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Arts Non-Fiction Award: Disability in Australia: Exposing a Social Apartheid

Joint Winner: Associate Professor Christopher Newell

About this winner

  • Year: 2005
  • Level: Winner
  • Award category: Media award

About the 2005 nomination

Joint Winner: Associate Professor Christopher Newell Joint Winner: Dr Gerard Goggin's Disability in Australia: Exposing a Social Apartheid which explored a hidden blight in our society – the treatment of people with disabilities.

Following them Home: The fate of the returned asylum seekers by David Corlett was highly commended.

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