1989 Senator Pat Giles
1990 Pat O’Shane
1991 Patricia Brennan
1992 Quentin Bryce
1993 Justice Elizabeth Evatt
1994 Helen Maxwell
1995 Eva Cox
1996 Heather O’Connor – Adoption & Motherhood: Whose Choice?
1997 Christine Milne – Making the Difference for the New Millennium
1998 Kathy Bail – Women in a Wired World
1999 Professor Marilyn Lake – A Republic for Women?
2000 Julie McCrossin – Speak Up, Speak Often
2001 Lisa Bellear – Bridging the Race Divide
2002 Judy Horacek – Humour, Feminism & the Ways of the World
2003 Anne Summers AO PhD – The End of Equality?
2004 Kathleen Maltzahn – Paying for Servitude
2005 Professor Judith Whitworth – Women in Health
2006 Professor Hilary Charlesworth – Women & Democracy After Conflict
2007 Dr Sarah Maddison – All For Nothing? The Women’s Movement & Gender Equality in Australian Democracy
2008 Professor Marian Sawer & Roslyn Dundas – Recipes for revolt
2009 Emily Maguire - The Accidental Feminist
2010 Dr Kim Toffoletti - Footballers Behaving Badly
2011 Dr Leslie Cannold - Sleeping Dragon: the unfinished business of abotion law reform in Australia