ARIA Award for Best Indigenous Release

The ARIA Music Award for Best Indigenous Release was an award presented at the annual ARIA Music Awards. It was presented from 1987 through to 1998.[1] Originally titled Best Indigenous Record in 1987.[2] It was renamed Best Aboriginal/Islander Release in 1995.[3] From 1996 it was Best Indigenous Release.[4]

The award for Best Indigenous Release was first presented to Coloured Stone for their album Human Love. It was retired after the 1998 awards with Archie Roach winning the final award for his album Looking for Butter Boy. Roach won the award three times and Weddings Parties Anything, Yothu Yindi and Christine Anu each won it twice. In 1988 upon Midnight Oil's nomination for Best Indigenous Record, their manager Gary Morris objected to the group being put in that category by ARIA, "an Indigenous Award should go to an indigenous band."[5]

  1. ^ "Best Indigenous Release", ARIA
  2. ^ O'Grady, Anthony. "The First Annual ARIA Music Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on 16 December 2000. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  3. ^ O'Grady, Anthony. "The 9th Annual Aria Music Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on 16 December 2000. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  4. ^ O'Grady, Anthony. "The 10th Annual ARIA Music Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on 1 November 2001. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  5. ^ O'Grady, Anthony. "The 2nd Annual ARIA Music Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on 16 December 2000. Retrieved 24 October 2020.