Terry Dowling’s “La Profonde” and Margo Lanagan’s “A Pig’s Whisper” will appear in Betancourt and Wallace’s Years Best Horror 2007.

Shaun Tan wins the Silver Spectrum Award for “The Giants” from The Arrival. (Side note: A numbered print of this sits on my wall, alongside “The Four Seasons”. Talk to Justin at Slow Glass Books for your own little piece of Shaun Tan’s art.)

Jonathan Strahan’s Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy earns him his third straight starred review in Publisher’s Weekly.

At the Oscars, George Miller’s Happy Feet wins Best Animated Feature Film. Peter Templeton and Stuart Parkyn hobnob with the stars as nominees for Best Live Action Short Film and Cate Blanchett fails to capitalise on her nomination for Best Supporting Actress but wins the far more important Most Elegant Fashion on Oscars Night.

And sadly, pioneering rock singer Billy Thorpe dies of a heart attack, aged 60.