2018 QUILL AWARDS FINALISTS

ARTWORK FEATURE WRITING Matthew Absalom-Wong, , Wrong Skin Jo Chandler, The Monthly, PNG’s Resource Curse Matt Davidson, The Sunday Age, Standing in the Way of Jane Cowan, ABC News, From Dusk to Dawn: A Night in The Control Life of a Roo Shooter Mark Stehle, Jamie Brown & Richard Lama, The Age, Into Melissa Fyfe, Good Weekend magazine, Get Cliterate the Deep: Thai Cave Rescue Margaret Simons, Inside Story, Looking for Trouble Mark Stehle, Soren Frederiksen, & Trisnadi Kurniawan, The Age, 's Traffic Flow Map - The Peak Hour Project THE GRANT HATTAM QUILL FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM BREAKING NEWS COVERAGE Rachael Brown, ABC, Trace 3AW Drive Team, Bourke Street Terror Attack Anthony Dowsley & Patrick Carlyon, Herald Sun, Lawyer X – Katherine Firkin, Network Ten, Terror on Bourke Street Truth at last Herald Sun/Sunday Herald Sun Team, Terror on Bourke Lisa Martin, Guardian , Au Pair Affair Street Nick McKenzie & Chris Masters, The Age, Special Forces Neary Ty, , Terror Raids War Crimes Exposé

BUSINESS FEATURE INNOVATION IN JOURNALISM Ben Schneiders & Royce Millar, The Age, Are We All Richard Baker, Rachael Dexter, Greg Muller & Tim Young, Prepared to Pay the Price for Proper Wages? The Age, Wrong Skin David Stringer, Kit Chellel & Franz Wild, Bloomberg Calla Wahlquist, Lorena Allam, Jack Banister & Nick Businessweek, When Rio Tinto Met China's Iron Hand Evershed, Guardian Australia, Deaths Inside David Swan, The Weekend Australian magazine, The Tom Whitty, Waleed Aly & Kate Goulopoulos, Network Ten Plotter, the Tech Titan, the Wrestler and the Lawsuit The Project, Speak, Even if Your Voice Shakes Nick Toscano, The Age, Poking Around For a New Spin THE KEITH DUNSTAN QUILL FOR COMMENTARY BUSINESS NEWS Waleed Aly, The Age Sarah Danckert, The Age, ANZ's #Metoo Scandal: Tell Us Barrie Cassidy, ABC Insiders Extra About Your Rape John Silvester, The Age Adele Ferguson, Lesley Robinson, Nassim Khadem & Lucy Tony Wright, The Age Carter, The Age/ABC Four Corners, Mongrel Bunch of Bastards NEWS PHOTOGRAPH Pat McGrath, Jeremy Story Carter & Clare Blumer, ABC Alex Coppel, Herald Sun, Saving Nima & Dawa News, Healthengine Scandal Jason Edwards, Herald Sun, Reclaim Princes Park Vigil Ben Schneiders & Royce Millar, The Sunday Age, Sour Alex Ellinghausen, The Age, Julia Banks Defects Dough: Australia's High-End Restaurant Scandal Alex Ellinghausen, The Age, National Apology

CARTOON NEWS REPORT IN WRITING John Ditchburn, The Courier, , The Media's View of Anthony Dowsley, Herald Sun, The Roberts Conviction a Police Line-Up Andrea Hamblin, Herald Sun, Victim-Blaming Magistrate in Matt Golding, The Age, Stab ... Stability Dock Jim Pavlidis, The Age, Bank Fees in Perpetuity Tammy Mills, The Age, Police Breath Test Scandal Farrah Tomazin, The Age, The Enduring Impact of COVERAGE OF AN ISSUE OR EVENT Australia’s Biggest Education Rort Melissa Cunningham & Tammy Mills, The Age, A Child, A Bride: The Hidden Story in an Unexplained Tragedy PODCASTING Anthony Dowsley, Patrick Carlyon & Chris Tinkler, Herald Richard Baker, Rachael Dexter, Greg Muller & Tim Young, Sun, Lawyer X The Age, Wrong Skin Chris Gillett, ABC 7.30, The Big Dry Eric George, Kylie Stevenson & Caroline Graham, The Miki Perkins & Clay Lucas, The Age, The Downfall of Robert Australian, Lost in Larrimah Doyle Aaron Langmaid, Herald Sun, The Hunt for AE1 Harrison Tippet & Andrew Piva, Advertiser, The FEATURES PHOTOGRAPH Unknown: The disappearance of Fred Valentich David Caird, Herald Sun, Ho, Ho, Hi Jason Edwards, Herald Sun, Thundering Hooves Justin McManus, The Sunday Age, The Last Swaggie

