Lake Mac 2035 video competition

Your vision for Lake Macquarie will help shape our new Community Strategic Plan (CSP) The CSP guides the future direction of Lake Macquarie for the next 10 years.

It sets the vision and aspirations for the future of our city and the community’s long-term plan.

It’s Council’s key strategic document and is developed in collaboration with our community.

It guides the strategies and actions we will take to achieve our community’s long-term vision for the city.

You can view our current CSP at lakemac.com.au

Community feedback will shape the direction of Lake Macquarie over the next 10 years and will help determine our priorities.

There will be a range of ways people are able to have their say on the plan over the coming months.

This competition has been designed to ensure that young people’s voices are also featured in the plan. 

A panel will judge submissions and select a winner and a runner-up.

Our judging panel will be looking at how well entrants responded to the prompts:

• What makes Lake Mac a great place to live?
• What do you value about Lake Macquarie City?
• What would you like Lake Macquarie City to be like in 2035?

We will also be judging on the creativity and imagination shown in submissions, so we encourage you to think big when considering what you want Lake Mac to be like in 2035! 

Our current Community Strategic Plan references community values: our unique landscape, lifestyle and wellbeing, mobility and accessibility, diverse economy, connected communities, creativity and shared-decision making.

Will these still be important in 2035? What will be important to young people then? The sky is the limit!

The NSW Local Government Integrated Planning and Reporting Framework acknowledges most communities share similar aspirations: a safe, healthy and pleasant place to live, a sustainable environment, opportunities for social interaction, education and employment, and reliable infrastructure.

The difference lies in how each community responds to these needs.

The framework has been developed with the understanding that council plans and policies should not exist in isolation – they are interconnected.

It allows NSW councils to draw their various plans together, understand how they interact and get the maximum leverage from their efforts by planning holistically and sustainably for the future.

The Community Strategic Plan is Council’s highest-level strategic planning document and along with the Local Strategic Planning Statement, informs our other plans and strategies.

Lake Mac 2035 video competition

Terms and Conditions

1. Lake Macquarie City Council (‘the Promoter”) is conducting the Lake Mac 2035 video competition (“the Promotion”).  

2. Information on how to enter and prizes form part of these Terms and Conditions. Participation in the Promotion is deemed acceptance of these Terms and Conditions and any entry non-compliant with these Terms and Conditions is rendered invalid.

3. Entry is open to New South Wales residents aged 12 and 24. Any entrant who is over under the age of 18 years must have their parent’s or guardian’s permission to enter the Promotion. Employees of the Promoter and their immediate families are ineligible to enter.

4. The Promotion commences at 9am Australian Eastern Standard Time (“AEST”) Thursday 11 April 2024 and closes at 11:59pm AEST on Thursday 30 May 2024 (“Promotion Period”).

5. To enter, entrants must:

• Create a 30 to 120 second video that answers:

  What makes Lake Mac a great place to live?

  What do you value about Lake Macquarie City?

  What would you like Lake Macquarie City to be like in 2035?

• Submit entries Thursday 30 May 2024.

6. Only one entry is permitted per person.

7. This is a game of skill and chance plays no part in determining the winners. Each entry will be individually judged, based upon individual creative merit. All entries must be an independent creation by the entrant. Entries must not have been published previously and/or have been used to win prizes in any other competitions.

8. The judging panel will consist of:

• Two Council employees
• An elected representative of Council
• A Youth Council representative
  
  

  9. The judging criteria includes:

• how well the submission reflects the creativity and imagination of the entrant
• how well the submission responds to the prompts, what makes Lake Mac a great place to live, what do you value about Lake Macquarie City and what would you like Lake Macquarie City to be like in 2035.

10. Upon completion of all of the requirements above and subject to compliance with all Terms and Conditions, the entry is deemed complete, and the entrant will automatically be entered in the draw using the details provided to have a chance of winning a prize.

11. Subject to condition 12 below, each entry becomes the property of the Promoter on submission. All details will be held in accordance with the relevant privacy legislation, and Lake Macquarie City Council’s Privacy Policy, which can be accessed by visiting lakemac.com.au or calling (02) 4921 0333.

