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The 20th 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 29 October 2006 at the Acer Arena

Acer Arena

The Allphones Arena is a large entertainment and sporting complex located in Sydney, Australia. It is situated in Sydney Olympic Park, and was completed in 1999 as part of the facilities for the 2000 Summer Olympics....

at the Sydney Olympic Park complex. Presenters on the night included James Mathison

James Mathison

James Mathison is an Australian television presenter.-Early life:Mathison was born in Sydney, New South Wales He grew up in Frenchs Forest and attended St...

, Johnny Knoxville

Johnny Knoxville

Philip John Clapp , better known by his stage name Johnny Knoxville, is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, stunt performer, best known for being the co-creator and principal star of the MTV reality series Jackass, with the catchphrase "I'm Johnny Knoxville, and welcome to Jackass."-Early...

, 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...

and John Mayer

John Mayer (musician)

John Clayton Mayer is an American pop rock and blues rock musician, singer-songwriter, recording artist, and music producer. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and raised in Fairfield, Connecticut, he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston. He moved to Atlanta in 1997, where he refined his...

Axle Whitehead controversy

Video Hits

Video Hits (Australian TV series)

Video Hits was an Australian music video program that first aired on 15 February 1987. From 7 May 2011 it broadcasted on Network Ten for two hours each Saturday and Sunday morning: 10am – 12pm on Saturdays and 8am – 10am on Sundays. Video Hits was the world's second longest running music show...

host 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...

exposed himself and simulated masturbation on an ARIA trophy as the winners of the awards for Highest Selling Single and Highest Selling Album made their way to the stage in front of an audience of up to 10,000. The incident was edited from the telecast of the awards. Whitehead announced three days after the awards that he had resigned from Network Ten.

Awards and nominations

Winners are highlighted in bold, other final nominees shown in plain.

ARIA Awards

Album of the Year
- Augie March
  Augie March
  Augie March are an Australian indie/pop rock band. Formed in 1996 in Shepparton, Victoria, the band currently consists of vocalist and rhythm guitarist Glenn Richards, lead guitarist Adam Donovan, bassist Edmondo Ammendola, drummer David Williams, and keyboardist Kiernan Box...
  
  – Moo, You Bloody Choir
  Moo, You Bloody Choir
  Moo, You Bloody Choir is the third studio album by the Australian indie rock band Augie March. It was released in 2006 in Australia by BMG. It entered the ARIA album charts at #10 and was nominated for Album of the Year at the ARIA Music Awards of 2006, losing to Tea & Sympathy by Bernard Fanning...
- Bernard Fanning
  Bernard Fanning
  Bernard Joseph Fanning is a musician and singer-songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer and frontman of Australian alternative rock band Powderfinger from its formation in 1989 to its dissolution in 2010....
  
  – Tea and Sympathy
  Tea and Sympathy (album)
  Tea & Sympathy is the debut solo album by Australian musician Bernard Fanning. It was released on 31 October 2005 by Dew Process records while Powderfinger—Fanning's main band—were on hiatus. Contrary to Powderfinger's usual alternative style, the album blends alternative and...
- 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....
  
  – Black Fingernails, Red Wine
  Black Fingernails, Red Wine (song)
  "Black Fingernails, Red Wine" is the first single by Australian alternative rock band Eskimo Joe, taken from their third studio album of the same name. It has been their most successful single to date: their first song to chart in the top ten of the ARIA Singles Chart ; spent 19 weeks in the top...
- The Sleepy Jackson
  The Sleepy Jackson
  The Sleepy Jackson are an Australian alternative rock band formed in Perth, Western Australia. The band's name was inspired by a former drummer who was narcoleptic. The band revolves around the distinctive vocal style of multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Luke Steele...
  
  – Personality – One Was a Spider, One Was a Bird
- Wolfmother
  Wolfmother
  Wolfmother is an Australian rock band from Erskineville, Sydney. Formed in 2000, the group was originally a trio composed of vocalist and guitarist Andrew Stockdale, bassist and keyboardist Chris Ross and drummer Myles Heskett. Wolfmother released their self-titled debut album in October 2005,...
  
  – Wolfmother
  Wolfmother (album)
  Wolfmother is the debut studio album by Australian rock band Wolfmother, originally released on 31 October 2005 in Australia. The album was later released internationally at various dates in 2006, with the addition of "Love Train" and a rearranged track listing...

Single of the Year
- Augie March
  Augie March
  Augie March are an Australian indie/pop rock band. Formed in 1996 in Shepparton, Victoria, the band currently consists of vocalist and rhythm guitarist Glenn Richards, lead guitarist Adam Donovan, bassist Edmondo Ammendola, drummer David Williams, and keyboardist Kiernan Box...
  
  – "One Crowded Hour
  One Crowded Hour
  "One Crowded Hour" is a song by Australian rock band Augie March, written by Glenn Richards. The song is the first single released from their 2006 studio album, Moo, You Bloody Choir...
  
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- Bernard Fanning
  Bernard Fanning
  Bernard Joseph Fanning is a musician and singer-songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer and frontman of Australian alternative rock band Powderfinger from its formation in 1989 to its dissolution in 2010....
  
  – "Watch Over Me
  Watch Over Me
  Watch Over Me is an American Television series that debuted on December 6, 2006 on the television network MyNetworkTV. Twentieth Television produced 66 episodes to air weekdays. The limited-run serial is an adaptation of Argentine series Resistiré....
  
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- 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....
  
  – "Black Fingernails, Red Wine
  Black Fingernails, Red Wine (song)
  "Black Fingernails, Red Wine" is the first single by Australian alternative rock band Eskimo Joe, taken from their third studio album of the same name. It has been their most successful single to date: their first song to chart in the top ten of the ARIA Singles Chart ; spent 19 weeks in the top...
  
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- Wolfmother
  Wolfmother
  Wolfmother is an Australian rock band from Erskineville, Sydney. Formed in 2000, the group was originally a trio composed of vocalist and guitarist Andrew Stockdale, bassist and keyboardist Chris Ross and drummer Myles Heskett. Wolfmother released their self-titled debut album in October 2005,...
  
  – "Mind's Eye
  Mind's Eye (song)
  "Mind's Eye" is a song by Australian hard rock band Wolfmother, featured on their 2005 debut album Wolfmother. When released as the first single from the album, it was well received by critics and reached number twenty nine in the ARIA Charts....
  
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- Youth Group
  Youth Group
  Youth Group are a rock band based in Newtown, Sydney, Australia signed to Ivy League Records.- Biography :Youth Group formed in Sydney in the late 1990s. They have released four albums in Australia, with the three most recent albums also gaining releases worldwide...
  
  – "Forever Young"

Best Female Artist
- Clare Bowditch
  Clare Bowditch
  Clare Bowditch is an Australian musician from Melbourne, Victoria. She released her fourth album Modern Day Addiction via Island Records on 13 August 2010. It became both 3RRR Album of the Week and ABC Radio National's Album of the Week. MDA is the first of Bowditch's album's to enter the Top Ten...
  
  – What Was Left
  What Was Left
  What Was Left is the second studio album by Clare Bowditch and the Feeding Set. It was released in October 2005 through Capitol, and received a nomination for the 2005 J Award, as well as being placed in the top five Australian albums of the year by Rolling Stone...
- Holly Throsby
  Holly Throsby
  Holly Throsby is a songwriter, vocalist, guitarist and pianist from Sydney, Australia. Throsby was nominated for an Australian Recording Industry Association 'Best Female Artist' Award in 2006 for Under the Town and in the same category in 2008 for A Loud Call.- Career :Holly Throsby was raised...
  
  – Under the Town
  Under the Town
  Under the Town is an album by Australian folk singer-guitarist Holly Throsby, which was released on 20 July 2006. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2006, Throsby was nominated in the 'Best Female Artist' category for Under the Town.-Track listing:...
- 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
  Jade MacRae (album)
  Jade MacRae is the debut album of Australian singer, Jade MacRae. "Jade MacRae" features the singles "You Make Me Weak", "So Hot Right Now", and "Superstar". A final single "Up and Do Your Thing" was only released to radio...
- Jen Cloher
  Jen Cloher
  Jen Cloher is an Australian singer-songwriter who records with her band as Jen Cloher and the Endless Sea.-Biography:Cloher was born an only child and grew up in Adelaide. She attended Sydney's National Institute of Dramatic Art and started playing the guitar at age 21...
  
  – Dead Wood Falls
- 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:...
  
  – "Nothing at All"

Best Male Artist
- Bernard Fanning
  Bernard Fanning
  Bernard Joseph Fanning is a musician and singer-songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer and frontman of Australian alternative rock band Powderfinger from its formation in 1989 to its dissolution in 2010....
  
  – Tea and Sympathy
  Tea and Sympathy (album)
  Tea & Sympathy is the debut solo album by Australian musician Bernard Fanning. It was released on 31 October 2005 by Dew Process records while Powderfinger—Fanning's main band—were on hiatus. Contrary to Powderfinger's usual alternative style, the album blends alternative and...
- Ben Lee
  Ben Lee
  Benjamin Michael "Ben" Lee is an ARIA Award winning musician and actor. Lee began his career as a musician at the age of 14 with the Sydney band Noise Addict, but focused on his solo career when the band broke up in 1995. He appeared as the protagonist in the Australian film The Rage in Placid Lake...
  
  – We're All In This Together
  We're All In This Together
  We're All in This Together may refer to:* "We're All in This Together", a song and dance routine from 2006 American television film High School Musical* "We're All in This Together", a Ben Lee song from the album Awake Is the New Sleep...
- Bob Evans
  Kevin Mitchell (musician)
  Kevin Edward Mitchell , is an Australian musician, known for his role as the vocalist and guitarist of the alternative rock band Jebediah and also his solo work under the stage name of Bob Evans....
  
  – Suburban Songbook
  Suburban Songbook
  Suburban Kid is the first studio album by the Australian singer-songwriter Kevin Mitchell, under the pseudonym Bob Evans. The album was co-produced by Mitchell and Simon Stuthers . Suburban Kid has been described as "an album of youthful introspection, love and loss"...
- Dan Kelly & the Alpha Males – Pirate Radio
- Pete Murray – See the Sun

Best Group
- Augie March
  Augie March
  Augie March are an Australian indie/pop rock band. Formed in 1996 in Shepparton, Victoria, the band currently consists of vocalist and rhythm guitarist Glenn Richards, lead guitarist Adam Donovan, bassist Edmondo Ammendola, drummer David Williams, and keyboardist Kiernan Box...
  
  – Moo, You Bloody Choir
  Moo, You Bloody Choir
  Moo, You Bloody Choir is the third studio album by the Australian indie rock band Augie March. It was released in 2006 in Australia by BMG. It entered the ARIA album charts at #10 and was nominated for Album of the Year at the ARIA Music Awards of 2006, losing to Tea & Sympathy by Bernard Fanning...
- 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....
  
  – Black Fingernails, Red Wine
  Black Fingernails, Red Wine
  Black Fingernails, Red Wine is the third studio album by Eskimo Joe, released on 10 June 2006. The album became their first Australian ARIA Albums Chart #1, debuting at that spot on the chart week of 19 June 2006. The album has been certified 4x Platinum in Australia. It is their best selling album...
- 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...
  
  – Here Come the Drums
  Here Come the Drums
  Here Come the Drums is the second studio album by Australian dance rock act Rogue Traders, released in Australia on 23 October 2005 by Columbia Records. The album features the Rogue Traders with the new and then vocalist Natalie Bassingthwaighte and has a genre of dance pop songs — mainly...
- 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...
  
  – State of Emergency
- Wolfmother
  Wolfmother
  Wolfmother is an Australian rock band from Erskineville, Sydney. Formed in 2000, the group was originally a trio composed of vocalist and guitarist Andrew Stockdale, bassist and keyboardist Chris Ross and drummer Myles Heskett. Wolfmother released their self-titled debut album in October 2005,...
  
  – Wolfmother
  Wolfmother (album)
  Wolfmother is the debut studio album by Australian rock band Wolfmother, originally released on 31 October 2005 in Australia. The album was later released internationally at various dates in 2006, with the addition of "Love Train" and a rearranged track listing...

Highest Selling Album
- Bernard Fanning
  Bernard Fanning
  Bernard Joseph Fanning is a musician and singer-songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer and frontman of Australian alternative rock band Powderfinger from its formation in 1989 to its dissolution in 2010....
  
  – Tea and Sympathy
  Tea and Sympathy (album)
  Tea & Sympathy is the debut solo album by Australian musician Bernard Fanning. It was released on 31 October 2005 by Dew Process records while Powderfinger—Fanning's main band—were on hiatus. Contrary to Powderfinger's usual alternative style, the album blends alternative and...
- Human Nature
  Human Nature (band)
  Human Nature are an Australian pop vocal group. The group was originally formed as a doo-wop band in 1989 while the current members were at school together in Sydney. So far, the band has had 17 Top 40 hits and five Top 10 hits in Australia since 1996 when their first album Telling Everybody was...
  
  – Reach Out: The Motown Record
  Reach Out: The Motown Record
  Reach Out: The Motown Record is Human Nature's fifth album. It debuted at number #6 on the Australian ARIA Album Chart but worked its way up to #1. On the album, the band perform their own renditions of eleven soul music classics...
- Pete Murray – See the Sun
- 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...
  
  – Here Come the Drums
  Here Come the Drums
  Here Come the Drums is the second studio album by Australian dance rock act Rogue Traders, released in Australia on 23 October 2005 by Columbia Records. The album features the Rogue Traders with the new and then vocalist Natalie Bassingthwaighte and has a genre of dance pop songs — mainly...
- 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....
  
  – The Secret Life Of...
  The Secret Life Of... (album)
  The Secret Life of... is the debut studio album by Australian pop rock band The Veronicas, released on 17 October 2005 on Sire Records. It reached #2 in Australia and is certified 4x platinum. The album also reached #5 in New Zealand and #3 in the Billboard Top Heatseekers. The Secret Life of......

Highest Selling Single
- Kate DeAraugo
  Kate DeAraugo
  Katherine Jenna "Kate" DeAraugo, pronounced de roosh , is an Australian singer-songwriter who was the third winner of Australian Idol in 2005. After idol, DeAraugo signed to Sony BMG and released her debut single, "Maybe Tonight", in November 2005. The single debuted and peaked at Number 1 on the...
  
