YOUNG AUSTRALIAN OF THE YEAR

Brenden Borellini
1989 Award

Outstanding Deaf and Blind Student

Borellini is the first congenitally blind and deaf person in Australia to be integrated into the normal high school system where he successfully completed the standard school program. He the enrolled in Modern Studies at Griffith University, Queensland.

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