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Director’s Report 2 Chair’s Report 3 2012 Highlights 4 Focus on India 14 Debates 15 Media 16 Education 20 Emerging Leaders 21 Business 22 Giving Back 23 Outstanding Orations 24 Publications 32 Lectures, Dialogues and Events 34 Programs 38 Media Impacts 39 Patron and Board 42 Governance 44 Fellows 45 Staff 46 Financial Reports 48 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 In the latest Australian Census data, Indians role, setting and implementing an exciting agenda constituted the largest single group of new migrant by bringing Indian and Australian scholars, policy arrivals. The growth of the Indian Diaspora in makers and opinion leaders together in dialogue, Australia is a phenomenon rich in potential. The and by fostering partnerships in vital areas of Federal government’s White Paper Australia in the common interest. Our new teaching programs, at the Asian Century, released in October 2012, demonstrated undergraduate and postgraduate levels, hope to create that at the political level too, there is commitment to an intellectual capacity within Australia to understand building both strategic and cultural ties. In the years the complexities of contemporary India in this critical to come, Indian and Australian navies will increase phase of engagement. Our Task Forces aim to provide cooperation, and Hindi will be one of four priority the policy community within the two countries with languages offered to Australian schoolchildren from fresh ideas to move the relationship forward. And our Year 1 onwards. An expansion in the resources devoted Director’s Report growing in-house academic and policy expertise is a to the study of India at Australian universities is also vital resource for all those interested in India and in underway, with a permanent chair in Indian Studies the bilateral relationship. funded in large part by the State Government of Victoria about to be established at The University of The essential challenge at this critical juncture, when Melbourne and hosted by the Institute. new opportunities for cooperation and partnership are emerging, is to maintain momentum and engage with The Australia India Institute remains the only national stakeholders to turn aspirations into realities. Rarely centre devoted to building the overall relationship before has there been such a moment of opportunity. between our two nations. As the relationship expands In academia, business, government and people-to- there will inevitably be pressures on the capacity of people relations, connections and partnerships forged our small Institute to satisfy increased demand for now will stand us in good stead amid the uncertainties our support and expertise, and we do hope we can that always accompany periods of economic and fulfil these expectations. We are thankful for the geopolitical re-alignment like the one currently financial and in-kind support of the Commonwealth underway in our region. Proliferating engagement and Victorian State governments, and The University across the board is apparent, from increasing numbers of Melbourne, which has been crucial to our ability of visiting delegations, to the high quality of applicants to intervene decisively in this important area of for research scholarships and fellowships we offer, endeavour. We also value our partnerships with and expanding interest in the Institute as a centre of The University of New South Wales and La Trobe expertise on the part of print, broadcast and online University. media. Professor Amitabh Mattoo Director, Australia India Institute

2 Chair’s Report

In 2012 the Australia India Institute came of age. public lectures, and cultural and other outreach We have consolidated our role as a key gateway for activities. engagement between our two nations. We are also delighted to welcome strategic and policy This annual report conveys the excitement and energy analyst Rory Medcalf as an associate director based at the Institute has generated in its early years. From The University of New South Wales in Sydney. We look high-profile task force reports and influential emerging forward to more projects being developed with other leader fellowships, to its growing cohort of research partner institutions, including La Trobe University in scholars and role in policy formulation, the Institute’s Victoria. footprint is expanding to the benefit of a wide range of With expectations and levels of interest between India stakeholders. and Australia at an all-time high, new challenges We are pleased to announce that our inaugural are emerging. The Institute is currently funded until director, Professor Amitabh Mattoo has extended his the end of 2014. If we are to continue servicing and tenure and will remain at the helm in Melbourne until nurturing an expanding Australia-India relationship, a early 2015. The past year has also seen a number of longer-term, secure funding arrangement will need to key appointments that deepen the Institute’s reservoir be put in place. of India expertise. Author and journalist Christopher For now, it is with pleasure that I present to you the Kremmer joined us as Communications Director, 2012 Australia India Institute Annual Report. This caps and 2013 Young Australian of the Year (Victoria) a year of substantial progress and achievement as we Hayley Bolding has added her youthful dynamism to look ahead with confidence to 2013. the management of our scholarship and study tour programs. They join a small and enthusiastic staff Robert Johanson, working to deliver a packed program of seminars, Chair, Australia India Institute Board

3 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, The Federal member for Goldstein, the Hon Andrew Robb academics and social activists from around the world, addresses the conference who debated India’s progress and challenges as an emerging leader on global and regional issues. From the Australia India Institute Oration, delivered BJP. Several leading Indian journalists also attended, by Professor Glyn Davis, Vice-Chancellor of The including Siddharth Varadarajan, editor of the University of Melbourne, to social activist Kiran Bedi’s respected daily newspaper, The Hindu, Shankkar clarion call for action on corruption, this world-class Aiyar and H.K. Dua. The Governor of West Bengal gathering of India expertise put Australia on the map and India’s former National Security Advisor, M.K as a dynamic and engaged partner in the India story in Narayanan gave a keynote address which painted a the Asian Century. positive outlook for Australia-India relations in the fast

2012 Highlights Conferences

Critical discussions on the most relevant issues facing changing Indo-Pacific region, relations which he said India today were held over the three days. Foreign had reached a ‘defining moment’. Policy and International Relations enthusiasts were in The then Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs, their element, and sessions on the media highlighted Science and Research, Senator Chris Evans addressed some phenomenal facts and realities about the colossal the conference on the importance of engagement with powerhouse that is the Indian media. Gopalkrishna Asia, and the Federal Member for Goldstein, Andrew Gandhi closed the conference with an inspiring and Robb spoke about Australia’s and India’s political poetic valedictory speech, leaving no-one doubting systems and the way forward. that he had inherited his grandfather, Mahatma Gandhi’s capacity to inspire. For more information about the conference go to www.argumentativeindian.org A notable feature of the conference was the strong representation of all India’s main political parties including the ruling Congress Party and Opposition

4 2012 Highlights Conferences

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.

