Fighting Chance CEO and co-founder Laura O'Reilly has been awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) as part of the 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours List, for outstanding service to the disability sector.

Laura was nominated for the award as a result of her hard work, dedication, and considerable contribution to empowering people with disability since 2011.

Laura co-founded the social enterprise Fighting Chance in 2011 with her brother Jordan, after noticing that society didn't view their younger sibling Shane the same way they did.

“Our youngest brother Shane had a profound physical and moderate intellectual disability. We were really lucky to grow up in a family with parents who took the view that whatever was good enough for Jordan and I, was good enough for Shane - that we were all equal and we should all have access to the same experiences and opportunities.