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ContentsDirector’s Report

Chair’s Report

2012 Highlights

Focus on India

Debates

Media

Education

Emerging Leaders

Business

Giving Back

Outstanding Orations

Publications

Lectures, Dialogues and Events

Programs

Media Impacts

Patron and Board

Governance

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The year 2012 will arguably be remembered as one of the most significant in Australia’s relationship with India. With support from across the political spectrum, Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s visit to New Delhi in October crowned years of patient diplomacy by successive Australian and Indian governments aimed at deepening and broadening ties between our two democracies.

The Australia India Institute is pleased to have played a role in encouraging and facilitating these developments. In just three years since its launch in 2009, the Institute has played a vital convening role, setting and implementing an exciting agenda by bringing Indian and Australian scholars, policy makers and opinion leaders together in dialogue, and by fostering partnerships in vital areas of common interest. Our new teaching programs, at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, hope to create an intellectual capacity within Australia to understand the complexities of contemporary India in this critical phase of engagement. Our Task Forces aim to provide the policy community within the two countries with fresh ideas to move the relationship forward. And our

growing in-house academic and policy expertise is a vital resource for all those interested in India and in the bilateral relationship.

The essential challenge at this critical juncture, when new opportunities for cooperation and partnership are emerging, is to maintain momentum and engage with stakeholders to turn aspirations into realities. Rarely before has there been such a moment of opportunity. In academia, business, government and people-to-people relations, connections and partnerships forged now will stand us in good stead amid the uncertainties that always accompany periods of economic and geopolitical re-alignment like the one currently underway in our region. Proliferating engagement across the board is apparent, from increasing numbers of visiting delegations, to the high quality of applicants for research scholarships and fellowships we offer, and expanding interest in the Institute as a centre of expertise on the part of print, broadcast and online media.

In the latest Australian Census data, Indians constituted the largest single group of new migrant arrivals. The growth of the Indian Diaspora in Australia is a phenomenon rich in potential. The Federal government’s White Paper Australia in the Asian Century, released in October 2012, demonstrated that at the political level too, there is commitment to building both strategic and cultural ties. In the years to come, Indian and Australian navies will increase cooperation, and Hindi will be one of four priority languages offered to Australian schoolchildren from Year 1 onwards. An expansion in the resources devoted

to the study of India at Australian universities is also underway, with a permanent chair in Indian Studies funded in large part by the State Government of Victoria about to be established at The University of Melbourne and hosted by the Institute.

The Australia India Institute remains the only national centre devoted to building the overall relationship between our two nations. As the relationship expands there will inevitably be pressures on the capacity of our small Institute to satisfy increased demand for our support and expertise, and we do hope we can fulfil these expectations. We are thankful for the financial and in-kind support of the Commonwealth and Victorian State governments, and The University of Melbourne, which has been crucial to our ability to intervene decisively in this important area of endeavour. We also value our partnerships with The University of New South Wales and La Trobe University.

Professor Amitabh Mattoo Director, Australia India Institute

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Director’s Report

In 2012 the Australia India Institute came of age. We have consolidated our role as a key gateway for engagement between our two nations.This annual report conveys the excitement and energy the Institute has generated in its early years. From high-profile task force reports and influential emerging leader fellowships, to its growing cohort of research scholars and role in policy formulation, the Institute’s footprint is expanding to the benefit of a wide range of stakeholders.We are pleased to announce that our inaugural director, Professor Amitabh Mattoo has extended his tenure and will remain at the helm in Melbourne until early 2015. The past year has also seen a number of key appointments that deepen the Institute’s reservoir of India expertise. Author and journalist Christopher Kremmer joined us as Communications Director, and 2013 Young Australian of the Year (Victoria) Hayley Bolding has added her youthful dynamism to the management of our scholarship and study tour programs. They join a small and enthusiastic staff working to deliver a packed program of seminars,

public lectures, and cultural and other outreach activities. We are also delighted to welcome strategic and policy analyst Rory Medcalf as an associate director based at The University of New South Wales in Sydney. We look forward to more projects being developed with other partner institutions, including La Trobe University in Victoria.With expectations and levels of interest between India and Australia at an all-time high, new challenges are emerging. The Institute is currently funded until the end of 2014. If we are to continue servicing and nurturing an expanding Australia-India relationship, a longer-term, secure funding arrangement will need to be put in place.For now, it is with pleasure that I present to you the 2012 Australia India Institute Annual Report. This caps a year of substantial progress and achievement as we look ahead with confidence to 2013. Robert Johanson,Chair, Australia India Institute Board

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Chair’s Report

In October 2012 the Australia India Institute staged its third flagship international conference entitled The Argumentative Indian: Critical Debates in the World’s Largest Democracy & Perspectives from Australia.

The Nobel Laureate in Economics, Professor Amartya Sen of Harvard University welcomed delegates in a video presentation in which he attributed India’s flourishing democracy to its long tradition of intellectual and philosophical dissent and debate.

Professor Sen’s call to engage was taken up enthusiastically by some 700 registered delegates, including Indian and Australian political leaders, academics and social activists from around the world, who debated India’s progress and challenges as an emerging leader on global and regional issues.

From the Australia India Institute Oration, delivered by Professor Glyn Davis, Vice-Chancellor of The University of Melbourne, to social activist Kiran Bedi’s clarion call for action on corruption, this world-class gathering of India expertise put Australia on the map as a dynamic and engaged partner in the India story in the Asian Century.

BJP. Several leading Indian journalists also attended, including Siddharth Varadarajan, editor of the respected daily newspaper, The Hindu, Shankkar Aiyar and H.K. Dua. The Governor of West Bengal and India’s former National Security Advisor, M.K Narayanan gave a keynote address which painted a positive outlook for Australia-India relations in the fast

changing Indo-Pacific region, relations which he said had reached a ‘defining moment’.

The then Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs, Science and Research, Senator Chris Evans addressed the conference on the importance of engagement with Asia, and the Federal Member for Goldstein, Andrew Robb spoke about Australia’s and India’s political systems and the way forward.

For more information about the conference go to www.argumentativeindian.org

Critical discussions on the most relevant issues facing India today were held over the three days. Foreign Policy and International Relations enthusiasts were in their element, and sessions on the media highlighted some phenomenal facts and realities about the colossal powerhouse that is the Indian media. Gopalkrishna Gandhi closed the conference with an inspiring and poetic valedictory speech, leaving no-one doubting that he had inherited his grandfather, Mahatma Gandhi’s capacity to inspire.

A notable feature of the conference was the strong representation of all India’s main political parties including the ruling Congress Party and Opposition

2012 Highlights Conferences

The Federal member for Goldstein, the Hon Andrew Robb addresses the conference

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The human story in the 21st century is a story of global connectedness. The Australia-India partnership is leading the way with innovative and visionary initiatives that emphasise partnerships in research and innovation. The Australia India Institute is at the centre of these initiatives.

The $50 million Australia India Strategic Research Fund is Australia’s single largest bilateral research collaboration with any nation. The AISRF has funded a wide range of cutting edge scientific research projects, and forged enduring links between institutions and researchers.

The State government of Victoria has also led the way with the Victoria India Doctoral Scholarships (VIDS) program, administered by the Australia India Institute. Each scholarship is worth $90,000 over three years. Participating universities waive tuition fees for the successful recipients. In 2012 the VIDS program

welcomed its first ten Indian PhD students, with another ten starting their research in 2013. Research topics include diabetes prevention, investor protection, regulation in the financial services industry, novel means of drug delivery, optical broadband technologies and treatment of livestock diseases.

The continuation of a program like VIDS means that by 2013, twenty Indian doctoral scholars will be working at Victorian universities at one time. This represents a smart investment not merely in building the state’s research capacity, but also in forging solid and enduring partnerships with India.

VIDS has also been instrumental in boosting dialogue between India and Victoria on education issues. In February 2012, a delegation of Victorian higher education leaders visited New Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Ahmedabad and Pune, as part of the Super Trade Mission led by the Premier of Victoria. The delegation included six

2012 Highlights Partners in Research

University of Melbourne Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Engagement) Professor Susan Elliott, along with the A.I.I Director and Marion van Rooden, Executive Director (Labour Markets and International Education), Department of Business and Innovation, State Government of Victoria, present one of the Victoria India Doctoral Scholarships.

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Vice- Chancellors from Victoria’s most prestigious universities, 14 of Victoria’s pre-eminent TAFE Institutes (including dual-sector), and other leading education providers. A centrepiece of the Delhi meetings was an Education Roundtable discussion between the Victorian delegation and 17 Indian vice-chancellors, plus representatives from all the major education bodies in India. Dr Meenakshi Gopinath, Principal of New Delhi’s Lady Shri Ram College, and A.I.I Director Professor Amitabh Mattoo chaired the roundtable.

