Expert Introduced: Donnie Maclurcan

Donnie Maclurcan’s entrepreneurial appetite emerged as early as age seven when he and his brother set up a local ironing business which they marketed through promotional flyers. Since then he hasn’t stopped, with his achievements including a Guinness world record for the fastest journey on foot across Australia which raised money for the Fred Hollows Foundation; creating the organisation Project Australia, in an attempt to connect people and ideas to bring about social change; founding the committee for a case study into the 2001 sinking of the vessel SIEV X and the subsequent deaths; and winning several awards including
Australia Day Young Citizen of the Year in 2003 and 2008, and the Rotary Youth Leadership Award in 2003.

He is currently completing his Doctor of Philosophy at University of Technology, Sydney, while also working with the Australian Rotary Health Research Fund, managing an around-Australia bike ride. Starting in March 2009, the ride will see a core group of riders tackle a series of stages around the country in an anti-clockwise loop. The ride aims to raise one million dollars for research into the mental health and well-being of young Australians.

See his profile here.