Deadline: 24-Jun-22
Nominations for 2023 Telstra Best of Business Awards are now open.
Award Categories
- Accelerating Women: For businesses actively challenging exclusion and inequality to create meaningful and lasting equity for women.
- Building Communities: For businesses working to make a positive impact on culture and society so people from all walks of life can thrive as part of a supportive community.
- Championing Health: For businesses focused on innovative solutions, improving health outcomes for every Australian.
- Embracing Innovation: For businesses innovating with technology to develop solutions for challenges faced by modern Australia.
- Indigenous Excellence: For Indigenous-led, owned and operated businesses succeeding through entrepreneurialism, innovation and inspiring the next generation of all Australians.
- Outstanding Growth: For businesses achieving significant growth and contributing to building a more resilient Australian economy.
- Promoting Sustainability: For businesses reducing their environmental impact by driving sustainable change within their industry for a cleaner and healthier planet.
Eligibility Criteria
- You can nominate any business you believe is making a difference and deserves recognition – even your own.
- The business must:
- Reside in Australia
- Have a registered Australian Business Number (ABN)
- Have been operating in Australia for at least 12 months at the time you submit your Stage 1 entry
- Be more than 60% Australian-owned, with the owner(s)/founder(s) responsible for making the key management decisions
- Be a small-to-medium business that’s a sole trader, partnership, incorporated, NFP, social enterprise or franchise whose franchisor is 60% Australian owned and not a listed company
- Earn more than $50,000 in annual revenue
- Have under 200 full-time equivalent staff at the time you submit your Stage 1 entry
- Operate in an ethical manner with suppliers, distributors and contractors
Conditions of Entry
- A business may not enter the awards if a staff member or owner has applied to be a Judge in the same awards program year.
- When requested, business financials must be supplied. All financials will remain confidential and will not be shared or used outside the purposes of judging the business’ performance, success and viability.
Ineligible
The business must not:
- Be a listed company, franchisor, a club, co-operative, or a Telstra licensee
- Be affiliated with Telstra through investments, donation or reselling
- Be more than 50% owned by another business
- Be a government agency
- Have filed for bankruptcy in the prior 5 years or been subject to court proceedings in the prior 12 months – including in the business owner or founder’s personal capacity – at the time you submit your Stage 1 entry
- Be a recipient of significant ongoing government funding (excluding temporary government relief or support packages, such as Jobkeeper or disaster recovery)
- Have been a contracted commercial supplier of Telstra in the last 3 years
- Enter the same category where the business has previously won at State or National level at the Telstra Best of the Business Awards in the past 3 years
- Have a staff member that has been a State or National Judge in the Telstra Best of Business Awards for any category in the past 3 years
For more information, visit https://telstrabestofbusinessawards.com/