Australia’s top-performing tradies have been honoured at the 2024 Australian Trades Small Business Champion Awards, held at Sydney’s The Star on Friday 23 August.

Swapping their high-vis for red carpet glamour, more than 50 of the nation’s most dynamic, innovative and best-servicing tradies were crowned at the glittering gala event, hosted by Nine News’ Peter Overton.

Touted the ‘Logies of trades small business’, the second-annual Australian Trades Small Business Champion Awards paid tribute to the vital role of small businesses in the trade sector as the backbone of the nation’s construction industry, and a significant contributor to Australia’s overall social and economic prosperity.

The Awards also spotlighted trades-based small business owners’ invaluable contributions to their local communities and to their fields of specialty – including their encouragement of future generations of Aussie tradies.

The hotly-contested 2024 Young Small Business Champion Trades Entrepreneur title went to Anthony Antoun of Mr and Ms Group – a family-owned, design, construction and landscaping business based at Birrong in NSW.

The title of 2024 Apprentice Champion was won by Riley McCarthy, who is nearing the end of his apprenticeship at Macu Kitchens Mildura in Victoria.

In a particularly big night for small business plumbers, awards went to:

• Champion Large Plumber was awarded to Reed Plumbing and Drainage Solutions of Keilor East in Victoria.
• Champion Medium Plumber was named as DCM Plumbing & Drainage from Burleigh Heads in Queensland, and
• Champion Small Plumber was won by Crucial Plumbing Services at Seven Hills in NSW.

Jet Plus Plumbing, owned and operated by Victoria’s Luke Kennedy, took the title of Australian Small Business Champion Trade Leader; while NSW-based Andrew Vanny Plumbing won the 2024 Champion Tradie title.

For a full list of 2024 Australian Trades Small Business Champion Awards winners, visit championawards.com.au/trades.