Australia India Council Discretionary Grant Recipients
| Recipient | Grant title | Grant description | Approval | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AIDS Council of NSW | Tour of Australia by Lakshya Trust founder, Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil | The grant is for travel and associated costs to bring the Prince to Australia to establish links between the Lakshya Trust and the AIDS Council of NSW. | 19/01/2009 | $11,000 |
| Tigereye Productions Pty Ltd | Sharing stories | The grant is for the recipient to travel to India to train young people in disadvantaged communities to use digital media to tell their own stories. The grant is for travel and associated costs. | 19/01/2009 | $11,984 |
| Lingalayam Dance Company | Rasa Unmasked | The grant is for airfares for dancers to travel from Malaysia to Chennai to perform in the Australian Dance Company performances in Chennai, Delhi and Bangalore. | 19/01/2009 | $7,150 |
Ms Sandra Bowkett |
"Crosshatched" |
Funding is to bring Indian artists to Australia for a cross cultural artist exchange program and a community cultural development program. |
9/12/2008 |
$10,000 |
Nataraj Cultural Centre |
Spirit of India 2009 |
Funding is towards the 2009 Spirit of India, presenting mandolin Virtuoso U Shrinivas and classical singer Anuradha Kuber. |
9/12/2008 |
$11,000 |
Duchenne Foundation |
"Stronger, Faster, Further through Synergy" Inaugural Indian Duchenne Conference |
Funding is to send Helen Posselt to India to make a key-note presentation at the Inaugural Indian Duchenne Conference. |
9/12/2008 |
$4,104 |
The University of Sydney |
Innovative technologies for the remediation and reuse of molasses process water |
Funding is to hold a workshop in India to evaluate versatile, low-cost, integrated treatment options targeted at the remediation of highly polluted molasses process water. |
9/12/2008 |
$11,000 |
Dr CA Cranston |
2009 AIC Fellowship, Adjunct Professor at University of Madras |
Grant is to send Dr CA Cranston on AIC Fellowship to the University of Madras |
9/12/2008 |
$4,400 |
Education.au |
Visit by Professor Uma Kanjilal |
Grant is to bring Professor Kanjilal to visit Adelaide and Canberra for knowledge exchange in ICT in Education. |
9/12/2008 |
$6,226 |
Joey Josia Laifoo |
Indigenous artist Joey Josia Laifoo |
Grant is to send Indigenous artist Joey Josia Laifoo to India as part of the “On the Edge” tour, to participate in the Jaipur Festival of Literature and a Fourm at INTACH, New Delhi. |
9/12/2008 |
$5,500 |
Burnet Institute |
2009 Train the Trainer HIV/ AIDS Program |
Grant is for an education program for Indian doctors on HIV clinical management and the use of anti-HIV drugs. |
18/11/2008 |
$50,908 |
Deakin University |
Strengthening Governance in Asia-Pacific: Public Sector Administrative Reforms and Capacity building to improve transparency and accountability" Conference |
Grant is for Professor Cox to present a key-note presentation at the Network of Asia-Pacific Schools and Institutes of Public Administration and governance international conference. |
26/11/2008 |
$3,300 |
Ms Alison Lester |
2009 AIC Authors Tour - Ms Alison Lester |
Grant is to send Australian author Alison Lester to tour India attending premier literary festivals |
9/12/2008 |
$15,000 |
Mr Michael Panckridge |
2009 AIC Authors Tour - Mr Michael Panckridge |
Grant is to send Australian author Michael Panckridge to tour India attending premier literary festivals |
9/12/2008 |
$15,000 |
Professor Tim Flannery |
Professor Tim Flannery, Climate Change Expert tour to India |
Grant is for Australian Climate change expert, Professor Tim Flannery to travel to India and give a key-note presentation, tour premier Science and Technology Centres and speak at various education institutions |
9/12/2008 |
$25,000 |
Professor Bruce Bennett |
Funding to send Professor Bruce Bennet to the National and Plurism seminar |
Grant is to send Professor Bruce Bennett to the National and Plurism seminar in India and to Education institutions for meetings for The Australian Studies program. |
21/08/2008 |
$2,396 |
Divana Films, Sofina Uberoi |
Screening and Lecture Tour |
Funding is for international airfare, internal travel, local transport, accommodation, printing and art work for publicity, postage and telecommunications for Sofina Uberoi to travel to India for a screening and lecture tour of Australian film and documentaries. |