  – "Maybe Tonight
  Maybe Tonight
  "Maybe Tonight" is a pop song written by Dave Bassett, Jess Cates and Lindy Robbins, produced by Bryon Jones and Adam Reily for Kate DeAraugo's first album A Place I've Never Been . It was released as the album's first single on 28 November 2005 in Australia as a Maxi single...
  
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- Lee Harding
  Lee Harding
  Lee Harding is an Australian pop singer. He is from Frankston, Victoria, where he worked at the local AMC cinema multiplex...
  
  – "Wasabi"
- Shannon Noll
  Shannon Noll
  Shannon Noll first came to prominence as runner-up of the first series of Australian Idol which led to him being signed to Sony BMG. Since then he has released five Top 10 albums and ten Top 10 singles. His first two albums That's What I'm Talking About in 2004 and Lift in 2005 debuted at No...
  
  – "Shine
  Shine (Shannon Noll song)
  "Shine" was the first single to be released from Shannon Noll's second album, Lift.It was released in Australia on 26 September 2005, and debuted at number one on the Australian Singles Chart...
  
  "
- TV Rock
  TV Rock
  TV Rock are an Australian dance music duo consisting of Grant Smillie and Ivan Gough.TV Rock entered the mainstream in February 2006 with their hit "Flaunt It" featuring Seany B. which reached #1 for 5 weeks and spent 39 weeks in the Australian ARIA Top 50...
  
  featuring Seany B – "Flaunt It
  Flaunt It (song)
  "Flaunt It" is a song by TV Rock, the first single from the duo's 2006 debut album Sunshine City.-Track listing:Australia CD Single#"Flaunt It" - 3:28#"Flaunt It" - 7:11#"Flaunt It" - 7:41...
  
  "
- Youth Group
  Youth Group
  Youth Group are a rock band based in Newtown, Sydney, Australia signed to Ivy League Records.- Biography :Youth Group formed in Sydney in the late 1990s. They have released four albums in Australia, with the three most recent albums also gaining releases worldwide...
  
  – "Forever Young"

Best Breakthrough Artist – Album
- Hilltop Hoods
  Hilltop Hoods
  The Hilltop Hoods are an ARIA Award winning Australian hip hop group, from Adelaide, South Australia. Their members are MCs Suffa , MC Pressure , DJ Debris and formerly DJ Next. They have been at the centre of the Australian hip hop scene for the better part of two decades, originally forming back...
  
  – The Hard Road
  The Hard Road
  The Hard Road is a 2006 release by Australian hip hop group, the Hilltop Hoods from Adelaide, South Australia. It was released on 1 April 2006 by Obese Records. It debuted at #1 on the Australia ARIA Albums Chart, unprecedented for an independent label release and for an Australian hip hop group....
- 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...
  
  – Here Come the Drums
  Here Come the Drums
  Here Come the Drums is the second studio album by Australian dance rock act Rogue Traders, released in Australia on 23 October 2005 by Columbia Records. The album features the Rogue Traders with the new and then vocalist Natalie Bassingthwaighte and has a genre of dance pop songs — mainly...
- The Grates
  The Grates
  The Grates are a two-piece band from Brisbane, Australia, comprising Patience Hodgson and John Patterson . They have been lauded for their catchy songs and enthusiastic and energetic live shows, as Patience spends much of the time bouncing around, even while singing...
  
  – Gravity Won't Get You High
  Gravity Won't Get You High
  Gravity Won't Get You High is the debut album of The Grates. It was produced by Brian Deck, and features studio produced versions of songs from their EP...
- 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....
  
  – The Secret Life Of...
  The Secret Life Of... (album)
  The Secret Life of... is the debut studio album by Australian pop rock band The Veronicas, released on 17 October 2005 on Sire Records. It reached #2 in Australia and is certified 4x platinum. The album also reached #5 in New Zealand and #3 in the Billboard Top Heatseekers. The Secret Life of......
- Wolfmother
  Wolfmother
  Wolfmother is an Australian rock band from Erskineville, Sydney. Formed in 2000, the group was originally a trio composed of vocalist and guitarist Andrew Stockdale, bassist and keyboardist Chris Ross and drummer Myles Heskett. Wolfmother released their self-titled debut album in October 2005,...
  
  – Wolfmother
  Wolfmother (album)
  Wolfmother is the debut studio album by Australian rock band Wolfmother, originally released on 31 October 2005 in Australia. The album was later released internationally at various dates in 2006, with the addition of "Love Train" and a rearranged track listing...

Breakthrough Artist – Single
- Gyroscope
  Gyroscope (band)
  Gyroscope is an Australian rock band from Perth, Western Australia, formed in 1997. The band comprises vocalist and guitarist Daniel Sanders, guitarist and back up vocalist Zoran Trivic, bassist and back up vocalist Brad Campbell and drummer Rob Nassif....
  
  – "Fast Girl
  Fast Girl/Beware Wolf
  "Fast Girl/Beware Wolf" is a double A-side single by Australian alternative rock band Gyroscope, from the album Are You Involved?. It was released as the first single from the album in 2006. Fast Girl and Beware Wolf were both voted in the Triple J's Hottest 100 for 2005 coming in at #29 and #62,...
  
  "
- Hilltop Hoods
  Hilltop Hoods
  The Hilltop Hoods are an ARIA Award winning Australian hip hop group, from Adelaide, South Australia. Their members are MCs Suffa , MC Pressure , DJ Debris and formerly DJ Next. They have been at the centre of the Australian hip hop scene for the better part of two decades, originally forming back...
  
  – "Clown Prince
  Clown Prince
  "Clown Prince" is a single released by Australian hip-hop band, the Hilltop Hoods. The single, the first from their 2006 album The Hard Road, reached #30 in the ARIA charts, becoming the first Hilltop Hoods song to chart on the ARIA Singles Chart. The song also charted at #23 on the Triple J...
  
  "
- Sneaky Sound System
  Sneaky Sound System
  Sneaky Sound System are a Sydney-based Australian dance music group consisting of guitarist and producer Black Angus and vocalist Connie Mitchell.-Early Years:...
  
  – "I Love It
  I Love It
  -Tracks 1-10:*Larry Beard – acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin*Mike Brignardello – bass guitar*Glen Duncan – fiddle*Rob Hajacos – fiddle*Mike Johnson – steel guitar, Dobro*Jeff King – electric guitar*Paul Leim – drums*Chris McHugh – drums...
  
  "
- TV Rock
  TV Rock
  TV Rock are an Australian dance music duo consisting of Grant Smillie and Ivan Gough.TV Rock entered the mainstream in February 2006 with their hit "Flaunt It" featuring Seany B. which reached #1 for 5 weeks and spent 39 weeks in the Australian ARIA Top 50...
  
  featuring Seany B – "Flaunt It
  Flaunt It (song)
  "Flaunt It" is a song by TV Rock, the first single from the duo's 2006 debut album Sunshine City.-Track listing:Australia CD Single#"Flaunt It" - 3:28#"Flaunt It" - 7:11#"Flaunt It" - 7:41...
  
