The APRA Music Awards celebrate excellence in contemporary music, honouring songwriters and publishers that have achieved artistic excellence and outstanding success in their fields.
| Children's Composition of the Year | |
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Winner | |
| Title: | TIGERS roaring in the afternoon |
| Artist: | Monica Trapaga |
| Writers: | David Basden / Julian Gough / Monica Trapaga |
| Contemporary Classical Composition of the Year | |
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Winner | |
| Title: | Symphony Da Pacem Domine |
| Writer: | Ross Edwards |
| Publisher: | Boosey and Hawkes Pty Ltd |
| Country Song of the Year | |
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Winner | |
| Title: | Boys From The Bush |
| Artist: | Lee Kernaghan |
| Writers: | Lee Kernaghan / Garth Porter |
| Publisher: | Warner Bros Music Pty Ltd |
| Jazz Composition of the Year | |
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Winner | |
| Title: | Hindered On His Way to Heaven |
| Artists: | Vince Jones / Barney McAll |
| Writers: | Vince Jones / Barney McAll |
| Publisher: | Warner Bros Music Pty Ltd |
| Most Performed Work - Foreign | |
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Winner | |
| Title: | You Don't Treat Me No Good |
| Artist: | Sonia Dada |
| Writer: | Daniel Laszlo |
| Publisher: | EMI Music Publishing Australia Pty Ltd |
| Most Performed Work - Local | |
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Winner | |
| Title: | Daddy's Gonna Make You A Star |
| Artist: | company of strangers |
| Writers: | Simon Hussey / Jef Scott / James Reyne |
| Publishers: | Warner Bros Music Pty Ltd / Marble Music Publishing Pty Ltd |
| Overseas Award | |
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Winner | |
| Title: | Fall At Your Feet |
| Artist: | Crowded House |
| Writer: | neil finn |
| Publishers: | Roundhead Music & Mushroom Music Pty Ltd |
| Song of the Year | |
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Winner | |
| Title: | Four Seasons In One Day |
| Artist: | crowded house |
| Writers: | Neil Finn / Tim Finn |
| Publishers: | Mushroom Music Pty Ltd |
Nominees | |
| Title: | Black Stick |
| Artist: | The Cruel Sea |
| Writers: | Gregory "Tex" Perkins / Daniel Atkins pka Dan Rumour |
| Title: | happy birthday helen |
| Artist: | Things of Stone and Wood |
| Writer: | Greg Arnold |
| Title: | lost |
| Artist: | The Badloves |
| Writer: | Michael Spiby |
| Title: | You were there |
| Artist: | Southern Suns |
| Writer: | Phil Buckle |
| Television or Film Score of the Year | |
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Winner | |
| Title: | Romper Stomper |
| Writer: | John Clifford White |
| Publisher: | Screensong Pty Ltd |
| Television or Film Score of the Year | |
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Winner | |
| Title: | Phoenix (Series 2) |
| Writer: | Paul Grabowsky |
| Publisher: | Warner Bros Music Pty Ltd |
| Songwriter of the Year | |
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Winner | |
| Writer: | Greg Arnold |
| Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music |
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Winner |
Peter Sculthorpe |