10/10/2008 |
$5,500 |
Sharon Rundle |
Understanding ties between Australia and India in Contemporary Fiction |
Funding is for Per diems, beverages, accommodation, local travel and incidentals for Sharon Rundle to travel to India for a cross cultural literacy exchange. |
10/10/2008 |
$1,100 |
Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay, Indian Association for the study of Australia, Eastern Region |
"Landscapes and rivers: Symbolising Cultural Linkages between Australia and India", international seminar |
Funding is for seminar room hire, lunch, transport, seminar dinner, LCD projector, laptop, sound system. |
10/10/2008 |
$4,250 |
Dr Kamaljit Vilkhu |
AIC Funding towards "Ultrasonics - A Non-thermal food processing technology" |
Funding is for international airfares for Dr Vilkhu to present a keynote speech at the 6th International Food Convention in Mysore, India |
10/10/2008 |
$3,300 |
Professor Stephen Muecke, University of Technology |
AIC Funding towards "Postcolonial Strategies in Travel Writing" |
Funding is for a return international airfare from Berlin to India for Professor Stephen Muecke to present a plenary speech at the Postcolonial Strategies in Travel Writing international conference to be held at Jadavpur University |
10/10/2008 |
$1,600 |
Law Council of Australia |
AIC funding towards the Bar Council of India Study Visit |
Grant funds cover airfares, accommodation, transport, per diems, and printing and communications costs for a senior Bar Council of India delegation to travel to Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. |
10/10/08 |
$22,000 |
Mr Alan Kohler |
AIC funding towards the 2008 Australia-India Media Seminar |
Accommodation and international airfare for Mr Alan Kohler to attend the seminar |
8/10/2008 |
$3,256 |
Mr Tim Colebatch |
AIC funding towards the 2008 Australia-India Media Seminar |
Accommodation and international airfare for Mr Tim Colebatch to attend the seminar |
8/10/2008 |
$3,105 |
Professor Ian Harper |
AIC funding towards the 2008 Australia-India Media Seminar |
Accommodation for Professor Ian Harper to attend the seminar |
8/10/2008 |
$851 |
Mr Gerard Henderson |
AIC funding towards the 2008 Australia-India Media Seminar |
Accommodation for Mr Gerard Henderson whilst attending the seminar |
8/10/2008 |
$659 |
Mr Bambang Harymurti |
AIC funding towards the 2008 Australia-India Media Seminar |
Accommodation and international airfare for Mr Bambang Harymurti to attend the seminar |
8/10/2008 |
$2,166 |
Ms Jeerawat Na Thalang |
AIC funding towards the 2008 Australia-India Media Seminar |
Accommodation and international airfare for Mr Jeerawat Na Thalang to attend the seminar |
8/10/2008 |
$2,173 |
Professor Li Tao |
AIC funding towards the 2008 Australia-India Media Seminar |
Accommodation and international airfare for Professor Li Tao to attend the seminar |
8/10/2008 |
$3,083 |
Dr Denis Hew |
AIC funding towards the 2008 Australia-India Media Seminar |
Accommodation and international airfare for Dr Denis Hew to attend the seminar |
8/10/2008 |
$1,904 |
Mr Vickram Bahl |
AIC funding towards the 2008 Australia-India Media Seminar |
Domestic Airfare for Mr Vickram Bahl to attend the seminar |
8/10/2008 |
$549 |
Ms Sudha Mahalingam |
AIC funding towards the 2008 Australia-India Media Seminar |
Domestic Airfare for Ms Sudha Mahalingham to attend the seminar |
8/10/2008 |
$528 |
Mr G Chandrashekar |
AIC funding towards the 2008 Australia-India Media Seminar |
Domestic Airfare for Mr G Chandrashekhar to attend the seminar |
8/10/2008 |
$449 |
Mr Linus Lobo |
AIC funding towards the 2008 Australia-India Media Seminar |
Domestic Airfare for Mr Linus Lobo to attend the seminar |
8/10/2008 |
$473 |
Mr Jayanta Roy Chowdhury |
AIC funding towards the 2008 Australia-India Media Seminar |
Domestic Airfare for Mr Mayanta Roy Chowdhury to attend the seminar |
8/10/2008 |
$527 |
Professor Santosh Sareen |
Santosh Sareen to attend the Home and Away Colloquium |
Grant is for travel and per diems support for Professor Sareen to attend the Home and Away colloquium in Canberra |
21/08/2008 |
$1,600
|
Cricket Australia, Centre of Excellence |
Border-Gavaskar Scholarship Program |
