Jonty Bush

Bush won the 2009 Young Australian of the Year Award.

In 2000, Bush joined the Queensland Homicide Victims Support Group as a volunteer after the deaths of her father and sister to violence. During her time with the company, Bush was promoted to chief executive officer in 2007 and initiated an anti-violence campaign called One Punch Can Kill. In 2012, Bush started Project 24, which focuses on fundraising for agencies that specialize in gender-based violence prevention. In 2009, Bush moved to Brisbane and worked in youth violence prevention. The following year, Bush created a website on anti-violence awareness. Outside of advocacy, Bush was a member of the Queensland Sentencing Advisory Council from 2010 to 2012. From June 2015 to June 2016, Bush worked on creating an online service called Kintsugi Centre that connects Australians who are experiencing trauma with psychotherapists. In 2018, Bush joined the Office of the Public Guardian as a visiting director for Queensland.

Jonty Bush (born 1979) is the visiting director of the Office of the Public Guardian in Queensland, Australia since 2018. Before joining the Public Guardian, Bush started working with the Queensland Homicide Victims Support Group as a volunteer in 2000 before becoming the group's Chief Executive Officer in 2007. Bush was awarded the 2009 Young Australian of the Year Award and was a member of the Queensland Sentencing Advisory Council between 2010 and 2012.

In 1979, Bush was born in Queensland, Australia. She attended Sunshine Coast University to earn a bachelor's degree in business and graduated from Griffith University with a criminology master's degree.