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Annual music awards in Western Australia

Western Australian Music Industry Awards
Country	Australia
Presented by	Western Australian Music Industry Association
First award	2001; 24 years ago (2001)
Final award	Current
Website	wam.org.au

The Western Australian Music Industry Awards (commonly known as WAMis) are annual awards presented to the local contemporary music industry, put on by the Western Australian Music (WAM) industry association.

WAM was originally formed as the Western Australian Rock Music Industry Association (WARMIA) in 1985, with its primary aim of developing and running annual awards that recognise achievements within the music industry in Western Australia. WAM first received project funding from the state government in 1989, and in the early 1990s the word rock was dropped from the title to give the organisation scope to take on a broader constituency.

In 1994 the inaugural Kiss My WAMi Original Contemporary Music Festival was held. Other programs that have been undertaken include the Act of Youth series of all-ages shows, the WA Song Contest (now WAM Song of the Year), Women in Rock and an annual CD compilation of Western Australian musical artists (the first, “The Western Front”, was undertaken in 1992 and included for example The Pink Fluffy Bunnies, Allegiance and Storytime.)

The first Western Australian Music Industry Awards occurred in 2001.

The Hall of Fame recognises those members of the industry who have made an outstanding contribution to Western Australian contemporary music over their career. Various WAM awards of similar focus acknowledged this before the official WAM Hall of Fame awards came into being in 2004.^{[1][failed verification][self-published source]}

The following is a list of people who had been previously recognised through various WAM awards since 1985 and were inducted into the WAM Hall of Fame.