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Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2010
winner Peter Sutton for The Politics of Suffering: Indigenous Australia and the endof the Liberal Consensus.
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Year: 2009
inaugural winner y The Tall Man : Death and Life on Palm Island 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
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Kindling for Postmodern Pagans 2011 single work essay
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , March vol. 6 no. 2 2011; (p. 8-10, 23) -
The Book of Spells 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 2002-2001 single work short story
— Appears in: Gangway : The On-Line Lit Mag , December no. 26 2002;