The A.I.I stands ready to assist other state and territory governments interested in establishing new research collaborations with India. It also fosters educational cooperation through its membership of the Australia India Education Council (A.I.E.C). The A.I.E.C provides a forum for leaders representing government, educational institutions, training organisations and industry to identify strategic goals in further strengthening bilateral education, training and research relationships. This forum promises to become an annual event, facilitating cluster-based research between Victorian and Indian universities.

Professor Ross Garnaut (L) and Professor Amitabh Mattoo (R) with Dr M Govinda Rao, Director of India’s National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, who led a roundtable discussion at the Institute’s Melbourne offices on the state of the Indian economy.

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In 2012, the Australia India Institute provided a platform for an unprecedented array of Indian and Australian leaders in the fields of politics, journalism and business who contributed to our annual series of lectures and orations.

In January, indigenous leader Patrick Dodson got the ball rolling, delivering the annual Gandhi Oration at The University of New South Wales. In February, one of India’s most renowned and socially conscious journalists, P. Sainath delivered the inaugural Baba Amte Memorial Lecture at The University of Melbourne on the theme ‘Slumdogs versus Millionaires – Rural distress in the Age of Inequality’. In March, the Editorial Director of India Today, M.J. Akbar spoke at the Institute on ‘Australia and India: Strategic Challenges Ahead’, while later the same month,

Australia’s Minister for Trade, the Hon Craig Emerson delivered the Ben Chifley Memorial Lecture on the theme ‘Australia and India in the Asian Century.

In July, the eminent economist and member of the House of Lords, Baron Meghnad Desai delivered the Satyajit Ray Memorial Lecture on the topic ‘Can the Elephant Run Any Longer?’, a reference to the slowing pace of reforms in India. In August it was the ANZ Bank’s CEO Mike Smith’s turn at the podium, when he presented the Australia India Address.

2012 Highlights Public Lectures & Orations

Baron Meghnad Desai delivers the inaugural Satyajit Ray Oration at The University of Melbourne

The Australia India Institute’s Task Forces published influential reports on issues of importance to both countries in 2012.

In July, the A.I.I’s Perceptions Task force report Beyond the Lost Decade focused international attention on the need for better relations between our two nations, and offered fresh ideas for expanding understanding, trust and economic and security co-operation. Months after the report suggested that Australia could better use its system of national awards to generate goodwill in India, it was announced that India’s cricket great Sachin Tendulkar had received the Order of Australia. The news received a rapturous reception in India.

The report of the Task Force on Tobacco Control, Plain Packaging of Tobacco Products, recommended that India follow Australia’s example by introducing generic packaging of cigarettes and other forms of tobacco to combat the epidemic of smoking-related illnesses. Following release of the report, Indian MP Jay Panda introduced a private member’s bill in the Indian Parliament modelled on Australia’s plain packaging legislation.

The task force model harnesses the talents and experience of eminent persons from academia, government and media backgrounds. Both the year’s task force reports attracted substantial media attention and energised policy formulation and debate.

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2012 Highlights Task Forces

Baron Meghnad Desai delivers the inaugural Satyajit Ray Oration at The University of Melbourne Maxine McKew, Christopher Kremmer and Ashok Malik, part of the A.I.I’s Perceptions Task Force.

The Australia India Institute was a proud partner in the 2012 Australia-India Roundtable, the main informal diplomatic dialogue between the two nations, held in New Delhi.

The meeting, which was addressed by Australia’s Minister for Resources, Martin Ferguson, included two other Australian MPs, Senator Lisa Singh of Tasmania and the Federal Member for Kooyong, Josh Frydenberg from Victoria. Also participating were Andrew Shearer of the Department of Premier and Cabinet, Government of Victoria, A.I.I representatives Amitabh Mattoo and Christopher Kremmer, and Fairfax journalist Matt Wade. A large number of officials from India’s Ministry of External Affairs also took part, as did numerous leading strategic analysts including the co-chairs, Dr C. Raja Mohan of the New Delhi-based Observer Research Foundation (ORF), and Rory Medcalf of the Sydney-based Lowy Institute for International Policy.

Held under Chatham House rules, the dialogue comprised two days of frank and thought-provoking discussions on energy security and cooperation; security in the Indo-Pacific region; economic relations; the role of cities and states in creating external linkages; maritime security; and new frameworks of governance and diplomacy.

Along with the ORF and Lowy, the Institute’s partners in presenting the dialogue included the Public Diplomacy Division of India’s Ministry of External Affairs, and the Australia-India Council, an arm of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

The convening organisations agreed to hold the next meeting of the Australia-India Roundtable in Australia in 2013.

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2012 Highlights Diplomacy

Australia’s Minister for Resources, the Hon Martin Ferguson, addressing the 2012 Australia-India Roundtable, New Delhi

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Australia’s Minister for Resources, the Hon Martin Ferguson, addressing the 2012 Australia-India Roundtable, New Delhi

Former Australian High Commissioner to India and A.I.I International Advisory Committee member, John McCarthy

The Federal Member for Kooyong, the Hon Josh Frydenberg

Senator Lisa Singh

Oz Fest 2012-13Australian culture arrived in India on a lavish scale in 2012 with Oz Fest, the most comprehensive Australian arts festival ever staged in the country.

Spanning four months, 18 cities, and over 100 performances, the festival’s aim was simple - to show Indians that contemporary Australia means more than just cricket. Indeed, today’s Australia brings cultural diversity, creativity and optimism to its developing partnership with India. As a gold sponsor of the festival, the Australia India Institute helped raise the curtain on this unprecedented event. Prime Minister Julia Gillard used the occasion to announce a new scholarship in honour of the late Indian sitar maestro Ravi Shankar. Shankar’s daughter Anouksha performed at the festival’s opening concert at Delhi’s Purana Qila (Old Fort). The Ravi Shankar World Music Scholarship, which encourages the study of music at the master’s degree level at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, is supported by the Australia India Institute.

The A.I.I is playing an active and important role in fostering cross-cultural ties between Australia and India, hosting and supporting numerous cultural events in 2012 from theatre performances to film screenings and book launches. The A.I.I-State Library of Victoria exhibition Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond, was the first major display of 13th-18th century Persian, Mughal Indian and Ottoman Turkish illustrated manuscripts and miniatures to be held in Australia. Other highlights included the unveiling by revered Australian film director Paul Cox of a bust of the iconic Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray, and the Indian theatre workshop facilitated by world-renowned theatre and dance artists Professor K. Madavane and Professor Vijaya Rao.

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2012 Highlights Cultural Diplomacy

Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond exhibition, Melbourne, April 2012

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Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond exhibition, Melbourne, April 2012

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The Australia India Institute, based at Australia’s top-ranked university, has rapidly established its reputation as the focal point of the expanding relationship between the two nations.

Established at The University of Melbourne in 2008, the A.I.I was launched by the then deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard in New Delhi in 2009. The Institute’s national remit was reflected from the outset, with the University of New South Wales in Sydney, and Victoria’s La Trobe University becoming partner institutions.

An Australian Government grant of just over $8 million, augmented by $1.75 million support in cash and kind from The University of Melbourne provided the initial impetus, funding an array of international conferences, research partnerships, cultural events, and dialogues between thinkers and policy makers from the two countries. In the period 2011-2013 the university has contributed a further $1.33 million in cash and in-kind support.

In 2012 the Federal Department of Industry, Innovation Science, Research and Tertiary Education committed a further $1.5 million over three years to fund the Institute’s operations. The State Government of Victoria also generously committed $1.5 million over three years, and through the Department of Business and Innovation has provided financial support for key programs administered by the Institute, including the Victoria India Doctoral Scholarships scheme.

On these strong foundations, the A.I.I Board, its International Advisory Committee, its Fellows, Distinguished Fellows, and staff are working to build a new and deeper relationship between two great democracies with shared interests in our region and the world.

No other institution shares this specific mission – to grow the environment in which Australia-India contacts and understanding, cooperation and partnerships can become stronger and more diverse in the 21st century.

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Focus on India The Story so Far

Prime Minister Julia Gillard with her Indian counterpart Dr Manmohan Singh, New Delhi - Photo: Auspic

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The Chancellor of The Australian National University and Distinguished Fellow of the Australia India Institute, Gareth Evans found a worthy adversary in A.I.I Director and Professor of Disarmament Studies at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University, Amitabh Mattoo when they debated Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament: Global and Regional Challenges at The University of Melbourne.

The lecture and debate were part of a series entitled Australia’s Role in the World, a partnership initiative between The University of Melbourne, The Australian Institute of International Affairs and UN Youth Australia, aimed at engaging young people, academia and the wider public in debate about global issues. Topics of discussion included whether the hopes generated by President Obama in his 2009 Prague

speech for serious movement towards a nuclear weapons-free world have proved illusory, thereby exposing the world to the risk of continued nuclear proliferation.

The event attracted media attention Australia-wide and was broadcast on ABC’s Big Ideas program in its entirety. The lecture also proved popular on The University of Melbourne website and YouTube.

Debates Australia in the World

Prime Minister Julia Gillard with her Indian counterpart Dr Manmohan Singh, New Delhi - Photo: Auspic Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AC QC

In 2012, the Australia India Institute achieved a new level of visibility and authority in news and other media in both countries. A basic search on Google reveals the A.I.I has quickly achieved a level of public visibility attained by only a handful of other Asia-facing institutions.

The ground-breaking Institute Task Force report Beyond the Lost Decade, released in July 2012, attracted blanket media coverage and international attention for its probing analysis of past difficulties and new opportunities for cooperation between India and Australia. The report presented research showing a recovery in Australia’s standing in India following the difficulties in 2009, when Indian students in Australia were affected by street violence.

Not only is the A.I.I bringing Indians from all walks of life to Australia to participate in its programs, but its network of media contacts means Indians are being seen and heard more in mainstream Australian media. The Institute’s website and social media platforms are also helping to expand Australian awareness of Indian perspectives, and vice-versa.

In 2013, we will continue to expand our media presence to create synergies within our diverse stakeholder and alumni base, and to inform public debates around India issues.

Media Setting the Agenda

A.I.I’s Director of Communications and Publishing, Christopher Kremmer fronts ABC TV’s News Breakfast program

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In October 2012, when Prime Minister Julia Gillard visited New Delhi, the media turned to the A.I.I for insights into the challenges and opportunities of what is now seen as the defining partnership in the Indian Ocean region.

ABC-TV Breakfast, SKY News, and ABC-TV News24’s The World program were among media outlets who interviewed A.I.I’s Director of Communications Christopher Kremmer, who also appeared on breakfast television with A.I.I Emerging Leader Fellow Ashok Malik during the launch of the Institute’s Perceptions Task Force in July.

In 2013, A.I.I moves into production of its own programs with Australia India TV featuring interviews with politicians, scholars, business people and artists working in the India space. The interviews will be available for viewing on the Institute’s website.

Media Television

Former Indian High Commissioner to Australia, Gopalaswami Parthasarathy speaks on Australia Network TV

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The launch of the Australian Government White Paper Australia in the Asian Century provided yet another opportunity for A.I.I to help shape the agenda, with the Institute making a detailed formal submission and briefing Dr Ken Henry on issues of importance in Australia-India relations.

The White Paper deemed India as one of four nations that would be pivotal to Australia’s prosperity and security in the coming decades, the others being China, Japan and Indonesia. The paper’s recommendations, which become government policy, include a bold initiative to make Hindi one of four languages available as subjects for Australian school students from Year One onwards.

The Institute’s Director, Professor Amitabh Mattoo spoke with ABC Radio’s Sunday Extra program about the report.

Earlier in the year, flagship current affairs programs like ABC Radio’s AM gave substantial national coverage to the A.I.I’s Perceptions Task Force report.

Beyond the news headlines, A.I.I works with specialist national radio programs to deepen Australia’s awareness of India, and India’s knowledge of Australia in a way that news programs rarely do.

In 2012, the Institute successfully engaged the interest of a number of ABC Radio National specialist programs including The Law Report, Sunday Profile, Life Matters, RN Breakfast with Fran Kelly, and The Media Report. Leading Indian thinkers such as West Bengal Governor M.K. Narayanan, and Sunit Tandon, head of the Indian Institute for Mass Communication were interviewed in depth giving Australians greater insight into India’s contemporary reality.

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In 2012 the Australia India Institute undertook a major upgrade and redesign of its website, transforming it into a multi-media hub and powerful tool for engagement. A Google search for the Institute returns almost one quarter of a million results on the World Wide Web. Visitors to our website can read our blog, access high quality video and audio of conferences, seminars and lectures, and also get news and keep track of upcoming events.

As a result of these changes, the A.I.I is now also in sync with the social media revolution, with hundreds of hits per day being referred to our website from such platforms as Flickr, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn and YouTube. We will continue to refine our approach in the ever-changing online environment via our e-newsletter, Twitter, Facebook Fan Page, and emerging platforms.

Listening to the Indian and Australian publics is part and parcel of building understanding between them. In 2012, the A.I.I partnered with online democracy forum OurSay to learn more about the issues that command public attention. Throughout the Institute’s Argumentative Indian conference and for weeks afterwards, more than 900 people nominated issues and questions they wanted to direct to Indian intellectual and social leaders. Months before world attention turned to violent attacks on women in India, the two most popular questions raised by participants in the World’s Largest Democracy forum concerned this issue.

Traditional print media has not been forgotten, with a number of leading daily newspapers in both countries publishing opinion articles by A.I.I staff, and supporters like Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen.

Media Print and Online

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Australia’s minerals export boom dominates the headlines, but out of the spotlight another significant boom, this one in educational ties between Australia and India, is underway. The long decline in interest in each other has been arrested, and our two countries are today working steadily towards building an array of knowledge-based partnerships over the coming years. The State of Victoria has invested heavily to turn around Indian perceptions and build stronger educational ties. Not only have funds been provided to establish a permanent chair in Indian Studies at The University of Melbourne, but ten doctoral scholarships are now awarded each year to Indian scholars to undertake all or part of their research at Victorian universities.

As part of its teaching commitment, and with the aim of building capacity in Australia to understand and appreciate the complexities of India, the Institute ran two subjects on India for the students of The University of Melbourne in 2012. The under-graduate subject on Contemporary India, which dealt with politics, society, economics and foreign policy, attracted some 40 students. The Masters seminar, titled India and the World covered relations with the great powers and multilateral institutions, as well as India’s role in South

Asia. Out of the 20 students who attended the seminar, the Institute also sponsored a fully paid trip for the two best students for a trip to India to attend the inaugural convention of the Indian Association of International Studies in New Delhi. In October 2012 India announced that it would sponsor the establishment of five chairs in Indian Studies at Australian universities. Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, said the chairs, to be funded by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), would promote academic and student exchanges. One such chair will be located at the University of Melbourne with the support of the A.I.I.

Engaging the next generation’s interest in India is the focus of the A.I.I’s relationship with the Australia India Youth Dialogue. The Institute co-sponsored A.I.Y.D’s inaugural gathering in New Delhi in January 2012. A.I.I also administers the Australia India Student Experience, an innovative study tour which allows Australian students to travel across India meeting their Indian counterparts along the way. During the recent inaugural study tour, students from Australia and India debated in mixed teams - not nation against nation - and shared their hopes and fears about the challenges they will face in their lives and careers in the 21st century.

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When Prasenjit Kundu began his Emerging Leader Fellowship (ELF) with the Australia India Institute he didn’t expect to make headlines in the Australian press. But the Kolkata-based business leader’s ideas for developing a low-cost model for delivering Australian skills education in India struck a chord with media and policy makers alike.

As The Australian’s Higher Education section reported “Australian colleges could be working with hundreds of millions of students in ten years if they readjust their “comfort zone” to the realities of India.” An overstatement, perhaps, but with offshore delivery of Australian Vocational Education and Training (VET) an area of intense policy interest, Prasenjit’s work, facilitated by A.I.I, has made an exciting and informed contribution to an issue where much more work needs to be done.

The ELF program hosts outstanding mid-career Indian professionals from a variety of disciplines including the media, academia, the civil service and public life for up to eight weeks, during which they undertake research, write and deliver papers, and interact with Australian counterparts.

Pawan AgarwalPawan Agarwal, a senior civil servant with India’s Planning Commission, had only recently concluded his role in drafting India’s five-year plan for higher education policy when he arrived in Australia as an ELF. As well as gaining valuable time to further develop his ideas, Pawan forged excellent links with his Australian host institutions, including The University of Melbourne.

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Emerging Leaders Prasenjit Kundu

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Business

Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced in New Delhi in October 2012 that Australia and India have set a goal of doubling bilateral trade to $40 billion by 2015. India-Australia economic cooperation currently spans trade, energy and mining, science and technology, information technology, defence and security, and education.

In 2012, the Australia India Institute partnered with the Australia-India Business Council Victoria to establish the Ashoka Award to recognise an individual who has contributed significantly to relations between our countries. The inaugural award went to the Federal Resources minister, the Hon Martin Ferguson for championing trade and investment ties between the two nations.

AIBC Victoria was again our partner in organising the Australia India Address, delivered by ANZ Bank CEO Mike Smith. The talks and seminar program at the A.I.I included several important contributions on the state of the Indian economy, in particular the searching analysis provided by Dr M Govinda Rao, Director of India’s National Institute of Public Finance and Policy. Mining giant Rio Tinto’s India Managing Director, Nik Senapati attended the 2012 Australia India Roundtable in New Delhi in December, an event co-sponsored by A.I.I.

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What started in 2005 as a stint of voluntary service eventually saw Hayley co-found Atma, a not-for-profit body which works in the education sector of India. With 30% of the world’s illiterate population living in India, Atma works to address educational inequality by building capacity in the non-government aid sector in Mumbai. Atma currently works with 13 Partners reaching out to over 18,000 children and young adults living in the poorer parts of India’s financial capital.

Hayley’s journey from Lakes Entrance schoolgirl to international aid worker took a new turn in 2012 when she began working with A.I.I shortly before she was chosen as Young Australian of the Year (Victoria).

“It was a really beautiful ceremony, I was surprised and incredibly humbled to win” Hayley recalls. “It’s great to have recognition for Atma’s model and work.”

Hayley’s parents Brian and Leeane, her friends, the Lakes Entrance community and her new colleagues at A.I.I were thrilled that her work was recognised. Typically, her response was to think of the impact of her award on others. “If I could break my award into small pieces I would. This is an award to be shared by all those amazing people on this journey who have contributed to Atma’s impact.”

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Australia India Institute Projects Officer – and Young Australian of the Year (Victoria) -- Hayley Bolding’s connection with India was born in the slums of Mumbai.

Professor Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate, Harvard UniversityWelcome Address to delegates to The Argumentative Indian: Critical Debates in the World’s Largest Democracy & Perspectives from Australia. University of Melbourne, October 31, 2012.

“This conference shares the name of a book of mine, namely The Argumentative Indian, and I’m honoured by it. I’ve been told to say something about the book, perhaps to describe its main contents. But if it’s arrogant to write a book, it’s super arrogant to try to describe it to others. So I won’t really do that. But I think the subject of arguments in India is a very important one.

India has a very long argumentative tradition with which my book is much involved. I even begin with the Rig Vedas, quoting a rather agnostic, possibly even atheistic verse in that 1600 BC document, which is meant to be the mainstay of the Hindu religion. But this is a tradition to which not only Hindus, but also Buddhists, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Parsees, and even people of Jewish origin, who all came to India at different times, have contributed. I think we should celebrate that, especially as from time to time intolerance appeals to some countrymen of mine, and I think it’s very important to avoid that thought.

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The argumentative tradition invites us to think critically. If you think about the Bhagavad Gita, which is one of the scriptural books of Hinduism, it’s really one long argument between two perspectives about whether it’s right to wage a war, and in the process kill people, kill even people who are close to one – friends, relations, and so on – in pursuit of a good cause. Krishna takes the view that if that’s your duty then you ought to do it. Arjun, the great warrior, questions this view; it may look like my duty, but could it be my duty really to kill all these people if the cause is good?

In the Gita itself, Krishna wins the argument. But if you look at the epic as a whole – and that’s where the criticality comes in – some of the things that Arjun worst feared, namely the kind of death and desolation that visits the area in which the story is set, it ends with funeral pyres burning at different places, and women crying about their men who have died. It’s not a story where the celebration of the Krishna perspective could be seen to be unalloyed.

This criticality is a very important one to capture. When we look at history we can interpret it in different ways. I’ve always emphasised – and there may be a personal bias here –to look at the critical elements in it, because they give us something to think about today, and I think this applies to many areas of Indian thought today. I think it’s also the case that the long argumentative tradition has some contribution to make to having a flourishing democracy in India. So, in that sense, there is something to explore – to what extent this helps our democracy.

Our democracy is successful in many ways, but not in every way. A lot of the people do not get an adequate voice, especially people who are at the bottom of the society. The contrast between the privileged and the rest can be quite large. The argumentative tradition incites us to think about how to bring more people into the fold.

I know that many of the people here at this conference – I see some of their names – have really thought about this issue. The argumentative tradition in India is partly a celebration, partly an invitation to criticality, partly a reason for further exploration, and partly also an incitement to get more people into the argument, so that Indian democracy can be a more inclusive one than it has, in effect, ended up being.

I have to confess that I am at the moment finishing a book jointly with Jean Dreze tentatively called An Uncertain Glory – that’s a Shakespearean term from Two Gentleman of Verona – An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions. I think these contradictions are part of the Indian society and I think the argumentative tradition can be invoked in the context of trying to resolve these contradictions, as well as to understand these contradictions much better.”

The Australia India Institute, based at Australia’s top-ranked university, has rapidly established its reputation as the focal point of the expanding relationship between the two nations.

Established at The University of Melbourne in 2008, the A.I.I was launched by the then deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard in New Delhi in 2009. The Institute’s national remit was reflected from the outset, with the University of New South Wales in Sydney, and Victoria’s La Trobe University becoming partner institutions.

An initial Australian Government grant of just over $8 million, augmented by $1.75 million support in cash and kind from The University of Melbourne, provided the initial impetus, funding an array of international conferences, research partnerships, cultural events, and dialogues between thinkers and policy makers from the two countries.

In 2012 the Federal Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education committed a further $1.5 million over three years to fund the Institute’s operations. The State Government of Victoria also generously committed $1.5 million over three years, and through the Department of Business and Innovation has provided financial support for key programs administered by the Institute, including the Victoria

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Glyn Davis, Vice-Chancellor, University of Melbourne The annual Australia India Institute Oration, ‘Reasoning Beyond the Past’, delivered during “The ‘Argumentative Indian’: Critical Debates in the World’s Largest Democracy & Perspectives from Australia. University of Melbourne, October 31. 2012.

“In his opening message, Professor Sen described critical thinking as central to the democratic project. This theme is my subject tonight: the role of public reasoning in navigating difference. My starting point is reflections by Amartya Sen on the great Bengali poet

Rabindranath Tagore. There is, as our Indian guests know, a famous personal link between the two men.

Professor Sen’s grandfather was not only vice-chancellor at Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal, but a literary scholar and close associate of Tagore. As Professor Sen tells the story, Tagore wrote to his pregnant mother, saying he disliked the tradition of giving babies old family names. He had thought of a new name for her soon-to-be-born son, and hoped she would like it.

Thus was ‘Amartya’ called. To be named by one of the great writers is a legacy few can claim. To live up to such a legacy through an extraordinary lifetime’s contribution, as Professor Sen has done, is even rarer.

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Let us stay with the connection between Rabindranath Tagore and Amartya Sen for a moment longer, because the story sheds light on the concept of public reasoning. Tagore was a renowned poet, painter, novelist and musician, who died in 1941. His legacy is explored by Professor Sen in an essay titled “Tagore and his India”. As a poet, Tagore exerted significant influence on western culture in the first decades of the 20th century. British war poet Wilfred Owen, killed in the trenches in the last days of World War One, died with Tagore’s words scrawled in his pocket notebook. As his mother Susan wrote to Tagore in 1920:

Wilfred said good-bye with ‘those wonderful words of yours - beginning at “When I go from hence, let this be my parting word.”’

She was quoting a much-admired poem:

When I go from hence let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable. I have tasted of the hidden honey of this lotus that expands on the ocean of light, and thus am I blessed - let this be my parting word. In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play and here have I caught sight of him that is formless. My whole body and my limbs have thrilled with his touch who is beyond touch; and if the end comes here, let it come - let this be my parting word.

Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian – indeed the first non-European - to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. After a lifetime of speaking and writing, he died aged 80, by saying he was about to step onto the ‘… boat that crosses to the festival of the wordless end’.

Yet his words are treasured still – in the national anthems of India and Bangladesh, in the poems, stories, lessons and art works.

Tagore was argumentative, disagreeing with those who defined a future India only in terms of older traditions against the inheritance of colonial rule. Tagore believed strongly in respecting people and cultures different from one’s own.

I am proud of my humanity when I can acknowledge the poets and artists of other countries as my own [he wrote.] Let me feel with unalloyed gladness that all the great glories of man are mine. Therefore it hurts me deeply when the cry of rejection rings loud against the West in my country that Western education can only injure us.

Tagore distrusted ideology. He insisted on open debate, genuine public discussion. We should not take proposals on trust. The question Tagore persistently asks, Amartya Sen reminds us, is “whether we have reason enough to want what is being proposed.”

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MK Narayanan, Governor of West Bengal‘India in a Changing Asia’, keynote to The Argumentative Indian: Critical Debates in the World’s Largest Democracy & Perspectives from Australia. University of Melbourne, November 1, 2012.

“India and Australia are members of the Commonwealth and share a special relationship. The bond created through shared values, and the ties that bind the two countries, are unique in many ways. Democracy and democratic ideals, inclusiveness and pluralism, are hallmarks of the political systems in

both countries. The time has hence come, I believe, for an even more profound political relationship, as well as enhancement of the existing cooperation, between our two countries.

At a personal level, I have happy memories of my engagement with the Foreign Policy and Strategic establishment of the great Commonwealth of Australia during my years as India’s National Security Advisor. Even prior to this, when I was Head of Indian Intelligence, I witnessed at first hand the close personal relationship that existed between the Intelligence Services of the two countries.

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Vast changes are taking place across the entire Asian landmass…the rise of China – and to a lesser extent, India – has captured the imagination of the world.What is, however, evident is that the economies of many other countries of Asia are also undergoing a major transformation, and their economic performance is equally noteworthy. Singapore and Japan have, no doubt, been models for emulation for a long time. To this should now be added among the better performers, Taiwan, Indonesia, South Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, et al. More recently, countries emerging from years of isolation, like Myanmar, or those shackled by insurgency and terrorism, like Afghanistan, hold out considerable promise.

The picture that emerges is of a resurgent Asia – an Asia on the march. This is happening at a time of exponentially accelerating change, and new paradigms of thought, action and behaviour are overtaking and replacing old ones…Strategic rivalries are on the increase in the Asian region. Most analysts see the main rivalry in Asia as being between India and China, though both countries disclaim the existence of such rivalry. There is also talk of the region becoming a theatre of Great Power rivalry, especially after the US the announcement regarding its Asia Pivot and reiteration that it is a Pacific power.

To some extent, China and India are destined by geography to be rivals: neighbours with large populations, old civilizations, rich and venerable cultures, and disputes with regard to their borders. The two countries are, nevertheless, far apart as civilisations, and in their makeup. Elected accountability in India is an important point of difference. Moreover, Chinese scholars appear unable to comprehend the true nature of India’s ethnic, religious, ideological and economic makeup.

Both countries are, however, conscious of possible miscalculations. Both are anxious to lower the threshold of concern. The Sino-Indian border is peaceful and tranquil as of now, and the Special Representatives Dialogue mechanism has ensured that the border remains quiet. There are several other structures in place for discussion and negotiations. A system of regular Summits between leaders of the two countries is in place. Relations have evolved over time and both countries now have in place a Strategic and Cooperative Partnership for Peace and Prosperity. In 2008, both countries agreed on a Shared Vision for the 21st Century. Nevertheless, the opaqueness of Chinese intentions requires India not to lower its guard.

Hopefully, this will help in further enhancing the scope of initiatives taken by the leadership on both sides. I am optimistic that it will lead to the forging of an enhanced and close strategic and comprehensive partnership. This will benefit not only the countries of the region, but nations across the globe as well.”

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Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Former Governor of West Bengal, Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi‘India’s Political Imagination: Myths, Dreams and Reality’. Valedictory speech to The Argumentative Indian: Critical Debates in the World’s Largest Democracy & Perspectives from Australia. University of Melbourne, November 2, 2012.

“India. Named after an ancient river, famed for the world’s most beautiful building the Taj Mahal and three of humankind’s greatest sons, Gautama the Buddha, Sankara the Acharya and Mohandas the Mahatma, lauded for the varied leaps of her ageless mind, India is blamed for the teeming number of stomachs she must feed, and quite rightly shamed by her legacy of sectarian hatreds and the domineering temperament of her male offspring.

That India of numberless languages, un-numbered dialects, of people who live off their intellect, people who live off streets, those that live precariously by salt-marshes and in dense forests, people who till lands as hard as moonscape and as soft as fudge, people who toil, people who from all exertion exempt themselves, people who bully and people who bring those bullies to heel, people who exploit and, equally, people who teach exploiters such lessons as they can never forget, people who threaten and terrorise, people who return terror

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by counter-terror, people who act bravely, write sagely and people whose cowardice in the face of arrogance sickens, people who argue for and against arguing and in the process raise argumentation to a new genre, a new cult and indeed a calling, people who speak briefly – bless them! – and people who are themselves verbose blaming others for their verbosity for they go on and on in sentences that stretch like elastic never stretched, that very India of those hugely differentiated people, ladies and gentlemen, is claimed, acclaimed, proclaimed by the world’s evolving epic of civilizations and its history of democratic republics as, absolutely and incontestably, their most remarkable heroine.

India. Does that India, which has such a powerful cultural personality, such a tangle of agonies and such a bounty of blessings have, to add to its preoccupations, a political imagination that could be called ‘India’s political imagination’? Never happy painted with one colour, does that India have one political imagination? Or many political imaginations?

The truthful answer is India has as many political imaginations as there are political aspirations among her children. And in each of those imaginations, is set an image, or more than one image of what the person imagining India politically, wants that India to be. And what that person wants himself or herself within that India to be.

If I, Abdul, live in Malappuram or Chennai or Murshidabad, my political imagination is very different. My Malayalam or my Tamil or my Bangla are better than my Urdu, and if I have family in the Gulf or in Singapore, I want to be left alone to enjoy the prosperity I have come into. But if I do not have that line to money, I am in trouble. My schooling is poor, my living conditions precarious, and I am constantly in debt. If I, Abdul, live in Gujarat, I want to forget

2002. I do not have myths and legends so much as I have nightmares that have become legends and then in the black of pitch. I do not want to have to live through those nightmares ever again. And if I am not Abdul but Fatima, anywhere in India, my problems are complicated because I am either being told by the orthodox to dress in a particular way or not in a particular way, and am being advised by liberals to do exactly as I please.

I want to be myself, but that is so difficult, for myths and legends, doctrine and dogma surround me all the time. Some of these are rather new, the older ones of Syed Ahmad Khan, the Ali brothers, of the Quaid-e-Azam, of Suhrawardy, of Maulana Azad and Khan Abdul Ghaffar the heroic Pathan, having turned sepia or turned to dust. Others may have political imaginations like people have favourite writers or actors or musicians, but for me, Abdul, or for me, Fatima, my political imagination has fears for myths and worries for legends. My vafa, my iman are asked to declare themselves in the colours of others’ political imaginations, my insaniyat remains my only undeclared possession.

Over-arching all the myths and legends in its political imagination and deriving, again, from its sense of a primordial India there is a sense of India being greater than its vicissitudes, great as those are, stronger than its challenges formidable as those are, an India that is meant to be a theatre of conflict but not of defeat, of trials but never of collapse; indeed and in fact, of the triumph of a stoic endurance.”

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BooksMattoo, Amitabh (Editor). The Reluctant Superpower: Understanding India and its Aspirations, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne. December 2012.

Task Force ReportsMcCarthy, John, and Sanjaya Baru, Gopalaswami Parthasarathy, Maxine McKew, Ashok Malik, Christopher Kremmer. Beyond the Lost Decade. Winter 2012.

Srinath Reddy, K, and Rob Moodie, Plain Packaging of Tobacco Products. Spring 2012

CollectionsEmerging Leaders Reports, Volume One. Autumn 2012

Book LaunchesSeptember 2012 - Shashi Tharoor’s Pax-Indica: India and the world of the 21st century

October 2012 – Amitabh Mattoo’s (Editor) The Reluctant Superpower

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Report of theAustralia India Institute

Taskforce on Tobacco Control

Report of theAustralia India Institute

Perceptions TaskforceBeyond the Lost Decade

John McCarthy, AOSanjaya Baru

Gopalaswamy ParthasarathyMaxine McKew

Ashok Malik (co-convener)Christopher Kremmer (co-convener)

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Indian author and politician Shashi Tharoor signs books for readers at his Melbourne book launch.

‘Beyond the Lost Decade’ Task Force report‘Tobacco Control’ Task Force report.

Lectures, Dialogues and Events The Australia India Institute organised, supported, sponsored and facilitated a wide range of conferences, workshops, seminars, lectures, roundtables and other events held in 2012 in India and Australia. These included the Tiffin Talks series of seminars, and the Chai & Conversation series of roundtable meetings. Eminent participants in these events included the former Chief Justice of the High Court of Delhi, A.P. Shah, renowned Australian economist Professor Ross Garnaut, one of India’s most respected writers and intellectuals, Professor Sunil Khilnani and the Director, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, Dr M. Govinda Rao.

2012 SPEAKERS AND EVENTS

23/02/12 Demographic dividend or disaster? Employment in the new India

Dr Elizabeth Hill

2/3/12 Australia and India: Strategic Challenges Ahead

M.J. Akbar

9/3/12 Nuclear Security Dr Manpreet Sethi16/03/12 India-Pakistan: The need for

reconciliationProf Amitabh Mattoo

27/3/12 Ben Chifley Lecture: Australia and India in the Asian Century

Craig Emerson

9/7/12 Satyajit Ray Memorial Lecture: Can the Elephant Run Any Longer?

Lord Meghnad Desai

17/7/12 Perceptions Task Force Report Launch Held at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sydney

25/7/12 Tobacco Control Task Force Launch Held at Australia India Institute, Melbourne

31/07/12 Chai and Conversation Prof. Sunil Khilnani9/08/12 Australia's Role in the World Lecture:

Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament: Global and Regional Challenges

Gareth Evans and Prof Amitabh Mattoo

14/08/12 Australia India Address Mike Smith31/08/12 Chai and Conversation Prof. Partha Ghosh9/9/12 Pax-Indica Book Launch: India and the

world of the 21st centuryShashi Tharoor

21/9/12 Chai and Conversation Harsh Shrivastava8/10/12 Chai and Conversation Prof. Govinda Rao31/10/12 - 2/11/12 Conference: ‘The Argumentative

Indian: Critical Debates in the World’s Largest Democracy & Perspectives from Australia’.

Various speakers

19/11/12 Movie Night - Yes, Madam, Sir – the life of Kiran Bedi

In Conjunction with Our Say

28/11/12 Australia-India: Security and soft power intersections

Dr Nick Hill

29/11/12 Friends of Asha Launch Dr Kiran Martin

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9/2/12 Universal access to health care in India: the case for community action

Nevin Wilson

16/2/12 Connecting the dots Mahima Kaul23/2/12 Education, Practice and Place: Building Powerful

Partnerships in IndiaDebbie Tyler, Paul Molyneaux

1/3/12 Student Entrepreneurs: Partnering for Health in Rural India

Bharat Ramakrishna

8/3/12 Community Mental Health in India: Challenges and Innovations for the Future

Bruce Singh and panel

15/3.12 Will Rahul Gandhi ever be Prime Minister? The Impact of the recent elections on the future of the Congress Party.

Souresh Roy & Harsh Shrivastava

22/3/12 Fostering Accountability from Below: Observations from the Field

Salim Lakha

29/3/12 Decolonising International Law: Development, Economic Growth, and the Politics of Universality

Sundhya Pahuja

5/4/12 Quo Vaid Mizoram University? Chami Sailo19/4/12 Do you know what the law is? Harsh Shrivastava26/4/12 Cities in the Global South and their Informality Sheela Patel3/5/12 Structural Change in the Indian Economy Reshad Ahsan10/5/12 Falling in love with the trees of Delhi: and some of

the consequencesSandy Webb

17/5/12 Under the Radar of Empire: Australia-India Connections

Devleena Ghosh

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24/5/12 The Politics of Sanitation in Urban India Sue Chaplin31/5/12 Ektaal - developing a brand for India. John Simons7/6/12 Globalisation and Changing Social Contract

between Science and Society: Implications for Asian Countries

V.V Krishna

26/7/12 Controlling Anaemia in India – An Iron Will Is Needed!

Sant-Rayn Pasricha

2/8/12 'Bye Bye to Hindi-Chini Bhai Bhai? Hindi press coverage of Chinese news

Peter Friedlander

9/8/12 ‘Indians discovered Bass Strait’ and other interesting facts.

Len Kenna & Crystal Jordan

16/8/12 Pitch of Perceptions Ashok Malik23/8/12 The Indian Parliament at 60 Years: This far, how

much further?Mandira Kala

30/8/12 Northeast Migrants in Delhi: Race, Refuge, and Retail.

Duncan McDuie-Ra

6/9/12 The causes of cardiovascular disease in underprivileged regions of India: do they differ from other settings?

Amanda Thrift

13/9/12 Tobacco Control Task Force Report: Plain Packaging of Tobacco Products

Dr Monika Arora

20/9/12 Is science finally inching towards metaphysics? A Broad Overview of the Current Scene

Professor Venkataraman

4/10/12 Domesticity and Domicile in Rabindranath Tagore’s Gora

Mridula Nath Chakraborty

11/10/12 On the Trail of Taslima Hanifa Deen 18/10/12 A Sustainable Business Model for Australian TAFEs

to Collaborate with India’s VET SectorPrasenjit Kundu

25/10/12 China Rises, India Ponders: New Delhi’s ‘Look East Policy’ Gathers Momentum

Harsh Pant

15/11/12 Banks, Economic Growth and Less Developed Regions: Evidence from India

Dr Rashmi Umesh Arora

30/11/12 The Next Five Years of Higher Education in India Pawan Agarwal

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Dr Pawan Agarwal

Planning Commission of India The next five years of higher education in India

Dr Rajeev Anantaram

Senior Associate Editor at the Business Standard China in India’s economic strategy

Dr Supriyo De Officer on Special Duty to the Chief Economic Adviser, Ministry of Finance India

Harnessing the Windmills of the Mind: Intangible Capital, Innovation, and Economic Growth

Dr Mandira Kala

PRS Legislative Research The Indian Parliament at 60 years: this far how much further?

Mahima Kaul Writer and journalist The ‘Information Society’ and the need for digital inclusion

Prasenjit Kundu

President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Globsyn Skills Development

A sustainable business model for Australian TAFEs to collaborate with India’s VET sector

Dr Rajib Maity

Assistant Professor, IIT Kharagpur Climate Change: A burning issue

Ashok Malik Columnist Perceptions and Indian domestic politics and its impact on foreign policy

Dr Harsh Pant Reader in International Relations in the Defence Studies Department at King’s College London

Asian security issues

Harsh Shrivastava

Planning Commission of India Planning

Dr Nevin Wilson

Medical Doctor Universal Access to Healthcare in India: the case for community action

Programs

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The Australia India Institute manages and administers the Victoria India Doctoral Scholarships (VIDS) for the Victorian government. The programme offers ten scholarships to Indian PhD candidates accepted to do their PhDs at a Victorian university. Victoria’s nine universities provide a full tuition waiver, with the scholarships providing AUD $90,000 over the duration of the candidate’s doctoral studies. The successful candidates who began their research in 2012 are:

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Programs Victoria India Doctoral Scholarships

Mrs Sayali Shah University of MelbourneMr Debabrata Sikdar Monash UniversityMr Sathish Thirunavukkarasu Monash UniversityMr Buvaneshwaran Venugopal Deakin UniversityMs Sreejoyee Ghosh Deakin UniversityMr Vignesh Rathinasamy La Trobe UniversityMs Jyotsna Nagpal La Trobe UniversityMr Rohan Shah Swinburne University of TechnologyMr Abishek Suresh RMIT UniversityMs Hitu Sood Australian Catholic University

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17/05/12 Business Standard Uranium supply to India to be demand based: Australia30/05/12 The Economic Times Australia to rebound as preferred destination for Indians: Australia India

Institute30/05/12 FirstPost Will Australians regain most favoured destination for Indian students?

1/06/12 IBN Live 2nd Year of VIDS Program Launched2/06/12 Times of India More work options for Indian students in Oz5/06/12 Business Standard Australia, India in better position to finalise FTA, says AII

11/06/12 Times of India The Victoria India Doctoral Scholarships 201311/06/12 The Hindu Plenty of research options for Indians Down Under12/06/12 Mail Today Indian student numbers up by 10% in Victoria14/06/12 The Hindu Australia looking to bring over vocational courses to India17/07/12 The Age Rate the states in fight against racism: report17/07/12 ABC Radio AM India-Australia relations mending but still brittle17/07/12 SMH States should be ranked on student aid, says report17/07/12 The Asian Age Trade talks, easier visas to better Indo-Oz ties? 17/07/12 7 News Report finds Australian reputation in India better18/07/12 The Hindu India-Australia ties on the mend

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Media Impacts

Fairfax journalist Matt Wade (centre) with fellow delegates to the 2012 Australia-India Roundtable in New Delhi, December 2012

18/07/12 ZeeNews Foreign Policy differences caused friction between India, Aus18/07/12 The Conversation Australia, India must look beyond lost decade18/07/12 ABC Radio Australia Report finds Australian reputation in India better18/07/12 The Hindu India-Australia ties on the mend18/07/12 Hindustan Times The Right Way Forward18/07/12 Indian Express Easier visa may improve India-Australia ties18/07/12 Hindustan Times Australia and India look beyond cricket18/07/12 Mint Study released on India, Australia ties19/07/12 The Times of India Flawed policy, perception fail to strengthen Indo-Australia ties19/07/12 Indian Express Attacks, aftermath was double whammy for Indians in Oz20/07/12 The Telegraph Has cricket shaped India's perception of its neighbours?23/07/12 The Hindu Health ministry plans plain packaging of tobacco products23/07/12 Deccan Herald More must be done to stop smoking23/07/12 IBN Live Plain packaging, bigger warning on tobacco products: Task force

5/08/12 SMH India may adopt Australia's plain packaging laws5/08/12 Stock and Land Fuse Lit on ban in India8/08/12 The Financial Express Beyond the Lost Decade8/08/12 SMH Hoping for an Indian summer

15/08/12 Hindustan Times Selling Grindlays in India was a mistake: ANZ chief16/08/12 Health India WHO welcomes Aussie Goat’s 'plain cigarette packaging' verdict16/08/12 ABC Radio Australia Anti-smoking lobby insists plain packs could cut Asia's smoking rate21/08/12 ZeeNews Australian PM seeks to visit India before year-end

7/09/12 ABC Radio Australia India considers plain packaging for cigarettes1/10/12 The Hindu Molecular watch in Melbourne1/10/12 Indus Age World's most exciting conference on India4/10/12 Indus Business Journal India in the Indian Ocean region: Re-calibrating US expectations

12/10/12 The Australian Gillard has work to do in India13/10/12 SMH Greater balance needed on trade in the region13/10/12 SMH We need a change of mind on India15/10/12 Rediff Why India MUST take advantage of Australia15/10/12 Times of India Akhilesh Yadav to address India conference in Australia16/10/12 The Age Canberra and Delhi must dig deep to seal uranium deal16/10/12 The Conversation Gillard's Delhi challenge: win over India and get the PM down under16/10/12 RN Breakfast Australia and India: Relations

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16/10/12 The Australian India's languages unlock culture17/10/12 ZeeNews India, Australia decide to launch negotiations for nuke impact17/10/12 The Interpreter The Australia India story continues18/10/12 The Australian PM seals uranium deal with India18/10/12 Indian Express Gillard's India visit more than successful: Australian analysts18/10/12 ZeeNews Gillard's India visit more than successful: Oz analyst, media20/10/12 The Australian Boost for Indian studies20/10/12 The Australian Let's put more passion into courting India24/10/12 The Australian ‘Frugal innovation' key to wooing Indian masses 29/10/12 The Australian Region open to bid to engage29/10/12 Business Standard Whitepaper on Asia new turn for Indo-Aus ties: think tank29/10/12 The Economic Times Australian Whitepaper on Asia new turn for Indo-Aus ties: Amitabh Mattoo, AII30/10/12 Odisha Diary Odisha MP Baijayanta Panda to address Argumentative Indian Conference 31/10/12 The Age Arguing tradition key to an inclusive society31/10/12 The Conversation Australia has to fund the Asian Century, whether we like it or not

1/11/12 The Age Why we need to get inside the mind of Asian business1/11/12 Hindustan Times India, China destined by geography to be rivals: Narayanan2/11/12 The Hindu Beijing's assertiveness in dealing with disputes disconcerting: Narayanan2/11/12 ZeeNews Australia had a shallow impression of India8/11/12 SBS World News Documentary shows life of Indian students in Australia8/11/12 Seven Sisters Post Kiran Bedi stirs conscience of India in Melbourne

12/11/12 The Australian The west is poised for strategic role as hub of the Indo-Pacific age14/11/12 The Australian $37m fillip for overseas study

4/12/12 News Track India Negotiations for uranium sale to be developed in due time 4/12/12 The Indian Awaaz Formula for uranium sale to India to be evolved in due time: Australia7/12/12 Lowy Institute The 2012 Australia-India Roundtable: Outcomes7/12/12 Greater Kashmir Indo-Pak: Shift in Strategy7/12/12 Indian Express Australia-India roundtable deepens cooperation

17/12/12 Pakistan Today Indo-Pak Chaophraya dialogue continues to gain strength10/12/12 SMH Roundtable lifts hopes of revival in relations with India18/12/12 Pakistan Today 11th Indo-Pakistan Track II dialogue kicks off in Bangkok22/12/12 Pakistan Today Only political solution can resolve Afghan imbroglio24/12/12 The Economic Times 2012 brings significant improvement in Australia-India ties

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PATRONThe Honourable Alex Chernov AC QC, Governor of Victoria, is Patron of the Australia India Institute. A former Chancellor of The University of Melbourne, he is a Companion of the Order of Australia, and former judge of the Court of Appeal. A student of India’s economic history, his interest in the country is long-standing and passionate.

BOARDROBERT JOHANSON Chair

Robert Johanson is deputy Chancellor of The University of Melbourne and chairman of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank and The Conversation. He is a director of Grant Samuel, and a member of the Takeovers Panel.

SUSAN ELLIOTT Deputy Chair

Professor Elliott is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Engagement) at The University of Melbourne. She was educated at Presbyterian Ladies’ College Burwood, followed by medical school at The University of Melbourne, where she was Dux of the Austin and Repatriation General Hospital’s Clinical School and the recipient of the Senior Medical Staff Prize. Her specialist training is in Gastroenterology and she completed her MD by thesis in 1993. Professor Elliott worked as a consultant physician at the Austin and Western Hospitals from 1994 to 1997 whilst concurrently pursuing her interest in medical education.

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Patron & Board

A.I.I Patron and Governor of Victoria, the Honourable Alex Chernov (second from left) with his wife, Elizabeth Chernov, with Dr Kiran Martin (second from the right) and Guru Vinod Kumar.

SUSAN BENNETT

Susan Bennett is the General Manager, International Education and Science Division, Australian Government Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education. She has worked in the federal education portfolio in international and higher education and student income support, and her federal public sector career has included working in the Attorney-General’s and Health portfolios.

JAMES DONALD

James Donald became Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at UNSW in 2007, having been appointed Professor of Film Studies in July 2003. He was previously Professor of Media at Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia, and before that, in England, he had worked in the School of Education at the Open University and helped to establish Media Studies at The University of Sussex.

JULIA FRASER

Julia Fraser is the Associate Director, Asialink, and a member of Asialink’s Executive, and Co-Director of Asia-Australia Mental Health, a consortium of partners at The University of Melbourne and St. Vincent’s Health. Her expertise is in facilitating adult learning, large scale project management, and developing training curricula and programs for a wide variety of audiences in Australia and the region.

AMITABH MATTOO

Professor Mattoo is Director of A.I.I and a Professor of International Relations at The University of Melbourne. He concurrently serves as Professor of Disarmament Studies at the Centre for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University. Professor Mattoo has been a Member of the National Knowledge Commission, a high-level advisory group to the Prime Minister of India and the National Security Council’s Advisory Board.

JOHN ROSENBERG

Professor John Rosenberg is Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor of La Trobe University. He holds the Honours degree of Bachelor of Science and the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in computer science from Monash University, and is a Fellow of the Academy for Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Australian Computer Society. JUDGE

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A.I.I Patron and Governor of Victoria, the Honourable Alex Chernov (second from left) with his wife, Elizabeth Chernov, with Dr Kiran Martin (second from the right) and Guru Vinod Kumar.

ISHER JUDGE AHLUWALIA Chair

Isher Judge Ahluwalia is Chairperson, Board of Governors, the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), where she served as Director and Chief Executive from 1997 to 2001. Dr Ahluwalia was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the President of India in 2009 for her services in the fields of education and literature. Dr Ahluwalia is Chairperson of the High Powered Expert Committee on Urban Infrastructure, appointed by the Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India in May 2008. She is also Member, National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council, Government of India.

JOHN MCCARTHY AO Deputy Chair

Mr John McCarthy is a distinguished career diplomat who served as Australia’s High Commissioner to India (2004-2009). He was earlier Ambassador to Vietnam (1981-83), Ambassador to Mexico (1985-87), Ambassador to Thailand (1992-94), Ambassador to the United States (1995-1997) Ambassador to Indonesia (1997-2001) and Ambassador to Japan (2001-2004). He has also served in Damascus, Baghdad and Vientiane.

NEVILLE ROACH AO

Mr Roach has had a distinguished career in the Information Technology and Telecommunications industries. He was appointed Chairman and CEO of Fujitsu Australia in 1997. He retired from the CEO position in 2000 and as Chairman in 2004. Mr Roach is currently Chairman of the Advisory Board of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in Australia and New Zealand. He was responsible for establishing the Australian Chapter of NASSCOM (India’s peak ICT industry association) and was named Patron of NASSCOM Australia.

INDU SHAHANI

Dr (Mrs) Indu Shahani, Principal of H.R. College of Commerce & Economics was appointed Sheriff of Mumbai on Jan. 5, 2008 and is now in her third term for the same. Dr (Mrs) Indu Shahani’s nomination to Boards of large national and global companies has provided impetus for significant collaboration between industry and academia, as well as bringing diversity to the Boards on which she serves.

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Governance International Advisory Committee

DISTINGUISHED FELLOWSMani Shankar Aiyar Suranjan Das Swapan Dasgupta Gareth Evans AC QC Charles Green Robin Jeffrey Maxine McKew Rob Moodie Ashis Nandy Linda Rosenman Brian Stoddart Shashi Tharoor John Webb OAM

FELLOWSRavi Bhatia Gautam Bose Howard Brasted Lance Brennan Richard Cashman Robyn Davidson Peter Deutschmann Pavan Gandhok Meg Gurry Wayne Lewis Hector Malano

Jim Masselos Rory Medcalf Michael Moignard Michael Pearson Ajay Raina Fazal Rizvi Dennis Rumley Christopher Snedden Pradeep Taneja Pera Wells

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Fellows

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AMITABH MATTOO Director

JACYL SHAW Strategic Adviser to the Director

CHRISTOPHER KREMMER Director, Communications and Publishing

ELISE FAGONE Program, Marketing and Events Director

SHANKA DE SILVA Office Manager

TESS GROSS Executive Assistant to the Director

HAYLEY BOLDING Projects Officer

SOURESH ROY Research Assistant to the Director

SIMONE TRAGLIA Events and Project Officer

ALEXANDRA HANSEN Communications Officer and Web Editor

SUSANNA JULIAN Operations and Finance Officer

SHIBU KITROO Operations and Finance Officer

ALIYA ELARISS Project Coordinator (India)

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Staff

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The following section includes the income and expenditure financial statements of the Australia India Institute from 1st January 2008 to 31 December 2012 as prepared by the Australia India Institute (Finance).

The Financial Reports from 1st January 2008 to 31st December 2010 were certified by the Chief Finance Officer, University of Melbourne. The Financial Reports for 2011 and 2012 were audited and certified by the Director, Internal Audit, University of Melbourne.

Funding from the Australian Government Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education, Victorian State Government Department of Business and Innovation, University of Melbourne and other income were expended for the purposes stipulated in the Conditions of Grants, and the Institute is compliance with all contracts, agreements and pertinent legislation.

Financials

Australia India Institute - Income and Expenditure Report 2008 - 2012General operating / Aii Project

DIICCSRTE

95576 95579

Actual as of 31 December 2009 2010 2011 2012 2012

OPENING BALANCE (Notional cash carry forward from Previous Year)

- 5,503,789 4,389,266 3,900,270 -

INCOME -

Commonwealth Funding / Financial Assistance 5,506,000 - 2,600,000 - 1,500,000

State & Local Government Grants - - - - - 1,500,000

Other Grants (PCS) - - 137,580 77,715 -

Investment Income - - - - 7,152 54,990

Non Course Fees & Services - - 4,616 - -

Professional Services (AIEC) - - 136,364 - -

Other Income (GCP) - - 10,909 - -

Fee for Service Income - - - -93,142 -

Asset Disposal - - - 59 -

Internal Allocations/Transfers-Central Admin. (UoM) - - - - -

Internal Recoveries-Department Use (Shared expenses recovery) - 604 63,419 - -

Total Income 5,506,000 604 2,952,887 -15,368 1,507,152 1,554,990

EXPENDITURE

Salary Costs Permanent - 371,570 738,837 283,868 -

Salary Costs Casual - 25,989 47,028 142,774 -

Salary Expenditure Total - 397,559 785,865 426,642 -

Grants - 25,000 529,522 261,761 -

Finance Related (Tax) 534 5,090 39,157 102,922 -

Scholarships & Student Related - 2,158 21,828 20,828 -

Other Services - 479,691 902,685 385,786 -

Consumable Supplies 430 21,003 93,904 537,966 -

Travel, Accom, Conf, Seminars, Workshops, Events & Programmes 1,247 167,311 867,173 1,164,253 -

Expensed Assets - 2,985 31,424 32,006 -

Infrastructure Related Expenses - 2,322 134,946 183,505 -

Internal Allocations/Transfers-Central Admin. (Support Cost) - 12,008 35,380 8,848 -

Non Salary Expenditure 2,211 717,568 2,656,018 2,697,875 -

Total Expenditure 2,211 1,115,127 3,441,883 3,124,517 -

Net Surplus/(Deficit) 5,503,789 -1,114,523 -488,996 -3,139,886 1,507,152 1,554,990

CLOSING BALANCE 5,503,789 4,389,266 3,900,270 760,385 1,507,152 1,554,990

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Australia India Institute - Income and Expenditure Report 2008 - 2012General operating / Aii Project

University of Melbourne

006-88-00010 010-00-00010

010-02-00000 & 00010

010-02-00000 & 00010

010-02-00000 & 00010

Actual as of 31 December 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

OPENING BALANCE (Notional cash carry forward from Previous Year)

- 875,308 600,454 327,415 903,986

INCOME

Internal Allocations/Transfers-Central Admin. (UoM) 1,000,000 - - 850,000 -

Internal Recoveries-Department Use (Shared expenses recovery) - - - - -

Total Income 1,000,000 - - 850,000 -

EXPENDITURE

Salary Costs Permanent 110,386 188,381 193,643 200,504 779,594

Salary Costs Casual - 5,205 - 9,824 24,667

Salary Expenditure Total 110,386 193,586 193,643 210,328 804,261

Grants - - - - -

Finance Related (Tax) 173 4,965 883 58 -677

Scholarships & Student Related - - - - -

Other Services 4,545 4,658 40,681 34,277 11,141

Consumable Supplies 903 10,394 6,859 -4,142 -738

Travel, Accom, Conf, Seminars, Workshops, Events & Programmes 8,685 58,803 9,423 18,024 389

Expensed Assets - 2,444 19,137 510 491

Infrastructure Related Expenses - 4 2,413 14,374 91,177

Internal Allocations/Transfers-Central Admin. (Support Cost) - - - - -

Non Salary Expenditure 14,306 81,268 79,396 63,101 101,784

Total Expenditure 124,692 274,854 273,039 273,429 906,045

Net Surplus/(Deficit) 875,308 -274,854 -273,039 576,571 -906,045

CLOSING BALANCE 875,308 600,454 327,415 903,986 -2,059

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Australia India Institute - Income and Expenditure Report 2008 - 2012Other special projects

VG DBI DIICCSRTE DIICCSRTE

VIDS 95577

AIEC 95578

AISE 95580

Actual as of 31 December 2011 2012 2012 2012

OPENING BALANCE (Notional cash carry forward from Previous Year)

- 963,492 - -

INCOME

Commonwealth Funding / Financial Assistance - - 303,328 200,000

State & Local Government Grants 1,000,000 2,000,000 - -

Investment Income - - - 869

Fee for Service Income -1,000,000 136,364 -

Total Income 1,000,000 1,000,000 439,692 200,869

EXPENDITURE

Salary Costs Permanent - 60,169 - -

Salary Costs Casual 28,858 29,942 - 17,115

Salary Expenditure Total 28,858 90,112 - 17,115

Grants - - - -

Finance Related (Tax) - 651 - 31

Scholarships & Student Related - 810,000 - 1,040

Other Services 7,171 1,244 45,000 -

Consumable Supplies 480 1,372 364 654

Travel, Accom, Conf, Seminars, Workshops, Events & Programmes - 35,691 20,250 22,409

Expensed Assets - - - -

Infrastructure Related Expenses - - 3,328 -

Internal Allocations/Transfers-Central Admin. (Support Cost) - - - -

Non Salary Expenditure 7,650 848,958 68,943 24,134

Total Expenditure 36,508 939,070 68,943 41,249

Net Surplus/(Deficit) 963,492 60,930 370,750 159,620

CLOSING BALANCE 963,492 1,024,422 370,750 159,620

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Australia India Institute University of Melbourne In-Kind Contribution Report 2011 - 31st December 2012Estimate Estimate Estimate Estimate Actual

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

CHARGES

Overhead Charges 1 42,346 58,155 299,498 339,332 -

IT Common Services - - - - 64,027

Finance Common Services - - - - 9,266

HR Common Services - - - - 3,931

Property Common Services - - - - 111,583

Property Rental - - - - 61,133

OHS Common Services - - - - 649

SPU Common Services - - - - 2,398

Total Charges 42,346 58,155 299,498 339,332 252,987

Drivers for Overhead Charges:

FTE 0.75 1 5 6

Overhead charges per annum per FTE 2 56,461 58,155 59,900 61,697

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

Australia India Institute University of Melbourne In-Kind Contribution Report 2011 - 31st December 2012Estimate Estimate Estimate Estimate Actual

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

CHARGES

Overhead Charges 1 42,346 58,155 299,498 339,332 -

IT Common Services - - - - 64,027

Finance Common Services - - - - 9,266

HR Common Services - - - - 3,931

Property Common Services - - - - 111,583

Property Rental - - - - 61,133

OHS Common Services - - - - 649

SPU Common Services - - - - 2,398

Total Charges 42,346 58,155 299,498 339,332 252,987

Drivers for Overhead Charges:

FTE 0.75 1 5 6

Overhead charges per annum per FTE 2 56,461 58,155 59,900 61,697

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

University of Melbourne147 – 149 Barry Street Carlton, Victoria 3053

T: + 61 3 9035 8047www.aii.unimelb.edu.au 2012