Australian Political Book of the Year Award 2024 longlist
The longlist for the 2024 Australian Political Book of the Year Award has been announced.
The longlisted titles are:
- The Odd Couple: The Australia-America Relationship (Allan Behm, Upswell)
- Quarterly Essay #93: Bad Cop: Peter Dutton’s Strongman Politics (Lech Blaine, Black Inc.)
- Donald Horne: A Life in the Lucky Country (Ryan Cropp, La Trobe)
- Mine Is the Kingdom (David Hardaker, A&U)
- Quarterly Essay #92: The Great Divide: Australia’s Housing Mess and How to Fix It (Alan Kohler, Black Inc.)
- Crimes of the Cross (Anne Manne, Black Inc.)
- Killing for Country: A Family Story (David Marr, Black Inc.)
- Flawed Hero: Truth, Lies and War Crimes (Chris Masters, A&U)
- The Great Housing Hijack (Cameron K Murray, A&U)
- Echidna Strategy: Australia’s Search for Power and Peace (Sam Roggeveen, La Trobe).
Said judges Barrie Cassidy, Laura Tingle and John Warhurst: ‘This year’s entries covered the spectrum of issues that have engulfed politics in the past twelve months, as well as issues which continue to resonate in Australia over our much longer history and significant biographical works … This year’s longlist reflects all these trends with books covering foreign policy complexities and, for the first time, two significant contributions on the issue of housing which has become such an urgent, yet intractable, policy debate and political crisis.’
Introduced in 2022 by Hill of Content bookshop, the award recognises the books the judges believe ‘provide the most compelling contribution to understanding Australian political events and debates’.
The shortlist will be announced on 30 October, with each shortlisted author receiving $1000 in prize money, and the winner will be announced on 20 November, with the winning author receiving $15,000 in prize money.
Last year’s prize was awarded to Niki Savva for her book Bulldozed (Scribe).
More information is available on the prize website.
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