2021 |
Winner | - Sally May, Laura Rademaker, Donna Nadjamerrek & Julie Narndal Gumurdul — The Bible in Buffalo Country: Oenpelli Mission 1925–1931
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Highly Commended | - Maisie Austin and Matthew Stephen — The Cummings Family: Family, Belonging and Connection to Country
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Finalists | - Derek Pugh — Port Essington: The British in North Australia 1838–49
- Brian Reid — Power and Protection: The contest between the Government Residents and the medical Protectors of the Aborigines in South Australia's Northern Territory
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2020 (not awarded) |
2019 |
Winner | - Lyndon Megarrity — Northern Dreams: The Politics of Northern Development in Australia
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Finalists | - Laura Rademaker — Found in Translation: Many Meanings on a North Australian Mission
- Maggie Brady — Teaching "proper" drinking? Clubs and pubs in Indigenous Australia
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2018 |
Winner | - Kathy De La Rue — A Stubborn City: Darwin 1911-1978
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Finalists | - Steven Farram — Charles James Kirkland: The Life and Times of a Pioneer Newspaperman in the Top End of Australia
- Pam Oliver — The Intrepid Hilda Abbott: Author, Designer, Red Cross Officer, Political Wife, 1890-1984
- Sid Anderson, John Kean, Professor Fred R Myers, Lisa Nolan, Dr Benedict Scambary, Luke Scholes, Long Jack Phillipus Tjakamarra, Michael Nelson Tjakamarra, Joseph Jurrah Tjapaltjarri, Bobby West Tjupurrula, Desmond Phillipus Tjupurrula and Margie West — Tjungunutja: from having come together
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2017 |
Winner | - Stuart Traynor — Alice Springs: From Singing Wire to Iconic Outback Town
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Finalists | - Deborah Bisa — Remember Me Kindly: A History of the Holtze Family in the Northern Territory
- Claire Lowrie — Masters and Servants: Cultures of Empire in the Tropics
- Charlie Ward — A Handful of Sand: The Gurindji Struggle, After the Walk-Off
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2016 |
Winner | - Adrian Vickers and Julia Martinez – The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia's Northern Trading Network
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Finalists | - John Lamb - Silent pearls: old Japanese graves in Darwin and the history of pearling
- Deborah Wilson - Different White People: Radical Activism For Aboriginal Rights 1946 – 1972
- Yanyuwa, Marra, Garrwa and Gudanji families with Karin Riederer - Gulf Country Songbook: Yanyuwa, Marra, Garrwa and Gudanji Songs
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2015 |
Winner | - Dick Dakeyne – Radar Gunner
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Finalists | - Sophie Cunningham – Warning – The Story of Cyclone Tracy
- Steven Farram - A History Written in Metal
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2014 |
Winner | - Helen Bond-Sharp – Maningrida
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Finalists | - Robyn Smith – Antecedents: the history of Ward Keller
- Tom Lewis – Carrier Attack Darwin 1942
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2013 |
Joint Winners | - Jennifer Isaacs – Tiwi: art, history, culture and
- Darrell Lewis – A Wild History: life and death on the Victoria River frontier
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Finalists | - Jane Lydon – The Flash of Recognition: photography and the emergence of indigenous rights
- Noah Riseman – Defending Whose Country? : Indigenous soldiers in the Pacific War
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2012 |
Joint Winners | - Anthony Cooper – Darwin Spitfires: the Real Battle for Australia
- Jack Cross – Great Central State
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Finalists | - Murray Seiffert – Gumbuli of Ngukurr: Aboriginal Elder in Arnhem Land
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2011 |
Winner | - Dr Mickey Dewar – Darwin – No Place Like Home
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Finalists | - Alan Powell – Northern Voyagers: Australia’s Monsoon Coast in Maritime History
- Matthew Stephen – Contact Zones: Sport and Race in the Northern Territory, 1869–1953
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2010 |
Winner | - Peter Grose – An Awkward Truth
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Finalists | |
2009 |
Joint Winners | - Banduk Marika – Yalangbara: art of the Djang’kawu
- Vivien Johnson – Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists
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Finalists | |
2008 |
Winner | - Philip Jones – Ochre and Rust
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Finalists | - Alex Kruger & Gerrard Waterford – Alone on the Soaks
- Philip Jones & Anna Kenny – Australia's Muslim Cameleers
- Baiba Berzins – Australia's Northern Secret: Tourism in the Northern Territory
- Robert Foster & Amanda Nettlebeck – In the Name of the Law
- Andrew McMillan – An Intruder's Guide to East Arnhem Land
- Darrel Lewis – The Murranji Track
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2007 |
Winner | - Pam Oliver – Empty North: the Japanese presence and Australian reactions 1860s to 1942
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Finalists | - Glenice Yee — Through Chinese eyes: the Chinese experience in the Northern Territory 1874–2004
- Liam Campbell — Darby: one hundred years in a changing culture
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2006 |
Winner | - Tony Roberts — Frontier Justice: A History of the Gulf Country To 1900 ,[3] Reviews: [4][5]
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Finalists | - Marge Duminski — Southport Northern Territory 1869–2002 (Historical Society of the Northern Territory, 2005)
- Claire Henty-Gebert — Paint Me Black
- Pearl Ogden — People of the Victoria River Region: An Album
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2005 |
Winner | - John Mulvaney — Paddy Cahill of Oenpelli [6] Reviews:[7]
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Finalists | - Kathy de la Rue — The Evolution of Darwin 1869–1911
- Peter Monteath (ed) — The Diary of Emily Caroline Creaghe, Explorer
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2004 |
Winner | - David Bridgman — Acclimatisation: architecture at the top end of Australia
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Finalists | - Geraldine Byrne – Tom and Jack: A Frontier Story
- Ivan Jordan – Their way: Towards an Indigenous Warlpiri Christianity
- Brian Reid – The Menzies School of Health Research: Establishment, 1978–1997
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