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The 16th Annual Australian Recording Industry Association

Australian Recording Industry Association

The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956...

Music Awards (generally known as ARIA Music Awards

ARIA Music Awards

The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Australian Recording Industry Association...

or simply The ARIAs

ARIA Music Awards

The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Australian Recording Industry Association...

) were held on 15 October 2002 at the Sydney SuperDome.

ARIA Awards

Winners highlighted in bold with nominations below them in plain.

Album of the Year
- 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:...
  
  – Barricades & Brickwalls
  Barricades & Brickwalls
  - Charts :...
- Alex Lloyd
  Alex Lloyd
  Alex Lloyd is an Australian singer-songwriter. His most popular album Watching Angels Mend, which includes the songs "Amazing" and "Green", was released in 2001 went double platinum. His third album Distant Light released in 2003 featured three songs that made the Australian top 40 singles charts...
  
  – Watching Angels Mend
  Watching Angels Mend
  Watching Angels Mend is the second studio album released by Alex Lloyd. It features the No. 1 song "Amazing".-Album reviews and peaks:...
- george
  George (band)
  George are a rock band from Brisbane, Australia. Their first album, Polyserena reached #1 in the Australian Charts on 17 March 2002.-History:...
  
  – Polyserena
  Polyserena
  Polyserena is a 2002 album by George.The band's first album, Polyserena debuted at #1 in the national album charts in its first week; George became only the tenth Australian band to do so with a debut album. It achieved gold record status within ten days, and platinum record status within three weeks...
- Kylie Minogue
  Kylie Minogue
  Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE - often known simply as Kylie - is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing...
  
  – Fever
  Fever (Kylie Minogue album)
  Fever is the eighth album by Australian singer Kylie Minogue. It was released 1 October 2001 by Parlophone Mushroom Records, and Capitol Records. Minogue began work on the album in 2001, working with famous songwriters and producers like Cathy Dennis, Rob Davis, and Tom Nichols, moving into a...
- Silverchair
  Silverchair
  Silverchair were an Australian rock band, which formed in 1992 as Innocent Criminals in Merewether, Newcastle with the line-up of Ben Gillies on drums, Chris Joannou on bass guitar and Daniel Johns on vocals and guitars. The group got their big break in mid-1994 when they won a national demo...
  
  – Diorama
  Diorama (album)
  Diorama is the fourth studio album by Australian alternative rock band Silverchair. Released on 31 March 2002 by record label Eleven, the album was co-produced by Daniel Johns and David Bottrill...

Single of the Year
- Kylie Minogue
  Kylie Minogue
  Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE - often known simply as Kylie - is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing...
  
  – "Can't Get You Out of My Head
  Can't Get You out of My Head
  "Can't Get You Out of My Head" is a song by Australian recording artist and songwriter Kylie Minogue, which was released from her eighth studio album Fever . The song was released worldwide as the lead single from the album, which was released on 8 September, 2001. The song was written and produced...
  
  "
- Alex Lloyd
  Alex Lloyd
  Alex Lloyd is an Australian singer-songwriter. His most popular album Watching Angels Mend, which includes the songs "Amazing" and "Green", was released in 2001 went double platinum. His third album Distant Light released in 2003 featured three songs that made the Australian top 40 singles charts...
  
  – "Amazing
  Amazing (Alex Lloyd song)
  "Amazing" is a single written by Australian singer Alex Lloyd and released in 2001. It was a successful single, which reached the top of the New Zealand chart, and topped the poll in youth radio station Triple J's Hottest 100 in 2001....
  
  "
- Grinspoon
  Grinspoon
  Grinspoon are an Australian rock band from Lismore, New South Wales formed in 1995 and fronted by Phil Jamieson on vocals and guitar with Pat Davern on guitar, Joe Hansen on bass guitar and Kristian Hopes on drums. Also in 1995, they won the Triple J-sponsored Unearthed competition for Lismore,...
  
  – "Chemical Heart
  Chemical Heart
  Chemical Heart was the first single released from Grinspoon's second studio album New Detention in 2002. It was a surprising change for fans because the grunge rock band had released ballads before, but they had never released one as their first single, and most people were expecting a hard rocking...
  
  "
- 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:...
  
  – "Not Pretty Enough
  Not Pretty Enough
  -Charts:-End of year chart:...
  
  "
- The Vines
  The Vines
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  – "Get Free
  Get Free
  "Get Free" is a song by the garage rock band The Vines from their debut album Highly Evolved. The song was released in late 2002, and remains the Vines' highest charting single . The song was written by Vines' frontman Craig Nicholls...
  
  "

Highest Selling Album
- Kylie Minogue
  Kylie Minogue
  Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE - often known simply as Kylie - is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing...
  
  – Fever
  Fever (Kylie Minogue album)
  Fever is the eighth album by Australian singer Kylie Minogue. It was released 1 October 2001 by Parlophone Mushroom Records, and Capitol Records. Minogue began work on the album in 2001, working with famous songwriters and producers like Cathy Dennis, Rob Davis, and Tom Nichols, moving into a...
- Alex Lloyd
  Alex Lloyd
  Alex Lloyd is an Australian singer-songwriter. His most popular album Watching Angels Mend, which includes the songs "Amazing" and "Green", was released in 2001 went double platinum. His third album Distant Light released in 2003 featured three songs that made the Australian top 40 singles charts...
  
  – Watching Angels Mend
  Watching Angels Mend
  Watching Angels Mend is the second studio album released by Alex Lloyd. It features the No. 1 song "Amazing".-Album reviews and peaks:...
- 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:...
  
  – Barricades & Brickwalls
  Barricades & Brickwalls
  - Charts :...
- Nikki Webster
  Nikki Webster
  Nikki Webster is an Australian pop performer. She is best known for her starring role in the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony and her single "Strawberry Kisses".-Recording career:...
  
  – Follow Your Heart
- The 12th Man
  The Twelfth Man
  The Twelfth Man is the name for a series of comedy productions by Australian satirist Billy Birmingham. Birmingham, a skilled impersonator, is generally known for parodying Australian sports commentators' voices...
  
  – The Final Dig?
  The Final Dig?
  The Final Dig? is the seventh album released by The Twelfth Man, released on December 3, 2001.The Final Dig? went to number one on the Australian ARIA Chart and went multi-platinum.-Story:Richie Benaud decides to retire...

Highest Selling Single
- Kylie Minogue
  Kylie Minogue
  Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE - often known simply as Kylie - is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing...
  
  – "Can't Get You Out Of My Head
  Can't Get You out of My Head
  "Can't Get You Out of My Head" is a song by Australian recording artist and songwriter Kylie Minogue, which was released from her eighth studio album Fever . The song was released worldwide as the lead single from the album, which was released on 8 September, 2001. The song was written and produced...
  
