Arts and Literature
- Andrew McGahan's novel The White Earth wins the Miles Franklin Award.
- Gail Jones is awarded the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for Sixty Lights.
- Tim Winton's short-story collection The Turning wins the Christina Stead Prize for fiction.
- Sonya Hartnett's novel Surrender wins the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction.
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