the Victorian of the Year award in 2005 at age 96. In 2009, the main performance venue of the Melbourne Recital Centre was named in her honour. In 2010, Geelong Grammar School completed a new girls' boarding house named in her honour. In January 2007, aged 97 years and 11 months, Murdoch surpassed Dame Alice Chisholm as Australia's longest-lived dame. Patronage Murdoch was a patron of the Australian Family Association. Death On 5 December 2012, Murdoch died in her sleep at Cruden Farm, Langwarrin, Victoria, at the age of 103. References External links Enough Rope interview in June 2008 Tapestry portrait of Dame Elisabeth Murdoch at the National Portrait Gallery Cruden Farm website 1909 births 2012 deaths Australian centenarians Australian Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire Australian humanitarians Women humanitarians Australian monarchists Australian people of English descent Australian people of Irish descent Australian people of Scottish descent Companions of the Order of Australia Elisabeth Australian women philanthropists Australian philanthropists Philanthropists from Melbourne Women centenarians 20th-century philanthropists 21st-century philanthropists 20th-century women philanthropists 21st-century women philanthropists People educated at St Catherine's School, Melbourne