ARIA Award for Best Indigenous Release

The ARIA Music Award for Best Indigenous Release was an award presented at the annual ARIA Music Awards. It was presented from 1987 through to 1998.[1] Originally titled Best Indigenous Record in 1987.[2] It was renamed Best Aboriginal/Islander Release in 1995.[3] From 1996 it was Best Indigenous Release.[4]

The award for Best Indigenous Release was first presented to Coloured Stone for their album Human Love. It was retired after the 1998 awards with Archie Roach winning the final award for his album Looking for Butter Boy. Roach won the award three times and Weddings Parties Anything, Yothu Yindi and Christine Anu each won it twice. In 1988 upon Midnight Oil's nomination for Best Indigenous Record, their manager Gary Morris objected to the group being put in that category by ARIA, "an Indigenous Award should go to an indigenous band."[5]

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the winner is highlighted in a separate colour, and in boldface; the nominees are those that are not highlighted or in boldface.

  Winner marked in a separate colour
Year Winner(s) Album title
1987
(1st)
Coloured Stone Human Love
Dave de Hugard The Magpie in the Wattle
John Williamson Mallee Boy
Sirocco Voyage
The Three Chord Wonders Try Change
1988
(2nd)
Gondwanaland Gondwanaland
Australia All Over Australia All Over
Flying Emus This Town
Midnight Oil Diesel and Dust
Warumpi Band Go Bush
1989
(3rd)
Weddings Parties Anything Roaring Days
Kev Carmody Pillars of Society
Flying Emus "This Town" / "Darling Street"
Midnight Oil "Dreamworld"
Dave Steel "The Hardest Part"
1990
(4th)
Weddings Parties Anything The Big Don't Argue
Coloured Stone Wild Desert Rose
Gondwanaland Wildlife
Scrap Metal Broken Down Man
Yothu Yindi Homeland Movement
1991
(5th)
Archie Roach Charcoal Lane
Coloured Stone Crazy Mind
Various Artists Australia All Over Macca's No. 4
Various Artists From the Bush
Wild Pumpkins At Midnight Little Victories
1992
(6th)
Yothu Yindi Tribal Voice
Archie Roach "Down City Streets"
Kev Carmody "Eulogy (For a Black Person)"
Shane Howard "Escape from Reality"
Not Drowning, Waving & The Musicians of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea featuring George Telek Tabaran
1993
(7th)
Yothu Yindi "Djäpana (Sunset Dreaming)"
Kev Carmody Street Beat
Coloured Stone Inma Juju
Gondwanaland Wide Skies
Tiddas Inside My Kitchen
1994
(8th)
Tiddas Sing About Life
Kev Carmody Bloodlines
Not Drowning, Waving Circus
Archie Roach Jamu Dreaming
Yothu Yindi Freedom
1995
(9th)
Christine Anu Stylin' Up
Kev Carmody "On the Wire"
Ruby Hunter Thoughts Within
Tiddas "Changing Times"
Yothu Yindi & Neil Finn "Dots on the Shells"
1996
(10th)
Christine Anu "Come On"
Kev Carmody Images and Illusions
Blekbala Mujik Blekbala Mujik
Various Artists Our Home, Our Land
Warumpi Band Too Much Humbug
1997
(11th)
Archie Roach Hold On Tight
George Telek Telek
Tiddas Tiddas
Warumpi Band Stompin' Ground
Yothu Yindi Birrkuta - Wild Honey
1998
(12th)
Archie Roach Looking for Butter Boy
Gondwana Xenophon
Singers for the Red Black and Gold "Yil Lull"
John Williamson & Warren H Williams "Raining on the Rock"
Bart Willoughby Pathways

References
  1. "Best Indigenous Release", ARIA
  2. O'Grady, Anthony. "The First Annual ARIA Music Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on 16 December 2000. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  3. O'Grady, Anthony. "The 9th Annual Aria Music Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on 16 December 2000. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  4. O'Grady, Anthony. "The 10th Annual ARIA Music Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on 1 November 2001. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  5. O'Grady, Anthony. "The 2nd Annual ARIA Music Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on 16 December 2000. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
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