| 2021
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| Winner
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- Sally May, Laura Rademaker, Donna Nadjamerrek & Julie Narndal Gumurdul — The Bible in Buffalo Country: Oenpelli Mission 1925–1931
  
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| Highly Commended
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- Maisie Austin and Matthew Stephen — The Cummings Family: Family, Belonging and Connection to Country
  
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| Finalists
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- 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)
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| 2019
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| Winner
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- Lyndon Megarrity — Northern Dreams: The Politics of Northern Development in Australia
  
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| Finalists
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- 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
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| Winner
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- Kathy De La Rue — A Stubborn City: Darwin 1911-1978
  
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| Finalists
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- 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
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| Winner
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- Stuart Traynor — Alice Springs: From Singing Wire to Iconic Outback Town
  
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| Finalists
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- 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
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| Winner
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- Adrian Vickers and Julia Martinez – The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia's Northern Trading Network
  
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| Finalists
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- 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
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| Winner
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- Dick Dakeyne – Radar Gunner
  
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| Finalists
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- Sophie Cunningham – Warning – The Story of Cyclone Tracy
 
- Steven Farram - A History Written in Metal
  
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| 2014
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| Winner
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- Helen Bond-Sharp – Maningrida
  
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| Finalists
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- Robyn Smith – Antecedents: the history of Ward Keller
 
- Tom Lewis – Carrier Attack Darwin 1942
  
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| 2013
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| Joint
 Winners
 
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- 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
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- 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
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| Joint
 Winners
 
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- Anthony Cooper – Darwin Spitfires: the Real Battle for Australia
 
- Jack Cross – Great Central State
  
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| Finalists
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- Murray Seiffert – Gumbuli of Ngukurr: Aboriginal Elder in Arnhem Land
  
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| 2011
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| Winner
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| Finalists
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- 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
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| Winner
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- Peter Grose – An Awkward Truth
  
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| Finalists
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| 2009
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| Joint
 Winners
 
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- Banduk Marika – Yalangbara: art of the Djang’kawu
 
- Vivien Johnson – Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists
  
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| Finalists
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| 2008
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| Winner
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- Philip Jones – Ochre and Rust
  
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| Finalists
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- 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
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| Winner
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- Pam Oliver – Empty North: the Japanese presence and Australian reactions 1860s to 1942
  
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| Finalists
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- 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
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| Winner
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| Finalists
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- 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
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| Winner
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| Finalists
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- 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
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| Winner
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- David Bridgman — Acclimatisation: architecture at the top end of Australia
  
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| Finalists
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- 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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