2012 Highlights Partners in Research

The human story in the 21st century is a story of welcomed its first ten Indian PhD students, with global connectedness. The Australia-India partnership another ten starting their research in 2013. Research is leading the way with innovative and visionary topics include diabetes prevention, investor protection, initiatives that emphasise partnerships in research and regulation in the financial services industry, novel innovation. The Australia India Institute is at the centre means of drug delivery, optical broadband technologies of these initiatives. and treatment of livestock diseases. The $50 million Australia India Strategic Research The continuation of a program like VIDS means Fund is Australia’s single largest bilateral research that by 2013, twenty Indian doctoral scholars will be collaboration with any nation. The AISRF has funded a working at Victorian universities at one time. This wide range of cutting edge scientific research projects, represents a smart investment not merely in building and forged enduring links between institutions and the state’s research capacity, but also in forging solid researchers. and enduring partnerships with India. The State government of Victoria has also led the VIDS has also been instrumental in boosting dialogue way with the Victoria India Doctoral Scholarships between India and Victoria on education issues. (VIDS) program, administered by the Australia India In February 2012, a delegation of Victorian higher Institute. Each scholarship is worth $90,000 over three education leaders visited New Delhi, Bangalore, years. Participating universities waive tuition fees for Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Ahmedabad and the successful recipients. In 2012 the VIDS program Pune, as part of the Super Trade Mission led by the Premier of Victoria. The delegation included six

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.

Vice- Chancellors from Victoria’s most prestigious The A.I.I stands ready to assist other state and territory universities, 14 of Victoria’s pre-eminent TAFE governments interested in establishing new research Institutes (including dual-sector), and other leading collaborations with India. It also fosters educational education providers. A centrepiece of the Delhi cooperation through its membership of the Australia meetings was an Education Roundtable discussion India Education Council (A.I.E.C). The A.I.E.C between the Victorian delegation and 17 Indian vice- provides a forum for leaders representing government, chancellors, plus representatives from all the major educational institutions, training organisations education bodies in India. Dr Meenakshi Gopinath, and industry to identify strategic goals in further Principal of New Delhi’s Lady Shri Ram College, and strengthening bilateral education, training and A.I.I Director Professor Amitabh Mattoo chaired the research relationships. This forum promises to become roundtable. an annual event, facilitating cluster-based research between Victorian and Indian universities.

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

2012 Highlights Public Lectures & Orations

In 2012, the Australia India Institute provided a Australia’s Minister for Trade, the Hon Craig Emerson platform for an unprecedented array of Indian and delivered the Ben Chifley Memorial Lecture on the Australian leaders in the fields of politics, journalism theme ‘Australia and India in the Asian Century. and business who contributed to our annual series of In July, the eminent economist and member of the lectures and orations. House of Lords, Baron Meghnad Desai delivered the In January, indigenous leader Patrick Dodson got the Satyajit Ray Memorial Lecture on the topic ‘Can the ball rolling, delivering the annual Gandhi Oration Elephant Run Any Longer?’, a reference to the slowing at The University of New South Wales. In February, pace of reforms in India. In August it was the ANZ one of India’s most renowned and socially conscious Bank’s CEO Mike Smith’s turn at the podium, when he journalists, P. Sainath delivered the inaugural presented the Australia India Address. 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,

8 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.

2012 Highlights Task Forces

The Australia India Institute’s Task Forces published The report of the Task Force on Tobacco Control, influential reports on issues of importance to both Plain Packaging of Tobacco Products, recommended countries in 2012. that India follow Australia’s example by introducing generic packaging of cigarettes and other forms of In July, the A.I.I’s Perceptions Task force report Beyond tobacco to combat the epidemic of smoking-related the Lost Decade focused international attention on the illnesses. Following release of the report, Indian MP Jay need for better relations between our two nations, and Panda introduced a private member’s bill in the Indian offered fresh ideas for expanding understanding, trust Parliament modelled on Australia’s plain packaging and economic and security co-operation. Months legislation. after the report suggested that Australia could better use its system of national awards to generate goodwill The task force model harnesses the talents and in India, it was announced that India’s cricket great experience of eminent persons from academia, Sachin Tendulkar had received the Order of Australia. government and media backgrounds. Both the year’s The news received a rapturous reception in India. task force reports attracted substantial media attention and energised policy formulation and debate.

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

2012 Highlights Diplomacy

The Australia India Institute was a proud partner in the Held under Chatham House rules, the dialogue 2012 Australia-India Roundtable, the main informal comprised two days of frank and thought-provoking diplomatic dialogue between the two nations, held in discussions on energy security and cooperation; New Delhi. security in the Indo-Pacific region; economic relations; the role of cities and states in creating external The meeting, which was addressed by Australia’s linkages; maritime security; and new frameworks of Minister for Resources, Martin Ferguson, included governance and diplomacy. two other Australian MPs, Senator Lisa Singh of Tasmania and the Federal Member for Kooyong, Josh Along with the ORF and Lowy, the Institute’s partners Frydenberg from Victoria. Also participating were in presenting the dialogue included the Public Andrew Shearer of the Department of Premier and Diplomacy Division of India’s Ministry of External Cabinet, Government of Victoria, A.I.I representatives Affairs, and the Australia-India Council, an arm of the Amitabh Mattoo and Christopher Kremmer, and Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Fairfax journalist Matt Wade. A large number of The convening organisations agreed to hold the next officials from India’s Ministry of External Affairs also meeting of the Australia-India Roundtable in Australia took part, as did numerous leading strategic analysts including the co-chairs, Dr C. Raja Mohan of the New in 2013. Delhi-based Observer Research Foundation (ORF), and Rory Medcalf of the Sydney-based Lowy Institute for International Policy.

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

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

The Federal Member for Kooyong, the Hon Josh Frydenberg

Senator Lisa Singh

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

2012 Highlights Cultural Diplomacy

Oz Fest 2012-13 The A.I.I is playing an active and important role in fostering cross-cultural ties between Australia and Australian culture arrived in India on a lavish scale in India, hosting and supporting numerous cultural 2012 with Oz Fest, the most comprehensive Australian events in 2012 from theatre performances to film arts festival ever staged in the country. screenings and book launches. The A.I.I-State Library Spanning four months, 18 cities, and over 100 of Victoria exhibition Love and Devotion: From Persia performances, the festival’s aim was simple - to show and Beyond, was the first major display of 13th-18th Indians that contemporary Australia means more than century Persian, Mughal Indian and Ottoman Turkish just cricket. Indeed, today’s Australia brings cultural illustrated manuscripts and miniatures to be held in diversity, creativity and optimism to its developing Australia. Other highlights included the unveiling by partnership with India. As a gold sponsor of the revered Australian film director Paul Cox of a bust festival, the Australia India Institute helped raise the of the iconic Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray, and the curtain on this unprecedented event. Prime Minister Indian theatre workshop facilitated by world-renowned Julia Gillard used the occasion to announce a new theatre and dance artists Professor K. Madavane and scholarship in honour of the late Indian sitar maestro Professor Vijaya Rao. 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.