THE RACV TRANSPORT QUILL THE TAC TOWARDS ZERO QUILL FOR ROAD SAFETY Craig Butt, Timna Jacks & Soren Frederiksen, The Age, Peak REPORTING Hour Project Dean Felton, Seven News, Truck Blitz Timna Jacks & Rachael Dexter, The Age, Melbourne's Worst Timna Jacks, The Age, The Problem of Pedestrian Deaths on Commutes - Four Hours a Day Across Town Our Roads Clay Lucas, The Age, Transurban Fees Bonanza Jacqui Peake, Billy Lim, Martin Elliott & Warwick Ferguson, James Oaten, ABC, Melbourne's $50-Billion Suburban Rail Network Ten The Project, Train Driver Trauma Loop Risk Eating Up Spending Kieran Rooney, Herald Sun, Roads to Ruin: The Trauma Haunting RADIO JOURNALISM (LONG FORM) Jon Faine & Katrina Palmer, ABC Radio Mornings, State TV/VIDEO FEATURE (LONG FORM) Election - Leaders Debate Belinda Hawkins, Sarah Farnsworth, Mark Farnell & Peter Jane Lee, ABC Background Briefing, Death of Jeremy Hu Lewis, ABC Australian Story, The Justice Principle: Parts Gerard Whateley, 1116 Sen Whateley, Australia's Cricket One and Two Team Cheated Nick McKenzie, Ben Knight & Chris Gillett, ABC 7.30, Brutal Force RADIO JOURNALISM (SHORT FORM) Louise Milligan, Mary Fallon, Sashka Koloff & Lucy Carter, Amy Bainbridge, Rachael Brown & Naomi Selvaratnam, ABC Four Corners, I Am That Girl ABC Radio AM, Insurance Industry Reports Nick Olle, Hamish Macdonald, Josh Wedd & Sam Mularczyk, Charlotte King, ABC The World Today, Canon Law and Child Network Ten, Migrant Caravan Series Abuse Danny Tran, ABC Radio, Paedophile Legal Challenges TV/VIDEO FEATURE (SHORT FORM) Jordan Tunbridge, 3AW, FIFA World Cup Alexis Daish, Nine Network A Current Affair, Mum’s Plea Tineka Everaardt, Nine Network A Current Affair, Inside REGIONAL AND RURAL JOURNALISM Court Caleb Cluff, The Courier, Ballarat, Trouble at the Hill Luke Waters, SBS World News, This Still Happens Tyla Harrington, The Riverine Herald, Echuca Specialist School TV/VIDEO NEWS Nigel McNay, The Border Mail, Identity Cameron Baud, Seven News, Miechel Release Bridget Rollason, ABC Ballarat, Cocaine Shipment Arrest Melina Sarris, Jackie Quist & Damian Shine, Seven News, Prisoner Football Program SPORTS FEATURE Neary Ty, , Bourke Street Terror Michael Gleeson, The Age, Long May He Lead Candice Wyatt, Ten News, Lion Air Disaster Konrad Marshall, Good Weekend magazine, Don’t Box Me In THE VICHEALTH QUILL FOR COVERAGE OF WOMEN IN Konrad Marshall, Good Weekend magazine, Maxed Out SPORT John Stensholt & Max Mason, The Australian Financial Peter Lusted, ABC, Cruel 'Punishments' on Child Gymnasts Review, The Cricket Broadcast Wars – What Really Kate O’Halloran, Crikey, Backlash and the War on Women's Happened? Sport Samantha Lane, The Age, ROAR SPORTS NEWS Eliza Sewell, Herald Sun, Review Alters Flaw & Order Michael Gleeson, The Age, Tiger Tom Lynch Sam McClure, The Age, The AFL’s Game Changing Power THE VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT QUILL FOR REPORTING ON Play DISABILITY ISSUES Leo Schlink, Herald Sun, The Big Fix Gus Goswell & Lauren Day, ABC 7.30, Disability Connections Across Cultures SPORTS PHOTOGRAPH Rachael Lucas, ABC Gippsland, Access to Fashion Michael Dodge, Getty Images, Caught Red Handed Caroline Tung, Sporting Chance magazine, Alex Gale-Grime Michael Dodge, Getty Images, Stop the Pigeon Rolling in a League of Her Own Justin McManus, The Age, Kerrin McEvoy Celebrating in the Rain

SUBURBAN JOURNALISM Jordy Atkinson, Port Phillip Leader, Bringing the House Down Benjamin Millar, Maribyrnong & Hobsons Bay Star Weekly, DNA Test Triggers Visa Nightmare for Family Paul Shapiro, Maribyrnong Leader, $21m Neighbourhood House Campaign

THE STUDENT JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR THE YOUNG JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR Jack Banister, University of Melbourne, Indigenous Suicide Reid Butler, Nine News in Custody: How Have Lives Just Slipped Away? Tyla Harrington, The Riverine Herald Peter Bateman, Monash University, Walking the Poverty Matilda Marozzi, ABC Line Adrian Johnson, Monash University, Injury Cloud Over Dusty for Tigers’ AFL Premiership Defence Angus Smith, Monash University, Eight Years On: The Syrian War and its Child Refugees Selby Stewart, Monash University, Greens Investigating Candidate Rape Claim