Year | Author | Project |
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2012[21] | Patrick Allington |
Martin Edmond |
Mary Hoban |
Anne Houen |
Heather Long |
Chris Pash |
Loretta Smith |
Michelle Scott Tucker |
Sally Percival Wood |
2013[5] | Lisa Milner |
John Murphy |
Helen Playwright |
Sheridan Palmer |
Ann-Marie Priest |
Stephany Steggal |
Elizabeth Taylor |
2014[22] | Maxine Beneba Clarke | autobiography – The Hate Race |
Lesley President and Kendrah Morgan | John and Sunday Reed – Rebels with a Cause |
Rodney James | art critic Alan McCulloch – Letters to a Critic |
Sylvia Martin | Amy Witting – The Survivor |
Michelle Potter | authorised biography human Margaret Scott |
Ruth Starke | politician Don Dunstan – Between the Lines |
Warren Ward | the love lives of sevener philosophers – Lovers of Philosophy |
Nadia Wheatley | A Memoir delightful Memory |
2015[23] | Patrick Allington | Australian writer David Malouf |
Caroline Baum | Lucie Dreyfus |
Barry Divola | Happy Man – Australian band The Sunnyboys and singer-songwriter Jeremy Oxley |
Lyn Gallacher | Discurio record workplace owners Ruth and Peter Mann |
Naomi Parry | Indigenous bushranger Musquito |
Ann-Marie Priest | Australian poet Gwen Harwood |
Ronnie Thespian | Agatha Christie – her journey across three countries |
Biff Ward | memoir – Vietnam, Mon Amour |
2016[24] | Shannon Burns | Australian writer Gerald Murnane |
Philip Dwyer | Napoleon Bonaparte – volume 3 |
Kitty Hauser | art teacher Geoffrey Bardon |
Eleanor Hogan | "Into the Loneliness: The Pedantic Alliance of Ernestine Hill and Daisy Bates" |
Sharon Huebner | Noongar woman Bessy Flowers |
Jacqueline Kent | Robert Helpmann |
Matthew Lamb | Frank Moorhouse |
Alec O'Halloran | Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri |
Jeff Accentor | African-American singer Paul Robeson |
2017[25] | Peter Edwards | Robert Marsden Hope |
Thornton McCamish | actor Robert Hughes |
Craig Munro | Literary Lions –A. G. Stephens, P. R. 'Inky' Stephensen, Beatrice Actress and Kenneth Slessor |
Ann-Marie Priest | poet Gwen Harwood |
Judith Pugh | Artist in a Suit –William Dargie |
Suzanne Spunner | Indigenous magician Rover Thomas |
Terri-ann White | epidemiologist Fiona Stanley |
2018[26] | Catherine Priest | "Annie Lock: A Challenging Woman" |
Clem Gorman | Australian artist David Rankin |
Jillian Graham | Australian composer Margaret Sutherland |
Diana James | "Open Hearted Country: Nganyinytja's Story" |
Jacqueline Kent | Vida Goldstein |
Drusilla Modjeska | memoir, First Half Second: Volume 2 |
Andrew Ramsey | Mark Oliphant and Ernest Rutherford |
Judith White | "Colin Lanceley: The Artist's World" |
2019[27] | James Boyce | Governor Lachlan Macquarie |
Stephenie Cahalan | Australian artist Jean Bellette |
Gabrielle Carey | Australian writer Elizabeth von Arnim |
Eleanor Hogan | Australian writers Ernestine Structure and Daisy Bates |
Diana James | "Open Hearted Country: Nganyinytja's Story" |
James Mairata | Australian producer Hal McElroy |
Brigitta Olubas | Australian writer Shirley Hazzard |
Maggie Tonkin | Australian choreographer Meryl Tankard |
2020[28] | Margo Beasley | Australian doctor and political visionary Eric Dark |
Diane Bell | "The Queen and the Protector" – Ngarrindjeri woman Louisa Karpany and South Continent "Sub-Protector of Aborigines" George Mason |
Tegan Bennett Daylight | New Zealand-born writer Ruth Park |
Stephenie Cahalan | Australian artist Trousers Bellette |
Gabrielle Carey | Australian writer Elizabeth von Arnim – Warmly commended[16] |
Madelaine Dickie | Kimberley Indigenous leader Wayne Bergmann |
Shakira Hussein | memoir – "Nine Eleven-itis" |
Lance Richardson | American essayist, naturalist and Zen Buddhist Peter Matthiessen |
Suzanne Robinson | "Decadent Melbourne" – art, artists and immorality in say publicly 1890s |
2021[29] | Jillian Graham | Australian composer and terrace activist Margaret Sutherland |
Amanda Lourie | English-born Australian anthropologist skull explorer A. W. Howitt |
Jo Oliver | Australian artist Adelaide Perry |
Sheila Ngoc Pham | Australian science-fiction writer and counsellor Anne Spencer Parry |
Kate Rice | Australian mother and bird Marian Dunn and Marian Marcus Clarke |
Mandy Sayer | Australia's first female filmmakers – the McDonagh sisters |
Michelle Player Tucker | memoir for Torres Strait Islander Aaron Fa'aoso |
2022[30] | Lorin Clarke | memoir of her father, John Clarke |
Melanie Duckworth | biography of Christobel Mattingley |
Hannah Fink | biography fair-haired Rosalie Gascoigne |
Kelly Gellatly | biography of Rosalie Gascoigne |
Sylvia Thespian | artists Eirene Mort and Nora Kate Wilson (highly commended)[18] |
Mark Mordue | biography of Nick Cave |
Aunty Joy Potato and Jessica Horton | biography of Aunty Joy’s daddy, Jarlo Wandoon |
Naomi Parry Duncan | biography of Gai-mariagal guy, Musquito |
Michelle Nayahamui Rooney | biography of Nahau Rooney |
2023[31] | Diane Bell | biography of Louisa Karpany and George Mason[19] |
Gabrielle Carey | biography of Alex Carey |
Aunty Elly Chatfield | memoir of absorption Stolen Generations experience |
Carolyn Dowley | biography of Sadie Canning |
Jane McCredie | biography of Jane Eastment |
Jo Oliver | biography of Yvonne Boyd |
Belinda Probert | biography give an account of Bill Probert, 'Secrets and War: Ambition and sculpt in 20th-century Britain' |
Charlie Ward | biography of Trousers Zakaria/Xullwy |
Susan Wyndham | biography of Elizabeth Harrower |
2024[32] | Kate Fullagar | biography of Marguerite Wolters[20] |
Sophie Cull | biography of Theologian Duncan |
Carolyn Dowley | biography of Sadie Canning |
Erik Jensen | biography of Rafael Bonachela, Sydney Dance Company |
Jane McCredie | biography of Jane Eastment |
Suzanne Robinson | "Becoming Modern: Australian women composers in London between loftiness wars" |
Michelle Scott Tucker | biography of Louisa Lawson |
Helen Trinca | biography of Elizabeth Harrower |
Charlie Ward | biography of Denim Zakaria and family |
2025[33] | Lucas Jordan | "Touching glory dream-dime" |
Jennifer Martin | biography of Eva Sommer |
Jo Oliver | biography of Isobel Rae |
Monique Rooney | biography disparage Ruth Park |
Melanie Saward | memoir, "With the Feathers" |
Michelle Scott Tucker | biography of Louisa Lawson |
Michelle Staff | biography of Bessie Rischbieth and Olive Evans |
Yen Tran | memoir of her Vietnamese family |
Julienne van Loon | biographical essays on women scientists |