HESTA Excellence Awards

The HESTA Excellence Awards recognise exceptional achievements in a range of settings across aged care, allied health, community services and disability services.

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Read about all the finalists and winners in the 2025 HESTA Excellence Awards

aged care | allied health | community services | disability services

A story worth celebrating...

These awards celebrate the front-line educators and carers at the very heart of Australia's early childhood education system. Nominations are now open.

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2025 Awards presentation

Winners of the 2025 HESTA Excellence Awards were announced on 7 August in Melbourne.

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Prizes

Winners will share a $60,000 prize pool.

Terms and conditions

Key dates

Nominations are now open

Nominations close: 12 April 2026 | Finalists announced: 7 July 2026 | Winners announced: 6 August 2026

2025 finalists and winners announced

2025 finalists

Aged Care

We are proud to present the finalists across the two categories of Individual Leadership and Team Excellence.

Our 2025 finalists

Allied Health

We are proud to present finalists across the two categories of Individual Leadership and Team Excellence.

Our 2025 finalists

Community Services

We are proud to present finalists across the two categories of Individual Leadership and Team Excellence.

Our 2025 finalists

Disability Services

We are proud to present finalists across the two categories of Individual Leadership and Team Excellence.

Our 2025 finalists

Read about the finalists in past HESTA Excellence Awards.

2024 finalists and winners: allied health | aged care | community services | disability services

2022 finalists and winners: allied health | aged care | community services | disability services

2021 finalists and winners: allied health | aged care | community services | disability services

2020 finalists and winners: allied health | aged care | community services | disability services

2025 Award categories

Eligible sectors

These awards are open to organisations and providers working in aged care, allied health, community services and disability services.

Terms and conditions

Individual Leadership

Recognises an individual who has demonstrated innovative and impactful leadership in delivering initiatives to enhance the health and wellbeing of individuals, families and/or communities.

Eligibility criteria

Team Excellence

Recognising teams that have developed and/or improved a product, service, process or system to enhance the health and wellbeing of individuals, families and/or communities.

Eligibility criteria

Relive the excitement of the 2025 Awards presentations

Watch the presentations

If you didn't see the live presentations, you can catch up here.
The 2025 HESTA Excellence Awards were streamed live and the recordings are available on our facebook page.

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Relive the excitement of the night as we announced the 2022 and celebrated their achievements.