In 2010 at age 13 Madeleine Madden became the first teenager in Australia to deliver an address to the nation, when she delivered a two-minute speech on the Future of Indigenous Australians. It was broadcast to 6 million viewers on every free-to-air television network in Australia. She said she grew up in a very political family, and she is the great-granddaughter of Hetty Perkins, the granddaughter of Charles Perkins, and the daughter of Hetti Perkins.
