2005 in Australian literature

Literature-related events in Australia during the year of 2005

This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2005.

## Events

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* Morag Fraser is appointed as a judge of the Miles Franklin Award, following the resignation of three judges in late 2004[1]
* Murray Bail is accused of plagiarism over several passages in his novel Eucalyptus. Bail later accepts the breach and intends adding an acknowledgment in future editions[2]
* The Victorian town of Shepparton unveils a statue of Joseph Furphy, author of Such is Life[3]
* Collins Booksellers, Australia's third largest national bookseller, goes into voluntary administration[4]

## Major publications

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### Literary fiction

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* Diane Armstrong – Winter Journey[5]
* Anne Bartlett – Knitting[6]
* Geraldine Brooks – March
* Brian Castro – The Garden Book
* J. M. Coetzee – Slow Man
* Gregory Day – The Patron Saint of Eels
* Robert Drewe – Grace[7]
* Arabella Edge – The God of Spring[8]
* Delia Falconer – The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers[9]
* Kate Grenville – The Secret River
* Sonya Hartnett – Surrender
* Wendy James – Out of the Silence
* Nicholas Jose – Original Face[10]
* Stephen Lacey – Sandstone[11]
* Steven Lang – An Accidental Terrorist[12]
* Carolyn Leach-Paholski – The Grasshopper Shoe[13]
* Andrew McCann – Subtopia[14]
* Roger McDonald – The Ballad of Desmond Kale
* Alex Miller – Prochownik's Dream
* Joanna Murray-Smith – Sunnyside[15]
* Eva Sallis – The Marsh Birds[16]
* Elizabeth Stead – The Book of Tides[17]
* Carrie Tiffany – Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living
* Ian Townsend – Affection[18]
* Christos Tsiolkas – Dead Europe[19]
* Brenda Walker – The Wing of Night
* Tim Winton – The Turning

### Children's and Young Adult fiction

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* Randa Abdel-Fattah – Does My Head Look Big in This?
* J. C. Burke – The Story of Tom Brennan
* Isobelle Carmody – Alyzon Whitestarr
* Kate Constable – The Tenth Power[20]
* Gary Crew – The Lace Maker's Daughter[21]
* Mem Fox – Hunwick's Egg
* Morris Gleitzman – Once
* Kerry Greenwood – The Rat and the Raven[22]
* Sonya Hartnett – Surrender
* Barry Jonsberg – It's Not All About You, Calma![23]
* Justine Larbalestier – Magic or Madness
* Victor Kelleher – Dogboy[24]
* Mardi McConnochie – Fivestar[25]
* Garth Nix – Drowned Wednesday
* Penni Russon – Breathe[26]
* Scott Westerfeld
* Pretties
* Touching Darkness
* Uglies
* Markus Zusak – The Book Thief

### Crime

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* Robert G. Barrett – Crime Scene Cessnock[27]
* John Birmingham – Designated Targets: World War 2.2[28]
* Peter Corris – Saving Billie[29]
* Colin Cotterill – Thirty-Three Teeth[30]
* Michelle de Kretser – The Hamilton Case
* Garry Disher – Snapshot[31]
* Greg Flynn – The Berlin Cross[32]
* Robert Gott – A Thing of Blood[33]
* Kerry Greenwood – Death by Water[34]
* Gabrielle Lord – Dirty Weekend[35]
* P. D. Martin – Body Count[36]
* Chris Nyst – Crook as Rookwood
* Leigh Redhead – Rubdown[37]
* Matthew Reilly – Seven Ancient Wonders[38]
* Michael Robotham – Lost
* Heather Rose – The Butterfly Man[39]
* Steve J. Spears – Innocent Murder[40]
* Peter Temple – The Broken Shore

### Romance

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* Lilian Darcy – The Father Factor[41]
* Marion Lennox – Bride by Accident[42]

