It was a nice surprise this morning to receive an email from our client at the ACTU, which our alert (but not alarmed!) readers will know commissioned us to create the Your Rights at Work website, to let us know we’d won another award for the site (that makes three!).

This time it was from Labour Start, for Labour Website of the Year. In their words:

“The winner this year is Your Rights at Work (Australia) — a website that contributed enormously to the ouster of the viciously anti-union John Howard government a few weeks ago. Congratulations to the Australian Council of Trade Unions on a great campaign and a great website.”

We were pretty happy with our award tally last year receiving two awards (having not entered any awards ourselves that was pretty good - some agencies have teams of people applying for awards and through sheer effort pick up a few each year, we’re a bit busy doing great work for our clients so tend not to bother).

Though we love the accolades I can’t help but add that the greatest reward of all for us on this project was to know that it played a pivotal role in the resounding defeat of John Howard and his right wing Liberal Party in the recent Federal Election.