2024 ARA Handbook
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Why enter the Awards
Key Dates for the Diary
Get Ready for the 2025 Awards
2025 ARA Awards
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The Australasian Reporting Awards were introduced in 1950 and have been held every year for the past 74 years. Entries for the 75th Awards will open on 1 October 2024.
The Awards are provided by Australasian Reporting Awards Limited, a small not-for-profit body run by volunteers. The Awards started as the Annual Report Awards to improve the quality of communication of organisations with their stakeholders in Australia. Subsequently, the Awards were renamed the Australasian Reporting Awards to include organisations in New Zealand and are now open to all organisations located in the Asia-Pacific region.
Why enter the Awards?
The ARA Awards provide an opportunity to benchmark your reporting against world best practice criteria, and against the reports of similar organisations.
Entrants benefit by finding out how good their annual report is, and most importantly, how to improve it. They can obtain constructive feedback on their report from an ARA adjudicator.
N.B. The ARA assessment focuses on the quality and completeness of the reporting about the organisation’s behaviour and performance, not on its actual behaviour and performance!
Key Dates for the Diary
1 October 2024 - Entries Open
You can either submit an entry online or by downloading a copy of the entry form and submitting it to ARA by email. Click here to learn more about how to enter.
6 December 2024 - Entries Close
You must submit an entry form by the closing date. Reports may be submitted a little later (conditions apply). Please advise ARA if your report will be delayed.
31 January 2025 - Entries close for 31 December 2024 year-end reports
Entries must be submitted by 31 January 2025 and the report URL must be received by ARA no later than Wednesday, 5 March 2025.
March 2025 - Judging Process
The ARA judging process will commence in December 2024 and close in mid-March 2025.
April 2025 - Results Advised
All entrants will be advised their results by email ‘in confidence’ early in April. Details of the gala Dinner to publicly announce the results and present the Awards will be included in the email.
75th ARA Awards Presentation Dinner - Melbourne Thursday, 29 May 2025
A gala ’Diamond Jubilee’ Awards Presentation Dinner will be held at The Crown Towers Hotel in Melbourne on 29 May 2025 to celebrate 75 years of recognising ‘excellence in reporting’. Further details will be advised via the Activities page in due course.
Click here to view a photo gallery from the 2024 events.
ARA Annual Seminar on Reporting - Melbourne Friday, 30 May 2025
The annual ARA Seminar on Reporting will be held on the day following the Awards Presentation Dinner, at The Crown Promenade Hotel.
The Seminar will include sessions on what is happening in annual reporting, and practical ‘how to’ sessions on how to prepare an effective annual report.
Get feedback on your Annual Report - April-July 2025
Feedback Sessions will be available from soon after entrants have been advised their results ‘in confidence’ until 31 July. Visit the ARA website for more information.
