Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History
The Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History was created by the Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard following the Australian History Summit held in Canberra on 17 August 2006. The Summit looked at how the Australian government could strengthen Australian history in the school curriculum.[1] The winner (or winners) receive a gold medallion and a grant worth A$100,000.[2]
The prize is awarded to an individual or a group, for an outstanding publication or body of work that contributes significantly to an understanding of Australian history. The subject of works submitted can include, but are not limited to:
- historical events;
- historical figures (including biographies) and
- work covering a relevant subject.[2]
In 2012, the prize was incorporated into the Prime Minister's Literary Awards.[3]
2007 inaugural prize[]
- Winners
- Les Carlyon for The Great War
- Peter Cochrane for Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy
- Short-listed
- David Branagan for TW Edgeworth David: A Life
- Josephine Flood for The Original Australians: Story of the Aboriginal People
2008 prize[]
- Winners[4]
- Tom Griffiths for Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica
- Robert Kenny for The Lamb Enters the Dreaming: Nathanael Pepper and the Ruptured World
- Short-listed
- John Fitzgerald for Big White Lie: Chinese Australians in White Australia
- Philip Jones for Ochre and Rust: Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers
- Paul Rudd, Stephen Amezdroz, Tony Wright, Wain Fimeri and Matthew Thomason for Captain Cook: Obsession and Discovery
2009 prize[]
- Winners[5]
- Martin Butler and Bentley Dean for the documentary film Contact
- Short-listed
- Grace Karskens for The Colony: A History of Early Sydney
- Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds for Drawing the Global Colour Line
- Various authors for First Australians
- Robin Gerster for Travels in Atomic Sunshine: Australia and the Occupation of Japan
2010/2011 prize[]
- Winners[6]
- for A Three-Cornered Life: The Historian W K Hancock
- Peter Stanley for Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny and Murder in the Great War
- Short-listed
- James Curran and Stuart Ward for The Unknown Nation; Australia After Empire
- Paul Daley for Beersheba: A Journey through Australia’s Forgotten War
- Kirsten McKenzie for A Swindler's Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty
- Penny Russell for Savage or Civilised? Manners in Colonial Australia
2012 prize[]
- Winner[7]
- Bill Gammage for The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aboriginies Made Australia
- Short-listed
- James Boyce for 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia
- Charles Massey for Breaking the Sheep’s Back
- Russell McGregor for Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal people and the Australian Nation
- Renegade Films Australia Pty Ltd for Immigration Nation: The Secret History of Us
2013 prize[]
- Winner[8]
- Ross McMullin for Farewell, Dear People
- Short-listed
- Jenny Hocking for Gough Whitlam
- Paul Ham for Sandakan
- Nicole Moore for The Censor's Library
- Frank Bongiorno for The Sex Lives of Australians: A History
2014 prize[]
- Winners[9]
- Joan Beaumont for Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War
- Hal G.P. Colebatch for Australia's Secret War: How unionists sabotaged our troops in World War II
- Short-listed
- Michael Pembroke for Arthur Phillip: Sailor, Mercenary, Governor, Spy
- Mike Carlton for First Victory: 1914
- Clare Wright for The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka
2015 prize[]
- Winners[10]
- for Charles Bean
- David Horner for The Spy Catchers, Volume 1 of The Official History of ASIO
- Short-listed
- Alan Atkinson for The Europeans in Australia, Volume 3: Nation
- Peter Brune for Descent into Hell
- Anne Henderson for Menzies at War
2016 prize[]
- Winners
- Geoffrey Blainey for The Story of Australia's People: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia
- Sam Lipski and Suzanne D. Rutland for Let My People Go: The Untold Story of Australia and the Soviet Jews, 1959–89
- Short-listed
- Peter Monteath and Valerie Munt for Red Professor: The Cold War Life of Fred Rose
- Doug Morrissey for Ned Kelly: A Lawless Life
- Robert Stevenson for The War with Germany, Volume III of the Centenary History of Australia and the Great War
2017 prize[]
- Winner
- Elizabeth Tynan for Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story
- Short-listed
- Josephine Bastian for "A passion for exploring new countries": Matthew Flinders and George Bass
- Neil McDonald for Valiant Truth: The Life of Chester Wilmot, War Correspondent
- John Murphy for Evatt: A Life
- Charlie Ward for A Handful of Sand: The Gurindji Struggle, After the Walk-Off
2018 prize[]
- Winner[11]
- John Edwards for John Curtin's War: The Coming of War in The Pacific, and Reinventing Australia, Volume 1
- Short-listed[12]
- Judith Brett for The Enigmatic Mr Deakin
- Paul Irish for Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney
- Jayne Persian for Beautiful Balts: From Displaced Persons to New Australians
- Tim Rowse for Indigenous and Other Australians Since 1901
2019 prize[]
- Winner[13]
- Meredith Lake for The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History
- Short-listed[13]
- Billy Griffiths for Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia
- Anna Haebich for Dancing in Shadows: Histories of Nyungar Performance
- David Kemp for The Land of Dreams: How Australians Won Their Freedom, 1788–1860
- Clare Wright for You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World
2020 prize[]
Winner[14]
- Tiffany Shellam for Meeting the Waylo: Aboriginal Encounters in the Archipelago
Short-listed[15]
- Judith Brett for From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia got compulsory voting
- Marilyn Lake for Progressive New World: How settler colonialism and transpacific exchange shaped American reform
- Susan Lawrence and Peter Davies for Sludge: Disaster on Victoria’s goldfields
- Scott Patterson for The Oarsmen: The remarkable story of the men who rowed from the Great War to peace
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Australian History Summit 2006 Archived 3 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Jump up to: a b Australian History Prize Archived 27 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Poets and Historians to be Honoured in Literary Awards" Archived 18 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Prime Minister of Australia, 1 December 2011
- ^ "The 2008 Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History", Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
- ^ "2009 Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History", Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
- ^ "2010/2011 Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History", Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
- ^ "2012 shortlist". Prime Minister's Literary Awards. Australian Government. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
- ^ "2013 shortlist". Prime Minister's Literary Awards. Australian Government. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
- ^ "2014 shortlist". Prime Minister's Literary Awards. Australian Government. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
- ^ 2015 Prime Minister's Literary Awards winners announced
- ^ "John Curtin's legacy celebrated at 2018 Prime Minister Literary Awards". Curtin University. 6 December 2018. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
- ^ "Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2018 shortlists announced". Books and Publishing. 17 October 2018. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Winners and Shortlist". Prime Minister's Literary Awards. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
- ^ "Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2020 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 10 December 2020. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
- ^ "Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2020 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
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