ARIA Music Awards of 1995 - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Ninth Australian Recording Industry Association
Australian Recording Industry Association
The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956...

Music Awards (generally known as the ARIA Music Awards
ARIA Music Awards
The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Australian Recording Industry Association...

or simply The ARIAS
ARIA Music Awards
The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Australian Recording Industry Association...

) was held on 20 October 1995 at the Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

Convention & Exhibition Centre. There had been a 19-month gap since the previous award ceremony which was moved to be "closer to the business end of the music industry's year". Presenters distributed 28 awards from 1060 preliminary nominations, big winner for the year was Silverchair

Silverchair

Silverchair were an Australian rock band, which formed in 1992 as Innocent Criminals in Merewether, Newcastle with the line-up of Ben Gillies on drums, Chris Joannou on bass guitar and Daniel Johns on vocals and guitars. The group got their big break in mid-1994 when they won a national demo...

with five awards.

In addition to previous categories, new categories for "Best Dance Release" and "Best World Music Album" were presented for the first time, with "Producer of the Year" returning to the list—last awarded in 1988

ARIA Music Awards of 1988

The Second Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards was held on 29 March 1988 at the Sheraton Wentworth Hotel in Sydney. Cliff Richard was the host, with Bryan Ferry, Feargal Sharkey and Ian "Molly" Meldrum included as presenters of the 21 awards...

. The ARIA Hall of Fame

ARIA Hall of Fame

Since 1988 the Australian Recording Industry Association has inducted artists into its ARIA Hall of Fame. While most have been recognised at the annual ARIA Music Awards, in 2005 ARIA sought to create a separate standalone "ARIA Icons: Hall of Fame" event as only one or two acts could be inducted...

inducted: The Seekers

The Seekers

The Seekers are an Australian folk-influenced pop music group which were originally formed in 1962. They were the first Australian popular music group to achieve major chart and sales success in the United Kingdom and the United States...

Ceremony details

Itch-E and Scratch-E

Not to be confused with the fictional characters Itchy and Scratchy from The Simpsons.Itch-E and Scratch-E is an Australian electronic music group formed by Paul Mac and Andy Rantzen in Sydney in the early 1990s initially recording on the Volition label...

won the inaugural award for "Best Dance Release", Paul Mac

Paul Mac

Paul Mac is a musician, producer and music remixer from Sydney, Australia. He was classically trained at Sydney's Conservatorium of Music. Paul Mac formed the bands Smash Mac Mac, Itch-e And Scratch-e, The Lab, and The Dissociatives, as well as releasing two records under his own name...

's acceptance speech included:

One of the sponsors of the awards ceremony was the National Drug Offensive, in 2005 Mac explained that he did not expect to win and so had not prepared a speech.

ARIA Awards

Album of the Year
- Christine Anu
  Christine Anu
  -Early life:Anu was born in Cairns, Queensland to a Torres Strait Islander mother from Saibai and Mabuiag Islands.-Career:Anu began performing as a dancer and later went on to sing back-up vocals for The Rainmakers, which included Neil Murray of the Warumpi Band. Her first recording was in 1993...
  
  – Stylin' Up
- Tina Arena
  Tina Arena
  Filippina Lydia "Tina" Arena is an Australian singer, songwriter and musical theatre actress. She has won several awards, most notably 6 ARIA Awards and in both 1996 and 2000 she received the World Music Award for the world's best selling Australian artist...
  
  – Don't Ask
  Don't Ask
  -Release history:-Charts and certifications:Don't Ask became Arena's highest selling album to date selling in excess of 2 million copies worldwide and was certified ten times platinum by the ARIA.-Peak positions:-End of year charts:...

Single of the Year
- Silverchair
  Silverchair
  Silverchair were an Australian rock band, which formed in 1992 as Innocent Criminals in Merewether, Newcastle with the line-up of Ben Gillies on drums, Chris Joannou on bass guitar and Daniel Johns on vocals and guitars. The group got their big break in mid-1994 when they won a national demo...
  