Grant funds cover airfares, accommodation, meals, uniforms, transfers, coaching and reports for three male Indian cricket players to come to Australia and train for a period of four weeks. |
21/08/08 |
$27,500
|
Cricket Australia, Centre of Excellence |
Women's Cricket Links |
Grant funds cover airfares, accommodation, meals, uniforms, transfers, coaching and reports for two female Indian cricket players and one coach to come to Australia and train for a period of two weeks. |
21/08/08 |
$18,700
|
Monash University |
2009 AIC Australian Studies Fellowships |
Support for five Indian academics and post-graduate students to undertake up to 10 weeks undertaking research in Australia at several participating universities across Australia |
21/08/08 |
$55,000 |
Dr Paul Komesaroff Monash University |
Empowering tribal communities and improving health through modern information system technologies |
Funding is for travel and data management elements of establishing a collaboration involving health workers and specialists in information technologies in Australia and India to contribute to the health of Indian Tribal peoples. |
21/08/2008 |
$13,200 |
Professor Clare Bradford Deakin University |
Developing Children's Literature Scholarship |
Funding is for travel and per diems to travel to India for the "Bind us together: International Symposium on Global Perspectives in multicultural children's literature" and extended program. |
21/08/2008 |
$5,500
|
Dr Sasi Victoire |
On the Edge |
Funding is for travel, freight, venue hire, security, catering hanging system, accommodation and per diems to send an exhibition entitled "On the Edge" to India. |
21/08/2008 |
$10,230
|
The Textile Forum for Textile Arts Ltd |
Speaking in Stitch |
Funding is for travel costs for 6 representatives of Kala Raksha Vidhyalaya to travel to Australia and participate in the Textile forum, workshops and exhibitions and present keynote addresses at the Textile Forum. |
21/08/2008 |
$11,000
|
Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology |
Traffic - Australia and India: Movement Cities Knowledge |
Funding is for travel costs for a delegation of humanities and social science academics to travel to India for a invitation only workshop and program of public and academic events. |
21/08/2008 |
$13,200
|
The Asialink Centre, University of Melbourne |
Arts Residency Program - India 2009 |
Funds are for 4 artists in residencies, being arts management, literature, visual arts/crafts, performing arts. Grant will also contribute towards promotions, selection and committee costs for the program. |
21/08/2008 |
$33,000 |
Himachal Pradesh University |
Nation and Plurism Seminar |
Grant is for internal airfares for 4 Indian academics, accommodation for 7 Indian and Australian participants and towards the venue hire. |
21/08/2008 |
$3,500 |
Professor Richard Nile |
Nation and Plurism Seminar |
Grant is for Professor Richard Nile's return airfare to India for the conference. |
21/08/2008 |
$1,650 |
Ms Anne Doolette, Australian Qualifications Framework Council Secretariat |
Global Skills Summit |
Grant is for accommodation, international airfare, visa and insurance to send Ms Ann Doolette to India to present at the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Global Skills Summit. |
21/08/2008 |
$3,300 |
University of Canberra |
The Australia India Update Seminar |
Grant is for Mr AD Baijal, Tata Iron and Steel, to travel to Australia for the Seminar, funds for airfare and accommodation. |
21/08/2008 |
$5,500 |
Mr Geoff Page |
The Australian Authors Tour – Geoff Page |
Flights, visas, accommodation, insurance, and per diems for award-winning Australian author Geoff Page to tour India attending premier literary festivals. |
21/08/2008 |
$22,000 |
Professor CT Indra, University of Madras |
Visit to Australia by Professor CT Indra |
Domestic flights, accommodation and per diems for Professor Indra to visit Australian Studies Centres in several Australian cities |
29/04/2008 |
$3,982
|
Professor Anjoo Sharan Upadhyaya, Head, Department of Political Science, Banaras Hindu University |
Visit to Australia by Professor Anjoo Sharan Upadhyaya |
Funding toward the international flights for Professor Anjoo Sharan Upadhyaya to attend Economic Implications of Indian Diaspora Conference at Charles Darwin University. |
2/06/2008 |
$1,500
|
Kirsty Murray |
