Bunnings Legend of Tongs

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Bunnings Legend of the Tongs Promotion

Terms and Conditions

Promoter	Bunnings Group Limited (ABN 26 008 672 179) of Building 3, 570 Swan Street, Burnley, VIC, 3121, telephone number 03 8831 9777.
Competition Period	Entries into the competition open on Monday 7th April 2025 at 5:00 AM AEST and close at 11:59 PM AEST on Sunday 24th August 2025.
Who can enter?	Entry is only open to local Australian Rules football clubs operating in Australia (“Eligible Footy Club”).
Who can't enter?	Directors, officers, management, employees and contractors (and their immediate families) of: the Promoter; and the agencies, companies or participating premises associated with this competition. Immediate family means any of the following: spouse, de-facto spouse, child or step-child (whether natural or by adoption), parent, step-parent, grandparent, step-grandparent, uncle, aunt, niece, nephew, brother, sister, step-brother or step-sister.
Website	www.bunnings.com.au/legends
Entry instructions	To enter the competition, an authorised representative on behalf of an Eligible Footy Club must undertake the following steps during the Competition Period: visit the Website; and locate the entry page and fill out the online entry form, including: the name of the Eligible Footy Club and the authorised representative, suburb and state, phone number and email address; the name of the individual at the Eligible Footy Club being nominated as a “Legend” (“Nominated Legend”); answering the competition question in 100 words or less "Why your club legend should be crowned the Bunnings Legend of the Tongs?”; upload a photo/video of the Nominated Legend (optional); and submit the fully completed entry form. The Promoter is not responsible if your mobile device/desktop is not sufficiently capable for the purpose of submitting an entry.
Judging Process	This is a game of skill. Chance plays no part in how winners will be selected. Entries will be reviewed and judged by the Promoter’s representatives (or by appointed judge/s) based on selected criteria including overall merit, creativity, originality, alignment to the Promoter’s values and newsworthiness of the entry. Judging will take place at Building 3, 570 Swan Street, Burnley, VIC, 3121. The Promoter may select additional reserve entries which they determine to be the next best, and record them in order, in case of an invalid entry or ineligible entrant (Reserve Entrants).
How many winners will there be and how will they be chosen?	Weekly Winner Selection (club) There will be five (5) Eligible Footy Club winner selection for entries received in each week of the Competition Period (“Weekly Club Selection”), for a total of eighteen (18) Eligible Footy Club weekly winner selections over the duration of the Competition Period. Subject to the starting and closing time of the Competition Period, entries into each Weekly Club Selection will open at 12:01am AEST on Monday and close at 11:59pm AEST on Sunday each week. Each Weekly Club Selection will take place on the first business day after entries close for that Weekly Club Selection. The best five (5) valid entries in each Weekly Club Selection, as determined by the judges, will win a Weekly Club Prize (as defined below). Legend of the Tongs Shortlist Selection (individual) At the end of the Competition Period, there will be eight (8) Nominated Legend winners selected from the ninety (90) winning Eligible Footy Clubs selected as part of the Weekly Club Selection. Judging for this winner selection will take place on Monday 25th August 2025. The best eight (8) valid entries, as determined by the judges, will win the Ultimate 2025 Toyota AFL Grand Final Prize (as defined below). Legend of the Golden Tongs Selection (club) At the end of the Competition Period, there will be one (1) final winner selection from the eight (8) shortlisted Eligible Footy Clubs selected as part of the Legend of the Tongs Shortlist Selection. Judging for this final winner selection will take place on Thursday 25th September 2025. The best valid entry, as determined by the judges, will win the Legend of the Golden Tongs Club Prize (as defined below).
What can I win?	Weekly Club Prize The best five (5) valid entries in each Weekly Club Selection, as determined by the judges, will each win a Weekly Club Prize valued at $585.00. Prize includes: 1 x Jumbuck 6-Burner BBQ; and 2 x Jumbuck 2-piece tool set; and 2 x Legend of the Tongs branded aprons; and 1 x Bunnings branded pop-marquee; and 2 x Bunnings branded straw hats or Bunnings branded beanies (subject to availability in each State/Territory). Each prize will be awarded to the winning Eligible Footy Club who may, in their absolute discretion, allocate the prize to any employee / member of the Eligible Footy Club aged 18 years or over. Ultimate 2025 Toyota AFL Grand Final Prize The best eight (8) valid entries, as determined by the judges, will each win a Ultimate 2025 Toyota AFL Grand Final Prize, being a trip for the winning Nominated Legend and a guest to attend the 2025 Toyota AFL Grand Final