The Australian Political Book of the Year is an annual award for political writing. It was inaugurated in 2022 and is sponsored by Collins Booksellers and the York Park Group. Dean Ashenden won the inaugural prize of . Since 2023, the winner has received and shortlisted authors .
Winners YearAuthorTitlePublisherResultRef.2022Telling Tennant's Story : The Strange Career of the Great Australian SilenceBlack Inc.WinnerNo Enemies No Friends: Restoring Australia’s Global RelevanceUpswell PublishingShortlistedBob Hawke: Demons and destinyPenguin Random HouseThe Game: A Portrait of Scott MorrisonBlack Inc. and Catherine WilliamsKeeping Them Honest: The case for a genuine national integrity commission and other vital democratic reformsScribe PublicationsLonglisted and Chris BonnorWaiting for Gonski: How Australia failed it schoolsNewSouth BooksGideon HaighThe Brilliant Boy: Doc Evatt and the Great Australian DissentSimon & Schuster and Stuart KellsSold Down The River: How Robber Barons and Wall Street Traders Concerned Australia's Water MarketText PublishingThe Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nationAllen & UnwinRogue Forces: An explosive insiders' account of Australian SAS war crimes in AfghanistanSimon & Schulster2023Bulldozed: Scott Morrison's fall and Anthony Albanese's riseScribe PublicationsWinnerAustralia's China Odyssey: From euphoria to fearNewSouth BooksShortlistedBlack Lives, White Law: Locked up and locked out in AustraliaLa Trobe University PressCrossing the LineHachetteDreamers and Schemers: A political history of AustraliaLa Trobe University PressLonglistedThe Queen is Dead: The time has come for a reckoningHarperCollinsLockdownMonash University PressPolitical LivesNewSouth BooksThe Passion of Private WhiteSimon & SchusterTrump's AustraliaAllen & Unwin2024Flawed Hero: Truth, lies and war crimesAllen & UnwinWinnerQuarterly Essay #93: Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman PoliticsBlack Inc.ShortlistedDonald Horne: A Life in the Lucky CountryLa Trobe University PressKilling for Country: A Family StoryAllen & UnwinThe Odd Couple: The Australia–America RelationshipUpswell PublishingLonglistedMine Is the KingdomAllen & UnwinQuarterly Essay #92: The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix ItBlack Inc.Crimes of the CrossBlack Inc.The Great Housing HijackAllen & UnwinEchidna Strategy: Australia's Search for Power and PeaceLa Trobe University Press2025Naku Dharuk: The Bark PetitionsText PublishingWinnerThe Chairman's LoungeScribnerShortlistedNukedMelbourne University PressMean StreakFourth EstateThe Men Who Killed the NewsScribnerLonglistedThe Assassination of Neville WranConnor CourtPolitics, Pride and PerversionANU PressLet's Tax CarbonLa Trobe University PressLosing ItQuarterly EssayBroken Heart: A True History of the Voice ReferendumLa Trobe University Press2026Gough Whitlam: The Vista of the NewHarperCollinsShortlistedThe Unfinished RevolutionNewSouth PublishingEarthquakeScribeThe Alchemy of LeadershipMelbourne University PressAngertainmentSummit BooksLonglisted and Matthew RicketsonGetting MurdochedHardie Grant BooksWhere It All Went WrongScribnerThe Curious DiplomatMonash University PublishingThe Man Who Couldn't WaitAllen & UnwinThe Red HouseAllen & Unwin
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