In the book, Catherine makes clear that she and Reg saw their work as one of Christian compassion for the suffering. In 2017, a Sydney Ferries Emerald-class ferry was named the ‘Catherine Hamlin’ after thousands of Australian supporters voted for her.Ĭatherine published her autobiography, co-written with Australian journalist and author John Little, The Hospital by the River: a story of hope in 2001. In 2015, Catherine received the Australian Medical Association’s President’s Award. In 2011 she was among 50 prominent Australians invited by Her Excellency the Governor-General Quentin Bryce to lunch with the Queen. In 2009, Catherine was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, sometimes referred to as the Alternate Nobel Prize. In recognition of her humanitarian work in Ethiopia she was included on the Australian Living Legends list in 2004. In 2001, the Australian Government recognised Catherine’s ‘long and outstanding service to international development in Africa’ by awarding her the Australian Centenary Medal. In 1983, Catherine was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) and in 1995 appointed to the higher rank in the Order, a Companion (AC) for ‘service to gynaecology in developing countries particularly in the field of fistula surgery and for humanitarian service to improving the health dignity and self-esteem of women in Ethiopia’.
In 1958, the Hamlins answered an advertisement in The Lancet medical journal for gynaecologists to set up a school of midwifery in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. They married in 1950 and had a son, Richard, in 1952. It was at Crown Street that she met and fell in love Dr Reginald (Reg) Hamlin. After completing internships at two Sydney hospitals, Catherine accepted a residency in obstetrics at Sydney’s highly regarded Crown Street Women’s Hospital. Following an innate desire to help women and children, she enrolled in medicine, graduating from the University of Sydney’s Medical School in 1946. Elinor Catherine Nicholson was born on January 24th, 1924 in Sydney.
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