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Australian Community Person Of The Year

The Australian Community Person of the Year is among the two most prestigious Australian Surrogacy and Donor Award recognitions. It honours an individual who has significantly contributed or impacted the Australian surrogacy or donation community.

The nominee must be nominated and a winner of one of the state-based community person awards:

The nominee must meet the eligibility criteria to participate in the award. The Australian Surrogacy and Donor Awards aims to celebrate the contributions and impacts of people and businesses to the Australian surrogacy and donation community fairly and equitably. Each award has its eligibility criteria that must be met.

Eligibility criteria

The nominee must be nominated for and a winner of one of the state-based community person awards:

Nominees will be notified after nominations have closed to accept their nomination.

Judges will decide the finalists and winner of the award from nominee accepted nominations.

The public will vote for nominee accepted nominations on the Australian Surrogacy and Donor Awards website. Voting does not impact the finalists and winner selection process for this award. The nominee with the highest number of votes, wins the Amplifier Award.

What you need to know about judging…

  1. Nominee accepted nominations will be judged by an independent panel of judges and shortlisted as a finalist. Not all nominees will become finalists and the number of finalists will depend on the quality and quantity of the nominations.
  2. The judging of nominees, finalists and winners will be based on the information provided by the nominee in their nomination acceptance.
  3. Judges will consider each nominee’s contribution and impact to the surrogacy and donation community and will focus on advocacy, support, education, or community engagement rather than professional skill or clinical capability.
  4. Australian Surrogacy and Donor Awards reserves the right to transfer a nominee into another award category if it believes the nominee would be more appropriately assessed in that category.

Nominations open: Sunday 7 June 2026

Nominations close: Sunday 16 August 2026

Public votes open: Monday 6 September 2026

Public votes close: Thursday 8 October 2026

Finalist notification: Monday 12 October 2026

Awards event: Saturday 24 October 2026