and AFL Footy Festival in Melbourne, Victoria on Thursday 25th September 2025 to Sunday 28th September 2025, valued at $4,477 each. Prize includes: 2 x economy airfares from the winner’s nearest capital city to Melbourne, Victoria (if a winning Nominated Legend is located with 550km of Melbourne, Victoria, then the prize does not include airfares and the airfares component if the prize is not redeemable for cash); 4 x nights’ twin share accommodation at a designated 4 star hotel; and 2 x reserved seating tickets to the 2025 Toyota AFL Grand Final on Saturday 27th September 2025. Spending money, transfers, meals, taxes (excluding airline and airport taxes), insurance, transport to and from departure point, items of a personal nature, in-room charges and all other ancillary costs are not included. Prize must be taken to coincide with the 2025 Toyota AFL Grand Final and is subject to booking and flight availability. The winning Nominated Legend and their guest must depart from and return to the same departure point. Itinerary to be determined by the Promoter in its absolute discretion. Frequent Flyer points will not form part of the prize. Prize is subject to the standard terms and conditions of individual prize and service providers. The winning Nominated Legend may be required to present their credit card at the time of accommodation check in. The 2025 Toyota AFL Grand Final reserved seating tickets are subject to the event venue and ticket terms and conditions, including any applicable age restriction. The Promoter and event organisers hereby expressly reserve the right to eject any person for inappropriate behaviour, including but not limited to intoxication, whilst participating in any element of the prize. Legend of the Golden Tongs Club Prize The best valid entry, as determined by the judges, will win the Legend of the Golden Tongs Club Prize of 1 x $25,000 Bunnings product and materials, with credit applied to a PowerPass account. The Legend of the Golden Tongs Club Prize will be awarded to the club president of the winning Eligible Footy Club who must use the Legend of the Golden Tongs Club Prize for the purpose of benefiting the winning Eligible Footy Club ]. Any ancillary costs associated with redeeming the Bunnings PowerPass credit are not included. Any unused balance of the Bunnings PowerPass credit will not be awarded as cash. Redemption of the Bunnings PowerPass Credit is subject to any terms and conditions of the issuer including those specified Bunnings Trade PowerPass terms & conditions..
Total prize pool	The total prize pool is $113,466.00 AUD.
How many times can I enter?	Only one (1) nomination of a Nominated Legend per Eligible Footy Club will be considered a valid entry, however multiple different individuals from the same Eligible Footy Club can be nominated via a separate entry per nomination.
How and when will the winner/s be informed?	Winners will be notified by phone and in writing by email within 5 business days of winner determination.
Collection and use of your personal information	As a condition of accepting the prize, authorised representatives on behalf of Eligible Footy Clubs consent to the Promoter using their name (if applicable), likeness, image and/or voice (including photograph, film and/or recording of the same) without remuneration in any media related to the marketing and promotion of the Promotion, and promoting any products manufactured, distributed and/or supplied by the Promoter in connection with the Promotion. The Promoter will collect authorised representative’s personal information directly or through its agents or contractors. The Promoter will use such personal information to conduct and manage the competition. The Promoter may disclose the personal information to its respective related companies, agents and contractors to assist in conducting this competition, communicating with the authorized representative or storing data. If an authorised representative on behalf of an Eligible Footy Club has marked the relevant “opt-in” box on the entry form, you consent to the Promoter keeping your personal information on their database to use for future marketing purposes, including contacting you by electronic messaging provided that where required by the Spam Act 2003 (Cth), the Promoter includes a functional unsubscribe facility in each direct marketing communication it sends you that you may use to opt-out of any further such communications and provided that the functional unsubscribe facility complies with the Spam Regulations 2021 (Cth). By entering, the authorised representative on behalf of an Eligible Footy Club consents to receive email or SMS messages from the Promoter without any functional unsubscribe facility if they relate primarily to the conduct of this competition. The Promoter’s Privacy Policy (see https://www.bunnings.com.au/policies/privacy-policy ) includes information about : (a) how to seek access to the personal information the Promoter holds about you and seek correction of the information; and (b) how to complain about a privacy breach and how the Promoter will deal with such a complaint.