  "
- Alex Lloyd
  Alex Lloyd
  Alex Lloyd is an Australian singer-songwriter. His most popular album Watching Angels Mend, which includes the songs "Amazing" and "Green", was released in 2001 went double platinum. His third album Distant Light released in 2003 featured three songs that made the Australian top 40 singles charts...
  
  – "Amazing
  Amazing (Alex Lloyd song)
  "Amazing" is a single written by Australian singer Alex Lloyd and released in 2001. It was a successful single, which reached the top of the New Zealand chart, and topped the poll in youth radio station Triple J's Hottest 100 in 2001....
  
  "
- Holly Valance
  Holly Valance
  Holly Valance is an Australian actress, singer, and model, who has dual United Kingdom citizenship. Valance began her career as Felicity "Flick" Scully on the Australian soap opera Neighbours...
  
  – "Kiss Kiss"
- 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:...
  
  – "Not Pretty Enough
  Not Pretty Enough
  -Charts:-End of year chart:...
  
  "
- Shakaya
  Shakaya
  Shakaya were a two-piece girl group from Australia, that consisted of Simone Stacey and Naomi Wenitong, two Cairns, North Queensland based songwriters and performers. The two met at the Atsic Music College in 1999 while studying an Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander music course and they had...
  
  – "Stop Calling Me
  Stop Calling Me
  "Stop Calling Me" is a pop, r&b song written by Reno Nicastro, Simone Stacey and Naomi Wenitong, produced by Nicastro for Shakaya's first album Shakaya . The song is about relationships, about "boyfriends who keep calling after the relationship is over". It was released as the album's first single...
  
  "

Best Group
- Silverchair
  Silverchair
  Silverchair were an Australian rock band, which formed in 1992 as Innocent Criminals in Merewether, Newcastle with the line-up of Ben Gillies on drums, Chris Joannou on bass guitar and Daniel Johns on vocals and guitars. The group got their big break in mid-1994 when they won a national demo...
  
  – Diorama
  Diorama (album)
  Diorama is the fourth studio album by Australian alternative rock band Silverchair. Released on 31 March 2002 by record label Eleven, the album was co-produced by Daniel Johns and David Bottrill...
- george
  George (band)
  George are a rock band from Brisbane, Australia. Their first album, Polyserena reached #1 in the Australian Charts on 17 March 2002.-History:...
  
  – Polyserena
  Polyserena
  Polyserena is a 2002 album by George.The band's first album, Polyserena debuted at #1 in the national album charts in its first week; George became only the tenth Australian band to do so with a debut album. It achieved gold record status within ten days, and platinum record status within three weeks...
- Grinspoon
  Grinspoon
  Grinspoon are an Australian rock band from Lismore, New South Wales formed in 1995 and fronted by Phil Jamieson on vocals and guitar with Pat Davern on guitar, Joe Hansen on bass guitar and Kristian Hopes on drums. Also in 1995, they won the Triple J-sponsored Unearthed competition for Lismore,...
  
  – New Detention
  New Detention
  New Detention is an album by Australian rock band Grinspoon. It was released on 3 June 2002. It peaked at #2 on the ARIA album charts. The album spawned four singles: "Chemical Heart", "Lost Control", "No Reason" and "1000 Miles"...
- Powderfinger
  Powderfinger
  Powderfinger was an Australian rock band that formed in Brisbane in 1989. From 1992 until their breakup the band lineup consisted of vocalist Bernard Fanning, guitarists Darren Middleton and Ian Haug, bassist John Collins, and drummer Jon Coghill....
  
  – "The Metre/Waiting for the Sun
  The Metre/Waiting for the Sun
  "The Metre" and "Waiting for the Sun" are two songs released together as a double A-Side single by Powderfinger in support of their fourth studio album Odyssey Number Five. It was released on 27 August 2001 and reached #31 on the Australian music chart. "The Metre" and "Waiting For The Sun" both...
  
  "
- The Vines
  The Vines
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  – Highly Evolved
  Highly Evolved
  Highly Evolved is the debut album by Australian alternative rock band The Vines, released in July 2002. Produced by Rob Schnapf, Highly Evolved was an immensely popular debut, part of a trend towards garage rock revival bands known as much for the relentless hype from the UK music press as for...

Best Female Artist
- 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:...
  
  – Barricades & Brickwalls
  Barricades & Brickwalls
  - Charts :...
- Holly Valance
  Holly Valance
  Holly Valance is an Australian actress, singer, and model, who has dual United Kingdom citizenship. Valance began her career as Felicity "Flick" Scully on the Australian soap opera Neighbours...
  
  – "Kiss Kiss"
- Kylie Minogue
  Kylie Minogue
  Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE - often known simply as Kylie - is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing...
  
  – Fever
  Fever (Kylie Minogue album)
  Fever is the eighth album by Australian singer Kylie Minogue. It was released 1 October 2001 by Parlophone Mushroom Records, and Capitol Records. Minogue began work on the album in 2001, working with famous songwriters and producers like Cathy Dennis, Rob Davis, and Tom Nichols, moving into a...
- Lisa Miller
  Lisa Miller
  Lisa Miller is an Australian singer/songwriter known for her clear, bitter-sweet voice and poignant semi-biographical songs.-Biography:Miller grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Chadstone, the daughter of social realist painter Peter Miller...
  
  – Car Tape
  Car Tape
  Car Tape is the third album by Melbourne singer-songwriter Lisa Miller. It is an album of covers and was released in Australia in 2002 on Raoul Records.Miller's most highly acclaimed album, it was nominated for the following 2002 ARIA Awards:...
- Natalie Imbruglia
  Natalie Imbruglia
  Natalie Jane Imbruglia is an Australian singer-songwriter, model and actress. In the early 1990s, Imbruglia was known to audiences as Beth Brennan in the popular Australian soap Neighbours. Three years after leaving the programme, Imbruglia launched a singing career with the international hit,...
  
  – White Lilies Island
  White Lilies Island
  White Lilies Island is the second album by Natalie Imbruglia. It was released in Europe and Australia in late 2001 and in the United States on 5 March 2002. The name of this album comes from the location of Imbruglia's home in Windsor.-Sales:...

Best Male Artist
- Alex Lloyd
  Alex Lloyd
  Alex Lloyd is an Australian singer-songwriter. His most popular album Watching Angels Mend, which includes the songs "Amazing" and "Green", was released in 2001 went double platinum. His third album Distant Light released in 2003 featured three songs that made the Australian top 40 singles charts...
  
  – Watching Angels Mend
  Watching Angels Mend
  Watching Angels Mend is the second studio album released by Alex Lloyd. It features the No. 1 song "Amazing".-Album reviews and peaks:...
- Dan Brodie
  Dan Brodie
  Dan Brodie is an ARIA Award nominated singer/songwriter from Melbourne, Australia.His debut EP, I'm Floatin' Mama was independently released in 1998; followed by his debut album, Big Black Guitar. Backed by The Broken Arrows , Brodie signed to EMI who re-released his debut album...
  
