Arts and Literature
- 22 June – Roger McDonald wins the Miles Franklin Award for The Ballad of Desmond Kale.
- Gregory Day is awarded the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for The Patron Saint of Eels.
- Kate Grenville's novel The Secret River wins the Christina Stead Prize for fiction.
- Peter Carey's novel Theft: A Love Story wins the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction.
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Illusion dwells forever with the wave.”
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