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

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

Focus on India The Story so Far

The Australia India Institute, based at Australia’s top- In 2012 the Federal Department of Industry, Innovation ranked university, has rapidly established its reputation Science, Research and Tertiary Education committed as the focal point of the expanding relationship a further $1.5 million over three years to fund the between the two nations. Institute’s operations. The State Government of Victoria also generously committed $1.5 million over three years, Established at The University of Melbourne in 2008, and through the Department of Business and Innovation the A.I.I was launched by the then deputy Prime has provided financial support for key programs Minister, Julia Gillard in New Delhi in 2009. The administered by the Institute, including the Victoria Institute’s national remit was reflected from the outset, India Doctoral Scholarships scheme. with the University of New South Wales in Sydney, and Victoria’s La Trobe University becoming partner On these strong foundations, the A.I.I Board, its institutions. International Advisory Committee, its Fellows, Distinguished Fellows, and staff are working to build An Australian Government grant of just over $8 a new and deeper relationship between two great million, augmented by $1.75 million support in cash democracies with shared interests in our region and the and kind from The University of Melbourne provided world. the initial impetus, funding an array of international conferences, research partnerships, cultural events, No other institution shares this specific mission – to and dialogues between thinkers and policy makers grow the environment in which Australia-India contacts from the two countries. In the period 2011-2013 the and understanding, cooperation and partnerships can university has contributed a further $1.33 million in become stronger and more diverse in the 21st century. cash and in-kind support.

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

Debates Australia in the World

The Chancellor of The Australian National University speech for serious movement towards a nuclear and Distinguished Fellow of the Australia India weapons-free world have proved illusory, thereby Institute, Gareth Evans found a worthy adversary in exposing the world to the risk of continued nuclear A.I.I Director and Professor of Disarmament Studies proliferation. at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University, Amitabh The event attracted media attention Australia-wide and Mattoo when they debated Nuclear Non-Proliferation was broadcast on ABC’s Big Ideas program in its entirety. and Disarmament: Global and Regional Challenges at The lecture also proved popular on The University of The University of Melbourne. Melbourne website and YouTube. 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

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

Media Setting the Agenda

In 2012, the Australia India Institute achieved a new Not only is the A.I.I bringing Indians from all walks level of visibility and authority in news and other of life to Australia to participate in its programs, but media in both countries. A basic search on Google its network of media contacts means Indians are being reveals the A.I.I has quickly achieved a level of public seen and heard more in mainstream Australian media. visibility attained by only a handful of other Asia- The Institute’s website and social media platforms are facing institutions. also helping to expand Australian awareness of Indian perspectives, and vice-versa. The ground-breaking Institute Task Force report Beyond the Lost Decade, released in July 2012, attracted In 2013, we will continue to expand our media presence blanket media coverage and international attention to create synergies within our diverse stakeholder and for its probing analysis of past difficulties and new alumni base, and to inform public debates around India opportunities for cooperation between India and issues. 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.

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

Media Television

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.

17 Media Radio

The launch of the Australian Government White Paper Earlier in the year, flagship current affairs programs like Australia in the Asian Century provided yet another ABC Radio’s AM gave substantial national coverage to opportunity for A.I.I to help shape the agenda, with the A.I.I’s Perceptions Task Force report. the Institute making a detailed formal submission and Beyond the news headlines, A.I.I works with specialist briefing Dr Ken Henry on issues of importance in national radio programs to deepen Australia’s Australia-India relations. awareness of India, and India’s knowledge of Australia The White Paper deemed India as one of four in a way that news programs rarely do. nations that would be pivotal to Australia’s prosperity In 2012, the Institute successfully engaged the interest and security in the coming decades, the others of a number of ABC Radio National specialist being China, Japan and Indonesia. The paper’s programs including The Law Report, Sunday Profile, recommendations, which become government policy, Life Matters, RN Breakfast with Fran Kelly, and The include a bold initiative to make Hindi one of four Media Report. Leading Indian thinkers such as West languages available as subjects for Australian school Bengal Governor M.K. Narayanan, and Sunit Tandon, students from Year One onwards. head of the Indian Institute for Mass Communication The Institute’s Director, Professor Amitabh Mattoo were interviewed in depth giving Australians greater spoke with ABC Radio’s Sunday Extra program about insight into India’s contemporary reality. the report.

18 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.

Media Print and Online

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.

19 Education India Studies Booming

Australia’s minerals export boom dominates the Asia. Out of the 20 students who attended the seminar, headlines, but out of the spotlight another significant the Institute also sponsored a fully paid trip for the two boom, this one in educational ties between Australia best students for a trip to India to attend the inaugural and India, is underway. The long decline in interest in convention of the Indian Association of International each other has been arrested, and our two countries Studies in New Delhi. In October 2012 India are today working steadily towards building an array of announced that it would sponsor the establishment of knowledge-based partnerships over the coming years. five chairs in Indian Studies at Australian universities. Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, said the chairs, The State of Victoria has invested heavily to turn around to be funded by the Indian Council for Cultural Indian perceptions and build stronger educational Relations (ICCR), would promote academic and ties. Not only have funds been provided to establish a student exchanges. One such chair will be located at permanent chair in Indian Studies at The University the University of Melbourne with the support of the of Melbourne, but ten doctoral scholarships are now A.I.I. awarded each year to Indian scholars to undertake all or Engaging the next generation’s interest in India is the part of their research at Victorian universities. focus of the A.I.I’s relationship with the Australia India As part of its teaching commitment, and with the aim Youth Dialogue. The Institute co-sponsored A.I.Y.D’s of building capacity in Australia to understand and inaugural gathering in New Delhi in January 2012. appreciate the complexities of India, the Institute ran A.I.I also administers the Australia India Student two subjects on India for the students of The University Experience, an innovative study tour which allows of Melbourne in 2012. The under-graduate subject Australian students to travel across India meeting their on Contemporary India, which dealt with politics, Indian counterparts along the way. During the recent society, economics and foreign policy, attracted some inaugural study tour, students from Australia and India 40 students. The Masters seminar, titled India and the debated in mixed teams - not nation against nation - World covered relations with the great powers and and shared their hopes and fears about the challenges multilateral institutions, as well as India’s role in South they will face in their lives and careers in the 21st century. 20 Emerging Leaders Prasenjit Kundu

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 Pawan Agarwal overstatement, perhaps, but with offshore delivery of Pawan Agarwal, a senior civil servant with India’s Australian Vocational Education and Training (VET) Planning Commission, had only recently concluded an area of intense policy interest, Prasenjit’s work, his role in drafting India’s five-year plan for higher facilitated by A.I.I, has made an exciting and informed education policy when he arrived in Australia as contribution to an issue where much more work needs an ELF. As well as gaining valuable time to further to be done. develop his ideas, Pawan forged excellent links with his The ELF program hosts outstanding mid-career Indian Australian host institutions, including The University professionals from a variety of disciplines including the of Melbourne. 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.

