2006 Winners
The overall winner was Shaun Tan's The Arrival.
- Fiction: Simone Lazaroo The Travel Writer (Pan Macmillan Australia)
- Poetry: Dennis Haskell All the Time in the World (Salt Publishing)
- Non-fiction:
- Quentin Beresford Rob Riley: an Aboriginal Leader's Quest for Justice (Aboriginal Studies Press)
- Peter Edwards Arthur Tange: Last of the Mandarins (Allen & Unwin)
- Western Australian History: Bobbie Oliver and Patrick Bertola The Workshops: A History of the Midland Government Railway Workshops (University of Western Australia Press)
- Children's book: Shaun Tan The Arrival (Hachette Livre Australia)
- Writing for Young Adults: Kate McCaffrey Destroying Avalon (Fremantle Arts Centre Press)
- Script: Hellie Turner Sardines (Tropic Sun Theatre Queensland)
Read more about this topic: Western Australian Premier's Book Awards
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