The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction: Judges 2005

Morag Fraser
Morag Fraser (Convenor) is Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Science at La Trobe University.  Her publications include Save Our ABC: The Case for Maintaining Australia's National Broadcaster and Seams of Light, Best Antipodean Essays. In 2004 she was awarded an Order of Australia (AM) for her service to journalism, particularly through Eureka Street magazine and the promotion of public debate on a range of social issues, and to the Melbourne Writers’ Festival.

Ian Britain
Ian Britain is the editor of Meanjin, Australia's oldest literary magazine. He has worked as a lecturer at Oxford and Melbourne universities, and a freelance writer and journalist. His publications include Once an Australian: Journeys with Barry Humphries, Clive James, Germaine Greer and Robert Hughes (1997). With Brenda Niall and Pamela Williams, he edited the Oxford Book of Australian Schooldays (1997). Britain was a founding editor of the Melbourne magazine Webber's and was a guest editor of Island. In 2001 became the seventh editor of Meanjin.

Brenda Niall
Brenda Niall is the author of three award-winning biographies. The most recent, The Boyds, won the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction in 2002. She recently taught in the English Department of Monash University. Brenda now writes full time and is a regular reviewer for The Age and other literary periodicals. In 2004 she was awarded an Order of Australia for her contribution to Australian literature.

Bruce Sims
Bruce Sims is now a freelance editor, having worked as a publisher for Penguin and Magabala Books for many years. He has also taught at all levels from primary to tertiary, professional and adult education.

Ceridwen Spark
Ceridwen Spark is a researcher at the RMIT Globalism Institute and reviews books for the Sydney Morning Herald, the Canberra Times, the Melbourne Age and the Australian Book Review.