ANU school of music head Ken Lampl has composed the 2018 Australian of the Year theme music while the ANU School of Art and Design has also created “iconic glass trophies” for the National Australia Day Council to give to state and territory award winners.

Professor Lampl has scores for 70 films on his CV – perhaps why this new music has a screen-epic sound to it. Now all he needs is a script for a movie about an academic adventurer, say a Nobel Prize winning VC from Missoula MT and a glass artefact, Montana Schmidt and the Icon of ANU would work.