- Australia India Institute

The Australia India Institute, based at The University of Melbourne,
is funded by the Australian Government Department of Education and Training,
the State Government of Victoria and the University of Melbourne.
© Copyright: Australia India Institute 2015
Edited by Kog Ravindran and Chris Henning
Contents
Director’s Report
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Chair’s Report
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AII@Delhi Director’s Report
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AII@Delhi Annual Report 10
Australia India Leadership Dialogue 2015 16
Partners 18
Publications 21
Art and Culture 24
Workshops, Roundtables and Seminars 26
Indian Studies 28
Projects 30
Orations and Talks 34
Business Development 36
AII in the News 38
Director’s Outreach 40
In their Own Words 43
Patrons and Fellows 48
Governance and Staff 50
Financial Reports 53
Institute along with the Commonwealth
Government and Victorian Government, but
also with its other founding partners, La Trobe
and the University of New South Wales. I am
delighted that we have recently signed an MoU
with the Queensland University of Technology
and I am receiving very encouraging signals
from many other universities. Watch this space.
This list of objectives is by no means
exhaustive. The AII has a huge array of different
stakeholders, and among other more specific
aims of the AII are its desire to foster better
people-people understanding across the
Australia-India boundary, promote community
initiatives related to South Asia in Australia, and
sponsor exchanges between students, scholars
and others between Australia and India. I
should also mention the wonderful programme
of events that our talented Communication and
Events team are developing for next year, from
major Public Lectures on ‘Keywords for India’
to informal drop in sessions at the Institute.
I am also hoping to launch a new series of
‘Inspiring India’ lectures by prominent figures
from India and will be leading a ‘Contemporary
India Masterclass’ on India in the autumn
in Australia. These new ventures would not
be possible were it not for our small but
hardworking team who continue to deliver the
Institute’s objectives.
The NGN will be part of a broader effort to
establish the AII as a centre of ideas. I want the
AII to be internationally recognised as a place
where people can be curious, interdisciplinary,
and experiment with ideas. It will also be a
centre in which scholars, students, and others
can pause for a moment and think in rigorous
and careful ways about how the world is
changing and what consideration of India might
tell us about such transformations.
AII Director’s Note
I have had a wonderful first three months in my new role as Director and CEO
of the Australia India Institute. This is a tremendously exciting time to be
working on India and the Australia-India relationship and there is nowhere
better in the world to be studying these issues than the AII. I have received
superb support from Professor Susan Elliott at the University of Melbourne,
Mr Robert Johanson and my predecessor Professor Amitabh Mattoo.
in Australia. There are world-class academics
working on South Asia in Australia, but not
as many as there could be. Moreover, some
elements of South Asian studies have waned
in recent years, such as university support
for languages. This is an area where the AII
could take a lead and I’m delighted that several
universities have already shown an interest
in the effort I am leading to establish a ‘New
Generation Network (NGN) scholars working
on policy-relevant India-related topics in
different universities. The AII has an excellent
relationship not only with the University of
Melbourne, which is a major funder of the
I have also had the opportunity to meet a
number of other eminent individuals who have
indicated their enthusiasm for assisting in the
next stage of the AII’s development.
What should this next stage look like? This
has been the question that has preoccupied me
during my first three months. There is a tangible
sense of opportunity on every side, but how to
priorities and focus is always a challenge.
I think three key objectives can be taken
from my conversations so far. First, there is a
pressing need to revitalise South Asian studies
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A second area where we can innovate is in
the field of teaching and learning, broadly
understood. I would like to see the Institute
more involved with Masters and undergraduate
teaching and executive education for
government, businesspeople and civil society.
India is not only important in its own right as
a sixth of humanity. It is also a lens through
which to think through issues such as health,
education, and development.
Finally, I want to stress that the AII is a national
Institution. I have thoroughly enjoyed travelling
to La Trobe University and the University of
New South Wales to understand India-related
activity in these institutions. I am very excited
about the opportunities available for the AII
to catalyse India-related studies in UNSW
and La Trobe, which both contain a number
of world-class specialists on South Asia. I am
especially grateful to Ms Fiona Docherty, PVC
International at UNSW, and Professor Nick
Bisley, Director of La Trobe Asia, for all their
advice and kind assistance.
A third area where there is a real potential for
further consolidation and growth is in the
sphere of policy, inside government and in
relation to business and commercialisation.
The Government’s new Innovation Agenda
clearly priorities international cooperation and
exchange in the filed of entrepreneurship. The
AII should leverage its tremendous experience
in this area to be a leader in policy formulation
in relation to India. We could help to identify a
suitable ‘landing pad’ for Australian business
seeking to invest in India, to use the language
of the new Agenda. We could help to identify
possibilities for Australian universities
and skills providers to partner with Indian
institutions. And we could help to put business
leaders in contact with one another in Australia
and India. Much of this work is already ongoing,
a tribute to the work of Professor Mattoo.
It is difficult for someone from the UK to
immediately understand the rhythms of
Australia and a new country (for example that
it is hot at Christmas!) But I feel that I’m hitting
my stride after the first few months at the AII
and Melbourne, and I am immensely grateful to
everyone who has helped me settle in. I wish all
these people and everyone reading this report a
productive and happy 2016.
Craig Jeffrey
CEO and Director, Australia India Institute
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Chair’s Report
supported by Visy Industries in Australia and
Mahindra and Mahindra in India, provided a
platform for thought leaders to discuss and deepen
this crucial relationship. I am very much looking
forward to next year’s AILD in Melbourne.
The last 12 months have been nothing short of
momentous for the Australia India Institute. The
Institute opened its first centre in India, AII@
Delhi, held the first Australia India Leadership
Dialogue and welcomed a new Director, Professor
Craig Jeffrey, after a year-long, worldwide search.
And all this as the enormous momentum in
Australia-India relations continued from 2014,
with the two governments making major steps
to conclude the Comprehensive Economic
Cooperation Agreement. No doubt we have had
an exciting year indeed.
The arrival of Professor Craig Jeffrey in October
has opened a new era at the AII. Coming to
Melbourne from Oxford University, Craig is
an outstanding successor to Professor Amitabh
Mattoo. He is an exceptional scholar and with
him we have the chance to build the AII as one of
the world’s leading centres for the study of India.
The opening of AII@Delhi in August 2015 by
the then Minister for Education and Training,
Christopher Pyne, represents a major extension
of the Institute’s international reach. AII@
Delhi will foster collaboration between the
two countries in research, education and skills
development. The Institute also opened its first
node in Queensland, at Brisbane’s Queensland
University of Technology, to join the other two
Australian nodes at La Trobe University and the
University of New South Wales.
I’d like to thank our partners and funders, in
particular our primary funder, the Federal
Department of Education and Training. My
thanks also go to the Victorian Department of
Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and
Resources, the University of Melbourne, and
our partners at La Trobe University, QUT and
the UNSW. Finally, I’d like to thank the AII’s
staff, who have made so much happen with such
success in the last year.
I commend to you this 2015 Annual Report,
which records the Institute’s activities in detail.
I’m looking forward to even greater things in
2016.
The inaugural Australia India Leadership
Dialogue, held in New Delhi over three days in
October, brought together cabinet ministers,
senior bureaucrats, Members of Parliament,
distinguished academics and leading journalists
from both Australia and India. The AILD,
Robert Johanson
Chair, Australia India Institute
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AII@Delhi Director’s Report
In 2015 the Australia India Institute established a permanent intellectual
home in India. In the heart of India’s capital, AII@Delhi was inaugurated
by Australia’s Education Minister, the Honourable Christopher Pyne, MP,
during his visit to India in August 2015.
forces in areas of critical importance for both
countries and publishing research and policy
papers. AII@Delhi will work in partnership
with stakeholders and will expand the
partnership with other universities in Australia
and India.
AII@Delhi will serve as a centre of excellence
for the study of India and its relationship
with Australia – an institution dedicated
to fostering the relationship and deepening
the engagement between these two vibrant
democracies. Complementing the work of
the Australia India Institute in Melbourne,
AII@Delhi will focus on encouraging dialogue,
research and partnerships between the two
countries.
AII@Delhi successfully hosted the Australia
India Leadership Dialogue in 2015. The
extraordinary success of the dialogue
showed that thought leaders, policy makers,
politicians, business houses and academics
agree on the immense potential of the
Australia-India relationship. It showed too
that for a relationship to be sustained and to
The Institute will be a resource centre for
Indian and Australian academics, offering
visiting residential fellowships to researchers
from Australian universities, initiating task
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will aim to be the intellectual space where
people can meet and ideas can proliferate, so
that the Institute becomes the most soughtafter destination for the most important
conversations taking place between the
two countries.
mature, ideas matter. One needs to move from
the transactional to focus on the bigger picture.
Stable, strong and sustainable relationships are
not built merely on the possibility of mutual
gains, but on a vision of a shared future.
In a year when the relationship between the
two countries made enormous progress with
the successful conclusion of negotiations over
uranium sales and the deliberations over
the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation
Agreement entering their final stages, one can
safely say that the era of mutual schadenfreude
is truly over. While these important diplomatic
and political achievements augur well for the
future of the relationship, at the core of that
relationship are interactions between people.
I would like to thank the Commonwealth
and Victorian governments and the Australian
High Commission in New Delhi for their
unflinching support. I would also like to share
my gratitude for the continued support and
encouragement the University of Melbourne
bestowed on us in helping to establish
AII@Delhi in 2015.
Amitabh Mattoo
Honorary Director, AII@Delhi
Technology and the internet may lead us to
believe face-to-face conversations are outdated,
but we underestimate personal communication
at our peril. AII@Delhi in the coming year
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AII@Delhi Annual Report
The opening of AII@Delhi in 2015 brought several years’ work by the
Australia India Institute to fruition. AII@Delhi was launched on 18
February by the AII’s Patron, His Excellency the Hon. Alex Chernov,
AC, QC, Governor of Victoria. AII@Delhi is the Australia India
Institute’s flagship program in India. It is committed to work closely
with the Government of India, the Australian High Commission, and a
range of Indian universities and think tanks to expand the work of the
Australia India Institute.
(AILD). The AILD, held in New Delhi during
October with the support of the Australian
High Commission, the Confederation of Indian
Industries and the Australia India Institute,
brought together leading institutions for a
global exchange of experience, knowledge and
cultural learning. Delegates included cabinet
ministers, bureaucrats, Members of Parliament,
and representatives from business, industry,
education and media from both Australia and
India. This unprecedented meeting of minds
generated great enthusiasm as well as significant
exchanges of information for governments,
institutions and businesses in both countries
seeking opportunities and ways to collaborate
in the Australia-India relationship.
In August, the Hon. Christopher Pyne, MP,
Minister for Education and Training, opened
AII@Delhi’s centre at B-3/70, Safdarjung
Enclave New Delhi
AII@Delhi set for itself three priorities for its
first year.
The first was engagement. AII@Delhi worked
in partnership with existing stakeholders in
Australia and India. It expanded links with
universities in Australia. And it began work
as a resource centre for Indian and Australian
academics and businesspeople.
The second priority was research. Here, AII@
Delhi’s first task was to research the major
groups and stakeholders formulating policies
in both Australia and India. It went further,
examining the feasibility of AII task forces
on critical areas of common interest for both
countries. It also worked on the publication
and dissemination of researched policy papers
on emerging challenges, and will shortly open
residential fellowships to researchers from
Australian universities in 2016.
The centre organised other events during the
year besides the AILD. In May the Alfred
Deakin Memorial Lecture was delivered
by the foreign editor of The Australian,
Mr Greg Sheridan, who spoke on The Rise of
China: Consequences for India and Australia.
The Macarthur workshop, led by Dr David
Brewster, of ANU, discussed India-China at Sea:
Competition and Coexistence. AII@Delhi also
organised a webinar with the new Director of
the Australia India Institute, Prof. Craig Jeffrey,
who spoke on India’s demographic dividend.
The third priority was dialogue. Part of AII@
Delhi’s function is to sustain a track-two
strategic dialogue between Australia and India.
To that end, AII@Delhi organised an annual
forum for leaders in higher education, and
also, as the centerpiece of its year, set up the
inaugural Australia India Leadership Dialogue
AII@Delhi was simultaneously engaged with
activities for the Chaophraya Dialogue – policy
roundtables, taskforce meetings, dialogues,
briefings and the distinguished lecture series.
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The Hon Christopher Pyne MP inaugurating the AII@Delhi offices in August
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Among the most notable were the 16th and 17th
dialogues, held in Bangkok, Thailand, during
August and December. The 16th Chaophraya
Dialogue hosted senior interlocutors from
India and Pakistan, and the 17th invited senior
journalists to review recent developments
and the bilateral relationship between the two
states. Recommendations and joint resolutions
were formulated which aimed to increase
transnational engagement.
Interaction with Asialink
14 April 2015
AII@Delhi hosted a roundtable interaction with
Asialink at the Taj, New Delhi. The meeting
included: Julia Fraser, Asialink’s co-director
Australia and Asia Mental Health; Prof Ian
Everall, Department of Psychiatry, University of
Melbourne; Vikas Gujral, Max Life Insurance;
Keshav Desiraju, former secretary of India’s
Health Ministry; Dr Rajesh Sagar, Department
of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical
Sciences; Ruchira Gujral, UNICEF. They
discussed issues related to mental health and the
prospects for collaboration between institutions
in Australia and India.
