The shortlist for the 2008 ABC Fiction Award has just been announced. While the genre of the novels has not been listed, I suspect that at least one will be SF/F.
Quote:
Adelaide nominee Kain Massin is a school teacher as well as a writer of speculative fiction. His shortlisted novel God for the Killing follows a nomination for an Aurealis Award for his story Escape from Stalingrad.
For more details see
http://www.abc.net.au/corp/abcfictionaward/winner.htm
Note that the first winner (2006) for this non-genre award was the horror novel
Will Elliott's
The Pilo Family Circus
http://www.infinitas.com.au/Product.php?bar=9780733319815
Cya
Dan