APRA Awards of 2009
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The Australasian Performing Right Association Awards of 2009 (generally known as APRA Awards
APRA Awards
The APRA Music Awards are several award ceremonies run in Australia and New Zealand by Australasian Performing Right Association to recognise songwriting skills, sales and airplay performance by its members annually....

) are a series of awards which include the APRA Music Awards, Classical Music Awards, and Screen Music Awards. The APRA Music Awards ceremony occurred on 23 June at the Peninsula in Melbourne, they were presented by APRA and the Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS). The Classical Music Awards were distributed on 21 September at the Playhouse Theatre of the Sydney Opera House
Sydney Opera House
The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in the Australian city of Sydney. It was conceived and largely built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, finally opening in 1973 after a long gestation starting with his competition-winning design in 1957...

 and are sponsored by APRA and the Australian Music Centre
Australian Music Centre
The Australian Music Centre fosters the development of an Australian music community by providing specialist support to its membership of performers, composers, sound artists, educators, students, and music specialists across Australia and throughout the world.The AMC is the Australian national...

 (AMC). The Screen Music Awards were issued on 2 November by APRA and Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) at the City Recital Hall
City Recital Hall
City Recital Hall, or City Recital Hall Angel Place, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, is a purpose-built concert venue with the capacity for 1,238 guests seated over three tiers of sloped seating...

, Sydney.

Awards

Nominees and winners with results indicated on the right.

APRA Music Awards


Song of the Year
Title Artist Writer Result
"Can't Shake It
Can't Shake It
"Can't Shake It" is the first single released from Australian singer Kate Miller-Heidke's second album Curiouser. The song was highly promoted throughout Australia on Radio station Nova, including its use in a Nova television commercial.-Track listing:...

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Kate Miller-Heidke
Kate Miller-Heidke
Kate Miller-Heidke is a singer-songwriter from Brisbane, Australia. Although classically trained, she has followed a career in alternative pop music. She is signed to Sony Australia, Epic in the US and RCA in the UK.-Career:...

Kate Miller-Heidke, Keir Nuttall
Keir Nuttall
Keir Nuttall is a Brisbane guitarist, singer and songwriter. He performs and records in the band of his partner Kate Miller-Heidke, the Brisbane singer-songwriter and Sony-BMG artist, as well as in the progressive rock trio Transport....

"Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (song)
"Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!" is a song written by Nick Cave and was released by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds as a single on February 18, 2008. It is the title track from the band's latest album, Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!. The song, like much of the band's recent work, was produced by Nick Launay...

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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are an Australian alternative rock band, formed in Melbourne in 1983. The band is fronted by Nick Cave and has featured international personnel throughout their career.-Formation and early releases :...

Nick Cave
Nick Cave
Nicholas Edward "Nick" Cave is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional film actor.He is best known for his work as a frontman of the critically acclaimed rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1984, a group known for its eclectic influences and...

"Rattlin Bones" Kasey Chambers
Kasey Chambers
Kasey Chambers is an Australian country singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of steel guitar player Bill Chambers, and the sister of musician and producer Nash Chambers.-Solo success:...

 & Shane Nicholson
Shane Nicholson (singer)
Shane Nicholson is an Australian singer-songwriter from Brisbane in Queensland. He currently lives on the Central Coast in New South Wales with wife Kasey Chambers, with whom he has a son, Arlo Ray, born in July 2007....

Kasey Chambers, Shane Nicholson
"Walking on a Dream
Walking on a Dream (song)
"Walking on a Dream" is a song by the Australian electronic duo Empire of the Sun, released as the lead single from their debut album, Walking on a Dream. The full Sam La More remix was made available as a free download on the band's official website. The single was successful on the Australian...

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Empire of the Sun
Empire of the Sun (band)
Empire of the Sun is an Australian electronic music duo that formed in 2008. The duo is composed of Luke Steele of The Sleepy Jackson and Nick Littlemore of Pnau. The two met in 2000 after both being signed to the same record label. Luke and Nick knew that they instantly had a chemistry like no other...

Jonathon Sloan, Luke Steele, Nick Littlemore
Nick Littlemore
Nick Littlemore is an Australian musician and producer, known as frontman of electronic act Pnau and one part of electro pop-duo Empire of the Sun . He is also member of art-rock band Teenager Nick Littlemore is an Australian musician and producer, known as frontman of electronic act Pnau (with...

"White Noise
White Noise (song)
"White Noise" is the first single from The Living End's fifth studio album, White Noise. Released on 5 July 2008, after the "White Noise" track was the most added song on Australian radio in the weeks previous, it went on to top the Australian Airplay Chart...

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The Living End
The Living End
The Living End are an Australian rock band from Melbourne, Victoria, formed in 1994. The current lineup consists of Chris Cheney , Scott Owen and Andy Strachan...

Chris Cheney
Chris Cheney
Christopher John Cheney is the guitarist, main songwriter and lead vocalist in the Australian rock band, The Living End. His trademark guitar is a Gretsch White Falcon and he uses mainly distortion and modulation effects...


Songwriters of the Year
Writer Artist Result
Kim Moyes
Kim Moyes
Kimberley "Kim" Isaac Moyes or K.I.M. is half of a Sydney-based electronica duo, The Presets with Julian Hamilton. Moyes provides keyboard and drums, as well as production . His involvement with The Presets has resulted in a total of six ARIA Music Awards...

, Julian Hamilton
Julian Hamilton
Julian Thomas Hamilton is a singer, song-writer and keyboardist, who, with bandmate Kim Moyes, makes up successful Sydney electronica duo, The Presets.-Biography:...

The Presets
The Presets
The Presets are an Australian electronic duo formed in 2003, consisting of Julian Hamilton on vocals and keyboards, and Kim Moyes on drums and keyboards. They released their debut album Beams in 2005 to positive critical response. Their 2008 release Apocalypso debuted at number-one on the ARIA...