AII Emerging Leaders Fellow’s
alumni lunch
18 February 2015
The first Emerging Leaders Fellows (ELF)
alumni event was held on Wednesday, 18
February in New Delhi to coincide with the
launch of AII@Delhi.
Alfred Deakin Memorial Lecture
5 May 2015
AII@Delhi organised the Alfred Deakin
Memorial Lecture, given by Greg Sheridan, of
The Australian, who spoke on The rise of China:
Consequences for India and Australia. The
event attracted an audience of more than 70
senior diplomats, media personnel, think-tank
representatives, academics and students from
India and Australia.
ELF alumni are an outstanding group of midcareer Indian professionals. Since 2012 Fellows
have been based at the Australia India Institute
in Melbourne for their tenure, which culminates
in a research paper and public lecture. ELFs
contribute regularly to the program of the
institute and their presence enriches the
University of Melbourne through the academic
research undertaken across a wide range of
disciplines.
MPs’ visit (Luke Foley MP and
Daniel Mookhey MLC)
This private event was attended by several
diplomats, as well as the Patron of the Institute,
His Excellency the Hon. Alex Chernov, AC,
QC, Governor of Victoria, who also launched
volumes two and three of the Emerging Leaders’
Reports at the lunch.
15 June 2015
The AII @ Delhi hosted a dinner for a visiting
delegation of Members of Parliament from New
South Wales. The delegation included Mr Luke
Foley and Mr Daniel Mookhey. Mr Foley is the
Leader of Opposition in New South Wales and
leader of the New South Wales branch of the
Australian Labor Party. Mr Mookhey is a Labor
member of the New South Wales Legislative
Council and the first parliamentarian in
Australian history to be sworn into office on
the Bhagavad Gita. Over dinner both men
emphasised the importance of people-to-people
relations between the two countries, as Indians
are one of the largest populations in Australia
and New South Wales.
Australia India Council visit
AII@Delhi
18 March 2015
AII@Delhi hosted the Australia India
Council’s board members for a meet-and-greet
roundtable. The roundtable took place in Delhi
on 18 March 2015. Australia-India Council
board members are appointed by Australia’s
Minister for Foreign Affairs.
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AII@Delhi staff with The Hon Christopher Pyne MP
The panelists were: Mr Foley; Mr Mookhey;
Amb. Lalit Mansingh (former Indian foreign
secretary); Amb. Jayant Prasad (former Indian
high commissioner to Afghanistan, Nepal);
Mr Chris Elstoft (Australia’s Deputy High
Commissioner to India); Mr Ari Nagar (Political
Section, Australian High Commission) and Dr
Amanda Day (Education Counsellor).
“The inauguration … of the Institute’s New
Delhi centre is an important milestone as it
is the first offshore representation from its
base at the University of Melbourne in
Victoria,” he said.
Inauguration of AII@Delhi premises
“The Institute plays a crucial role in
strengthening the relationship in education and
research between Australia and India, and the
New Delhi centre can only strengthen this.”
23 August 2015
Panel discussion at JNU
The Minister for Education and Training, the
Hon. Christopher Pyne, MP, officially opened
AII@Delhi’s offices during a visit to the site on
23 August..
24 August 2015
AII@Delhi , with the Jawaharlal Nehru
University (JNU) organised a panel discussion
on August 2015 between Australia’s Education
Minister, Christopher Pyne; Adam Gilchrist,
Education Ambassador; the head of AII@Delhi,
Prof. Amitabh Mattoo, and the rector of JNU,
Prof. Sudha Pai. The event accompanied the
signing of a memorandum of understanding
between JNU and the Australian Government.
Mr Pyne said expanding the Institute to
the subcontinent would help strengthen the
growing education and research bonds between
Australia and India.
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After welcomes from the dialogue co-patrons,
Mr Anthony Pratt, of Visy Industries, and
Mr Anand Mahindra, of Mahindra and
Mahindra, the co-chair of the dialogue, Prof.
Amitabh Mattoo told delegates that every
idea needed a platform where intelligent and
creative conversations could take place. The
AILD aimed to provide exactly that forum for
thought leaders from Australia and India to
discuss and enrich one of the most important
partnerships of the 21st century. Issues ranging
from domestic politics, trade, services and
security architecture for the Indo-Pacific region
were discussed. Particular optimism was
expressed about the Comprehensive Economic
Cooperation Agreement (CECA), expected to be
concluded soon.
Dr Amit Gupta talk on US, China and
the Indo-Pacific
10 September 2015
Dr Amit Gupta, an associate professor in the
Department of International Security Studies,
USAF Air War College, Alabama, delivered
a talk on US, China and the Indo-Pacific
in September in New Delhi. He provided a
socio-economic and political forecast based on
contemporary trends, and highlighted the role
of the US and China in the region.
Dr David Brewster talk on
India-China at sea
23 October 2015
AII @ Delhi and the Macarthur Foundation
organised a full-day conference on IndiaChina at Sea: Competition and Coexistence. The
panellists included Professor Swaran Singh,
Jawaharlal Nehru University; Commander
Abhijit Singh, Institute for Defence Studies
and Analyses; Commodore C. Uday Bhaskar,
Society for Policy Studies; and Dr Jabin
Jacob, Institute of China Studies. Some of the
key issues discussed were: the India-China
relationship in the maritime domain, the
impact of India’s new strategic partnerships in
the Indo-Pacific, possible future scenarios for
the Indian Ocean balance of power, and the
Indo-Pacific security structures’ responses to
these issues.
Venue
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AII Emerging Leaders
Fellow’s Alumni Lunch
Private
Ashok Malik (Senior Journalist
among other attendees
India International
Centre
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Launch of AII@Delhi
Private
Guest of honour, Alex Churnov
(Governor of Victoria) among
other dignitaries
Taj Hotel, Mansingh
Road
Interaction with Asialink
Private
Julia Fraser (Associate Director,
Asia link University of Melbourne
and co-Director Asia Australia
Mental Health) and Prof Ian
Everall (Head of Department
of Psychiatry, University of
Melbourne)
Taj Hotel, Mansingh
Road
Alfred Deakin Memorial
Lecture
Public Lecture
Greg Sheridan (Foreign Editor,
The Australian)
Conference I, India
International Centre
April
14
May
5
23
Inauguration of
AII@Delhi Premises
Private
Christopher Pyne (Minister for
Education) among other Australian
delegates and the British High
Commission
AII@Delhi
Conference Room
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Delegation interaction at
JNU
Public Lecture
Adam Gilchrist (Education
Ambassador), Christopher Pyne
(Minister for Education) & the Vice
Chancellor, JNU
Jawaharlal Nehru
University
Public Lecture
Dr Amit Gupta (Professor, Air War
college, US)
AII@Delhi
Conference Room
On 23 November 2015, the AII@Delhi office
live-streamed Prof. Craig Jeffrey’s lecture Can
India benefit from its demographic dividend?
to an audience at the AII Conference Room,
New Delhi. Notable participants included
Ms Amanda Day, Mr Hamish McDonald, Mr
Ben Sakkar Kelly, Mr Shaun Star, Mr Sushil
Aaron and Mr Prakash Nanda. Among those
who attended or provided feedback were Amb.
Sheelkant Sharma, Amb. Lalit Mansingh, Amb.
Navrekha Sharma, Mr Uttam Kumar Sinha,
Prof. Sreemati Chakrabarti, Mr Bhairabi Prasad
Sahu and General Ramesh Chopra.
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Speaker(s)
27 October 2015
23 November 2015
The inaugural Australia India Leadership
Dialogue was held in New Delhi from 25 to 27
October 2015. The participants, including cabinet
ministers, bureaucrats, Members of Parliament,
people from business, industry, education
and the media from both Australia and India
discussed the prospects for the Australia-India
relationship and ways to strengthen it further.
Format of Event
June
Prof Craig Jeffrey: Can India benefit
from its demographic dividend?
25–27 October 2015
Title
February
Australian delegation visit to Kashmir
A delegation of Australian political leaders,
academics, journalists and diplomats visited
Srinagar and met the Chief Minister of Jammu
and Kashmir. They discussed various issues
in which the state could collaborate with
Australian states in horticulture, agriculture,
education and skills training.
Australia India Leadership Dialogue
Date
September
10
US, China and the IndoPacific"
October
23
India-China at Sea:
Competition and
Coexistence"
Public Lecture
Dr David Brewster
(Research Scholar, ANU)
Maple Room, India
Habitat Centre
27
Australian Delegation
Visit to Kashmir
Private
Australian delegation that included
cabinet ministers, bureaucrats,
members of the Parliament,
business heads, etc
Kashmir
Live Stream
Professor Craig Jeffrey
(AII CEO & Director)
AII@Delhi
Conference Room
November
23
Can India Benefit from its
Demographic Dividend?”
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Australia India Leadership Dialogue 2015
Cabinet ministers, senior bureaucrats, members of Parliament,
business leaders distinguished academics and leading journalists
from both Australia and India came together in New Delhi in October
2015 for the inaugural Australia India Leadership Dialogue. The
Dialogue, held from the 25th to the 27th of October 2015, discussed
the prospects for the Australia-India relationship, and how it can be
strengthened further.
initiative wherein the two countries with
shared values and a trust-based relationship
can work together in maximizing the economic
opportunities and minimizing the security risks
The Dialogue’s co-patrons, Anthony Pratt,
Global Chairman of Visy Industries, and Anand
Mahindra, Chairman and Managing Director
of Mahindra and Mahindra first welcomed
the 50 delegates. The co-chair of the Dialogue,
Professor Amitabh Mattoo, of the Australia
India Institute, told the group that although
the idea of an Australia-India relationship
had now arrived, for any such idea to come
to fruition, a platform was needed where
intelligent and creative conversations could
take place. The AILD, he said, aimed to provide
just such a forum, where thought leaders from
both countries could discuss and enrich one
of the most important partnerships of the 21st
century.
With more than 60,000 young Indians now
studying in Australia, education is a central
point of contact between the countries. Three
areas came in for particular mention: student
mobility, research, and vocational training. The
delegates agreed more effort should be put into
setting up collaborative projects, scholarships,
and training programs.
On infrastructure and investment, delegates
agreed that India, with its favourable growth
structure, is one of the region’s best markets
in which to invest at the moment. They were
also of the opinion that India should replicate
the investor model of Australia, which is very
sound, and Australia should share its knowledge
to help best practices for investors in India. In
mining too, Australian companies could help
Indian mining companies to increase their
productivity by making them familiar with
modern technological practices.
The discussions that followed over the three
days of the Dialogue covered a host of issues,
including domestic politics, trade, services
education and the security architecture
for the Indo-Pacific. Many delegates
expressed optimism about the potential of
the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation
Agreement (CECA) currently being negotiated
by New Delhi and Canberra. Officials from both
sides were confident the negotiations would
conclude soon.
Research and development was identified as
another areas where cooperation between the
systems in the two countries has enormous
potential. This is especially so in agriculture,
where new technology could deliver longterm benefits to farmers to in both countries.
The Australian Centre for International
Agricultural Research (ACIAR) already
The dialogue’s other co-chair Ross Fitzgerald
said, the centre of global economic and political
gravity is shifting to the Indo-Pacific region
and working with India offers the greatest
opportunity in the world to make a difference.
It is in this context the AILD is an important
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[L-R] Senator The Hon. Lisa Singh, The Hon. Chris Bowen MP, Senator The Hon. Penny Wong, The Hon. Gai Brodtman
MP at the Australia India Leadership Dialogue
intellectuals in India and Australia on the
very nature of leadership. It might allow the
elaboration of an idea of leadership, which is
collective and distributed through multiple
social networks. It might draw young people
into the conversation about leadership, and
the nature of power and its distribution, and
might thereby lead them to think about the
importance of making economic growth
inclusive.
shares with developing countries in the IndoPacific its expertise in productive, sustainable
agricultural practices. Given the large capacity
of India’s research systems, similar collaborative
innovation arrangements should be developed
in other fields within the public and private
sectors of India and Australia.
Members of Parliament from both countries
agreed there is strong bipartisan support for
stronger Australia India relations. The AILD
was seen as providing a great opportunity
to strengthen the relationship further. They
expressed the hope that both Prime Minister
Turnbull and Prime Minister Modi would
carry on the good work of their predecessors
and continue to build on this very important
relationship.
Delegates acknowledged the rich history of the
Australia India relationship, and the substantial
place India occupies in the Australian psyche.
They applauded the substantial nature of the
dialogue, which had taken place, and the
goodwill of those who believe in the AustraliaIndia relationship, which, they felt, would
enable bilateral relations at all levels to grow and
strengthen.
Lastly, delegates reflected on the Dialogue
itself. The Dialogue was seen as a forum, which
would make discussion possible among public
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Partners
2014 was a watershed year in Australia-India
relations. Not only had Modi and Abbott struck
up a great rapport, the two countries’ economic,
strategic and political stars appeared finally to
have aligned. But have all the roadblocks been
cleared, and do their interests align in quite the
way the optimists think?
La Trobe University
La Trobe University’s engagement with India
continues to develop across the university,
supported by La Trobe Asia and the partnership
with the Australia India Institute (AII).
