Zoe Bush set up a support group for young people suffering from eating disorders when she was just 14 and has been awarded the Ciara Glennon Memorial Scholarship. She also co-founded The Bridges Foundation, a support group for young people suffering from eating disorders. She was awarded the Linda Cotton Memorial Scholarship in 2014 which allowed her to carry out research for the Yawuru people, native title holders of Broome, into the use of social investment bonds in the post-native title landscape to achieve change in criminal law. Ms Bush has also been the vice president of the Feminist Action Network, Women’s Officer of the National Union of Students West, and president of the Refugee Rights Action Network (UWA). She has been appointed the 2016 associate to Justice Michael Barker of the Federal Court of Australia and has contributed to recommendations for law reform in Amnesty International’s Report on indigenous Youth Justice in WA.