2321 Business

Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced in New Delhi AIBC Victoria was again our partner in organising the in October 2012 that Australia and India have set a Australia India Address, delivered by ANZ Bank CEO goal of doubling bilateral trade to $40 billion by 2015. Mike Smith. The talks and seminar program at the India-Australia economic cooperation currently spans A.I.I included several important contributions on the trade, energy and mining, science and technology, state of the Indian economy, in particular the searching information technology, defence and security, and analysis provided by Dr M Govinda Rao, Director of education. India’s National Institute of Public Finance and Policy. Mining giant Rio Tinto’s India Managing Director, Nik In 2012, the Australia India Institute partnered with Senapati attended the 2012 Australia India Roundtable the Australia-India Business Council Victoria to in New Delhi in December, an event co-sponsored by establish the Ashoka Award to recognise an individual A.I.I. 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.

1622 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. Giving Back

What started in 2005 as a stint of voluntary service “It was a really beautiful ceremony, I was surprised eventually saw Hayley co-found Atma, a not-for- and incredibly humbled to win” Hayley recalls. “It’s profit body which works in the education sector of great to have recognition for Atma’s model and India. With 30% of the world’s illiterate population work.” living in India, Atma works to address educational Hayley’s parents Brian and Leeane, her friends, the inequality by building capacity in the non- Lakes Entrance community and her new colleagues government aid sector in Mumbai. Atma currently at A.I.I were thrilled that her work was recognised. works with 13 Partners reaching out to over 18,000 Typically, her response was to think of the impact of children and young adults living in the poorer parts her award on others. “If I could break my award into of India’s financial capital. small pieces I would. This is an award to be shared by Hayley’s journey from Lakes Entrance schoolgirl to all those amazing people on this journey who have international aid worker took a new turn in 2012 contributed to Atma’s impact.” when she began working with A.I.I shortly before she was chosen as Young Australian of the Year (Victoria).

23 Outstanding Orations

Professor Amartya Sen, Nobel India has a very long argumentative tradition with which my book is much involved. I even begin with the Rig Laureate, Harvard University Vedas, quoting a rather agnostic, possibly even atheistic Welcome Address to delegates to The Argumentative verse in that 1600 BC document, which is meant to be Indian: Critical Debates in the World’s Largest the mainstay of the Hindu religion. But this is a tradition Democracy & Perspectives from Australia. University to which not only Hindus, but also Buddhists, Muslims, of Melbourne, October 31, 2012. Christians, Sikhs, Parsees, and even people of Jewish origin, who all came to India at different times, have “This conference shares the name of a book of mine, contributed. I think we should celebrate that, especially namely The Argumentative Indian, and I’m honoured as from time to time intolerance appeals to some by it. I’ve been told to say something about the book, countrymen of mine, and I think it’s very important to perhaps to describe its main contents. But if it’s avoid that thought. 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.

24 The argumentative tradition invites us to think Our democracy is successful in many ways, but not in critically. If you think about the Bhagavad Gita, which every way. A lot of the people do not get an adequate is one of the scriptural books of Hinduism, it’s really voice, especially people who are at the bottom of the one long argument between two perspectives about society. The contrast between the privileged and the rest whether it’s right to wage a war, and in the process kill can be quite large. The argumentative tradition incites us people, kill even people who are close to one – friends, to think about how to bring more people into the fold. relations, and so on – in pursuit of a good cause. I know that many of the people here at this conference Krishna takes the view that if that’s your duty then you – I see some of their names – have really thought about ought to do it. Arjun, the great warrior, questions this this issue. The argumentative tradition in India is partly view; it may look like my duty, but could it be my duty a celebration, partly an invitation to criticality, partly really to kill all these people if the cause is good? a reason for further exploration, and partly also an In the Gita itself, Krishna wins the argument. But if incitement to get more people into the argument, so that you look at the epic as a whole – and that’s where the Indian democracy can be a more inclusive one than it criticality comes in – some of the things that Arjun has, in effect, ended up being. worst feared, namely the kind of death and desolation I have to confess that I am at the moment finishing that visits the area in which the story is set, it ends with a book jointly with Jean Dreze tentatively called An funeral pyres burning at different places, and women Uncertain Glory – that’s a Shakespearean term from crying about their men who have died. It’s not a story Two Gentleman of Verona – An Uncertain Glory: India where the celebration of the Krishna perspective could and its Contradictions. I think these contradictions are be seen to be unalloyed. part of the Indian society and I think the argumentative This criticality is a very important one to capture. tradition can be invoked in the context of trying to When we look at history we can interpret it in different resolve these contradictions, as well as to understand ways. I’ve always emphasised – and there may be a these contradictions much better.” personal bias here –to look at the critical elements The Australia India Institute, based at Australia’s top- in it, because they give us something to think about ranked university, has rapidly established its reputation today, and I think this applies to many areas of Indian as the focal point of the expanding relationship between thought today. I think it’s also the case that the long the two nations. argumentative tradition has some contribution to make to having a flourishing democracy in India. So, Established at The University of Melbourne in 2008, the in that sense, there is something to explore – to what A.I.I was launched by the then deputy Prime Minister, extent this helps our democracy. 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

25 Outstanding Orations

Glyn Davis, Vice-Chancellor, Rabindranath Tagore. There is, as our Indian guests know, a famous personal link between the two men. University of Melbourne Professor Sen’s grandfather was not only vice-chancellor The annual Australia India Institute Oration, at Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal, but a literary ‘Reasoning Beyond the Past’, delivered during “The scholar and close associate of Tagore. As Professor Sen ‘Argumentative Indian’: Critical Debates in the World’s tells the story, Tagore wrote to his pregnant mother, Largest Democracy & Perspectives from Australia. saying he disliked the tradition of giving babies old University of Melbourne, October 31. 2012. family names. He had thought of a new name for her “In his opening message, Professor Sen described soon-to-be-born son, and hoped she would like it. critical thinking as central to the democratic project. Thus was ‘Amartya’ called. To be named by one of This theme is my subject tonight: the role of public the great writers is a legacy few can claim. To live up reasoning in navigating difference. My starting point is to such a legacy through an extraordinary lifetime’s reflections by Amartya Sen on the great Bengali poet contribution, as Professor Sen has done, is even rarer.