  – Empty Arms Broken Hearts
- Darren Hayes
  Darren Hayes
  Darren Stanley Hayes is a UK-based Australian singer-songwriter. Hayes was the front man and singer of the pop duo Savage Garden, whose 1997 album Savage Garden peaked at No. 1 in Australia, No. 2 in United Kingdom and No. 3 in United States...
  
  – Spin
- Paul Kelly
  Paul Kelly (musician)
  Paul Maurice Kelly is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player. He has performed solo, and has led numerous groups, including the Dots, the Coloured Girls, and the Messengers. He has worked with other artists and groups, including associated projects Professor...
  
  – Nothing But a Dream
  Nothing But A Dream
  ...nothing but a dream is an album recorded by Paul Kelly and originally released in 2001.It was released on EMI Records in Australia. It was subsequently released in the United States on Cooking Vinyl and included four tracks from Kelly's earlier EP, Roll on Summer.-Track listing:All tracks...
- Paul Mac
  Paul Mac
  Paul Mac is a musician, producer and music remixer from Sydney, Australia. He was classically trained at Sydney's Conservatorium of Music. Paul Mac formed the bands Smash Mac Mac, Itch-e And Scratch-e, The Lab, and The Dissociatives, as well as releasing two records under his own name...
  
  – 3000 Feet High

Breakthrough Artist – Album
- george
  George (band)
  George are a rock band from Brisbane, Australia. Their first album, Polyserena reached #1 in the Australian Charts on 17 March 2002.-History:...
  
  – Polyserena
  Polyserena
  Polyserena is a 2002 album by George.The band's first album, Polyserena debuted at #1 in the national album charts in its first week; George became only the tenth Australian band to do so with a debut album. It achieved gold record status within ten days, and platinum record status within three weeks...
- 1200 Techniques
  1200 Techniques
  1200 Techniques were an Australian hip hop group. They formed in 1997 and released two LPs before going on hiatus in 2005.-Biography:The group was formed in 1997, starting out as DJ Peril and brothers Nfamas and Kabba, soon after Peril's brother Kemstar joined and together they wrote many of the...
  
  – Choose One
  Choose One
  Choose One is the debut album from Australian hip hop group 1200 Techniques, released in 2002. Produced entirely by DJ Peril, the album features a mix of contemporary hip-hop, rock and electro....
- Dan Brodie
  Dan Brodie
  Dan Brodie is an ARIA Award nominated singer/songwriter from Melbourne, Australia.His debut EP, I'm Floatin' Mama was independently released in 1998; followed by his debut album, Big Black Guitar. Backed by The Broken Arrows , Brodie signed to EMI who re-released his debut album...
  
  & The Broken Arrows – Empty Arms Broken Hearts
- Eskimo Joe
  Eskimo Joe
  Eskimo Joe is an Australian alternative rock band formed by Stuart MacLeod on guitars, Joel Quartermain on drums and guitar and Kavyen Temperley on bass guitar and vocals, in East Fremantle, Western Australia in 1997....
  
  – Girl
  Girl (Eskimo Joe album)
  Girl is the debut album by Eskimo Joe, released on 20 August 2001. The album reached number 29 on the Australian Album Charts and went gold. The album was nominated for four ARIA Awards....
- The Vines
  The Vines
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  – Highly Evolved
  Highly Evolved
  Highly Evolved is the debut album by Australian alternative rock band The Vines, released in July 2002. Produced by Rob Schnapf, Highly Evolved was an immensely popular debut, part of a trend towards garage rock revival bands known as much for the relentless hype from the UK music press as for...

Breakthrough Artist – Single
- The Vines
  The Vines
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  – "Get Free
  Get Free
  "Get Free" is a song by the garage rock band The Vines from their debut album Highly Evolved. The song was released in late 2002, and remains the Vines' highest charting single . The song was written by Vines' frontman Craig Nicholls...
  
  "
- 1200 Techniques
  1200 Techniques
  1200 Techniques were an Australian hip hop group. They formed in 1997 and released two LPs before going on hiatus in 2005.-Biography:The group was formed in 1997, starting out as DJ Peril and brothers Nfamas and Kabba, soon after Peril's brother Kemstar joined and together they wrote many of the...
  
  – "Karma"
- Holly Valance
  Holly Valance
  Holly Valance is an Australian actress, singer, and model, who has dual United Kingdom citizenship. Valance began her career as Felicity "Flick" Scully on the Australian soap opera Neighbours...
  
  – "Kiss Kiss"
- Machine Gun Fellatio
  Machine Gun Fellatio
  Machine Gun Fellatio was an Australian alternative rock band, formed in 1997. They were well-known for their provocative on-stage antics and humorous lyrics, as well as the musical merit of their songs. Their outrage-provoking name gives some idea of the attitude that pervades the band's work...
  
  – "Girl of My Dreams (Is Giving Me Nightmares)"
- 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...
  
  – London Still
  London Still
  "London Still" is the name of a single by the Australian folk-rock band The Waifs, coming from their album Up All Night. "London Still" was written by Donna Simpson. The single was nominated for several ARIA awards, including Breakthrough Artist - Single, and Best Independent Release...

Best Pop Release
- Kylie Minogue
  Kylie Minogue
  Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE - often known simply as Kylie - is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing...
  
  – Fever
  Fever (Kylie Minogue album)
  Fever is the eighth album by Australian singer Kylie Minogue. It was released 1 October 2001 by Parlophone Mushroom Records, and Capitol Records. Minogue began work on the album in 2001, working with famous songwriters and producers like Cathy Dennis, Rob Davis, and Tom Nichols, moving into a...
- Disco Montego
  Disco Montego
  Disco Montego are an Australian R&B and dance music performance, song writing and production duo. The Dowlut brothers Dennis and Darren, formed Kaylan in Melbourne in 1995. They released an R&B album No Commandments in 2000, which reached No. 23 in Australia and spawned three Top 50...
  
  – "Beautiful
  Beautiful (Disco Montego song)
  "Beautiful" is a dance and pop song by former dance duo, Disco Montego, featuring guest vocals by Katie Underwood. The song reached No. 9 on the ARIA Charts and was certified gold...
  
  "
- george
  George (band)
  George are a rock band from Brisbane, Australia. Their first album, Polyserena reached #1 in the Australian Charts on 17 March 2002.-History:...
  
  – Polyserena
  Polyserena
  Polyserena is a 2002 album by George.The band's first album, Polyserena debuted at #1 in the national album charts in its first week; George became only the tenth Australian band to do so with a debut album. It achieved gold record status within ten days, and platinum record status within three weeks...
- Holly Valance
  Holly Valance
  Holly Valance is an Australian actress, singer, and model, who has dual United Kingdom citizenship. Valance began her career as Felicity "Flick" Scully on the Australian soap opera Neighbours...
  
  – "Kiss Kiss"
- The Whitlams
  The Whitlams
  The discography of The Whitlams consists of six studio albums, two live albums, one compilation album, and eighteen singles.-Studio albums:-Live albums:-Compilation albums:-Singles:-Videos:-Music videos:-Awards:...
  
