2024 Winner: Lifetime Achiever - Donata Sackey

For more than 30 years, Ms Donata Sackey has dedicated herself to improving the health and wellbeing of newly-arrived refugees and people seeking asylum. She migrated to Australia when she was 10 years old, which inspired her life’s work.
During her career, Donata has worked in counsellor advocate, capacity building and management roles in the multicultural sector. She has worked with international student services and with the Queensland Program of Assistance to Survivors of Torture and Trauma (QPASTT).
Donata is currently Director of the Mater Refugee and Multicultural Health Service, Chair of the Refugee Health Partnership Advisory Group Queensland and Deputy Chair of the Refugee Health Network of Australia.