Melissa Cunningham of The Courier (Ballarat) won the Suburban or Regional Journalism Quill for 'Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse: A path of hope to Rome'.

Highly Commended

Bridget Judd (ABC), 'Naloxone: Victoria's rising death rate prompts calls to relax restrictions on overdose "antidote"'

Finalists

Leader Community News team (Leader Community News), '$20 million win for schools'

Andrew Mole (The Riverine Herald), 'Yes I have Cancer'