Australian of the Year winners were on Wednesday night clutching trophies made in Canberra - in the ANU Glass Workshop. And they listened to music composed by the School of Music as part of the ceremony at the National Arboretum Canberra.
The handing over of the trophies was the culmination of months of work by the glass workshop's production manager Catherine Newton who made 36 of the glass trophies, 32 for the state and territory finalists and four for the national winners.