Breakthrough Songwriter Award
Writer Artist Result
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu is an Indigenous Australian musician, who sings in the Yolngu language.He was born in Galiwin'ku , off the coast of Arnhem Land, Northern Australia about 350 miles from Darwin. He is from the Gumatj clan of the Yolngu and his mother from the Galpu nation...

Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu

Ted Albert Award For Outstanding Services to Australian Music
Name Result
Denis Handlin

Most Played Australian Work
Title Artist Writer Result
"Don't Hold Back
Don't Hold Back (The Potbelleez song)
"Don't Hold Back" is the first single by The Potbelleez from the self-titled debut album The Potbelleez. The single is their most successful to date and received heavy airplay across Australia and was critically acclaimed...

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The Potbelleez
The Potbelleez
The Potbelleez are a four piece Australian House/Electro music group.-Career history:Both DJs/Producers David Greene and Jonny Murphy were born in Dublin, Ireland...

David Greene, Ilan Kidron, Jonathan Murphy, Sam Littlemore
"I Don't Do Surprises
I Don't Do Surprises
"I Don't Do Surprises" is the debut single by Axle Whitehead, from his debut album Losing Sleep. "I Don't Do Surprises" has managed a peak of #8 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart, and is certified Gold by ARIA. It has so far spent a total of fifteen weeks in the top 50...

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Axle Whitehead
Axle Whitehead
Axle Whitehead is a former Australian Video Hits TV host and current singer, musician, and actor. In 2008, he released his first studio album Losing Sleep which debuted outside of the ARIA top 50...

Robert Conley, Axle Whitehead
"Perfect
Perfect (Vanessa Amorosi song)
"Perfect" is the Platinum selling single from Vanessa Amorosi's album Somewhere in the Real World. The single was released digitally on 5 April 2008 and physically on 26 April 2008....

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Vanessa Amorosi
Vanessa Amorosi
Vanessa Amorosi is an Australian singer-songwriter and recording artist. Her combined album and single sales have reached over 2 million worldwide.-Early life:...

Vanessa Amorosi, David Franciosa
David Franj
Standard Publishing David Franj is an Australian singer-songwriter. Originally known for his hit singles God Only Knows, Oxygen and Never Be Amazing from his debut album 'Wrong Place, Wrong Time'....

"This Heart Attack
This Heart Attack
"This Heart Attack" is the first single from Faker's second album Be the Twilight. It was released digitally on 13 October 2007 and physically on 27 October 2007...

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Faker
Faker (band)
Faker are an Australian alternative rock band, formed in Sydney in 1996. The band consists of vocalist Nathan Hudson and guitarist Nicholas Munnings....

Nathan Hudson
"Untouched
Untouched (song)
"Untouched" is an electropop song written by Jessica and Lisa Origliasso, and Toby Gad, produced by Gad for The Veronicas' second album Hook Me Up . It was released as the album's second single in Australia on 10 December 2007. The song is notable for becoming the band's breakout hit in the United...

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The Veronicas
The Veronicas
The Veronicas are an Australian electrorock, pop-punk and rock band. Twin sisters Jessica and Lisa Origliasso formed the band in 1999 in Brisbane. They have their own line of clothing which was released in 2007....

Jessica Origliasso
Jessica Origliasso
Jessica Louise Origliasso is an Australian singer-songwriter, actress and fashion designer. Born and raised in Albany Creek, Queensland she, along side twin sister Lisa Origliasso, performed in show business at a young age. Origliasso rose to fame in 2000's when she and her sister formed a pop duo...

, Lisa Origliasso
Lisa Origliasso
Lisa Marie Origliasso is an Australian singer-songwriter, actress and fashion designer. Born and raised in Albany Creek, Queensland she, along side twin sister Jessica Origliasso, performed in show business at a young age. Origliasso rose to fame in 2000's when she and her sister formed a pop duo...

, Tobias Gad

Most Played Australian Work Overseas
Title Artist Writer Result
"Highway to Hell
Highway to Hell (song)
"Highway to Hell" is the opening track of AC/DC's 1979 album Highway to Hell and the twelfth track on AC/DC Live. It was initially released as a single in 1979....

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AC/DC
AC/DC
AC/DC are an Australian rock band, formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Commonly classified as hard rock, they are considered pioneers of heavy metal, though they themselves have always classified their music as simply "rock and roll"...

Bon Scott
Bon Scott
Ronald Belford "Bon" Scott was a Scottish-born Australian rock musician, best known for being the lead singer and lyricist of Australian hard rock band AC/DC from 1974 until his death in 1980...

, Angus Young
Angus Young
Angus McKinnon Young is a Scottish-born Australian musician, and the lead guitarist, songwriter, and co-founder of the rock and roll band AC/DC. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with other members of AC/DC in 2003 and is known for his energetic performances,...

, Malcolm Young
Malcolm Young
Malcolm Young is a Scottish-born Australian guitarist, best known as a founding member, rhythm guitarist, backing vocalist and songwriter for the Australian hard rock band AC/DC. Young was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003, along with the other members of AC/DC...


Most Played Foreign Work
Title Artist Writer Result
"All Your Reasons
All Your Reasons
"All Your Reasons" is a song from Matchbox Twenty's fourth album, Exile on Mainstream. It was released in Australia as the second single from the album, while in the rest of the world, "These Hard Times" was released as the second single.-Track listing:...

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Matchbox Twenty
Matchbox Twenty
Matchbox Twenty is an American rock band, formed in Orlando, Florida in 1995...

Kyle Cook
Kyle Cook
David Kyle Cook born August 29, 1975 in Frankfort, Indiana, is a member of the band Matchbox Twenty. He plays lead guitar, banjo and sings backing vocals for the band. He attended the Atlanta Music Institute. He also lived in Oviedo, Florida for a time...

