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| | Sports stars benched in wide field for our top honour - National - smh.com.au |
 | | SPORTING heroes and celebrities are noticeable absentees from the list of finalists for this year's Australian of the Year with humanitarian the Reverend Tim Costello and High Court judge Michael Kirby AC CMG among candidates including notables from the arts, academia and medicine. |
 | | Other finalists for this year's honour include Professor Ian Frazer, from Queensland, who has developed the world's first effective vaccine for cervical cancer, musician Dr Geoffrey Lancaster, from the ACT, and Dr Bill Griggs, from South Australia, a world-renowned authority on trauma medicine. |
 | | Also among the nominees are historian and socio-political commentator emeritus Professor Geoffrey Bolton, AO, from Western Australia, and rural activist Richard Bovill, who was named Tasmania's Australian of the Year for his "leadership in Tasmania's rural community over the past 20 years". |
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