### Science fiction and fantasy

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* K. A. Bedford – Eclipse[43]
* Damien Broderick – Godplayers[44]
* Cecilia Dart-Thornton – The Well of Tears[45]
* Marianne de Pierres – Crash Deluxe
* Sara Douglass – Darkwitch Rising[46]
* Greg Egan – "Riding the Crocodile"
* Kate Forsyth – The Shining City[47]
* Catherine Jinks – Evil Genius[48]
* Juliet Marillier – Blade of Fortriu[49]
* Sean Williams
* Ascent (with Shane Dix)[50]
* The Blood Debt[51]
* The Hanging Mountains[52]

### Drama

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* Chris Aronsten – Human Resources[53]
* Jane Brodie – A Single Act[54]
* Catherine Lazaroo – Asylum[55]

### Poetry

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* Alan Gould – The Past Completes Me: Selected Poems 1973-2003[56]
* John Kinsella – The New Arcadia[57]
* Jennifer Maiden – Friendly Fire
* Jaya Savige – Latecomers[58]

### Non-fiction

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* R.J.B. Bosworth – Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Dictatorship 1915-1945[59]
* Richard Broome – Aboriginal Victorians: A History Since 1800[60]
* Helen Ennis – Margaret Michaelis: Love, Loss and Photography[61]
* Pamela Freeman – The Black Dress: Mary MacKillop's Early Years[62]
* Tom Keneally – A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia
* Maria Nugent – Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet[63]

### Biographies

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* John Baxter – We'll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light[64]
* Richie Benaud – My Spin on Cricket[65]
* Eric Campbell – Absurdistan: A Bumpy Ride Through Some of the World's Scariest, Weirdest Places[66]
* Maryanne Convoy – Morris West: Literary Maverick[67]
* Peter C. Doherty – The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize: A Life in Science[68]
* Graham Freudenberg – A Figure of Speech: A Political Memoir[69]
* Gavin Fry – Albert Tucker[70]
* Aneurin Hughes – Billy Hughes: Prime Minister and Controversial Founding Father of the Australian Labor Party[71]
* Sandy McCutcheon – The Magician's Son[72]
* William McInnes – A Man's Got to Have a Hobby: Long Summers with My Dad[73]
* Brenda Niall – Judy Cassab: A Portrait[74]
* Barry Pearce – Jeffrey Smart[75]
* Jacob G. Rosenberg – East of Time[76]
* Mandy Sayer – Velocity[77]
* Craig Sherborne – Hoi Polloi[78]
* Steve Waugh – Out of My Comfort Zone[79]
* Elisabeth Wynhausen – Dirt Cheap: Life at the Wrong End of the Job Market[80]

## Awards and honours

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### Lifetime achievement

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Award  | Author

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Christopher Brennan Award[81] | Fay Zwicky
Patrick White Award[82] | Fay Zwicky

### Literary

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Award  | Author  | Title  | Publisher

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The Age Book of the Year[83] | Gay Bilson | Plenty: Digressions on Food | Lantern
ALS Gold Medal[84] | Gail Jones | Sixty Lights | Harvill Press
Colin Roderick Award[85] | Peter Temple | The Broken Shore | Text Publishing
Nita Kibble Literary Award[86] | Gay Bilson | Plenty | Lantern

### Fiction

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#### International

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Award  | Category  | Author  | Title  | Publisher

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Commonwealth Writers' Prize[87] | Best Novel, SE Asia and South Pacific region  | Andrew McGahan | The White Earth | Allen and Unwin
Best First Novel, SE Asia and South Pacific region  | Larissa Behrendt | Home | University of Queensland Press

#### National

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Award  | Author  | Title  | Publisher

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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[88] | Not awarded  |  |
The Age Book of the Year Award[83] | Gail Jones | Sixty Lights | Harvill Press
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[89] | Andrew O'Connor | Tuvalu | Allen and Unwin
Miles Franklin Award[90] | Andrew McGahan | The White Earth | Allen and Unwin
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[91] | Tim Winton | The Turning | Picador
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards[92] | Tim Winton | The Turning | Picador
Victorian Premier's Literary Award[93] | Sonya Hartnett | Surrender | Walker Books
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards[94] | Carrie Tiffany | Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living | Picador

