Robodebt exposé among winners at PM’s literary awards
A book that deeply criticizes the Australian government, Prime Minister Literature AwardsThe author says Rick Morton.
The Robodebt scandal, Mean Streak, won the non -fictional category and made Morton one of the six winners to receive prestigious $ 80,000 award.
Morton, who is currently a novel in Paris, said that he had mixed feelings about winning and wondering why others had the opportunity to write books when he never did.
“Thank you, and I also have a very complex relationship with money… Don’t get me wrong, I’m excited about it, but I also felt very strange,” he said.
The Robodebt scheme chased more than half a million people in Centrerelink payment for debts created using an illegal “income average” method.
Morton has already won two Walkley awards for its scope. Scandal royal commission.
“It wasn’t just a bad mistake or a bad policy, it was literally a conspiracy… This thing was illegal and still did and ruined the lives of people.”
The winners of the richest literary award of Australia were announced on Monday night at the National Library of the Australian National Library in Canberra and will share in an $ 600,000 prize pool.
Geraldine Fela went to David Brooks for the other side of the Daylight of the Poetry: While new and chosen poems were new and chosen poems, Geraldine Fela Critical Care of the Category of History: Nurses.
Michelle de Krets, Stella prize victory with theory and application with the fiction category.
He won the Leo and Ralph Children’s Book Award by Peter Carnavas and won the Calls of Krystal Sutherland’s Calls Young Adult Book Award.
The awards were first made in July as part of the Australian manuscript, which was founded as part of the government financing Body Creative Australia.
Australian Director Wenona Byrne said, “Each of these works sounds to critical moments in our history, whether young readers spark the imagination or offer new ways to think about the world around us,” he said.
The awards have been controversial since they were launched in 2008 and both workers and liberal prime ministers intervene in the trial process.
The 2025 winners were selected by an independent Judges Panel with entrances to the short list of $ 5000.
2025 Prime Minister Literature Awards winners
* History of Australia – Critical Care: Geraldine Fela’s Nurses on the front of the Australian AIDS crisis
* Children’s Literature – Leo and Ralph by Peter Carnavas
* Fiction – theory and application by Michelle de Kretser
* Non-fictional-Rick Morton’s average line
* Young Adult Literature – Calls of Krystal Sutherland
* Poetry – the other side of the daylight: David Brooks’s new and selected poems
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