Non-fiction Award
- 2012: 1835: The Founding of Melbourne & The Conquest Of Australia by James Boyce
- 2011: A Three-Cornered Life by Jim Davidson
- 2010: Ten Hail Marys by Kate Howarth
- 2009: Down to the Crossroads by Guy Rundle
- 2008: American Journeys by Don Watson
- 2007: Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy by Peter Cochrane
- 2006: Velocity by Mandy Sayer
- 2005: Plenty: Digressions on Food by Gay Bilson
- 2004: A Death in Brazil by Peter Robb
- 2003: Charles Condor: The Last Bohemian by Ann Galbally
- 2002: Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: Paul Keating Prime Minister by Don Watson
- 2001: The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift by Nadia Wheatley
- 2000: Craft for a Dry Lake by Kim Mahood
- 1999: Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape by K.S. Inglis
- 1998: The Hunt by John Kinsella
- 1997: Snake Cradle by Roberta Sykes
- 1995: The Future Eaters by Tim Flannery
- 1994: Lyrebird Rising by Jim Davidson
- 1993: Journeyings by Janet McCalman
- 1992: A Fence Around the Cuckoo by Ruth Park
- 1991: Patrick White: A Life by David Marr
- 1990: Blessed City by Gwen Harwood
- 1989: Mariners are Warned: John Lort Stokes and HMA Beagle by Marsden Hordern
- 1988: Big-Noting: The Heroic Theme in Australian War Writing by Robin Gerster
- 1987: The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
- 1986: George Johnston: A Biography by Gary Kinnane
- 1985: Vietnam: A Reporter's War by Hugh Lunn; Mapping the Paddocks by Chester Eagle
- 1984: HB Higgins: The Rebel and Judge by John Rickard
- 1983: History of Tasmania by Lloyd Robson
- 1982: John Monash: A Biography by Geoffrey Serle
- 1981: A Million Wild Acres by Eric Rolls
- 1978: The Anzacs by Patsy Adam-Smith
- 1976: Capitalism, Socialism and the Environment by Hugh Stretton
- 1974: A History of Australia (Vol. 3) by Manning Clark
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