Wilma McCoy, Award-winner Anna Brown, and Peter Gordon, who gave this year’s address, at the 2015 Tim McCoy Awards.

Anna Brown has won the 2015 Tim McCoy Award for outstanding work to promote and protect the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people in Victoria, Australia and worldwide.

Anna was one of the State finalists for Australian of the Year for 2016. The Australian of the Year website says it all: ‘An unsung hero in the fight to advance equality, Anna Brown’s fingerprints are on almost every recent legal and political win for Australia’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community’. Continue reading →

Tamar Hopkins (3rd from right) and her winning Flemington & Kensington Community Legal Centre team with Victorian Ombudsman, Deborah Glass (third from left) at the 2014 Tim McCoy Award Dinner.

Flemington & Kensington Community Legal Centre has taken out the prestigious 2014 Tim McCoy Award for its work redressing police violence – in particular in the case of Corinna Horvath, which this year was subject to a UN Human Rights Committee complaint in which Ms Horvath was represented by the centre. Continue reading →