One of the pioneering melanoma researchers named Australian of the Year has given an emotionally charged speech about his own devastating cancer diagnosis and told the audience “I don’t want to die”.
Prof Richard Scolyer and his research partner Prof Georgina Long – who were presented with the Australian of the Year 2024 in Canberra on Thursday night – are credited with saving the lives of thousands of Australians whose diagnoses of skin cancer would once have proven fatal but are now largely curable.
