Presentation of the Royal Humane Society of Australasia’s ‘Clarke Medal’ for bravery

At Melbourne City Town Hall, VIC, the Governor-General, as Senior Patron of the Royal Humane Society of Australasia, and Lady Cosgrove attended a ceremony at which the Governor-General presented The Clarke Medal, for the most outstanding act of bravery, to Victorian Police Officer, Sergeant Daniel Burgess, who went to the rescue of a fisherman who had been washed off rocks and into the sea near Pyramid Rock, Phillip Island, on 14 January 2012.