The award aims to recognise an individual with lived experience as a refugee who has generated positive awareness about refugees, helped create a positive understanding about the situation of refugees and, in doing so, built a more diverse and inclusive Australian community.
It is named after beloved sports broadcaster Les Murray AM, who hosted SBS’s The World Game football program and was himself a young refugee who arrived in Australia in 1956 at the age of 11 from Hungary.
Nominations open for the Australia for UNHCR – SBS Les Murray Award for Refugee Recognition