Ms SACILOTTO - 2005-08-18
The Northern Territory History Grants have been awarded since 1980 to commemorate the attainment of self-government on 1 July 1978. Can you advise the House of progress with awarding the History Grants for 2005?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I thank the member for Port Darwin for her question. I know many people in the electorate of Port Darwin are very interested in history. It is timely, with the recent commemoration of the 60th anniversary of Victory in the Pacific. Again, it highlighted the importance of studying and recording the Northern Territory’s history.
The Northern Territory government encourages the work of researchers through the Northern Territory History Grants, which are administered by the Northern Territory Archives Services. This year, there is a record number of 49 grant applications. They are considered by the History Grants Committee, which comprises Sue Harlow from Museums and Art Galleries, Professor David Carment from Charles Darwin University, and Michael Loos, a retired heritage librarian. This committee recommended a total of 18 grants be awarded, 10 to Territorians and eight to interstate applicants. The total pool was $50 000. Letters to all 49 applicants are being delivered informing them of their success or otherwise.
I am particularly pleased to place on the record the names of the 10 successful Northern Territory applicants. They are: from Darwin, I congratulate Gayle Carroll - who happens to live in the Johnston electorate, but I did not decide the awards - who will research the history of Marrenah House, the government’s women’s hostel in Darwin; Jason Davidson, who will record a Gurindji history of Stolen Generation, family and country; Stephen Gray, who will study the issue of ‘stolen wages’ in the legal context of the Northern Territory’s indigenous history; and, of particular interest to the journalists sitting in the press gallery, Julie Wells will research the ownership, management and government intervention in the Northern Territory media between 1945 and 1960; and Colin De La Rue from Palmerston will research archaeological sites at Fort Dundas.
Successful applicants from Alice Springs are: Gregory Crowe, who will record the recollections of retired Territory school principals about Northern Territory education - so the member for Braitling might get a knock on the door, as might the member for Blain; Mary Flynn, who will record oral histories from the lower Finke River region; James Goulding, who will research a history of tourism in Central Australia; Ushma Scales, who will research the lives of Central Australian ‘doggers’. I had to find out what a dogger is. They are the dingo shooters in Central Australia. The final successful Northern Territory entrant is the NT Breast Cancer Voice. The organisation will research the impact Northern Territory women have had on the national and international breast cancer movement.
I congratulate all successful applicants and I look forward to reading the results of their research next year.
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I thank the member for Port Darwin for her question. I know many people in the electorate of Port Darwin are very interested in history. It is timely, with the recent commemoration of the 60th anniversary of Victory in the Pacific. Again, it highlighted the importance of studying and recording the Northern Territory’s history.
The Northern Territory government encourages the work of researchers through the Northern Territory History Grants, which are administered by the Northern Territory Archives Services. This year, there is a record number of 49 grant applications. They are considered by the History Grants Committee, which comprises Sue Harlow from Museums and Art Galleries, Professor David Carment from Charles Darwin University, and Michael Loos, a retired heritage librarian. This committee recommended a total of 18 grants be awarded, 10 to Territorians and eight to interstate applicants. The total pool was $50 000. Letters to all 49 applicants are being delivered informing them of their success or otherwise.
I am particularly pleased to place on the record the names of the 10 successful Northern Territory applicants. They are: from Darwin, I congratulate Gayle Carroll - who happens to live in the Johnston electorate, but I did not decide the awards - who will research the history of Marrenah House, the government’s women’s hostel in Darwin; Jason Davidson, who will record a Gurindji history of Stolen Generation, family and country; Stephen Gray, who will study the issue of ‘stolen wages’ in the legal context of the Northern Territory’s indigenous history; and, of particular interest to the journalists sitting in the press gallery, Julie Wells will research the ownership, management and government intervention in the Northern Territory media between 1945 and 1960; and Colin De La Rue from Palmerston will research archaeological sites at Fort Dundas.
Successful applicants from Alice Springs are: Gregory Crowe, who will record the recollections of retired Territory school principals about Northern Territory education - so the member for Braitling might get a knock on the door, as might the member for Blain; Mary Flynn, who will record oral histories from the lower Finke River region; James Goulding, who will research a history of tourism in Central Australia; Ushma Scales, who will research the lives of Central Australian ‘doggers’. I had to find out what a dogger is. They are the dingo shooters in Central Australia. The final successful Northern Territory entrant is the NT Breast Cancer Voice. The organisation will research the impact Northern Territory women have had on the national and international breast cancer movement.
I congratulate all successful applicants and I look forward to reading the results of their research next year.
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