2009 Prize
- Winners
- Martin Butler and Bentley Dean for the documentary film Contact
- Short-listed
- Grace Karskens for The Colony: A History of Early Sydney
- Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds for Drawing the Global Colour Line
- Various authors for First Australians
- Robin Gerster for Travels in Atomic Sunshine: Australia and the Occupation of Japan
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