| Year | Winner | Album Title |
1987
(1st) | - | - |
1987
(1st) | John Farnham | Whispering Jack |
1987
(1st) | Crowded House | Crowded House |
1987
(1st) | Hunters & Collectors | Human Frailty |
1987
(1st) | Paul Kelly & the Coloured Girls | Gossip |
1987
(1st) | Spy vs Spy | A.O. Mod. TV. Vers. |
1988
(2nd) | Icehouse | Man of Colours |
1989
(3rd) | - | - |
1989
(3rd) | Crowded House | Temple of Low Men |
1989
(3rd) | 1927 | ...ish |
1989
(3rd) | Big Pig | Bonk |
1989
(3rd) | The Black Sorrows | Hold On To Me |
1989
(3rd) | John Farnham | Age of Reason |
1990
(4th) | - | - |
1990
(4th) | Ian Moss | Matchbook |
1990
(4th) | Kate Ceberano | Brave |
1990
(4th) | Stephen Cummings | A New Kind of Blue |
1990
(4th) | Hunters & Collectors | Ghost Nation |
1990
(4th) | Paul Kelly & The Messengers | So Much Water So Close To Home |
1991
(5th) | - | - |
1991
(5th) | Midnight Oil | Blue Sky Mining |
1991
(5th) | The Black Sorrows | Harley and Rose |
1991
(5th) | John Farnham | Chain Reaction |
1991
(5th) | INXS | X |
1991
(5th) | Margaret Urlich | Safety in Numbers |
1992
(6th) | - | - |
1992
(6th) | Baby Animals | Baby Animals |
1992
(6th) | Crowded House | Woodface |
1992
(6th) | Deborah Conway | String of Pearls |
1992
(6th) | Died Pretty | Doughboy Hollow |
1992
(6th) | Jimmy Barnes | Soul Deep |
1993
(7th) | - | - |
1993
(7th) | Diesel | Hepfidelity |
1993
(7th) | Ed Kuepper | Black Ticket Day |
1993
(7th) | Hunters & Collectors | Cut |
1993
(7th) | Rockmelons | Form 1 Planet |
1993
(7th) | Wendy Matthews | Lily |
1994
(8th) | - | - |
1994
(8th) | The Cruel Sea | The Honeymoon Is Over |
1994
(8th) | The Badloves | Get On Board |
1994
(8th) | Crowded House | Together Alone |
1994
(8th) | Diesel | The Lobbyist |
1994
(8th) | John Farnham | Then Again |
1995
(9th) | - | - |
1995
(9th) | Tina Arena | Don't Ask |
1995
(9th) | Christine Anu | Stylin' Up |
1995
(9th) | The Cruel Sea | Three Legged Dog |
1995
(9th) | Silverchair | Frogstomp |
1995
(9th) | You Am I | Hi Fi Way |
1996
(10th) | - | - |
1996
(10th) | You Am I | Hourly, Daily |
1996
(10th) | Finn | Finn |
1996
(10th) | John Farnham | Romeo's Heart |
1996
(10th) | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | Murder Ballads |
1996
(10th) | Regurgitator | Tu-Plang |
1997
(11th) | - | - |
1997
(11th) | Savage Garden | Savage Garden |
1997
(11th) | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | The Boatman's Call |
1997
(11th) | Powderfinger | Double Allergic |
1997
(11th) | Silverchair | Freak Show |
1997
(11th) | Spiderbait | Ivy and the Big Apples |
1998
(12th) | - | - |
1998
(12th) | Regurgitator | Unit |
1998
(12th) | Kylie Minogue | Impossible Princess |
1998
(12th) | Natalie Imbruglia | Left of the Middle |
1998
(12th) | The Whitlams | Eternal Nightcap |
1998
(12th) | You Am I | #4 Record |
1999
(13th) | - | - |
1999
(13th) | Powderfinger | Internationalist |
1999
(13th) | Ben Lee | Breathing Tornados |
1999
(13th) | The Living End | The Living End |
1999
(13th) | Silverchair | Neon Ballroom |
1999
(13th) | Spiderbait | Grand Slam |
2000
(14th) | - | - |
2000
(14th) | Killing Heidi | Reflector |
2000
(14th) | Alex Lloyd | Black the Sun |
2000
(14th) | David Bridie | Act of Free Choice |
2000
(14th) | Savage Garden | Affirmation |
