NSWMax Taylor was only 11 years old when he jumped into the rising swells to save a drowning backpacker caught in a deadly rip at Wamberal beach on the Central Coast. He has now been nominated for a News Corp Australia Pride of Australia Award.
Pride of AustraliaIt brought the city to a standstill. Brandishing a bloodied butcher’s knife, a 20-year-old man ran through the streets of the Sydney CBD after allegedly murdering one woman and trying to kill another. Step forward a group of everyday heroes.
NSWHeroes come in all shapes and sizes and Gucci the pomeranian might be the smallest and furriest of them all. The two-year-old pooch saved her owner George Rutonski’s life when his Eagle Vale rental home caught alight as he slept.
Pride of AustraliaTwo dogs and two cats were trapped inside a burning Sydney home when postie Richard Pumpa knocked on their door. He had just minutes to get help and save their lives.