On Sunday 17 November, a number of students from The Women’s College performed an amazing concert for the KDF, raising over $10,000. This was followed by the unveiling of ‘Reflection’, a beautiful sculpture by Katrina’s mother Jane Dawson that was commissioned by the W...

We continue our partnership with The Smith Family’s Learning for Life Program, and are thrilled to announce that this year we will be awarding prizes to six talented high-school girls. Congratulations to: Amuor Malou, Atoc Malou, Benafsha Rezaie, Nora El Sayed, Tahlia...

As part of our continued support of Indigenous postgraduate scholars through our partnership with the Aurora Education Foundation, we are delighted to announce that we helped send four more highly accomplished Indigenous women on the 2019 Aurora International Study Tou...

A big thank you to violinist Annabelle Traves, who held a fundraiser for The Foundation at The Women’s College in November 2018 (her second such annual event). In her fourth year at the Conservatorium of Music, Annabelle is a scholarship recipient at the University of...

Congratulations to Kasarina Mann, a 2018 Katrina Dawson Aurora Foundation Fellow, who has been accepted into Oxford University to study her Masters of Science in Clinical Embryology and also been awarded a Charlie Perkins Scholarship to help fund her study. We wish Kas...

We are delighted to introduce our two KDF scholars for 2019: Emily Graetz (left) and Alexandra Berry (right).

Emily hails from Albury, NSW, where she attended the Scots School and was elected school Captain in her final year. She excelled in her academics, captained her...

We have had our first KDF Scholar graduate! Kate Field celebrated her graduation from her Bachelor of Architecture and Environments degree earlier this year, and is now working at BVN, an award-winning Australian architectural firm. Congratulations Kate!

In other KDF Sc...