  – Torch the Moon
  Torch the Moon
  Torch the Moon is the fifth studio album by Australian band The Whitlams, released by Black Yak through Warner in 2002.-Track listing:#"Cries Too Hard" – 4:11#"Fall For You" – 3:47#"The Lights Are Back On" – 3:44...

Best Dance Release
- Paul Mac
  Paul Mac
  Paul Mac is a musician, producer and music remixer from Sydney, Australia. He was classically trained at Sydney's Conservatorium of Music. Paul Mac formed the bands Smash Mac Mac, Itch-e And Scratch-e, The Lab, and The Dissociatives, as well as releasing two records under his own name...
  
  – 3000 Feet High
- 1200 Techniques
  1200 Techniques
  1200 Techniques were an Australian hip hop group. They formed in 1997 and released two LPs before going on hiatus in 2005.-Biography:The group was formed in 1997, starting out as DJ Peril and brothers Nfamas and Kabba, soon after Peril's brother Kemstar joined and together they wrote many of the...
  
  – Karma
- Gerling
  Gerling
  Gerling were an alternative guitar and electronic act from Australia. They formed in 1993, and are based in Sydney.-History:The band formed in 1993 with the line-up of Darren Cross , Presser and Brad Herdson...
  
  – Dust Me Selecta
- Katalyst
  Katalyst (musician)
  Katalyst is an Australian DJ/Producer. He won awards at the 2002 Australian Dance Music Awards for Best Album and Best Producer.- Biography :...
  
  – Manipulating Agent
- Love Tattoo – Love Tattoo

Best Rock Album
- Silverchair
  Silverchair
  Silverchair were an Australian rock band, which formed in 1992 as Innocent Criminals in Merewether, Newcastle with the line-up of Ben Gillies on drums, Chris Joannou on bass guitar and Daniel Johns on vocals and guitars. The group got their big break in mid-1994 when they won a national demo...
  
  – Diorama
  Diorama (album)
  Diorama is the fourth studio album by Australian alternative rock band Silverchair. Released on 31 March 2002 by record label Eleven, the album was co-produced by Daniel Johns and David Bottrill...
- Alex Lloyd
  Alex Lloyd
  Alex Lloyd is an Australian singer-songwriter. His most popular album Watching Angels Mend, which includes the songs "Amazing" and "Green", was released in 2001 went double platinum. His third album Distant Light released in 2003 featured three songs that made the Australian top 40 singles charts...
  
  – Watching Angels Mend
  Watching Angels Mend
  Watching Angels Mend is the second studio album released by Alex Lloyd. It features the No. 1 song "Amazing".-Album reviews and peaks:...
- Grinspoon
  Grinspoon
  Grinspoon are an Australian rock band from Lismore, New South Wales formed in 1995 and fronted by Phil Jamieson on vocals and guitar with Pat Davern on guitar, Joe Hansen on bass guitar and Kristian Hopes on drums. Also in 1995, they won the Triple J-sponsored Unearthed competition for Lismore,...
  
  – New Detention
  New Detention
  New Detention is an album by Australian rock band Grinspoon. It was released on 3 June 2002. It peaked at #2 on the ARIA album charts. The album spawned four singles: "Chemical Heart", "Lost Control", "No Reason" and "1000 Miles"...
- Motor Ace
  Motor Ace
  Motor Ace were an Australian alternative rock band. Formed in Melbourne around 1998 out of the remains of another band named Snowblind, their members were Patrick Robertson , Damian Birchall Costin , Matt Balfe , and Dave Ong .- Early history :Motor Ace's swaggering rock anthems have seen many...
  
  – Shoot This
  Shoot This
  Shoot This is the second album by Australian post-grunge band Motor Ace, released in 2002. The album gained more commercial success than their first album, debuting at number 1 on the Australian ARIA charts....
- The Vines
  The Vines
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  – Highly Evolved
  Highly Evolved
  Highly Evolved is the debut album by Australian alternative rock band The Vines, released in July 2002. Produced by Rob Schnapf, Highly Evolved was an immensely popular debut, part of a trend towards garage rock revival bands known as much for the relentless hype from the UK music press as for...

Best Country Album
- 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:...
  
  – Barricades & Brickwalls
  Barricades & Brickwalls
  - Charts :...
- 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...
  
  – Workin' Overtime
- Catherine Britt
  Catherine Britt
  Catherine Britt is a country music artist who has had success in both her native Australia and in the United States. She was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, and moved to Nashville, Tennessee, United States in 2004...
  
  – Dusty Smiles and Heartbreak Cures
- Lee Kernaghan
  Lee Kernaghan
  Lee Kernaghan OAM is an Australian country music singer and songwriter. He was the 2008 Australian of the Year.-Honours:Kernaghan received the Order of Australia Medal in 2004....
  
  – Electric Rodeo
- Troy Cassar-Daley
  Troy Cassar-Daley
  Troy Cassar-Daley is a multi-award-winning country musician from New South Wales, Australia.He released his first EP, "Dream Out Loud", in 1994 and was nominated for his first Golden Guitar for Best Male Vocalist the same year...
  
  – Long Way Home
  Long Way Home (Troy Cassar-Daley album)
  Long Way Home is an album by Australian country musician Troy Cassar-Daley, released on 27 May 2002.-Track listing:#"River Road"#"Rise & Shine"#"Born to Survive"#"Think About You"#"40 Miles"#"Long Way Home"#"My Dreaming Place"...

Best Independent Release
- 1200 Techniques
  1200 Techniques
  1200 Techniques were an Australian hip hop group. They formed in 1997 and released two LPs before going on hiatus in 2005.-Biography:The group was formed in 1997, starting out as DJ Peril and brothers Nfamas and Kabba, soon after Peril's brother Kemstar joined and together they wrote many of the...
  
  – Karma
- Icecream Hands
  Icecream Hands
  Icecream Hands were a power pop band formed in Melbourne, Victoria in 1992 as Chuck Skatt and His Icecream Hands with Charles "Chuck Skatt" Jenkins as lead singer-songwriter and rhythm guitarist, Arturo "Arch" Larizza on bass guitar, his brother Dom "Benedictine III" Larizza on lead guitar and...
  
  – "Rain Hail Shine"
- Killing Heidi
  Killing Heidi
  Killing Heidi were an Australian rock band from Violet Town, Victoria. The band, which has been on hiatus since 2006, are best known for their multi-platinum album Reflector, released in 2000.-Early years :...
  
  – Heavensent
  Heavensent
  "Heavensent" is the first single released from ARIA Award-winning band Killing Heidi's second album Present.-Track listing:CD single# "Heavensent" # "Heavensent" # "Up & Down"...
- Lisa Miller
  Lisa Miller
  Lisa Miller is an Australian singer/songwriter known for her clear, bitter-sweet voice and poignant semi-biographical songs.-Biography:Miller grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Chadstone, the daughter of social realist painter Peter Miller...
  