, Rob Thomas
Rob Thomas (musician)
Robert Kelly "Rob" Thomas is an American rock recording artist and songwriter. He is the primary songwriter and lead singer of the band Matchbox Twenty. Thomas also records and performs as a solo artist...

, Paul Doucette
Paul Doucette
Paul John Doucette is the rhythm guitarist and former drummer for the band Matchbox Twenty. A native of North Huntington, Pennsylvania – a suburb located roughly 15 miles SE of Pittsburgh in Westmoreland County – Doucette graduated from Norwin High School in June 1990. He now lives in...

, Brian Yale
Brian Yale
Brian Joseph Yale is the bass guitarist for the band Matchbox Twenty. He likes to quote Austin Powers, "Do I Make you horny, baby?"...

"Bleeding Love
Bleeding Love
"Bleeding Love" is a pop/R&B ballad co-written by Jesse McCartney and Ryan Tedder and produced by Tedder for British singer Leona Lewis's debut album, Spirit. The song is the album's lead single , released in the United Kingdom and Ireland in October 2007...

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Leona Lewis
Leona Lewis
Leona Louise Lewis is a British singer and songwriter. Lewis first came to prominence in 2006 when she won the third series of the British television series The X Factor....

Jesse McCartney
Jesse McCartney
Jesse McCartney is an American singer-songwriter, actor and voice actor. McCartney achieved fame in the late 1990s on the daytime drama All My Children as JR Chandler. He later joined boy band Dream Street, and eventually branched out into a solo musical career...

, Ryan Tedder
Ryan Tedder
Ryan Benjamin Tedder is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the frontman of the pop rock band, OneRepublic, though he has an independent career as songwriter and producer for various artists such as Beyoncé, Kelly Clarkson, Far East Movement, Jordin Sparks, Leona...

"Dream Catch Me
Dream Catch Me
"Dream Catch Me" is a song written by Crispin Hunt, Newton Faulkner and Gordon Mills, produced by Mike Spencer and performed by Faulkner. It is the third single to be released from his debut album Hand Built by Robots...

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Newton Faulkner
Newton Faulkner
Sam Newton Battenberg Faulkner is an English singer-songwriter and musician from Reigate, Surrey. Known for his guitar playing, which involves rhythmically tapping and hitting his guitar's body, Faulkner came to prominence in 2007, with the release of his debut studio album, Hand Built by Robots...

Newton Faulkner, Crispin Hunt, Gordon Mills
"Pictures of You
Pictures of You (The Last Goodnight song)
"Pictures of You" is a single by The Last Goodnight and was released as the first single from their debut album Poison Kiss in 2007."Pictures of You" saw the band drawing comparisons to Maroon 5, which led to the song becoming a hit at popular radio as well as music video channels...

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The Last Goodnight
The Last Goodnight
The Last Goodnight was an alternative rock/pop band from Enfield, Connecticut, USA. Their major label debut, Poison Kiss, was released on 28 August 2007...

Jeffrey Blue
Jeff Blue
Jeff Blue is a multi-platinum music producer, A&R executive, songwriter, and lawyer who is currently Artists and Repertoire consultant for Atlantic Records. He has worked as Sr. VP A&R/Staff Producer for Warner Bros. Records|Warner California, Interscope Records, Virgin/Capitol Music Group,...

, Kurtis Henneberry, Michael Nadeau
"Stop and Stare
Stop and Stare
"Stop and Stare" is the second single by American pop rock band OneRepublic from their debut album Dreaming Out Loud. "Stop and Stare" was released to US radio on November 27, 2007...

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OneRepublic
OneRepublic
OneRepublic is an American pop rock band from Colorado Springs, Colorado. Formed in 2002 by Ryan Tedder and Zach Filkins, the band achieved massive success on MySpace, becoming the most prominent unsigned act on the website then...

Andrew Brown
Drew Brown (OneRepublic)
Andrew John "Drew" Brown is an American musician best known as the guitarist and keyboardist for the pop rock band OneRepublic. He also plays bells on the song "All The Right Moves". Originally from Broomfield, Colorado where he worked at Peter Walsh's Big Dog Deli to support himself as a budding...

, Zachary Filkins
Zach Filkins
Zachary Douglas "Zach" Filkins is an American musician and model, but as of 2007 he is best known as the lead guitarist of the pop rock band OneRepublic.-Early life:...

, Eddie Fisher
Eddie Fisher (OneRepublic)
Edward "Eddie" Fisher is an American musician. He is best known as drummer and percussionist in Grammy Nominated band OneRepublic. Eddie grew up in Mission Viejo, California and currently resides in Denver, Colorado, where OneRepublic is based. Eddie Fisher is the third drummer of OneRepublic...

, Timothy Myers
Tim Myers
Tim Myers is an American singer, songwriter and musician from Orange, California.Myers is also known for playing bass in the band OneRepublic from 2004-2007.-Early life:...

, Ryan Tedder

Blues & Roots Work of the Year
Title Artist Writer Result
"Cowboy Movie" 8 Ball Aitken
8 Ball Aitken
8 Ball Aitken is an Australian country, blues & roots musician who is notable for his fusion of country music with the genres of Australian blues and roots music....

8 Ball Aitken
"Heal Me" Lior
Lior
Lior is a male, independent Australian singer-songwriter based in Melbourne.-Career:In early 2005, Lior independently self-released his debut album Autumn Flow, certified gold by ARIA...

Lior Attar, Francois Tetaz
Francois Tetaz
François "Franc" Tétaz is an Australian film composer and music producer, who won the Australasian Performing Right Association / Australian Guild of Screen Composers 2006 'Feature Film Score of the Year' Award for Wolf Creek .-Biography:In 1992, François Tétaz with Charles Tétaz and Darrin...

