Two Greek Australian siblings have scored the top prize in a national design competition aimed at fighting food waste.
Fourteen-year-old student journalist and cartoonist Madison Eve won the secondary category of the Fight Food Waste national design competition while 11-year-old sibling Alexandra won the primary prize.
Their winning designs will feature on limited-edition OzHarvest Use It Up tape, which will be distributed to schools across Australia in 2026.
“Creating for a cause is a passion of mine so I wanted to come up with a fun and eye-catching design that would inspire others to join the fight against food waste,” Madison Eve said.
Madison Eve created a superhero broccoli character for her winning design while Alexandra created a series of vibrant and playful fruit and vegetable characters and shared the food-related message: “Save It. Use It. Share It.”
OzHarvest founder Ronni Kahn and ABC television presenters Craig Reucassel and Costa Georgiadis selected the winning designs from hundreds of entries from students across Australia.
“It’s bright, it’s bold and it’s awesome,” Mr Georgiadis said of Alexandra’s design.
Alexandra said utilising the Use It Up tape to mark food that needed to be used in the fridge and pantry was a simple step that anyone could take to help fight food waste.
Sibling George, who also participated in the Fight Food Waste national design competition, said he was inspired by OzHarvest’s mission.
“It’s sad to think of food going to waste when so many people are going hungry,” George said.
“OzHarvest does an amazing job of rescuing food that might otherwise go to waste and helping people in need.”
Madison Eve was recently named the winner of Edstart’s Achievement Awards Program (Visual and Perfoming Arts category). She was also invited to speak at Parliament House as part of the Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare’s art exhibition where she spoke about the importance of family and her Hellenic heritage.