  – Car Tape
  Car Tape
  Car Tape is the third album by Melbourne singer-songwriter Lisa Miller. It is an album of covers and was released in Australia in 2002 on Raoul Records.Miller's most highly acclaimed album, it was nominated for the following 2002 ARIA Awards:...
- 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...
  
  – London Still
  London Still
  "London Still" is the name of a single by the Australian folk-rock band The Waifs, coming from their album Up All Night. "London Still" was written by Donna Simpson. The single was nominated for several ARIA awards, including Breakthrough Artist - Single, and Best Independent Release...

Best Adult Contemporary Album
- Paul Kelly
  Paul Kelly (musician)
  Paul Maurice Kelly is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player. He has performed solo, and has led numerous groups, including the Dots, the Coloured Girls, and the Messengers. He has worked with other artists and groups, including associated projects Professor...
  
  – Nothing But a Dream
  Nothing But A Dream
  ...nothing but a dream is an album recorded by Paul Kelly and originally released in 2001.It was released on EMI Records in Australia. It was subsequently released in the United States on Cooking Vinyl and included four tracks from Kelly's earlier EP, Roll on Summer.-Track listing:All tracks...
- Archie Roach
  Archie Roach
  Archie Roach is an Australian musician. A singer, songwriter and guitarist, he survived a turbulent upbringing to develop into a powerful voice for Indigenous Australians, a storyteller in the tradition of his ancestors, and a nationally popular and respected artist.- Biography :In his own words,...
  
  – Sensual Being
- Jimmy Little
  Jimmy Little
  Jimmy Little AO , is an Australian Aboriginal musician, singer, songwriter and guitarist, whose career has spanned six decades. For many years he was the only Aboriginal star on the Australian music scene...
  
  – Resonate
- Lisa Miller
  Lisa Miller
  Lisa Miller is an Australian singer/songwriter known for her clear, bitter-sweet voice and poignant semi-biographical songs.-Biography:Miller grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Chadstone, the daughter of social realist painter Peter Miller...
  
  – Car Tape
  Car Tape
  Car Tape is the third album by Melbourne singer-songwriter Lisa Miller. It is an album of covers and was released in Australia in 2002 on Raoul Records.Miller's most highly acclaimed album, it was nominated for the following 2002 ARIA Awards:...
- Vika and Linda
  Vika and Linda
  Vika and Linda Bull are a sister vocal duo who came to prominence after being asked to sing backing vocals in Joe Camilleri's band The Black Sorrows.-Biography:...
  
  – Love Is Mighty Close

Best Blues & Roots Album
- Jeff Lang
  Jeff Lang
  Jeff Lang is an Australian songwriter, singer and slide guitarist. A leading performer in the Australian roots music scene and purveyer of his self-described "disturbed folk" style, which incorporates primarily folk, blues and rock...
  
  & Bob Brozman
  Bob Brozman
  Bob Brozman is an American guitarist and ethnomusicologist.He has performed in a number of styles such as Gypsy jazz, calypso, Blues, ragtime, Hawaiian and Caribbean music. Brozman has also collaborated with musicians from diverse cultural backgrounds such as India, Africa, Japan, Papua New Guinea...
  
  – Rolling Through This World
  Rolling Through This World
  Rolling Through This World is the title of a collaborative album between American guitarist Bob Brozman and Australian guitarist Jeff Lang, released in 2002...
- Backsliders
  Backsliders
  The Backsliders are a three piece Australian band; self described as playing "Delta blues wall of sound". The current line up consists of Guitarist/Vocalist Dom Turner and drummer/percusionist Rob Hirst joined...
  
  – Hanoi
- Bondi Cigars – Down in the Valley
- Dave Steel – Home Is a Hard Thing to Find
- Mick Hart – Upside Down in the Full Face of Optimism

Best Children's Album
- Hi-5 – Boom Boom Beat
- Hooley Dooleys
  Hooley Dooleys
  The Hooley Dooleys are an Australian children's performing act. They originally appeared on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, but have since appeared on commercial television and as a live touring act...
  
  – Roll Up! Roll Up!
- The Star Girls – The Star Girls from Planet Groove
- 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:...
  
  , Sean O'Boyle
  Sean O'Boyle (composer)
  Sean O'Boyle is an Australian composer and conductor.His River Symphony was performed by the Queensland Orchestra and released on ABC Classics in 2007 on a CD that also included Concerto for Didgeridoo composed with and recorded by William Barton...
  
  – Symphony of Lullabies
- The Wiggles
  The Wiggles
  The Wiggles are a children's group formed in Sydney, Australia in 1991. Their original members were Anthony Field, Phillip Wilcher, Murray Cook, Greg Page, and Jeff Fatt. Wilcher left the group after their first album...
  
  – Wiggly Safari

Best Comedy Release
- The 12th Man
  The Twelfth Man
  The Twelfth Man is the name for a series of comedy productions by Australian satirist Billy Birmingham. Birmingham, a skilled impersonator, is generally known for parodying Australian sports commentators' voices...
  
  – The Final Dig?
  The Final Dig?
  The Final Dig? is the seventh album released by The Twelfth Man, released on December 3, 2001.The Final Dig? went to number one on the Australian ARIA Chart and went multi-platinum.-Story:Richie Benaud decides to retire...
- The Drugs – The Bold and The Beautiful
- Kevin Bloody Wilson
  Kevin Bloody Wilson
  Kevin Bloody Wilson is a comedy singer/songwriter who uses his heavy Australian accent/style with great success...
  
  – The Second Kumin' Of Kev
- "Slamming" Sam Kekovich
  Sam Kekovich
  Sam Kekovich is an Australian media personality, sports commentator and former Australian rules football player.He is well known for his controversial behaviour, both on and off the field, and most recently for his series of satirical advertisements as the spokesman for Meat and Livestock...
  
  – You Know It Makes Sense
- The Umbilical Brothers
  The Umbilical Brothers
  -History:They met in 1988, at the University of Western Sydney in a jazz class, , where David swung around and broke Shane's nose...
  
  – Don't Dance to This

Fine Arts Awards

Best Jazz Album
- Andrea Keller – Thirteen Sketches
- Dale Barlow
  Dale Barlow
  Dale Barlow is an Australian jazz composer, multi-instrumentalist: especially tenor, alto saxophone, soprano saxophonist, baritone saxophone and flute....
  
  – Dale Barlow Live
- James Morrison
  James Morrison (musician)
  James Morrison AM is an Australian jazz musician who plays numerous instruments, but is best known for his trumpet playing...
  
  – Scream Machine
- James Muller – Thrum
- The Umbrellas – Bravo Nino Rota

Best Classical Album
- Slava Grigoryan
  Slava Grigoryan
  Slava Grigoryan is an Australian classical guitarist and recording artist of Armenian heritage.He was born in Kazakhstan to Eduard and Irina Grigoryan, both professional violinists. His family emigrated to Australia in 1981 and he was raised in Melbourne. Grigoryan began to study guitar with his...
  
