Awards & Honours
1996 First Australian Aboriginal to win an Olympic gold medal - Atlanta USA
1996 Golden Key to the City of Darwin
1996 Northern Territory Sports Person of the year
1997 Order of Australia (OAM)
1997 Northern Territorian of the year
1997 Young Australian of the year
1997 Who Magazine Australias most "Beautiful Bodies"
1998 delegate to the National Constitution Convention - Old Parliment
1998 Northern Territory Sports Person of the Year
2000 First Olympic Torch Bearer - Uluru
Appointed board member of the 2000 olympic games indigenous council
Appointed Board Member of Beyond Blue - National Depression
2001 National Treaty Ambassador
2001 Facilitator of 10 National Treaty Workshops
2001 Facilitator of National Indigenous Youth Violence Caucus
2003 International Indigneous Rights Ambassador - Reparations of Human Remains at the Manchester Museum
2007 Patron of Beyond Blue - National Perinatal & Mental Illness progam