Chief Minister’s History Book Award - Past winners

Winner: A Stubborn City: Darwin 1911-1978 by Kathy De La Rue

Finalist: Charles James Kirkland: The Life and Times of a Pioneer Newspaperman in the Top End of Australia by Steven Farram

Winner: Alice Springs: From Singing Wire to Iconic Outback Town by Stuart Traynor

Finalist: Remember Me Kindly: A History of the Holtze Family in the Northern Territory by Deborah Bisa
Finalist: Masters and Servants: Cultures of Empire in the Tropics by Claire Lowrie
Finalist: A Handful of Sand: The Gurindji Struggle, After the Walk-Off by Charlie Ward

Winner: The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia's Northern Trading by Julia Martinez and Adrian Vickers

Honourable Mention: Gulf Country Songbook: Yanyuwa, Marra, Garrwa and Gudanji by Karin Riederer, Yanyuwa, Marra, Garrwa and Gudanji families

Finalist: Silent Pearls: Old Japanese Graves in Darwin and the History of Pearling by John Lamb
Finalist: Different White People: Radical Activism for Aboriginal Rights 1946 – 1972 by Deborah Wilson

Winner: Radar Gunner by Dick Dakeyne

Finalist: Warning by Sophie Cunningham
Finalist: A History Written in Metal: Commemorative Plaques at Charles Darwin University’s Casuarina Campus 1972-2013 by Stephen Farram

Winner: Maningrida: A History of the Aboriginal Township in Arnhem Land by Helen Bond Sharp

Finalist: Carrier Attack Darwin 1942: The Complete Guide to Australia’s Own Pearl Harbour by Dr Tom Lewis and Peter Ingham
Finalist: Antecedents: The History of Ward Keller by Dr Robyn Smith

Winner: Tiwi: Art, History, Culture by Jennifer Isaacs
Winner: A Wild History: Life and Death on the Victoria River Frontier by Darrell Lewis

Finalist: The Flash of Recognition: Photography and the Emergence of Indigenous Rights by Jane Lydon
Finalist: Defending Whose Country? Indigenous Soldiers in the Pacific War by Noah Risema

Winner: Great Central State: The Foundation of Northern Territory by Jack Cross
Winner: Darwin Spitfires: The Real Battle for Australia by Anthony Cooper

Finalist: Gumbuli of Ngukurr: Aboriginal Elder in Arnhem Land by Murray Seiffert

Winner: No Place Like Home by Dr Mickey Dewar

Finalist: Northern Voyagers: Australia’s Monsoon Coast in Maritime History by Alan Powell
Finalist: Contact Zones: Sport and Race in the Northern Territory, 1869-1953 by Matthew Stephen
 

Winner: Ochre and Rust by Philip Jones

Finalist: Alone on the Soaks by Alex Kruger and Gerrard Waterford 
Finalist: Australia's Muslim Cameleers by Philip Jones and Anna Kenny
Finalist: Australia's Northern Secret: Tourism in the Northern Territory by Baiba Berzins
Finalist: In the Name of the Law by Robert Foster and Amanda Nettlebeck
Finalist: An Intruder's Guide to East Arnhem Land by Andrew McMillan
Finalist: The Murranji Track by Darrel Lewis

Winner: Empty North: The Japanese Presence and Australian Reactions 1860s to 1942 by Dr Pam Oliver

Finalist: Through Chinese Eyes: The Chinese Experience in the Northern Territory 1874-2004 by Glenice Yee
Finalist: Darby: One Hundred Years in a Changing Culture by Liam Campbell

Winner: Frontier Justice: A History of the Gulf Country to 1900 by Tony Roberts

Finalist: Southport Northern Territory 1869-2002 by Marge Duminski
Finalist: Paint Me Black by Claire Henty-Gebert
Finalist: People of the Victoria River Region: An Album by Pearl Ogden
 

Winner: Paddy Cahill of Oenpelli by John Mulvaney

Finalist: The Evolution of Darwin 1869-1911 by Kathy de la Rue
Finalist: The Diary of Emily Caroline Creaghe, Explorer edited by Peter Monteath 
 

Winner: Acclimatisation: Architecture at the Top End of Australia by David Bridgman

Finalist: Tom and Jack: A Frontier Story by Geraldine Byrne
Finalist: Their Way: Towards an Indigenous Warlpiri Christianity by Ivan Jordan
Finalist: The Menzies School of Health Research: Establishment, 1978-1997 by Brian Reid