Australian Competitions Club

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NAIDOC week 2011


Entrants must be of Aboriginal or TSI descent



Poster Competition entry form
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists are invited to submit artworks for the
National NAIDOC Poster Competition 2011.
ENTER ONLINE AT WWW.NAIDOC.ORG.AU
Would you like to see your artwork become the 2011 National NAIDOC Poster?
The National NAIDOC Poster Competition is a chance for talented Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
artists to be recognised across Australia.
The winning artwork will be used to create 100,000 copies of the 2011 National NAIDOC Poster which
will help promote NAIDOC Week 2011. The winning artwork will also collect a $5,000 cash prize.
Your artwork must reflect this year’s National NAIDOC Theme. This year’s theme is about taking
responsibility for our future. To control the change we need to plan and take action to make it
happen. It’s our future – Change: the next step is ours.
All entries must be accompanied by this signed form and be received by close of business
Friday 1 April 2011.


Terms and Conditions
By completing and submitting the 2011 National NAIDOC Poster
Competition Entry Form, each participating artist agrees to be
bound by the following terms and conditions of entry:
1 The artwork must reflect the 2011 NAIDOC theme –
Change: the next step is ours.
2 All participating artists must be of Aboriginal and/or
Torres Strait Islander descent. The artist must be an individual.
No group entries will be accepted.
3 The artworks are judged by the National NAIDOC Committee.
Chance plays no part in selecting the winner.
4 The artist may submit only one artwork (entry) in any of the
following four ways only:
• By submitting a completed Entry Form via e-mail to
info@naidoc.org.au and attaching to the email a digital photo
or subsequently posting a print/image (at the applicant’s own
expense and risk) to:
Indigenous Communications FaHCSIA
National NAIDOC Poster Competition
PO Box 7576 Canberra Business Centre, ACT 2610
• By submitting a completed Entry Form online via
http://www.naidoc.org.au/ attaching an image of the artwork
or subsequently posting a print/image to the above address
at the applicant’s own expense and risk.
• By submitting a completed Entry Form via registered post
with a print/image to the above address at the applicant’s
own expense and risk.
• By submitting a completed Entry Form via registered post
with the original artwork at the applicant’s own expense
and risk.
5 The artist acknowledges that their artwork may be copied or
reproduced for the purposes of judging the competition. If a
photo version of the artwork is short listed by the judging panel,
the artist will be required to mail in their artwork at their own
expense and risk for judges to make a final decision.
6 The Commonwealth of Australia (the Commonwealth)
as represented by the Department of Families, Housing,
Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA),
accepts no responsibility and disclaims all, or any, liability for
any loss or damage incurred by any person, whether directly
or indirectly, as a result of postage, delivery or handling
of original artwork. The artist must pay return postage or
freight costs and the Commonwealth as represented by the
Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and
Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) will return entries only if prepaid
postage or freight is forwarded with the entry. Entries not
otherwise collected by 1st September 2011 will be disposed
of at the Commonwealth’s discretion.
7 A completed Entry Form signed by each artist must accompany
the artwork to indicate agreement to these terms and conditions.
8 All participating artists warrant that they are over the age of
18, that the artwork submitted is original work, the artwork
submitted has not been the recipient of a major prize before
and that they have not charged or otherwise encumbered the
work nor given any assignment inconsistent with these terms
and conditions. Where an artist is under the age of 18, the artist’s
adult parent/guardian must complete the Entry Form by stating
their own name on behalf of the name of the artist to indicate
their agreement with these terms and conditions on behalf of
the artist.
9 All participating artists undertake to indemnify and keep
indemnified the Commonwealth as represented by the
Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and
Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) against all claims, demands,
losses and damages that the Commonwealth as represented
by the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services
and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) incurs as a result of a breach
of any warranties and obligations given by Entrants under
these terms and conditions.
10 Artwork should be no larger than A1 (594mm x 841mm)
and should not be framed or mounted behind glass.
11 An award of $5,000 will be offered to the winning Entrant.
All entries will be viewed and judged by the National NAIDOC
Committee. The decision of the judges will be final and
absolute. No correspondence about the decision will be
entered into.
12 Property rights in all submissions, including the winning art
work, will remain with the artist or Entrant except as provided
13 By signing a completed Entry Form, submitting an art work
and accepting the award offer, the winning artist:
• grants to the Commonwealth as represented by the
Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and
Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA), a permanent, royalty-free,
worldwide, irrevocable, ongoing, non-exclusive licence
(including a right of sub-licence) to use, reproduce,
communicate, broadcast, publish, distribute, adapt, modify
the winning art work in all media of expression now
known or later developed and in all languages, for any
Commonwealth purpose or any other purposes associated
with National NAIDOC events and other Indigenous
engagement initiatives, including but not limited to,
reproducing and publishing the winning entry of the
official 2011 National NAIDOC Poster, or for any other event,
educational purpose or activity;
• consents to any of the following types of acts or omissions
by the Commonwealth: (a) use of all or part of the art work
in accordance with the licence granted above, with or without
attribution of authorship to the artist (but the Commonwealth
will not falsely attribute authorship of the entry); (b)
supplementing the art work with any other material; and (c)
use of the art work in a different context to that originally
envisaged;
• may be requested to physically sign a licence and consent
form relating to the art work, prior to the competition being
finalised. Failure to sign the licence will entitle FaHCSIA to
remove the artist’s art work from the competition.
• agrees that the Commonwealth as represented by the
Department of Families, Housing, Community Services
and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) may publish, on the 2011
National NAIDOC Poster and in any other material in which
the art work is used or reproduced, any personal information
provided by the winning artist in connection with their
entry including, but not limited to, the winning artist’s name,
age, community and State/Territory of residence; and
• warrants that there is no cultural or religious reason or any
other impediment that prevents the winning artwork from
being exhibited, published or reproduced.
14 Requests for permission to reproduce the National NAIDOC
Poster should be directed to the Commonwealth c/-
Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and
Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) Indigenous Communications
FaHCSIA NAIDOC Poster Competition PO Box 7576
Canberra Business Centre ACT 2610. Any reproduction must
acknowledge the original artist of the winning artwork and
the National Aboriginal Islander Day of Celebration (NAIDOC).
Any reproduction of the National NAIDOC Poster must be in
full; permission for partial reproductions of the artwork will
not be granted.
15 All entries must be received by close of business Friday 1 April 2011.
16 The Department of Families, Housing, Community Services
and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) may amend these terms and
conditions from time to time, and any amendments will be
binding on all entrants. If, for any reason, the competition is not
able to be run as planned FaHCSIA may cancel the Competition
without liability to any entrant, or any other person.
17 The Department of Families, Housing, Community Services
and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA), Indigenous Communications
FaHCSIA NAIDOC Poster Competition PO Box 7576 Canberra
Business Centre ACT 2610 is the Promoter of this Competition.
All entries should be forwarded to:
Indigenous Communications FaHCSIA
National NAIDOC Poster Competition
PO Box 7576
Canberra Business Centre ACT 2610
or enter online at: www.naidoc.org.au
This form and more NAIDOC information is
available online at www.naidoc.org.au
Poster entries close Friday 1 April 2011.