In 2006 Chief Minister Jon Stanhope awarded 241 people Canberra Gold Awards.

The Chief Minister's Canberra Gold Award recognises the unique contribution made by individuals and groups who have chosen to make a long-term commitment to the ACT. Through this award, the ACT Government celebrates this dedication by honouring individuals and groups who have resided or operated in the ACT for fifty years or more.

Chief Minister's Canberra Gold Awards are distributed each year as part of Canberra's birthday celebrations. Award recipients will receive a certificate.

The Award is open to individuals who have lived in the ACT for fifty years or more as at 12 March each year and to those groups, businesses, clubs, societies, organisations, associations and teams who have been present in the ACT for fifty years or more as at 12 March each year.

The first Awards were made in 2005 by Chief Minister Jon Stanhope.

Nomination forms are available in all Libraries ACT branches and online.

Individuals (names of some individuals withheld at their request)

ABBOTT, Gayle

ABBOTT, June

ABBOTT, Neil

ADAMSON, Valma

ASTIN, Arthur

BAK, Nanette Jane

BAMFORD, Edward

BELL, Ella Corry

BELL, Geoffrey John

BELL, George Thomas

BERGERSEN, Frank Raymond

BIRCH, Lorraine

BISCHOFF, Phoebe

BLAIR, Ken

BLAKE, Robert Allen

BLANKEN, John Gerard

BOREHAM, Colin Wayne

BOURKE, John

BOURKE, Norman

BOURKE, Sylvia

BRANDT, Kathleen Marie

BRANDT, Marcus John

BRINDLE, June Maria

BROWN, Agnes

BROWN, Ronald Victor

BURBAN, Sonia

BURGOYNE, Catherine Ann

BURKE, Reginald John

BYRNE, Richard

CALLAHAN*****, Ina Josephine

CATANZARITI, Maria

CHAMBERLAIN, Karl

COLES, Brigette Walburga

COMMENS, Ellen Joyce

COMMENS, Robert Athol

CORCORAN, Leonie Mary

COUSINS, Beverley

CRAPP, Eric Reginald

CRAWFORD, Elizabeth Iris

CRAWFORD, Jane Agnes

CRAWFORD, Murray Allan

CRAWFORD, Walter David

CROSS, Kevin Peter

CROSSLEY, Kathleen

CURRAN, Helen Jean

DALEY, Miriam Clare

DALEY, Nigel Charles

DAVIES, Kenneth John

DAVIES, Prudence

DIEHM, Willa May

DOWNEY, Christine Patricia

FAIRHALL, John Huntley

FAIRHALL, Julie Margaret

FAULKNER, Richard John

FAULKNER, Shirley May

FITZGERALD-VERRENT, Donna Louise

GALLAGHER, Marie Therese

GENTLEMAN, Michael Davis

GOYNE, Margaret

GRAHAM, Elaine Violet

HACKWILL, Patricia

HADLEY, Joan

HALDANE, Alice Louise

HALL, Helen Yvonne

HALL, Judith Ann

HARDY, Dennis Henry

HARMAN, Judith Elizabeth

HARMAN, Keith Norman

HAY, Gwen

HAYES, Christine Marie

HIBBERSON, Warren Timothy J

HOFFMAN, Joy Ellen

HOITINK, Arnold John

HOITINK, Barbara

HOITINK, John M F

HOLGATE, Jennifer M

HORGAN, Lyla Jean

HORGAN, Peter John

HOUGHTON, Gwen

HOUGHTON, Stanley Travis

HUNGERFORD, Ms Glen

HYLAND, John William

HYLAND, Nancy Waddy

HYLAND, Peter Philip

HYLAND, Robert James

JENNINGS, Elizabeth J

KELLY, Gladys Edna

KIERMAIER, Jean Mary

KIMBER, Terence John

KIRKPATRICK, June Ina

KLEMMER, Kurt

KYBURZ, Les Desmond

KYBURZ, Peggy Mauis

LAWRENCE, Leila

LAWRENCE, William

LONSDALE, Elena Merle

LOVERING, Valma Esther

MALONE, Beverley

MALONE, Muriel Helen

MALONE, Neville John

MARTYN, Brian Mannix

MARTYN, Monica

MARX, Diana Lesley

MCINTOSH, Wilma

MCKEON, Robert George

MCMAHON, James Vincent

MCMAHON, Rosemary June

MEANY, Patricia Mary

MODRAK, Arthur Jan

MODRAK, Kazimierz

MOLONEY, Christine

MURPHY, Barry Patrick

NICHOLAS, Valma Frances

NOTT, David Bruce

O'BRIEN, Laurel Mary

O'BRIEN, Ronald John

OLDFIELD, Thomas

PARKES, Russell Hall

PARSONS, Marie

PAUL, Anne Shirley

PAUL, Graham Harold

PAUL, Joan Shirley

PERMAN, Margaret Mary

PERRIMAN, Paul Lees

PETERSON, Monica Mary

PROSSER, Brian John

PROSSER, Leon Anthony

PROSSER, Mary Catherine

QUINLIVAN, Marcus James

RAMSAY, Carolyn Jessie

REYNOLDS, Mary Adella

ROBERTS, Barbara

ROBERTS, Elsie

ROBERTS, John

ROBERTS, Norma

ROBERTSON, John Wyndham

ROBERTSON, Maree

ROBERTSON, Patricia Adelaide

ROOTS, Edward Thomas

RUNDLE, Alan Peter

RUNDLE, John

SAMIOS, Tony

SCALES, Yvonne Muriel

SCOTT, George Crabb

SHEPHERD, Judith Anne

SHEPHERD, Terence John

SHUMACK, Trevor George

SMITH, John Ian

SOUTHWELL, Amy Louisa

SOUTHWELL, David Andrew

SOUTHWELL, Susan

SWINTON, Isabella

SWINTON, Walter

TARLINTON, Dennis Albert

TARLINTON, John Joseph

TARLINTON, Rachael Doris

TAYLOR, Maureen Catherine

THOMSON, Dorothea Lorraine

THOMSON, Robert Garnett

TRACEY, June Elizabeth

VAN HEST, Con

WALLIS, Brian Alexander

WALLIS, Helen Elizabeth

WATTS, Joan

WEATHERBY, Elizabeth Ellen

WEEKES, Alison

WEISS, Thelma

WENSING, Petronella

WEST, Glenice Elvie

WEST, Keith Thomas

WHITBREAD, Barbara Marion

WHITE, James

WHITE, Keith

WOTHERSPOON, Win

YANDELL, June