Australian Society of Authors

Christesen, Joan Clarke, Dymphna Cusack, Frank Dalby Davison, Mary Durack Miller, John K. Ewers, Sir Keith Hancock, Xavier Herbert, A. D. Hope, Leonard Mann, Alan Marshall, David Martin, T. Inglis Moore, John O'Grady, Roland Robinson, Colin Simpson, Douglas Stewart, Judith Wright, Betty Roland, and Alan Yates.

However, for another 25 years the ASA continued to cajole, argue and lobby for Educational Lending Right (ELR) to be introduced.

[6] Efforts were finally rewarded in 2000 when ELR was included as part of the Howard government's GST compensation package to the book industry.

The ASA was instrumental in setting up Copyright Agency, which pays creators whose work is copied under statutory licence.

The ASA also helped set up the Australian Copyright Council which provides information to the public on intellectual property issues.

The inaugural medal went to Anita Heiss in 2002; other recipients include Thomas Keneally (2019), Edel Wignell (2017), Valerie Parv (2014), Nadia Wheatley (2014), Robert Pullan (2012), Hazel Edwards (2009), Glenda Adams (2007), Inga Clendinnen (2005), and Tim Winton (2003).

[7] The ASA administers the Barbara Jefferis Award,[8] which is funded from a bequest from the late John Hinde in tribute to his wife, who was a founding member of the Society.

[9] It also administers the annual Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship, worth $20,000; the Varuna Ray Koppe Young Writers Residency;[8] and, since 2020, the ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize.