Where have all the awards gone?  Yes [Kylie Ahern](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAADSNMsBsfe2S3G6EGObxosOf36c0md8NTU). I would agree that Australia has a reputation for not celebrating success - but to be fair, we do have various state and national awards. Unfortunately, it would appear that many of these awards are quickly forgotten and erased from history (the Internet). Back in 2013, I had the great fortune to be a member of the Zebedee team that won a number of innovation awards: including the iAward and Eureka award. These were fun and important events - where I felt the acknowledgement from the wider Australian community.  After reading Kylie's article I wanted to demonstrate that there are occasions when we do celebrate, so I decided to go out and find evidence of my awards. Only to find that they were no longer hosted on the institution's website. Of course, there were a few old media releases from 3rd party organisations, but this is not solid evidence of an award. Whilst it is important that success be celebrated, it is equally important that success (and ideas) be remembered. I like to call this #innovation/Provenance is something that Australia does not do very well - as a country we appear to have corporate amnesia - I assume that this plays into our short-term political cycle. We ignore the past so that everything can be shiny and new again. So rather than complain about the status quo, I have started a campaign to update the Wikipedia entries.  Firstly I have updated the Wikipedia entry for the list:  [List of general science and technology awards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_general_science_and_technology_awards) I then updated the [Wikipedia entry for the Eureka Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Prizes) And I have started a new iAwards Wiki page:   And perhaps someone could create a new page for EAEA I'm not sure if this is the best way to proceed, but it is a start. If you are able to add some additional content or references that would be very helpful. PS. I had the same problem with the CSIRO awards that we won in 2014. It kept disappearing off the main CSIRO page. Eventually, it was recorded in CSIROpedia. [CSIRO Entrepreneurship Award](https://csiropedia.csiro.au/csiro-entrepreneurship-award/) Thanks to Colin Ward for making such an important website. Awards are #innovation/infrastructure ## Comment “Last year’s Summer Olympics and this year’s Winter Olympics are perfect illustrations of this fact. We are no strangers to celebrating these victories and the names of our greatest sporting heroes are woven into the fabric of our national identity and I think this is a fantastic Aussie trait. “But imagine for a moment if we applied that same approach to setting the agenda for our economy and for our business leaders, for the decades to come. If we looked across our modern workforce and identified areas where we could punch above our weight and believe that we could win. “One area which will define our future economic prosperity, I believe, is seizing the [opportunity of our innate technology leadership](https://www.afr.com/business-summit/canva-atlassian-are-not-exceptions-denholm-s-economic-rallying-cry-20220309-p5a32t "https://www.afr.com/business-summit/canva-atlassian-are-not-exceptions-denholm-s-economic-rallying-cry-20220309-p5a32t") and using our natural advantage to make Australian businesses the most competitive in the world. “In the same way we celebrate our sporting stars, we must all work toward a future where the next generation of young people are celebrating the achievements of our greatest creators & innovators, like Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht and Cameron Adams, co-founders of Canva. Or maybe its Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brooks of Atlassian." “But no one is telling that story. In fact, it’s more common to hear myths such as Canva, Atlassian and Afterpay being exceptions to the main way we create value in Australia. The reality is the reverse – these companies are the most successful examples of the main way Australia is now commercialising ideas, creating new companies, and generating new jobs. [AFR - Australia’s next unicorns will come from five areas](https://www.afr.com/business-summit/australia-s-next-unicorns-will-come-from-five-areas-20220311-p5a3t1) ## Notes Thanks Kylie Ahern. It is worse than you suggest. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/elliotduff_times-up-for-tall-poppy-syndrome-activity-6902509065830830081-DR37?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop Even when we celebrate success (as we sometimes do) it is quickly forgotten and erased from history (the Internet) In my case, this happened with my innovation called Zebedee [https://research.csiro.au/robotics/zebedee/](https://research.csiro.au/robotics/zebedee/) Whilst it won numerous awards in 2013 and 2014, most of the web pages have now been removed. A good example is the Eureka Award - one of Australia's most prestigious innovation awards. [https://australian.museum/get-involved/eureka-prizes/](https://australian.museum/get-involved/eureka-prizes/) On their website, there is no historical list of winners. All I could find is an archived media release. [https://media.australian.museum/media/dd/Uploads/Documents/29015/2013+Australian+Museum+Eureka+Prizes+Finalists.023ad52.pdf](https://media.australian.museum/media/dd/Uploads/Documents/29015/2013+Australian+Museum+Eureka+Prizes+Finalists.023ad52.pdf) Unfortunately, this does not inspire confidence in the importance of innovation in Australia - and it makes it very difficult to demonstrate achievements in your CV :( #innovation/Provenance This can be compared to academic publications - which are effectively immutable. Hence it is not surprising that people put more time into publications that awards - see #Economic/Freakanomics ## An update Apologies to the Australian Museum It would appear that they have archived the winners back to 2015.  [https://australian.museum/get-involved/eureka-prizes/winners-finalists/2015-eureka-prizes-winners/](https://australian.museum/get-involved/eureka-prizes/winners-finalists/2015-eureka-prizes-winners/) I found this page through a google search.