These Terms and Conditions incorporate and must be read together with the details outlined in the table above. Information about prizes and how to enter forms part of these Terms and Conditions. By entering, you accept these Terms and Conditions.

Entry

Your entry must be received during the Competition Period and will be deemed to be received only when received by the Promoter. You will receive a return message confirming your entry. The Promoter is not liable for any problems with communications networks outside its reasonable control. You are responsible for your own costs associated with entering. If you enter using automatically generated entries or multiple phone numbers/email addresses/addresses/aliases, you may be disqualified.
Every entry, including any “100- words or less” statement, must be your original work and not copied.
Entrants agree that they are fully responsible for any materials they submit via the promotion including but not limited to comments, recordings and images (“Content”). The Promoter shall not be liable in any way for such Content to the fullest extent permitted by law. The Promoter may remove or decline to publish any Content without notice for any reason whatsoever. Entrants warrant and agree that:
1. they will not submit any Content that is unlawful or fraudulent, or that the Promoter may deem in breach of any intellectual property, privacy, publicity or other rights, defamatory, obscene, derogatory, pornographic, sexually inappropriate, violent, abusive, harassing, threatening, objectionable with respect to race, religion, origin or gender, not suitable for children aged under 15, or otherwise unsuitable for publication;
2. their Content shall not contain viruses or cause injury or harm to any person or entity;
3. they will obtain prior consent from any person or from the owner(s) of any property that appears in their Content;
4. the Content is the original artistic work of the entrant that does not infringe the rights of any third party;
5. they consent to any use of the Content which may otherwise infringe the Content creator’s/creators’ moral rights pursuant to the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) and warrant that they have the full authority to grant these rights; and
6. they will comply with all applicable laws and regulations, including without limitation, those governing copyright, content, defamation, privacy, publicity and the access or use of others' computer or communication systems.

Without limiting any other terms herein, the entrant agrees to indemnify the Promoter for any breach of the above terms.

As a condition of entering this promotion, each entrant licenses and grants the Promoter, its affiliates and sub-licensees a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, worldwide, irrevocable, and sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish and display their entry (which shall include Content) for any purpose, including but not limited to future promotional, marketing or publicity purposes, in any media, without compensation, restriction on use, attribution or liability.

You must ensure your entry does not contain any virus, malware or other malicious or inappropriate computer code or material.

Prizes

Prizes and all elements of prizes must be taken as specified, as and when offered and cannot be altered or changed in any way by you or will be forfeited, and if forfeited, the Promoter will not be liable. If you forfeit the prize or any element of the prize for whatever reason, you will not be given cash or any alternative prize as a substitute. Prize/s are subject to any additional terms and conditions imposed by the relevant supplier or the Promoter, including, as relevant:

validity period/s;
conditions of entry into any event venues (including behaviour requirements, health safety requirements and applicable dress codes);
conditions of ticket validity and any restrictions on ticket on-sale or transfer; and
a requirement that any person taking the prize is aged 18 years old or over.
The 2025 Toyota AFL Grand Final reserved seating tickets can only be used once and will be deemed invalid if copied. The Promoter does not control entry to the relevant event location. You must keep the winning tickets safe and the Promoter will not replace lost or stolen tickets.
The Promoter is not responsible for any dispute between you and any person with whom you choose to, or choose not to, share a prize.
Where relevant, the Promoter accepts no responsibility if one or more of the events or activities awarded as part of the prize are abandoned, called off or postponed for any reason beyond the Promoter's reasonable control. In that case you forfeit your entitlement to that event/activity and the Promoter may provide another item of equal or higher value. Unless otherwise specified by the Promoter, you will not be given cash or any alternative prize as a substitute for this altered prize element.