2000
(14th) | Shihad | The General Electric |
2001
(15th) | - | - |
2001
(15th) | Powderfinger | Odyssey Number Five |
2001
(15th) | The Avalanches | Since I Left You |
2001
(15th) | Kylie Minogue | Light Years |
2001
(15th) | Something for Kate | Echolalia |
2001
(15th) | You Am I | Dress Me Slowly |
2002
(16th) | - | - |
2002
(16th) | Kasey Chambers | Barricades & Brickwalls |
2002
(16th) | Alex Lloyd | Watching Angels Mend |
2002
(16th) | George | Polyserena |
2002
(16th) | Kylie Minogue | Fever |
2002
(16th) | Silverchair | Diorama |
2003
(17th) | - | - |
2003
(17th) | Powderfinger | Vulture Street |
2003
(17th) | Delta Goodrem | Innocent Eyes |
2003
(17th) | The Sleepy Jackson | Lovers |
2003
(17th) | Something for Kate | The Official Fiction |
2003
(17th) | The Waifs | Up All Night |
2004
(18th) | - | - |
2004
(18th) | Jet | Get Born |
2004
(18th) | The Dissociatives | The Dissociatives |
2004
(18th) | Eskimo Joe | A Song Is a City |
2004
(18th) | The John Butler Trio | Sunrise Over Sea |
2004
(18th) | Kasey Chambers | Wayward Angel |
2005
(19th) | - | - |
2005
(19th) | Missy Higgins | The Sound of White |
2005
(19th) | Ben Lee | Awake Is the New Sleep |
2005
(19th) | Evermore | Dreams |
2005
(19th) | Keith Urban | Be Here |
2005
(19th) | Sarah Blasko | The Overture & the Underscore |
2006
(20th) | - | - |
2006
(20th) | Bernard Fanning | Tea & Sympathy |
2006
(20th) | Augie March | Moo, You Bloody Choir |
2006
(20th) | Eskimo Joe | Black Fingernails, Red Wine |
2006
(20th) | The Sleepy Jackson | Personality – One Was a Spider, One Was a Bird |
2006
(20th) | Wolfmother | Wolfmother |
2007
(21st) | - | - |
2007
(21st) | Silverchair | Young Modern |
2007
(21st) | Gotye | Mixed Blood |
2007
(21st) | The John Butler Trio | Grand National |
2007
(21st) | Powderfinger | Dream Days at the Hotel Existence |
2007
(21st) | Sneaky Sound System | Sneaky Sound System |
2008
(22nd) | - | - |
2008
(22nd) | The Presets | Apocalypso |
2008
(22nd) | Gurrumul Yunupingu | Gurrumul |
2008
(22nd) | Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson | Rattlin' Bones |
2008
(22nd) | The Living End | White Noise |
2008
(22nd) | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! |
2009
(23rd) | - | - |
2009
(23rd) | Empire of the Sun | Walking on a Dream |
2009
(23rd) | AC/DC | Black Ice |
2009
(23rd) | Eskimo Joe | Inshalla |
2009
(23rd) | Sarah Blasko | As Day Follows Night |
2009
(23rd) | The Temper Trap | Conditions |
2010
(24th) | - | - |
2010
(24th) | Angus & Julia Stone | Down the Way |
2010
(24th) | Birds of Tokyo | Birds of Tokyo |
2010
(24th) | Sia | We Are Born |
2010
(24th) | Tame Impala | InnerSpeaker |
2010
(24th) | Washington | I Believe You Liar |
2011
(25th) | - | - |
2011
(25th) | Boy & Bear | Moonfire |
2011
(25th) | Cut Copy | Zonoscope |
2011
(25th) | Eskimo Joe | Ghosts of the Past |
2011
(25th) | Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu | Rrakala |
2011
(25th) | Grinderman | Grinderman 2 |
2012
(26th) | - | - |
2012
(26th) | Gotye | Making Mirrors |
2012
(26th) | 360 | Falling & Flying |
2012
(26th) | Missy Higgins | The Ol' Razzle Dazzle |
2012
(26th) | The Jezabels | Prisoner |
2012
(26th) | The Temper Trap | The Temper Trap |
2013
(27th) | - | - |
2013
(27th) | Tame Impala | Lonerism |