  "
- Starky
  Starky
  Starky were a band from Sydney, Australia, formed in 1998. The band consisted of Beau Cassidy , Nick Neal , and Jonny Wilson ....
  
  – "Hey Bang Bang"
- Youth Group
  Youth Group
  Youth Group are a rock band based in Newtown, Sydney, Australia signed to Ivy League Records.- Biography :Youth Group formed in Sydney in the late 1990s. They have released four albums in Australia, with the three most recent albums also gaining releases worldwide...
  
  – "Forever Young"

Best Adult Contemporary Album
- Bob Evans
  Kevin Mitchell (musician)
  Kevin Edward Mitchell , is an Australian musician, known for his role as the vocalist and guitarist of the alternative rock band Jebediah and also his solo work under the stage name of Bob Evans....
  
  – Suburban Songbook
  Suburban Songbook
  Suburban Kid is the first studio album by the Australian singer-songwriter Kevin Mitchell, under the pseudonym Bob Evans. The album was co-produced by Mitchell and Simon Stuthers . Suburban Kid has been described as "an album of youthful introspection, love and loss"...
- Human Nature
  Human Nature (band)
  Human Nature are an Australian pop vocal group. The group was originally formed as a doo-wop band in 1989 while the current members were at school together in Sydney. So far, the band has had 17 Top 40 hits and five Top 10 hits in Australia since 1996 when their first album Telling Everybody was...
  
  – Reach Out: The Motown Record
  Reach Out: The Motown Record
  Reach Out: The Motown Record is Human Nature's fifth album. It debuted at number #6 on the Australian ARIA Album Chart but worked its way up to #1. On the album, the band perform their own renditions of eleven soul music classics...
- Tex, Don and Charlie
  Tex, Don and Charlie
  Tex, Don and Charlie is an Australian super group formed by Tex Perkins from The Cruel Sea, Beasts of Bourbon and others, Don Walker from Cold Chisel and widely respected guitarist Charlie Owen. Their first album Sad But True was released in 1993 with the second released in 2005.The band was...
  
  – All Is Forgiven
- 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:...
  
  – Little Cloud
  Little Cloud
  Little Cloud is the sixth studio album by Australian band The Whitlams, released by Black Yak through Warner in 2006. Little Cloud is a double album....
- Various Artists – She Will Have Her Way: The Songs of Tim & Neil Finn
  She Will Have Her Way
  She Will Have Her Way is a compilation album featuring female Australian and New Zealand musicians performing songs written by Neil Finn and Tim Finn , members of Split Enz and Crowded House...

Best Blues & Roots Album
- Bernard Fanning
  Bernard Fanning
  Bernard Joseph Fanning is a musician and singer-songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer and frontman of Australian alternative rock band Powderfinger from its formation in 1989 to its dissolution in 2010....
  
  – Tea and Sympathy
  Tea and Sympathy
  Tea and Sympathy is a 1953 stage play in three acts by Robert Anderson.-Broadway premiere:It received its premiere on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on September 30, 1953 in a production by The Playwrights' Company, directed by Elia Kazan and designed by Jo Mielziner. The play starred...
- 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...
  
  – Doorways of My Mind
- The Audreys
  The Audreys
  The Audreys are an ARIA Award-winning Australian five-piece blues/roots band who formed in Adelaide, South Australia in 2004.-Biography:The pre-cursor to The Audreys started in Melbourne as a duo consisting of lead singer Taasha Coates and guitarist Tristan Goodall...
  
  – Between Last Night and Us
  Between Last Night And Us
  Between Last Night and Us is the debut album by Australian blues/roots band, The Audreys.The album won the 2006 ARIA award for 'Best Blues & Roots Album' and its songs were used as the soundtrack for the 2007 ABC TV series, Rain Shadow.-Track listing:...

Best Children's Album
- 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...
  
  – Racing to the Rainbow

Best Comedy Release
- Lano and Woodley
  Lano and Woodley
  Lano and Woodley were one of Australia's most successful Australian comedy duos of the 1990s and 2000s. They are perhaps most famous for their stand-up comedy and slapstick theatre, as well as their television show The Adventures of Lano and Woodley, which aired on the ABC network in 1997 and...
  
  – Sing Songs
  Lano & Woodley Sing Songs
  Lano & Woodley Sing Songs is the live 2005 album by the Australian comedy duo, Lano & Woodley.The album was recorded at a show the pair did in August 2005 at the HIFI Bar in Melbourne, and features many visual jokes that the listener is unable to identify, which was joked at several times during...

Best Country Album
- 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...
  
  – The Brighter Day
  The Brighter Day
  The Brighter Day is an American daytime soap opera which aired on CBS from January 4, 1954 to September 28, 1962. Originally created for NBC radio by Irna Phillips in 1948, the radio and television versions ran simultaneously from 1954-1956...

Best Dance Release
- TV Rock
  TV Rock
  TV Rock are an Australian dance music duo consisting of Grant Smillie and Ivan Gough.TV Rock entered the mainstream in February 2006 with their hit "Flaunt It" featuring Seany B. which reached #1 for 5 weeks and spent 39 weeks in the Australian ARIA Top 50...
  
  featuring Seany B – Flaunt It
  Flaunt It (song)
  "Flaunt It" is a song by TV Rock, the first single from the duo's 2006 debut album Sunshine City.-Track listing:Australia CD Single#"Flaunt It" - 3:28#"Flaunt It" - 7:11#"Flaunt It" - 7:41...

Best Independent Release
- Hilltop Hoods
  Hilltop Hoods
  The Hilltop Hoods are an ARIA Award winning Australian hip hop group, from Adelaide, South Australia. Their members are MCs Suffa , MC Pressure , DJ Debris and formerly DJ Next. They have been at the centre of the Australian hip hop scene for the better part of two decades, originally forming back...
  
  – The Hard Road
  The Hard Road
  The Hard Road is a 2006 release by Australian hip hop group, the Hilltop Hoods from Adelaide, South Australia. It was released on 1 April 2006 by Obese Records. It debuted at #1 on the Australia ARIA Albums Chart, unprecedented for an independent label release and for an Australian hip hop group....
- The John Butler Trio – Live at St. Gallen
  Live at St. Gallen
  Live at St. Gallen is a 2005 live CD and DVD by The John Butler Trio recorded in St. Gallen, Switzerland. The two CDs included in the set were recorded live at St. Gallen, whereas the DVD was recorded at the Sydney Opera House in 2004. The cover art was designed by John Butler Trio regular Tom Walker...
- 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...
  
  – Doorways of My Mind

Best Music DVD
- Hilltop Hoods
  Hilltop Hoods
  The Hilltop Hoods are an ARIA Award winning Australian hip hop group, from Adelaide, South Australia. Their members are MCs Suffa , MC Pressure , DJ Debris and formerly DJ Next. They have been at the centre of the Australian hip hop scene for the better part of two decades, originally forming back...
  
  – The Calling Live
  The Calling Live
  The Calling Live is the first DVD to be released by Australian Hip Hop group Hilltop Hoods. It was released in 2005 through, two years after their breakthrough album The Calling was released. The DVD sees the Hilltop Hoods performing these songs live at a performance the group did in their hometown...
- 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....
  