"Stay" The Waifs
The Waifs
The Waifs are an Australian folk rock band formed in 1992 by Josh Cunningham , and sisters Vikki Thorn and Donna Simpson...

Josh Cunningham
Josh Cunningham
Joshua "Josh" Hayden Cunningham is an Australian guitarist, vocalist and songwriter who is one-third of folk rock band The Waifs. His involvement with The Waifs has resulted in a total of four Australian Recording Industry Association Award wins, all in 2003 for Up All Night and ten further...

, Donna Simpson
Donna Simpson
Donna Simpson is an Australian guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter, a member of the Australian folk rock band The Waifs. Donna's sister Vikki Thorn also plays harmonica and sings in the band. Donna has released six albums with The Waifs, and wrote the single London Still, one of The Waifs' most...

, Vikki Thorn
Vikki Thorn
Vikki Thorn is an Australian harmonica player, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter and one-third of the Australian folk rock band The Waifs. Her sister Donna Simpson also plays guitar and sings in the band...

, Brett Canning
"Sun Dirt Water
Sun Dirt Water (song)
"Sun Dirt Water" is the name of a single by the Australian folk-rock band The Waifs, from their album Sun Dirt Water. "Sun Dirt Water" was written by Vikki Thorn.-Chart performance:...

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The Waifs Josh Cunningham, Donna Simpson, Vikki Thorn
"Sunshine" Old Man River
Old Man River (musician)
Old Man River is the stage name of Australian singer-songwriter Ohad Rein, and the name of his band. In 2009, "Sunshine", co-written by Old Man River, won the 'Blues & Roots Work of the Year' category at the Australasian Performing Right Association Awards.-History:Ohad Rein was born in Sydney,...

Ohad Rein, Edo Kahn, Nadav Kahn

Country Work of the Year
Title Artist Writer Result
"Comin' From" / "Khe Sanh
Khe Sanh (song)
"Khe Sanh" is an Australian song, released as a 45 rpm single in May 1978, and named after the Battle of Khe Sanh during the Vietnam War. The song, performed by Cold Chisel, having been written by pianist Don Walker and featuring the vocals of Jimmy Barnes, is about an Australian Vietnam veteran...

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Adam Brand
Adam Brand
Adam Brand is an Australian musician who sings country music. Active since 1997, he has released seven studio albums and thirteen singles. His first three albums are all certified platinum in Australia...

Adam Brand, Sam Hawksley / Don Walker
Don Walker (musician)
Don Walker is an Australian musician and songwriter known for writing many of the hits for Australian pub rock band Cold Chisel. He played piano and keyboard with the band from 1973 to 1983, when they disbanded. He has since continued to record and tour, both solo and with Tex, Don and Charlie,...

"Good Girls" Amber Lawrence Amber Lawrence
"I'm Doin' Alright" Adam Harvey
Adam Harvey
Adam Harvey is an Australian country music singer. Harvey has been nominated three times for an ARIA Music Award and is a multiple CMAA Award winner.-Biography:Adam Harvey got his start musically learning country classics on the guitar as a small boy...

Adam Harvey, Phillip Buckle
"Long Live the Girls" Sara Storer
Sara Storer
Sara Storer is an Australian country music singer. She won seven Golden Guitars in the Tamworth Country Music Festival 2004 awards in Tamworth, the most awards ever won in one year in the 32-year history of the awards. As of the 2010 Golden Guitar awards, Storer has won a total of eleven...

Sara Storer, Boh Runga
"Rattlin Bones" Kasey Chambers
Kasey Chambers
Kasey Chambers is an Australian country singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of steel guitar player Bill Chambers, and the sister of musician and producer Nash Chambers.-Solo success:...

 & Shane Nicholson
Shane Nicholson (singer)
Shane Nicholson is an Australian singer-songwriter from Brisbane in Queensland. He currently lives on the Central Coast in New South Wales with wife Kasey Chambers, with whom he has a son, Arlo Ray, born in July 2007....

Kasey Chambers, Shane Nicholson

Dance Work of the Year
Title Artist Writer Result
"Are You With Me
Are You with Me (The Potbelleez song)
"Are You with Me" is the second single by The Potbelleez from the self-titled debut album "The Potbelleez".-Track listing:Australian CD Single# Are You with Me # Are You with Me # Are You with Me...

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The Potbelleez
The Potbelleez
The Potbelleez are a four piece Australian House/Electro music group.-Career history:Both DJs/Producers David Greene and Jonny Murphy were born in Dublin, Ireland...

David Greene, Ilan Kidron, Jonathan Murphy, Sam Littlemore
"Don't Hold Back
Don't Hold Back (The Potbelleez song)
"Don't Hold Back" is the first single by The Potbelleez from the self-titled debut album The Potbelleez. The single is their most successful to date and received heavy airplay across Australia and was critically acclaimed...

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The Potbelleez David Greene, Ilan Kidron, Jonathan Murphy, Sam Littlemore
"Don't You Wanna Feel
Don't You Wanna Feel
"Don't You Wanna Feel" is a dance-pop-rock song written by James Ash and Natalie Bassingthwaighte for the Rogue Traders' third studio album Better in the Dark. It was released on schedule as the album's first single on 29 September 2007...

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Rogue Traders
Rogue Traders
Rogue Traders are an Australian electronic pop rock band fronted by Melinda "Mindi" Jackson with James Ash on keyboards, Tim Henwood on guitars and Peter Marin on drums. The group's original members met in London in 1989. Before forming Rogue Traders, Ash and Davis worked together on many...

Jamie Appleby
James Ash
James Ash , is an English-born Australian musician, songwriter and record producer. He is the co-founder and keyboardist of Australian electro-rock group, the Rogue Traders...

, Steven Davis, Natalie Bassingthwaighte
Natalie Bassingthwaighte
Natalie Bassingthwaighte is an Australian actress, singer-songwriter and television personality. She began her career as an actress on the television series All Saints. She then starred in the American television movie Counterstrike...

