You can make a difference to Local Heroes

Updated July 11 2016 - 3:21pm, first published July 6 2016 - 10:48am

No-one was more surprised than me when Malcolm Turnbull announced, on Australia Day this year, that I was the 2016 Australian of the Year Local Hero.

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