Melanie Irons

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Melanie Irons is an actress, psychology student, community worker and personal trainer from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Irons came to prominence in 2013 in the aftermath of the Dunalley Fire as the creator of the Tassie Fires We Can Help Facebook page, for which she has received numerous awards. Since September 2013 she has co-starred in the award-winning indie web series Noirhouse. She is also a member of the council of Brand Tasmania, the state government agency that acts as custodian of the Tasmania brand. [1] She is a 2015 Australia Day ambassador, [2] won the Tasmania Non-Profit Sector of the 2013 Attorney General's Resilient Australia Award [3] and was a 2014 Young Australian of the Year State Finalist. [4] [5]

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Tassie Fires We Can Help

On 4 January 2013, Irons created her Facebook page while babysitting a friend's child, wanting to help with the fire-fighting effort. [6] The local ABC radio assisted her in spreading the word, and the page amassed 21,000 followers within 18 days. [7] Her work with her Tassie Fires We Can Help page was credited as a major influence and help during the destruction of the town of Dunalley, Tasmania, organising aid, communicating with the community and acting as an alert system. Her page also prompted Tasmania Police to open their own social media accounts. [8] She was the focus on an ABC Australian Story documentary Irons In The Fire. [9]

Acting

Irons has starred in the web series Noirhouse since September 2013. For her work in the series she has won an Australian WebStream Award for Best Female Performance [10] and was nominated for Best Sexy Actress from the Rome Web Awards. [11]

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  2. ↑ "Ambassadors - Tasmania - Australia Day". australiaday.org.au. NADC. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
  3. ↑ "2013 Resilient Australia Award Tasmanian Winners". ses.tas.gov.au. SES Tasmania. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
  4. ↑ "Melanie Irons". australianoftheyear.org.au. NADC. Archived from the original on 7 February 2022. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
  5. ↑ "Generous Australians who've dug deep for bushfire victims, penguins and total strangers". Herald Sun. 1 October 2014. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
  6. ↑ "Melanie a Facebook friend to fire victims". The Warrambool Standard. 28 May 2013. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
  7. ↑ "Social media's power to galvanise". The Examiner. 3 February 2013. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
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