Antoinette Braybrook
Antoinette Braybrook has been appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for her service to the law and to family violence prevention.
Ms Braybrook is a co-founder of Djirra, an Aboriginal family violence prevention and legal service, and has been the chief executive since 2001.
She has also been National Family Violence Prevention Legal Services Forum co-chair and national convenor since 2012, is on the Ministerial Advisory Panel on Family Violence, is a member of the Victorian Aboriginal Justice Forum and the Victorian Indigenous Family Violence Partnership Forum.
Ms Braybrook was awarded the Law institute of Victoria Access to Justice/Pro Bono Award, 2015, inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2020, and was a Victorian recipient of the Australian Awards for Excellence in Women’s Leadership, 2022.
Ms Braybrook said she is honoured to receive the award.
“I am honoured to be acknowledged together with many other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and indeed all women, who have been recognised for the work that we do,” she said.
“I am only recognised in this way because of the trust and belief that Aboriginal women place in our fierce organisation, Djirra.”
