The Iremonger Award for Writing on Public Issues is an annual Australian literary prize that was awarded from 2003 to 2009 by Australian publisher Allen & Unwin to commemorate publisher and author John Iremonger and "foster the sort of ideas that he was so good at cultivating".
[1] The award is made "for works of political, social and cultural commentary with contemporary Australian relevance" and offers a prize of $10,000 as well as guaranteed publication, royalties and editorial support.
[3] In 2009, Allen and Unwin announced that no manuscript of sufficient merit had been submitted for the award, which would therefore be suspended for the foreseeable future.
[4] John Iremonger, who died of cancer in August 2002,[1] worked in the publishing industry in Australia for 35 years.
[5] Iremonger's career at Allen & Unwin lasted 22 years, which included a four-year break to run Melbourne University Press.