  – "Tomorrow
  Tomorrow (Silverchair song)
  "Tomorrow" is a song by Australian alternative rock band Silverchair and was their breakthrough single from their debut album Frogstomp, which was released in 1994 in their home country and 1995 in the US...
  
  "

Song of the Year
- Tina Arena
  Tina Arena
  Filippina Lydia "Tina" Arena is an Australian singer, songwriter and musical theatre actress. She has won several awards, most notably 6 ARIA Awards and in both 1996 and 2000 she received the World Music Award for the world's best selling Australian artist...
  
  – "Chains
  Chains (Tina Arena song)
  "Chains" is a song by Australian singer Tina Arena from her album Don't Ask. It was composed by Arena, Pam Reswick and Steve Werfel and produced by David Tyson. "Chains" scaled the charts in the UK to #6, and charted well throughout Europe, earning her numerous awards in the process...
  
  "

Highest Selling Album
- The 12th Man
  The Twelfth Man
  The Twelfth Man is the name for a series of comedy productions by Australian satirist Billy Birmingham. Birmingham, a skilled impersonator, is generally known for parodying Australian sports commentators' voices...
  
  – Wired World of Sports II

Highest Selling Single
- Silverchair
  Silverchair
  Silverchair were an Australian rock band, which formed in 1992 as Innocent Criminals in Merewether, Newcastle with the line-up of Ben Gillies on drums, Chris Joannou on bass guitar and Daniel Johns on vocals and guitars. The group got their big break in mid-1994 when they won a national demo...
  
  – "Tomorrow
  Tomorrow (Silverchair song)
  "Tomorrow" is a song by Australian alternative rock band Silverchair and was their breakthrough single from their debut album Frogstomp, which was released in 1994 in their home country and 1995 in the US...
  
  "

Best Group
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
  Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
  Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are an Australian alternative rock band, formed in Melbourne in 1983. The band is fronted by Nick Cave and has featured international personnel throughout their career.-Formation and early releases :...
  
  – Let Love In
- Crowded House
  Crowded House
  Crowded House are a rock band, formed in Melbourne, Australia and led by New Zealand singer-songwriter Neil Finn. Finn is the primary songwriter and creative director of the band, having led it through several incarnations, drawing members from New Zealand , Australia and the United States...
  
  – Private Universe
  Private Universe
  "Private Universe" is a 1993 song by rock group Crowded House from the group's fourth studio album Together Alone. It was released as a single in October 1994...
- The Cruel Sea
  The Cruel Sea (band)
  The Cruel Sea are an Australian indie rock band from Sydney formed in late 1987. Originally an instrumental-only band, they became more popular when fronted by vocalist Tex Perkins in addition to Jim Elliott on drums, Ken Gormly on bass guitar, Dan Rumour on guitar and James Cruickshank on guitar...
  
  – Three Legged Dog

Best Female Artist
- Tina Arena
  Tina Arena
  Filippina Lydia "Tina" Arena is an Australian singer, songwriter and musical theatre actress. She has won several awards, most notably 6 ARIA Awards and in both 1996 and 2000 she received the World Music Award for the world's best selling Australian artist...
  
  – Don't Ask
  Don't Ask
  -Release history:-Charts and certifications:Don't Ask became Arena's highest selling album to date selling in excess of 2 million copies worldwide and was certified ten times platinum by the ARIA.-Peak positions:-End of year charts:...
- Merril Bainbridge
  Merril Bainbridge
  Merril Bainbridge is an Australian pop music singer and songwriter. Her debut was in 1994 with the single, "Mouth", which peaked at number-one for six consecutive weeks in Australia and became a top five hit in the United States.- Early career :Bainbridge started performing when she was at the...
  
  – "Mouth
  Mouth (song)
  "Mouth" is a pop song written by Merril Bainbridge, and produced by Siew for Bainbridge's debut album The Garden . It was released as the album's first single in the end of November 1994 in Australia, then was re-issued on 13 March 1995. It became her biggest hit to date peaking at number-one on...
  