26 Let us stay with the connection between Rabindranath Yet his words are treasured still – in the national Tagore and Amartya Sen for a moment longer, anthems of India and Bangladesh, in the poems, stories, because the story sheds light on the concept of public lessons and art works. reasoning. Tagore was a renowned poet, painter, Tagore was argumentative, disagreeing with those who novelist and musician, who died in 1941. His legacy defined a future India only in terms of older traditions is explored by Professor Sen in an essay titled “Tagore against the inheritance of colonial rule. Tagore believed and his India”. As a poet, Tagore exerted significant strongly in respecting people and cultures different from influence on western culture in the first decades of the one’s own. 20th century. British war poet Wilfred Owen, killed in the trenches in the last days of World War One, died I am proud of my humanity when I can acknowledge with Tagore’s words scrawled in his pocket notebook. the poets and artists of other countries as my own As his mother Susan wrote to Tagore in 1920: [he wrote.] Let me feel with unalloyed gladness that all the great glories of man are mine. Therefore Wilfred said good-bye with ‘those wonderful words it hurts me deeply when the cry of rejection rings of yours - beginning at “When I go from hence, let loud against the West in my country that Western this be my parting word.”’ education can only injure us. She was quoting a much-admired poem: Tagore distrusted ideology. He insisted on open debate, When I go from hence genuine public discussion. We should not take proposals let this be my parting word, on trust. The question Tagore persistently asks, Amartya that what I have seen is unsurpassable. Sen reminds us, is “whether we have reason enough to I have tasted of the hidden honey of this lotus want what is being proposed.” 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’.

27 Outstanding Orations

MK Narayanan, Governor of both countries. The time has hence come, I believe, for an even more profound political relationship, as well as West Bengal enhancement of the existing cooperation, between our ‘India in a Changing Asia’, keynote to The two countries. Argumentative Indian: Critical Debates in the World’s At a personal level, I have happy memories of my Largest Democracy & Perspectives from Australia. engagement with the Foreign Policy and Strategic University of Melbourne, November 1, 2012. establishment of the great Commonwealth of Australia “India and Australia are members of the during my years as India’s National Security Advisor. Commonwealth and share a special relationship. The Even prior to this, when I was Head of Indian bond created through shared values, and the ties that Intelligence, I witnessed at first hand the close personal bind the two countries, are unique in many ways. relationship that existed between the Intelligence Democracy and democratic ideals, inclusiveness and Services of the two countries. pluralism, are hallmarks of the political systems in

28 Vast changes are taking place across the entire Asian Both countries are, however, conscious of possible landmass…the rise of China – and to a lesser extent, miscalculations. Both are anxious to lower the threshold India – has captured the imagination of the world. of concern. The Sino-Indian border is peaceful and What is, however, evident is that the economies of tranquil as of now, and the Special Representatives many other countries of Asia are also undergoing Dialogue mechanism has ensured that the border a major transformation, and their economic remains quiet. There are several other structures in performance is equally noteworthy. Singapore and place for discussion and negotiations. A system of Japan have, no doubt, been models for emulation for regular Summits between leaders of the two countries a long time. To this should now be added among the is in place. Relations have evolved over time and both better performers, Taiwan, Indonesia, South Korea, countries now have in place a Strategic and Cooperative Vietnam, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, et al. More Partnership for Peace and Prosperity. In 2008, both recently, countries emerging from years of isolation, countries agreed on a Shared Vision for the 21st like Myanmar, or those shackled by insurgency and Century. Nevertheless, the opaqueness of Chinese terrorism, like Afghanistan, hold out considerable intentions requires India not to lower its guard. promise. Hopefully, this will help in further enhancing the scope The picture that emerges is of a resurgent Asia – an of initiatives taken by the leadership on both sides. I am Asia on the march. This is happening at a time of optimistic that it will lead to the forging of an enhanced exponentially accelerating change, and new paradigms and close strategic and comprehensive partnership. This of thought, action and behaviour are overtaking and will benefit not only the countries of the region, but replacing old ones…Strategic rivalries are on the nations across the globe as well.” 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.

29 Outstanding Orations

“India. Named after an ancient river, famed for the Gopalkrishna Gandhi, world’s most beautiful building the Taj Mahal and three of humankind’s greatest sons, Gautama the Buddha, Former Governor of West Sankara the Acharya and Mohandas the Mahatma, lauded for the varied leaps of her ageless mind, India is Bengal, Grandson of blamed for the teeming number of stomachs she must feed, and quite rightly shamed by her legacy of sectarian Mahatma Gandhi hatreds and the domineering temperament of her male ‘India’s Political Imagination: Myths, Dreams and offspring. Reality’. Valedictory speech to The Argumentative That India of numberless languages, un-numbered Indian: Critical Debates in the World’s Largest dialects, of people who live off their intellect, people Democracy & Perspectives from Australia. who live off streets, those that live precariously by salt- University of Melbourne, November 2, 2012. 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

30 by counter-terror, people who act bravely, write sagely 2002. I do not have myths and legends so much as I and people whose cowardice in the face of arrogance have nightmares that have become legends and then in sickens, people who argue for and against arguing and the black of pitch. I do not want to have to live through in the process raise argumentation to a new genre, those nightmares ever again. And if I am not Abdul but a new cult and indeed a calling, people who speak Fatima, anywhere in India, my problems are complicated briefly – bless them! – and people who are themselves because I am either being told by the orthodox to dress verbose blaming others for their verbosity for they go in a particular way or not in a particular way, and am on and on in sentences that stretch like elastic never being advised by liberals to do exactly as I please. stretched, that very India of those hugely differentiated I want to be myself, but that is so difficult, for myths and people, ladies and gentlemen, is claimed, acclaimed, legends, doctrine and dogma surround me all the time. proclaimed by the world’s evolving epic of civilizations Some of these are rather new, the older ones of Syed and its history of democratic republics as, absolutely Ahmad Khan, the Ali brothers, of the Quaid-e-Azam, of and incontestably, their most remarkable heroine. Suhrawardy, of Maulana Azad and Khan Abdul Ghaffar India. Does that India, which has such a powerful the heroic Pathan, having turned sepia or turned to dust. cultural personality, such a tangle of agonies and such a Others may have political imaginations like people have bounty of blessings have, to add to its preoccupations, favourite writers or actors or musicians, but for me, a political imagination that could be called ‘India’s Abdul, or for me, Fatima, my political imagination has political imagination’? Never happy painted with one fears for myths and worries for legends. My vafa, my colour, does that India have one political imagination? iman are asked to declare themselves in the colours of Or many political imaginations? others’ political imaginations, my insaniyat remains my only undeclared possession. The truthful answer is India has as many political imaginations as there are political aspirations among Over-arching all the myths and legends in its political her children. And in each of those imaginations, is set imagination and deriving, again, from its sense of a an image, or more than one image of what the person primordial India there is a sense of India being greater imagining India politically, wants that India to be. And than its vicissitudes, great as those are, stronger than what that person wants himself or herself within that its challenges formidable as those are, an India that is India to be. meant to be a theatre of conflict but not of defeat, of trials but never of collapse; indeed and in fact, of the If I, Abdul, live in Malappuram or Chennai or triumph of a stoic endurance.” 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

