Leanne White

Ms JENNY AITCHISON (Maitland—Minister for Regional Transport and Roads)—Congratulations to Leanne White, who was highly commended in the 2024 Maitland Local Woman of the Year Awards. Leanne's nominee for the award noted that her first thought on meeting Leanne was WOW, this woman is a dynamo! Leanne selflessly puts others before herself and she is on a mission to make life easier for those less privileged. Leanne is of aboriginal heritage and talks of learning from her aboriginal elders. She is determined to make the world better. In 2012 Leanne started as a volunteer at the Maitland Neighbourhood Centre working with families from Rutherford to Woodberry, providing meals, information, a listening ear and a warm heart. Leanne has volunteered at Rotary and the Anglican Church at Rutherford, supplying food for the disadvantaged, a cuppa, a listening ear and a caring heart. She delivers care packages and does welfare checks on the vulnerable in our community, providing not a handout, but a hand up. Thank you Leanne for your dedication to the community of Maitland.