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The Australian Rural Leadership Foundation (ARLF) was established in 1992 to respond to a backdrop of emerging challenges for rural, regional and remote Australia. It exists to create a network of leaders with compassion and commitment, strategic thinking and negotiating skills, and the foresight to influence communities, industries, businesses and policy makers.

The Foundation develops and supports leaders to advance the viability and sustainability of rural Australia. Graduates of its programs are equipped to address the problems and opportunities presented by rapidly changing social, environmental, business and structural factors in rural, regional and remote Australia.

The Foundation is highly successful and respected in its field and has a significant track record in building capable leaders for and from rural Australia.

Congratulations to our Order of Australia Recipients

Special Announcement

We congratulate two outstanding contributors from the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation and rural Australia on their recent awards on Australia Day 2010:

Larry Brennen (ARLP 2) was granted an OAM

and

Anne Dunn (Honorary Fellow and past Board Member) was given an AM.

Congratulations to you both!

Here are their official biographies from the Australian Honours Secretariat.

Congratulations to our Order of Australia Recipients

Special Announcement

We congratulate two outstanding contributors from the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation and rural Australia on their recent awards on Australia Day 2010:

Larry Brennen (ARLP 2) was granted an OAM

and

Anne Dunn (Honorary Fellow and past Board Member) was given an AM.

Congratulations to you both!

Here are their official biographies from the Australian Honours Secretariat.

Wilderness provides baptism of learning

Every person accepted into the Australian Rural Leadership Program has already done a fair bit of living, learning and leading because that is part of the selection criteria.

But the recent Kimberley trip was the ultimate leveller at the beginning of the 15-month experiential learning journey for the 34 rural leaders involved in Course 16 of ARLP.

There is a cone of silence over details, but the Kimberley opening gambit is designed to take a bunch of capable and competent individuals out of their comfort zone by challenging them in the name of learning.

That sense of the unknown is preserved to heighten personal learning opportunities and build teams where there is a high level of trust.

Under the direction of training and development group AusWorks, participants undertake a physical, intellectual, cultural and spiritual journey with their allocated team.