• 1985 Play Award in the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for The Blind Giant is Dancing
• 1989 Play Award in the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for Hate
• 1998 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Screenplay Best Screenplay (Adapted) for The Boys
• 2004 Australian National Playwrights' Centre (ANPC) Award for 2004
• 2004 Play Award in the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America
• 2004 AWGIE Awards
• 2004 Louis Esson Prize for Drama in the Victorian Premier's Literary Award

Plays

• The Father We Loved on a Beach by the Sea (Currency Press ; Melbourne : Playbox Theatre Company, 1983, c1980)- first performed at Brisbane's La Boite Theatre company in 1978
• Traitors (Alternative Publishing Co-operative : Nimrod Theatre Press, 1983) - first performed by the Australian Performing Group at the Pram Factory in Melbourne in 1979
• Anger's Love
• The Blind Giant is Dancing (Currency Press, 1985, c1983) - first performed Adelaide 1982
• Welcome the bright world (Nimrod Theatre Press, 1983)
• Burn Victim - first performed Sydney 1983
• Dreams in an Empty City (Currency Press in association with the State Theatre Company of South Australia, 1986) - first produced Adelaide 1986
• Hate (Currency Press in association with Playbox Theatre Company and Belvior St. Theatre, 1988) - first performed Adelaide 1986
• Miranda - first performed Adelaide 1989
• Sisters (Currency Press in association with Playbox Theatre Company Melbourne, 1991) - - first performed Melbourne 1991
• King Golgrutha - first performed Adelaide 1991
• The Garden of Granddaughters (Currency Press ; Melbourne : Playbox Theatre Centre of Monash University, 1993) - first performed Melbourne 1993
• Dust (Currency Press, 1997) - first performed Adelaide 1993
• Identity By Helen Demidenko - first performed Adelaide 1996
• The Sick Room (Currency Press in association with Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University, 1999)
• Myths Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America (2003) (
• It Just Stopped - first performed Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, UK 2004
• The Secret Death of Salvador Dalí - first performed Edinburgh Fringe 2002
• The Gates of Egypt - performed at the Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney 2007 Review
• Three Furies: Scenes From the Life of Francis Bacon (2004) - first performed Sydney Opera House as part of the Sydney Festival in January 2005
• The United States of Nothing - first performed at the Stables Theatre, Sydney 2006

Film scripts

• The Long Way Home (1985)
• Wrong World (1985) (additional dialogue)
• Isabelle Eberhardt (1991)
• True Love and Chaos (1997) (script editor)
• Let's Wait (1998) (writer and director)
• The Boys (Currency Press, 1998)
• Sydney: A Story of a City (1999)
• Foolish (1999) (additional editor)
• Chopper (2000) (script editor)
• Lost Things (2003)
• Sisters (2008) (writer and director)
• Cradlewood (2008)

Television

• "The Gillies Republic" (1986) - episodes include:

"The Bjelke-Petersen Republic"

"The Keating Republic"

"The Howard Republic"

"The Hawke Republic"

"The Singleton Republic"

"The Carleton Republic"