Alice Springs - Keynote Address

The John Allwright Memorial Address was delivered by Associate Professor Sabina Knight on Friday 17 September 2010 in Alice Springs as part of the Auatralian Rural Leadership Program's graduation.

Sabina Knight

Sabina Knight has been recognised by academic and professional colleagues, and by the Government, as a pre-eminent leader of national and international standing in the field of remote and rural health.

Evidence of this includes her appointment as one of only ten commissioners to the National Health and Hospital Remote Commission tasked with re engineering the health system of Australia’s future.

Sabina was the only remote health representative, the only nurse, and the only Northern Territorian on this commission. She also has a sustained leadership track record in her profession, past president of the Council of Remote Area Nurses of Australia, now CRANA plus  the national professional body for remote health. She was the convener of the Central Australian Remote Practitioners Association (CARPA), is a Director of the Rural Health Education Foundation, and was a member of the Deputy Prime Minister’s Regional Woman’s Advisory Council.

Sabina was appointed to the Australian Government’s Rural and Remote Advisory Committee, the Australian Government’s Rural and Remote Nurse Scholarship Advisory Committee, the NT Minister’s Health Advisory Committee and was invited to participate in the Australia 2020 Summit in the long term health strategy stream.

Sabina is a Fellow of the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation, holds a Nursing Certificate, a Master of Tropical Health from the University of Queensland, and has been the recipient of a Centenary Medal and two awards for excellence and leadership – the Ariotti Award and the CRANA Aurora Award.

Sabina is passionate about rural vitality, social justice issues broadly, and reconciliation in particular.