Page 4090 - Week 12 - Wednesday, 30 November 2022
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Tonight we have some of the 2021 and 2022 award winners and CWB committee members coming in to the Assembly.
The past few years have been difficult for Canberrans as a whole and particularly difficult for businesses. So it is wonderful to see such an impressive array of finalists and award winners, despite the challenging circumstances of the past two or three years.
In 2021, the CWB Award winners were: the Chamberlains Law Business Woman of the Year, Olga Imbriano of Bellelis Australia and Natasha Telfer from National Community Care; the QT Canberra Young Business Woman of the Year, Vanessa Schimizzi from Branded Graphics; the Pipeline Talent Indigenous Business Woman of the Year, Melissa Lacey from Point River Networks; the Solace Creations Small Business Woman of the Year, Justine Lennane from Gumnut Dance; the Elite Event Technology Innovation Business Woman of the Year, Melissa Lacey of Point River Networks; and the Bookssorted Social Impact Business Woman of the Year, Antoinette Gomez from Exhale Coaching & Consulting. Well done to all the 2021 award winners and thank you for all your hard work.
I note that the 2021 awards themselves was an online awards night due to COVID restrictions, demonstrating once again the unique circumstances these business women as well as all Canberrans were facing at the time. Congratulations to the committee of CWB for pulling off that online event. I stayed home and I got to choose a meal from one of several meal providers. There was Daana, who just won a big award for best Indian food in Australia, or QT Canberra, and they were delivered to your home for you to enjoy while you were watching the online awards.
The 2022 CWB award winners were: Chamberlains Law Business Woman of the Year, Kate Freeman from the Health Eating Group Pty Ltd; the Clover Small Business Woman of the Year, Amanda Snashall of Digital Design Partners Pty Ltd; the Parbery Consulting Young Business Woman of the Year, Rae Knopik of GREN and the CBR Gals Network; the Synergy Innovation Business Woman of the Year, Chaturica Athukorala of Aurabox; the Synergy Indigenous Business Woman of the Year, Dixie Crawford of Nganya; the QT Canberra Social Impact Business Woman of the Year, Jo Farrell of Kane Constructions Pty Ltd & Build Like a Girl; and the Social Impact Business Woman of the Year, Kristine Hewett of Adamas Nexus Ltd. Congratulations to all of the award winners and finalists in 2022. I am really looking forward to seeing what they are all going to achieve next.
All the nominees were all amazing but not everyone can win. So perhaps the winners and maybe the finalists were even more amazing than the nominees. But please consider nominating again or nominating some other fabulous business woman that you know.
A big thank you to the sponsors of the awards: in 2021, the major sponsor, Rubik3, and, in 2022, Synergy. These awards nights are not possible without the generous support of sponsors. Also, a big thank you to the CWB committee members. These awards do take a lot of work to organise. They do not just happen on their own, and it is a big tribute to the committee members that they are such a great success. Finally, a big thank you to all of the Canberra businesswomen for the incredible work that
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