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Nescafe Big Break Award
Subcategory of Awards Australian Awards
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History

Inaugurated in 1991 the Nescafe Big Break awards was open to 16 to 24-year-olds in Australia and New Zealand who need cash to kick-start a project or business to make their dreams and ambitions a reality. The annual corporate grant scheme handed over amounts of between $5000 and $50,000. 

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 1997

Year: 1994

winner y separately published work icon D Marcus Keith Gibson , Pymble : HarperCollins Australia , 1995 Z318045 1995 single work novel

Works About this Award

Playwright's Break 1997 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 11 November 1997; (p. 4)
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