Deadline: 18-Nov-22
The District Council of Grant is now accepting nominations for its Australia Day Citizen of the Year Awards.
The Awards are provided by the Australia Day Council of South Australia and are administered by Local Government Authorities throughout the State on behalf of the Council.
Categories
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The Australia Day Citizen of the Year Awards gives the opportunity to recognise someone who makes a difference in their community across 4 major categories:
- Australia Day Citizen of the Year Award: The most outstanding Citizen for the local government authority
- Australia Day Young Citizen Award: The most outstanding Young Citizen for the local government authority
- The Community Event of the Year Award: The person or group who has staged the most outstanding community event during the year
- Award for Active Citizenship: A person or group delivering outstanding work or for an event or cause, staged in the community during the past year
Eligibility Criteria
- Nominees must be Australian citizens (except for Award for Active Citizenship)
- Awards will not be granted posthumously
- Self-nominations will not be accepted – except for Community Event of the Year
- Nominees must be at least 16 years of age in the year of the award presentation
- Nominees for the category of Young Citizen of the Year must be 30 years of age or less on 26 January in the year of the award presentation
- Sitting state and federal politicians, current vice-regal officers and current elected members of council are not eligible
- Retired politicians, elected members and vice-regal officers will be considered for work undertaken in addition to their official duties
- Unsuccessful nominees may be re-nominated in subsequent years
- Groups of people, organisations or couples will not normally be eligible for Citizen of the Year and Young Citizen of the Year, though in exceptional cases the selection panels reserve the right to consider such nominations.
- Both individuals and organisations should be considered for the Community Event of the Year as this recognises the organising body or committee responsible for the event
- Absolutely NO weight is given to the number of times a person or organisation is nominated
- Previous recipients of the award categories may receive the award in the future however the work that this person or organisation made in receiving the original award may not be considered.
- Councils may choose to re-submit nominations that do not receive an award for future consideration in subsequent years of the program
For more information, visit District Council of Grant.
For more information, visit https://www.dcgrant.sa.gov.au/community/australiaday