To emulate the character, the 11-year-old had to tie up her hair – and it was the first time she’s been able to do so since undergoing treatment for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia.

Rosie received the all-clear to go home to Tarrawingee at the end of last year, after being diagnosed in April 2017.

Her dad, Travis, said this year has been a mostly positive one, with his daughter kicking numerous goals including being back at school.

“It’s been a long journey to this point, and this year has been fairly tough in that she’s getting back to reality – life, school, and all those things normal kids do and it’s not been without some hurdles too,” he said.

“Monthly she goes to the Albury-Wodonga Regional Cancer Centre, where they have qualified paediatric cancer nurses who deliver her treatment and they link up with the specialist consultant at the Royal Children’s Hospital.

“Every three months we go to RCH and if we couldn’t go to Albury, we’d be travelling there monthly – we’re lucky.

“She’s been able to participate in school sports and send more time outdoors.

“She’s so much happier.”

Rosie was able to return a favour to Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton when his walk for mental health brought him to Wangaratta last month – greeting him with some homemade apricot slice after the policeman gifted her a police dog toy in hospital the year prior.

She will be dropping into the Wangaratta McDonald's today for McHappy Day, after spending much of last year at Ronald McDonald House with her dad.

“With Rosie’s condition, particularly with her having moyamoya disease, we could need to stay at RCH at any time – moyamoya never goes away and Rosie has significant risk of stroke going forward throughout the rest of her life – so we’re comforted to know Ronald McDonald House is there,” Mr Carroll said.

“When we were staying in the house last year, we were in there long-term with other patients who were heart transplant recipients, children who had some severe cancers that required amputations and things like that – heartbreaking stuff to watch.

“It’s confronting for parents and children, but living in that situation you get the opportunity to support one another and when you see other people going through what you are sometimes something worse, it’s a really good leveler.”

Two dollars from every Big Mac sold today will go directly to Ronald McDonald House charities, which contributed to more than 300,000 nights of accommodation to more than 9000 families last year.