2025 Gladstone Region Australia Day Awards
Recognise our local heroes by nominating them for a 2025 Gladstone Region Australia Day Award!
Locally, Gladstone Regional Council hosts Australia Day Awards ceremonies to acknowledge and award members of the community who have celebrated success or gone above and beyond for our communities.
Anyone can be nominated for an award - with refreshed categories and easy to follow eligibility criteria, our everyday heroes and quiet achievers’ contributions will be recognised and celebrated.
Please review the below Award Categories before completing your nomination to ensure you are nominating in the most appropriate category.
Nominations open 8am, Tuesday 8 October until 4pm, Friday 8 November 2024.
Nominate below!
How to nominate:
It is easy, and anyone can nominate an individual, community group or event for an award. Before starting the nomination, you will need the following;
- Nominees name and contact details
- A brief explanation of why you are nominating (we recommend no more than 300 words) which includes the following:
- Examples of their positive contribution to the Gladstone Region.
- Specific examples of their positive contribution to their chosen area/s or role/s and its broader impact.
- The dates of service/period of time (if known).
- All information will be treated confidentially.
The winners will be announced at Gladstone Regional Council’s Gladstone Region Australia Day Awards ceremony at Gladstone Entertainment Convention Centre on Saturday, 25 January 2025. 5pm- 8.30pm.
Award Categories
This award recognises an individual for their outstanding contribution and/or achievement to the Gladstone Region community during the preceding year. The winner of this award will be an Australian Citizen who lives in the Gladstone Region. Community contributions and achievements may be in any area of community life, including sport and recreation, arts, events and culture, and environment and sustainability.
2024 Citizen of the Year Award Nominees:
- Alison Harrington
- Amanda Ryan
- Debra Chapman
- Jemma Manwaring
- John Hodson-Gilmore
- Kim O’Neill
- Leslie Diefenbach
- Lyndal Hansen
- Natasha Kocks
- Patricia Doherty
- Ron Streeter
- Ronald Doherty
This award recognises an individual aged 15-25 for their outstanding achievement and/or contribution to the Gladstone Region during the preceding year. The winner of this award will be an Australian Citizen who lives in the Gladstone Region. Community contributions and achievement may be in any area of community life, including sport and recreation, arts, events and culture, and environment and sustainability.
2024 Young Citizen of the Year Award Nominees:
- Abiksha Murali
- Callie McKay
- Holly Morton
- Jaz Girard
- Kasey Pfeiffer
- Kayla Chapman
- Rommiel Lorey Malig
- Sidney Crawshaw
This award recognises the outstanding achievement by an individual or group that has made a significant contribution towards the sporting or recreational achievements of the Gladstone Region in the preceding year, including official coaching, sports officials, management and administration of sport and recreation activities.
2024 Sport and Recreation Award Nominees:
- Katrina McDonald
- Jack Smith
- Kylie Cameron
- Molly Black
- Rebecca Desertiaux
- William (Bill) Webb
This award recognises the outstanding achievement by an individual or group (aged 15-25) that has made a significant contribution towards the sporting or recreational achievements of the Gladstone Region in the preceding year, including official coaching, sports officials, management and administration of sport and recreation activities.
2024 Young Peoples Sport and Recreation Award Nominees:
- Ethan Sharpe
- Felicity Webb
- Hayden Tabone
- Kayden Gibson
- Linzi McBean
- Milly Sharpe
- Sidney Crawshaw
- Talon Egan
- Tom Crawshaw
- William (Billy) Price
This award recognises the significant achievement and dedication by an individual or group who produces and promotes outstanding creative work in the Gladstone Region in the preceding year.
2024 Arts and Culture Award Nominees:
- Ann Hooper
- Jennifer Ryan
- Kerry Birt
- Leslie Gordon Lister (Waraba)
This award recognises the outstanding achievement by an individual or group that have delivered community events that generate civic pride and connect our community.
2024 Community Event Award Nominees:
- Anglican Church Gladstone – Food Centre & Rays Soup Kitchen
- Cancer Council QLD - Biggest Morning Tea
- Gladstone Combined Services - Combined Services Gladstone Touch Football Day
- Integreat Queensland - The Flourish Festival
- Tannum Sands Surf Life Saving Club - Rip Awareness Session
- Turkey Beach Progress Association - Turkey Beach 50th Birthday Bash
This award recognises the outstanding dedication and contribution by an individual to one or more areas of the Gladstone Region in the preceding year by demonstrating voluntary service, expertise and community leadership that has led to the enhancement of the activity and/or region.
2024 Community Volunteer Award Nominees:
- Alahnie Rozycki
- Alan McKay
- Alison Harrington
- Chloe Sydes
- Daniel Trainer
- Dennis Fairbrother
- Emma Roulston
- Graham McVean
- Helen Randall
- Isla Osmond
- Jakob Humphries
- Jeffrey Wilkinson
- Jessica Toms
- Josephine Meng
- Lisa Edwards
- Nicole Allison
- Patricia Doherty
- Rachel Smith
- Rommiel Lorey Malig
- Ronald Doherty
- Tayla Bullen
