Awards
- 1935: S. H. Prior Memorial Prize awarded by The Bulletin magazine, for Tiburon
- 1940: S. H. Prior Memorial Prize (run by the Bulletin), for The Battlers, shared with Eve Langley, The Pea-Pickers, and Malcolm Henry Ellis's "John Murtagh Macrossan lectures".
- 1942: Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for The Battlers
- 1960: Children’s Book Council Book Award for All the Proud Tribesmen
- 1980: Officer of the Order of Australia for services to literature
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