2013 Annual Report Te Australia India Institute, based at Te University of Melbourne, is funded by the Australian Government, Department of Education, the State Government of Victoria and the University of Melbourne © Copyright: Australia India Institute 2014 Edited by Christopher Kremmer and Alexandra Hansen Contents

Director’s Report 4 Chair’s Report 5 Distinguished Visitors 6 Conferences 10 Teaching 14 Scholarships, Internships, Exchanges 16 Research 19 Publications 25 Social Media 28 Art and Culture 30 Orations and Talks 34 Highlights from the Orations 39 Workshops and Seminars 45 Year in Review 46 Director’s Outreach 54 Partners 57 Governance and Staf 58 Patron and Fellows 59 Financial Reports 60 The Australia India Institute at Five On 20 October 2013, in celebrating its ffh birthday, the Australia India Institute (AII) reached a signifcant milestone. In the fve years since its establishment by resolution of the University of Melbourne’s Council, the Institute has played a game-changing role in academia, policy debates, cultural based centres to better refect existing priorities and civil society activities, and second track and future challenges. Te Centre for Teaching diplomatic engagement between Australia and and Research will expand undergraduate and India. Its publications, international conferences, postgraduate teaching, run MOOC subjects public seminar series, federally-funded study on Coursera, and lead a cutting-edge research and internship programs, and its state-funded program. Te Centre for Public Policy, Dialogue Victoria-India Doctoral Scholarship (VIDS) and Outreach will ensure that the Institute scheme and Emerging Leader Fellowships (ELF), remains a vibrant centre for conversation and are changing Indian perceptions of Australia partnerships between Indians and Australians. and have created tremendous opportunities for We will become the permanent home of the partnerships across key areas of the relationship. Australia India Youth Dialogue and continue to By co-convening the annual Australia-India partner the Lowy Institute in hosting the annual Roundtable, the A.I.I brings together infuential Australia-India Roundtable. Te Institute’s thought leaders from both countries to deliberate Business Resource Centre will become a one- on the challenges facing our two nations. stop hub for information and guidance on the Australia-India trade relationship, provide Speaking at the Institute in 2013, the Secretary customised briefs and run executive education of Australia’s Department of Foreign Afairs and programs. Trade, Peter Varghese, acknowledged “the many initiatives that the Australia India Institute has In 2014 we will seek to establish an Institute taken to strengthen the bonds between Australia chapter in India, complementing the Australian and India”, and its “important role in expanding Government’s signature initiative of a ‘New our understanding of the relationship and in Colombo Plan’, and helping to ensure that a stay in encouraging discussion about its future direction”. India becomes a “rite of passage” for many more Australians. Te A.I.I’s ‘task force reports’ on Indian Ocean security and stability, Australian and Indian Without the support of the Australian Department perceptions of the other, and science, technology of Education, State Government of Victoria, and innovation co-operation between Australia Te University of Melbourne, our board, including and India have become mandatory reading for Chair, Robert Johanson and Deputy Chair, anyone interested in the relationship. Te Task Susan Elliott, as well as our staf, fellows, and Force report on Tobacco Control, for example, stakeholders, the A.I.I would not be what it is inspired a bill in India’s parliament. today.

In 2013, afer a detailed stakeholder analysis, the Professor Amitabh Mattoo, Institute was restructured around three program- Director, Australia India Institue

4 Sincere thanks to everyone who has made 2013 relationship with India active and lively. such a successful year for the Australia India Tanks to all our partners and funders, in Institute. Te importance of the Australia-India particular to the University of Melbourne relationship is now better appreciated and we look where we are located and which has provided forward to further deepening the engagement invaluable support, and to the Australian between our countries. Government Department of Education, our In 2013, we were delighted to welcome to major funding source. We have worked closely Melbourne info-tech entrepreneur Nandan with both on projects through the year and they Nilekani, and the Secretary of DFAT, Peter have been a great help. Tanks too to the State Varghese, and many other distinguished speakers Government of Victoria and its Department and guests. Our Director, Professor Mattoo, of Business and Innovation, for supporting participated in Victoria’s fourth trade mission to scholarships, particularly the Victoria India India this year, marking deepening ties between Doctoral Scholarships, and other A.I.I programs. the state and India. We also hosted a delegation of We are also sincerely grateful to the Indian High Indian MPs, creating people-to-people linkages Commission and its Consul-Generals. with representatives of Australian governments Tanks to Professor Mattoo, a vital element of our and the Institute. In another exciting step, the operation. Tanks too to our staf, fellows, board, Institute launched a node in Sydney, at the funding partners and all other stakeholders and University of New South Wales, under foreign friends of the Institute for a great 2013. We look policy analyst Rory Medcalf. forward to an even more productive 2014. In 2014, we will consolidate the work of the Institute to better support the Australia-India Robert Johanson, relationship, and efectively address funding issues. Chair, Australia India Institute Board. Te Institute is integral to keeping Australia’s

5 Maestro Zubin Mehta (lef) receives his honorary doctorate from the University of Melbourne, with A.I.I Chair, Robert Johanson

Maestro Zubin Mehta Australia India Institute, and gave an oration at a function held in his honour at the Melbourne In 2013, the Australia India Institute, in Cricket Ground. Vocational education and partnership with the Faculty of the Victorian training (VET) featured strongly in his speech, College of the Arts and the Melbourne delivered before an audience packed with senior Conservatorium of Music, was honoured to bring government ofcials and academics, including to Melbourne maestro Zubin Mehta. Considered former Australian Foreign Minister and India’s greatest gif to the Western classical music Chancellor of the Australian National University, tradition, Mehta conducted the Australian World Gareth Evans, and India’s High Commissioner Orchestra, performing two works of universal to Australia, Biren Nanda. Minister Raju’s visit appeal: Igor Stravinsky’s Te Rite of Spring, frst to Australia provided opportunities for him to played at the Teatre des Champs-Élysées in Paris engage with Australian and State Government in 1913, and; Gustav Mahler’s 1st symphony, ofen representatives keen to build stronger people-to- referred to as Te Titan. During his visit, maestro people, education and trade ties with India. In Mehta received an honorary doctorate from the Melbourne, he met the Victorian Government University of Melbourne. Minister for Business and Innovation, Louise Asher, and attended a roundtable organised by the M.M. Pallam Raju Asia Education Foundation. In Sydney he attended India’s Human Resource Development (HRD) a meeting of the Australia India Education Ministry is one of its largest and most powerful Council. He also visited higher education and government departments, with responsibility for skills training institutions. all levels of education and training in a nation of more than one billion people. In June 2013, the HRD Minister, M.M. Pallam Raju visited the

6 India’s Human Resource Development Minister M.M. Pallam Raju (far lef) at the Melbourne Cricket Ground with A.I.I Director Amitabh Mattoo (2nd from lef) and India’s High Commissioner to Australia, Biren Nanda (2nd from right).

Ela Gandhi Internationally renowned social activist and granddaughter of the Mahatma, Ela Gandhi spoke at the Australia India Institute on the subject If Gandhi Were Alive Today during her two-day visit to Melbourne in February. Te eminent South Africa-based thinker and advocate of Gandhian non-violent solutions participated in a program of events framed around the theme “Global Problems, Local Solutions”. Highlights of her Melbourne program included: a visit to the Collingwood Children’s Farm to acknowledge Gandhi’s vision of sustainable development; an interaction at the Hanover Welfare Services shelter at Southbank to highlight the plight of homeless people; a visit to the University of Melbourne’s Early Learning Centre at Abbotsford to discuss ways of inculcating ethical non-violent values in young children, and; a forum at the Victorian Women’s Domestic Violence Crisis Service on violence against women.

7 Peter Varghese, AO Indian Parliamentary delegation Te Australia India Institute hosted the Secretary In February 2013, an Indian parliamentary of the Australian Department of Foreign Afairs delegation led by the Minister for Planning, Rajiv and Trade, Peter Varghese AO who delivered the Shukla, made a goodwill visit to Melbourne. Annual Australia India Institute Oration entitled Accompanying the Minister was Neeraj Shekhar, a Our Journey with India. Te oration detailed leader of the Samajwadi Party, and son of former India’s role in the 21st century, its economic weight Indian Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar. Other and strategic infuence, and the convergence of delegates included Taawar Chand Gehlot and India and Australia’s strategic aims. Ramen Deka of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and Bhartruhari Mahtab of the Biju Nandan Nilekani Janata Dal (BJD) party in Orissa. Te group attended receptions at the Australia India Institute In October, at the University of Melbourne, and the Consulate General of India, and held talks Nandan Nilekani delivered the Australia India with members of the Australian Parliament. Institute Oration on India’s Transformation: Te Role of Information Technology. Having In May 2013, another group of infuential co-founded some of India’s most successful and Indian MPs visited Melbourne to meet with important IT companies and organisations, academics, policy makers and business leaders Nilekani is now Chairman of the Unique at an Australia-India Roundtable co-sponsored Identifcation Authority of India (UIDAI). He by A.I.I, DFAT and the New Delhi-based Centre spoke about how a national identity system giving for Policy Research’s Governance & Public Policy each citizen a unique ID number can create a Initiative. Harsimrat Kaur Badal from Punjab more inclusive India, thereby transforming the and Shiv Kumar Udasi from Karnataka, both lives of millions more Indians rising political stars, spoke on India’s education

8 Sanjay Jaiswal (2nd from lef), Madhu Goud Yaskhi, Alan Tudge, Shivakumar Udasi, Amitabh Mattoo, Ramesh Chandran, Harsimrat Badal, and Pradeep Taneja (10th from lef) and Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo during their visit to the Australia India Institute in May 2013.

challenges, to which the University of Melbourne’s Fazal Rizvi and Marion van Rooden of the Victorian Department of Business and Innovation both responded. David Luf of resources company Rio Tinto participated in talks on India’s energy security.