### Children and Young Adult

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#### National

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Award  | Category  | Author  | Title  | Publisher

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Children's Book of the Year Award | Older Readers | Michael Gerard Bauer | The Running Man | Omnibus Books
Younger Readers | Sonya Hartnett | The Silver Donkey | Viking Books
Picture Book | Alison Lester | Are We There Yet? A Journey Around Australia | Viking Books
Early Childhood | Mem Fox, illus. Judy Horacek | Where is the Green Sheep? | Viking Books
Davitt Award | Young Adult  | Joanna Baker  | Devastation Road | Lothian
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Children's  | Sherryl Clark  | Farm Kid | Puffin Books
Young People's  | Steven Herrick | By the River | Allen and Unwin
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards | Children's  | Prue Mason  | Camel Rider | Puffin Books
Young Adult  | Joanne Horniman  | Secret Scribbled Notebooks | Allen and Unwin
Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Young Adult Fiction  | Scott Westerfeld | So Yesterday | Penguin Books
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Writing for Young Adults  | Anthony Eaton  | Fireshadow | University of Queensland Press
Children's  | Joanne Crawford and Grace Fielding  | A Home for Bilby | Magabala Books

### Crime and Mystery

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#### National

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Award  | Category  | Author  | Title  | Publisher

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Davitt Award[95] | Novel  | Kathryn Fox | Malicious Intent | Macmillan
Readers' Choice  | Leigh Redhead | Peepshow | Allen & Unwin
Young Adult Novel  | Joanna Baker  | Devastation Road | Lothian
Ned Kelly Award[96] | Novel  | Michael Robotham | Lost | Time Warner Book Group
First novel  | Malcolm Knox | A Private Man | Vintage Books
True crime  | Helen Garner | Joe Cinque's Consolation | Picador
Tony Reeves  | Mr Big | Allen & Unwin
Lifetime Achievement  | Stuart Coupe |  |

### Science fiction

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Award  | Category  | Author  | Title  | Publisher

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Aurealis Award | Sf Novel  | Damien Broderick | K-Machines | Thunder's Mouth Press
Sf Short Story  | Sean Williams | The Seventh Letter | "Bulletin" Magazine, Summer Reading Edition
Fantasy Novel  | Juliet Marillier | Wildwood Dancing | Pan Macmillan
Fantasy Short Story  | Margo Lanagan | "A Fine Magic"  | Eidolon Books (Eidolon I)
Horror Novel  | Will Elliott | The Pilo Family Circus | ABC Books
Edwina Grey | Prismatic | Lothian Books
Horror Short Story  | Stephen Dedman | "Dead of Winter"  | Weird Tales
Ditmar Award | Novel  | Sean Williams | The Crooked Letter | Voyager
Novella/Novelette  | Paul Haines | "The Last Days of Kali Yuga"  | NFG Magazine
Short Story  | Margo Lanagan | "Singing My Sister Down"  | Black Juice
Collected Work  | Margo Lanagan | Black Juice | Allen & Unwin
Australian Shadows Award |  | Lee Battersby | "Father Muerte and the Flesh"  | Aurealis

### Poetry

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Award  | Author  | Title  | Publisher

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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[88] | Not awarded  |  |
The Age Book of the Year[83] | Dipti Saravanamuttu | The Colosseum | Five Islands Press
Anne Elder Award[97] | Max Ryan | Rainswayed Night | Dangerously Poetic Press
Grace Leven Prize for Poetry[98] | Noel Rowe | Next to Nothing | Vagabond Press
Mary Gilmore Prize[99] | Not awarded  |  |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Samuel Wagan Watson | Smoke Encrypted Whispers | University of Queensland Press
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards | Sarah Day | The Ship | Brandl and Schlesinger
Victorian Premier's Literary Award | M. T. C. Cronin | <More Or Less Than> 1-100 | Shearsman Books
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Miriam Wei Wei Lo  | Against Certain Capture | Five Islands Press

