New South Wales Premier's History Awards

The State Government of New South Wales

New South Wales

New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

established the Premier's History Awards in 1997. In 2005 the name of the awards was changed to NSW History Awards. The awards are presented annually.

The following awards, each of $15,000 are offered:

Australian History Prize for a major published book or e-book on Australian history.
General History Prize for a major published book or e-book on international history.
Community and Regional History Prize for a published book or e-book that makes a significant contribution to the understanding of community. institutional, urban or regional history in New South Wales.
Young People's History Prize for a published book or e-book, film, television or radio program, CD-ROM, DVD, or website - fiction or non-fiction - that increases the understanding and apprecation of history by children and young adults.
Multimedia History Prize for an Australian historian's interpretation of an historical subject using non-print media.
John and Patricia Ward History prize to encourage the use of archives in the writing of history.

The Australian History Prize

2009 Winner: Robin Gerster for Travels in Atomic Sunshine: Australia and the Occupation of Japan (Scribe)
2008 Winner: Paul Ham for Vietnam: The Australian War (HarperCollins)
2007 Winner: Libby Robin for How a Continent Created a Nation (University of NSW Press)
2006 Winner: Richard Broome for Aboriginal Victorians: a History Since 1800 (Allen & Unwin)
Shortlisted

Harvey Broadbent for Gallipoli: the Fatal Shore (Viking/Penguin Group Australia in association with Valerie Haye and the Helicon Press)

George Seddon for The Old Country: Australian Landscapes, Plants and People (Cambridge University Press)

Lachlan Strahan for Day of Reckoning (Pandanus Books)

2005 Winner: Eileen Chanin and Steven Miller, with an introductory essay by Judith Pugh for Degenerates and Perverts: The 1939 Herald Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art (The Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Publishing Ltd, 2005)
Shortlisted:

James Curran for The Power of Speech: Australian Prime Ministers Defining the National Image (Melbourne University Press, at Melbourne University Publishing Ltd, 2004)

Greg Dening for Beach Crossings: Voyaging across times, cultures and self (The Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Publishing Ltd, 2004)

2004 Winner: Stuart Macintyre and Anna Clark for The History Wars (Melbourne University Publishing)

2003 Winner: James Bowen and Margarita Bowen for The Great Barrier Reef: History, Science, Heritage (Cambridge University Press)

2002 Winner: Nadia Wheatley
Nadia Wheatley
Nadia Wheatley is an award winning Australian writer of children’s fiction and non-fiction, adult non-fiction and biographies, and newspaper and journal articles. Her works often focus on "the difficulties faced by Aborigines or non-English-speaking newcomers to Australia, ... environmental issues...

for The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift (HarperCollinsPublishers, 2001)
Shortlisted:

Julie Marcus for The Indomitable Miss Pink: a Life in Anthropology (University of NSW Press, 2001)

Ann Moyal for Platypus (Allen & Unwin, 2001)

2001 Winner: Tim Bonyhady for The Colonial Earth (The Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Press)
Shortlisted:

Christopher Cunneen for William John McKell: Boilermaker, Premier, Governor General (UNSW Press)

Anna Haebich for Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800-2000 (Fremantle Arts Centre Press)

2000 Winner: Peter Spearrit for Sydney's Century: A History (University of New South Wales Press)
1999 Winner: K. S. Inglis for Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape (Melbourne University Press)
1998 Winner: Anne Whitehead for Paradise Mislaid: In Search of the Australian Tribe of Paraguay (University of Queensland Press)
1997 Winner: Heather Goodall for Invasion to Embassy: Land in Aboriginal Politics in NSW, 1770-1972 (Allen & Unwin)

The General History Prize

2009 Winner: Warwick Anderson for The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen (Johns Hopkins University Press)
2008 Winner: Michael A. McDonnell for The Politics of War: Race, Class and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia (University of North Carolina Press)
2007 Winner: Christopher Clark
Christopher Clark
Christopher M. Clark is an Australian historian working in England. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School, the University of Sydney and the Freie Universität Berlin.-Life:...

for Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 (Harvard University Press)
2006 Winner: R J B Bosworth for Mussolini’s Italy: Life Under the Dictatorship 1915-1945 (Allen Lane/Penguin Books)
Shortlisted:

Geoffrey Blainey

Geoffrey Norman Blainey AC , is a prominent Australian historian.Blainey was born in Melbourne and raised in a series of Victorian country towns before attending Wesley College and the University of Melbourne. While at university he was editor of Farrago, the newspaper of the University of...

for A Short History of the 20th Century (Viking/Penguin Books)

A M Gibbs for Bernard Shaw: a Life (University of NSW Press Ltd)

2005 Winner: Sally Neighbour for In the Shadow of Swords: on the trail of terrorism from Afghanistan to Australia (HarperCollinsPublishers Pty Ltd, 2004)
Shortlisted:

Bruce Adams for Rustic Cubism: Anne Dangar and the Art Colony at Moly-Sabata (The University of Chicago Press, 2004)

Alice Garner

Alice Garner is an Australian actress, musician and historian.She is the daughter of Australian writer Helen Garner and writer and actor Bill Garner.-Acting life and career:...

for A Shifting Shore: locals, outsiders and the transformation of a French fishing town, 1823-2000 (Cornell University Press, 2005)

2004 Winner: Edward Duyker
Edward Duyker
Edward Duyker is an Australian historian and author born in Melbourne, Victoria, to a father from the Netherlands and a mother from Mauritius...

for Citizen Labillardière: A Naturalist’s Life in Revolution and Exploration 1755–1834 (The Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Publishing)

2003 Winner: David Garrioch for The Making of Revolutionary Paris (University of California Press)

2002 Winner: Ruth Wajnryb for The Silence: How Tragedy Shapes Talk (Allen & Unwin, 2001)
Shortlisted:

Judith Keene for Fighting for Franco: International Volunteers in Nationalist Spain during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39(Continuum International, Leicester University Press UK, 2001)

Gina Lennox for Fire, Snow and Honey: Voices from Kurdistan (Halstead Press, 2001)

2001 Winner: Rowena Lennox for Fighting Spirit of East Timor: The Life of Martinho da Costa Lopes (Pluto Press Australia)
Shortlisted:

Granville Allen Mawer for Ahab's Trade: The Saga of South Sea Whaling (Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd)

Bob Reece for The Origins of Irish Convict Transportation to New South Wales (Palgrave UK)

2000 Winner: Anna Lanyon for Malinche's Conquest (Allen & Unwin)

1999 Winner: Inga Clendinnen
Inga Clendinnen
Inga Vivienne Clendinnen AO is an Australian author and historian, anthropologist and academic.-Life and career:Born in Geelong, Victoria, Clendinnen graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1955 with a BA...

for Reading the Holocaust (The Text Publishing Company Pty Ltd)
Shortlisted:

Edward Duyker

Edward Duyker is an Australian historian and author born in Melbourne, Victoria, to a father from the Netherlands and a mother from Mauritius...

for Nature's Argonaut: Daniel Solander 1733-1782: Naturalist and Voyager with Cook and Banks (The Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Publishing)

1998 Winner: Marsden Hordern for King of the Australian Coast: the Work of Phillip Parker King in the Mermaid and Bathurst 1817-1822 (Melbourne University Press)

1997 Winner: Patricia Jalland for Death in the Victorian Family (Oxford University Press)

The Community and Regional History Prize

2009 Winner: David Bollen for Up on the Hill: A History of St Patrick's College (UNSW Press)
2008 Winner: Dianne Johnson, in collaboration with the residents of the Gully and their descendants, for Sacred Waters: the story of the Blue Mountains Gully Traditional Owners (Halstead Press)

2007 Winner: Regina Ganter for Mixed Relations: Asian Aboriginal Contact in North Australia (University of Western Australia Press)

2006 Winner: Maria Nugent for Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet (Allen & Unwin)
Shortlisted:

Loretta Baldassar and Ros Pesman for From Paesani to Global Italians: Veneto Migrants in Australia(University of Western Australia Press )

Elaine McKewon for The Scarlet Mile: a Social History of Prostitution in Kalgoorlie 1894-2004 (University of Western Australia Press)

2005 Winner: Joe Hajdu for Samurai in the Surf: the arrival of the Japanese on the Gold Coast in the 1980s (Pandanus Books, 2005)
Shortlisted:

Hilary Golder for SACKED. Removing and Remaking the Sydney City Council 1853-1988 (City of Sydney, 2004)

Andrew Lemon for A Great Australian School: Wesley College Examined (The Helicon Press Pty Ltd, 2004)

Peter Yule (ed) and Carlton Residents Association for Carlton: a history (Melbourne University Press, at Melbourne University Publishing Ltd, 2004)

2004 Winner: Patricia Crawford and Ian Crawford for Contested Country: A History of the Northcliffe Area, Western Australia (University of Western Australia Press)

2003 Winner: [Erik Eklund]http://arts.monash.edu.au/humcass/staff/eeklund.php for [Steel Town: The Making and Breaking of Port Kembla]http://catalogue.mup.com.au/978-0-522-85026-0.html (Melbourne University Press)

2002 Winner: John Bailey for The White Divers of Broome: the true story of a fatal experiment(Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd, 2001)
Shortlisted:

Suzanne Falkiner

Suzanne Falkiner is an Australian writer. Born in Sydney, she grew up in western New South Wales and was educated at the University of New South Wales, Columbia University and University of Technology, Sydney...

and Alan Oldfield for Lizard Island: The Journey of Mary Watson (Allen & Unwin, 2001)

Meredith Fletcher for Digging People Up for Coal: A History of Yallourn (Melbourne University Press, 2002)

2001 Winner: Carolyn Wadley Dowley for Through Silent Country (Fremantle Arts Centre Press)
Shortlisted:

Julie Carr for The Captive White Woman of Gipps Land: in pursuit of the legend (Melbourne University Press)

Clive Faro and Garry Wotherspoon for Street Seen: A History of Oxford Street (Melbourne University Press)

Peter Read for Belonging: Australians, Place and Aboriginal Ownership (Cambridge University Press)

1999 Winner: Janet McCalman for Sex and Suffering : Women's Health and a Women's Hospital : the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, 1856 - 1996(Melbourne University Press, 1998)

1998 Winner: Grace Karskens for The Rocks: Life in Early Sydney (Melbourne University Press)

1997 Winner: Christopher Cunningham for The Blue Mountains Rediscovered (Kangaroo Press)

The Young People's History Prize

(known as the Children's History Prize until 2002)

2009 Winner: Anthony Hill
Anthony Hill (author)
Anthony Hill is an Australian author based in Canberra.Born in Melbourne, Victoria, he attended Melbourne University from 1960 until 1963 and then worked as a journalist at the Melbourne Herald before joining the Parliamentary Press Gallery in 1972. In 1977 he left the Press Gallery to run an...

for Captain Cook's Apprentice (Penguin)
2008 Winner: Robert Lewis and Tim Gurry for Australians in the Vietnam War (Ryebuck Media)

2007 Winner: John Nicholson for Songlines and Stone Axes (Allen & Unwin)

2006 Winner: Pamela Freeman for The Black Dress: Mary MacKillop’s Early Years (Black Dog Books
Black Dog Books
Black Dog Books is an independent publisher and production house based in Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia. They publish books in all genres but focus mainly on children's literature.-History:...

)
Shortlisted:

Jackie French

Jacqueline Anne "Jackie" French is an award-winning Australian author. She writes mainly children's fiction and books on gardening....

for They Came on Viking Ships (Angus & Robertson/ HarperCollins Publishers Pty Ltd)

Lee Whitmore for The Safe House (Film Australia)

2005 Winner: Allan Baillie
Allan Baillie
Allan Baillie is an Australian writer. He was born in Scotland, but moved with his family to Australia when he was seven. He began work as a journalist working on papers such as the Melbourne Sun, Telegraph and the Australian Women's Weekly having studied journalism at Melbourne University...

for My Story: Riding with Thunderbolt, the diary of Ben Cross, Northern NSW, 1865 (Scholastic Press: an imprint of Scholastic Australia Pty Ltd, 2004)
Shortlisted:

Terry Hastings and Stuart Trist for We Swear by the Southern Cross (Curriculum Corporation, 2004)

Jan Ormerod for Lizzie Nonsense (Little Hare Books, 2004)

John Wright and Joshua Wright for It's True! the Romans were the real gangsters (Allen & Unwin, 2004)

2004 Winner: David Hollinsworth for They Took the Children (Working Title Press in association with Scholastic Australia)

2003 Winner: Alan Tucker, My Story: The Bombing of Darwin, The Diary of Tom Taylor (Scholastic Press, Scholastic Australia)

2002 Winner: Papunya School for Papunya School Book of Country and History (Allen & Unwin, 2001)

Shortlisted:

Anita Heiss for Who am I? The Diary of Mary Talence, Sydney, 1937 (Scholastic Australia Pty Ltd, 2001)

Deborah Lisson for The Yankee Whaler: the Diary of Thomas Morris Bunbury WA, 1876 (Scholastic Australia Pty Ltd, 2001)

Christine Olsen and Phillip Noyce

Phillip Noyce

Phillip Noyce is an Australian film director.-Life and career:Noyce was born in Griffith, New South Wales, attended Barker College, Sydney, and began making short films at the age of 18, starting with Better to Reign in Hell, using his friends as the cast...

for Rabbit-Proof Fence
Rabbit-Proof Fence (film)
Rabbit-Proof Fence is a 2002 Australian drama film directed by Phillip Noyce based on the book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington Garimara...

(Jabal Films Pty Ltd, 2002)

2001 Winner: No award made.

2000 Winner: Gael Jennings and Roland Harvey (illus.) for Sick As: Bloody Moments in the History of Medicine (Roland Harvey Books)

1999 Winner: No award made.

1998 Winner: Bruce Scates and Raelene Frances for Wonem and the Great War (Cambridge University Press)

1997 Winner: Jennifer Lawless, Kate Cameron and Carmel Young for Unlocking the Past: Preliminary Studies in the Ancient World (Nelson ITP)

State Records - John and Patricia Ward History Prize

This prize was first awarded in 2002 to encourage the use of archives in the writing of history. The State Record established the prize in recognition of the contribution to history and archives of NSW by John and Patricia Ward.

2008 Winner: Christina Twomey for Australia's Forgotten Prisoners: Civulians Interned by the Japanese in World War Two (Cambridge University Press)

2007 Winner: Klaus Neumann for In the Interest of National Security: Civilian Internment in Australia (National Archives of Australia)

2006 Winner: Gwenda Tavan for The Long, Slow Death of White Australia (Scribe Publications Pty Ltd)
Shortlisted

Andrew Moore

Andrew Moore (historian)

Dr Andrew Moore is an Australian historian and academic, a specialist in Australian right-wing politics. He has taught at the University of Sydney, The University of New South Wales, England's University of Lincoln and the University of Western Sydney...

for Francis De Groot: Irish Fascist Australian Legend( The Federation Press)

2005 Winner: Tony Roberts for Frontier Justice: a history of the Gulf Country to 1900 (UQP, 2005)
Shortlisted:

Daniel Oakman for Facing Asia: a history of the Colombo Plan (Pandanus Books, 2004)

Roslyn Poignant for Professional Savages: captive lives and western spectacle (University of NSW Press, 2004)

2004 Winner: Bain Attwood for Rights for Aborigines (Allen & Unwin)

2003 Winner: David Kent and Norma Townsend for The Convicts of the Eleanor: Protest in Rural England; New Lives in Australia (The Merlin Press Ltd. [UK] and Pluto Press Australia)

2002 Winner: Thom Blake for A Dumping Ground: A History of the Cherbourg Settlement (UQP, 2001)
Shortlisted:

David Day

David Day (historian)

David Day is an Australian historian.David Day graduated with first-class Honours in History and Political Science from the University of Melbourne and was awarded a PhD from the University of Cambridge...

for Chifley (HarperCollinsPublishers (Australia) Pty Ltd, 2001)

Nonja Peters for Milk and Honey - But No Gold: Postwar Migration to Western Australia between 1945 - 1964 (UWA Press, 2001)

Ann Stephen (ed) Natalie Adamson, Charles Pickett & Anne Watson for Visions of a Republic: The Work of Lucien Henry(Powerhouse Publishing, 2001)

Multimedia History Prize

(known as The Audio/Visual History Prize until 2009)

2009 Winner: Rachel Landers and Dylan Bowen for A Northern Town (Pony Films)

2008 Winner: Paul Rudd, Matthew Thomason, Wain Fimeri and Anthony Wright for Captain Cook: Obsession and Discovery (Film Australia, Cook Films, Ferns Productions, South Pacific Films, December Films, ABC)

2007 Winner: John Hughes for The Archive Project: The Realist Film Unit in Cold War Australia (Early Works - ABC TV)
shortlisted

Shortlisted 2007 NSW Premier's History Awards – Audio/Visual History Prize - Our Memories, Belongings And Places Online – by John Petersen, Annette Loudon, Andrea Fernandes and Stephen Thompson – NSW Migration Heritage Centre, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney

2006 Winner: Rolf de Heer
Rolf de Heer
Rolf de Heer is a Dutch film director, writer and producer living in Australia. De Heer was born in Heemskerk in The Netherlands but migrated to Sydney when he was eight years old. He attended the Australian Film Television and Radio School in Sydney. His company is called Vertigo Productions and...

for Ten Canoes
Ten Canoes
Ten Canoes is a 2006 film. It was directed by Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr and starred Crusoe Kurddal. The title of the film arose from discussions between de Heer and David Gulpilil about a photograph of ten canoeists poling across the Arafura Swamp, taken by anthropologist Donald Thomson in...

(Vertigo Productions/Adelaide Festival of Arts
Adelaide Festival of Arts
The Adelaide Festival of Arts is an arts festival held biennially in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. Although locally considered to be one of the world's greatest celebrations of the arts, that is internationally renowned and the pre-eminent cultural event in Australia, it is actually...

)
shortlisted:

Wain Fimeri for Revealing Gallipoli (December Films)

Nicole McCuaig and Veronica Fury for Black Soldier Blues (Big Island Pictures)

Julie Nimmo and Elena Govor for Pioneers of Love (Orana Films Pty Ltd )

Nicole Steinke for Remembering Rowe Street (Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...

)

2005 Winner: Trevor Graham for Hula Girls (Electric Pictures Pty Ltd, 2005)
Shortlisted:

James Middleton for Political Football (Hilton Cordell Productions, 2005)

Simon Nasht for Frank Hurley: The Man Who Made History (Real Pictures Pty Ltd, 2004)

2004 Winner: Tom Murray in collaboration with the Dhuruputjpi and Yilpara communities for Dhakiyarr vs the King (Film Australia)

2003 Winner: Marée Delofski for The Trouble With Merle (Film Australia in association with SeeView Pictures)

2002 Winner: Anita Heiss and Terri McCormack, Website: Barani (Yesterday) - Indigenous history of Sydney (City of Sydney Web Team and History Program in conjunction with CyberDreaming, 2002)
Shortlisted:

Robin Hughes for Australian Biography Series VIII, Episodes 1-7 (Film Australia, 2002)

Andrew Taylor & Jo-Anne McGowan for Kabbarli - A film about Daisy Bates (Resonance Productions, SBS TV, 2002)

2001 Winner: Michael Cummins (writer and production manager) for Thomson of Arnhem Land (Film Australia in association with John Moore (director/producer), Martin Thiele (archival researcher) and Michael McMahon (producer))
Shortlisted:

Paul Kelly and Kate Evans for 100 Years - The Australian Story (ABC Television

ABC Television

ABC Television is a service of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation launched in 1956. As a public broadcasting broadcaster, the ABC provides four non-commercial channels within Australia, and a partially advertising-funded satellite channel overseas....

and ABC Radio

ABC Local Radio

ABC Local Radio is a network of publicly owned radio stations in Australia, operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.ABC Local Radio stations broadcast across the continent using terrestrial transmitters and satellites...

)

Gaby Mason and Belinda Mason for City of Dreams (Film Australia)

2000 Winner: Martin Thomas for This is Jimmy Barker (ABC Radio
ABC Local Radio
ABC Local Radio is a network of publicly owned radio stations in Australia, operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.ABC Local Radio stations broadcast across the continent using terrestrial transmitters and satellites...

Audio Arts)

1999 Winner: Michelle Rayner for Passes and Pathways (ABC Radio National
Radio National
ABC Radio National is an Australia-wide non-commercial radio network run by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.Radio National broadcasts national programming in areas that include news and current affairs, the arts, social issues, science, drama and comedy...

)

1998 Winner: Trevor Graham (director & co-producer) for Mabo: Life of an Island Man (Film Australia)

1997 Winner: Bill Bunbury for Unfinished Business, episodes 1-6 Hindsight, (ABC Radio
ABC Local Radio
ABC Local Radio is a network of publicly owned radio stations in Australia, operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.ABC Local Radio stations broadcast across the continent using terrestrial transmitters and satellites...

)

The Centenary of Federation Prize

This award was created as a one-off presentation for 2001, the prize being sponsored by the NSW Centenary of Federation Committee. This award was for a "major work" relating to the Australian Federation period focussing on the political, social and cultural issues of Australia at that time.

2001
Winner: Geoffrey Bolton
Geoffrey Bolton
Geoffrey Curgenven Bolton AO is an Australian historian born on 5 November 1931 in North Perth , Western Australia. He attended Wesley College, Perth from 1943 to 1947. He has been publishing works on Australian history since 1952, and has authored 13 books, most recently Land of Vision and Mirage:...

for Edmund Barton (Allen and Unwin Pty Ltd)
Shortlisted:

Peter Botsman for The Great Constitutional Swindle: a citizen's view of the Australian Constitution (Pluto Press Australia)

Helen Irving for The Centenary Companion to Australian Federation (Cambridge University Press)