Hireup Co-Founder Laura O'Reilly was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for outstanding service to the disability sector.
Laura is also the Fighting Chance Founder and CEO and was nominated for the award as a result of her hard work, dedication and considerable contribution to empowering people with disability since 2011. Laura co-founded the social enterprise Fighting Chance in 2011, with her brother Jordan, after noticing that society didn't view their younger sibling Shane the same way they did.
“The NDIS is a once-in-a-lifetime sector reform. We are in the middle of a huge opportunity to transform the landscape of the disability sector and the economy to be truly inclusive, and I encourage service providers, other social entrepreneurs, people in the community, to think differently and not settle for the status-quo.
“The Disability Royal Commission has highlighted the ongoing and systematic abuse and marginalisation of Australians with disability. This just isn’t good enough and along with the team at Fighting Chance, I’ll keep going until people with disability have unbridled access to opportunity, dignity and prosperity as part of a truly inclusive economy,” she said.
Congratulations Laura!
