CHASS has announced the winners for four categories of its prestigious Australia Prizes, which were presented at the 2018 CHASS Australia Prizes Dinner in Melbourne on 29 October.

A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work by Bernadette Brennan (Text Publishing) won the 2018 CHASS Australia Prize for a Book. The Harmonic Oscillator Project (The Cad Factory) won the 2018 CHASS Australia Prize for Distinctive Work. Pichamon Yeophantong won the 2018 CHASS Australia Prize for a Future Leader. Rachel Franks (The University of Sydney) won the 2018 CHASS Australia Prize for a Student.

Other highlights of the evening included a keynote address by Katrina Sedgwick, Director and CEO of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI).