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Stephen Daisley
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Gregory Day
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Gregory Day is a novelist, poet, essayist and musician based in Victoria, Australia. He is well known for novels which document generational, demographic, and environmental chang ...
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Peggy Frew
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Malcolm Knox
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Amanda Lohrey
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Judy Nunn
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Gregory David Roberts
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— ''
The Mountain Shadow
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Charlotte Wood
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Nick Earls
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The Tournament at Gorlan
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Mem Fox
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– ''Hunter's Moon''
* Gillian Mears – ''The Cat with the Coloured Tail''
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Louis Nowra
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Crime and mystery
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Peter Corris
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– ''
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Garry Disher
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– ''The Heat''
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Mark Dapin
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Adrian McKinty
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– ''Gun Street Girl''
* Barry Maitland – ''Ash Island''
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Michael Robotham
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John Birmingham
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Emergence
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James Bradley
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Trudi Canavan
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— ''Angel of Storms''
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Isobelle Carmody
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Drama
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Daniel Keene
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– ''The Long Way Home''
* Matthew Whittet – ''Seventeen''
Peter Garrett
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– ''Big Blue Sky : A Memoir''
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Kate Grenville
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– ''One Life : My Mother's Story''
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Gerald Murnane
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– ''Something for the Pain : A Memoir of the Turf''
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Brenda Niall
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– ''Mannix''
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Magda Szubanski
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– ''Reckoning : A Memoir''
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Tim Winton
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– ''Island Home : A Landscape Memoir''
Non-fiction
* Joel Deane – ''Catch and Kill: The Politics of Power''
* Andrew Fowler – ''The War on Journalism: Media Moguls, Whistleblowers and the Price of Freedom''
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Gideon Haigh
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– ''Certain Admissions''
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Lucy Sussex
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– ''Blockbuster! : Fergus Hume and the Mystery of the Hansom Cab''
Awards and honours
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement
Literary
Fiction
National
Children and Young Adult
National
Crime and Mystery
International
National
Science fiction
Poetry
Drama
Non-Fiction
Deaths
* 28 January — Lionel Gilbert, historian, author, and academic, (born
1924
Events
January
* January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.
* January 20–January 30, 30 – Kuomintang in Ch ...
)
* 29 January —
Colleen McCullough
Colleen Margaretta McCullough (; married name Robinson, previously Ion-Robinson; 1 June 193729 January 2015) was an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being '' The Thorn Birds'' and '' The Ladies of Missalonghi''.
Lif ...
, novelist (born
1937
Events
January
* January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua.
* January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into Feb ...
)
* 13 February —
Faith Bandler
Faith Bandler (27 September 1918 13 February 2015; née Ida Lessing Faith Mussing) was an Australian civil rights activist of South Sea Islander and Scottish- Indian heritage. A campaigner for the rights of Indigenous Australians and South S ...
, author and civil rights activist (born
1918
The ceasefire that effectively ended the World War I, First World War took place on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of this year. Also in this year, the Spanish flu pandemic killed 50–100 million people wor ...
)
* 23 February —
James Aldridge
Harold Edward James Aldridge (10 July 1918 – 23 February 2015) was an Australian-British writer and journalist. His World War II despatches were published worldwide and he was the author of over 30 books, both fiction and non-fiction works, ...
, novelist (born
1918
The ceasefire that effectively ended the World War I, First World War took place on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of this year. Also in this year, the Spanish flu pandemic killed 50–100 million people wor ...
)
* 20 March —
Malcolm Fraser
John Malcolm Fraser (; 21 May 1930 – 20 March 2015) was an Australian politician who served as the 22nd prime minister of Australia from 1975 to 1983. He held office as the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, and is the fourth List of ...
, politician and author (born
1930
Events
January
* January 15 – The Moon moves into its nearest point to Earth, called perigee, at the same time as its fullest phase of the Lunar Cycle. This is the closest moon distance at in recent history, and the next one will be on J ...
1927
Events January
* January 1 – The British Broadcasting ''Company'' becomes the BBC, British Broadcasting ''Corporation'', when its Royal Charter of incorporation takes effect. John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, John Reith becomes the first ...
1939
This year also marks the start of the World War II, Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history.
Events
Events related to World War II have a "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 1
** Coming into effect in Nazi Ger ...
)
* 29 May —
Syd Harrex
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, poet and academic (born
1935
Events
January
* January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims.
* January 12 – Amelia Earhart ...
)
* 20 August —
Veronica Brady
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, poet and critic (born
1929
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)
* 4 October — Nan Hunt, children's writer who also wrote as N. L. Ray (born
1918
The ceasefire that effectively ended the World War I, First World War took place on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of this year. Also in this year, the Spanish flu pandemic killed 50–100 million people wor ...
)
See also
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2015 in Australia
The following lists events that happened during 2015 in Australia.
Incumbents
*Monarch – Elizabeth II
*Governor-General – Sir Peter Cosgrove
*Prime Minister – Tony Abbott (until 15 September), then Malcolm Turnbull
**Deputy Prime Mi ...
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2015 in literature
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