Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History

• historical events;
• historical figures and
• work covering a relevant subject.

2007 inaugural prize

• Les Carlyon for The Great War
• Peter Cochrane for Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy

• David Branagan for TW Edgeworth David: A Life
• Josephine Flood for The Original Australians: Story of the Aboriginal People

  2008 prize

• Tom Griffiths for Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica
• Robert Kenny for The Lamb Enters the Dreaming: Nathanael Pepper and the Ruptured World

• John Fitzgerald for Big White Lie: Chinese Australians in White Australia
• Philip Jones for Ochre and Rust: Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers
• Paul Rudd, Stephen Amezdroz, Tony Wright, Wain Fimeri and Matthew Thomason for Captain Cook: Obsession and Discovery

  2009 prize

• Martin Butler and Bentley Dean for the documentary film Contact

• Grace Karskens for The Colony: A History of Early Sydney
• Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds for Drawing the Global Colour Line
• Various authors for First Australians
• Robin Gerster for Travels in Atomic Sunshine: Australia and the Occupation of Japan

  2010/2011 prize

• Jim Davidson for A Three-Cornered Life: The Historian W K Hancock
• Peter Stanley for Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny and Murder in the Great War

• James Curran and Stuart Ward for The Unknown Nation; Australia After Empire
• Paul Daley for Beersheba: A Journey through Australia’s Forgotten War
• Kirsten McKenzie for A Swindler's Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty
• Penny Russell for Savage or Civilised? Manners in Colonial Australia

  2012 prize

• Bill Gammage for The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aboriginies Made Australia

• James Boyce for 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia
• Charles Massey for Breaking the Sheep’s Back
• Russell McGregor for Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal people and the Australian Nation
• Renegade Films Australia Pty Ltd for Immigration Nation: The Secret History of Us

  2013 prize

• Ross McMullin for Farewell, Dear People

• Jenny Hocking for Gough Whitlam
• Paul Ham for Sandakan
• Nicole Moore for The Censor's Library
• Frank Bongiorno for The Sex Lives of Australians: A History

  2014 prize

• Joan Beaumont for Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War
• Hal G.P. Colebatch for Australia's Secret War: How unionists sabotaged our troops in World War II

• Michael Pembroke for Arthur Phillip: Sailor, Mercenary, Governor, Spy
• Mike Carlton for First Victory: 1914
• Clare Wright for The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka

  2015 prize

• Ross Coulthart for Charles Bean
• David Horner for The Spy Catchers, Volume 1 of The Official History of ASIO

• Alan Atkinson for The Europeans in Australia, Volume 3: Nation
• Peter Brune for Descent into Hell
• Anne Henderson for Menzies at War

  2016 prize

• Geoffrey Blainey for The Story of Australia's People: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia
• Sam Lipski and Suzanne D. Rutland for Let My People Go: The Untold Story of Australia and the Soviet Jews, 1959–89

• Peter Monteath and Valerie Munt for Red Professor: The Cold War Life of Fred Rose
• Doug Morrissey for Ned Kelly: A Lawless Life
• Robert Stevenson for The War with Germany, Volume III of the Centenary History of Australia and the Great War

  2017 prize

• Elizabeth Tynan for Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story

• Josephine Bastian for "A passion for exploring new countries": Matthew Flinders and George Bass
• Neil McDonald for Valiant Truth: The Life of Chester Wilmot, War Correspondent
• John Murphy for Evatt: A Life
• Charlie Ward for A Handful of Sand: The Gurindji Struggle, After the Walk-Off

  2018 prize

• John Edwards for John Curtin's War: The Coming of War in The Pacific, and Reinventing Australia, Volume 1

• Judith Brett for The Enigmatic Mr Deakin
• Paul Irish for Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney
• Jayne Persian for Beautiful Balts: From Displaced Persons to New Australians
• Tim Rowse for Indigenous and Other Australians Since 1901

  2019 prize

• Meredith Lake for The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History

• Billy Griffiths for Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia
• Anna Haebich for Dancing in Shadows: Histories of Nyungar Performance
• David Kemp for The Land of Dreams: How Australians Won Their Freedom, 1788–1860
• Clare Wright for You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World