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Awards and nominations
1962: Miles Franklin Award for The Well Dressed Explorer
1965: Miles Franklin Award for The Slow Natives
1965: Moomba Award for The Slow Natives
1972: Miles Franklin Award for The Acolyte
1975: The Age Book of the Year Fiction Award for The Kindness Cup
1980: Australian Literature Studies Award for Hunting the Wild Pineapple
1980: Member of the Order of Australia (AM)
1986: ALS Gold Medal for Beachmasters
1989: Patrick White Award
1990: New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for fiction for Reaching Tin River
1992: Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)
1996: The Age Book of the Year Fiction Award for The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow
1999: Miles Franklin Award for Drylands
2000: Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Fiction Book Award for Drylands
2002: New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Special Award for being "a trailblazer"
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