12. To the extent that an entrant submitting an entry claims any intellectual property and/or moral rights, title and interest in an entry being a work of art, image, photograph, reproduction, or other artistic or other literary creation, those intellectual property and/or moral rights, title and interests remain vested in the entrant. However, the entrant grants to the Promoter an irrevocable, royalty-free, non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-sublicensable licence to use the intellectual property and/or moral rights in the entry for the purposes of the Promotion. Further, in submitting an entry, the entrant represents and is taken to represent to the Promoter that:

(a) any use, disclosure, reproduction, transmission, exhibition, communication, adaption, publication or otherwise the exercise of rights in relation to the entry in whatever form by or on behalf of the Promoter or its agents or subcontractors will not infringe the intellectual property or moral rights of any person and is consented to by all relevant right holders; and

(b) each right holder possessed of intellectual property or moral rights arising in relation to or connection with the relevant entry agrees that its intellectual property or moral rights are not and will not be infringed by, and consents to, acts or omissions of the Promoter or its agents or subcontractors which would otherwise constitute an infringement of legislation dealing with intellectual property or moral rights.

13. The Promoter reserves the right to verify the validity of all entries and reserves the right to disqualify any individual entrant or group of entrants if, in its reasonable opinion, the entrant(s) have tampered with the entry or verification process, including but not limited to the utilisation of techniques to make multiple entries or the submission of an entry that is not otherwise in accordance with these Terms and Conditions.

14. In the event that the Promoter reasonably believes that an entrant has tampered with the entry or verification process, in addition to declaring any or all entries made by that entrant invalid, the Promoter may in its complete discretion preclude that entrant from participation in any or all future promotions of the Promoter.

15. If for any reason this Promotion is not capable of running as planned, whether caused by infection by computer virus, mobile phone failure, line drop out, bugs, tampering, unauthorised intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other cause beyond the control of the Promoter which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness or integrity of the Promotion, the Promoter reserves the right in its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Promotion. The Promoter may in its sole discretion disqualify any entrant who tampers with the entry process in this way.

16. The major prize is The Ultimate Gift Card for Teens valued at $250 recommended retail price (“RRP”).

17. The minor prize is The Ultimate Gift Card for Teens valued at $100 RRP.

18. Total prize pool for the Promotion is valued at $350 RRP.

19. After the end of the Promotion Period compliant entries will be judged by the judging panel in accordance with the judging criteria at 126-138 Main Road Speers Point NSW 2284 or such other location published as part of the Promotion. The winners as selected by the judging panel will be announced and published Monday 1 July 2024 at AEST.

20. The winners will be notified by telephone or email by Monday 1 July 2024.

21. The prize is not transferable and cannot be taken as or redeemed for cash.

22. The prize value is correct at time of publication but no responsibility is accepted for any variation in the value of any prize.

23. In the event that any prize item is unavailable despite the Promoter’s reasonable endeavours to procure such item, the Promoter reserves the right to substitute the prize (or that part of the prize) with a prize to the equal value and/or specification, subject to any directions from the relevant regulatory authority or to any legal compliance requirements.

24. The Promoter retains the absolute discretion to require a winner to provide proof of age, residential address and identity in a form determined by the Promoter before awarding the prize. If the winner is under the age of 18, the prize will be awarded to their parent/guardian.

25. Each entrant and the winner agree that all right, title, interest and risk in the prize vests in the winner upon its collection. Upon collection, the Promoter is not responsible if a prize is lost, stolen, destroyed, or used without the winner’s permission. The winner also agrees that the Promoter is not responsible for the provision of or availability of accessories or other items required to use the goods or services the subject of the prize.

26. Each prize winner should look to the retail supplier or manufacturer of that prize product or service for all warranties and other support. However, these Terms and Conditions do not exclude or limit the application of any statutory provision (including a provision of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)) where to do so would contravene that legislation or cause any part of these Terms and Conditions to be void.

27. If the initial winner does not claim their prize within one month of being notified to claim their prize, the Promoter may award that unclaimed prize to an entrant whose entry has not already been awarded a prize in the Promotion but whose entry the judging panel determines in accordance with the judging criteria displays outstanding individual creative merit. The award will be made at 126-138 Main Road, Speers Point, NSW, 2284 within one month of a prize being unclaimed by the initial winner. The new winner will be notified by telephone or email within two business days of the award.

28. Entrants and prize winners consent to their name and suburb and a copy, image or other representation of their entry being published by the Promoter or the media. If requested, entrants and prize winners must also consent to a short interview with Council and the media where their interview responses may be used in media or promotional material at the Promoter’s absolute discretion.

29. The Promoter is not liable for any loss or damage whatsoever which is or may be suffered, including but not limited to indirect or consequential loss, or for personal injury suffered or sustained during the course of accepting or using the prize, except for any liability which cannot be excluded by law.

30. The Promoter’s decision in relation to the interpretation and enforcement of the Terms and Conditions and the judging and awarding of the prize is final.

31. The Promoter is Lake Macquarie City Council (ABN 81 065 027 868) of 126-138 Main Road, Speers Point, NSW, 2284. The Promoter’s contact person is [email protected]