submitted at the start of the conference. The winner of the prize will be announced at the close of the conference." 2007 Winners Melissa Bellanta (University of Sydney) for Raiders of the Lost Civilisation, or, Adventure-Romances of the Australian Desert, 1890-1907, and Nell Musgrove (University of Melbourne) for Private Homes, Public Scrutiny: Surveillance of 'the family' in postwar Melbourne WK Hancock Prize The WK Hancock Prize is run by Australian Historical Association (AHA) with the Department of Modern History, Macquarie University. It was instituted in 1987 in honour of Sir Keith Hancock and his life achievements. The award is for the first book of history by an Australian scholar and for research using original sources. It is awarded biennially for a first book published in the preceding two years with the award presented at the AHA's National Biennial Conference. 2004 Winners Mary Anne Jebb for Blood, Sweat and Welfare: a History of White Bosses and Aboriginal Pastoral Workers (UWA Press, 2002)citation Warwick Anderson for The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia (Melbourne University Press, 2002) Highly Commended John Connor for The Australian Frontier Wars: 1788-1838 (University of New South Wales Press) Brigid Hains for The Ice and the Inland: Mawson, Flynn, and the Myth of the Frontier (Melbourne University Press) 2006 Winner Tony Roberts for Frontier Justice: A History of the Gulf Country to 1900 (UQP, 2005) Highly Commended Maria Nugent for Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet (Allen & Unwin, 2005) Sue Taffe for Black and White Together, FCAATSI 1958-1972 (UQP, 2005) 2008 Winner: Robert Kenny for The Lamb enters the Dreaming: Nathaniel Pepper and the Ruptured World (Scribe Publications, 2007) 2008 Highly Commended Tracey Banivanua-Mar for Violence and Colonial Dialogue: The Australian-Pacific Indentured Labor Trade (University of Hawaii Press, 2007) 2010 Winner: Dr Natasha Campo for From Superwomen to Domestic Goddesses: the rise and fall of Feminism Peter Lang, 2009 2010 Commendation Dr Clare Corbould for Becoming African Americans" Black Public Life in Harlem, 1919-1939 Harvard University Press, 2009 2012 Joint Winners Frances M Clarke for War Stories: Suffering and Sacrifice in the Civil War North Ian Coller for Arab France: Islam and the Making of Modern Europe, 1798-1831 2012 Commendation Michael L. Ondaatje for Black Conservative Intellectuals in Modern America 2014 Winner: Janet Butler for Kitty’s War: The Remarkable Wartime Experiences of Kit McNaughton (University of Queensland Press, 2013) 2016 Winner: Adam Clulow for