  – Eskimo Joe
  Eskimo Joe (DVD)
  Eskimo Joe is the first DVD from Eskimo Joe that was released on 29 August 2005.-Track listing:-Release history:...
- 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...
  
  – Showgirl: The Greatest Hits Tour
  Kylie Showgirl
  Kylie Showgirl is a live DVD by Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue. Filmed during Minogue's Showgirl: The Greatest Hits Tour on 6 May 2005 at Earls Court Exhibition Centre in London, England, it was released by EMI on 25 November 2005 in Europe....
- Missy Higgins
  Missy Higgins
  Melissa "Missy" Morrison Higgins is an Australian pop singer-songwriter, musician and actor. Her No. 1 albums in Australia are The Sound of White and On a Clear Night , and her Top Ten singles are "Scar", "The Special Two", "Steer" and "Where I Stood". From a musical family in...
  
  – If You Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine
- The Go-Betweens
  The Go-Betweens
  The Go-Betweens were an indie rock band formed in Brisbane, Australia in 1977 by singer-songwriters and guitarists, Robert Forster and Grant McLennan. They were later joined by Lindy Morrison on drums, Robert Vickers on bass guitar and Amanda Brown on violin, oboe, guitar, and backing vocals,...
  
  – That Striped Sunlight Sound

Best Pop Release
- Ben Lee
  Ben Lee
  Benjamin Michael "Ben" Lee is an ARIA Award winning musician and actor. Lee began his career as a musician at the age of 14 with the Sydney band Noise Addict, but focused on his solo career when the band broke up in 1995. He appeared as the protagonist in the Australian film The Rage in Placid Lake...
  
  – Into the Dark EP
- Josh Pyke
  Josh Pyke
  Josh Pyke is an Australian singer-songwriting musician.-Beginnings and Feeding the Wolves :Josh Pyke was in his first band by age 12 and played his first performance in front of 650 parents and students at his primary school graduation. Playing guitar and initial song writing efforts came aged 14...
  
  – Feeding the Wolves
- 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...
  
  – Here Come the Drums
  Here Come the Drums
  Here Come the Drums is the second studio album by Australian dance rock act Rogue Traders, released in Australia on 23 October 2005 by Columbia Records. The album features the Rogue Traders with the new and then vocalist Natalie Bassingthwaighte and has a genre of dance pop songs — mainly...
- Shannon Noll
  Shannon Noll
  Shannon Noll first came to prominence as runner-up of the first series of Australian Idol which led to him being signed to Sony BMG. Since then he has released five Top 10 albums and ten Top 10 singles. His first two albums That's What I'm Talking About in 2004 and Lift in 2005 debuted at No...
  
  – Lift
  Lift (Shannon Noll album)
  Lift is the second album by Australian singer-songwriter Shannon Noll. It was released by Sony BMG in Australia on 16 October 2005. Noll co-wrote eleven out of the thirteen songs in the album. The album debuted at number 1 on the Australian Recording Industry Association album chart on 23 October...
- 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....
  
  – The Secret Life of...
  The Secret Life Of... (album)
  The Secret Life of... is the debut studio album by Australian pop rock band The Veronicas, released on 17 October 2005 on Sire Records. It reached #2 in Australia and is certified 4x platinum. The album also reached #5 in New Zealand and #3 in the Billboard Top Heatseekers. The Secret Life of......

Best Rock Album
- Augie March
  Augie March
  Augie March are an Australian indie/pop rock band. Formed in 1996 in Shepparton, Victoria, the band currently consists of vocalist and rhythm guitarist Glenn Richards, lead guitarist Adam Donovan, bassist Edmondo Ammendola, drummer David Williams, and keyboardist Kiernan Box...
  
  – Moo, You Bloody Choir
  Moo, You Bloody Choir
  Moo, You Bloody Choir is the third studio album by the Australian indie rock band Augie March. It was released in 2006 in Australia by BMG. It entered the ARIA album charts at #10 and was nominated for Album of the Year at the ARIA Music Awards of 2006, losing to Tea & Sympathy by Bernard Fanning...
- 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....
  
  – Black Fingernails, Red Wine
  Black Fingernails, Red Wine
  Black Fingernails, Red Wine is the third studio album by Eskimo Joe, released on 10 June 2006. The album became their first Australian ARIA Albums Chart #1, debuting at that spot on the chart week of 19 June 2006. The album has been certified 4x Platinum in Australia. It is their best selling album...
- 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...
  
  – State of Emergency
  State of emergency
  A state of emergency is a governmental declaration that may suspend some normal functions of the executive, legislative and judicial powers, alert citizens to change their normal behaviours, or order government agencies to implement emergency preparedness plans. It can also be used as a rationale...
- Wolfmother
  Wolfmother
  Wolfmother is an Australian rock band from Erskineville, Sydney. Formed in 2000, the group was originally a trio composed of vocalist and guitarist Andrew Stockdale, bassist and keyboardist Chris Ross and drummer Myles Heskett. Wolfmother released their self-titled debut album in October 2005,...
  
  – Wolfmother
  Wolfmother (album)
  Wolfmother is the debut studio album by Australian rock band Wolfmother, originally released on 31 October 2005 in Australia. The album was later released internationally at various dates in 2006, with the addition of "Love Train" and a rearranged track listing...
- You Am I
  You Am I
  You Am I are an Australian alternative rock band, fronted by vocalist/guitarist and main songwriter Tim Rogers. They were the first Australian band to have three albums successively debut at #1 on the ARIA Charts, and are renowned for their live performances.-History:Tim Rogers formed the first...
  
  – Convicts

Best Urban Release
- 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...
  
  – "Up Jumped the Boogie"
- Hilltop Hoods
  Hilltop Hoods
  The Hilltop Hoods are an ARIA Award winning Australian hip hop group, from Adelaide, South Australia. Their members are MCs Suffa , MC Pressure , DJ Debris and formerly DJ Next. They have been at the centre of the Australian hip hop scene for the better part of two decades, originally forming back...
  
  – The Hard Road
  The Hard Road
  The Hard Road is a 2006 release by Australian hip hop group, the Hilltop Hoods from Adelaide, South Australia. It was released on 1 April 2006 by Obese Records. It debuted at #1 on the Australia ARIA Albums Chart, unprecedented for an independent label release and for an Australian hip hop group....
- 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
  Jade MacRae (album)
  Jade MacRae is the debut album of Australian singer, Jade MacRae. "Jade MacRae" features the singles "You Make Me Weak", "So Hot Right Now", and "Superstar". A final single "Up and Do Your Thing" was only released to radio...
- Phrase
  Phrase (rapper)
  Harley Webster —better known as Phrase—is an Australian hip hop MC, originating from Melbourne, Victoria.-History:Phrase began to piece together an album with producers Daniel Merriweather and J-Skub , while working part-time for the Reach Youth foundation, an organization that Phrase credits with...
  
