Annabelle Williams, a gold medalist from the London Paralympics and the current legal counsel for the Australian Olympic Committee will be the Australia Day ambassador for Orange.
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She will speak at the Orange Australia Day ceremony at Cook Park where there will be an awards presentation.
The world record-breaking swimmer from Sydney, studied Law and International Relations at Bond University on the Gold Coast.
From 2005 to 2012, Ms Williams was a member of the Australian Paralympic Swimming Team.
It was at the 2012 Paralympic Games in London that she won a gold medal in the 4x100 metre medley swimming relay.
Prior to her success in England, she had won a bronze medal in the 100 metre butterfly at the Beijing Paralympic Games in 2008, a silver medal in the 50 metre freestyle at the New Delhi Commonwealth Games in 2010, a silver medal in the 100 metre butterfly at the World Short Course Championships in Rio de Janeiro in 2009, and a bronze medal in the 50 metre freestyle at the Melbourne Commonwealth Games.
During her swimming career, Ms Williams set five world records, served as the captain of the Australian Paralympic Swim Team from 2008 to 2010, and currently serves as chair of the Australian Paralympic Committee Athletes’ Commission and vice president of the Australian Swimmers Association, which is the representative body for elite level swimmers in Australia.
In addition to her competitive swimming career, Ms Williams has had a successful law career and worked at Allens Linklaters in Sydney from 2013 - 2015 in the mergers and acquisitions practice group.
In 2009, she worked for Austrade, the Australian Trade Commission, in Paris, where she helped Australian companies develop business in France, attract productive French investment into Australia, and promote Australia’s education sector in France.
She also worked as an intern with Perennial Strategy Group in Washington DC in 2012 where she provided strategic advice and counsel to corporate clients, in working with civil rights organizations and nonprofit groups, and in researching and monitoring regulation and public policy issues.
Recently Ms Williams has done some commentary work, including co-hosting a nightly show during the Rio Paralympic Games in 2016.
Tanya Marschke
I am based at Orange and cover a wide range of subjects as well as the weekly business column. I've worked consistently in the the media industry since 2006 including the past seven years at the Central Western Daily. Before moving to Orange, I worked as a journalist at weekly newspapers the Beaudesert Times and the Gold Coast Sun in Queensland, as well as the Scone Advocate in the Hunter Valley. I started my career at the Ridge News in Lightning Ridge while I completed my journalism studies remotely at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.
I am based at Orange and cover a wide range of subjects as well as the weekly business column. I've worked consistently in the the media industry since 2006 including the past seven years at the Central Western Daily. Before moving to Orange, I worked as a journalist at weekly newspapers the Beaudesert Times and the Gold Coast Sun in Queensland, as well as the Scone Advocate in the Hunter Valley. I started my career at the Ridge News in Lightning Ridge while I completed my journalism studies remotely at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.