  "
- Kylie Minogue
  Kylie Minogue
  Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE - often known simply as Kylie - is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing...
  
  – Kylie Minogue
  Kylie Minogue (album)
  Kylie Minogue is the self-titled fifth studio album by Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue, which was first released on 19 September 1994. The album was first released by Deconstruction Records/BMG throughout much of the world while in Australia and New Zealand the album was released by Mushroom...
- Max Sharam
  Max Sharam
  Leanne Maree "Max" Sharam is an Australian musician, writer and artist. In the mid-1990s, Sharam had three top 40 hit singles, "Coma", "Be Firm" and "Lay Down" from her top 10 album, A Million Year Girl...
  
  – Million Year Girl

Best Male Artist
- Diesel
  Johnny Diesel
  Johnny Diesel is an Australian musician, who has released material as leader of Johnny Diesel & the Injectors, under his birth name, or by the epithet Diesel...
  
  – Solid State Rhyme
- Paul Kelly
  Paul Kelly (musician)
  Paul Maurice Kelly is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player. He has performed solo, and has led numerous groups, including the Dots, the Coloured Girls, and the Messengers. He has worked with other artists and groups, including associated projects Professor...
  
  – Wanted Man
- Ed Kuepper
  Ed Kuepper
  Ed Kuepper is an Australian guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. He co-founded the seminal punk band The Saints, the experimental post-punk group Laughing Clowns and later the grunge-like The Aints...
  
  – Character Assassination
  Character Assassination (album)
  Character Assassination is the eighth solo album by Australian guitarist and songwriter Ed Kuepper recorded in 1994 and released on the Hot label...
- Rick Price
  Rick Price
  Rick Price is an Australian singer and songwriter.-Early life:Price was born in Beaudesert, a small country town near Brisbane, Queensland. He began playing music at the age of nine appearing with his family band "Union Beau". "It was kinda weird I guess...
  
  – River of Love
- Chris Wilson – "Live at the Continental"

Best New Talent
- Merril Bainbridge
  Merril Bainbridge
  Merril Bainbridge is an Australian pop music singer and songwriter. Her debut was in 1994 with the single, "Mouth", which peaked at number-one for six consecutive weeks in Australia and became a top five hit in the United States.- Early career :Bainbridge started performing when she was at the...
  
  – Mouth
  Mouth (song)
  "Mouth" is a pop song written by Merril Bainbridge, and produced by Siew for Bainbridge's debut album The Garden . It was released as the album's first single in the end of November 1994 in Australia, then was re-issued on 13 March 1995. It became her biggest hit to date peaking at number-one on...
- Magic Dirt
  Magic Dirt
  Magic Dirt are an Australian rock band, which formed in 1991 in Geelong, Victoria, with Daniel Herring on guitar, Adam Robertson on drums, Adalita Srsen on vocals and guitar, and Dean Turner on bass guitar. Initially known as Deer Bubbles and then The Jim Jims, they were renamed as Magic Dirt in...
  
  – Life Was Better
- Max Sharam
  Max Sharam
  Leanne Maree "Max" Sharam is an Australian musician, writer and artist. In the mid-1990s, Sharam had three top 40 hit singles, "Coma", "Be Firm" and "Lay Down" from her top 10 album, A Million Year Girl...
  
  – Million Year Girl
- Silverchair
  Silverchair
  Silverchair were an Australian rock band, which formed in 1992 as Innocent Criminals in Merewether, Newcastle with the line-up of Ben Gillies on drums, Chris Joannou on bass guitar and Daniel Johns on vocals and guitars. The group got their big break in mid-1994 when they won a national demo...
  
  – Frogstomp
  Frogstomp
  Frogstomp is the debut album of Australian rock band Silverchair. It was released in Australia in early 1995, when the members were only 15 years of age, by a subsidiary of Sony Records and reached number one on the album charts. On 20 June 1995, Frogstomp was released by Epic Records in the U.S...
- The Truth
  The Truth (Australian band)
  The Truth were a funk band from Melbourne, Australia, active from 1993 to 1997.Their final lineup was Nicky Bomba , Michael Caruana , Mick Girasole , Tony Kopa and Geoff Wells .-Biography:...
  