, Dougal Drummond
"The Sea Is Rising" Bliss n Eso
Bliss n Eso
Bliss n Eso are an ARIA Award-winning Australian hip hop band based in Sydney, and were originally known as Bliss N' Esoterikizm for their debut EP The Arrival...

Max MacKinnon, Jonathan Notley, Noam Dishon
"Woodstock 2008" Bliss N Eso Max MacKinnon, Jonathan Notley, Noam Dishon

Jazz Work of the Year
Title Artist Writer Result
"Beyond Both Worlds" Shannon-Goodrich Ensemble Elissa Goodrich
"Moments and Eternities" Joe Chindamo
Joe Chindamo
Joe Chindamo is an Australian pianist and composer residing in Melbourne. In 2009, "Something Will Come to Light" , written by Chindamo, won the 'Jazz Work of the Year' at the Australasian Performing Right Association Awards, his "Moments and Eternities" was also nominated.His music has been used...

Joe Chindamo
"Something Will Come to Light" Joe Chindamo Joe Chindamo
"Raindrop" Paul Grabowsky
Paul Grabowsky
-Biography:Grabowsky was born on 27 September 1958 in Lae, Papua New Guinea; his father Alistair had lived in Papua New Guinea with his wife Charlotte since the 1930s working on oil rigs, building roads, flying planes and playing the drums...

Paul Grabowsky
"Sailing Day" Shannon-Goodrich Ensemble Clare Shannon

Urban Work of the Year
Title Artist Writer Result
"City of Dreams
City of Dreams (Joel Turner song)
"City of Dreams" is the first single from Joel Turner's second studio album Out of the Box.It was released on August 25, 2007 and features Turner on vocals, beatbox and acoustic guitar, with rappers C4 and KNO performing the verses...

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Joel Turner
Joel Turner (musician)
Joel Turner is an Australian beatboxer, singer, songwriter, instrumentalist and record producer best known for the Australian hit song "These Kids". As a beatboxer, he is recognised for his raw power, deep bass, and trademark sounds such as his "third voice", cowbell, teeth beats and bass guitar...

 featuring C4 & KNO
Joel Turner, Shaunn Diamond, Chris Heiner, Kitchener Wesche
"In the Basement
In The Basement (song)
"In The Basement" was the first single to be lifted of Australian urban singer Jade MacRae's second album Get Me Home. The single didn't fare well in the charts due to lack of Radio airplay....

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Jade MacRae
Jade MacRae
Jade MacRae is an Australian R&B/Soul singer and the daughter of two professional New Zealand musicians living in the UK. Her debut single "You Make Me Weak" debuted in the top 50 of the Australian singles charts in November 2004...

Jade MacRae, Arnthor Birgisson
Arnthor Birgisson
Arnthor Birgisson born on February 12, 1976, in Reykjavik, Iceland, is a Swedish songwriter and producer. His music can be described as a mixture of pop and R&B...

"Running Back
Running Back (Jessica Mauboy song)
"Running Back" is the debut single by Australian R&B recording artist Jessica Mauboy, which features American rapper Flo Rida. It was written by Mauboy, Audius Mtawarira, and Sean Ray Mullins, and was produced by Audius. "Running Back" was released for digital download on 19 September 2008, as the...

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Jessica Mauboy
Jessica Mauboy
Jessica Hilda Mauboy , is an Indigenous Australian R&B singer-songwriter and actress. In 2006, Mauboy was the runner-up on the fourth season of Australian Idol, she had auditioned for the talent show in Alice Springs to pursue a recording career...

 featuring Flo Rida
Flo Rida
Tramar Dillard , better known by his stage name Flo Rida , is an American rapper and singer-songwriter. He released his debut album, Mail on Sunday, in March 2008. His debut single "Low", featuring T-Pain, was a #1 hit for ten weeks in United States in early 2008. Two other singles resulted from...

Jessica Mauboy, Audius Mtawarira
Audius Mtawarira
Audius Mtawarira, is a multi-ARIA Award winning Australian record producer, composer, artist and songwriter more commonly known as "Audius".-Biography:...

, Sean Ray
Snob Scrilla
Sean Ray is an American rapper, producer and musician.- Biography :Sean Ray known by his alias Snob Scrilla was born in Clovis, California. He went to Buchanan High School. He moved to Australia to study and while living in Newcastle began making music before later moving to Sydney. His hometown...

"The Sea Is Rising" Bliss n Eso
Bliss n Eso
Bliss n Eso are an ARIA Award-winning Australian hip hop band based in Sydney, and were originally known as Bliss N' Esoterikizm for their debut EP The Arrival...

Max MacKinnon, Jonathan Notley, Noam Dishon
"Woodstock 2008" Bliss N Eso Max MacKinnon, Jonathan Notley, Noam Dishon

Classical Music Awards


Best Composition by an Australian Composer
Title Composer Result
Black Dogs Iain Grandage
jeu fabriqué Daniel Blinkhorn
Monh Georges Lentz
Georges Lentz
Georges Lentz is a contemporary composer and sound artist, born in Luxembourg in 1965, and is that country's internationally best known composer. Since 1990, he has been living in Sydney, Australia...

The Red Tree Michael Yezerski
Michael Yezerski
Michael Yezerski is an award-winning Australian composer known for his scores for features film such as The Waiting City, The Black Balloon , Newcastle, and Thursday's Fictions, as well as collaborations with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Gondwana Voices Children's Choir Michael Yezerski...

, Richard Tognetti
Richard Tognetti
Richard Leo Tognetti, AO is an Australian violinist, composer and conductor. He is currently Artistic Director and Leader of the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Artistic Director of the Maribor Festival in Maribor, Slovenia....