31 Publications

Books Mattoo, Amitabh (Editor). The Reluctant Superpower: Understanding India and its Aspirations, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne. December 2012. Task Force Reports McCarthy, 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 Collections Emerging Leaders Reports, Volume One. Autumn 2012 Book Launches September 2012 - Shashi Tharoor’s Pax-Indica: India and the world of the 21st century October 2012 – Amitabh Mattoo’s (Editor) The Reluctant Superpower

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

John McCarthy, AO Sanjaya Baru Gopalaswamy Parthasarathy Maxine McKew Ashok Malik (co-convener) Christopher Kremmer (co-convener)

Report of the Report of the Australia India Institute Australia India Institute Taskforce on Tobacco Control Perceptions Taskforce Beyond the Lost Decade

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

33 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? Dr Elizabeth Hill Employment in the new India 2/3/12 Australia and India: Strategic M.J. Akbar Challenges Ahead 9/3/12 Nuclear Security Dr Manpreet Sethi 16/03/12 India-Pakistan: The need for Prof Amitabh Mattoo reconciliation 27/3/12 Ben Chifley Lecture: Australia and India Craig Emerson in the Asian Century 9/7/12 Satyajit Ray Memorial Lecture: Can the Lord Meghnad Desai Elephant Run Any Longer? 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 Khilnani 9/08/12 Australia's Role in the World Lecture: Gareth Evans and Prof Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Amitabh Mattoo Disarmament: Global and Regional Challenges 14/08/12 Australia India Address Mike Smith 31/08/12 Chai and Conversation Prof. Partha Ghosh 9/9/12 Pax-Indica Book Launch: India and the Shashi Tharoor world of the 21st century 21/9/12 Chai and Conversation Harsh Shrivastava 8/10/12 Chai and Conversation Prof. Govinda Rao 31/10/12 - 2/11/12 Conference: ‘The Argumentative Various speakers Indian: Critical Debates in the World’s Largest Democracy & Perspectives from Australia’. 19/11/12 Movie Night - Yes, Madam, Sir – the life In Conjunction with Our of Kiran Bedi Say 28/11/12 Australia-India: Security and soft power Dr Nick Hill intersections 29/11/12 Friends of Asha Launch Dr Kiran Martin

34 2012 ‘TIFFIN TALKS’

9/2/12 Universal access to health care in India: the case for Nevin Wilson community action 16/2/12 Connecting the dots Mahima Kaul 23/2/12 Education, Practice and Place: Building Powerful Debbie Tyler, Paul Molyneaux Partnerships in India 1/3/12 Student Entrepreneurs: Partnering for Health in Bharat Ramakrishna Rural India 8/3/12 Community Mental Health in India: Challenges and Bruce Singh and panel Innovations for the Future 15/3.12 Will Rahul Gandhi ever be Prime Minister? The Souresh Roy & Harsh Shrivastava Impact of the recent elections on the future of the Congress Party. 22/3/12 Fostering Accountability from Below: Observations Salim Lakha from the Field 29/3/12 Decolonising International Law: Development, Sundhya Pahuja Economic Growth, and the Politics of Universality 5/4/12 Quo Vaid Mizoram University? Chami Sailo 19/4/12 Do you know what the law is? Harsh Shrivastava 26/4/12 Cities in the Global South and their Informality Sheela Patel 3/5/12 Structural Change in the Indian Economy Reshad Ahsan 10/5/12 Falling in love with the trees of Delhi: and some of Sandy Webb the consequences 17/5/12 Under the Radar of Empire: Australia-India Devleena Ghosh Connections

35 24/5/12 The Politics of Sanitation in Urban India Sue Chaplin 31/5/12 Ektaal - developing a brand for India. John Simons 7/6/12 Globalisation and Changing Social Contract V.V Krishna between Science and Society: Implications for Asian Countries 26/7/12 Controlling Anaemia in India – An Iron Will Is Sant-Rayn Pasricha Needed! 2/8/12 'Bye Bye to Hindi-Chini Bhai Bhai? Hindi press Peter Friedlander coverage of Chinese news 9/8/12 ‘Indians discovered Bass Strait’ and other interesting Len Kenna & Crystal Jordan facts. 16/8/12 Pitch of Perceptions Ashok Malik 23/8/12 The Indian Parliament at 60 Years: This far, how Mandira Kala much further? 30/8/12 Northeast Migrants in Delhi: Race, Refuge, and Duncan McDuie-Ra Retail. 6/9/12 The causes of cardiovascular disease in Amanda Thrift underprivileged regions of India: do they differ from other settings? 13/9/12 Tobacco Control Task Force Report: Plain Packaging Dr Monika Arora of Tobacco Products 20/9/12 Is science finally inching towards metaphysics? A Professor Venkataraman Broad Overview of the Current Scene 4/10/12 Domesticity and Domicile in Rabindranath Tagore’s Mridula Nath Chakraborty Gora 11/10/12 On the Trail of Taslima Hanifa Deen 18/10/12 A Sustainable Business Model for Australian TAFEs Prasenjit Kundu to Collaborate with India’s VET Sector 25/10/12 China Rises, India Ponders: New Delhi’s ‘Look East Harsh Pant Policy’ Gathers Momentum 15/11/12 Banks, Economic Growth and Less Developed Dr Rashmi Umesh Arora Regions: Evidence from India 30/11/12 The Next Five Years of Higher Education in India Pawan Agarwal

36 Programs 2012 Emerging Leaders

Dr Pawan Planning Commission of India The next five years of higher Agarwal education in India Dr Rajeev Senior Associate Editor at the Business Standard China in India’s economic strategy Anantaram Dr Supriyo De Officer on Special Duty to the Chief Economic Harnessing the Windmills of Adviser, Ministry of Finance India the Mind: Intangible Capital, Innovation, and Economic Growth Dr Mandira PRS Legislative Research The Indian Parliament at 60 years: Kala this far how much further? Mahima Kaul Writer and journalist The ‘Information Society’ and the need for digital inclusion Prasenjit President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of A sustainable business model for Kundu Globsyn Skills Development Australian TAFEs to collaborate with India’s VET sector Dr Rajib Assistant Professor, IIT Kharagpur Climate Change: A burning issue Maity Ashok Malik Columnist Perceptions and Indian domestic politics and its impact on foreign policy Dr Harsh Pant Reader in International Relations in the Defence Asian security issues Studies Department at King’s College London Harsh Planning Commission of India Planning Shrivastava Dr Nevin Medical Doctor Universal Access to Healthcare Wilson in India: the case for community action

