2024 GOLDEN WATTLE AWARD
Call for nominations for the Golden Wattle Award
Nominations are now open for the 2024 Golden Wattle Award.
In no more than 250 words please say why this Australian, or Australians, deserve recognition for their work or actions that express the best of the Australian character and values.
Nominations are to be submitted to the President wattleday.president@gmail.com by 5 pm Friday 16 August 2024.
This is an honorary award that began in 2011. For more information about criteria for selection and previous Golden Wattle Award winners.
Please note that the Wattle Day Committee’s decision is final. The winner will be announced on National Wattle Day (Sunday 1 September 2024).
Previous recipients of this award include humanitarian Vanessa Alexander (2023), the Lismore NSW community (2022), Olympic swimming champion, Emma McKeon (2021), tennis greats Ashleigh Barty and Dylan Alcott, (2019), Craig Challen and Richard Harris, underwater rescuers of the young Thai soccer team (2018), Samuel Johnson and his sister, Connie (2017), Melbourne Cup winning jockey Michelle Payne and her champion strapper brother, Steve (2016) and surfers Julian Wilson & Mick Fanning (2015).