Public events
In 2015, La Trobe Asia and the AII worked
together to present four events.
Other events
A symposium which allowed researchers
working in Indian countries or through Indian
collaborations to present their work. The
presenters were Professor Nick Bisley, who
explained La Trobe’s approach to Asia; Dr
Markendaya Jois (Plant and Soil Sciences) and Dr
Sharon Croxford (Rehab, Nutrition and Sport)
on their joint study with JSS University, Mysore,
on culinary herbs which reduce blood pressure;
Dr Ian Woolford (Hindi Studies, La Trobe
University) on his research on Hindi, English,
and the 21st century university; and Associate
Professor Peter Sale (Plant and Soil Sciences) on
the New Colombo Plan study tour by La Trobe
University agricultural science students.
An intimate round table with Professor T.V.
Paul from McGill University, Canada. Professor
Paul presented research for his current book
project Restraining great powers: Soft balancing
in world politics.
A round table with Professor Ashis Nandy, who
spoke on the topic Studying mass violence from
a distance of 50 years.
A panel in Canberra on Australia-India
relations. The speakers – Dr Meg Gurry, John
McCarthy, Professor Ian Hall, and chair
Professor Nick Bisley – explored the challenges
facing Australia’s relationship with India,
the extent to which these continue and the
continuing need to work hard on both sides to
improve links not just between Canberra and
Delhi but between our wider societies. The
audience – senior bureaucrats, former high
commissioners to India, academics and students
– then engaged in a rich discussion which
highlighted the need for more people-to-people
links and the limits to how far governments
can improve things. Universities, businesses,
think-tanks, civil society groups and other
non-government actors can do much to create
mutually beneficial links between the two
countries. The event was a great success; a repeat
has been requested in 2016.
A public lecture by Dr Kumar Vishwas, the
Hindi poet and political leader. Dr Vishwas
spoke on the place of poetry in Indian culture,
drawing on his own experience as a well-known
performer at Hindi poetry gatherings. The
lecture covered wide poetic ground – from
the relationship between folk and literary
traditions, to Hindi satirists and their critiques
of government, to the three generations of
women in Dr Vishwas’s own family who have
sung Tulsidas’s devotional verses.
A conference South Asia – Citywide (Melbourne
South Asia Studies Group) with Professor Craig
Jeffrey (Director, AII) as keynote speaker.
Professor Jeffrey commented, “It was exciting
to learn about the South Asia-related research
of so many graduate students working across
Melbourne … It’s the type of event that reminds
me why I became an academic.”
Professor Nick Bisley (Executive Director,
La Trobe Asia) presented a Tiffin Talk on the
relationship between Australia and India.
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Research
La Trobe Asia has continued to support
research with a small grant awarded to Seema
Miglani and Professor Kamran Ahmed, for
their work on Corporate governance, executive
compensation and Indian business groups:
Evidence from an emerging economy. Other
research at La Trobe includes agriculture,
language and literature, linguistics, business,
water, diabetes and heart disease.
time they had left Australia. The students
spent 12 days visiting farming districts
in Karnataka state, studying farming
techniques and interviewing farmers about
the challenges they face.
Queensland University of Technology
QUT’s engagement with India, which continues
to deepen across the university, was highlighted
this year by its partnership with the Australia
India Institute. QUT became the Queensland
node of AII on 13 August 2015.
La Trobe University will lead a joint La Trobe
Asia-AII research project on Australia-India
research collaborations for the Department of
Education and Training (DET). John Bayliss
has been appointed to undertake the project
which will map research collaborations with
India across all institutions in Australia. It
will also include case studies of best practice
in developing successful partnerships and
recommendations about institutions (largely
Indian) to be supported. The project will be
completed by mid-2016.
To acknowledge this strategic partnership, QUT
hosted its first Tiffin Talk at the QUT Executive
Education Centre on 5 November. The Executive
Dean of QUT’s Business School, Professor
Robina Xavier, welcomed guests – among them
the new director of AII, Professor Craig Jeffrey –
highlighting the new relationship with AII, and
its promotion of business and cultural relations
between Australia and India.
The guest speaker for the Tiffin Talk was Aurizon’s
Managing Director and CEO, Lance Hockridge.
Student experience
La Trobe University’s mobility projects continued
in 2015, allowing students to experience India at
first hand. Highlights included:
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Lance spoke of his enduring personal interest
and association with India, fostered by
regular visits over more than 20 years. His
company, Aurizon, is also looking to expand its
relationship with India.
Two nursing students completed
placements in India.
One student from the urban planning
program in Bendigo completed an
internship in Mumbai with Australia
India Council
The inaugural Punjab Kings Cricket
Internship kicked off with seven sports
management/sport journalism students
travelling for six weeks through India.
20 students from degree courses in
agriculture, agriculture/business and
agriculture/international development
participated in a study tour in India with
the University of Agricultural Sciences,
Bangalore. For 17 of them, it was the first
Lance also said that in the first half of 2015,
India had eclipsed Japan and China as the single
largest market for metallurgical coal. This is
expected to increase significantly over coming
years. Even more interesting, he said, was that
in 1799, Australia’s very first export of coal was
to Bengal, India, from Newcastle, NSW.
The Tiffin Talk was well received. Following
this initial success, QUT, through its Graduate
School of Business, is planning a new series of
events in 2016.
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continued sponsorship of the Australia-India
Youth Dialogue and support for federal bilateral
engagement. UNSW’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor
Academic, Professor Iain Martin, accompanied
the then federal Minister for Education and
Training, The Hon. Christopher Pyne, MP,
as part of an Australian education mission to
India in August 2015. The mission included
discussions with stakeholders in the AustraliaIndia education and research partnership,
which allowed UNSW to promote the AII
Node’s activity in Sydney.
University of New South Wales
The Gandhi Oration was the University of
NSW’s first major AII event for 2015. Hosted
on 30 January on campus by the Patron of
UNSW’s AII Node, Dr Neville Roach, AO, the
2015 Gandhi Oration featured a conversation
with the Mahatma’s granddaughter, Ela
Gandhi, herself a well-known politician and
anti-violence activist. More than 300 guests
attended a remembrance ceremony marking
Gandhi’s assassination, and 900 attended
the dialogue that followed. The oration was
sponsored again by Tata Consulting Services
and attracted representatives of the Australian
and Indian Governments as well as business and
community leaders based in Sydney.
Finally, UNSW’s new President and Vice
Chancellor, Professor Ian Jacobs, formally
welcomed the Director of the Australia India
Institute, Professor Craig Jeffrey, to campus in
November. During that meeting UNSW was
delighted to be formally invited to rejoin the
Board of the AII. UNSW undertook to support
several initiatives for 2016 including the AII
Masterclass, the New Generation Network of
Postdoctoral Fellows, and the AII Fellowships.
The success of the Gandhi Oration prompted
UNSW to explore further opportunities to
collaborate with Sydney-based organisations,
which resulted in a fresh approach to the
Gandhi Jayanti event in October. Held at the
Art Gallery of NSW in conjunction with the
University of Sydney, the event showcased a
monumental artwork, Public Notice 2007, by
the Indian artist Jitish Kallat. The work is a
rendering letter by letter of Gandhi’s speech
on the eve of the Dandi march. The letters are
cast in fibreglass and resemble bones. Public
Notice 2007 provided a thought-provoking
backdrop to a panel discussion of Gandhi’s
statement ‘No culture can live if it attempts to
be exclusive’. The event was moderated by the
gallery’s deputy director, Suhanya Raffel, and
included the UNSW author and journalist John
Zubrzycki and the University of Sydney political
economist Dr Elizabeth Hill as well as student
representatives.
[L-R] High Commissioner of India in Australia, His Excellency Navdeep Suri, Chairman of the AII, Robert Johanson
launching ‘Emerging Leaders’ Report, Volume 4’.
Publications
Books
Amitabh Mattoo and Souresh Roy, IndiaAustralia Relations in the Asian Century:
Perspectives From India and Australia, Manohar
Publishers, New Delhi, 2014
Amitabh Mattoo, The Reluctant Superpower:
Understanding India and its Aspirations,
Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2012
Happymon Jacob, Domestic Politics, Strategic
Culture and Indian Foreign Policy, Manohar
Publishers, New Delhi, 2014
Amitabh Mattoo and Happymon Jacob, New
Directions in Indian Foreign Policy, Manohar
Publishers, New Delhi, 2014
Happymon Jacob and Mallika Joseph, India’s
Economic Growth: Opportunities and
Challenges for the Region, Manohar Publishers,
New Delhi, 2014
Later the Deputy Vice Chancellors and Pro
Vice Chancellors (International) for New South
Wales met the Consul General for India, Mr
Sanjay Sudhir, to discuss ways the AII might
become a more active node for the state. This
will be a development priority for the AII Node
@ UNSW for 2016–17.
Marlene Kanga and Amitabh Mattoo,
Hullabaloo: The Fuss About the India-Australia
Relationship, Australia India Institute,
Melbourne, 2014
Mallika Joseph, Demography in South Asia and
Implications for Regional and Global Political
Narratives, Manohar Publishers, New Delhi,
2014
Meg Gurry, Australia and India: Mapping the
Journey 1944-2014, Melbourne University Press,
2015
Forthcoming titles
Amitabh Mattoo and Mallika Joseph, Rise of
China and India: Implications for the AsiaPacific, Manohar Publishers, New Delhi, 2014
Other community outreach work included
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Amitabh Mattoo, Deconstructing the
Argumentative Indian, Melbourne University
Press, 2016
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Author Meg Gurry at the launch of her book ‘Australia and India: Mapping the Journey 1944-2014’
Emerging Leaders Reports
Fearless Nadia Occasional Papers
Beginning in 2011, the Emerging Leaders
Fellowship Program has brought a bright array
of mid-career professionals and academics to
spend up to eight weeks each at the Institute.
The Fearless Nadia Occasional Papers are
original essays commissioned by the Australia
India Institute focusing on various aspects of
the relationship between India and Australia.
Harsh Shrivastava, Rajib Maity. Ashok Malik
and Mandira Kala, Emerging Leaders’ Report
Volume Two
Fearless Nadia (1908–1996) was an Australian
actress who began her career working in the
Zarko circus and eventually became a celebrated
star of Hindi films in India. Fearless Nadia
brought a new joie de vivre and chutzpah to
Indian cinema with her breathtaking stunts.
Harsh V Pant, Prasenjit Kundu, Pawan Agarwal
and Rakesh Ranjan, Emerging Leaders’ Report
Volume Three
The Idea of Australia in Indian Media, by Jane
Rankin-Reid
Arumugam Aramvalarthanathan, Kumar V
Pratap, Susan George, Happymon Jacob, Sharda
Ugra Emerging Leaders’ Report Volume Four
Fawad Ahmed And The Vanishing Of Billy
Birmingham: How Ethnic Diversity And The
South Asian Diaspora Became Front And Centre
In Australian Cricket Policy by Sharda Ugra
Varghese K George, KP Sudheer, Dr Aprajita
Kashyap, Balaji Parthasarathy Emerging
Leaders’ Report Volume Five
Rajshree Chandra, Arvind Shrivastava, Rajesh
Santhanam, Nirupama Subramanian Emerging
Leaders’ Report Volume Six
[L-R] Cricketer Rahul Dravid, Journalist Sharda Ugra launching a ‘Fearless Nadia’ paper.
Ashis Jalote Parmar, Ansuman Pattnaik, Iltija
Javed Emerging Leaders’ Report Volume Seven
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Musician Chandana Dixit delivering her lecture in June
Author and publisher Urvashi Butali speaking in June
Arts and Culture - Highlights
tanslated by Shruti Nargundkar. Butalia, whose
publishing house works exclusively with female
writers in India deconstructed the process and
challenges she faces on a day to day basis. “The
women we publish are also not necessarily
literary women, not women for whom writing
comes naturally and as a first activity, but
they have something to say and their lives are
important for us to hear about and to publish,”
she said.
Chandana Dixit – The Stylistic
Evolution of Indian Music
In July, the Institute hosted Indian playback
singer Chandana Dixit. Dixit, who is now based
in the United States, delivered a fascinating
presentation tracing the tribal roots of Indian
music and the varying features that have come
to characterise the music India’s different
regions. She argued that Indian music and
spiritually worked together like hand in glove.
“Sound is the basis of all our spirituality,”
Dixit said. The audience was treated to several
stunning vocal demonstrations before she went
on to explain the way in which the audio-visual
medium had propelled Bollywood music.
Australia India Institute Film Series
In 2015, the Institute presented a unique
film series that highlighted the cultural and
cinematic links between India and Australia.
The series was curated by director and producer
Anupam Sharma. Films for the series included
2001’s Dil Chahta Hai, the first Bollywood
movie to filmed extensively in Australia and
Aashiqui (1990), a film that is often credited
with the resurgence of music-based romantic
films in the 1990s.
