COVID Safe Australia Day Program

For Australia Day 2021 the National Australia Day Council (NADC) aims to encourage celebrations to occur in a COVID safe environment. Events can be a new or existing public eventor activity, a community activity or an online engagement.

Recently Australia has faced harsh challenges –drought, floods, Black Summer bushfires and the coronavirus pandemic.On Australia Day2021 Australians will be encouraged to reflect, respect and celebrate and, more than ever, mark our nation’s resilience and the ability of Australians to rise to meet these extraordinary challenges.

These grants will support events that allow communities to come together and reflect, respect and celebrate the individual and collective efforts of Australians who put the wellbeing of others before themselves, supported their communities in a time of need and rose to the challenges of an extraordinary year.

Local, state and territory government entities, entities that are part of the Australia Day Network and Australian not for profit organisationsare eligible to apply for this grantopportunity.