| Year | Winner | Album title |
1998
(12th) | - | - |
1998
(12th) | The Superjesus | Sumo |
1998
(12th) | The Angels | Skin & Bone |
1998
(12th) | Moler | Golden Duck |
1998
(12th) | Ricaine | The Clarity of Distance |
1998
(12th) | The Screaming Jets | World Gone Crazy |
1999
(13th) | - | - |
1999
(13th) | Powderfinger | Internationalist |
1999
(13th) | Cold Chisel | The Last Wave of Summer |
1999
(13th) | Frenzal Rhomb | A Man's Not a Camel |
1999
(13th) | Henry's Anger | Personality Test |
1999
(13th) | Silverchair | Neon Ballroom |
2000
(14th) | - | - |
2000
(14th) | Killing Heidi | Reflector |
2000
(14th) | Area-7 | Bitter & Twisted |
2000
(14th) | Deadstar | Somewhere Over the Radio |
2000
(14th) | Grinspoon | Grinspoon |
2000
(14th) | Shihad | The General Electric |
2001
(15th) | - | - |
2001
(15th) | Powderfinger | Odyssey Number Five |
2001
(15th) | The Living End | Roll On |
2001
(15th) | The Mark of Cain | This is This |
2001
(15th) | Motor Ace | Five Star Laundry |
2001
(15th) | The Superjesus | Jet Age |
2002
(16th) | - | - |
2002
(16th) | Silverchair | Diorama |
2002
(16th) | Alex Lloyd | Watching Angels Mend |
2002
(16th) | Grinspoon | New Detention |
2002
(16th) | Motor Ace | Shoot This |
2002
(16th) | The Vines | Highly Evolved |
2003
(17th) | - | - |
2003
(17th) | Powderfinger | Vulture Street |
2003
(17th) | Magic Dirt | Tough Love |
2003
(17th) | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | Nocturama |
2003
(17th) | The Sleepy Jackson | Lovers |
2003
(17th) | Something for Kate | The Official Fiction |
2004
(18th) | - | - |
2004
(18th) | Jet | Get Born |
2004
(18th) | Dallas Crane | Dallas Crane |
2004
(18th) | Eskimo Joe | A Song Is a City |
2004
(18th) | The Living End | Modern Artillery |
2004
(18th) | Spiderbait | Tonight Alright |
2005
(19th) | - | - |
2005
(19th) | Grinspoon | Thrills, Kills & Sunday Pills |
2005
(19th) | Evermore | Dreams |
2005
(19th) | Little Birdy | BigBigLove |
2005
(19th) | Shihad | Love Is the New Hate |
2005
(19th) | The Cat Empire | Two Shoes |
2006
(20th) | - | - |
2006
(20th) | Wolfmother | Wolfmother |
2006
(20th) | Augie March | Moo, You Bloody Choir |
2006
(20th) | Eskimo Joe | Black Fingernails, Red Wine |
2006
(20th) | The Living End | State of Emergency |
2006
(20th) | You Am I | Convicts |
2007
(21st) | - | - |
2007
(21st) | Silverchair | Young Modern |
2007
(21st) | Airbourne | Runnin' Wild |
2007
(21st) | Grinspoon | Alibis & Other Lies |
2007
(21st) | Jet | Shine On |
2007
(21st) | Powderfinger | Dream Days at the Hotel Existence |
2008
(22nd) | - | - |
2008
(22nd) | The Living End | White Noise |
2008
(22nd) | Eddy Current Suppression Ring | Primary Colours |
2008
(22nd) | Faker | Be the Twilight |
2008
(22nd) | Gyroscope | Breed Obsession |
2008
(22nd) | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! |
2009
(23rd) | - | - |
2009
(23rd) | AC/DC | Black Ice |
2009
(23rd) | The Drones | Havilah |
2009
(23rd) | Eskimo Joe | Inshalla |
2009
(23rd) | Jet | Shaka Rock |
2009
(23rd) | The Temper Trap | Conditions |
2010
(24th) | - | - |
2010
(24th) | Birds of Tokyo | Birds of Tokyo |
2010
(24th) | Cloud Control | Bliss Release |
2010
(24th) | Eddy Current Suppression Ring | Rush to Relax |
2010
(24th) | Powderfinger | Golden Rule |
2010
(24th) | Tame Impala | Innerspeaker |
2011
(25th) | - | - |
2011
(25th) | The Living End | The Ending Is Just the Beginning Repeating |
2011
(25th) | Children Collide | Theory of Everything |
2011
(25th) | Eskimo Joe | Ghosts of the Past |
2011
(25th) | Jebediah | Kosciuszko |
2011
(25th) | Papa Vs Pretty | United in Isolation |
2012
(26th) | - | - |
2012