  – Sonatas & Fantasies
- David Hobson – Handel: Arias
- Genevieve Lacey, Linda Kent – Piracy
- Geoffrey Lancaster
  Geoffrey Lancaster
  Geoffrey Lancaster AM is an Australian classical pianist and conductor. Born in Sydney, he was raised in Dubbo, New South Wales before moving to Canberra. He attended the Canberra School of Music where he studied piano with Larry Sitsky...
  
  – Haydn: Keyboard Sonatas Volume 1
- Yvonne Kenny
  Yvonne Kenny
  Yvonne Kenny AM is an Australian soprano, particularly associated with Handel and Mozart roles.Born in Sydney, she first studied at the University of Sydney in science, hoping to become a biochemist, but decided to pursue a career in music instead...
  
  , Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
  Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
  The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra was founded as a 17 player radio ensemble in 1936, in Adelaide, South Australia. The orchestra reformed in 1949 as the 55 member South Australian Symphony Orchestra. It reverted to its original and present title, the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, in late 1974, and...
  
  – Gorecki: Symphony No. 3

Best Original Cast / Show Recording
- Various – The Man from Snowy River: Arena Spectacular
  The Man From Snowy River: Arena Spectacular
  The Man from Snowy River: Arena Spectacular, which was based on Banjo Paterson's poem The Man from Snowy River, was a very popular musical theatre production which toured Australian capital cities twice during 2002....
- Judi Connelli
  Judi Connelli
  Judi Connelli AM is an award-winning singer and actress.She is best known for her career in opera and stage musicals...
  
  – Back to Before
- Opera Australia
  Opera Australia
  Opera Australia is the principal opera company in Australia. Based in Sydney, its performance season at the Sydney Opera House runs for approximately eight months of the year, with the remainder of its time spent in the The Arts Centre in Melbourne...
  
  , Simone Young
  Simone Young
  Simone Margaret Young AM is an Australian conductor. She is music director of the Hamburg Philharmonic and general manager of the Hamburg State Opera...
  
  – Verdi: Requiem
- Original Australian Cast Recording – The Wizard of Oz
- Play Act One – Story of Abbey

Best Original Soundtrack / Cast / Show Recording
- Paul Kelly
  Paul Kelly (musician)
  Paul Maurice Kelly is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player. He has performed solo, and has led numerous groups, including the Dots, the Coloured Girls, and the Messengers. He has worked with other artists and groups, including associated projects Professor...
  
  , Shane O' Mara, Steve Hadley, Bruce Haymes, Peter Luscombe – Lantana
  Lantana (film)
  Lantana is a 2001 Australian film, directed by Ray Lawrence and featuring Anthony LaPaglia, Kerry Armstrong, Geoffrey Rush and Barbara Hershey. It is based on the play Speaking In Tongues by Andrew Bovell, which premiered at Sydney's Griffin Theatre Company...
- Graham Tardif & Rolf de Heer
  Rolf de Heer
  Rolf de Heer is a Dutch film director, writer and producer living in Australia. De Heer was born in Heemskerk in The Netherlands but migrated to Sydney when he was eight years old. He attended the Australian Film Television and Radio School in Sydney. His company is called Vertigo Productions and...
  
  (composers), Archie Roach
  Archie Roach
  Archie Roach is an Australian musician. A singer, songwriter and guitarist, he survived a turbulent upbringing to develop into a powerful voice for Indigenous Australians, a storyteller in the tradition of his ancestors, and a nationally popular and respected artist.- Biography :In his own words,...
  
  (performer) – The Tracker
  The Tracker
  The Tracker is an Australian drama film produced in 2002. It was directed and written by Rolf de Heer. It is a set in 1922 in outback Australia where a racist white colonial policeman used the tracking ability of an Indigenous Australian tracker to find the murderer of a white woman...
- David Thrussell – The Hard Word
  The Hard Word
  The Hard Word is a 2002 Australian crime film about three bank-robbing brothers who are offered a role in a bold heist while serving time in prison. The film was written and directed by Scott Roberts, and stars Guy Pearce and Rachel Griffiths....
- Mario Millo
  Mario Millo
  Mario Daniel Millo is an Australian musician and composer from Sydney, he was a member of symphonic rock group Sebastian Hardie from 1973 to their disbandment in 1977. Their debut album, Four Moments peaked at No. 13 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart. He has had a solo career...
  
  – Changi
- Various – Dirty Deeds
  Dirty Deeds (2002 film)
  Dirty Deeds is a 2002 film shot in Australia. It was directed by noted fringe director David Caesar and stars Bryan Brown, Toni Collette, Sam Neill, Sam Worthington and John Goodman and produced by Nine Films and Television, the film and television production arm of the Nine Network, owned by PBL...

Best World Music Album
- Monsieur Camembert
  Monsieur Camembert
  Monsieur Camembert is a five-piece Gypsy fusion band formed in Sydney, Australia in 1999. They have won three ARIA Music Awards for Best World Music Album in 2002 for Live on Stage , in 2003 for Absynthe and in 2005 for Monsieur Camembert...
  
  – Live on Stage
  Live on Stage (Monsieur Camembert album)
  Live on Stage is the second album from Australian Gypsy fusion band Monsieur Camembert. Released in 2001, it won the 2002 ARIA Award for Best World Music Album...
- Coda – There Is a Way to Fly
- Kim Sanders – You Can't Get There From Here
- Nabarlek
  Nabarlek (band)
  Nabarlek are an Indigenous Roots band from Manmoyi, a tiny community in Arnhem Land, 215 kilometres from the remote community of Gunbalanya . The band formed in 1985 as a group of singers and dancers with a couple of busted guitars and flour tins for drums...
  
  – Bininj Manborlh / Blackfella Road
- Various – Corroboration
  Corroboration (album)
  Corroboration is a 2001 compilation released on the Festival Mushroom Records imprint, Sputnik. It was the result of a project put together by Kurt Luthy. It brought together indigenous and non indigenous musicians and bands from various genres. It reached #92 on ARIA Top 100 Albums chart...

Artisan Awards

Producer of the Year
- Daniel Johns
  Daniel Johns
  Daniel Paul Johns is an Australian musician, vocalist, composer, guitarist, and pianist, best known as the frontman of the rock band Silverchair. He is also part of The Dissociatives...
  
  – Silverchair
  Silverchair
  Silverchair were an Australian rock band, which formed in 1992 as Innocent Criminals in Merewether, Newcastle with the line-up of Ben Gillies on drums, Chris Joannou on bass guitar and Daniel Johns on vocals and guitars. The group got their big break in mid-1994 when they won a national demo...
  
  – Diorama
  Diorama (album)
  Diorama is the fourth studio album by Australian alternative rock band Silverchair. Released on 31 March 2002 by record label Eleven, the album was co-produced by Daniel Johns and David Bottrill...
- Alex Lloyd
  Alex Lloyd
  Alex Lloyd is an Australian singer-songwriter. His most popular album Watching Angels Mend, which includes the songs "Amazing" and "Green", was released in 2001 went double platinum. His third album Distant Light released in 2003 featured three songs that made the Australian top 40 singles charts...
  
  , Magnus Fiennes
  Magnus Fiennes
  Magnus Fiennes is an English cross-genre composer, record producer and songwriter. He has worked with artists such as Shakira, Pulp, Tom Jones and Morcheeba...
  
  – Alex Lloyd – Watching Angels Mend
  Watching Angels Mend
  Watching Angels Mend is the second studio album released by Alex Lloyd. It features the No. 1 song "Amazing".-Album reviews and peaks:...
- Daniel Denholm – The Whitlams
  The Whitlams
  The discography of The Whitlams consists of six studio albums, two live albums, one compilation album, and eighteen singles.-Studio albums:-Live albums:-Compilation albums:-Singles:-Videos:-Music videos:-Awards:...
  
  – Torch the Moon
  Torch the Moon
  Torch the Moon is the fifth studio album by Australian band The Whitlams, released by Black Yak through Warner in 2002.-Track listing:#"Cries Too Hard" – 4:11#"Fall For You" – 3:47#"The Lights Are Back On" – 3:44...
- David Nicholas, george
  George (band)
  George are a rock band from Brisbane, Australia. Their first album, Polyserena reached #1 in the Australian Charts on 17 March 2002.-History:...
  
  – george – Polyserena
  Polyserena
  Polyserena is a 2002 album by George.The band's first album, Polyserena debuted at #1 in the national album charts in its first week; George became only the tenth Australian band to do so with a debut album. It achieved gold record status within ten days, and platinum record status within three weeks...
- Gerling
  Gerling
  Gerling were an alternative guitar and electronic act from Australia. They formed in 1993, and are based in Sydney.-History:The band formed in 1993 with the line-up of Darren Cross , Presser and Brad Herdson...
  
  , Magoo
  Magoo (Australian producer)
  Magoo is the professional name of Lachlan Goold, a multi award-winning Australian music producer based in Brisbane, Australia. With his business partner Jeff Lovejoy, Magoo operates Black Box Recording, a Brisbane-based recording facility....
  
  – Gerling – When Young Terrorists Chase the Sun
  When Young Terrorists Chase the Sun
  When Young Terrorists Chase the Sun is an album by Gerling, released in September, 2001. It was released in the UK with the presumably less-offensive title Headzcleaner.-Track listing:#"Phazer Kidz in the Windy City" – 4:40...
- Phil McKellar
  Phil McKellar
  Phil McKellar is an Australian record producer known for his work with many top Australian rock bands including The Butterfly Effect, You Am I, The Cruel Sea, Grinspoon, Dirty Three, The Mark Of Cain, Frenzal Rhomb, Spiderbait, Silverchair, Kisschasy, Ash, The Sunpilots, Tumbleweed, Nitocris, One...
  
  – Grinspoon
  Grinspoon
  Grinspoon are an Australian rock band from Lismore, New South Wales formed in 1995 and fronted by Phil Jamieson on vocals and guitar with Pat Davern on guitar, Joe Hansen on bass guitar and Kristian Hopes on drums. Also in 1995, they won the Triple J-sponsored Unearthed competition for Lismore,...
  
  – New Detention
  New Detention
  New Detention is an album by Australian rock band Grinspoon. It was released on 3 June 2002. It peaked at #2 on the ARIA album charts. The album spawned four singles: "Chemical Heart", "Lost Control", "No Reason" and "1000 Miles"...
- Richard Pleasance
  Richard Pleasance
  Richard Arnold Pleasance is an Australian rock musician and producer. He was a founding member of Boom Crash Opera on guitar, bass guitar, vocals and as a songwriter in 1985; they released three albums before Pleasance left in 1992...
  
  & Paul Kelly
  Paul Kelly (musician)
  Paul Maurice Kelly is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player. He has performed solo, and has led numerous groups, including the Dots, the Coloured Girls, and the Messengers. He has worked with other artists and groups, including associated projects Professor...
  
  – Archie Roach
  Archie Roach
  Archie Roach is an Australian musician. A singer, songwriter and guitarist, he survived a turbulent upbringing to develop into a powerful voice for Indigenous Australians, a storyteller in the tradition of his ancestors, and a nationally popular and respected artist.- Biography :In his own words,...
  
  – Sensual Being

Engineer of the Year
- Anton Hagop
  Anton Hagop
  Anton Hagop is an ARIA award winning music producer / engineer who has worked with the likes of Silverchair, Powderfinger, Will Smith, Missy Higgins, Natalie Imbruglia and The Superjesus. He is currently based in Sydney, Australia.----...
  
  – Silverchair
  Silverchair
  Silverchair were an Australian rock band, which formed in 1992 as Innocent Criminals in Merewether, Newcastle with the line-up of Ben Gillies on drums, Chris Joannou on bass guitar and Daniel Johns on vocals and guitars. The group got their big break in mid-1994 when they won a national demo...
  
  – Diorama
  Diorama (album)
  Diorama is the fourth studio album by Australian alternative rock band Silverchair. Released on 31 March 2002 by record label Eleven, the album was co-produced by Daniel Johns and David Bottrill...
- Adam Rhodes
  Adam Rhodes
  Adam Rhodes is a fictional character from the Australian Network Ten soap opera Neighbours, played by Benjamin Hart. The character debuted on-screen during the episode airing on 14 June 2007, and left on 29 November 2007.-Character creation and casting:...
  
  & DW Norton – Superheist
  Superheist
  Superheist was an Australian nu metal band that attained a significant degree of success with a string of EPs and singles and two full-length albums that charted in the Top 40 before suddenly disbanding in 2004.-Formation and early period:...
  
  – "A Dignified Rage
  A Dignified Rage
  "A Dignified Rage" is a song by Superheist, released as their second single, from their album Identical Remote Controlled Reactions.-Track listing:*AUS CD Single PIV0003*#"A Dignified Rage" - 3:19...
  
  "
- Daniel Denholm – The Whitlams
  The Whitlams
  The discography of The Whitlams consists of six studio albums, two live albums, one compilation album, and eighteen singles.-Studio albums:-Live albums:-Compilation albums:-Singles:-Videos:-Music videos:-Awards:...
  
  – Torch the Moon
  Torch the Moon
  Torch the Moon is the fifth studio album by Australian band The Whitlams, released by Black Yak through Warner in 2002.-Track listing:#"Cries Too Hard" – 4:11#"Fall For You" – 3:47#"The Lights Are Back On" – 3:44...
- Paul Mac
  Paul Mac
  Paul Mac is a musician, producer and music remixer from Sydney, Australia. He was classically trained at Sydney's Conservatorium of Music. Paul Mac formed the bands Smash Mac Mac, Itch-e And Scratch-e, The Lab, and The Dissociatives, as well as releasing two records under his own name...
  
