Fellow at Centre for Public Christianity. He is also Chair of the Community Council of Australia and an Advocate for the Alliance for Gambling Reform. Awards and honours Costello received the Victorian of the Year award in July 2004 in recognition of his public and community service. He was made an officer of the Order of Australia in June 2005 and was the Victorian nominee for the Australian of the Year award in 2006. He is the 2008 winner of the Australian Peace Prize awarded by the Peace Organisation of Australia. He is also listed by the National Trust as a "National Living Treasure". In 2008, Costello received an honorary doctorate from the Australian Catholic University in recognition of "his contributions to religious life and social justice". Publications Costello, Tim; Riddell, Michael; Gill, Athol; Nichols, Alan; U'ren, John; Duncan, Michael; Corney, Peter; Ministry in an Urban World: Responding to the City, Acorn Press, ACT, 1991, Costello, Tim, Streets of Hope: Finding God in St Kilda Allen & Unwin, 1997, Costello, Tim, Tips from a Travelling Soul Searcher Allen & Unwin, 1999, Costello, Tim and Millar, Royce, Wanna Bet? Winners and Losers in Gambling's Luck Myth, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2000. Costello, Tim and Yule, Rod, Another Way to Love, Acorn Press, 2009, Costello, Tim, Hope, Hardie Grant Books, 2012, Costello, Tim, Faith: Embracing Life in all its Uncertainty, Hardie Grant Books, 2017, Costello, Tim, A Lot with a Little, Hardie Grant Books, 2019, References External links Monash University alumni webpage World Vision CEO profile Profile at ICMI 1955 births 21st-century Australian Baptist ministers Australian republicans Delegates to the Australian Constitutional Convention 1998 Gun control advocates Living people Monash Law School alumni Officers of the Order of Australia People educated at Carey Baptist Grammar School Religious leaders from Melbourne 20th-century Australian Baptist ministers