(26th) | The Temper Trap | The Temper Trap |
2012
(26th) | Children Collide | Monument |
2012
(26th) | Cold Chisel | No Plans |
2012
(26th) | Oh Mercy | Deep Heat |
2012
(26th) | The Jezabels | Prisoner |
2013
(27th) | - | - |
2013
(27th) | Tame Impala | Lonerism |
2013
(27th) | Birds of Tokyo | March Fires |
2013
(27th) | Boy & Bear | Harlequin Dream |
2013
(27th) | The Drones | I See Seaweed |
2013
(27th) | The Rubens | The Rubens |
2014
(28th) | - | - |
2014
(28th) | Dan Sultan | Blackbird |
2014
(28th) | Angus & Julia Stone | Angus & Julia Stone |
2014
(28th) | Ball Park Music | Puddinghead |
2014
(28th) | Jimmy Barnes | 30:30 Hindsight |
2014
(28th) | Kingswood | Microscopic Wars |
2015
(29th) | - | - |
2015
(29th) | Tame Impala | Currents |
2015
(29th) | Courtney Barnett | Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit |
2015
(29th) | Dead Letter Circus | Aesthesis |
2015
(29th) | Gang of Youths | The Positions |
2015
(29th) | The Preatures | Blue Planet Eyes |
2016
(30th) | - | - |
2016
(30th) | Violent Soho | Waco |
2016
(30th) | Ball Park Music | Every Night the Same Dream |
2016
(30th) | Boy & Bear | Limit of Love |
2016
(30th) | Gang of Youths | Let Me Be Clear |
2016
(30th) | The Living End | Shift |
2017
(31st) | - | - |
2017
(31st) | Gang of Youths | Go Farther in Lightness |
2017
(31st) | Dan Sultan | Killer |
2017
(31st) | Dune Rats | The Kids Will Know It's Bullshit |
2017
(31st) | Polish Club | Alright Already |
2017
(31st) | The Preatures | Girlhood |
2018
(32nd) | - | - |
2018
(32nd) | Courtney Barnett | Tell Me How You Really Feel |
2018
(32nd) | Camp Cope | How to Socialise & Make Friends |
2018
(32nd) | DMA's | For Now |
2018
(32nd) | Luca Brasi | Stay |
2018
(32nd) | Middle Kids | Lost Friends |
2019
(33rd) | - | - |
2019
(33rd) | Amyl and the Sniffers | Amyl and the Sniffers |
2019
(33rd) | Holy Holy | My Own Pool of Light |
2019
(33rd) | Jimmy Barnes | My Criminal Record |
2019
(33rd) | Midnight Oil | Armistice Day: Live at the Domain, Sydney |
2019
(33rd) | Skegss | My Own Mess |
2020
(34th) | - | - |
2020
(34th) | Tame Impala | The Slow Rush |
2020
(34th) | Cold Chisel | Blood Moon |
2020
(34th) | DMA's | The Glow |
2020
(34th) | Ocean Alley | Lonely Diamond |
2020
(34th) | Violent Soho | Everything Is A-OK |
2021
(35th) | - | - |
2021
(35th) | Middle Kids | Today We're the Greatest |
2021
(35th) | AC/DC | Power Up |
2021
(35th) | Ball Park Music | Ball Park Music |
2021
(35th) | Holy Holy | Hello My Beautiful World |
2021
(35th) | Midnight Oil | The Makarrata Project |
2022
(36th) | - | - |
2022
(36th) | Amyl and the Sniffers | Comfort to Me |
2022
(36th) | Ball Park Music | Weirder & Weirder |
2022
(36th) | Gang of Youths | Angel in Realtime |
2022
(36th) | King Stingray | King Stingray |
2022
(36th) | Spacey Jane | Here Comes Everybody |
2023
(37th) | - | - |
2023
(37th) | King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava |
2023
(37th) | Bad//Dreems | Hoo Ha! |
2023
(37th) | DMA's | How Many Dreams? |
2023
(37th) | G Flip | Drummer |
2023
(37th) | Pacific Avenue | Flowers |
2024
(38th) | - | - |
2024
(38th) | Royel Otis | Pratts & Pain |
2024
(38th) | Angie McMahon | Light, Dark, Light Again |
2024
(38th) | Grinspoon | Whatever, Whatever |
2024
(38th) | King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | Flight b741 |
2024
(38th) | Middle Kids | Faith Crisis Pt 1 |
2025
(39th) | - | - |
2025
(39th) | Amyl and the Sniffers | Cartoon Darkness |
2025
(39th) | Ball Park Music | Like Love |
2025
(39th) | King Stingray | For the Dreams |
2025
(39th) | Royel Otis | Hickey |
2025
(39th) | Spacey Jane | If That Makes Sense |