37 Programs Victoria India Doctoral Scholarships

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:

Mrs Sayali Shah University of Melbourne Mr Debabrata Sikdar Monash University Mr Sathish Thirunavukkarasu Monash University Mr Buvaneshwaran Venugopal Deakin University Ms Sreejoyee Ghosh Deakin University Mr Vignesh Rathinasamy La Trobe University Ms Jyotsna Nagpal La Trobe University Mr Rohan Shah Swinburne University of Technology Mr Abishek Suresh RMIT University Ms Hitu Sood Australian Catholic University

3038 Fairfax journalist Matt Wade (centre) with fellow delegates to the 2012 Australia-India Roundtable in New Delhi, December 2012 Media Impacts

17/05/12 Business Standard Uranium supply to India to be demand based: Australia 30/05/12 The Economic Times Australia to rebound as preferred destination for Indians: Australia India Institute 30/05/12 FirstPost Will Australians regain most favoured destination for Indian students? 1/06/12 IBN Live 2nd Year of VIDS Program Launched 2/06/12 Times of India More work options for Indian students in Oz 5/06/12 Business Standard Australia, India in better position to finalise FTA, says AII 11/06/12 Times of India The Victoria India Doctoral Scholarships 2013 11/06/12 The Hindu Plenty of research options for Indians Down Under 12/06/12 Mail Today Indian student numbers up by 10% in Victoria 14/06/12 The Hindu Australia looking to bring over vocational courses to India 17/07/12 The Age Rate the states in fight against racism: report 17/07/12 ABC Radio AM India-Australia relations mending but still brittle 17/07/12 SMH States should be ranked on student aid, says report 17/07/12 The Asian Age Trade talks, easier visas to better Indo-Oz ties? 17/07/12 7 News Report finds Australian reputation in India better 18/07/12 The Hindu India-Australia ties on the mend

393123 18/07/12 ZeeNews Foreign Policy differences caused friction between India, Aus 18/07/12 The Conversation Australia, India must look beyond lost decade 18/07/12 ABC Radio Australia Report finds Australian reputation in India better 18/07/12 The Hindu India-Australia ties on the mend 18/07/12 Hindustan Times The Right Way Forward 18/07/12 Indian Express Easier visa may improve India-Australia ties 18/07/12 Hindustan Times Australia and India look beyond cricket 18/07/12 Mint Study released on India, Australia ties 19/07/12 The Times of India Flawed policy, perception fail to strengthen Indo-Australia ties 19/07/12 Indian Express Attacks, aftermath was double whammy for Indians in Oz 20/07/12 The Telegraph Has cricket shaped India's perception of its neighbours? 23/07/12 The Hindu Health ministry plans plain packaging of tobacco products 23/07/12 Deccan Herald More must be done to stop smoking 23/07/12 IBN Live Plain packaging, bigger warning on tobacco products: Task force 5/08/12 SMH India may adopt Australia's plain packaging laws 5/08/12 Stock and Land Fuse Lit on ban in India 8/08/12 The Financial Express Beyond the Lost Decade 8/08/12 SMH Hoping for an Indian summer 15/08/12 Hindustan Times Selling Grindlays in India was a mistake: ANZ chief 16/08/12 Health India WHO welcomes Aussie Goat’s 'plain cigarette packaging' verdict 16/08/12 ABC Radio Australia Anti-smoking lobby insists plain packs could cut Asia's smoking rate 21/08/12 ZeeNews Australian PM seeks to visit India before year-end 7/09/12 ABC Radio Australia India considers plain packaging for cigarettes 1/10/12 The Hindu Molecular watch in Melbourne 1/10/12 Indus Age World's most exciting conference on India 4/10/12 Indus Business Journal India in the Indian Ocean region: Re-calibrating US expectations 12/10/12 The Australian Gillard has work to do in India 13/10/12 SMH Greater balance needed on trade in the region 13/10/12 SMH We need a change of mind on India 15/10/12 Rediff Why India MUST take advantage of Australia 15/10/12 Times of India Akhilesh Yadav to address India conference in Australia 16/10/12 The Age Canberra and Delhi must dig deep to seal uranium deal 16/10/12 The Conversation Gillard's Delhi challenge: win over India and get the PM down under 16/10/12 RN Breakfast Australia and India: Relations

40 16/10/12 The Australian India's languages unlock culture 17/10/12 ZeeNews India, Australia decide to launch negotiations for nuke impact 17/10/12 The Interpreter The Australia India story continues 18/10/12 The Australian PM seals uranium deal with India 18/10/12 Indian Express Gillard's India visit more than successful: Australian analysts 18/10/12 ZeeNews Gillard's India visit more than successful: Oz analyst, media 20/10/12 The Australian Boost for Indian studies 20/10/12 The Australian Let's put more passion into courting India 24/10/12 The Australian ‘Frugal innovation' key to wooing Indian masses 29/10/12 The Australian Region open to bid to engage 29/10/12 Business Standard Whitepaper on Asia new turn for Indo-Aus ties: think tank 29/10/12 The Economic Times Australian Whitepaper on Asia new turn for Indo-Aus ties: Amitabh Mattoo, AII 30/10/12 Odisha Diary Odisha MP Baijayanta Panda to address Argumentative Indian Conference 31/10/12 The Age Arguing tradition key to an inclusive society 31/10/12 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 business 1/11/12 Hindustan Times India, China destined by geography to be rivals: Narayanan 2/11/12 The Hindu Beijing's assertiveness in dealing with disputes disconcerting: Narayanan 2/11/12 ZeeNews Australia had a shallow impression of India 8/11/12 SBS World News Documentary shows life of Indian students in Australia 8/11/12 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 age 14/11/12 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: Australia 7/12/12 Lowy Institute The 2012 Australia-India Roundtable: Outcomes 7/12/12 Greater Kashmir Indo-Pak: Shift in Strategy 7/12/12 Indian Express Australia-India roundtable deepens cooperation 17/12/12 Pakistan Today Indo-Pak Chaophraya dialogue continues to gain strength 10/12/12 SMH Roundtable lifts hopes of revival in relations with India 18/12/12 Pakistan Today 11th Indo-Pakistan Track II dialogue kicks off in Bangkok 22/12/12 Pakistan Today Only political solution can resolve Afghan imbroglio 24/12/12 The Economic Times 2012 brings significant improvement in Australia-India ties

41 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. Patron & Board

PATRON SUSAN ELLIOTT Deputy Chair The Honourable Alex Chernov AC QC, Governor of Victoria, is Patron of the Australia India Institute. A Professor Elliott is Deputy Vice-Chancellor former Chancellor of The University of Melbourne, (Engagement) at The University of Melbourne. She he is a Companion of the Order of Australia, and was educated at Presbyterian Ladies’ College Burwood, former judge of the Court of Appeal. A student of followed by medical school at The University of India’s economic history, his interest in the country Melbourne, where she was Dux of the Austin and is long-standing and passionate. Repatriation General Hospital’s Clinical School and the recipient of the Senior Medical Staff Prize. Her specialist training is in Gastroenterology and BOARD she completed her MD by thesis in 1993. Professor ROBERT JOHANSON Elliott worked as a consultant physician at the Chair Austin and Western Hospitals from 1994 to 1997 whilst concurrently pursuing her interest in medical Robert Johanson is deputy Chancellor of The education. 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.

343042 SUSAN BENNETT AMITABH MATTOO Susan Bennett is the General Manager, International Professor Mattoo is Director of A.I.I and a Professor of Education and Science Division, Australian Government International Relations at The University of Melbourne. He Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, concurrently serves as Professor of Disarmament Studies Science, Research and Tertiary Education. She has worked at the Centre for International Politics, Organisation and in the federal education portfolio in international and Disarmament at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University. higher education and student income support, and her Professor Mattoo has been a Member of the National federal public sector career has included working in the Knowledge Commission, a high-level advisory group to Attorney-General’s and Health portfolios. the Prime Minister of India and the National Security Council’s Advisory Board. JAMES DONALD A.I.I Patron and Governor of Victoria, the Honourable Alex Chernov (second from left) with his wife, Elizabeth Chernov, JOHN ROSENBERG with Dr Kiran Martin (second from the right) and Guru Vinod Kumar. James Donald became Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at UNSW in 2007, having been appointed Professor John Rosenberg is Senior Deputy Vice- Professor of Film Studies in July 2003. He was previously Chancellor of La Trobe University. He holds the Honours Professor of Media at Curtin University of Technology degree of Bachelor of Science and the degree of Doctor of in Western Australia, and before that, in England, he had Philosophy in computer science from Monash University, worked in the School of Education at the Open University and is a Fellow of the Academy for Technological Sciences and helped to establish Media Studies at The University of and Engineering, the Australian Institute of Company Sussex. Directors and the Australian Computer Society. JUDGE 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.

43 ISHER JUDGE AHLUWALIA NEVILLE ROACH AO Chair Mr Roach has had a distinguished career in the Isher Judge Ahluwalia is Chairperson, Board of Information Technology and Telecommunications Governors, the Indian Council for Research on industries. He was appointed Chairman and CEO of International Economic Relations (ICRIER), where she Fujitsu Australia in 1997. He retired from the CEO served as Director and Chief Executive from 1997 to position in 2000 and as Chairman in 2004. Mr Roach 2001. Dr Ahluwalia was awarded the Padma Bhushan is currently Chairman of the Advisory Board of Tata by the President of India in 2009 for her services in Consultancy Services (TCS) in Australia and New the fields of education and literature. Dr Ahluwalia is Zealand. He was responsible for establishing the Chairperson of the High Powered Expert Committee Australian Chapter of NASSCOM (India’s peak ICT on Urban Infrastructure, appointed by the Ministry industry association) and was named of Urban Development, Government of India in May Patron of NASSCOM Australia. 2008. She is also Member, National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council, Government of India.

Governance International Advisory Committee

JOHN MCCARTHY AO INDU SHAHANI Deputy Chair Dr (Mrs) Indu Shahani, Principal of H.R. College of Mr John McCarthy is a distinguished career diplomat Commerce & Economics was appointed Sheriff of who served as Australia’s High Commissioner to Mumbai on Jan. 5, 2008 and is now in her third term India (2004-2009). He was earlier Ambassador to for the same. Dr (Mrs) Indu Shahani’s nomination Vietnam (1981-83), Ambassador to Mexico (1985-87), to Boards of large national and global companies has Ambassador to Thailand (1992-94), Ambassador to the provided impetus for significant collaboration between United States (1995-1997) Ambassador to Indonesia industry and academia, as well as bringing diversity to (1997-2001) and Ambassador to Japan (2001-2004). the Boards on which she serves. He has also served in Damascus, Baghdad and Vientiane.

44 Distinguished Fellows Mani 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

Fellows

Fellows Ravi Bhatia Jim Masselos Gautam Bose Rory Medcalf Howard Brasted Michael Moignard Lance Brennan Michael Pearson Richard Cashman Ajay Raina Robyn Davidson Fazal Rizvi Peter Deutschmann Dennis Rumley Pavan Gandhok Christopher Snedden Meg Gurry Pradeep Taneja Wayne Lewis Pera Wells Hector Malano

45 Staff

AMITABH MATTOO SOURESH ROY Director Research Assistant to the Director JACYL SHAW SIMONE TRAGLIA Strategic Adviser to the Director Events and Project Officer CHRISTOPHER KREMMER ALEXANDRA HANSEN Director, Communications and Publishing Communications Officer and Web Editor ELISE FAGONE SUSANNA JULIAN Program, Marketing and Events Director Operations and Finance Officer SHANKA DE SILVA SHIBU KITROO Office Manager Operations and Finance Officer TESS GROSS ALIYA ELARISS Executive Assistant to the Director Project Coordinator (India) HAYLEY BOLDING Projects Officer

38343046 47 Financials

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.

Australia India Institute - Income and Expenditure Report 2008 - 2012 General operating / Aii Project DIICCSRTE 95576 95579 Actual as of 31 December 2009 2010 2011 2012 2012 OPENING BALANCE (Notional cash carry forward from Previous - 5,503,789 4,389,266 3,900,270 - Year)

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 -

48 Australia India Institute - Income and Expenditure Report 2008 - 2012 General operating / Aii Project University of Melbourne 006-88-00010 010-00- 010-02-00000 010-02- 010-02-00000 00010 & 00010 00000 & 00010 & 00010 Actual as of 31 December 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 OPENING BALANCE (Notional cash carry forward from Previous - 875,308 600,454 327,415 903,986 Year)

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

49 Australia India Institute - Income and Expenditure Report 2008 - 2012 Other special projects VG DBI DIICCSRTE DIICCSRTE VIDS AIEC AISE 95577 95578 95580 Actual as of 31 December 2011 2012 2012 2012 OPENING BALANCE (Notional cash carry forward from Previous - 963,492 - - Year)

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

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

40 51 Australia India Institute University of Melbourne In-Kind Contribution Report 2011 - 31st December 2012 Estimate 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