Humanities Competitions

Tax, Super + You Competition

If you are interested in this competition, please join our enterprising club in even week on Thursdays and check with Ms Kaur or Mattson or your Humanities teacher.

About the competition

If you’re a student in years 7–12, we want you to unleash your creativity and find a new way to tell us about tax and super! Our competition will not only give you an insight into the value of tax and super, but you have the chance to win a share of $7,600 in prizes!

Entry criteria

For your chance to become Australia’s next tax and super creative genius, you must:

be a student in years 7–12
be enrolled in the Australian education system
submit an entry – up to 3 entries per person/group only
complete a separate entry form for each entry
complete a film or photo consent form Open in a new window for each person shown in your entry
comply with the competition’s terms and conditions Open in a new window – including only using music with permission or an appropriate licence.

There’s no cost to enter the competition.

Competition dates

The competition is open now. Entries will close at 5.00pm AEST on Friday 19 August 2022.

What’s in it for you

There’s $7,600 in prizes for the winners and their schools. The following prizes are available in both the Junior and Senior categories:

First prize winner – $600 plus $600 for their school
Second prize winner – $400 plus $400 for their school
Third prize winner – $300 plus $300 for their school
People’s Choice Award winner – $600 plus $600 for their school.

How to enter

To enter, make a creative project that highlights your topic (which depends on your year at school). The topics are:

Junior (Year 7–9): Tax, Super + Me – How tax impacts me in my daily life.
Senior (Year 10–12): Top four things I need to know about tax and super when I start my first job.

There are heaps of SUPER fun ways to enter and there are no limits on the type of entry you can submit. Some examples include:

Write it: short stories, poems, scripts or case studies
Make it: artworks, comic strips, songs, animations, prototypes of apps or games
Film it: videos, skits or music clips.

If you need some inspiration, or want to see what other students have done in the past, check out these links:

Parents Tool Kit

https://taxsuperandyou.gov.au/parent-toolkit

Parent toolkit | Tax, Super + You

The Parliament Prize 2022

A competition for Victorian school students,from Grade 5 to Year 12.

What would you say to parliament if you were an MP?

Record your own 90-second Member’s Statement telling us about the issues that are important in your community.

https://victorianparliament.us.launchpad6.com/ParliamentPrize2022/upload-entry

What is a Member’s Statement?

Each day that parliament meets, a Member of Parliament (MP) has an opportunity to make a 90-second speech on any topic or issue they consider to be important. This is called a Member’s Statement. One of the great things about Members' Statements is the range of topics and issues that MPs speak about. They might talk about the achievements of people or organisations in their electorate, challenges being faced in their local community, or perhaps broader state or national issues. You can see what MPs speak about during Members’ Statements by looking at Hansard, which is the record of what is said in Parliament.

Prizes for you and your school

A prize of $500 and a commemorative trophy will be awarded to the first-placed entry in each category.

There will also be prizes of $250 to the second-placed entries and $125 to the third-placed entries in each age group.

An award of $1,000 will be made to each first-placed student’s school which will ideally be used to promote civics and citizenship and law-related education within these schools, at the schools’ discretion.

Resources for students and teachers

To help prepare your entry for the Parliament Prize, we've put together a number of short student guides full of handy hints. Each guide focuses on a different phase of developing an entry, so you can easily find what you need at whatever point you might need it.

The rules

The competition is open to Victorian students in three year-group categories: Grades 5-6, Years 7-9, and Years 10-12.
Videos must not contain any copyrighted or offensive material, and must be the student’s own work.
Videos must not exceed 90 seconds.
Entries must be submitted via the online form.
Only one entry per student will be excepted.
Entries are due by 5pm, Friday 17 June 2022.
Late entries will not be considered.
Full terms and conditions are provided on the entry page.