2025 Best Workplaces
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Woodlands Golf Club
Vic
Tourism/Hospitality
Medium (20 - 199 employees)
87%
Woodlands Golf Club, situated on the world-famous Melbourne Sandbelt, is consistently ranked among the top 25 golf courses in Australia.
Woodlands has a rich tournament history, regularly hosting Professional and Elite Amateur tournaments that include Victorian Opens, Victorian PGA Championships, Australian Amateur Championships, Victorian Women’s Open and more recently, the Sandbelt Invitational.
With immaculate course presentation, a timeless design and first-class service, Woodlands provides a world-class golf and membership experience.
This experience is only possible when you have a team of hard-working, dedicated, and happy staff. Staff are the backbone of any successful organisation.
Woodlands works hard to foster a culture of encouragement, collaboration, development and stewardship, which are key pillars to ensuring our staff feel empowered, valued and heard.
Woodlands has always had the approach that if you look after the people, they will look after you. We are extremely proud of our staff and their approach to providing a world-class experience. What they have achieved over the last few years is testament to that.
Employees have rated the business:
Flexiblity
87%
Team Work
84%
Customer Focus
84%
Trust
84%
Loyalty to the Business
83%
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Trilby Misso Lawyers and Logal Law
QLD
Professional Services
Medium (20 - 199 employees)
86%
Trilby Misso Lawyers has been trusted by over 40,000 Queenslanders since 1956, operating across more than a dozen offices throughout the state and specialising in personal injury, workplace compensation, motor vehicle claims, and TPD insurance - all on a no-win, no-fee basis. With a team spread across Brisbane, the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast, Townsville, Cairns, and numerous regional centres, maintaining a consistent, high-performing culture across every location is a genuine organisational challenge.
Trilby Misso's 86% STAR Workplace score reflects their commitment to building a cohesive workforce where every team member understands how their role contributes to the firm's broader mission of protecting the rights of Queenslanders. The STAR Workplace Program provided Trilby Misso with benchmarked insights into team engagement, management culture, and psychosocial risk, giving leadership the data needed to make informed decisions about their people.
In a profession where client outcomes depend heavily on the quality and morale of the team behind them, Trilby Misso's result speaks volumes. It is a testament to a firm that takes its internal culture just as seriously as it takes the cases it fights for its clients.
Employees have rated the business:
Zero Tolerance for Bullying
92%
Customer Focus
91%
Trust
91%
Loyalty to the Business
90%
Honesty and Integrity
90%
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Townsville Enterprise Limited
QLD
NFP
Small (5-19 employees)
85%
Townsville Enterprise is the peak economic development and destination marketing organisation for the Townsville North Queensland Region, working side by side with the community, business, and industry to build a stronger future through economic leadership.
Over more than 33 years, the organisation has successfully secured private and public investment and economic outputs totalling more than $70 billion for the region.
Behind that extraordinary track record is a team that must operate across economic development, investment attraction, tourism, events, and industry engagement - all under one roof. Maintaining strategic alignment across such a diverse and mission-driven organisation is no small challenge, which makes Townsville Enterprise's 85% STAR Workplace score all the more impressive.
The STAR Workplace Program gave Townsville Enterprise meaningful, benchmarked insight into how well their internal culture and team engagement align with the organisation's strategic direction. For an organisation whose purpose is to secure the future of an entire region, ensuring the team is unified around that purpose is essential. Townsville Enterprise's result demonstrates that its people are not just employed by the mission - they are genuinely invested in it, which is precisely what drives the outcomes they consistently deliver for North Queensland.
Employees have rated the business:
Flexibility
95%
Zero Tolerance for Bullying
91%
Comfortable, safe work environment
95%
Trust
88%
Organisational Justice
93%
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William Barrett & Sons
WA
Healthcare
Medium (20 - 199 employees)
85%
William Barrett and Sons was established in 1897 and remains the leading funeral home in the South West of Western Australia - a family-owned and operated business committed to helping families create meaningful and personalised funeral services. Now in its fourth generation, with Errol Barrett and his son Adrian working in the business today, it stands as the region's only family-owned funeral home at a time when much of the industry has been absorbed by large corporate operators.
That independence is something the Barrett family wears with pride, and it is reflected in the care and intentionality with which they run their business and their team. Achieving an 84% STAR Workplace score, William Barrett & Sons demonstrates that a strong people culture - built carefully over generations - is the foundation of enduring service excellence.
The STAR Workplace Program provided the business with structured, evidence-based insight into team alignment and workplace wellbeing, helping leadership better understand what drives their people. In a profession where empathy and professionalism must go hand in hand every single day, having a deeply engaged and strategically aligned team is not just good business practice - it is essential to serving families at their most vulnerable.
Employees have rated the business:
Honesty and Integrity
90%
Customer Focus
89%
Loyalty to the Business
87%
Ability to Satisfy Customer Needs
86%
Comfortable, safe work environment
92%
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Mackenzies Home Timber and Hardware
QLD
FMCG
Medium (20 - 199 employees)
84%
Mackenzies Home Timber & Hardware has been serving Goondiwindi and the surrounding region since 1911, with an unwavering commitment to delivering the best possible service to the local community. Specialising in supply to the rural, trade, steel fabrication, and building industries across the Southern Downs in Queensland and Northern New South Wales, Mackenzies has cemented its position as the hardware and steel specialist for tradespeople and serious renovators alike.
Staying relevant for over 110 years in a competitive and evolving retail environment takes more than a good product range - it takes a team that genuinely understands the customer and is aligned around a shared purpose of service. Mackenzies' 83% STAR Workplace score is a testament to exactly that.
The STAR Workplace Program helped Mackenzies measure the strength of their team culture and identify the areas where alignment between leadership strategy and day-to-day team activity is strongest. For a regional business serving a community it has been part of for generations, that kind of insight is invaluable. Mackenzie's Home Timber and Hardware is proof that small-town values and high-performance workplaces are not mutually exclusive - they are, in fact, deeply complementary.
Employees have rated the business:
Comfortable, safe and clean workplace
94%
Trust
94%
Flexibility
95%
Knowing how the business is performing and future direction
91%
Ability to satisfy Customer Needs
91%
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