A new scholarship offers rural students at ANU’s Burgmann College support, encouragement and opportunity.
Story Mark Muller
Harriet Nixon was a dynamic, engaging and much-loved young woman. Her tragic passing after being hit by a falling tree branch at the age of 21 while employed at a regional music festival in 2016 sent shockwaves through the many communities she enriched.
In honour of her memory, Harriet’s family together with Burgmann College – her residential college at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, ACT – established the Harriet Nixon Scholarship in 2024. This scholarship, according to the college, “will specifically support students from rural, regional, and remote Australia, including first-in-family students, Indigenous students, and students from low-socioeconomic backgrounds, granting $10,000 per year, indexed over time, to ease financial hardship and provide access to education that might have otherwise been impossible.”
This story excerpt is from issue #164
Outback Magazine: Dec/Jan 2026
