2005 Winners
The overall winner was Davenport etc.. Cleared Out: First Contact in the Western Desert
- Fiction: Carrie Tiffany Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living (Picador)
- Poetry: Rod Moran The Paradoxes of Water: Selected and New Poems, 1970-2005 (Salt Publishing)
- Non-fiction:
- Richard Bosworth Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Dictatorship 1915-1945 (Allen Lane/Penguin)
- Philippa Nikulinsky and Stephen D Hopper Soul of the Desert (Fremantle Arts Centre Press)
- Western Australian History: Sue Davenport, Peter Johnson and Yuwali Cleared Out: First Contact in the Western Desert (Aboriginal Studies Press)
- Children's book: Wendy Binks Where's Stripey? (Stunned Emu Press)
- Writing for Young Adults: Kirsty Murray A Prayer for Blue Delaney (Allen & Unwin)
- Script: Reg Cribb Last Train to Freo (Sue Taylor Media)
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