Alistair Hick is Monash U’s inaugural chief commercialisation officer. It is an internal appointment.

Penny Sweeting becomes Associate VC for Charles Darwin U’s Sydney campus. She moves from academic lead for the university’s NSW College of Nursing and Midwifery programme.

U Tas announces the short-list for the Dick and Joan Green history prize. * Alison Alexander, The Waking Dream of Art: Patricia Giles, Painter (Forty South) * Cassandra Pybus, Truganini: Journey through the apocalypse by (Allen and Unwin) * Jock Serong, The Burning Island  (Text).