Australia Post continues its commitment to excellence in corporate citizenship by sponsoring projects, events and community-based organisations throughout the nation. These culminate in our Australian Legends Award announced every Australia Day. The Australian Legend for 2001 was Slim Dusty.
Examples of the range of Post’s sponsorships, large and small, from the city to the outback, are as follows.


Arts

The Sydney Festival; the Brisbane Festival; Melbourne Theatre Company; Perth’s Black Swan Theatre Company; Canberra’s Multicultural Festival; the Tamworth Country Music Festival; the Wangaratta Jazz Festival; Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra; the Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Awards; the QUT Art Museum.


Health

The Royal Australasian College of Physicians Medical Research Fellowship for melanoma research; Breast Cancer Network of Australia; the Anti Cancer Council of Victoria; Brisbane’s “5Ks for Kids” walkathon for child health.


Education

The Chair in Direct Marketing, Monash University, Victoria; Jumbunna, the magazine of the Brisbane School of Distance Education.


Business

Regional Exporter of the Year Awards; Business in the Community Business Enterprise Centres in South Australia and Western Australia; Small Business Month (held annually each May); New South Wales Chamber of Commerce; The Australian Darvos Connection of the World Economic Forum.


Rural

The Royal Hobart Show; Western Australia’s Royal Agricultural Society’s Rural Youth Ambassador Scheme; Queensland’s Bush Spirit Award (a “Tidy Towns” award); the Wings support group website for breast cancer sufferers in remote locations; Queensland Surf Lifesaving’s Beach to Bush program; the Brisbane Broncos outback junior rugby coaching tour.


Sport

The Paralympians 2000 Awards Night; the National Aboriginal Sports Corporation; the Hobart Chargers Basketball Team; Adelaide’s Football Park Pavilion; Adelaide’s Wheelchair Sports Association; the WA Surf Life Saving Association; Victoria’s Stawell Gift; Queensland Youth Cricket.

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