For the 2016 CHASS Australia Prize for a Book, the shortlisted titles are Frank Bongiorno, The Eighties: The Decade That Transformed Australia (Black Inc. Books), Klaus Neumann, Across the Seas – Australia’s Response to Refugees: A History (Black Inc. Books), and Brenda Niall, Mannix (Text Publishing). For the 2016 CHASS Australia Prize for Distinctive Work, the shortlisted entries are I Am a Miracle by Malthouse Theatre, Cut the Sky by Marrugeku Theatre, and Am I by Shaun Parker & Company. For the 2016 CHASS Australia Prize for a Future Leader, the shortlisted nominees are Dr. Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Monash University criminologist and senior lecturer, Jeffrey Jay Fowler, Black Swan State Theatre Company, and Sarah Holland-Batt, poet and writer. For the 2016 CHASS Australia Prize for a Student, the shortlisted nominees are Riddhi Blackley, Gemma Hamilton (Deakin University), and Natalie Lynch (Griffith University).