Frank Bongiorno  (ANU) is the new president of the Australian Historical Society, Michelle Arrow (Macquarie U) is VP.

Anne Martin becomes ANU’s inaugural Professor in the Practice of Indigenous Advancement. She continues director of the university’s Tjabal Indigenous Higher Education Centre.

Susan Scott (ANU) is elected a Fellow of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation.

Molecular ecologist Bill Sherwin (UNSW) is awarded the Australian Museum Research Institute’s lifetime achievement award,