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More than 770,000 Australians have completed the Duke of Edinburgh (DofE) Award - the youth awards programme Prince Philip founded in 1956 - with 40,000 taking part right now.
One of them helped by the award scheme was Sarah Yolcu from Sydney.
"I come from a really complex kind of background. I'm a young carer for four people in my family - my dad's half-deaf, my two young brothers have autism spectrum disorder and I support my mother at times as well," she said.
"As someone who's generally quite isolated in the community, the scheme allowed me to be part of something that was really, really open and really fostered my individuality and fostered the things that I wanted to get out of life."
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Peter Kaye met the duke several times in his role as chief executive the DofE Award in Australia - the first time in 1980, and most recently on the duke's last trip to Australia in 2011.
"He was dynamic, full of passion and vision, super intelligent. His ability to remember things and capacity to process knowledge was phenomenal. And with the Duke of Edinburgh Award, he was the master salesman," he said.
He said the scheme had made an immense difference to hundreds of thousands of Australians, giving them confidence, skills and often employability.
"I heard him say that if you speak to a young person, most of them give you a direct answer... so he valued his time talking to young people and he was particularly keen to ensure it was used by a diverse group of young people."
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