| Alt Ballad Rock Ballad | | |
| Coming Home Soon | Felicity | Dowd | |
| Cowboys and Moonshine | Toria | Richings | |
| Finally Caught Up with Me | Corey | Legge | |
| Lost | Shanleigh Rose | Carey | |
| Weighed Down | Cathy | Dobson | Angus Gill |
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| Bush Ballad | | | |
| Beneath Australian Stars | Anne | Fraser | Luke Austen and Christine Eckleston |
| Big Thing in a Small Town | Dean | Perrett | Paul Ricketts and Lachie McLean |
| Coolaroo | Shelly | Jones | Shelly Jones and LesterTreuer |
| Old Flea Bitten Grey | Alice | Benfer | |
| Outback Woman | Dean | Perrett | Dean Perrett |
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| Country Blues | | | |
| City Girl | Darrin | Truran | |
| Far Gone Fifty Four | Sean | Costello | |
| Homesick Blues | Stan | Lenz | |
| Shop Til I Drop | Shelly | Jones | Lester Treuer |
| The Do I, Don’t I blues | Cathy | Dobson | Angus Gill |
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| Country Rock | | | |
| Ain’t Afraid Of Dirt | Sally | Pottinger | |
| Dead in the Water | Dennis | Comino | Kelsey Berrington |
| Firehorse | Angela | Small | |
| Rearview Mirror | Beth | Compton | |
| Ten Years In Cockatoo | Craig | Stewart | |
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| Gospel Spitiual | | | |
| Called Good | Dean | Perrett | |
| God Is Smiling | Kathy | Coleman | |
| The Backsteps | Dianne | Coombes | |
| The end of Sundowner Drive | Cathy | Dobson | |
| The Sweetest Verse | Virginia | Hermel | |
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| Local Heroes and Events | | |
| Beer Box Man | Matt | Scullion | |
| Local Hero | Peter | Campbell | Brendan Smoother and Dan Murphy |
| Long Black Skirts | Alice | Benfer | |
| The Promise | Wendy | Wood | |
| The War That Stole My Daddy’s Life | Rae | Leigh | Allan Caswell |
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| Lyrics (Only) | | | |
| Everybody Wants a Piece of Me | Russell | Leeming | |
| First Love, Last Dance | Glen | Fredericks | |
| Like my Mama Loves Tobacco | Shanleigh Rose | Carey | |
| Pistol Packin’ Mumma | Christine | Eccleston | |
| She’s a Farmer’s Wife | Kevin | Pye | |
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| TSA New Songwriter | | | |
| Colourblind | Trinity | Woodhouse |
| Give and Take | Felicity | Dowd | |
| One Stoplight Town | Beth | Compton | |
| Rearview Mirror | Beth | Compton | |
| Wild Heart | Jane | Gardiner | |
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| Novice | | | |
| Old Rocking Chair | Lucy | Beveridge | |
| Little Bird | Lucy | Beveridge | |
| The Devil Wears Cowgirl Boots | Coral | Renee | |
| Hummingbird | Darrin | Truran | |
| Roadside Flower | Brad | McKenna | |
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| Traditional | | | |
| Beer Box Man | Matt | Scullion | |
| Far Away | Jay | Turner | |
| Hillbilly Girl | Virginia | Hermel | |
| Streets and Headstones | Craig | Stewart | |
| When I Think of Home | Lindsay | Waddington | Allan Caswell |
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| Youth | | | |
| Back on the road again | Jack | Gregory | |
| Hold On | Lucy | Beveridge | |
| Little Bird | Lucy | Beveridge | |
| Old Rocking Chair | Lucy | Beveridge | |
| Side of My Heart | Ava | Bizzanelli | |
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| Open | | | |
| Aloysius | Cathy | Dobson | Angus Gill |
| His Normality | Lola | Brinton | Jason Vorherr |
| No More Pictures | John | Hudson | |
| Read a Room | Chloe | Styler | Phil Barton and Laurel Mc Lamb |
| Take It As It Comes | Sandy | Mcnaughton |
