Arts and Literature
- ARIA Music Awards of 2004
- Shirley Hazzard's novel The Great Fire wins the Miles Franklin Award
- Laurie Duggan is awarded the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for Mangroves.
- Brian Castro's novel Shanghai Dancing wins the Christina Stead Prize for fiction.
- Annamarie Jagose's novel Slow Water wins the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction.
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