Timothy Wilson COURAGE FORMER soldier Timothy Wilson was hit by an explosive device when he was serving in Afghanistan with the Brisbane-based 6RAR.
Despite physical and emotional scars, he campaigns to improve the care of returned servicemen and women with Mates4Mates, a group helping defence personnel deal with the effects of active service.
Jesse Kelly YOUNG LEADER AS THE managing director of Moreton Bay Regional Community Response, Jesse Kelly now oversees 150 volunteers and helps 4000 people a month with the charity he helped set up - on top of his day job. The award will help with his plans for the charity to "go big", reaching even more needy people with the care they need. 
Mark McDonnell COMPASSION NURSE manager Mark McDonnell has already received awards for his work helping homeless people in Brisbane's West End.
With a handful of volunteers, he gives out 1500 meals a week. "I hope to increase awareness that homelessness is a real issue, poverty is a real issue," he said.
Christian Miller and Jennie Gilbert ENVIRONMENT MARINE biologist Jennie Gilbert and wildlife photographer Christian Miller run the Cairns Turtle Rehabilitation Centre in their spare time to care for sick and injured turtles.
They also are behind the Fitzroy Island Rehabilitation Centre, the turtle rescue centres at Cooktown and Cowley Beach, and numerous research and education programs.
Julian Wilson BRAVERY SURFING superstar Julian Wilson has been named the Queensland Pride of Australia Outstanding Bravery medallist.
His mum Nola accepted the medal on his behalf.
It was awarded for his brave swim towards his mate Mick Fanning who was being -attacked by a shark in Jeffreys Bay in South Africa.
Nola Wilson said the Coolum Beach-raised surfer would be "quite mortified that he's won this." "He's never thought that he was a hero at all," Mrs Wilson said. "In the company of the people here tonight, people who he would look up to, so he's going to be very humbled by this.
"How could you assemble people of this calibre in one room. Their fight doesn't go over in one day, the ripple effects across lots of people's lives and that to me is what a true hero is and I'd like to thank The Courier-Mail for putting this together." Wilson described his feelings at seeing his mate Fanning attacked on   July 19. "At first, I was frozen. Mick looked at me. A big old fish popped up behind him that was a lot bigger than him, and I froze, I honestly froze. I started paddling, and he was paddling for his life."
Kaitlin Relf CHILD OF COURAGE SUBMERGED under pitch-black water, Kaitlin Relf desperately tried to release the seatbelt on her three-year-old sister Tara's car seat.
For 12 seconds, Kaitlin, 9, held her breath, moments after both her mother and grandmother had been swept away when the family car was hit by a wall of water during a severe storm near Munruben in Logan.
"I thought we were on the road but we were in a river. A dam overfilled and it created a wave â€¦ it was a metre of water," mum Andrea Relf said.
"Tara was stuck in the car seat. She (Kaitlin) never thought of leaving her sister, she got her free. She pushed her out of the car and then pushed her out of the water." Fearless big sister Kaitlin was last night awarded the Child of Courage Medal at the Queensland Pride of Australia ceremony.
With tears in his eyes, David Relf hugged his daughter as she looked proudly at her medal.
"We won already, we won lotto night when we got our family back," Mr Relf said.
Dr Cuong Bui FAIR GO FAIR Go Medallist Dr Cuong Bui said migrants to Australia wanted to look after the future and the future of their children. He said the journey to Australia in the 1970s had been long with a rigorous screening process.
"Australia at the time thanks to the late Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, he opened his arms and the Australian people accepted us into the country."
Lucy Strickland INSPIRATION LUCY Strickland's sister Em picked up her medal on her -behalf because Lucy is working in northern Iraq. The Brisbane woman has worked in some of the most challenging countries for the UNHCR, World Vision and Oxfam to help improve the -quality of life for children in war and disaster zones.
Shaune Watts COMMUNITY SHAUNE Watts has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Leukemia Foundation and Mater Little Miracles after his third child Noah was born at 30 weeks. "It was one of those places, the neotnatal unit, that you don't know what they do until you see it. It was pretty easy for me to support the little bubs."
Casey Lyons PEOPLE'S CHOICE AFTER his best mate since primary school took his own life in 2013, Gold Coast carpenter Casey Lyons picked himself up and started youth suicide prevention charity LIVIN, along with friend Sam Webb.
The charity produces exercise gear to spread messages such as "It Ain't Weak to Speak" and he's convinced surf champions Kelly Slater, Joel Parkinson and Stephanie Gilmore to sign surfboards to auction.
Casey says young men often feel as though they cannot say how they are feeling and avoid dealing with mental health issues.
"They don't want people to think of them as having any problems," he said. While working full time, he finds time to pack merchandise orders and go to events and seminars most weekends and attend the funerals of young men around Australia.
Peter Hackwood, Nathan Thompson, Jake Sullivan, Clinten McCarthy, Adam Pearson HEROISMCHARLEVILLE police officer Adam Pearson (inset) and firefighters Jake Sullivan, Clinten McCarthy, Peter Hackwood and Nathan Thompson survived a massive explosion of a truck carrying ammonium nitrate. Despite massive dangers, they saved the severely injured truck driver. They were last night presented with the Heroism Medal in the Queensland Pride of Australia Awards.