The debut album from Kankawa Nagarra — an80-year-old Walmatjarri elder, teacher, and blues artist from remote WA — has won this year's coveted Australian Music Prize.
Asian Australians including Penny Wong say 'bamboo ceiling' has been a barrier to success
Even in 2024, there is still a "bamboo ceiling" in Australia. It's an issue that hit home for many at this year's Asian-Australian Leadership Awards, including Foreign Minister Penny Wong.
Photo shows Foreign Minister Penny Wong smiling on stageAfter Megan's son missed over a year of school while chronically ill she promised not to turn her back on others like him
The co-founder of an organisation helping children experiencing serious injury or illness avoid missing out on school, Megan Gilmour, is named 2025 Australian of the Year for the ACT.
Photo shows A woman in a blue dress smiles while holding up a glass award.Alexis Wright becomes first Aboriginal author to win the $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature
This year, the Waanyi author of Carpentaria, Tracker and Praiseworthy has won the Stella Prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and now the Melbourne Prize for Literature.
Photo shows A Indigenous woman wearing glasses, a black jacket and a red scarf, rests her arms on a wooden tableRetired teacher's two decades of charity work puts him in line to be Senior Australian of the Year
Christian Brother Olly Pickett is WA's Senior Australian of the Year for his efforts founding, and now volunteering for, an organisation making custom wheelchairs for children around the world.
Topic:Feel Good
Photo shows Man standing with wheelchair in factory.Kath Koschel had to learn to walk again twice and lost her partner. Now she's the NSW Australian of the Year
Kath Koschel had to learn how to walk again twice. The help she experienced on the way inspired her to teach young people about the healing power of kindness.
Photo shows a woman sits on a park bench smilingOlivia Anderson took a risk to become a helicopter mustering pilot, but now it is paying off
Olivia Anderson, 24, is the recipient of this year's prestigious Roger Connellan Award, which is granted to outback Australia's best young pilots.
Topic:Profile
Photo shows Woman wearing pink shirt and jeans seats in a blue helicopter.'There's nothing to do and there's everything to do': Novel set in space wins $98,000 Booker Prize
It takes 90 minutes for the International Space Station to orbit the Earth. That journey happens 16 times in Orbital, which just won one of the world's top literary awards.
Photo shows Samantha Harvey, a blonde woman in her 40s, holds up a book with artistic pictures of space on the cover.'I'd be gobsmacked if it won': Book experts dish on the Booker Prize shortlist
The winner of the prestigious literary award — to be announced on November 12 — will take home $98,000 and receive a dramatic bump in book sales around the world.
Photo shows A composite image showing three writers and their book covers on a brown paper backgroundNeale Daniher named 2025 Victorian Australian of the Year
The AFL great has been honoured for his work to raise money, awareness and fight for a cure for motor neurone disease.
Photo shows Neale Daniher wears a black jacket, white shirt and patterned tie and sits in front of a night backdrop of Melbourne.Beyoncé leads Grammy nominations, becomes most nominated artist in history
Her album 'Cowboy Carter' picked up an Album of the Year nomination. Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter, Charli XCX Kendrick Lamar, Post Malone and Chappell Roan also scored nominations, as did Aussies Tame Impala and Troye Sivan.
Photo shows Beyonce smiles and waves.Celebrated First Nations soprano among Victoria's Australian of Year nominees
An operatic voice of inclusion and a father raising awareness about suicide prevention are among those in the running for the award, which is set to be announced at the Victorian Arts Centre tonight.
Photo shows Deborah Cheetham Fraillon stands behind a piano in the Sydney Conservatorium of Music's Verbrugghen HallChild protection advocate awarded Australian of the Year for SA
Professor Leah Bromfield, 46, was among those who led the charge for the first National Framework for Protecting Australia's Children in 2007.
Photo shows A woman holds an award in a roomVietnam veteran who was homeless for 30 years receives war medals
Alwyn Craig spent decades living on the streets, lost to his family and friends, and struggling with PTSD after the Vietnam War. Now, his sacrifices are being recognised.
Photo shows Alwyn standing in front of a window with his medals in his handEarthshot finalist and now Tasmania's Australian of the Year Sam Elsom on 'this unique window of hope'
A climate change solutions innovator, an academic who has dedicated her life to treating gynaecological cancers, a youth not-for-profit founder and Olympic swimmer have been named as Tasmania's Australians of the Year for 2025. Here are their stories.
Photo shows A bearded man in a white lab coat seated in front of a lab fridge. He holds up a glass jar of red seaweed floating in waterArnhem Land performer and cultural leader named NT Australian of the Year
Grant Ngulmiya Nundhirribala, who has led Numbulwar's famous Red Flag Dancers for decades, says he hopes the award will highlight the talent of performers in remote communities.
Photo shows An Aboriginal man stands outside holding an award, wearing a black shirt.Australian teacher 'out-scholars' academics to win international award for insight into author George Orwell
An Australian teacher is the winner of the Orwell Society's Peter Davidson Award in recognition of "outstanding ability and contribution to the study of George Orwell, his life and work".
Photo shows White haired man handed award to bearded manBear the kelpie wins working dog competition with 40km a day effort
Six-year-old kelpie, Bear, and his owner, Tom Perkins, from Dirranbandi in Queensland, have won a gruelling 14-day working dog competition which saw seven of Australia’s top class dogs go head-to-head.
Has Video Duration: 58 seconds.Maggie Beer wins international TV award, beating industry legends Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Fry
The cook was named Best Host of a TV Format Award at the C21 International Format Awards for the ABC show Maggie Beer's Big Mission, a project aiming to overhaul the aged care industry's dismal catering.
Photo shows A woman with short blonde hair wearing a pink and tan dress leans on a marble kitchen bench smiling and looking off camera.'The country is changing': Melissa Lucashenko wins $100,000 literary prize for book about colonisation
Goorie author Melissa Lucashenko has won one of Australia's richest literary prizes, the ARA Historical Novel Prize, for Edenglassie, which interweaves stories of Aboriginal peoples in the past and present.
Photo shows A smiling woman wears a thick black headband and floral jacket over a hot pink topSydney actor Andrea Solonge is the winner of the 12th Heath Ledger scholarship
Sydney actor Andrea Solonge has been announced as the winner of the 12th Heath Ledger scholarship. Solonge has appeared in the Stan series Prosper and in Taika Waititi's Apple TV+ series Time Bandits.
Photo shows Andrea Solonge, a Black woman smiling with formal dress on at an event