent consultant.
She has presented workshops throughout New Zealand and internationally, written numerous original songs for programmes she has created, and has researched and provided resources for teachers to enhance student participation and engagement. She produced the annual Auckland Special Education Concert for a number of years. She has networked with international consultants on special education, who have travelled to New Zealand to share their expertise. Ms King has championed the use of smartboards and sensory rooms in special needs schools in New Zealand. Mrs Eth Lloyd has been involved with the Association of Administrative Professionals New Zealand AAPNZ on a voluntary basis since and has played a key role creating career pathways for administrative professionals.
Since Mrs Lloyd has managed her own professional development consultancy, Enderby Associates Ltd, working with administrative professionals in government and private sectors. Ms Longbottom has been in education since and has been a leader in alternative education for almost a decade.
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She has been recognised nationally and internationally for her leadership in education and empowerment through creativity. Mrs Laura Mariu has represented New Zealand in the sports of karate, softball, touch rugby, tag football, and rugby league. She was appointed Captain for the World Cup squad, which were runners-up. She played as a national representative for a total of 14 years. Mrs Dorothy McCarrison was a member of the Ministry of Justice Restorative Justice pilot programme in and for the past four years since her retirement from the Education Review Office has worked as a Family Violence specialist, facilitating more than 50 family violence cases in the past year alone.
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Mrs McCarrison led the establishment of the Auckland Restorative Justice Trust Restorative Justice Provider group in Auckland, chaired its management committee, and has led professional development training for its facilitators. She was a pioneer as a professional school counsellor and has been an external examiner for the Masters in Counselling at Auckland University. She was a leader in early childhood education and established the Play Centre movement in South Taranaki in the s.
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She wrote many of the early standards for the Play Centre movement and supervised training in the central districts region. In Professor McDonald received a Marsden Fund grant to research the myths and misconceptions surrounding the concept of rape, and their impact as barriers to fair trial processes. Ms Helen Murphy has dedicated many years to supporting prisoners on release into the community in both paid and voluntary capacities. She has volunteered with the Pathway Charitable Group since Since she has been employed by the Prisoners Aid and Rehabilitation Society PARS in Canterbury, where she is currently office manager and a community support worker.
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Many of the returning ex-prisoners have not lived in New Zealand for many years and have no local support network. Ms Murphy welcomes the Australian ex-prisoners at airport and makes arrangements for food, medical help, ID documents, accommodation and possible employment. Ms Murphy has been active in publicising the plight of released prisoners via the media, giving radio interviews and being involved with international conferences and research projects.
Mrs Nicholas was a founding trustee for the Mountains to Sea Conservation Trust in , which has created programmes to educate New Zealand children and communities about marine and freshwater conservation.
With support, donations and grants she has since led the expansion of the EMR programme to eight regions throughout New Zealand with a team of up to 30 coordinators. The Trust also administers the Whitebait Connection programme designed to restore whitebait populations and protect habitat and spawning sites. The Trust annually hosts a national marine and freshwater conference.
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She has led the development of a range of community engagement events in marine reserves. Mr Grant Nisbett has had a career in broadcasting since the late s and has been a sports commentator for rugby, cycling, boxing, bowls, and cricket. With the advent of Sky Television Mr Nisbett took up the head position commentating for All Blacks tours throughout New Zealand and internationally, as well as commentating for cricket tests.
He is considered one of the doyens of rugby commentary with close to commentaries on All Blacks matches alone and is recognised for his enduring professionalism. He was a member of the judging panel of the Sport Wellington Annual Awards for a number of years. He is a long-time member of Poneke Rugby Club and has made significant contributions to fundraising events. He is a current player and committee member of the Seatoun Bowling Club. He has undertaken numerous speaking engagements throughout New Zealand, particularly at rugby club events, on a pro bono basis.
Mr Nisbett has been a guest speaker or MC for fundraising events for the likes of Lions, Jaycees, and community sports clubs, as well as for universities, community centres and hospitals. He was elected Chairman of the Society in and has continued in this role to the present day. He has worked tirelessly to ensure firefighters are supported in times of need, notably following the Christchurch earthquake when he led a team from the Society to work with the fire service welfare team and support all firefighters involved in the incident for several months. The Foundation works to reduce levels of domestic violence through education and to help young people foster healthy relationships through its Loves-Me-Not programmes in schools.
He is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Foundation and represented the Foundation on a joint working party with the New Zealand Police and Ministry of Social Development. He has donated all of his royalties from both books to the Foundation. He has written more than 30 books, four of which have specifically given victims a voice. He previously had a 35 year career with the New Zealand Police. Mrs Panapa oversaw fundraising for the team and the organisation during this period.
Inspector Tracy Phillips joined the New Zealand Police in and has delivered a number of projects beyond the scope of her assigned roles. She is Coordinator of the Pan Auckland Police Horse Group and has organised mounted horse patrols, despite there being no official Mounted Horse Group within Police, at various public events such as parades to foster positive public interactions. Inspector Phillips ran an operation on behalf of New Zealand Police to repatriate New Zealand deportees from Australia, following changes to Australian federal legislation in that meant New Zealanders faced deportation, with held in immigration detention centres.
During this time Mrs Poff-Pencole played an instrumental role in the professionalization of the Translation and Interpretation sector in New Zealand. She wrote the guidelines for official and legal translation services and negotiated a new professional liability insurance scheme for all members. She helped introduce new categories of membership to attract and upskill paraprofessional translators and interpreters and worked on the new codes of ethics and practice, as well as a benchmarking system.
Mrs Poff-Pencole has concurrently worked as a voluntary community interpreter for local refugee and migrant populations and set up free French literacy classes for children to study and retain their native language.
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Ms Preston is a teacher, choreographer, director and producer with 38 years of leadership in creative community development. Ms Preston was a dancer and teacher with the Limbs Dance Company. MIXIT also runs social activities and an annual summer performance project. A youth leadership programme has been developed and a growing Alumni team continues to contribute. MIXIT is an established non-profit charitable trust and Ms Preston has completed a book on the foundations, values and history of the project, which was published in Since the early s Mr Gordon has represented kayakers at local authority hearings and tribunals to protect Central Otago rivers from development, damming, jet boats, and mining.
He was a founding member of Central Otago Whitewater in and from began coaching whitewater kayaking for youth in Alexandra and later other parts of Central Otago. He also manages a beginner kayaking programme in Alexandra. He obtained grants, sponsorship and established fundraising opportunities enabling the club to purchase equipment and provide travel assistance for junior kayakers to attend national and international events. A number of juniors from Alexandra have represented New Zealand at Australasian and world championship levels. He organises an annual whitewater camp on the Hawea river, introduces junior kayakers to grade three whitewater on a weekly basis during the summer, organises local slalom and freestyle events, and has helped organise seven national and secondary school slalom championships in the lower South Island.
Mr Rayner has represented New Zealand at world championship level in slalom, freestyle and rafting, and is the current world masters slalom champion in his age group. Mr Millan Ruka established Environment River Patrol in , obtaining vehicles, equipment, a river boat and kayaks to access waterways to GPS photograph, document, and report effluent discharges, direct stock trampling, and spoiling waterways.
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Mr Ruka has submitted more than reports to local councils, government agencies, media, businesses, schools, and communities regarding the need to help waterways. He has presented at seminars and environmental forums and written multiple submissions towards local and national policy documents. He has instigated hundreds of kilometres of fencing to exclude stock from waterways. Northland Regional Council employed extra land management staff and allocated funds to assist owners to fence waterways, directly in response to his reporting work.
He has advocated for his hapu of Poroti and Mangakahia to have their values recognised in improving water quality.