### Drama

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Award  | Author  | Title  | Publisher

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Patrick White Playwrights' Award | Wesley Enoch | The Story of the Miracles at Cookie's Table | Currency Press

### Non-Fiction

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Award  | Category  | Author  | Title  | Publisher

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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[88] | Non-Fiction  | Not awarded  |
The Age Book of the Year[83] | Non-fiction  | Gay Bilson  | Plenty: Digressions on Food | Lantern
National Biography Award[100] | Biography  | Robert Hillman  | The Boy in the Green Suit | Scribe Publications
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Non-fiction  | John Hughes | The Idea of Home: Autobiographical Essays | Giramondo Publishing
New South Wales Premier's History Awards | Australian History  | Eileen Chanin and Steven Miller  | Degenerates and Perverts: the 1939 Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art | Melbourne University Publishing
Community and Regional History  | Joe Hajdu  | Samurai in the Surf: the Arrival of the Japanese on the
Gold Coast in the 1980s | Pandanus Books
General History  | Sally Neighbour  | In the Shadow of Swords: on the Trail of Terrorism from Afghanistan to Australia | HarperCollins
Young People's  | Allan Baillie  | My Story: Riding with Thunderbolt, the Diary of Ben Cross | Scholastic Press
Nita Kibble Literary Award |  | Gay Bilson  | Plenty: Digressions on Food | Lantern
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards | Non-fiction  | Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon  | Papunya – A Place Made After the Story | Miegunyah Press
History  | Shane White and Graham White  | The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African
History Through Songs, Sermons and Speech | Beacon Press
Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Non-fiction  | Robert Dessaix | Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev | Picador

## Deaths

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* 11 April – John Brosnan, sf and cinema writer (born 1947)[101]
* 10 May – Percy Trezise, children's writer (born 1923)[102]
* 13 May – Shelton Lea, poet (born 1946)[103]
* 29 August – Margaret Scott, poet and novelist (born in Bristol, England, 1934)[104]
* 8 September – Donald Horne, social and political commentator (born 1921)[105]
* 14 October – Barney Roberts, poet and short story writer (born 1920)[106]
* 18 October – Philip Martin, poet (born 1931)[107]
* 1 November –
* Jenny Boult, poet (born 1951)[108]
* Michael Thwaites, poet (born 1915)[109]
* 22 December – Bill Scott, poet and children's writer (born 1923)[110]

## See also

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* 2005 in Australia
* 2005 in literature
* 2005 in poetry
* List of years in Australian literature
* List of years in literature

## References

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6. ^ "Knitting by Anne Bartlett". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
7. ^ "Grace by Robert Drewe". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
8. ^ "The God of Spring by Arabella Edge". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
9. ^ "The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers by Delia Falconer". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
10. ^ "Original Face by Nicholas Jose". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
11. ^ "Sandstone by Stephen Lacey". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
12. ^ "An Accidental Terrorist by Steven Lang". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
13. ^ "The Grasshopper Shoe by Carolyn Leach-Paholski". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
14. ^ "Subtopia by A. L. McCann". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
15. ^ "Sunnyside by Joanna Murray-Smith". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
16. ^ "The Marsh Birds by Eva Sallis". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
17. ^ "The Book of Tides by Elizabeth Stead". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
18. ^ "Affection by Ian Townsend". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
19. ^ "Dead Europe by Christos Tsiolkas". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
20. ^ "The Tenth Power by Kate Constable". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
21. ^ "The Lace Maker's Daughter by Gary Crew". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
22. ^ "The Rat and the Raven by Kerry Greenwood". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
23. ^ "It's Not All About You, Calma! by Barry Jonsberg". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
24. ^ "Dogboy by Victor Kelleher". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
25. ^ "Fivestar by Mardi McConnochie". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
26. ^ "Breathe by Penni Russon". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
27. ^ "Crime Scene Cessnock by Robert G. Barrett". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
28. ^ "Designated Targets: World War 2.2 by John Birmingham". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
29. ^ "Saving Billie by Peter Corris". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
30. ^ "Thirty-Three Teeth by Colin Cotterill". Austlit. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
31. ^ "Snapshot by Garry Disher". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
32. ^ "The Berlin Cross by Greg Flynn". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
33. ^ "A Thing of Blood by Robert Gott". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
34. ^ "Death by Water by Kerry Greenwood". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
35. ^ "Dirty Weekend by Gabrielle Lord". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
36. ^ "Body Count by P. D. Martin". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
37. ^ "Rubdown by Leigh Redhead". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
38. ^ "Seven Ancient Wonders by Matthew Reilly". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
39. ^ "The Butterfly Man by Heather Rose". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
40. ^ "Innocent Murder by Steve J. Spears". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
41. ^ "The Father Factor by Lilian Darcy". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
42. ^ "Bride by Accident by Marion Lennox". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
43. ^ "Eclipse by K. A. Bedford". ISFDB. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
44. ^ "Godplayers by Damien Broderick". ISFDB. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
45. ^ "The Well of Tears by Cecilia Dart-Thornton". ISFDB. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
46. ^ "Darkwitch Rising by Sara Douglass". ISFDB. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
47. ^ "The Shining City by Kate Forsyth". ISFDB. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
48. ^ "Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks". ISFDB. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
49. ^ "Blade of Fortriu by Juliet Marillier". ISFDB. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
50. ^ "Ascent by Sean Williams & Shane Dix". ISFDB. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
51. ^ "The Blood Debt by Sean Williams". ISFDB. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
52. ^ "The Hanging Mountains by Sean Williams". ISFDB. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
53. ^ "Human Resources by Chris Aronsten". Austlit. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
54. ^ "A Single Act by Jane Brodie". Austlit. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
55. ^ "Asylum by Catherine Lazaroo". Austlit. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
56. ^ "The Past Completes Me: Selected Poems 1973-2003 by Alan Gould". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
57. ^ "The New Arcadia by John Kinsella". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
58. ^ "Latecomers by Jaya Savige". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
59. ^ "Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Dictatorship 1915-1945 by R.J.B. Bosworth". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
60. ^ "Aboriginal Victorians: A History Since 1800 by Richard Broome". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
61. ^ "Margaret Michaelis: Love, Loss and Photography by Helen Ennis". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
62. ^ "The Black Dress: Mary MacKillop's Early Years by Pamela Freeman". Austlit. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
63. ^ "Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet by Maria Nugent". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
64. ^ "We'll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light by John Baxter". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
65. ^ "My Spin on Cricket by Richie Benaud". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
66. ^ "Absurdistan: A Bumpy Ride Through Some of the World's Scariest, Weirdest Places by Eric Campbell". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
67. ^ "Morris West: Literary Maverick by Maryanne Convoy". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
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102. ^ "Percy Trezise (1923-2005)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Archived from the original on 4 May 2024. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
103. ^ "Shelton Lea (1946-2005)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Archived from the original on 19 February 2024. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
104. ^ "Margaret Scott (1934-2005)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Archived from the original on 16 February 2024. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
105. ^ "Donald Horne (1921-2005)". Austlit. Retrieved 17 May 2024.
106. ^ "Barney Roberts (1920-2005)". Austlit. Retrieved 17 May 2024.
107. ^ "Philip Martin (1931-2005)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Archived from the original on 14 February 2024. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
108. ^ "Jenny Boult (1951-2005)". Austlit. Retrieved 17 May 2024.
109. ^ "Michael Thwaites (1915-2005)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Archived from the original on 26 March 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
110. ^ "Bill Scott (1923-2005)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Archived from the original on 15 July 2023. Retrieved 23 September 2023.

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