They've announced the winners of the (Australian) Prime Minister's Literary Awards, with Man Booker Prize-winning The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan a co-winner in the fiction category; see also, for example, Martin Shaw's report in The Guardian, The Prime Minister's Literary Awards: the ties that bind.
The Guardian also prints an edited version of Flanagan's acceptance speech, in which he explains that he is donating his A$40,000 prize money to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.
The Guardian also prints an edited version of Flanagan's acceptance speech, in which he explains that he is donating his A$40,000 prize money to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.