Urvashi Butalia – Translating Women’s
Voices in India
Feminist writer, publisher and founder of
Zubaan Books, Urvashi Butalia spoke at the
Institute to launch A Rag Doll After My Heart
(2015), a poetic novel by Anuradha Vaidya
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Fearless Nadia Launch with Rahul
Dravid
Book Launch: The Indian Diaspora:
Hindus and Sikhs in Australia
On the eve of the 2015 ICC Cricket World
Cup final in Melbourne, cricketing legend
Rahul Dravid joined the Institute in launching
journalist Sharda Ugra’s Fearless Nadia paper
Fawad Ahmed And The Vanishing Of Billy
Birmingham: How Ethnic Diversity And The
South Asian Diaspora Became Front And Centre
In Australian Cricket Policy. The paper was
written during Ugra’s time as an Emerging
Leader Fellow at the Australia India Institute
in 2013. “This paper looks at how Cricket
Australia is dealing with the country’s changing
migrant population and the growing south
Asians population that arrive in Australia who
understand cricket, who know cricket and are
ready to play cricket,” Ugra said at the launch.
Professor Purushottama Bilimoria and Mr
Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat, Authors
In June, the Institute hosted the book launch
of The Indian Diaspora Hindus and Sikhs
in Australia by written by Institute fellow
Professor Purushottama Bilimoria and authors
Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat and Phillip Hughes.
Drawing upon a range of case studies collected
over 20 years, the book offers a narrative for
theologies, identities, practices and rituals in
the Indian community particularly the Sikh and
Hindu communities. The book was launched by
the Consul General of India (Melbourne) Ms
Manika Jain and Professor Fazal Rizvi from the
University of Melbourne who said ‘diaspora is
something through which we define ourselves,’
during his introduction.
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[L-R] Mike Moignard and Rohini Kappadath at the Australia India Automotive Roundtable
High Commissioner of Australia in India, His Excellency Patrick Suckling
Workshops, Roundtables and Seminars - Highlights
well in foreign policy and done poorly in
domestic economic development,” said Dhume.
He also argued that there was a limit to his
early push for clean and eco-friendly India.
“The environment is a concern, but Modi is not
willing to sacrifice the strong consensus that the
country needs to industrialise,” said Dhume. He
also argued that while there had been a change
for the better in political corruption much more
needed to be done when it came to campaign
financing.
Studying Mass Violence from a Distance
of 50 Years with Professor Ashish Nandy
Political psychologist, social theorist, and critic
Professor Ashish Nandy visited the Institute
in March for our first roundtable discussion
for the year. Among the topics explored on the
day, Professor Nandy discussed the nature of
genocide, arguing the term itself had been used
incorrectly since the end second world war.
“The term ‘genocide’ itself has a certain prestige
value attached to it. Such that if a killing is not
a genocide it is not considered a proper killing.”
The event was strongly attended with a host of
University PhD candidates present on the day.
Roundtable Discussion with His
Excellency Navdeep Suri
The Institute was honoured to welcome the
new High Commissioner of India to Australia,
His Excellency Navdeep Suri. Mr. Suri joined
the Indian Foreign Service in 1983 and has
served in India’s diplomatic missions in Cairo,
Damascus, Washington, Dar es Salaam and
London and as India’s Consul General in
Johannesburg. Mr Suri took the opportunity
to meet Indian doctoral scholars studying in
Modi at Home & Abroad – Chai &
Conversation with Sadanand Dhume
Journalist for the Times of India and the Wall
Street Journal Sadanand Dhume joined the
Institute at the halfway point of 2015 for an
appraisal on Narendra Modi’s first year as
Prime Minister. “Modi has done surprisingly
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Victoria as well high levels academics and
administrators in the University sector who
have a special focus on India and Asia.
Other Highlights
Roundtable discussion with Mr Patrick
Suckling, Australian High Commissioner to
India
Professor T.V.Paul, Restraining Great Powers:
Soft Balancing in World Politics
Professor Sanjay Zodpey, Public Health
Workforce Challenges in India: Challenges and
the Way Forward
Professor Binod Khadria, Migration amd
Education in the Era of Australia’s “Smart
Engagement” with India
Journalist Sadanand Dhume
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and promising young and mid-career scholars
were invited to attend from various Indian
institutions as well as the universities of Oxford,
Chicago, Copenhagen, Leipzig, Melbourne and
Adelaide. Currently, selected papers from the
2014 conference are being edited for publication
by Oxford University Press (his eleventh
volume) titled The Land Question in India: State,
Dispossession, and Capitalist Development.
A second volume is planned from the 2015
conference.
Foundation-Abe Fellowship, the UN University
World Institute of Development, and the POSCO
Fellowship from the East West Center.
Teaching
In term 1 of 2015 Professor Anthony D’Costa
coordinated and taught the undergraduate course
Contemporary India. The course had close to 50
enrolments – far more than for previous terms.
Prof. D’Costa reoriented the subject thematically
over the full course of lectures; allowing students
to grasp complex materials more easily. The
response from students has been positive.
Further to this, it is expected more students
will be exposed to Indian studies because of a
growing core group of faculty at the University
specialising in some facet of contemporary India.
Indian Studies
took up his position in May 2013. Formerly with
the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark,
Professor D’Costa had previously spent 18
years at the University of Washington. The
author and editor of 10 books, he has written
extensively on the political economy of the
steel, automobile, and info-tech industries,
on themes of globalisation, development,
innovation and industrial restructuring,
inequality and employment. Most recently
he has written Compressed Capitalism and
Development: Primitive Accumulation, Petty
Commodity Production, and Capitalist Maturity
in India and China, as well as book chapters
Compressed Capitalism and the Challenges for
Inclusive Development in India and Compressed
Capitalism and the Fate of Indian Development.
He is the series editor of Dynamics of Asian
Development and in 2016 published a book
Changing Structures of Accumulation: Global
Capitalism and the Mobility of IT Professionals
from India to Japan. Recipient of the US
Government’s Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research
Abroad Fellowship, he has also received
fellowships from the American Institute of
Indian Studies, the Korea Foundation, the Japan
Chair in Contemporary Indian Studies
In 2013 the Australia India Institute and the
University of Melbourne established a Chair in
Contemporary Indian Studies. This important
position, funded in large part by the State
Government of Victoria, puts the University of
Melbourne at the forefront of a resurgence in
Indian Studies in Australia.
The inaugural chair, Anthony D’Costa,
internationally renowned political economist,
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Publications and research
Prof. D’Costa’s book International Mobility,
Global Capitalism, and Changing Structures of
Accumulation: Transforming the Japan-India IT
Relationship (London: Routledge) was published
in 2015. He also edited After Development
Dynamics: South Korea’s Engagement With
Contemporary Asia (Oxford: Oxford University
Press).
In term 2, he offered The Political Economy of
Development in India for master’s students in
Development Studies– a subject that meets both
the India component of his role at the Institute
and the development studies component, the
academic program he is affiliated with at the
School of Social and Political Sciences. Students
found the subject rewarding and gave it one of the
highest ratings possible.
Public Lectures
Prof. D’Costa also organised public lectures by Dr
Sang-woo Nam, professor emeritus and founding
dean of the Korea Development Institute’s School
of Public Policy and Management, Seoul, at
the Melbourne School of Government and by
Dr Andres Solimano, founder and chairman
of the International Center for Globalization
and Development (CIGLOB), and Professor of
Economics, Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile,
at the University of Melbourne’s School of Social
and Political Sciences.
Prof. D’Costa is also responsible for coordinating
and teaching the Massive Online Open Course
(MOOC) Contemporary India. The subject went
online in 2015 with a total of 6,605 enrollments.
The largest number of students (30%) were from
India, followed by the United States (21%); the
remainder were distributed among100 other
countries. In 2016 the MOOC will be run three
times to ensure wider reach and greater exposure.
In 2015, Prof. D’Costa presented nine lectures
or conference papers at the Korea Development
Institute’s School of Public Policy and
Management in Sejong-City; the Center for Korea
Studies, University of Washington, Seattle; the
University of Adelaide; the South Asia Center,
University of Washington; the University of Puget
Sound, Tacoma; Tohoku University, Sendai; the
International University of Japan, Urasa; the
Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata; and
the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Conference
Supported by a small grant from the AII,
Prof. D’Costa co-organised with Prof. Achin
Chakraborty, the Director of the Institute of
Development Studies, Kolkata, a conference
in Kolkata on contemporary India. (The 2015
conference followed a successful first conference
held the previous year.) Titled Instruments Of
Intervention: Capitalist Development and the
Remolding of the Indian State, the conference
was held at IDSK during 11–12 December, 2015.
Proposals for conference papers were called for,
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Victoria India Doctoral Scholarships
The Australia India Institute manages and
administers the Victoria India Doctoral
Scholarship (VIDS) Program for the Victoria
Government. The program aims to increase
Victoria’s knowledge capital and enhance
relations between India and Victoria by
attracting excellent Indian students and
supporting them to complete doctoral studies in
Victoria. Through their positive experience, the
Program develops the ever-growing strategic
relationship between Victoria and India
and also creates ambassadors for Victoria’s
education system. Launched in June 2011, the
VIDS program entered its fourth year in 2015
with 29 scholarships awarded to date.
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The program gives Indian doctoral students
the opportunity to work with top Victorian
researchers and supervisors in world-class
technologically advanced infrastructure
and research facilities, resulting in PhD
qualifications recognised by industry and
research institutions around the world. Each
successful scholar receives a scholarship of
AUD$90,000 over the duration of their doctoral
study, plus a full tuition waiver by the relevant
host university.
Emerging Leaders Fellowship Program
Since 2011, the Australia India Institute
has conducted a program of up to 5 week
residential fellowships at the Institute’s office
in Melbourne. The fellowships were offered to
outstanding professionals from India who came
to Australia to research their topics in a wide
range of sectors and disciplines and meet with
Australian experts in their fields.
The six successful candidates for 2015 now
studying at Victorian universities were:
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Ragesh Prapathan, Monash University.
Research Title: Multifunctional
nanostructured coatings with celluloses,
graphene oxide and polymers
Sneha Shikha, RMIT University.
Research Title: Exploring the potential
of bacterial isolates for rapid synthesis of
silver nanoparticles and optimization of the
various physiochemical parameters
Rama Harinath Reddy Dadu, University
of Melbourne. Research Title: Identification
of tightly linked gene based markers to
develop ascochyta blight (fungal disease)
resistant lentil varieties in changing climate
Ria Rushin Joseph Akkara, Swinburne
University. Research Title: Quantum
simulations of ultra-cold atoms in fermionic
phase-space
Each fellow delivered a public lecture on a
subject of bilateral or international significance
and produced an extensive paper published
by the Institute. The fellows spent time at the
Institute and the University of Melbourne
but also travelled to at least one interstate
destination in order to engage substantially with
their counterparts in other states and develop
relationships that would further knowledge
exchange and Australia -India cooperation
in each area of research. Participants include
emerging leaders from academia, government,
media, and the arts.
Anbhara Vanangamundi, Victoria
University. Research Title: Development of
polyethersulfone (PES) ultrafiltration (UF)
membranes with enhanced hydrophilicity
and antifouling properties for water
filtration
Reshma Vijayakumaran, University of
Melbourne. Research Title: Novel approach
to suppression of solid tumours
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Delegates from the 2015 Australia India Youth Dialogue in Sydney
As the program wrapped up to a close, the last
of our emerging leader fellows undertook his
fellowship at the Institute in June 2015:
India Pakistan Peace and Conflict
Studies – Chaophraya Dialogue
The Chaophraya Dialogue is a joint IndiaPakistan Track II initiative undertaken by the
Melbourne- based Australia India Institute
(AII) and Islamabad-based Jinnah Institute
(JI), to encourage informed dialogue on IndoPak relations. The process has so far led to ten
rounds of dialogue and is now entering its sixth
year in 2016.
Mr Sushil Aaron
Director of Projects, Centre for Policy Research,
Chanakyapuri
Research Topic: Unforgotten Conflict, Kashmir
after 9/11
Dr Sushil Aaron is Director of Projects at the
Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. He was
for several years a Political Adviser at the British
High Commission, New Delhi, covering IndiaPakistan relations, Kashmir, Afghanistan and
wider foreign policy issues. He has previously
been a Sir Ratan Tata Fellow at the London
School of Economics and Research Fellow at the
Centre de Sciences Humaines. He is interested
in India-Pakistan relations, South Asian affairs
and Indian politics – and his publications
include Straddling Faultlines: India’s Foreign
Policy in the Greater Middle East.
The Chaophraya Dialogue is primarily
meant to give informed members of the
strategic community in India and Pakistan
an opportunity to interact with each other
on a sustained basis. Past participants in the
Chaophraya Dialogue have included senior
former officials (Including Ambassadors,
Foreign Secretaries, Intelligence Chiefs and
top-ranking members of the Armed Forces),
academics, journalists and political leaders
from India and Pakistan. Initiated before the
Mumbai attacks of 26/11, the process played
a critical role in bringing together senior
interlocutors from the two countries when the
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official dialogue process was suspended. Since
then, the Chaophraya Dialogue has encouraged
participants to share the conclusions of each
round with their respective governments.
There have been many efforts in recent years
to establish greater Indo-Pak peace and
understanding through Track II dialogues that
have contributed towards an increased level of
understanding between the two countries. The
Chaophraya Dialogue draws from a growing
international community of stakeholders
committed to Indo-Pak peace and has
attempted to innovate its conference agendas
by addressing the rapidly changing bilateral
dynamic on the ground. The liberalised visa
and trade regimes are the result of sustained
efforts at the Track II level, but new avenues of
cooperation and mutual learning need to be
explored to make these gains permanent.