Best Performance of an Australian Composition
Title Composer Performer Result
Learning to Howl Andrew Ford
Andrew Ford
Andrew Ford is an English and Australian composer, writer and radio presenter.He was Composer-in-residence with the Australian Chamber Orchestra , held the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composer Fellowship from 1998 to 2000 and was awarded a two-year fellowship by the Music Board of the Australia Council...

Arcko Symphonic Project
String Quartet No. 3 Richard Mills
Richard Mills
Richard John Mills AM, DMus BA Qld, is an Australian conductor and composer. He currently works as Artistic Director of the West Australian Opera and Artistic Consultant with Orchestra Victoria...

Jerusalem Quartet
Symphony No. 7 Scenes from Daily Life Carl Vine
Carl Vine
Carl Vine is an Australian composer of contemporary classical music.-Career:Vine was born in Perth, Western Australia. When he was ten years old, he took up the piano. An adolescent encounter with Karlheinz Stockhausen inspired a period as a teenage modernist, a direction which he abandoned in 1985...

West Australian Symphony Orchestra
West Australian Symphony Orchestra
The West Australian Symphony Orchestra , often known as the "Orchestra of the West", is the premier professional orchestra of the state of Western Australia.-History:...


Instrumental Work of the Year
Title Composer Performer Result
Blue Rags Ian Munro
Ian Munro (pianist)
Ian Munro is an Australian pianist, composer, writer and music educator. His career has taken him to over 30 countries in Europe, Asia, North America and Australasia.-Biography:...

Ian Munro
Kashmir Remembered Tony Gould Tony Gould (piano), David Jones (percussion), Imogen Manins (cello)
Rivera Mountain John Sangster
John Sangster
John Sangster was an Australian jazz composer, arranger, drummer, cornettist and Vibraphonist born in Melbourne, most well known as a composer though also a gifted multi-instrumentalist...

Tony Gould (piano), David Jones (percussion), Imogen Manins (cello)
The River Meets the Sea Tony Gould, David Jones, Imogen Manins Tony Gould (piano), David Jones (percussion), Imogen Manins (cello)

Long-Term Contribution to the Advancement of Australian Music
Artist or Organisation Result
Gwen Bennett
Jon Rose
Jon Rose
Jon Rose is an Australian violinist born in the UK in 1951. Rose began playing violin at age 7 after winning a music scholarship to King's School in Rochester. For over 35 years, Rose has been at the sharp end of new, improvised, and experimental music and media...

Sydney Symphony’s Education Program, Meet the Music Series

Orchestral Work of the Year
Title Composer Performer Result
Kalkadungu Matthew Hindson, William Barton Sydney Symphony
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra , commonly known as the Sydney Symphony, is an Australian symphony orchestra based in Sydney...

, William Barton (didjeridu), Richard Gill (conductor)
Noumen Robert Dahm Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is an orchestra based in Melbourne, Australia. It has 100 permanent musicians. Melbourne has the longest continuous history of orchestral music of any Australian city and the MSO is the oldest professional orchestra in Australia...

, Reinbert de Leeuw (conductor)
Palm Court Suite Graeme Koehne
Graeme Koehne
Graeme Koehne is an Australian composer and music educator. He is best known for his orchestral and ballet scores, which are characterised by direct communicative style and embrace of triadic tonality...

Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra is a symphony orchestra based in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It is the smallest of the six orchestras established by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation .-Activities:...

, Richard Mills
Richard Mills
Richard John Mills AM, DMus BA Qld, is an Australian conductor and composer. He currently works as Artistic Director of the West Australian Opera and Artistic Consultant with Orchestra Victoria...

 (conductor)
Tivoli Dances Graeme Koehne Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Richard Mills (conductor)

Outstanding Contribution by an Individual
Individual Work Result
Riley Lee
Riley Lee
Riley Kelly Lee is an American-born Australian-based shakuhachi player and teacher. In 1980 he became the first non-Japanese person to attain the rank of Dai Shihan in the shakuhachi tradition. He is a recipient of two of the most revered lineages of shakuhachi playing, descending from the...

2008 World Shakuhachi Festival

Outstanding Contribution by an Organisation
Organisation Work Result
Canberra International Music Festival Committee Canberra International Music Festival 2008
MLC School
MLC School
MLC School is an independent day school for girls, located in Burwood, Sydney. Founded in 1886, MLC admits students from pre-kinder age through to Year 12, and is a Uniting Church of Australia school.- History :...

MLC School (Sydney) Music Department
Performing Australian Music Competition Committee Performing Australian Music Competition (PAMC)
Topology
Topology (musical ensemble)
Topology is a post-modernist quintet from Australia, formed in 1997. A leading Australian new music ensemble, they perform throughout Australia and abroad and have to date released four albums, including one with rock/electronica band Full Fathom Five and one with contemporary ensemble Loops. ...

2008 Brisbane Powerhouse Series

Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music in Education
Organisation Work Result
Music Viva in Schools Music Generator Project
Sibelius and Ensemble Offspring Sibelius Composer Awards 2008
Southern Cross Soloists Sunwater and Stanwell Winter Music School
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra is a symphony orchestra based in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It is the smallest of the six orchestras established by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation .-Activities:...

 (TSO)
TSO Australian Composers' School

Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music in a Regional Area
Organisation Work Result
Publications by Wirripang 2008 Activities
Southern Cross Soloists Bangalow Music Festival
TaikOz The Gathering Tour
Tura New Music and the Australian Art Orchestra Crossing Roper Bar Tour

Vocal or Choral Work of the Year
Title Composer Result
A Flock of Stars Lyn Williams

Screen Music Awards


Best Feature Film Score
Title Composer Result
Australia
Australia (2008 film)
Australia is a 2008 epic historical romance film directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. It is the second-highest grossing Australian film of all time, behind Crocodile Dundee. The screenplay was written by Luhrmann and screenwriter Stuart Beattie, with Ronald Harwood...