2013
(27th) | Birds of Tokyo | March Fires |
2013
(27th) | Flume | Flume |
2013
(27th) | Guy Sebastian | Armageddon |
2013
(27th) | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | Push the Sky Away |
2014
(28th) | - | - |
2014
(28th) | Sia | 1000 Forms of Fear |
2014
(28th) | Chet Faker | Built on Glass |
2014
(28th) | Dan Sultan | Blackbird |
2014
(28th) | Jessica Mauboy | Beautiful |
2014
(28th) | Sheppard | Bombs Away |
2015
(29th) | - | - |
2015
(29th) | Tame Impala | Currents |
2015
(29th) | Courtney Barnett | Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit |
2015
(29th) | Flight Facilities | Down to Earth |
2015
(29th) | Hermitude | Dark Night Sweet Light |
2015
(29th) | Vance Joy | Dream Your Life Away |
2016
(30th) | - | - |
2016
(30th) | Flume | Skin |
2016
(30th) | RÜFÜS | Bloom |
2016
(30th) | Sia | This Is Acting |
2016
(30th) | The Avalanches | Wildflower |
2016
(30th) | Troye Sivan | Blue Neighbourhood |
2017
(31st) | - | - |
2017
(31st) | Gang of Youths | Go Farther in Lightness |
2017
(31st) | A.B. Original | Reclaim Australia |
2017
(31st) | Amy Shark | Night Thinker |
2017
(31st) | Illy | Two Degrees |
2017
(31st) | Paul Kelly | Life Is Fine |
2018
(32nd) | - | - |
2018
(32nd) | Amy Shark | Love Monster |
2018
(32nd) | Courtney Barnett | Tell Me How You Really Feel |
2018
(32nd) | Gurrumul | Djarimirri (Child of the Rainbow) |
2018
(32nd) | Pnau | Changa |
2018
(32nd) | Troye Sivan | Bloom |
2019
(33rd) | - | - |
2019
(33rd) | Dean Lewis | A Place We Knew |
2019
(33rd) | Hilltop Hoods | The Great Expanse |
2019
(33rd) | Rüfüs Du Sol | Solace |
2019
(33rd) | The Teskey Brothers | Run Home Slow |
2019
(33rd) | Thelma Plum | Better in Blak |
2020
(34th) | - | - |
2020
(34th) | Tame Impala | The Slow Rush |
2020
(34th) | DMA's | The Glow |
2020
(34th) | Jessica Mauboy | Hilda |
2020
(34th) | Lime Cordiale | 14 Steps to a Better You |
2020
(34th) | Sampa the Great | The Return |
2021
(35th) | - | - |
2021
(35th) | Genesis Owusu | Smiling with No Teeth |
2021
(35th) | Amy Shark | Cry Forever |
2021
(35th) | Midnight Oil | The Makarrata Project |
2021
(35th) | The Avalanches | We Will Always Love You |
2021
(35th) | Tones and I | Welcome to the Madhouse |
2022
(36th) | - | - |
2022
(36th) | Baker Boy | Gela |
2022
(36th) | Amyl and the Sniffers | Comfort to Me |
2022
(36th) | Gang of Youths | Angel in Realtime |
2022
(36th) | King Stingray | King Stingray |
2022
(36th) | Rüfüs Du Sol | Surrender |
2023
(37th) | - | - |
2023
(37th) | Genesis Owusu | Struggler |
2023
(37th) | DMA's | How Many Dreams? |
2023
(37th) | G Flip | Drummer |
2023
(37th) | Matt Corby | Everything's Fine |
2023
(37th) | The Teskey Brothers | The Winding Way |
2024
(38th) | - | - |
2024
(38th) | Troye Sivan | Something to Give Each Other |
2024
(38th) | Amy Shark | Sunday Sadness |
2024
(38th) | Angie McMahon | Light, Dark, Light Again |
2024
(38th) | Kylie Minogue | Tension |
2024
(38th) | Royel Otis | Pratts & Pain |
2025
(39th) | - | - |
2025
(39th) | Amyl and the Sniffers | Cartoon Darkness |
2025
(39th) | Missy Higgins | The Second Act |
2025
(39th) | Ninajirachi | I Love My Computer |
2025
(39th) | Rüfüs Du Sol | Inhale / Exhale |
2025
(39th) | Thelma Plum | I'm Sorry, Now Say It Back |