Songs for Social Justice 2024 will be the final award
The 2024 Alistair Hulett "Songs for Social Justice" winner was Paddy McHugh for his song "Hatchet in the Roof". Paddy had previously won the award in 2015 for "The Snowmen". This will be the final award from the Australian Memorial Fund. The remaining funds will be devoted to the publication of a compendium of Alister's songs.
Entries for the 2018 Songs for Social Justice Award are now invited
Entry for the 2017 Award is now closed. The winner will be announced and the winning entry performed at the closing concert of the National Folk Festival in Canberra. Entries for the 2018 Award are invited from 1 January to 31 December 2017. For more information please read the full Terms and Conditions.
2016 Songs for Social Justice Award Winner Tony Eardley
The 2016 Songs for Social Justice Award was won by Tony Eardley for 'Sally Cross The Water’, announced and performed at the final concert of the National Folk Festival in Canberra on Easter Monday. Tony’s accompanying notes provide the background to his winning entry: "Violence against women is as much of a social justice issue as any – which is at last beginning to achieve some public recognition. I was [...]
West Along The Road CDs by Jimmy Gregory for Sale
The Australian branch of the Alistair Hulett Memorial Fund is honoured to have received a number of copies of the rare CD ‘West Along The Road’ by the late, great Scottish singer/songwriter and talented musician, Jimmy Gregory, a long-time collaborator and fellow member of The Hooligans with Alistair Hulett. Jimmy’s untimely passing in 2001, at the age of only 38, cut short a prodigious musical career that had seen him [...]
Entries for the 2017 Songs for Social Justice Award are now invited
Entry for the 2016 Award is now closed. The winner will be announced and the winning entry performed at the closing concert of the National Folk Festival in Canberra on Monday 28 March, 2016. Entries for the 2017 Award are invited from 1 January to 31 December 2016. For more information please read the full Terms and Conditions.
2014 Songs for Social Justice Award Winner (Australian)
The 2014 Award was won by Miriam Jones for her song, “Post Post Feminist Revolution”. The winner was announced at the closing concert of the National Folk Festival in Canberra on 21 April 2014 and the judges made the following comments: “We were very pleased this year that entries to the 2014 Songs for Social Justice Award came from right across Australia and tackled a wide range of social justice [...]