David Hirschfelder
David Hirschfelder
David Hirschfelder is an Australian film score composer and performer.Hirschfelder was born and raised in Ballarat, Victoria....

Balibo
Balibo (2009 film)
Balibo is a 2009 Australian feature film that follows the story of the Balibo Five, a group of journalists who were captured and killed whilst reporting on activities just prior to the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975. The film is loosely based on the book Cover-Up, by Jill Jolliffe, an...

Lisa Gerrard
Lisa Gerrard
Lisa Gerrard is an Australian musician, singer, and composer who rose to prominence as part of the music group Dead Can Dance with former music partner Brendan Perry....

Disgrace
Disgrace (film)
Disgrace is an Australian film set in South Africa, adapted for the screen by Anna Maria Monticelli from the 1999 J. M. Coetzee novel, Disgrace...

Graeme Koehne
Graeme Koehne
Graeme Koehne is an Australian composer and music educator. He is best known for his orchestral and ballet scores, which are characterised by direct communicative style and embrace of triadic tonality...

, Antony Partos
Two Fists, One Heart
Two Fists, One Heart
Two Fists, One Heart is an 2009 Australian drama film directed by Shawn Seet and written by Rai Fazio, and is based on Fazio's own life growing up. The film is set and was shot in Perth, Western Australia.-Plot:...

David Bridie
David Bridie
David Bridie is a musician from Melbourne, Australia. Bridie first rose to prominence as a member of Not Drowning, Waving, which he started in the early 1980s with guitarist John Phillips. They released four albums on Australian independent labels to some level of critical acclaim and very limited...


Best Music for an Advertisement
Title Composer Result
Earth Hour Candle "Everybody's Singing This Song" Elliott Wheeler
H & R Block "Paper Man" Scott Langley
Wedgewood "Timeless" Basil Hogios
Optus "Whale Song" Bruce Heald

Best Music for Children's Television
Title Composer Result
Dex Hamilton: Alien Entomologist
Dex Hamilton: Alien Entomologist
Dex Hamilton: Alien Entomologist is a children's animated television program that is an international co-production between March Entertainment and SLR Productions in Canada and Australia. The series first screened on Network Ten in 2008 and is designed for kids aged 6 and older...

Guy Gross
Figaro Pho Michael Darren, Luke Jurevicius
Master Raindrop
Master Raindrop
Master Raindrop is a children's animated television program produced jointly by Australian, New Zealand and Singaporean companies that first screened on the Australian Seven Network in 2008...

Russell Thornton
The Adventures of Charlotte and Henry Sean Peter

Best Music for a Documentary
Title Composer Result
Contact Antony Partos
Death of the Megabeasts Ash Gibson Greig
Rainforest, the Secret of Life Yantra de Vilder
Sidney Nolan: Mask and Memory Amanda Brown
Amanda Brown (musician)
Amanda Gabrielle Brown is an Australian composer, classically trained musician, singer and songwriter, renowned for her role as the violinist of the band The Go-Betweens and more recently a session musician and soundtrack composer....


Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie
Title Composer Result
False Witness
False Witness
False Witness is an Australian television mini-series produced by Screentime Australia for the Australian subscription television channel UK.TV...

Burkhard Dallwitz
Burkhard Dallwitz
Burkhard von Dallwitz is a German-born composer based in Melbourne, Australia. He was born near Frankfurt and began ten years of classical piano training at the age of eight. By thirteen he was writing songs and music, and from fifteen, Burkhard wrote, arranged and performed for various musical...

Saved Antony Partos
The Informant Eric Chapus
Endorphin (Australian band)
Endorphin is the stage name of Eric Chapus, an electronic act from Kuranda, near Cairns, Australia.-Albums:* Embrace * Skin * AM:PM * Seduction * Shake It... * Soon After Silence...

The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce
The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce
The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce is a 2008 Australian film directed by Michael James Rowland starring Irish actors Adrian Dunbar as Philip Conolly and Ciaran McMenamin as Alexander Pearce...

Roger Mason
Roger Mason (musician)
Roger Ashley Mason is an Australian keyboardist who has been a member of New Wave groups Models, Absent Friends and Icehouse. He was a session and backing musician for United Kingdom's Gary Numan and for various Australian artists...


Best Music for a Short Film
Title Composer Result
Dear Diary Alan Harding
Liebermans in the Sky Pete E Neville
Lucy Wants to Kill Herself Brett Aplin
The Cat Piano
The Cat Piano
The Cat Piano is an award winning animated short film directed by Eddie White and Ari Gibson and narrated by Nick Cave.-Plot:The Cat Piano is narrated by the main character of the animated short, an anthropomorphic cat. It is clear that the narration is a poem, which the poet is typing on a...

Benjamin Speed
Benjamin Speed
Benjamin Peter Speed is an Australian musician who composes scores for film, television and theatre...


Best Music for a Television Series or Serial
Series or Serial Episode title Composer Result
Bogan Pride
Bogan Pride
Bogan Pride is an Australian comedy television series which first screened on SBS TV in 2008. The six-part series created by and starring actress, Rebel Wilson, is directed by Peter Templeman and produced by Tony Ayres and Michael McMahon . The series centres around the life of a teenage bogan girl...

"Episode 6 - The Dance Battle" Michael Lira
McLeod's Daughters
McLeod's Daughters
McLeod's Daughters is a Logie award-winning Australian drama series that aired on the Nine Network from 2001 to 2009. It tells the story of two sisters, Claire and Tess McLeod, who are reunited after they inherit the family farm...

"Episode 224 - The Long Paddock" Alastair Ford
Rush
Rush (2008 TV series)
-DVD releases:-Achievements:-International distribution:-External links:...

"Episode 11" Stephen Rae
Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities
Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities
Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities is a 13-part Australian television mini-series loosely based on real events that stemmed from the marijuana trade centred around the New South Wales town of Griffith. The timeline of the series is the years between 1976 and 1987. Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities...

"Episode 9 - Judas Kiss" Burkhard Dallwitz
Burkhard Dallwitz
Burkhard von Dallwitz is a German-born composer based in Melbourne, Australia. He was born near Frankfurt and began ten years of classical piano training at the age of eight. By thirteen he was writing songs and music, and from fifteen, Burkhard wrote, arranged and performed for various musical...


Best Original Song Composed for the Screen
Song title Work Composer Result
"Balibo" Balibo
Balibo (2009 film)
Balibo is a 2009 Australian feature film that follows the story of the Balibo Five, a group of journalists who were captured and killed whilst reporting on activities just prior to the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975. The film is loosely based on the book Cover-Up, by Jill Jolliffe, an...

Ego Lemos
Ego Lemos
Ego Lemos is a permaculturist and singer-songwriter from East Timor who sings in his native tongue, Tetum. His song "Balibo" was awarded best original song composed for the screen at the 2009 Screen Music Awards and a 2009 APRA Award for best song in a film. His debut solo album, produced by...

"By the Boab Tree" Australia
Australia (2008 film)
Australia is a 2008 epic historical romance film directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. It is the second-highest grossing Australian film of all time, behind Crocodile Dundee. The screenplay was written by Luhrmann and screenwriter Stuart Beattie, with Ronald Harwood...

Angela Little, Baz Luhrmann
Baz Luhrmann
Mark Anthony "Baz" Luhrmann is an Australian film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for The Red Curtain Trilogy, which includes his films Strictly Ballroom, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge!...

, Felix Meagher, Anton Monsted, Schuyler Weis
"Mother's Lament" Essence of the Game Jamie Saxe
"This Isn't Easy" Chandon Pictures
Chandon Pictures
Chandon Pictures was an Australian comedy television series that premiered on Movie Extra on 10 November 2007 and ended on 7 May 2009.The series featured sixteen episodes and was a spin-off from a Tropfest short film produced by Rob Carlton and Alex Weinress...

Cameron Bruce
Cameron Bruce
Cameron Bruce is a professional Australian rules football player, who plays for the Hawthorn Football Club after being selected by the Hawks in the Pre-season Draft, as was widely speculated to occur after he quit playing for the Melbourne Football Club, with whom he had played for 11 seasons, and...


Best Soundtrack Album
Title Composer Result
Australia
Australia (2008 film)
Australia is a 2008 epic historical romance film directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. It is the second-highest grossing Australian film of all time, behind Crocodile Dundee. The screenplay was written by Luhrmann and screenwriter Stuart Beattie, with Ronald Harwood...

various
Balibo
Balibo (2009 film)
Balibo is a 2009 Australian feature film that follows the story of the Balibo Five, a group of journalists who were captured and killed whilst reporting on activities just prior to the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975. The film is loosely based on the book Cover-Up, by Jill Jolliffe, an...

various
Death Defying Acts
Death Defying Acts
Death Defying Acts is a 2007 supernatural romantic thriller. The film is a UK-Australian co-production directed by Gillian Armstrong and starring Guy Pearce and Catherine Zeta-Jones. It concerns an episode in the life of Hungarian-American escapologist Harry Houdini at the height of his career in...

Cezary Skubiszewski
Cezary Skubiszewski
Cezary Skubiszewski, born 1949, Warsaw, Poland, is an Polish Australian composer for film, television and orchestra.Migrating from Poland to Australia in 1974, he studied the piano from the age of six. He currently lives in East St Kilda, Melbourne...

Restraint
Restraint (2008 film)
Restraint is a 2008 Australian thriller film, directed by David Denneen, written by Dave Warner and starring Stephen Moyer, Travis Fimmel and Teresa Palmer. The film was shot on location around New South Wales, Australia in mid-2005. Working titles during production were, Ravenswood, Guests and...

Elliott Wheeler

Best Television Theme
Title Composer Result
Carla Cametti PD
Carla Cametti PD
Carla Cametti PD is a six-part Australian television crime series that was announced in April 2008and first screened on SBS TV on January 8, 2009. The series of six episodes is produced by Buon Giorno Productions Pty Ltd....

Cezary Skubiszewski
Cezary Skubiszewski
Cezary Skubiszewski, born 1949, Warsaw, Poland, is an Polish Australian composer for film, television and orchestra.Migrating from Poland to Australia in 1974, he studied the piano from the age of six. He currently lives in East St Kilda, Melbourne...

, Jan Skubiszewski
"Gonna Be on Top" (Australia's Next Top Model
Australia's Next Top Model
Australia's Next Top Model is an Australian reality television series, based on a franchise that was created by Tyra Banks with America's Next Top Model...

)
Travis Conneeley, Martin Eden
Satisfaction
Satisfaction (TV series)
Satisfaction is an Australian television drama series which screened on the subscription television channel Showcase. It also screens in the Republic of Ireland on free-to-air channel TV3 and its sister channel 3e and in New Zealand on free-to-air channel TV2 respectively.The series was filmed in...

Cameron Giles-Webb, Colin Simkins
The Stamp of Australia Nerida Tyson-Chew

International Achievement Award
Artist Result
Guy Gross
Guy Gross
Guy Gross could refer to:* Guy Gross - Australian music composer known for his work on American science fiction series Farscape and the international hit film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert...


Most Performed Screen Composer - Australia
Composer Result
Nick Perjanik
Jay Stewart
Neil Sutherland
Brenton White

Most Performed Screen Composer - Overseas
Composer Result
Alastair Ford
Ric Formosa
Ric Formosa
-External links:...

, Danny Beckerman
Guy Gross
Neil Sutherland

External links

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