Commonwealth Awards for Excellence in Risk Management 2025

The Commonwealth Awards for Excellence in Risk Management recognise leading and proven risk management systems, practices and activities across the Australian Government.

This year, the Awards event is on 2 December 2025 at the National Museum of Australia.

Showcasing and sharing the design and delivery of different risk management programs can inspire and help Commonwealth entities to:

  • enhance risk maturity
  • improve decision making
  • promote innovation and continuous improvement
  • provide working examples of good risk management
  • understand the benefits of managing shared risk well.

Nominations

Nominations will be open from 21 July to 15 September 2025.

All Commonwealth entities are eligible to nominate in one or more of the following categories:

  • Enterprise-wide: for excellence in developing, implementing and/or embedding an entity’s risk management framework, practice and/or process.
  • Risk initiative: for excellence in risk management demonstrated by a specific program, project or service delivery initiative.
  • Risk in focus: each year this category focuses on a different area of risk management. This year the category focus is on Resilience in Action.

To submit a nomination, or for more information, contact the team at riskawards@finance.gov.au

Key dates

Nominations openMonday 21 July 2025
Nominations closeMonday 15 September 2025
Shortlisted presentations to judging panel20-24 October 2025
Awards ceremony and eventTuesday 2 December 2025

Past winners and additional resources

Profiles and case studies of past Award winners are available here: 


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