  – Talk with Force
  Talk with Force
  -Track listing:# "Talk with Force!# "Here Now" Featuring Mystro# "Hold On" Featuring Max White# "Taking Care of Business" Featuring Saigon# "Hookville" Featuring Lee Sissing# "Does She Like It" Featuring Brad Strut & Daniel Merriweather# "Nothin's Gonna Change"...
- Weapon X & Ken Hell
  X & Hell
  X & Hell is a Melbourne, Australia-based electronic/rap duo, consisting of producer/vocalist Weapon X, vocalist Ken Hell and 'DJ A-Style'.In July 2008, X & Hell released the first single - "Don't Stop Movin" - from its sophomore album Million Dollar Sex Party to radio and press...
  
  – Sneakerpimpin' Ain't Easy

Artisan Awards

Best Cover Art
- Alison Smith, 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...
  
  – 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...
  
  – State of Emergency
- Dane Lovett
  Dane Lovett
  Dane Lovett, , is an artist from Brisbane, Australia.Lovett says career highlight was winning a cake box decorating competition in 1991, with the prize of a book on hippopotamuses.In 2005, Lovett received the Qantas Spirit of Youth award...
  
  , Dave Snow – 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....
  
  – Black Fingernails, Red Wine
  Black Fingernails, Red Wine
  Black Fingernails, Red Wine is the third studio album by Eskimo Joe, released on 10 June 2006. The album became their first Australian ARIA Albums Chart #1, debuting at that spot on the chart week of 19 June 2006. The album has been certified 4x Platinum in Australia. It is their best selling album...
- Debaser – Bernard Fanning
  Bernard Fanning
  Bernard Joseph Fanning is a musician and singer-songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer and frontman of Australian alternative rock band Powderfinger from its formation in 1989 to its dissolution in 2010....
  
  - "Wish You Well
  Wish You Well
  "Wish You Well" is the first single from Bernard Fanning's solo debut album Tea and Sympathy, released in 2005 and was voted number 1 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2005.-Music video:...
  
  "
- Luke Steele, James Bellesini, Love Police – The Sleepy Jackson
  The Sleepy Jackson
  The Sleepy Jackson are an Australian alternative rock band formed in Perth, Western Australia. The band's name was inspired by a former drummer who was narcoleptic. The band revolves around the distinctive vocal style of multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Luke Steele...
  
  - Personality – One Was a Spider, One Was a Bird
- The Grates
  The Grates
  The Grates are a two-piece band from Brisbane, Australia, comprising Patience Hodgson and John Patterson . They have been lauded for their catchy songs and enthusiastic and energetic live shows, as Patience spends much of the time bouncing around, even while singing...
  
  – The Grates – Gravity Won't Get You High
  Gravity Won't Get You High
  Gravity Won't Get You High is the debut album of The Grates. It was produced by Brian Deck, and features studio produced versions of songs from their EP...

Best Video
- Andy Cassell – Youth Group
  Youth Group
  Youth Group are a rock band based in Newtown, Sydney, Australia signed to Ivy League Records.- Biography :Youth Group formed in Sydney in the late 1990s. They have released four albums in Australia, with the three most recent albums also gaining releases worldwide...
  
  – "Forever Young"
- Bart Borghessi – 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....
  
  – "Black Fingernails, Red Wine
  Black Fingernails, Red Wine (song)
  "Black Fingernails, Red Wine" is the first single by Australian alternative rock band Eskimo Joe, taken from their third studio album of the same name. It has been their most successful single to date: their first song to chart in the top ten of the ARIA Singles Chart ; spent 19 weeks in the top...
  
  "
- Head Pictures – Bernard Fanning
  Bernard Fanning
  Bernard Joseph Fanning is a musician and singer-songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer and frontman of Australian alternative rock band Powderfinger from its formation in 1989 to its dissolution in 2010....
  
  – "Wish You Well
  Wish You Well
  "Wish You Well" is the first single from Bernard Fanning's solo debut album Tea and Sympathy, released in 2005 and was voted number 1 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2005.-Music video:...
  
  "
- 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...
  
  – 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...
  
  – "Are You the One"
- Sean Gilligan, Sarah-Jane Woulahan – 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...
  
  – "Wake Up
  Wake Up (The Living End song)
  "Wake Up" is the second single from The Living End's fourth album, State of Emergency. It was released on 18 February 2006, in Australia. The song was both popular on Australian and New Zealand radio stations. It also peaked at number five in the Australian ARIA Singles Chart...
  
  "

Engineer of the Year
- Adam Rhodes – The Cat Empire
  The Cat Empire
  The Cat Empire are an Australian ska and jazz band formed in 1999. Core members are Harry James Angus , Will Hull-Brown , Jamshid "Jumps" Khadiwhala , Ollie McGill , Ryan Monro and Felix Riebl...
  
  – Cities: The Cat Empire Project
- Matt Lovell
  Matt Lovell
  Matt Lovell is a notable Australian record producer and mixer for many artists, such as; Something for Kate, The Mess Hall, Tom Morgan and Shihad...
  
  – 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....
  
  – Black Fingernails, Red Wine
  Black Fingernails, Red Wine
  Black Fingernails, Red Wine is the third studio album by Eskimo Joe, released on 10 June 2006. The album became their first Australian ARIA Albums Chart #1, debuting at that spot on the chart week of 19 June 2006. The album has been certified 4x Platinum in Australia. It is their best selling album...
- Nick Launay
  Nick Launay
  Nick Launay is an English record producer and recording engineer. He is currently one of the most sought after producers in the world due to his current success with recent albums by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arcade Fire, and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds...
  
  – 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...
  
  – State of Emergency
- Paul McKercher – Augie March
  Augie March
  Augie March are an Australian indie/pop rock band. Formed in 1996 in Shepparton, Victoria, the band currently consists of vocalist and rhythm guitarist Glenn Richards, lead guitarist Adam Donovan, bassist Edmondo Ammendola, drummer David Williams, and keyboardist Kiernan Box...
  
  – various tracks on Moo, You Bloody Choir
  Moo, You Bloody Choir
  Moo, You Bloody Choir is the third studio album by the Australian indie rock band Augie March. It was released in 2006 in Australia by BMG. It entered the ARIA album charts at #10 and was nominated for Album of the Year at the ARIA Music Awards of 2006, losing to Tea & Sympathy by Bernard Fanning...
- Wayne Connolly
  Wayne Connolly
  Wayne Connolly is an Australian producer/engineer and musician. Throughout the 1990s Connolly played in Sydney band The Welcome Mat, who released a series of critically acclaimed albums and EPs through Waterfront Records and id/Mercury...
  
  – The Vines
  The Vines
  https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:LandingCheck?landing_page=L11_1121_WMUK_Jimmy_DDOptimised&utm_medium=sitenotice&utm_campaign=C11_1121_WMUK_DDvOneOff&utm_source=B11_1121_WMUK_Jimmy&language=en&country=GB...
  
  – Vision Valley
  Vision Valley
  Vision Valley is the third studio album by Australian alternative rock band The Vines. It was released on 1 April 2006 in Australia and on 3 April 2006 everywhere else except in the USA, where it was released on 4 April 2006...

Producer of the Year
- 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....
  
  – Eskimo Joe– Black Fingernails, Red Wine
  Black Fingernails, Red Wine
  Black Fingernails, Red Wine is the third studio album by Eskimo Joe, released on 10 June 2006. The album became their first Australian ARIA Albums Chart #1, debuting at that spot on the chart week of 19 June 2006. The album has been certified 4x Platinum in Australia. It is their best selling album...
- Lindsay Gravina, Magic Dirt
  Magic Dirt
  Magic Dirt are an Australian rock band, which formed in 1991 in Geelong, Victoria, with Daniel Herring on guitar, Adam Robertson on drums, Adalita Srsen on vocals and guitar, and Dean Turner on bass guitar. Initially known as Deer Bubbles and then The Jim Jims, they were renamed as Magic Dirt in...
  
  – Magic Dirt – Snow White
- Nick Launay
  Nick Launay
  Nick Launay is an English record producer and recording engineer. He is currently one of the most sought after producers in the world due to his current success with recent albums by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arcade Fire, and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds...
  
  – 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...
  
  – State of Emergency
- Paul McKercher – Augie March
  Augie March
  Augie March are an Australian indie/pop rock band. Formed in 1996 in Shepparton, Victoria, the band currently consists of vocalist and rhythm guitarist Glenn Richards, lead guitarist Adam Donovan, bassist Edmondo Ammendola, drummer David Williams, and keyboardist Kiernan Box...
  
  – various tracks on Moo, You Bloody Choir
  Moo, You Bloody Choir
  Moo, You Bloody Choir is the third studio album by the Australian indie rock band Augie March. It was released in 2006 in Australia by BMG. It entered the ARIA album charts at #10 and was nominated for Album of the Year at the ARIA Music Awards of 2006, losing to Tea & Sympathy by Bernard Fanning...
- Wayne Connolly
  Wayne Connolly
  Wayne Connolly is an Australian producer/engineer and musician. Throughout the 1990s Connolly played in Sydney band The Welcome Mat, who released a series of critically acclaimed albums and EPs through Waterfront Records and id/Mercury...
  
  – Youth Group
  Youth Group
  Youth Group are a rock band based in Newtown, Sydney, Australia signed to Ivy League Records.- Biography :Youth Group formed in Sydney in the late 1990s. They have released four albums in Australia, with the three most recent albums also gaining releases worldwide...
  
  – Casino Twilight Dogs
  Casino Twilight Dogs
  -Singles:* "Forever Young" # "Forever Young" – 4:33# "Someone Else's Dream" – 2:36# "Forever Young" – 3:26* "Catching & Killing" # "Catching & Killing" – 3:04# "Late Last Night" – 3:17...

Fine Arts Awards

Best Classical Album
- Amelia Farrugia — Joie De Vivre
- Nikki Vaskilakis, 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:...
  
  , Sebastian Lang-Lessing — Mendelssohn, Bruch, Ravel
- 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....
  
  — Bach Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin
- Simon Tedeschi
  Simon Tedeschi
  Simon Tedeschi is a Boston-based classical pianist from Australia.-Life and career:Simon Tedeschi was born in Sydney to Mark Tedeschi QC, the New South Wales Crown Prosecutor and a prominent photographer and Vivienne Tedeschi, who is the daughter of a Polish Holocaust survivor, Lucy Gershwin,...
  
  , The Queensland Orchestra, Richard Bonynge
  Richard Bonynge
  Richard Alan Bonynge, AO, CBE is an Australian conductor and pianist.Bonynge was born in Sydney and educated at Sydney Boys High School before studying piano at the Royal College of Music in London. He gave up his music scholarship, continuing his private piano studies, and became a coach for...
  
  — Piano Concertos: Tchaikovsky, Grieg
- 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...
  
  , Leonard Grigoryan — The Queensland Orchestra — Brett Kelly — Rodrigo Guitar Concertos

Best Jazz Album
- Don Burrows
  Don Burrows
  Donald Vernon Burrows, AO, MBE is an Australian jazz and swing musician, playing the clarinet, saxophone, and flute....
  
  , The Mell-O-Tones, Phillip Sametz
  Phillip Sametz
  Phillip Sametz was born in Sydney in 1961. Since his first broadcasts on ABC Classic FM and 2MBS-FM in the early 1980s, he has appeared on all the major ABC radio networks, writing and presenting feature programs, documentaries and interval features on ABC Classic FM, and as a regular guest on the...
  
  — Non-Stop Flight — Great Music of the Swing Era
- James Muller — Kaboom
- Mark Sholtez
  Mark Sholtez
  Mark Sholtez is an Australian singer-songwriter. His debut album, Real Street from 2006, has resulted in nominations for an ARIA Award and APRA Awards winning an APRA for 'Most Performed Jazz Work' for "Love Me for the Cool" in 2007. His follow-up album is titled The Distance Between Two...
  
  — Real Street
- 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...
  
  , Bernie McGann
  Bernie McGann
  Bernie McGann is an Australian jazz alto saxophone player. He began his career in the late 1950s and is still active as a performer, composer and recording artist.- Biography :...
  
  — Always
- The Necks
  The Necks
  The Necks are an experimental jazz trio from Sydney, Australia, comprising Chris Abrahams on piano and Hammond organ, Tony Buck on drums, percussion and electric guitar and Lloyd Swanton on bass guitar and double bass...
  
  — Chemist
  Chemist (album)
  Chemist is the thirteenth album by Australian improvised music trio The Necks first released on the Fish of Milk label in 2005 and later on the ReR label internationally. The album features three tracks, titled "Fatal", "Buoyant" and "Abillera", performed by Chris Abrahams, Lloyd Swanton and Tony...

Best Soundtrack / Cast / Show Recording
- 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...
  
  — RAN Soundtrack
  RAN Remote Area Nurse (TV series)
  RAN is an Australian television program , filmed entirely on Masig Island in the tropical Torres Strait north of the Cape York Peninsula, the northern-most part of Australia , and the border with Papua New Guinea.This is an important series to Torres Strait Islanders, but also to the...
- 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...
  
  — Wolf Creek Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
  Wolf Creek (film)
  Wolf Creek is a 2005 independent Australian horror film written, co-produced and directed by Greg McLean. The story revolves around three backpackers who find themselves held captive by a serial killer in the Australian outback...
- 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...
  
  , Warren Ellis
  Warren Ellis
  Warren Girard Ellis is an English author of comics, novels, and television, who is well-known for sociocultural commentary, both through his online presence and through his writing, which covers transhumanist themes...
  
  — The Proposition
  The Proposition
  The Proposition is a 2005 western film directed by John Hillcoat and written by screenwriter and musician Nick Cave. It stars Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Emily Watson, John Hurt, Danny Huston and David Wenham. The film's production completed in 2004 and was followed by a wide 2005 release in...
- 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...
  
  , Dan Luscombe, Katie Brianna & the Stormwater Boys — Jindabyne Soundtrack
  Jindabyne (film)
  Jindabyne is a 2006 Australian drama film by director Ray Lawrence and starring an ensemble cast including Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, Deborra-Lee Furness and John Howard. Jindabyne was filmed entirely on location in and around the town of the same name: Jindabyne, New South Wales, situated next...
- Various – Little Fish Soundtrack
  Little Fish (film)
  Little Fish is a 2005 Australian film directed by Rowan Woods and written by Jacquelin Perske. It was filmed in and around Sydney, in Cabramatta and in Fairfield...

