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Rosalie Leaney
Rosalie Leaney was born and educated in Guildford and Midland, Western Australia. Early childhood illnesses determined her towards nursing, where she trained at Royal Perth Hospital and King Edward Memorial with post-graduate nursing in country Leonora and Perth metropolitan areas. She married Gordon Leaney and they were blessed with a son and two daughters. She had an abiding faith with love of the family, art and gardening. Life was good. In 1993, life changed forever with a massive intracerebral haemorrhage that confronted the whole family with the opportunity to disintegrate or grow in ways they never thought possible.
Awards
Winner, Media Award from People with Disabilities (Western Australia), 1999
Winner, Pearce Australia Day Award, 2000
Winner, Count Us In Award, 2007
Books available from Fremantle Press
- Whose Hand is This? 1999
From the Catalogue
Wilderness Society Award
Congratulations to Sally Morgan whose book The Last Dance won the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers were also shortlisted in the same category for Ten Tiny Things