Models posing next to a suitcase containing AU$1 million (€697,334) as businessman Dick Smith announced the details of his Wilberforce Award to the media in Sydney, Australia, yesterday. Mr Smith will be looking around the world over the next 12 months for candidates under 30 who can impress him by becoming famous through his or her ability to show leadership in communicating to Australians an alternative to their consumption growth-obsessed economy.

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