Fortifying the Marginalized: Developing Children's Literature as a New Area of Scholarship in India |
Support to freight a collection of Australian children's literature to the Children's Literature Association of India |
12/06/2008 |
$5,000 |
Lowy Institute for International Policy |
2008 Australia-India Roundtable |
Travel, accommodation, catering, hosting and management of the two day Australia-India Roundtable dialogue with the Indian Council of World Affairs |
6/06/2008 |
$38,550 |
Monash University |
2008 AIC Australian Studies Fellowships |
Support for five Indian academics and post-graduate students to undertake up to 10 weeks undertaking research in Australia at several participating universities across Australia |
5/06/2008 |
$50,000 |
South Asian Studies Association of Australia |
2008 Distinguished Lecture: Collective Claims, Rights and the Emergence of the Political Subject in India |
Travel costs to bring Professor Ranabir Samaddar to Australia to deliver the 2008 South Asia Lecture |
02/05/08 |
$4,975.00 |
Professor Marika Vicziany, Monash Asia Institute |
South Asia Studies Association Lecture - Teachers Forum |
Grant is for conference fees for 5 teachers to attend the SASA 2008 Distinguished Lecture and teacher forum |
02/05/08 |
$995.00 |
International Health Research Group, Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health |
Improving the diagnosis of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis: collaboration to trial the use of the Australian Quantification-Gold TB test. |
Three return airfares, visas, and local transport costs to send three medical staff from Melbourne to the Indra Gandhi Government Medical College to establish laboratory techniques, data collection and provide training. |
02/05/2008 |
$9,000.00 |
Pacific Film and Television Commission |
17th Brisbane International Film Festival |
Return airfare from India to Australia, accommodation, and hospitality to bring Indian Director Adool Gopalakrishnan to the festival. |
02/05/08 |
$4,000.00 |
Wildlife Disease Association Australasian Section |
Wildlife Disease and Health Management in India: Scientific Meetings with Dr Pradeep Malik in Australia |
Return airfare and accommodation costs for Dr Pradeep Malik to visit Australia to present at the Annual conference for the Australian Section of the Wildlife Disease Association and attend meetings at Zoo's and universities around Australia |
29/04/2008 |
$5,000 |
Institute for Eye Research |
Training of eyecare professionals in the management of refractive errors of the eye with optical products |
Grant is for return economy airfare from Sydney to Bhubhanesshwar and educational materials to conduct eyecare training in India. |
29/04/2008 |
$4500 |
Australia South Asia Research Centre, ANU |
2008 KR Narayanan Oration |
Travel costs to bring Dr Sunita Narain to present the 2008 KR Narayanan Oration. Grant also includes venue hire, catering, photography, advertising and oration booklet production. |
29/04/2008 |
$14,000 |
Mudra Centre for Dance |
Utsav 2008: International Celebration of Dance (was Sangam 2008) |
Return airfares from India to Australia to bring 2 performers for Utsav 2008. |
9/04/2008 |
$4,000 |
Dr David Barnes |
Kerala Centre for Environment and Development, Forth Kerala Environment Congress |
Return airfare to India, internal airfare Cochin to Delhi, Accommodation, visa, insurance and per diems for Dr David Barnes (President Australian Water Association) to travel to India to give key-note presentation and attend various meetings. |
17/03/08 |
$4,495.00 |
Australia India Business Council (AIBC) |
Australia-India Focus Newsletter |
Grant to AIBC for the production of three newsletters publicising the activities of the AIBC and the AIC |
24/04/08 |
$4,750.00 |
Dr CA Cranston |
Adjunct Faculty Award, University of Madras |
Grant is for the cost of airfares, visa, insurance, medical costs and freight costs for resources for Dr CA Cranston to participate in a two month visiting fellowhship position in Australian Studies at the University of Madras, India. |
14/12/2007 |
$2,327
|
Burnet Institute |
HIV/ Aids Train the Trainer Program (Part 1) |
Return international airfare, accommodation and per diems for Professor Suzanne Crowe to continue and expand work in the HIV train the trainer program. Professor Crowe will also present at the HIV Congress 2008 conference.
