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Peace campaigner Dr Gill Hicks MBE, Australian of the Year 2015 for South Australia shares the story behind the briefcase she was carrying when a suicide bomber detonated his device beside her on a London tube train. Gill is a peace campaigner whose work concentrates on ending violent extremism and building global sustainable peace. Gill chose her briefcase and its contents to symbolise the end of her life as she knew it, for the Australian of the Year exhibition at the National Museum of Australia: http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/2015_australian_of_the_year_awards/dr_gill_hicks_mbe