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Ian Bruce Carrick Kiernan
(4 October 1940 ? 16 October 2018) was an
Australian
yachtsman
and
environmental
campaigner. He was born in
Sydney
. Kiernan was known for organising the
Clean Up Australia
campaign, and in 1993 a similar
Clean Up the World
operation. It had 30 million volunteers partake from 80 countries.
Kiernan's environmental work was awarded in 1991 when the Australian Government gave him the Medal of the
Order of Australia
(OAM).
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He was named
Australian of the Year
in 1994.
[2]
Kiernan died of
cancer
on 16 October 2018 in Sydney. He was 78.
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