MacArthur Foundation Project
The AII has played a leading role in promoting
discussion of evolving roles in Indian Ocean
security. This project, funded by the John D
and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation in the
United States (Chicago, Illinois) addresses how
China and India will interact as major maritime
powers in the Indo-Pacific region - the Asiacentric region that encompasses the Indian
and Pacific Oceans and which is defined by the
roles and interests of major powers within that
space. The project, taking place over a period
of 18 months, is being undertaken by the AII
with David Brewster, Project Director and
Principal Investigator, who has an international
reputation as an expert in Indian strategic
affairs and Indo-Pacific maritime security.
The principal goal of the project is to identify
practical policy measures that can reduce or
manage the risks of strategic instability between
India and China in the maritime sphere. At a
policy level, the findings of the project could
serve as part of a wider set of ideas for helping
to manage strategic change in Asia.
policy advice across the field of Indian and
Indian Ocean security.
Sydney and Melbourne, taking place from 26-29
January 2015.
To date, the project has included field research
in India and China to meet with a range of
senior Indian and Chinese naval analysts. The
project has also conducted a series of full day
workshops with senior analysts and academic
experts to discuss India-China maritime
security relations: in Canberra in May 2015
(co-hosted with the National Security College,
Australian National University); in Washington
DC in June 2015 (co-hosted with the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace); in Tokyo
in July 2015 (co-hosted with the National
Institute for Defence Studies); in Singapore
in September 2015 (co-hosted with the Lee
Kuan Yew School of Public Policy) in Delhi in
October 2015 (with AII @ Delhi); and a further
workshop in Shanghai in late November 2015
(co-hosted with the Shanghai Institutes for
International Studies). The project has published
two reports: “China and India at Sea: Issues and
Options” (May 2015) and “China and India at
Sea: A Contest of Status and Legitimacy in the
Indian Ocean” (September 2015).
AIYD 2015 strongly reflected the diversity of
the delegates’ backgrounds, accomplishments
and perspectives, facilitating deep discussions
and reinforcing bonds of friendship and
understanding that were forged and enhanced
over the four-day period.
Australia India Youth Dialogue 2015 Sydney and Melbourne, Australia
The Australia India Youth Dialogue (AIYD)
is the pre-eminent track-two young leaders’
dialogue between Australia and India.
Our vision is that the AIYD will provide a
sustainable platform for the youth of Australia
and India to come together and foster an
enduring partnership between the two
countries.
Each year the AIYD brings together 15 young
Australian leaders and 15 young Indian
leaders in the fields of business, arts, academia,
diplomacy, government, science and sport,
amongst others, to discuss opportunities and
challenges significant to the Australia-India
relationship.
Following their successful forums in New Delhi
and Mumbai in 2012, Melbourne in 2013, and
Hyderabad and New Delhi in January 2014,
the 2015 dialogue came back to Australia in
The institutional goals of the Australia India
Institute (AII) in relation to the project include
that of positioning the Institute as a leading
source of objective and reliable analysis and
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AIYD now has alumni of 120 of the most
promising young leaders from Australia and
India. By bringing these young leaders together
in a unique and dynamic forum, AIYD has
helped to ensure that the future of AustraliaIndia relations will be rooted in solid and deep
foundations of understanding and friendship.
AIYD 2016 is scheduled to be held from 27 – 30
January 2016 in Delhi, Mohali and Bengaluru,
India.
The Conversation –Developing an
Indian Media and Communications
Platform for India’s Academic and
Research Community
The Australia India Institute and The
Conversation have been working together to
build and launch an independent and not-forprofit communications platform aiming to
disseminate research by the Indian university
and research sector to the broader community
in India.
First launched in 2011, and now with operations
in the UK and the US, the Conversation seeks to
build a global network and not-for-profit online
platform for commentary and analysis written
by university-based experts and delivered direct
to the public. This service will provide the
public with access to trusted information and
analysis relevant to India’s economic and social
development, while at the same time helping
to showcase Indian research and expertise
globally.
AIEC Education Council
The Australia India Education Council
(AIEC) is a bi-national body chaired by the
Education Ministers of India and Australia to
expand collaboration in education, training
and research. It is represented by prominent
members of academia, policy makers and
industry aiming to set the strategic direction of
the bilateral education, training and research
partnership by developing strategic advice to
focus and shape collaborative efforts. The AIEC
oversees working groups which implement
initiatives agreed by the AIEC on a particular
focus area and provides advice to shape policies
and resolve complex issues.
The AII facilitates the ongoing work of
the Australia India Education Council,
including Working Group Projects, as well
as the Commonwealth Government and
the Government of India for the successful
organisation and conduct of annual Australia
India Education Council meetings through
logistical and administrative support.
Ramona Yagnik leading a Kalaripayyat demonstration
Tami Roos part of panel at ‘Meditation – India’s gift to the West’
Orations and Talks - Highlights
meditation an accepted and utilized practice
in contemporary society and how individuals
can make a start in incorporating it in their
lives. In July, the Institute hosted an interactive
lecture titled Kalarippayat: rediscovering India’s
lost martial art, meditational and medicinal
tradition. Kalarippayat is not well known due to
its suppression during Britian’s occupation of
India. Yet, the system is re-emerging and is now
being practiced around the world by martial
artists and yoga practitioners to increase
physical strength, mental balance and connect
the microcosm of one’s individual self to the
macrocosm that surrounds them. To present
the lecture, we were joined by Australia’s two
leading Kalarippayat instructors, Alana Gregory
and Ramona Yagnik. Finally, in September
celebrity chef Adam D’Sylva gave an enthralled
audience a master class in how to cook Indian
cuisine. While taking us through a few of his
signature dishes, D’Sylva told us how growing
up with an Italian mother and Indian father
informed his approach to cooking and his rise
to Australia’s culinary elite.
Emerging Opportunities in India with
Lance Hockridge
The Institute partnered with the Queensland
University of Technology’s (QUT) Business
School to present Lance Hockgridge, CEO of
Australia’s largest rail freight operator Aurizon.
Hockridge discussed Aurizon’s recent push
into India and lessons from his experience. “Do
not underestimate the value of relationships
and time spent on the ground. The Indian
growth story is happening right now, offering
a wealth of opportunity for trade, services,
education, tourism,” he said. The signing of a
Memorandum of Understanding between QUT,
The University of Melbourne and Institute
preceded the oration in Brisbane.
Health, Culture and Spirituality Series
In 2015 the Institute presented the Health,
Culture and Spirituality Series. Convened by
Dr. Ranjit Rao, the series kicked off in March
with Meditation - India’s Gift to the West. The
lecture charted the ancient Indian, spiritual,
religious and yogic traditions that have made
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Professor Craig Jeffrey Inaugural What
is happening to contemporary India?
Public Lecture with CEO of Bombay
Stock Exchange - Ashish Chauhan
In October, the Institute, its stakeholders and
the broader AII community welcomed Professor
Craig Jeffrey as the AII’s new director. In his
inaugural address, Professor Jeffrey outlined his
vision for the Institute, his fieldwork research in
India and opportunities in the Australia-India
relationship. The lecture was followed by a lively
outdoor public reception at the University of
Melbourne, which inlcuded a Bollywood dance
troup, music and Indian food. The event was a
terrific way to welcome in a new era at the AII.
In June, the Institute was fortunate enough
to hear from the CEO of the Bombay Stock
Exchange (BSE), Ashish Chauhan. Mr Chauhan
whose visit to Australia was part of a broader
push attract Australian investment in India, was
generous and frank in his insight to the Indian
economy. “Be patient, India is equally bad to
foreigners and Indians…we don’t discriminate
between outsiders and insiders,” he said. He also
made the case for India’s youthful population
for the years to come. “In the next 30 years we
will create wealth that has not been created in
the last 10 thousand years. And only people
who are young, who are scientifically oriented,
who are technologically-oriented, will be able
to learn newer things and create this wealth,” he
said.
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Business Development
AII’s Centre for Business, Trade and Regulation
(CBTR) now operates as a one-stop centre for
businesses seeking information, research and
guidance on Australia’s trade relationship
with India. As more and more outwardlooking Australian businesses recognise the
opportunities available in India, we expect
the AII’s extensive expertise in the political,
cultural and economic life of that country,
and its experience, services, contacts and data
relevant to business will be increasingly sought
after, and will generate funding.
During 2015 the AII has sought actively to
raise its profile with the corporate sector.
Partnering with like-minded organisations such
as universities, the Australia India Business
Council (AIBC), Austrade and Asia Link, AII
has helped businesses find opportunities in
sectors including investment, energy, resources,
manufacturing, education, health, urban design,
planning and innovation. The AII’s work is
well recognised in the energy and resources
industries through our contacts with Indian
mining companies including Adani, GVK,
TATA, and Jindel Steel, and in Australia Gina
Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting as well as Rio
Tinto, Woodside, Toro Energy and Aurizon.
Our business network has been strengthened
by events such as the Australia-India
Leadership Dialogue, led by Anthony Pratt
of Visy Industries, and the AII roundtable on
sustainable manufacturing of car components,
as well as through AII’s business development
fellowships. We confidently expect further
progress in this direction through our planned
India Australia innovation forum, endorsed by
Gautam Adani and Sam Walsh, of Rio Tinto.
With the AIBC we offer a joint corporate
membership and associated sponsorship
program. We are actively seeking funding
alliances with PwC, Deloitte, KPMG, Pitcher
Partners, Baker and McKenzie, Allens, HSBC,
Crowe Howarth, BDO Kendalls, as well as the
continuing support of the Indian government.
To further raise its profile with business, the
CBTR is developing, in cooperation with
business, an Australia India Trade index. Joint
membership arrangements with the AIBC, and
AII’s business development fellowships will
further strengthen the AII brand.
National energy and resources forum
As an initiative to raise its profile with the sector, AII, together with the AIBC, hosted a forum
on energy and resources in Brisbane on 18 June.
The forum, which was sponsored by Aurizon
with the support of Asia Link, along with
Austrade and Trade Investment Queensland,
and was launched and attended by the Minister
for Industry and Science, Ian Macfarlane, was
attended by more than 120 delegates including
representatives of the Australian and Indian
governments and major businesses.
Preparations are under way for the next forum,
to be held in Perth on 17 March 2016 with the
support of the Western Australian Government,
Austrade and WA universities.
Specific initiatives
Non-government funding strategy
A paper outlining AII’s strategy for increasing
sponsorship and funding for AII from non-government sources is being progressed by AII.
Distinguished fellow Maxine McKew speaking at
the first Australia India Automotive Dialogue
Director for Business Development, Jim Varghese
Auto business round table
The AII and Austrade jointly hosted an auto
dialogue panel designed to attract Indian
investment in high-technology automotive
manufacturing. A follow-up Australia-India
Automobile Round Table Conference was held
in Melbourne on 11 August 2015 to confirm
investment opportunities, with ministerial support from the Victorian, South Australian and
Federal governments.
Trade index
The AII has in-principle reached an agreement
with Deloitte Access Economics to develop
jointly an Australia-India Trade Index, segmented by states and industries.
With Deloittes, the CBTR is currently seeking
sponsorship from an appropriate bank to fund
the research associated with the creation and
regular publication of the index. The Index will
track trade performance by state and industry
in both India and Australia. The Index will
raise AII’s profile as a source of business data on
the trade relationship, and attract sponsorship
from other sources, as well as investment in the
business research AII conducts with its partner
universities. The initial sponsorship contract for
the Index will contain a first-right-of-renewal
clause, and a built-in provision allowing the
amount of support to be increased. AII believes
the Index would be attractive to a bank because
it can be used in both Australia and India.
Both dialogues were funded almost entirely
by Austrade, and their success has raised AII’s
profile with both government and automotive
businesses. Senior Australian and Victorian
ministers praised the dialogues for enhancing
the Australia-India economic relationship
by promoting Indian companies such as Tata
Industries and Mahindra as potential partners
for Australian manufacturers.
Further similar events are planned.
Business Development Fellowships
Agreement on a program of business development fellowships between Australia and India
has been reached with University of Melbourne
Business School and QUT Business School.
UNSW Business School is also interested in
participating.
Research Fellow
Dr Ashok Sharma successfully completed a six
month fellowship on International Relations
and Business Development, supporting such
areas as research on the Gift City Riverfront
Project in Ahmedabad, Business Development
Fellowships, Auto Roundtable and Energy and
Resources Forum.
The program will be launched in February 2016.
The strategy envisages using the expertise
relevant to business within the AII to create a
sustainable, business-driven funding stream for
the Institute.
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AII in the News
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Experts call for sustained Pak-India ceasefire to rid terror
The Nation
WA today
12
Pakistan, India peace meetings calls for eliminating LoC tensions
Ary News
The Tribune India
22
Prof Amitabh Mattoo appointed advisor to JK CM
Press Trust of India
24
Australia in new push to attract India’s best and brightest
SBS
January
11
13
Is this the end of Australia and India’s mutual neglect?
