Wow, did we have some unbelievable nominations. I kid you not, I had a tear in my eye at one stage reading through them (I was cutting onions at the time of course). Most nominations were submitted by partners (though we did have one from a mother-in-law), and these partners must read some soppy books because they put words together that really tugged at the heart strings...(ladies we know you've really been reading 'Fifty Shades...', you can't hide that from us). Our finalists are – drum roll please – in random order...
Bruce, Ralph, Andrew, Mason, Lee, Leith, Nathan, Stephen, Kevin & Tony
(Read more about our finalists here).
You may be wondering who will be judging this award in 2012? Well I can tell you it's not us. There is that little issue that we personally know a couple of the entrants, but more importantly, we wanted to gather a panel of people who have shown commitment to family and parenting in some way. Our judging panel of five includes business, support organisations and media, and of course, parents. Our judges are – drum roll please – random order of course...
Penny Johnston of ABC Baby Talk, Kerrie Gottliebsen of Tweddle Australia, Julie Taylor for TackleNappy, Katrina of Bambino Box Australia, Lana Hirschowitz of iVillage Australia and Elise Easdown of What's On 4 - Australia.
(Read more about our judges here)
Prizes – did I mention prizes? MrGift.com.au has generously provided a $50 gift voucher for our winner and a $25 gift voucher for first runner up. We will also put together a special TackleNappy prize pack for the winner... We're just wondering which RSL we should steal the Carlton Draught beer coasters from! And of course, the winner will always carry the title of being the inaugural TackleNappy Dad of the Year! Oh, there's also this stuff –
The winner will:
- be interviewed "A Beer with..." style (see http://www.tacklenappy.com/features/a-beer-with)
- be invited to join the judging panel for next year's award
- have the opportunity to write a guest post for TackleNappy
The first runner up will receive a $25 gift voucher from MrGift.com.au
We would like to wish our ten finalists a load of good luck but, to be honest, we know it's the judges that really need the luck – there's no way I would want the job of selecting a winner from this group of quality dads.
Chubba & Bucky
The winner will be announced on Father's Day 2012.
