ABOUT THE Bob Hawke Landcare Award
Nominations for the 2025 Bob Hawke Award are open Monday 19 August and close on Saturday 31 December, 2024.
The Bob Hawke Landcare Award is a prestigious national award that publicly recognises an individual, group or organisation that has been involved in championing landcare and inspiring others to take action on their property or in their community. The award acknowledges the remarkable commitment to caring for the land with improved sustainable land management practices, and promotional efforts to share their knowledge with others.
The Bob Hawke Landcare Award accepts nominations from individuals, groups or organisations who have demonstrated leadership and a commitment to natural resource management and sustainable land management practices through:
- actively shaping and guiding innovative farming systems to improve sustainability and the quality of ecosystem services
- encouraging action and championing the uptake of more sustainable agriculture practices among landholders, farmers and primary producers
- creating awareness of the benefits of landcare to actively caring for the land
- mentoring and/or inspiring others to adopt best practice conservation land management practices to restore, enhance and protect the natural environment
- demonstrating an outstanding commitment to responding to environmental challenges into actionable, community-led solutions for biodiversity conservation, supporting threatened species and/or improved sustainable agriculture.
The Bob Hawke Landcare Award recipient will be awarded a grant package to the value of $30,000 (ex GST) for further development of their knowledge and skills in sustainable land management to enable an even stronger contribution to landcare.
The award recipient will be required to submit a project proposal in 300 words or less outlining how they plan to spend the $30,000 (ex GST) grant money to champion landcare and share knowledge about sustainable agriculture practices with others including landholders, farmers and communities.
To be eligible for the award, nominees must be actively involved in landcare, natural resource management and sustainable agriculture.
All award nominations will be assessed by an independent Advisory Panel. Members of the Advisory Panel have been selected due to their experience in landcare, sustainable farming practices, natural resource management and First Nations perspectives.
If selected for the short list by the Advisory Panel, nominees will be contacted via phone and interviewed with the following questions:
- What are the key messages you would like to convey to media and promotional activity, including events and speeches?
- What issues concern you, that if selected as a winner, you would like to communicate.
- If selected as a winner, what will your priorities be?
The winner will be determined by the Advisory Panel who will provide a recommendation to the Minister for Agriculture who will announce the winner at the 2025 National Landcare Awards.
Following is useful information for the 2025 Bob Hawke Landcare Award:
For the 2025 Bob Hawke Landcare Award Criteria please read here.
For the 2025 Frequently Asked Questions please read here.
For the 2025 Bob Hawke Landcare Award nomination form questions please read here.
For the 2025 Entry Rules and Terms of Conditions please read here.