General

Any material failure by you to comply with the conditions imposed by the prize supplier(s) may result in the prize being cancelled or withdrawn without liability for the Promoter or the prize supplier(s).
If specified, in order to participate in the activity/activities awarded as part of the prize, you must comply with any applicable conditions (e.g. height, weight, health and fitness requirements). You must ensure that are healthy and fit enough to take the prize. You must follow all requirements of the people responsible for managing the relevant activity/ies.
You must, if required by the Promoter, sign disclaimer and release forms provided by the Promoter in favour of the Promoter and other parties before taking the prize.
If you or your entry are deemed by the Promoter to breach these Terms and Conditions materially including if the prize is on set dates and you are unable to take the prize on the relevant date/s, your entry (or at the Promoter's discretion, all of your entries) may be discarded. The Promoter may, at any time, require you to produce documentation to establish to the Promoter's reasonable satisfaction the validity of your entries and/or verifying your identity (including documentation establishing your identity, age, place of residence and place of employment). Failure by the Promoter to enforce any of its rights at any stage does not waive those rights.

You must not:

tamper with the entry process (including but not limited to manipulating the system via bots, script use, or any other means to circumvent the entry process);
engage in any conduct that may jeopardise the fair and proper conduct of the competition;
act in a disruptive, annoying, threatening, abusive or harassing manner;
do anything that may diminish the good name or reputation of the Promoter or any of its related entities or of the agencies or companies associated with this competition;
breach any law; or
behave in a way that is otherwise inappropriate.

You are responsible for your companion/s and the Promoter may disqualify all entries from, and prohibit further participation in this competition by, you or any or all of your companion/s if they materially breach these conditions, whether or not legally bound by them.
The Promoter is not liable for entries, prize claims or correspondence that are misplaced, misdirected, delayed, lost, incomplete, illegible or incorrectly submitted for reasons outside the Promoter's reasonable control.
If any dispute arises between you and the Promoter concerning the conduct of this competition or claiming a prize, the Promoter will take reasonable steps to consider your point of view, taking into account any facts or evidence you put forward, and to respond to it fairly within a reasonable time. In all other respects, the Promoter’s decision in connection with all aspects of this competition is final.
Prizes cannot be transferred or exchanged nor redeemed for cash. Without limiting any other term of these Terms and Conditions, all prizes (and elements of prizes) must be taken as and when specified, or will be forfeited with no replacement. The prize values are correct as at the date of preparing these Terms and Conditions and include any applicable GST. The Promoter is not responsible for any change in prize value. You agree that if a prize (or element of a prize) is unavailable for any reason the Promoter may provide another item of equal or higher value.
By entering the competition, you request that full address not be published.
If this competition cannot run as planned for any reason beyond the Promoter's control (for example due to software, hardware or communications issues, unauthorised intervention, tampering, fraud or technical failure, government directives, a pandemic, public health orders and the like), the Promoter may end, change, suspend or cancel the competition or disqualify affected entries/entrants.
The Promoter is not responsible for any tax implications arising from you winning a prize. You should seek independent financial advice. If for GST purposes this competition results in any supply being made for non-monetary consideration, you must follow the Australian Taxation Office’s stated view that where the parties are at arm’s length, goods and services exchanged are of equal GST inclusive market values.

Liability

You may have consumer rights under statute including under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth), which may be relevant to any issue or problem you encounter in relation to this competition and cannot be excluded or restricted. Nothing in these Terms and Conditions excludes or restricts those rights. See www.accc.gov.au for more information about those rights.
Subject to the previous paragraph, the Promoter and the agencies and companies associated with this competition are not liable (including in negligence) for any loss (including indirect, special or consequential loss or loss of profits), expense, damage, personal injury (including allergies, skin conditions or other reactions, as relevant), illness or death suffered in connection with this competition or any prize, except for any liability which under statute cannot be excluded (in which case that liability is limited to the greatest extent allowed by law).
Without limiting the previous paragraphs, the Promoter and the agencies and companies associated with this competition are not liable for any loss of, damage to or delay in delivery of prize/s, or for any damage that occurs to displayed prize/s (where relevant), due to circumstances beyond the Promoter's reasonable control. Unless otherwise specified, prize/s will only be delivered to addresses in Australia.

the Promoter; and

the agencies, companies or participating premises associated with this competition.

