Adele Burke (centre), with Nikki and Angus Dawson. Image credit: Sam Mooy. After almost 11 years of operating, we had the opportunity to enhance our impact by partnering with the General Sir John Monash Foundation, an organisation empowering outstanding Australians to pursue postgraduate studies at the world’s best universities and create meaningful impact for Australia. We are thrilled to announce Adele Burke as the inaugural recipient of the 2026 Katrina Dawson John Monash

We have two extra-special performers joining the line-up this year: Annabelle Traves , KDF Concert Founder and international award-winning violinist, and Emily Edmonds , mezzo-soprano with Opera Australia. They join an already impressive group of performers showcasing the talent of past and present Women’s College students. We hope you can join us! Tickets are available here .

Thank you to Charli Dwyer for a wonderful fundraising event at College! KDF Scholar Charli Dwyer (2023–25), together with her mother Kylie Dwyer, hosted a community fundraiser at The Women’s College on 20 October 2025.   The event brought together six generous hairdressers, all of whom donated their time and talent to provide haircuts for the girls at Women’s. College students were able to book in for haircuts, with 100% of their payment going directly toward the KDF scholars

As has been the trend in our partnership with The Smith Family Learning for Life Program, we keep seeing so many promising candidates that we have expanded our giving yet again to a record number of 16 prizes this year. We love the work that the Learning for Life Program achieves every year, and we are so pleased to be able to work with them in this small way. The aspirations of the girls are varied and far-reaching – read more about some of the KDF High School Prize recipien

In March 2025 eight talented First Nations women were part of the Aurora Education Foundation’s international study tour to the US,...

We are so pleased to take our total number of KDF scholars to 27 over the last ten years, with the award of three 2025 scholarships to...

We were so fortunate to have the Drinks Association support KDF for the third year running for their 2025 International Women’s Day...

The NSW Bar Association was delighted to announce the May 2025 recipient of the Katrina Dawson Award: Haiqiu Zhu. Haiqiu won the...

There has been a lot happening this year for the KDF scholars - present and former. In the last 12 months we have had one engagement...

On Saturday November 30th, The Women’s College hosted their annual Katrina Dawson Foundation Concert. It was a wonderful afternoon,...