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Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2010

winner Peter Sutton for The Politics of Suffering: Indigenous Australia and the end 

of the Liberal Consensus.

Year: 2009

inaugural winner y separately published work icon The Tall Man : Death and Life on Palm Island Chloe Hooper , Camberwell : Hamish Hamilton , 2008 Z1483259 2008 single work prose (taught in 11 units) In November 2004, in the small township of Palm Island in the far north of Queensland, Detective Hurley arrested Cameron Doomadgee for swearing at him. Doomadgee was drunk. A few hours later he died in a watch-house cell. According to the inquest, his liver was so badly damaged it was almost severed. (Source: Trove)

Works About this Award

Kindling for Postmodern Pagans Geordie Williamson , 2011 single work essay
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , March vol. 6 no. 2 2011; (p. 8-10, 23)
The Book of Spells Anna Fienberg , Barbara Fienberg , 2003 single work children's fiction children's
— Appears in: Tashi and the Royal Tomb 2003; (p. 36-60) The 2nd Big Big Book of Tashi 2006; Tashi Storybook 2017;
The Cull Sally Hardy , 2002-2001 single work short story
— Appears in: Gangway : The On-Line Lit Mag , December no. 26 2002;
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