Immediate family means any of the following: spouse, de-facto spouse, child or step-child (whether natural or by adoption), parent, step-parent, grandparent, step-grandparent, uncle, aunt, niece, nephew, brother, sister, step-brother or step-sister.

visit the Website; and

locate the entry page and fill out the online entry form, including:

the name of the Eligible Footy Club and the authorised representative, suburb and state, phone number and email address;

the name of the individual at the Eligible Footy Club being nominated as a “Legend” (“Nominated Legend”);

answering the competition question in 100 words or less "Why your club legend should be crowned the Bunnings Legend of the Tongs?”;

upload a photo/video of the Nominated Legend (optional); and

submit the fully completed entry form.

The Promoter is not responsible if your mobile device/desktop is not sufficiently capable for the purpose of submitting an entry.

Each Weekly Club Selection will take place on the first business day after entries close for that Weekly Club Selection.

At the end of the Competition Period, there will be eight (8) Nominated Legend winners selected from the ninety (90) winning Eligible Footy Clubs selected as part of the Weekly Club Selection.

Judging for this winner selection will take place on Monday 25th August 2025.

The best eight (8) valid entries, as determined by the judges, will win the Ultimate 2025 Toyota AFL Grand Final Prize (as defined below).

At the end of the Competition Period, there will be one (1) final winner selection from the eight (8) shortlisted Eligible Footy Clubs selected as part of the Legend of the Tongs Shortlist Selection.

Judging for this final winner selection will take place on Thursday 25th September 2025.

The best five (5) valid entries in each Weekly Club Selection, as determined by the judges, will each win a Weekly Club Prize valued at $585.00. Prize includes:

1 x Jumbuck 6-Burner BBQ; and

2 x Jumbuck 2-piece tool set; and

2 x Legend of the Tongs branded aprons; and

1 x Bunnings branded pop-marquee; and

2 x Bunnings branded straw hats or Bunnings branded beanies (subject to availability in each State/Territory).

Each prize will be awarded to the winning Eligible Footy Club who may, in their absolute discretion, allocate the prize to any employee / member of the Eligible Footy Club aged 18 years or over.

2 x economy airfares from the winner’s nearest capital city to Melbourne, Victoria (if a winning Nominated Legend is located with 550km of Melbourne, Victoria, then the prize does not include airfares and the airfares component if the prize is not redeemable for cash);

4 x nights’ twin share accommodation at a designated 4 star hotel; and

2 x reserved seating tickets to the 2025 Toyota AFL Grand Final on Saturday 27th September 2025.

The best valid entry, as determined by the judges, will win the Legend of the Golden Tongs Club Prize of 1 x $25,000 Bunnings product and materials, with credit applied to a PowerPass account.

The Legend of the Golden Tongs Club Prize will be awarded to the club president of the winning Eligible Footy Club who must use the Legend of the Golden Tongs Club Prize for the purpose of benefiting the winning Eligible Footy Club ].

(a) how to seek access to the personal information the Promoter holds about you and seek correction of the information; and

(b) how to complain about a privacy breach and how the Promoter will deal with such a complaint.

Every entry, including any “100- words or less” statement, must be your original work and not copied.

Any material failure by you to comply with the conditions imposed by the prize supplier(s) may result in the prize being cancelled or withdrawn without liability for the Promoter or the prize supplier(s).

You must, if required by the Promoter, sign disclaimer and release forms provided by the Promoter in favour of the Promoter and other parties before taking the prize.

You are responsible for your companion/s and the Promoter may disqualify all entries from, and prohibit further participation in this competition by, you or any or all of your companion/s if they materially breach these conditions, whether or not legally bound by them.

The Promoter is not liable for entries, prize claims or correspondence that are misplaced, misdirected, delayed, lost, incomplete, illegible or incorrectly submitted for reasons outside the Promoter's reasonable control.

By entering the competition, you request that full address not be published.