Committed to signing FTA with India
February
19
Australia India Institute opens Delhi centre
The Hindu
September
20
March
Australia after Abbott to be steady on India but expect more nuance in Asia The Wire
7
Pak-India ties: Indian intellectuals see no breakthrough
The Express Tribune
October
7
Distinguished speaker series: ‘Ordinary citizens of Pak, India want peace
between two countries’
Daily Times
25
India talks next on Andrew Robb’s trade agenda
Australian Financial
Review
25
Narendra Modi’s ‘Make in India’ plan needs more focus
Australian Financial
Review
26
Andrew Robb chases India trade and investment agreement
The Australian
26
Australia, India to hold talks on counter-terrorism, cyber security
The Economic Times
27
India and Australia to hold talks on cyber-security
Tech 2
April
2
India-Australia FTA will create immense business opportunities:
Amitabh Mattoo
The Economic Times
3
Australia to sign FTA with India to generate immense business
opportunities
Customs Today
6
Aviation or engineering? An Aussie perspective
Hindustan Times
27
CECA must respect India's sensitivities on agriculture: Australia
The Economic Times
14
India’s understanding of recent climate pledges ahead of Paris talks
Eco-Business
28
Alliance with BJP gave Govt representative characte
Daily Excelsior
28
Renu Fotedar dies in Everest avalanche
Rising Kashmir
29
Australia has so much more to learn about India
Brisbane Times
29
India offers Australian coal producers the ride of a lifetime
The Australian
May
7
Australian team envinces interest in sugar institute’s functioning
Times of India
30
Australia on track to finalise nuclear, trade deals with India by year end
Newzy
12
New director Craig Jeffrey to head Australia India Institute think-tank
Economic Times
30
Australia has so much more to learn about India
The Age
16
Infosys under Vishal Sikka reflects India's IT success story
The Australian
November
The World
5
India’s interests are aligning with Australia’s; now Modi must grasp the
opportunity
The Interpreter
6
Freight giant Aurizon eyes Indian railways and logistics market
Courier Mail
6
Australia India Institute, QUT Business Launch Event
Aurizon
The Australian
14
Ex-FM admits India failed to work for peace with Pakistan
The News International
India’s jobless could hit the Asia-Pacific like climate change
The Age
27
India’s Modi government boosts business confidence
28
Invest in stock market for creating jobs, says BSE CEO Ashish Chauhan
The Economic Times
28
Modi the statesman must now sell domestic reform
The Conversation AU
June
2
India is a country in a hurry
17
Dispense with bureaucratic control for institutional excellence
Business Standard
26
18
What’s Behind the new US-India Defence Pact
Epoch Times
December
18
What’s Behind the New US–India Defense Pact?
Epoch Times
4
Indo-Pak journalists call for resumption of bilateral dialogue
Daily Times
22
Oxford prof joins Melbourne’s India centre
Campus Review
4
Pak, India journos call for bilateral talks resumption
The Nation
August
5
Pakistan yet to reckon move after Nawaz-Modi Paris meeting
Seating Chair
11
Indian automotive mission to build links with Australian industry
Business Standard
8
India, Pakistan NSAs talk terror and Jammu & Kashmir in Bangkok
Daily News & Analysis
11
Pakistan and India urged to team up against terrorism
Daily Times
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Director Outreach
Professor Amitabh Mattoo, January 1 - September 30
October
January
12-16
Professor Craig Jeffrey, October 1 - November 30
Delegate
Australian Business week in India
19
Keynote Speaker
Sugden Fellows Lecture - Lifelines: Understanding Youth in Contemporary India
February
November
12
Chair of Keynote
Asian Security Conference,
Institute of Defense Analysis
4
Keynote Speaker
South Asia Citywide Conference,
La Trobe Univerisity
13
Panel Speaker
Vivekananda India Foundation
20
Panel Chair
Kashmir after the Polls – India Habitat Centre
25
Speaker
Asialink Business State of the Nation - India: A New Regime of Economic Advancement
March
17
Host
Lunch for board members of the
Australia-India Council
July
8-13
Commissioner
Lancet Commission Meeting in New York, USA
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Lunch Speaker
Rotary Club, New Delhi
December 18
Panel Chair
Effectiveness of Larger Pictorial Health Warnings – Global Best Practices – Constitution Club of India
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December
3
Panel Convenor
Australian Anthropology Society Conference - Moral horizons, for righteous futures: morality, temporality, and prefiguration
7PanellistMelbourne School of Government Conference: Democracy in Transition
11
Speaker
Melbourne South Asian Studies Group - Being the change you want to see in the world: youth and politics in India
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In Their Own Words: Shobhaa De
And it’s not a very happy situation; the
migration of men from our villages to the cities,
is a huge cultural shock. Suddenly they come
across women who have personalities, who are
educated, who have attitude and it’s just one way
of, I guess, getting back or getting even; I don’t
know what it is. But the violence seems to have
stepped up in the last four or five years to an
extent that is absolutely alarming.
Violence against women is being reported much
more than it was in the past, no question about
that. Social media makes sure every incident
is on Twitter and the awareness is that much
higher. But I also believe, and this is my own
little theory and I’m sure I could be way off
the mark that the sexual violence that we are
seeing today has nothing to do with sex, it has
everything to do just with violence. And there
is a generation of young, unemployed Indian
men who are frustrated on many, many multiple
levels.
So abuse on the whole, and it’s really something
that as writers, as creative people, we can only
express it as powerfully, as strongly as we can
with the mediums that we have. It’s actually
a huge challenge to get that message across
because how do you get that message across to
rural India? To illiterate India? They don’t read,
they don’t read the newspapers. So, which is
why I am increasingly spending a lot of time
on television because if they not reading but
they’re certainly watching television and they
are certainly listening to various discourses and
various conversations about sexual violence.
A lot of it has to do with maybe their diffidence
about what happens five years from now; if you
don’t get a job what happens? And the only way
to express that kind of frustration is to pick
on the first defenceless person; it can often be
a child. The government tell women to “Cover
up, dress up, don’t wear short skirts, don’t wear
shorts. Don’t drink in bars, don’t go to pubs,
don’t smile, don’t laugh, don’t cry,” you know,
there are many don’ts: But what is a three-yearold child, what crime has that child committed?
If those children are being also sexually
assaulted, it cannot be about their attire or their
being provocative in any manner.
But I believe a woman with spirit will fight it
regardless, as they have in our mythologies
and all our mythologies are actually full of the
most dramatic women who would have taken
charge of their own lives. And we are talking,
how many, 5000 years and more. So, I wish we
would concentrate on those role models, rather
than women as victims. Because the chances are
if you see yourself as a victim, you’re going to
be treated like one. You’ll behave like a doormat
and you’re going to have people walk all over
you. Just be yourself! Be sure of who you are as
a human being, no necessarily as a woman. Live
with dignity and it will follow, what you want.
Your dreams can be achieved, it’s not impossible
at all.
So, that level of frustration I believe has a lot to
do with the grim future men believe they face.
Women are getting an opportunity for the first
time, when it comes to entering our engineering
colleges, government colleges, law colleges, as
surgeons, in our administrative services, in our
public school exams, and there is the feeling,
perhaps, that they are taking away jobs that
legitimately ought to go to these men, who are
demoralised, who have nothing to do.
Author Shobhaa De
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In Their Own Words: Craig Jeffery
In March 1996, I was chatting with a rich
farmer named [Jaswant Singh] in rural [Utu
Pradesh], about 50 miles north-east of Delhi,
on the sugarcane and wheat plains of Utu
Pradesh. We were drinking tea in his dusty and
distinctly agricultural courtyard but in front of
us was a giant, shiny silver cup. Jaswant Singh’s
son, 13-year-old [Ram Singh], had won this
silver cup at his local English medium private
school. Jaswant dearly wanted his son to move
up through the educational system and get a
government job. He was straining every sinew
to make it possible; cultivating links in the local
government bureaucracy, paying a lot of money
for his son’s education and trying to arrange the
marriage of his daughter into one of the state
government bureaucracy.
power and money. ‘Source and Force’. You also
hear ‘Back and Jack,’ Back means support and
Jack means some kind of leverage.
The theme of money ran through our discussion
of his family: Jaswant Singh said, “I’m trying
to raise the value of my child.” On another
occasion he added, “My son, Ram Singh,
will definitely succeed. A son is like capital;
a grandson is then the interest. And a great
grandson is compound interest.” I met Ram
Singh ten years later, in 2007 when I was
carrying out research in [Merit] city in western
Utu Pradesh on student politics. It became clear
that things weren’t turning out quite as he and
his father had anticipated. Ram was 23 by this
stage and studying in the local degree college,
[Merit] college. Ram had already obtained
a BA and an MA but he’d repeatedly failed
to get a government job. Merit college had
been designed to look like a series of Oxford
quadrangles, but had fallen into disrepair.
The weeds chocked campus was like some
kind of giant projection of Ram Singh’s mood
and situation. “We’re basically destined to be
unemployed,” he said, “Because to get any job
here you need source and force.” Source referred
to social connections, force referred to muscle-
There is a wealth of scholarly literature which
can help us contextualize this question;
particularly on the link between population
and social progress. Writing in the early 19th
century, Thomas Malthus, famously wrote about
the dangers of a rapidly rising population. As
population increases, pressure is placed upon
a country’s food reserves, ultimately leading
to catastrophe. Many development scholars in
the mid-twentieth and late-twentieth century
made similar predictions and were intensely
concerned about rising population rates in what
was then termed the Third World.
But your father’s fairly rich and wellconnected,” I pointed out. Ram replied, “Yes,
but what can you do when 12,000 people
apply for every job? We are losing the will to
live.” Stories such as Ram Singh’s have run
through my recent research like a chorus. A
large, ambitious youth population buoyed by
parental expectations, studies and strived in
contemporary India. But many find themselves
unemployed. What does it mean, then, in
this context of seemingly poor-quality higher
education and mass unemployment to be asking
a question about India’s demographic dividend?
But in the last third of the twentieth century
two new arguments emerged, which I think are
very interesting. First, scholars in the 19760s,
1970s and 1980s such as Esther Bosire and
Julian Simon, argued that a large population can
trigger innovation. And Julian Simon published
a book with the title, The Ultimate Resource,
originally published in 1984. Humans are the
ultimate resource; population may be a boon
rather than a burden.
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But Bloom added two crucial notes of caution:
First, he said “Timing is everything.” The
demographic dividend is a one-in-a-lifetime
opportunity for a country to benefit from a
large youth bulge, it’s not going to occur again.
It’s a window of opportunity. And second,
and even more importantly, David Bloom
and colleagues argued that if the institutional
and infrastructural environment is not right,
countries will not benefit from the demographic
dividend. Young people need to be educated and
healthy. There needs to be a stable government
and reasonably strong economy generating a
broad base set of jobs. And there needs to be the
right environment for enterprise.
Second, and more important for us tonight, in
the 1990s and 2000s scholars began to argue that
a particular population’s structure can lead to
social improvement, in particular, a large adult,
young adult youth population; a population
aged between roughly 15 and 40, can act as a
type of demographic dividend. This argument
can be traced, in particular, to the work of the
economist David Bloom and colleagues, in a
seminal article written in 2002. Bloom argued
that many east-Asian countries in the 1960s,
1970s, 1980s and 1990s were going through
the demographic transition. Fertility rates had
been coming down rapidly, but death rates
were still fairly high. As a result, there was a
type of pulse moving through the demographic
pyramid, a relatively small child population and
old-age population coexisted with a large youth
and young adult population. The population
pyramid, if you imagine it, began to resemble an
hourglass. Bloom argued that this large youth
and young-adult population has a series of
beneficial economic and social effects.
It increases national savings because relatively
large numbers of people are engaged in
productive work, it reduces the amount of
money the state needs to spend on welfare which
disproportionately goes to children and oldage people, and a large young adult population
can be a source of new ideas. Here we find an
echo at the academic and policy level of Jaswant
Singh’s idea of the son as capital, the grandson
as interest.
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In Their Own Words: Ashish Chauhan
are high, there has been an arbitrage between
India and markets where interest rates are
practically zero. People borrow there and invest
in India – the so-called carry trade.
Narendra Modi’s government took office a year
ago today, with the dream of a billion people,
perhaps more, on his shoulders. A year on,
everyone is asking: what has he done? What has
he not done?
India has about 1.27 billion people. About half
are younger than 25. It’s a poor country. For
most, life is tough. GDP is about $US2.1 trillion,
which means per capita GDP is about $US1,500.
India’s GDP is growing fast. Growth is projected
to be between 8 and 8.5 per cent in 2015-16.
Measured in purchasing power parity terms,
India’s economy is now the world’s third largest
behind the United States and China. From
representing less than 4 per cent of world GDP
in 1990, it is now estimated to represent more
than 6 per cent. Some dispute these estimates,
but the trend is clear: India is growing at a good
pace now.
But it is also a very interesting society –
technology oriented, scientifically oriented. You
see many students here in Australia from India,
or others who are engineers or doctors. Over
the last 30 years India, which used to be very
inward looking, has started to look outwards.
And people are science- or technology-oriented
not because of some government plan. Indian
governments are not that effective at planning.
The fiscal deficit has been controlled. The
2014-15 target – a fiscal deficit of 4.1 per cent
of GDP – has been met, and the Government
is on track to meet its target of 3 per cent in
2017-18. Inflation has played a role, because
despite continuing government borrowing,
government debt as a proportion of GDP has
been falling. The rupee has appreciated against
most currencies, except the US and Australian
dollars.
Like China, India was modelled on Soviet
Russia when it became independent in 1947.
We started following socialist policies. But
Indians, as you may have observed – although
Indians won’t like this – tend to do things by
halves. We never complete anything. So we
were on a socialist path, but we didn’t do the
social reforms, we didn’t do the land reforms,
our stock exchanges – the fountainhead of
capitalism – continued to work.
Foreign direct investment has increased over the
last couple of years from less than $US25 billion
in 2012 to just under $30 billion in 2014. If the
Modi Government can improve the ease of
doing business in India, it will probably increase
further.
But we did have five-year plans. They continued
till last year. The new government abolished the
Planning Commission – because it only ever
planned. There was no execution.
India’s financial markets have grown over
the last 20 years so that India’s market is now
capitalised at about $US1.6 trillion. The Sensex
index has risen by almost 300 times in the last
35 years.
This inertia is significant because suddenly, in
the last couple of years, pent-up frustration,
magnified by the demands of a youthful,
energetic population, has boiled up over three
main issues: corruption, inflation, and jobs.
Foreign portfolio investors have started to
pump in money. Last year much of it came for
government bonds, not equities. Because the
rupee has been stable and India’s interest rates
One problem is red tape. India has several
thousand acts and laws which have become
outdated. Many actually contradict each other,
so if you observe one law, you are violating
another. It stops industries from coming, it stops
people from moving, it stops people from doing
anything. Mr Modi is in the process of removing
one law a day – so thousands are going to be
removed over the next few years.
seen scams where people make billions from
coal block allocations, or when telecoms get free
bandwidth. Then there is procedural corruption,
where you have to pay money to get certification
to do anything. The Modi Government has
eliminated the time-consuming certification
processes, and the opportunities for corruption
they create. It has also tackled policy corruption
by auctioning off coal blocks and bandwidth.
The result: tens of billions of dollars will now go
to the Indian Treasury, instead of into private
hands. The increase in revenue is probably why
Moody’s, the ratings agency, recently raised
India’s credit rating.
Another problem is infrastructure. In India it is
pretty poor, whether in cities, towns, in roads,
ports, airports. But it also means India is able
to leap-frog. Take power: many houses don’t
have electricity. This government has promised
power to every house in India by 2017. There are
tail-winds which will help the government here.
As solar power becomes much cheaper people
can install it in their home and not depend
on the grid. Technology is now solving many
things in similar ways. Instead of depending
on the government people are actually solving
problems themselves.
Under Modi, inflation has fallen below 5 per
cent – a rate that is the stuff of dreams in India.
External factors of course are at play here:
agricultural commodities are at a low point in
the price cycle. Oil is cheap. Gold prices have
fallen. Yet the prices of these have been low at
times under previous governments while India’s
inflation has stayed high, because excessive
spending has required past governments to print
money to pay for it. Modi deserves credit for
changing that.
As I said, India is a country of young people.
More than 50% of Indians, 600 million people,
are 25 or younger. Getting them jobs is a
phenomenal task. We need to create 15 million
new jobs every year for the next 20 years. 15
million new jobs is actually unheard of, except
in China, before. The problem cannot be solved
in one year, but Mr Modi has been floating ideas
which will change India, if they are handled
well.
India knows two types of corruption. One is
policy corruption, where governments create
policies which favour people they like. We have
46
47
Patrons and Fellows
Patron
Charles Green
Fellows
Jane Lu
The Honourable Linda Dessau, AM
Governor of Victoria
Brian Hayes QC
Farrah Ahmed
Hector Malano
Purushottama Bilimoria
Patron, Australia India
Leadership Dialogue
Robin Jeffrey
Jim Messelos
Sunjoy Joshi
Howard Brasted
Michael Moignard
Anthony Pratt
Dr Marlene Kanga
Lance Brennan
Michael Pearson
Distinguished Fellows
Maxine McKew
Richard Cashman
Fazal Rizvi
David Brewster
Rob Moodie
Mridula Nath Chakraborty
Dennis Rumley
Deirdre Coleman
Ashis Nandy
Robyn Davidson
Samir Saran
Suranjan Das
Greg Sheridan
Bina Fernandez
Christopher Snedden
Swapan Dasgupta
Brian Stoddart
Meg Gurry
Pradeep Taneja
Gareth Evans AC QC
Shashi Tharoor
Christopher Kremmer
Pera Wells
Wayne Lewis
Ian Woolford
48
Governance and Staff
Australia India Institute (AII) Board is
constituted as follows:
Australia India Institute Staff
a. chancellor or nominee (chair);
b. vice-chancellor or nominee;
c. director, Australia India Institute or
nominee;
d at least three other members with skills
relevant to the activities of the AII,
appointed by the vice-chancellor from time
to time.
Craig Jeffrey: CEO and Director
as of 31 December 2015
Amitabh Mattoo: Honorary Director,
AII@Delhi
Robert Johanson: Executive Chair
Anthony D’Costa: Professorial Chair of
Contemporary Indian Studies
Jim Varghese: Executive Director of
Business Development
The Board exercises governance oversight of the
operations of the Institute, formulates an annual
budget for the Institute approved by Council,
and sets the strategic direction of the Institute,
including consideration and approval of its
strategic plan and annual program of activities.
It also monitors the performance of the Institute
with regard to any conditions placed upon
grants from the Commonwealth of Australia or
any other sources.
Ashok Malik: Australia India Institute/
Observer Research Foundation Chair
Angus Blackman: Events and
Communications Assistant
Shanka De Silva: Operations Manager
Tess Gross: Executive Assistant to the Director
Roomana Hukil: Program Coordinator,
AII@Delhi
Iltija Javed: Research Assistant, AII@Delhi
2015 Board Members
as of 31 December 2015
Mallika Joseph: Deputy Director, AII@Delhi
Robert Johanson – Executive Chair, Deputy
Chancellor of the University of Melbourne and
Chairman of the Melbourne University Fund
Shibu Kitroo: Operations and Finance Officer
Tanvi Kulkarni: Project Officer, AII@Delhi
Amith V Kumar: Country and India
Engagement Officer, AII@Delhi
Craig Jeffrey – CEO and Director
Susan Elliot – Deputy Provost and DVC
(International), the University of Melbourne
Vinod Mirchandani: Deputy Director,
AII@Delhi
Amitabh Mattoo – Honorary Director,
AII@Delhi
Kog Ravindran: Media and
Communications Officer
Nick Bisley – Executive Director, La Trobe Asia
Souresh Roy: Research Associate, AII@Delhi
Ross Fitzgerald – Director, Visy Industries
Marianna Sarris: Operations and
Projects Officer
Karen Sandercock – Branch Manager,
Australian Government Department of
Education and Training
Ashok Sharma: Research Fellow, Business
Development
Simone Traglia: Events and
Communications Officer
50
Financials
Attached are the income and expenditure
financial statements of the Australia India
Institute from 2008 to 31 December 2015 as
prepared by the Operations Manager - Australia
India Institute for 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015
audited and certified by Peter McGrath,
Associate Director, Audit Assurance Services.
From 2008 to December 2010 the financial
report was certified by Chief Finance Officer,
University of Melbourne and published in the
2010 annual report.
Commonwealth Government funds (including
DET), State Government Grants (DEDJTR),
University contributions and other income were
expended for the purpose they were provided
in the Conditions of Grant and the Institute has
been in compliance with all contract, agreement
and pertinent legislation.
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General operating / Aii Project
General operating / Aii Project
Fed Gov Dep of Education and Training
UoM Project / Account number :
Actual as of end
095579
Vic Gov DEDJTR
090262
095581
Trust Account
095583
090265
2012
2013
2014
2015
2015
-
1,507,152
1,543,220
654,816
-
Commonwealth Funding /
Block Grant Funding / Financial
Assistance
1,500,000
-
-
-
3,000,000
State & Local Government Grants
-
-
-
-
-
Other Grant Income (PCS)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
7,152
36,067
25,346
5,350
35,039
54,990
-26,803
16,543
7,688
1,543
Non Course Fees & Services
-
-
-
27
-
-
-
-
-
-
Professional Services / Consulting
and Contracted Services
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Other Income (GCP)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Fee for Service Income
-
-
-
-
2,148
-
-
-
-
-
-
197
-
OPENING BALANCE (Notional
cash carry forward from Previous
Year)
2012
2013
2014
2015
2013
2014
2015
2015
-
1,554,990
778,187
794,730
-
-274,173
-279,946
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1,500,000
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-6,539
-5,305
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
INCOME
Investment Income
Asset Disposal
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Internal Allocations/TransfersCentral Admin. (UoM)
-
-
-
3,837
-
-
-750,000
-
-
750,000
-
6,439
-
Internal Recoveries-Department Use
(Shared expenses recovery)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1,507,152
36,067
25,346
9,214
3,037,187
1,554,990
-776,803
16,543
7,688
751,543
-6,539
1,331
-
-
-
-
93,095
11,860
-
-
-
-
21,209
-
109,210
-
Total Income
EXPENDITURE
Total Academic Salaries
Total Professional Salaries
-
-
542
52,778
25,167
-
-
-
-
32,003
-
276,264
21,046
Salary Expenditure Total
-
-
542
145,873
37,026
-
-
-
-
53,212
-
385,474
21,046
Grant Expense
-
-
21,136
2,056
-
-
-
-
-
70,195
-
5,000
7,636
422
3,490
-
-
-
-
36,366
-3,094
2,428
2,369
-
-
-
5,307
-
-
-
Finance Related Costs (Tax)
-
-
38,992
Student Support
-
-
-
-
-
-
Consumable Goods and Services
-
-
138,811
17,673
23,431
-
-
-
-
106,971
-
26,375
11,779
Expert Services
-
-
252,502
309,919
98,661
-
-
-
-
324,657
-
50,572
118,703
Travel, Accom, Conf, Seminars,
Workshops, Events & Programmes
-
-
413,359
172,951
115,045
-
-
-
-
394,374
2,328
44,413
51,303
Expensed Assets
-
-
4,777
7,239
15,063
-
-
-
-
-2,563
-
2,305
6,894
Infrastructure Related Expenses
-
-
43,631
7,890
12,112
-
-
-
-
37,196
-
7,204
4,326
Internal Allocations/TransfersCentral Admin. (Support Cost)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Non Salary Expenditure
-
-
913,208
518,149
267,802
-
-
-
-
972,504
-766
138,296
203,010
-
-
913,749
664,022
304,828
-
-
-
-
1,025,716
-766
523,770
224,056
Net Surplus/(Deficit)
Total Expenditure
1,507,152
36,067
-888,404
-654,809
2,732,359
1,554,990
-776,803
16,543
7,688
-274,173
-5,774
-522,438
-224,056
CLOSING BALANCE
1,507,152
1,543,220
654,816
7
2,732,359
1,554,990
778,187
794,730
802,418
-274,173
-279,946
-802,385
-224,056
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Australia India Institute - Income and Expenditure Report 2012 - 31 December 2015
General operating / Aii Project
University of Melbourne
UoM Project / Account number
:
Actual as of end
OPENING BALANCE (Notional
cash carry forward from Previous
Year)
INCOME
Commonwealth Funding /
Block Grant Funding / Financial
Assistance
State & Local Government
Grants
Other Grant Income (PCS)
006-8800010
2008
-
-
0100-00000010
2009
875,308
-
-
2011
327,415
-
2012
903,986
-
Estimate
Other Income
0100 - 02 - 000000 & 000010
2010
600,454
University In-Kind Contribution Report 2011 - 31st December 2015
2013
-2,059
-
2014
-4,356
-
9340-25000000 &
000353
2015
0
-
0100- 02 - 000020
2013
-
660,696
2014
23,129
511,799
9340-25000020
2015
0
525,430
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
21,000
-
3,000
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Investment Income
-
-
-
Non Course Fees & Services
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Professional Services /
Consulting and Contracted
Services
Other Income (GCP)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
24,831
10,000
140,084
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Fee for Service Income
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
3,150
90,140
64,505
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
318
455
-
Internal Allocations/TransfersCentral Admin. (UoM)
1,000,000
-
-
850,000
-
-
399,753
630,768
-
23,066
-
Internal Recoveries-Department
Use (Shared expenses recovery)
Total Income
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1,000,000
-
-
850,000
-
-
399,753
630,768
709,995
635,460
733,019
Total Academic Salaries
110,386
188,381
193,643
200,504
384,522
-
-
115,209
273,857
447,583
43,160
Total Professional Salaries
Salary Expenditure Total
Grant Expense
110,386
-
5,205
193,586
-
193,643
-
9,824
210,328
-
419,739
804,261
-
-
395,644
395,644
-
215,559
330,768
-
413,010
686,866
-
210,172
657,755
-
147,506
190,665
173
4,965
58
-
-677
-
-
-2,727
-
-
-
834
-
Asset Disposal
CHARGES
Overhead Charges 1
Estimate Estimate Estimate
2008
2009
2010
2011
42,346
58,155
299,498
-
-
Consumable Goods and
Services
Expert Services
Travel, Accom, Conf, Seminars,
Workshops, Events &
Programmes
Expensed Assets
4,545
4,658
7,018
-4,142
-738
-
300
-
-
-
-
903
8,685
10,394
58,803
40,522
9,423
34,277
18,024
11,141
389
-
2,180
300,000
-
-
-
372,741
58,500.00
-
2,444
19,137
510
491
-
-
-
-
-
-
Infrastructure Related
Expenses
Internal Allocations/TransfersCentral Admin. (Support Cost)
Non Salary Expenditure
Total Expenditure
Net Surplus/(Deficit)
CLOSING BALANCE
-
4
2,413
14,374
91,177
2,298
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
14,306
124,692
875,308
875,308
81,268
274,854
-274,854
600,454
79,396
273,039
-273,039
327,415
2,298
2,298
-2,298
-4,356
-247
395,397
4,357
0
300,000
630,768
0
686,866
23,129
23,129
834
658,588
23,129
0
432,092
622,758
110,261
110,261
63,101
101,784
273,429 906,045
576,571 -906,045
903,986
-2,059
56
Actual
2015
2013
2014
2015
339,332
-
-
-
-
-
64,027
85,463
66,875
86,938
Finance Common Services
-
9,266
6,925
5,940
7,722
HR Common Services
-
3,931
13,241
6,020
7,826
Property Common Services
-
111,583
87,795
87,819
114,165
Property Rental
-
61,133
61,045
53,815
69,960
OHS Common Services
-
649
1,211
810
1,053
SPU Common Services
-
2,398
1,745
1,493
1,941
257,425
222,772
289,604
Total Income
42,346
58,155
299,498
339,332 252,987-
1
1
5
6
56,461
58,155
59,900
61,697
Drivers for Overhead Charges:
FTE
Overhead charges per annum
per FTE 2
Notes:
1. 2008-2011 data are estimates based on a unit of $56,461 per Full-time Effective (FTE) staff member indexed at 3% p.a.
2. Data for 2012 and 2013 are notional calculations of property and common charges attributed to the Institute in the
divisional budget
3. 2012 data is based on actual usage of property and common charges
4. 2013 data is based on the drivers used to calculate the 2013 budget allocations of property and common charges
5. In 2013, the charges will remain as budgeted, except that property charges may vary in Q3 and Q4 should space
requirements vary
852
883
-
Actual
2012
IT Common Services
EXPENDITURE
Finance Related Costs (Tax)
Student Support
Actual
-
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Existing - Other special projects
Existing - Other special projects
Vic Gov DBI (Continued)
Vic Gov DBI
UoM Project / Account
number :
Actual as of end
OPENING BALANCE
(Notional cash carry forward
from Previous Year)
VIDS I
095577
VIDS I Trust Account 095589
2013
-
2014
2015
1,005,978 1,005,998
2011
2012
-
963,492
2013
2014
1,024,422 -974,274
2015
2013
-975,983
-
2014
VIDS “VIDS
III Trust
III
090264 090265”
VIDS II
095586
VIDS II Trust
Account 095585
2015
1,029,878 1,051,772
2013
-
2014
2015
-728,736 -1,021,157
Fed Gov Dep of
Education and
Training
F G AusAid
AIEC II
095591
IACP
095584
Mcarthur
Foundation
Pratt
Foundation
“PCS
“Mcarthur
15/16
‘095593”
‘090266”
“PCS 15/16
‘090266”
F G AIC
PCS III
095590
2015
2015
2014
2014
2013
2014
2015
2014
2015
2015
2015
2015
-
-
-
229,477
-
90,153
13,066
-
79,405
-
-
-
INCOME
Commonwealth Funding
/ Block Grant Funding /
Financial Assistance
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
300,000
-
269,960
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
State & Local Government
Grants
-
-
-
-
2,000,000
-
41,993
-
-
-
-
-
-
109,214
950,000
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
258,353
8,471
230,501
438,027
125,000
5,978
20
17,382
-
-
-1,664
-
-16,845
29,878
21,894
18,830
-4,951
-15,816
-16,895
-917
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Non Course Fees & Services
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Professional Services /
Consulting and Contracted
Services
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Other Grant Income (PCS)
Investment Income
Other Income (GCP)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Fee for Service Income
-
-
-
1,000,000
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Asset Disposal
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1,000,000
-
-
-
-
-2,000,000
-
-
1,000,000
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4,218
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1,005,978
20
17,382
41,993
-16,845
1,029,878
21,894
18,830
-4,951
-15,816
92,320
949,083
-
304,218
-
269,960
-
-
258,353
8,471
230,501
438,027
125,000
Internal Allocations/
Transfers-Central Admin.
(UoM)
Internal RecoveriesDepartment Use (Shared
expenses recovery)
Total Income
1,000,000 1,000,000 -2,001,664
EXPENDITURE
Total Academic Salaries
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Total Professional Salaries
-
-
-
28,858
90,112
-73,516
-
-
-
-
-
73,516
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Salary Expenditure Total
-
-
-
28,858
90,112
-73,516
-
-
-
-
-
73,516
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Grant Expense
Finance Related Costs (Tax)
Student Support
Consumable Goods and
Services
Expert Services
Travel, Accom, Conf,
Seminars, Workshops, Events
& Programmes
Expensed Assets
Infrastructure Related
Expenses
-
-
-
-
651
810,000
87,041
-564
2,743
73,069
-30,328
-
-
-
-
540,000
652
90,000
27
270,000
9
49,528
-
540,000
-
35,000
-
53,000
-
-
-
-
2,200
-
-
-
216
-
Internal Allocations/TransfersCentral Admin. (Support Cost)
-
-
-
1,082
1,372
-850
606
-
-
-
-
1,351
4,368
27
-
-
1,000
-
-
-
-
37,648
560
-
254
16,607
-
-
-
6,568
1,244
-1,169
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
39,689
22,056
120,000
70,000
-
26,217
41,050
17,653
193,569
720
-
-
-
-
35,691
-16,653
356
-
-
-
-
18,267
2,210
2,321
-
10
34,053
93,755
6,807
7,086
-
106,758 44,065
91,857
35,754
111,076
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
8,325
-
-
-
7
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Non Salary Expenditure
-
-
-
7,650
848,958
70,548
43,703
-
-
-
-
650,269
276,605
51,884
-
540,010
74,742
150,812
179,807
77,086
-
178,948
87,875
109,510
229,577*
128,626
Total Expenditure
-
-
-
36,508
939,070
-2,967
43,703
-
-
-
-
723,785
276,605
51,884
-
540,010
74,742
150,812
179,807
77,086
-
178,948
87,875
109,510
229,577
128,626*
1,005,978
20
17,382
963,492
60,930
-1,998,696
-1,709
-16,845
1,029,878
21,894
18,830
-728,736 -292,421
40,436
949,083 -540,010 229,477 -150,812
90,153
-77,086 -13,066
79,405
-79,405
120,991
208,450
-3,626
-
120,991
-
208,450
-
-3,626
-
Net Surplus/(Deficit)
CLOSING BALANCE
1,005,978 1,005,998 1,023,380
963,492
1,024,422
58
-974,274
-975,983
-992,828
1,029,878 1,051,772 1,070,603
-728,736 -1,021,157
-980,721
949,083 -540,010 229,477
78,665
90,153
59
13,066
-
79,405
Australia India Institute - Income and Expenditure Report 2008 - 31 December 2015
Completed - General operating / Aii Project
Fed Gov Dep of Education and Training
095576
UoM Project / Account number :
Actual as of end
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
5,506,000
5,503,789
4,389,266
3,900,270
760,385
-0.67
-0.67
Commonwealth Funding / Block Grant Funding /
Financial Assistance
-
-
2,600,000
-
-
-
-
State & Local Government Grants
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Other Grant Income (PCS)
-
-
137,580
77,715
-
-
-
Investment Income
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Non Course Fees & Services
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Professional Services / Consulting and Contracted Services
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Other Income (GCP)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Fee for Service Income
-
604
214,407
-93,142
1,398
-
-
Asset Disposal
-
-
900
59
841
-
-
Internal Allocations/Transfers-Central Admin. (UoM)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Internal Recoveries-Department Use (Shared expenses
recovery)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
5,506,000
604
2,952,887
-15,368
2,239
-
-
Total Academic Salaries
-
21,039
189,520
24,364
145,536
-
-
Total Professional Salaries
-
376,520
596,345
402,278
263,762
-
-
Salary Expenditure Total
-
397,559
785,865
426,642
409,299
-
-
-
25,000
529,522
261,761
72,500
-
-
534
5,090
39,157
102,922
11,259
-
-
OPENING BALANCE (Notional cash carry forward from
Previous Year)
INCOME
Total Income
EXPENDITURE
Grant Expense
Finance Related Costs (Tax)
Student Support
Consumable Goods and Services
Expert Services
Travel, Accom, Conf, Seminars, Workshops, Events &
Programmes
-
2,158
21,828
20,828
-
-
-
430
42,645
257,659
385,786
52,681
-
-0.67
-
458,049
738,929
537,966
42,598
-
-
1,247
167,311
867,173
1,164,253
40,463
-
-
Expensed Assets
-
2,985
31,424
32,006
6,562
-
-
Infrastructure Related Expenses
-
2,322
134,946
183,505
57,848
-
-
Internal Allocations/Transfers-Central Admin. (Support
Cost)
-
12,008
35,380
8,848
69,415
-
-
2,211
717,568
2,656,018
2,697,875
353,326
-
-0.67
Non Salary Expenditure
Total Expenditure
2,211
1,115,127
3,441,883
3,124,517
762,625
-
-0.67
Net Surplus/(Deficit)
5,503,789
-1,114,523
-488,996
-3,139,886
-760,385
-
-0.67
CLOSING BALANCE
5,503,789
4,389,266
3,900,270
760,385
-0.67
-0.67
0
61
Australia India Institute - Income and Expenditure Report 2008 - 31 December 2015
Australia India Institute - Income and Expenditure Report 2008 - 31 December 2015 (Continued)
Completed - Other special projects
Completed - Other special projects (Continued)
Fed Gov Dep of Education and Training
UoM Project / Account number :
Actual as of end
OPENING BALANCE (Notional cash carry
forward from Previous Year)
AIEC 095578
Fed Gov DFAT
AISE 095580
AISE 095580
YPD 095587
YPD II 095592
British Gov
UoM
PCS II 095582
L&T MOOC 000082
2012
2013
2014
2012
2013
2014
2013
2014
2015
2013
2014
2014
2015
2013
2014
2015
2013
2014
2015
-
370,750
305,604
-
159,620
1,258
-
115,993
283
-
4,417
-
-234
-
-512
-512
-
-
-
303,328
-
-300,000
200,000
-
-
147,500
-
-
25,000
-4,417
35,382
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
INCOME
Commonwealth Funding / Block Grant
Funding / Financial Assistance
State & Local Government Grants
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Other Grant Income (PCS)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
131,036
-
-
-
-
-
Investment Income
-
-
-
869
1,376
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Non Course Fees & Services
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Professional Services / Consulting and
Contracted Services
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Other Income (GCP)
Fee for Service Income
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
136,364
-
-
-
-
-
-
550
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Asset Disposal
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Internal Allocations/Transfers-Central
Admin. (UoM)
-
-
-4,218
-
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
10,000
25,103
-
Internal Recoveries-Department Use
(Shared expenses recovery)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
439,692
-
-304,218
200,869
1,376
7
147,500
550
-
25,000
-4,417
35,382
-
131,036
-
-
10,000
25,103
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
10,000
16,000
1,091
Total Income
EXPENDITURE
Total Academic Salaries
Total Professional Salaries
-
-
-
17,115
52,635
1,130
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2,451
-
Salary Expenditure Total
-
-
-
17,115
52,635
1,130
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
10,000
18,451
1,091
Grant Expense
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Finance Related Costs (Tax)
-
-
-
31
14
-
-
800
-
641
-
527
-
529
-
-
-
7
-
Student Support
-
-
-
1,040
1,894
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
364
3,508
-
654
7,327
-
34
6,512
283
-
-
560
-234
12,340
-
-512
-
-
-
Expert Services
45,000
42,636
-136
-
4,293
136
6,266
34,326
-
-
-
5,232
-
30,951
-
-
-
2,909
-
Travel, Accom, Conf, Seminars,
Workshops, Events & Programmes
20,250
19,001
1,522
22,409
93,011
-
25,117
67,972
-
19,942
-
29,296
-
87,562
-
-
-
3,735
-
Consumable Goods and Services
Expensed Assets
Infrastructure Related Expenses
Internal Allocations/Transfers-Central
Admin. (Support Cost)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1,026
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
3,328
-
-
-
565
-
90
5,624
-
-
-
-
-
167
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Non Salary Expenditure
68,943
65,145
1,386
24,134
107,103
136
31,507
116,260
283
20,583
-
35,615
-234
131,548
-
-512
-
6,651
-
Total Expenditure
68,943
65,145
1,386
41,249
159,738
1,266
31,507
116,260
283
20,583
-
35,615
-234
131,548
-
-512
10,000
25,103
1,091
Net Surplus/(Deficit)
370,750
-65,145
-305,604
159,620
-158,362
-1,258
115,993
-115,710
283
4,417
-4,417
-234
234
-512
-
512
-
-
-
CLOSING BALANCE
370,750
305,604
-
159,620
1,258
0
115,993
283
0
4,417
-
-234
0
-512
-512
-0
-
-
-
62
63