Max Gardner Award for Distinguished Service is a prestigious award presented by PCFA. It is awarded to an individual member of the Network that has made an outstanding and significant contribution to reducing the impact of prostate cancer on Australian men, their partners and families, recognising the diversity of the Australian community. This award is a peer-based form of recognition for PCFA Network members who are currently in a Support Group Leader role or an active member of a PCFA affiliated support group or an official Ambassador.
Max Gardner Award Recipients for 2021
Mr John Fullagar of North Shore (NSW), Mr Rob McCulloch of Bundaberg (QLD), and Mr and Mrs Graham and Adele Staggs of Dural (NSW), have each been presented with the 2021 Max Gardner Award in recognition of their outstanding contribution to PCFA’s mission.
About the recipients:
Rob McCulloch joined the Bundaberg PCSG following his diagnosis and surgery in 2007 and has been leader of the Bundaberg PCSG since 2009. He became a PCFA Ambassador in 2013, while also serving on the then Queensland Chapter Council. He has been integral in the establishment of other Support Groups in the region and has dedicated countless hours to community awareness and peer support over the past 15 years.
John Fullagar has been involved in the North Shore PCSG for nearly 20 years, joining the group in 2004 after undergoing a radical prostatectomy. John became Secretary of the Group in 2012 and was elected to his current role of Support Group Leader in 2015. John was also a founding member and is the former Deputy Chair of PCFA's NSW/ACT Chapter Council. In addition, he’s a PCFA Ambassador, attending regular events to help raise awareness about prostate cancer locally.
Graham and Adele Staggs lead the Dural Prostate Cancer Support Group. Graham originally joined the Sydney Adventist Hospital Prostate Cancer Support Group in 2004, following a radical prostatectomy, and went on to jointly found the Dural and District PCSG in March 2012. Over the past 18 years, they have provided information and peer support to hundreds of men and their partners, and Adele has also established a Support Group for Ladies, which meets monthly.
Read the full media release here.
You can learn more about previous Max Gardner Award Winners below.
Previous Max Gardner Award Recipients
| Linton Blackwell |
2020 |
| Margaret Amm |
2020 |
| Richard Harry |
2020 |
| Kerry White |
2019 |
| Wolfgang Schoch |
2019 |
| Elizabeth Allen |
2019 |
| David Merry |
2018 |
| Mary Jones |
2018 |
| Tony Maxwell |
2018 |
| David Abrahams |
2017 |
| Malcolm Ellis |
2017 |
| Terry Grano |
2017 |
| Ian Fisk |
2016 |
| Jim Marshall |
2016 |
| Gabrielle Moran OAM |
2016 |
| Ian Wagner |
2015 |
| John Shields |
2015 |
| Jim Hope |
2015 |
| Fred Travis |
2015 |
| Rob Tonge |
2015 |
| Allan Sudholz |
2015 |
| Alan Moran OAM |
2015 |
| Bruce Kinnersley |
2014 |
| Dr Bruce Kynaston |
2014 |
| Len Lamprecht |
2014 |
| Dr John Trollor |
2014 |
| Phillip Webster |
2014 |
| Terry Wheeler |
2013 |
| Les Payne |
2013 |
| David Gregory |
2013 |
| Daryl Hyland |
2012 |
| Max Shub |
2012 |
| John Stead |
2012 |
| Colin Farmer |
2011 |
| Michael O'Neill |
2011 |
| Les Mather |
2011 |
| Jim Reid |
2011 |
| John Allen |
2010 |
| Robert Slade |
2010 |
| Jayne Matthews |
2010 |
| Peter Dornan AM |
2010 |
| Bill McHugh |
2010 |
| Robert Phillips |
2010 |
| Ron Schmarr |
2010 |
| Alan Hall |
2009 |
| Jeff Roberts |
2009 |
| John Dowsett |
2009 |
| Con Casey |
2008 |
| Bob Collard MBE |
2008 |
| Dr John Conroy OAM |
2008 |
| John Goodall |
2008 |
| Don Baumber |
2008 |
| Spencer Broughton |
2008 |
| Trevor Hunt |
2008 |