|
14/12/2007 |
$9644
|
Burnet Institute |
HIV/ Aids Train the Trainer Program (Part 2) |
Program In conjunction with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). Send Australian healthcare professionals to India to educate Indian practitioners in train the trainer programs for HIV treatment. The grant contributes towards airfares, internal travel in India, meals, freight and printing of materials, insurance, taxis and incidentals and visas. |
14/12/2007 |
$40,000 |
Cricket Australia, Centre of Excellence |
Border-Gavaskar Scholarship Program |
Grant funds cover airfares, accommodation, meals, uniforms, transfers, coaching and reports for three male Indian cricket players to come to Australia and train for a period of four weeks. |
14/12/2007 |
$25,000
|
Cricket Australia, Centre of Excellence |
Women's Cricket Links |
Grant funds cover airfares, accommodation, meals, uniforms, transfers, coaching and reports for two female Indian cricket players and one coach to come to Australia and train for a period of two weeks. |
14/12/2007 |
$17000
|
Asia Education Foundation |
Australia-India Bridge (building Partnerships through Intercultural Dialogue and Growing Engagement) Project |
Grant funds to be provided for accommodation, meals, domestic transport, briefings and lectures, cultural site visits, entrance fees and program development for phase two of the project of sending Australian educators to India. |
14/12/2007 |
$15,000 |
Biennale of Sydney |
2008 Biennale of Sydney: Revolutions - Forms that turn |
Grant towards the travel costs for four Indian artists to attend the Biennale. |
14/12/2007 |
$10,000 |
AIESEC Australia |
Australia-India Youth Entrepreneur Program (AIYEP) |
Grant funds towards the costs of learning and cultural seminars, meals and transport for volunteers and a return airfare for one AIESEC member to present a paper at conference. |
14/12/2007 |
$12,000 |
Australia Council for the Arts |
Adelaide Writers Week - Participation of Sidharth Malhotra in the Visiting International Publishers Program |
Adelaide Writers Week - Participation of Sidharth Malhotra in the Visiting International Publishers Program. |
14/12/2007 |
$3,780 |
Nossal Institute for Global Health |
Partnerships for better access to mental health care in India Program |
Grant funds are for travel, accommodation, administration and design and production of training manual for the programme. |
14/12/2007 |
$10,000 |
AusHeritage Ltd |
Innovative approaches to cost-effective, sustainable collections care for North-East Indian Museums |
Grant funds are for airfares, accommodation and miscellaneous and general expenses for 5 people to go to India for 6 days. |
14/12/2007 |
$19,000 |
Nataraj Cultural Centre Inc |
Spirit of India 2008 |
Grant funds to be used towards international airfares. |
14/12/2007 |
$10,500 |
Australia Asia Young Leaders Programme (AAYLP) |
Delegation of Young Australian Leaders to India in 2008 |
The grant funds will be used towards the costs of secretarial expenses, briefing and reporting costs. |
14/12/2007 |
$12,000 |