Each year, the ATTA Executive award two prestigious prizes to members of the ATTA community in recognition of their contributions to the tax arena.
ATTA HILL MEDAL
The ATTA Hill Medal was introduced in 2000 and is awarded in recognition of outstanding contributions to Australasian tax teaching and policy.
The ATTA Hill Medal is named after the late Graham Hill, a prominent figure in taxation law and former Justice of the Federal Court of Australia (from 1 February 1989 to 24 August 2005). Graham Hill was a former patron of ATTA.
Recipients of the ATTA Hill Medal include:
2024: Robin Woellner and Annette Morgan
2023: Miranda Stewart
2020: Brett Freudenberg
2019: John Taylor and Lisa Marriott
2018: Helen Hodgson
2016: Richard Edmonds
2015: Adrian Sawyer and Binh Tran-Nam
2013: Dale Pinto
2012: Kerrie Sadiq
2011: Michael Walpole and Yuri Grbich
2010: Michael Dirkis and Les Nethercott
2009: Margaret McKerchar
2008: David Smith, Phil Burgess, Patrick Gallagher, Colin Fong and Michael D'Ascenzo
2007: Cynthia Coleman, Chris Evans, Rick Krever, John Prebble and Graham Hill
2001 to 2006: No recipient
2000: Abe Greenbaum
ATTA DOCTORAL PRIZE
The ATTA Doctoral Prize was introduced in 2010 and discontinued in early 2020. It was awarded to a recently completed thesis that was judged as having currency, topical interest and particular relevance to Australia and/or New Zealand. The ATTA Doctoral Prize was initially supported by CCH and later by Oxford University Press.
Recipients of the ATTA Doctoral Prize include:
2019: John Minas
2018: Ann Kayis-Kumar
2017: Caroline Dick
2016: No recipient
2015 Theuns Steyn
2014: Fiona Marin
2013: No recipient
2012: John Bevacqua
2011: Brett Freudenberg
2010: Lisa Marriott