  – My Heavy Friend

Breakthrough Artist – Album
- Christine Anu
  Christine Anu
  -Early life:Anu was born in Cairns, Queensland to a Torres Strait Islander mother from Saibai and Mabuiag Islands.-Career:Anu began performing as a dancer and later went on to sing back-up vocals for The Rainmakers, which included Neil Murray of the Warumpi Band. Her first recording was in 1993...
  
  – Stylin' Up
- D.I.G. – Deeper
- Max Sharam
  Max Sharam
  Leanne Maree "Max" Sharam is an Australian musician, writer and artist. In the mid-1990s, Sharam had three top 40 hit singles, "Coma", "Be Firm" and "Lay Down" from her top 10 album, A Million Year Girl...
  
  – Million Year Girl
- Silverchair
  Silverchair
  Silverchair were an Australian rock band, which formed in 1992 as Innocent Criminals in Merewether, Newcastle with the line-up of Ben Gillies on drums, Chris Joannou on bass guitar and Daniel Johns on vocals and guitars. The group got their big break in mid-1994 when they won a national demo...
  
  – Frogstomp
  Frogstomp
  Frogstomp is the debut album of Australian rock band Silverchair. It was released in Australia in early 1995, when the members were only 15 years of age, by a subsidiary of Sony Records and reached number one on the album charts. On 20 June 1995, Frogstomp was released by Epic Records in the U.S...

Breakthrough Artist – Single
- Silverchair
  Silverchair
  Silverchair were an Australian rock band, which formed in 1992 as Innocent Criminals in Merewether, Newcastle with the line-up of Ben Gillies on drums, Chris Joannou on bass guitar and Daniel Johns on vocals and guitars. The group got their big break in mid-1994 when they won a national demo...
  
  – "Tomorrow
  Tomorrow (Silverchair song)
  "Tomorrow" is a song by Australian alternative rock band Silverchair and was their breakthrough single from their debut album Frogstomp, which was released in 1994 in their home country and 1995 in the US...
  
  "

Best Dance Release
- Itch-E and Scratch-E
  Itch-E and Scratch-E
  Not to be confused with the fictional characters Itchy and Scratchy from The Simpsons.Itch-E and Scratch-E is an Australian electronic music group formed by Paul Mac and Andy Rantzen in Sydney in the early 1990s initially recording on the Volition label...

Best Pop Release
- Tina Arena
  Tina Arena
  Filippina Lydia "Tina" Arena is an Australian singer, songwriter and musical theatre actress. She has won several awards, most notably 6 ARIA Awards and in both 1996 and 2000 she received the World Music Award for the world's best selling Australian artist...
  
  – "Chains
  Chains (Tina Arena song)
  "Chains" is a song by Australian singer Tina Arena from her album Don't Ask. It was composed by Arena, Pam Reswick and Steve Werfel and produced by David Tyson. "Chains" scaled the charts in the UK to #6, and charted well throughout Europe, earning her numerous awards in the process...
  
  "

Best Country Album
- Troy Cassar-Daley
  Troy Cassar-Daley
  Troy Cassar-Daley is a multi-award-winning country musician from New South Wales, Australia.He released his first EP, "Dream Out Loud", in 1994 and was nominated for his first Golden Guitar for Best Male Vocalist the same year...
  
  – Beyond the Dancing
  Beyond the Dancing
  Beyond the Dancing is a country music album by Troy Cassar-Daley. The first single "Dream Out Loud" was released in 1994 by Sony Music. The track shot up to the No. 1 position on the country music charts. The album was released in January 1995 and Troy won the 1995 ARIA Award for Best Country...
- Slim Dusty
  Slim Dusty
  David Gordon "Slim Dusty " Kirkpatrick AO, MBE was an Australian country music singer-songwriter and producer, with a career spanning nearly eight decades. He was known to record songs in the legacy of Australian poets Henry Lawson and Banjo Patterson that represented the Australian Bush...
  
  – Natural High
- Gina Jeffreys
  Gina Jeffreys
  Gina Jeffreys is an Australian country singer. She was born on 1 April 1968 at Toowoomba, Queensland. She has often been called Australia's "Queen of Country" and has won numerous Australian country music awards....
  
  – The Flame
- Lee Kernaghan
  Lee Kernaghan
  Lee Kernaghan OAM is an Australian country music singer and songwriter. He was the 2008 Australian of the Year.-Honours:Kernaghan received the Order of Australia Medal in 2004....
  
  – Country Crowd
- Jane Saunders – Strangers to Your Heart

Best Independent Release
- Def FX
  Def FX
  Def FX was an Australian industrial-dance-rock group, formed in Sydney. The core of the group was keyboardist and vocalist Sean Lowry and vocalist Fiona Horne ....
  
  – Ritual Eternal
- Ed Kuepper
  Ed Kuepper
  Ed Kuepper is an Australian guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. He co-founded the seminal punk band The Saints, the experimental post-punk group Laughing Clowns and later the grunge-like The Aints...
  
  – Character Assassination
  Character Assassination (album)
  Character Assassination is the eighth solo album by Australian guitarist and songwriter Ed Kuepper recorded in 1994 and released on the Hot label...
- Magic Dirt
  Magic Dirt
  Magic Dirt are an Australian rock band, which formed in 1991 in Geelong, Victoria, with Daniel Herring on guitar, Adam Robertson on drums, Adalita Srsen on vocals and guitar, and Dean Turner on bass guitar. Initially known as Deer Bubbles and then The Jim Jims, they were renamed as Magic Dirt in...
  
  – Life Was Better
- Single Gun Theory
  Single Gun Theory
  Single Gun Theory is an Australian band made up of Jacqui Hunt , Pete Rivett-Carnac and Kath Power , recording on the Canadian label Nettwerk. Their music combines elements of downtempo electronic dance music with introspective, ethereal vocals and samples of dialogue...
  
  – Flow, River of My Soul
  Flow, River of My Soul
  Flow, River of My Soul is the third album by Single Gun Theory.-Track listing:#Transmission - 1:02 #Fall - 4:26 #Sea of Core Experience - 4:36 #I've Been Dying - 3:39 #Decimated - 2:02 #My Estranged Wife - 4:24 #Phenomena - 1:36...
- TISM
  TISM
  TISM was a seven piece anonymous alternative rock band from Melbourne, Australia. The group was formed in 1982 and enjoyed a large underground/independent following. Their third album Machiavelli and the Four Seasons reached the Australian national top 10 in 1995...
  
  – Machiavelli and the Four Seasons
  Machiavelli and the Four Seasons
  -GOLD! GOLD! GOLD! For Australia! - A Bonus Disc:To celebrate Machiavelli going "gold", it was re-released with a bonus disc. It featured previously unreleased tracks as well as the b-sides from all the singles released off Machiavelli and the Four Seasons....

Best Alternative Release
- You Am I
  You Am I
  You Am I are an Australian alternative rock band, fronted by vocalist/guitarist and main songwriter Tim Rogers. They were the first Australian band to have three albums successively debut at #1 on the ARIA Charts, and are renowned for their live performances.-History:Tim Rogers formed the first...
  
  – Hi Fi Way
  Hi Fi Way
  Hi Fi Way is an album by Australian rock band You Am I, released in 1995. The album reached #1 on the local albums chart and is one of the most influential and critically acclaimed Australian albums of the last twenty years, inspiring the likes of Jet, the Vines and Wolfmother...

Best Indigenous Release
- Christine Anu
  Christine Anu
  -Early life:Anu was born in Cairns, Queensland to a Torres Strait Islander mother from Saibai and Mabuiag Islands.-Career:Anu began performing as a dancer and later went on to sing back-up vocals for The Rainmakers, which included Neil Murray of the Warumpi Band. Her first recording was in 1993...
  
  – Stylin' Up
- Kev Carmody
  Kev Carmody
  Kevin Daniel "Kev" Carmody is an Indigenous Australian singer-songwriter. His song "From Little Things Big Things Grow" was recorded with co-writer Paul Kelly for their 1993 single; it was covered by the Get Up Mob in 2008 and peaked at #4 on the Australian Recording Industry Association singles...
  
  – "On the Wire"
- Ruby Hunter
  Ruby Hunter
  Ruby Charlotte Margaret Hunter was an Australian singer and songwriter. She was a member of the Ngarrindjeri Aboriginal nationality, and often performed with her partner, Archie Roach, whom she met at the age of 16, while both were homeless teenagers...
  
  – Thoughts Within
- Tiddas
  Tiddas
  Tiddas are a three piece all-girl folk band from Victoria, Australia.-Biography:Originally the three women, Amy Saunders , Lou Bennett and Sally Dastey combined their vocal talents as backing singers for Aboriginal band Djaambi, led by Saunder's brother Richard Frankland in 1990...
  
  – Changing Times
- Yothu Yindi
  Yothu Yindi
  Yothu Yindi are an Australian band with Aboriginal and balanda members formed in 1986. Aboriginal members come from Yolngu homelands near Yirrkala on the Gove Peninsula in Northern Territory's Arnhem Land...
  
  & Neil Finn
  Neil Finn
  Neil Mullane Finn, OBE is a New Zealand Pop recording artist. Along with his brother Tim Finn, he was the co-frontman for Split Enz and is now frontman for Crowded House...
  
  – "Dots on the Shells"

Best Adult Contemporary Album
- The Black Sorrows
  The Black Sorrows
  The Black Sorrows are an Australian band founded by Joe Camilleri, the group's only constant member. Founded in 1983, The Black Sorrows are still active today, and are best remembered for their top 40 Australian hits of the late 1980s and early 1990s, including "Hold On To Me", "Chained To The...
  
  – Lucky Charm
- Phil Emmanuel & Tommy Emmanuel
  Tommy Emmanuel
  William Thomas "Tommy" Emmanuel AM is an Australian guitarist, best known for his complex fingerpicking style, energetic performances and the use of percussive effects on the guitar. In the May 2008 and 2010 issues of Guitar Player Magazine, he was named as "Best Acoustic Guitarist" in their...
  
  – Terra Firma
  Terra Firma (Tommy Emmanuel album)
  Terra Firma is an album by Australian musician Tommy Emmanuel and his brother, Phil Emmanuel.It was re-released by Sony International along with Determination in 2004.-Track listing:# "Back on the Terra Firma"# "Love Gone West"...
- Dave Hole
  Dave Hole
  Dave Hole is an Australian slide guitarist known for his style of playing rock and roll and blues music.-Biography:...
  
  – Steel on Steel
- My Friend the Chocolate Cake
  My Friend The Chocolate Cake
  My Friend The Chocolate Cake is an Australian musical group based in Melbourne. They have recorded seven albums since being founded in 1989 by David Bridie and Helen Mountfort, members of Not Drowning, Waving...
  
  – Brood
  Brood (album)
  Brood is the second studio album by Melbourne band My Friend the Chocolate Cake. The album was released in 1994 and won the 1995 ARIA Music Award for Best Adult Contemporary Album...
- Wendy Matthews
  Wendy Matthews
  Wendy Joan Matthews is an Australian adult alternative pop singer originally from Canada who has been a member of Models and Absent Friends and is a solo artist...
  
  – The Witness Tree
  The Witness Tree
  The Witness Tree is the third solo studio album by Australian singer Wendy Matthews released in Australia by rooArt on 14 November 1994. It is a non-traditional gospel album, Matthews stating "the spirit of gospel is so uplifting, I have a lot of faith, but for me it's more nature and the...

Best Comedy Release
- The 12th Man
  The Twelfth Man
  The Twelfth Man is the name for a series of comedy productions by Australian satirist Billy Birmingham. Birmingham, a skilled impersonator, is generally known for parodying Australian sports commentators' voices...
  
  – Wired World of Sports II
- Austen Tayshus
  Austen Tayshus
  Austen Tayshus is the stage name of Jewish Australian comedian Alexander Jacob Gutman. He is best known for the comedy single "Australiana", a spoken word piece filled with Australian puns.-Biography:...
  
  – Alive and Schticking
- Jimeoin
  Jimeoin
  Jimeoin McKeown, who performs under the name Jimeoin , is a stand-up comedian and actor from Northern Ireland. He came to public attention between 2005 and 2008 while performing an "over the top" comedy tour Australia's outback and major cities, which was filmed for the BBC Northern Ireland...
  
  – Crack
- Kevin Bloody Wilson
  Kevin Bloody Wilson
  Kevin Bloody Wilson is a comedy singer/songwriter who uses his heavy Australian accent/style with great success...
  
  – Let Loose Live in London
- Scared Little Weird Guys – Scared

Fine Arts Awards

Best Jazz Album
- The Allan Browne Quartet – Birdcalls
- Australian Art Orchestra – Ringing the Ball Backwards
- Bobby Gebert Trio – Sculpture
- Bernie McGann
  Bernie McGann
  Bernie McGann is an Australian jazz alto saxophone player. He began his career in the late 1950s and is still active as a performer, composer and recording artist.- Biography :...
  
  – Bernie McGann
- Mark Simmonds Freeboppers
  Mark Simmonds (saxophonist)
  Mark Simmonds is an Australian jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and leader of the group The Freeboppers. Born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1955, he moved to Sydney, Australia when he was 10 years old.-Career:...
  
  – Fire

Best Classical Album
- Yvonne Kenny
  Yvonne Kenny
  Yvonne Kenny AM is an Australian soprano, particularly associated with Handel and Mozart roles.Born in Sydney, she first studied at the University of Sydney in science, hoping to become a biochemist, but decided to pursue a career in music instead...
  
  , Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
  Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
  The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is an orchestra based in Melbourne, Australia. It has 100 permanent musicians. Melbourne has the longest continuous history of orchestral music of any Australian city and the MSO is the oldest professional orchestra in Australia...
  
  , Vladimir Kamirski – Simple Gifts
- Graham Pushee, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
  Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
  The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra is an Australian period instrument orchestra specialising in the performance of baroque and classical music.The musicians play from original edition scores on restored or reproduced instruments of the 18th century...
  
  , Paul Dyer – Handel: Opera Arias

Best Children's Album
- Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
  Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
  The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra was founded as a 17 player radio ensemble in 1936, in Adelaide, South Australia. The orchestra reformed in 1949 as the 55 member South Australian Symphony Orchestra. It reverted to its original and present title, the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, in late 1974, and...
  
  – Dream Child
- Cinderella Acapella – Cinderella Acapella
- The Wiggles
  The Wiggles
  The Wiggles are a children's group formed in Sydney, Australia in 1991. Their original members were Anthony Field, Phillip Wilcher, Murray Cook, Greg Page, and Jeff Fatt. Wilcher left the group after their first album...
  
  – Big Red Car
  Big Red Car
  Big Red Car is the fifth album by the popular children's band The Wiggles, released in 1995. This album won the 1995 ARIA Award for Best Children's Album....

Best Original Soundtrack / Cast / Show Recording
- Cast Recording – The Pirates of Penzance
- Guy Gross – The Priscilla Companion Original Score
- Various – Heartland
- Various – Metal Skin
- Various – Once in a Blue Moon

Best World Music Album
- Bu Baca – Stand
- The Celts – The Rocky Road
- Yunchen Lhamo – Tibetan Prayer

Artisan Awards

Producer of the Year
- Tony Cohen
  Tony Cohen
  Tony Cohen is an acclaimed Australian record producer and sound engineer based in Melbourne, best known for his work with The Birthday Party and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in the 1980s...

