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The Excitement Begins!

Training Award winners have been announced across 3 of our 8 states and territories over the past couple of weeks.  With our remaining states and territories due to announce their winners across the month of October, the excitement is now building for the national 2020 Australian Training Awards taking place in Melbourne on Friday 20 November 2020. There are 18 categories presented, nine are for individual awards and nine are for business and registered training organisation awards.

• 11 of the 18 awards categories are entered to the Australian Training Awards through the state and territory training awards process with winners from each state and territory becoming eligible to compete at the national level in aligned categories.
• 7 of the 18 award categories are available by entering directly to the Australian Training Awards via the online nomination portal. 

Winners announced so far include:

• Australian Capital Territory winners - announced 18 September 2020
• Queensland winners - announced on 18 September 2020
• Northern Territory winners - announced 20 September 2020.

Other states will announce their winners soon and you can access further information using the links below:

• Western Australian winners - to be announced 6 October 2020.
• Tasmanian winners - to be announced on 9 October 2020 at a presentation event taking place in Hobart.
• New South Wales winners - will be announcing their first ever People's Choice Awards during a live online event on 9 October 2020 (voting closes on 28 September 2020).  
• Victorian winners- to be announced at an awards ceremony to be held via their 2020 Virtual Events Series hosted online via social media channels e.g. facebook, linkedin and twitter, between end-October and mid-November.

South Australian Training Awards presented by the Training and Skills Commission, were due to celebrate their Silver Jubilee this year, however, due to the impact that the outbreak of COVID-19 has had on the South Australian community, these celebrations have been postponed until 2021.  The Commission will continue to support high-quality applicants to represent the state at the 2020 Australian Training Awards (ATA).   Further information can be accessed here.

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Date posted Sep 24, 2020