Best World Music Album
- Joseph and James Tawadros
  Joseph Tawadros
  Joseph Tawadros is an oud virtuoso from Australia.Joseph never ceases to amaze and at 28 has established himself as one the world’s leading oud performers and composers...
  
  — Visions
- Mara — Sorella
- The Pigram Brothers
  The Pigram Brothers
  The Pigram Brothers are a 7 piece Indigenous Australian band from the pearling town of Broome, Western Australia formed in 1996.They were heavily involved in Broome's musical and theatrical exports - forming the original backing band for Jimmy Chi's Bran Nue Dae in 1990 – a musical that received...
  
  — Under the Mango Tree
- Seaman Dan
  Seaman Dan
  Henry Gibson "Seaman" Dan , known universally as Seaman Dan, is a Torres Strait Islander singer-songwriter with a national and international reputation whose first recording was released in 2000...
  
  — Island Way
- The Cat Empire
  The Cat Empire
  The Cat Empire are an Australian ska and jazz band formed in 1999. Core members are Harry James Angus , Will Hull-Brown , Jamshid "Jumps" Khadiwhala , Ollie McGill , Ryan Monro and Felix Riebl...
  
  — Cities: The Cat Empire Project

Hall of Fame inductees

The following artists were 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...

on 16 August 2006, which was broadcast on 20 August:

Daddy Cool
Daddy Cool (band)
Daddy Cool is an Australian rock band formed in Melbourne in 1970 with the original line-up of Wayne Duncan , Ross Hannaford , Ross Wilson and Gary Young . Their debut single "Eagle Rock" was released in May 1971 and stayed at number 1 on the Australian singles chart for ten weeks...

inducted by singer-songwriter, Tim Finn
Tim Finn
Brian Timothy "Tim" Finn, OBE is a New Zealand singer and musician. Finn is most known for his music with New Zealand 1970s and 1980s rock group Split Enz, and later for his solo work, a temporary membership in his brother Neil's band Crowded House and his joint efforts with Neil Finn as the Finn...
Divinyls
Divinyls
Divinyls were an Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1980 and featuring vocalist Christina Amphlett and guitarist Mark McEntee. As the focal point, Amphlett performed on stage wearing a school uniform and fishnet stockings, often using an illuminated neon tube as a prop and displaying...

inducted by actor, Hugh Jackman
Hugh Jackman
Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor and producer who is involved in film, musical theatre, and television.Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as action/superhero, period and romance characters...
Icehouse
Icehouse (band)
Icehouse is an Australian rock band, formed as Flowers in 1977 in Sydney. Initially known in Australia for their pub rock style, they later achieved mainstream success playing new wave and synthpop style music and attained Top Ten singles chart success in both Europe and the U.S...

inducted by singer-songwriter, Tim Freedman
Tim Freedman
Timothy "Tim" James Freedman is the mainstay lead singer and keyboardist of the Australian band The Whitlams formed in 1993...
Lobby Loyde
Lobby Loyde
Lobby Loyde , also known as John Barrie Lyde or Barry Lyde, was an Australian rock music guitarist, songwriter and producer....

inducted by band mate, Billy Thorpe
Billy Thorpe
William Richard "Billy" Thorpe, AM was a renowned English-born Australian pop / rock singer-songwriter and musician...
Helen Reddy
Helen Reddy
Helen Reddy , often referred to as "The Queen of 70s Pop", is an Australian-American singer and actress. In the 1970s, she enjoyed international success, especially in the United States, where she placed fifteen singles in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. Six of those 15 songs made the Top 10...

inducted by actor, Toni Collette
Toni Collette
Antonia "Toni" Collette is an Australian actress and musician, known for her acting work on stage, television and film as well as a secondary career as the lead singer of the band Toni Collette & the Finish....
Rose Tattoo
Rose Tattoo
Rose Tattoo is an Australian rock and roll band, now led by Angry Anderson, that was formed in Sydney in 1976. Their sound is hard rock mixed with blues rock influences, with songs including "Bad Boy for Love", "Rock 'n' Roll Outlaw", "Nice Boys", "We Can't Be Beaten" and "Scarred for Life"...

inducted by musician, Sarah McLeod

Inducted on 29 October:

Midnight Oil
Midnight Oil
Midnight Oil , were an Australian rock band from Sydney originally performing as Farm from 1972 with drummer Rob Hirst, bass guitarist Andrew James and keyboard player/lead guitarist Jim Moginie...

inducted by Irish singer-songwriter, Bono
Bono
Paul David Hewson , most commonly known by his stage name Bono , is an Irish singer, musician, and humanitarian best known for being the main vocalist of the Dublin-based rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his...

Performers

The following artists performed on stage during the 2006 ARIA Awards:

Wolfmother
Wolfmother
Wolfmother is an Australian rock band from Erskineville, Sydney. Formed in 2000, the group was originally a trio composed of vocalist and guitarist Andrew Stockdale, bassist and keyboardist Chris Ross and drummer Myles Heskett. Wolfmother released their self-titled debut album in October 2005,...
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....
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....
Human Nature
Human Nature (band)
Human Nature are an Australian pop vocal group. The group was originally formed as a doo-wop band in 1989 while the current members were at school together in Sydney. So far, the band has had 17 Top 40 hits and five Top 10 hits in Australia since 1996 when their first album Telling Everybody was...
Hilltop Hoods
Hilltop Hoods
The Hilltop Hoods are an ARIA Award winning Australian hip hop group, from Adelaide, South Australia. Their members are MCs Suffa , MC Pressure , DJ Debris and formerly DJ Next. They have been at the centre of the Australian hip hop scene for the better part of two decades, originally forming back...
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...
Youth Group
Youth Group
Youth Group are a rock band based in Newtown, Sydney, Australia signed to Ivy League Records.- Biography :Youth Group formed in Sydney in the late 1990s. They have released four albums in Australia, with the three most recent albums also gaining releases worldwide...
Pete Murray (featuring John Mayer
John Mayer (musician)
John Clayton Mayer is an American pop rock and blues rock musician, singer-songwriter, recording artist, and music producer. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and raised in Fairfield, Connecticut, he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston. He moved to Atlanta in 1997, where he refined his...

)
Bernard Fanning
Bernard Fanning
Bernard Joseph Fanning is a musician and singer-songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer and frontman of Australian alternative rock band Powderfinger from its formation in 1989 to its dissolution in 2010....

(featuring 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:...

and Clare Bowditch
Clare Bowditch
Clare Bowditch is an Australian musician from Melbourne, Victoria. She released her fourth album Modern Day Addiction via Island Records on 13 August 2010. It became both 3RRR Album of the Week and ABC Radio National's Album of the Week. MDA is the first of Bowditch's album's to enter the Top Ten...

)

Channel V award

Channel [v
Channel V
Channel [V] is the brand name for multiple international music television networks owned by STAR TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation.-Channel [V] International:...

] Oz Artist of the Year:
- 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....
- 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...
- 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....
- Wolfmother
  Wolfmother
  Wolfmother is an Australian rock band from Erskineville, Sydney. Formed in 2000, the group was originally a trio composed of vocalist and guitarist Andrew Stockdale, bassist and keyboardist Chris Ross and drummer Myles Heskett. Wolfmother released their self-titled debut album in October 2005,...

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