Engineer of the Year
- Tony Cohen
  Tony Cohen
  Tony Cohen is an acclaimed Australian record producer and sound engineer based in Melbourne, best known for his work with The Birthday Party and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in the 1980s...
  
  , Paul McKercher

Best Video
- Keir McFarlane – Kylie Minogue
  Kylie Minogue
  Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE - often known simply as Kylie - is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing...
  
  – "Put Yourself in My Place
  Put Yourself in My Place
  Put Yourself in My Place may refer to:*Put Yourself in My Place , an album and by Pam Tillis**"Put Yourself in My Place" , its title song*"Put Yourself in My Place" , a song by Kylie Minogue...
  
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Best Cover Art
- Dominic O'Brien – Max Sharam
  Max Sharam
  Leanne Maree "Max" Sharam is an Australian musician, writer and artist. In the mid-1990s, Sharam had three top 40 hit singles, "Coma", "Be Firm" and "Lay Down" from her top 10 album, A Million Year Girl...
  
  – A Million Year Girl
  A Million Year Girl
  -Charts:-Personnel:* Tony Allayialis – vocals* Wendy Berge – viola* Aud Bill – double bass* Tim Brewer – piano* Amanda Brown – mandolin, violin* Lucie Miller – celli viola* Ian Cooper – violin...
- Simon Anderson – Electric Hippies – Electric Hippies
- Simon Anderson – You Am I
  You Am I
  You Am I are an Australian alternative rock band, fronted by vocalist/guitarist and main songwriter Tim Rogers. They were the first Australian band to have three albums successively debut at #1 on the ARIA Charts, and are renowned for their live performances.-History:Tim Rogers formed the first...
  
  – Hi Fi Way
  Hi Fi Way
  Hi Fi Way is an album by Australian rock band You Am I, released in 1995. The album reached #1 on the local albums chart and is one of the most influential and critically acclaimed Australian albums of the last twenty years, inspiring the likes of Jet, the Vines and Wolfmother...
- The Cruel Sea
  The Cruel Sea (band)
  The Cruel Sea are an Australian indie rock band from Sydney formed in late 1987. Originally an instrumental-only band, they became more popular when fronted by vocalist Tex Perkins in addition to Jim Elliott on drums, Ken Gormly on bass guitar, Dan Rumour on guitar and James Cruickshank on guitar...
  
  , Kristyna Higgins, Jim Paton – The Cruel Sea
  The Cruel Sea (band)
  The Cruel Sea are an Australian indie rock band from Sydney formed in late 1987. Originally an instrumental-only band, they became more popular when fronted by vocalist Tex Perkins in addition to Jim Elliott on drums, Ken Gormly on bass guitar, Dan Rumour on guitar and James Cruickshank on guitar...
  
  – Three Legged Dog
- Reg Mombassa
  Reg Mombassa
  Reg Mombassa is the pseudonym of Chris O'Doherty, a New Zealand born artist and musician. Resident in Australia, he is as well known there for his musical exploits — founder and former member of the popular Australian band Mental As Anything and member of Dog Trumpet - as he is for his art...
  
  – Mental As Anything
  Mental As Anything
  Mental As Anything are an Australian New Wave–rock music band formed at an art school in Sydney in 1976. Their most popular line-up was Martin Plaza on vocals and guitar; Reg Mombassa on lead guitar and vocals; his brother Peter "Yoga Dog" O'Doherty on bass guitar and vocals; Wayne "Bird"...
  
  – Mr Natural

ARIA Hall of Fame inductee

The Hall Of Fame

ARIA Hall of Fame

inductee was:

- The Seekers
  The Seekers
  The Seekers are an Australian folk-influenced pop music group which were originally formed in 1962. They were the first Australian popular music group to achieve major chart and sales success in the United Kingdom and the United States...

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