In April 1988 Williamson issued his seventh studio album, "Boomerang Café", which peaked at No. 10 on the Kent Music Report. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1989, "Boomerang Café" won his second award for Best Country Album. At the Country Music Awards of Australia in January 1989, he won 'Top Selling Album' and 'Album of the Year' for "Boomerang Café". Despite the title song's lyrics, Williamson has told concert audiences that he did not actually meet his future wife, Mary-Kay, in The Boomerang Cafe but actually by a water tank. Williamson performed at the opening of the New Parliament House. In September 1989, he issued "Warragul" (meaning dingo in the Wiradjuri language), which became his first number-one album the following month. That same year Variety Club named him 'Entertainer of the Year'.