1975 American Song Festival Award

1976 American Song Festival Award

1986 APRA Award, “I’m Married to My Bulldog Mack”

1989 Song of the Year Golden Guitar, “We’ve Done Us Proud” (recorded by Slim Dusty)

1990 APRA Award, “A Little Further North”

1992 TSA Song-maker Award

1995 Song of the Year Golden Guitar, “Songs from the Homeland”

Album of the Year Golden Guitar, “Homeland”

Male Vocalist of the Year Golden Guitar

TSA Media Song of the Year, “Songs from the Homeland”

MO Award, Male Country Performer of the Year

1996 Song of the Year Golden Guitar, “The Great Australian Dream”

Vocal Collaboration of the Year Golden Guitar, “Slowly But Surely”

Bush Ballad Heritage Song Golden Guitar, “The Ringer and the Princess”

Video Track of the Year Golden Guitar, “The Great Australian Dream

TSA Media Song of the Year, “The Great Australian Dream”

1997 Album of the Year Golden Guitar, The Road Less Travelled

Male Vocalist of the Year Golden Guitar

ARIA Award, Best Country Album, The Road Less Travelled

MO Award, Male Country Performer of the Year

PPCA Award, Most Played Australian Country Artist (Radio)

1998 PPCA Award, Most Played Australian Country Artist (Radio)

2000 TSA Country Song of the Year, “These Uncertain Times”

Victorian Country Music Awards, Song of the Year, “These Uncertain Times”

Song of the Year Golden Guitar, “Good Things in Life” (recorded by Adam Brand)

2004 Video Track of the Year Golden Guitar, The Simple Truth”

2005 Victorian Country Music Awards, Song of the Year, “Hard Decisions”

PLUS eight other TSA song-writing awards.