  – Paul Mac – 3000 Feet High
- Phil McKellar
  Phil McKellar
  Phil McKellar is an Australian record producer known for his work with many top Australian rock bands including The Butterfly Effect, You Am I, The Cruel Sea, Grinspoon, Dirty Three, The Mark Of Cain, Frenzal Rhomb, Spiderbait, Silverchair, Kisschasy, Ash, The Sunpilots, Tumbleweed, Nitocris, One...
  
  – Grinspoon
  Grinspoon
  Grinspoon are an Australian rock band from Lismore, New South Wales formed in 1995 and fronted by Phil Jamieson on vocals and guitar with Pat Davern on guitar, Joe Hansen on bass guitar and Kristian Hopes on drums. Also in 1995, they won the Triple J-sponsored Unearthed competition for Lismore,...
  
  – Chemical Heart
  Chemical Heart
  Chemical Heart was the first single released from Grinspoon's second studio album New Detention in 2002. It was a surprising change for fans because the grunge rock band had released ballads before, but they had never released one as their first single, and most people were expecting a hard rocking...

Best Video
- Michael Gracey, Babyfoot Productions – 1200 Techniques
  1200 Techniques
  1200 Techniques were an Australian hip hop group. They formed in 1997 and released two LPs before going on hiatus in 2005.-Biography:The group was formed in 1997, starting out as DJ Peril and brothers Nfamas and Kabba, soon after Peril's brother Kemstar joined and together they wrote many of the...
  
  – "Karma"
- Jolyon Watkins – Gerling
  Gerling
  Gerling were an alternative guitar and electronic act from Australia. They formed in 1993, and are based in Sydney.-History:The band formed in 1993 with the line-up of Darren Cross , Presser and Brad Herdson...
  
  – "Dust Me Selecta"
- Michael Spiccia, Prodigy Films – Disco Montego
  Disco Montego
  Disco Montego are an Australian R&B and dance music performance, song writing and production duo. The Dowlut brothers Dennis and Darren, formed Kaylan in Melbourne in 1995. They released an R&B album No Commandments in 2000, which reached No. 23 in Australia and spawned three Top 50...
  
  – "Beautiful
  Beautiful (Disco Montego song)
  "Beautiful" is a dance and pop song by former dance duo, Disco Montego, featuring guest vocals by Katie Underwood. The song reached No. 9 on the ARIA Charts and was certified gold...
  
  "
- Nash Edgerton – Eskimo Joe
  Eskimo Joe
  Eskimo Joe is an Australian alternative rock band formed by Stuart MacLeod on guitars, Joel Quartermain on drums and guitar and Kavyen Temperley on bass guitar and vocals, in East Fremantle, Western Australia in 1997....
  
  – "Liar
  Liar (Eskimo Joe song)
  "Liar" is the fourth single by Eskimo Joe, taken from their debut album Girl. It was released as a double A side, with the single "Who Sold Her Out"...
  
  "
- Square-Eyed Films – Silverchair
  Silverchair
  Silverchair were an Australian rock band, which formed in 1992 as Innocent Criminals in Merewether, Newcastle with the line-up of Ben Gillies on drums, Chris Joannou on bass guitar and Daniel Johns on vocals and guitars. The group got their big break in mid-1994 when they won a national demo...
  
  – "The Greatest View
  The Greatest View
  "The Greatest View" is the first single by rock band Silverchair released from their fourth album, Diorama, which was released in 2002, as was "The Greatest View". The song was released as a single and a video was made in which the band plays in hotel room representing Daniel John's inner space...
  
  "

Best Cover Art
- Darren Glindemann, John Watson, Melissa Chenery, Daniel Johns
  Daniel Johns
  Daniel Paul Johns is an Australian musician, vocalist, composer, guitarist, and pianist, best known as the frontman of the rock band Silverchair. He is also part of The Dissociatives...
  
  – Silverchair
  Silverchair
  Silverchair were an Australian rock band, which formed in 1992 as Innocent Criminals in Merewether, Newcastle with the line-up of Ben Gillies on drums, Chris Joannou on bass guitar and Daniel Johns on vocals and guitars. The group got their big break in mid-1994 when they won a national demo...
  
  – Diorama
  Diorama (album)
  Diorama is the fourth studio album by Australian alternative rock band Silverchair. Released on 31 March 2002 by record label Eleven, the album was co-produced by Daniel Johns and David Bottrill...
- Art of the State, Scott James Smith – The Whitlams
  The Whitlams
  The discography of The Whitlams consists of six studio albums, two live albums, one compilation album, and eighteen singles.-Studio albums:-Live albums:-Compilation albums:-Singles:-Videos:-Music videos:-Awards:...
  
  – Torch the Moon
  Torch the Moon
  Torch the Moon is the fifth studio album by Australian band The Whitlams, released by Black Yak through Warner in 2002.-Track listing:#"Cries Too Hard" – 4:11#"Fall For You" – 3:47#"The Lights Are Back On" – 3:44...
- Campbell Murray Creating – 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:...
  
  – Barricades & Brickwalls
  Barricades & Brickwalls
  - Charts :...
- Chris Von Sanden – george
  George (band)
  George are a rock band from Brisbane, Australia. Their first album, Polyserena reached #1 in the Australian Charts on 17 March 2002.-History:...
  
  – Polyserena
  Polyserena
  Polyserena is a 2002 album by George.The band's first album, Polyserena debuted at #1 in the national album charts in its first week; George became only the tenth Australian band to do so with a debut album. It achieved gold record status within ten days, and platinum record status within three weeks...
- Craig Nicholls
  Craig Nicholls
  Craig Robert Nicholls, is the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist of the Australian alternative rock group The Vines. He formed the band in 1994 in Sydney, New South Wales...
  
  – The Vines
  The Vines
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  – Highly Evolved
  Highly Evolved
  Highly Evolved is the debut album by Australian alternative rock band The Vines, released in July 2002. Produced by Rob Schnapf, Highly Evolved was an immensely popular debut, part of a trend towards garage rock revival bands known as much for the relentless hype from the UK music press as for...

ARIA Hall of Fame inductee

Inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame

ARIA Hall of Fame

Since 1988 the Australian Recording Industry Association has inducted artists into its ARIA Hall of Fame. While most have been recognised at the annual ARIA Music Awards, in 2005 ARIA sought to create a separate standalone "ARIA Icons: Hall of Fame" event as only one or two acts could be inducted...

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Olivia Newton-John
Olivia Newton-John
Olivia Newton-John AO, OBE is a singer and actress. She is a four-time Grammy award winner who has amassed five No. 1 and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 singles and two No. 1 Billboard 200 solo albums. Eleven of her singles and 14 of her albums have been certified gold by the RIAA...

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