Resilient Australia Awards 2025

Submissions are now open for the 2025 Resilient Australia Awards

The Resilient Australia Awards celebrate and promote initiatives that build whole of community resilience to disasters and emergencies around Australia as well as capture and share examples of resilience in action. The awards recognise collaboration and innovative thinking across a broad range of sectors and initiatives that strengthen disaster resilience with communities, institutions, and the private sector. Innovative models and approaches that create sustainable change are highly regarded.

Resilient Australia Awards 2025 Guidelines.

Submissions for the 2025 awards program must relate to projects or initiatives that commenced after 1 January 2023 or demonstrate significant outcomes or enhancements since 1 January 2023

Key Dates

Tuesday 11 March 2025
Submissions open

Tuesday 3 June 2025
Submissions for jurisdictional award categories close

13 June – 27 June 2025
People's Choice voting: Resilient Australia Photography Award

16 June - 14 July 2025
State and territory judging period

Friday 18 July 2025
Submissions for National Research for Impact Award close

14 July - 30 September 2025
State and territory award ceremonies

25 July- 30 September 2025
National Judging Period

18 November - 2 December 2025
National Resilient Australia Awards Ceremony

Submission Portal