Events
- "The Bulletin" magazine publishes its last issue, the first was in 1880
- The Australia Council for the Arts announces Christopher Koch and Gerald Murnane as recipients of its 2008 emeritus writers awards
- The Australian Federal Government announces funding for a new chair of Australian Literature based at the University of Western Australia
- Clunes, Victoria, holds its second Booktown weekend
- The first Crime and Justice Festival in held in Melbourne over the weekend of 19–20 July
- Australia wins the right to host the 2010 World SF convention in Melbourne
- A number of previously unknown Banjo Paterson poems are found in an old cash book dating back to the Boer War
- UNESCO names Melbourne as its second City of Literature, after Edinburgh received the first such award in 2004
- Caro Llewellyn, a former director of the Sydney Writers' Festival and PEN World Voices Festival in New York, is appointed as director of the new Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas (now called the Wheeler Centre) in Melbourne
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