The Hon. Louise Asher, MP Amitabh Mattoo, Director of the Australia India Institute hosted a reception in honour of the Hon. Louise Asher MLA, Minister for Innovation, Services and Small Business, Minister for Tourism and Major Events, Minister for Employment and Trade. At the reception, Minister Asher announced the State Government of Victoria’s commitment to match Australian Government funding of $1.5 million for the Australia India Institute. Minister Asher also awarded certifcates to recipients of Victoria India Doctoral Scholarships.

9 University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor Glyn Davis addresses the FICCI conference

The Australia India Institute’s international other vice-chancellors and parliamentarians from conferences are flagship events, bringing India, Australia, the United States, Canada, and together leading experts from across the the United Kingdom. world on important academic and policy themes. These conferences enabled the Institute to shape and project an emerging agenda for Australia-India co-operation in 2013.

FICCI Higher Education Summit Te 9th FICCI Higher Education Summit was held over two days in November 2013 at Federation House in New Delhi, hosted by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) and the Australia India Institute. Te conference brought together key policy makers, educationists and representatives of industry at national and international level, for deliberations and knowledge sharing. Attendees included A.I.I Distinguished Fellow and Indian MP, Shashi Taroor, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, Glyn Davis and Deputy Vice- Chancellor Susan Elliott, A.I.I Chairman Robert University of Melbourne Deputy Vice-Chancellor Susan Elliott Johanson, A.I.I Director Amitabh Mattoo, and addresses the FICCI conference in New Delhi

10 (L-R) Michael Moignard, Mark Laurie, Deepak Saxena, and Amitabh Mattoo

Gondwanalandings: Voices of the emerging Indian diaspora in Australia In September 2013 the Australia India Institute held its fourth annual international conference, Gondwanalandings: Voices of the Emerging Indian Diaspora in Australia. Te conference featured plenaries and panels addressing critical community and creative perspectives on the Indian diaspora in Australia, and underwrote a framework for cultural understanding between the two nations that capitalises on the vibrant Professor Nayanjot Lahiri addresses the Diaspora Conference Indian diaspora in Australia. It also mapped the history of Indian-Australians, highlighting socio- State of the Nation cultural and political issues faced by the diaspora In association with Asialink, the Australia in Australia, showcased Indian-Australian artistic India Institute held forums in Melbourne talent and stories shedding light on the benefts of and Sydney on ‘India as an emerging inter-cultural dialogue, projected a future in which superpower’. Te forum comprised Mike arts policy introduced more Indian-Australian Moignard, Australia India Institute Fellow voices into the mainstream, and discussed critical and former Austrade Commissioner to perspectives on gender and migration, Indian- New Delhi, Deepak Saxena, Managing Director Australian literature in the Asian Century, and of Riverina Oils & Bio Energy, Mark Laurie, diasporic media and flm beyond Bollywood. Partner & PwC Australia India Practice Leader, and A.I.I Director, Amitabh Mattoo.

11 Rabindranath Tagore Memorial Sumit Ganguly, Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Lecture: India, Indians and Ideas Indian Cultures and Civilizations, and Professor that have shaped the World. Sumit of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, delivered the inaugural Tagore Ganguly, Indiana University memorial lecture titled India, Indians and Ideas In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore the eminent Bengali that have shaped the World, as a part of the renaissance poet, philosopher, essayist, critic, Australia India Institute’s Diaspora Conference. composer and educator became the frst-ever Asian writer to be awarded a Nobel Prize.

12 Susan Elliott, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Engagement), Te University of Melbourne Te inaugural chair, Anthony D’Costa, internationally-renowned political economist, took up his position in May. Formerly with the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, Professor D’Costa had previously spent 18 years at the University of Washington. Te author of eight books, he has written extensively on the political economy of the steel, automobile, and info-tech industries, on themes of globalisation, development, innovation and industrial restructuring. Most recently, he co-edited with Amiya Kumar Bagchi Transformation and Development: Te Political Economy of Transition in India and China, and edited Globalization and Economic Nationalism in Asia and A New India? Critical Refections in the Long Twentieth Century. New Chair in Contemporary Indian Recent research includes work on the international Studies mobility of IT workers. Recipient of a grant In 2013 the Australia India Institute and the under the US Government’s Fulbright-Hays University of Melbourne established a permanent program, he has also received fellowships from the Chair in Contemporary Indian Studies. Tis American Institute of Indian Studies, the Korea important position, funded in large part by the Foundation, the Social Science Research Council State Government of Victoria, puts the University (Abe Foundation), and the World Institute of of Melbourne at the forefront of a resurgence in Development Economics Research. Indian Studies in Australia.

14 Undergraduate Teaching: Postgraduate Teaching: India and the Contemporary India World As an Australian centre of knowledge on India, As India’s infuence increases in the international teaching is a core activity of the Australia system, understanding its foreign policy and India Institute. Te long term aim is to build a engagement with the rest of the world becomes community of scholars working on India, who more important for students of international can introduce India in all its historical, political, relations. Tis subject is a comprehensive review social and cultural dimensions to young students of some key issues of India’s worldview and its engaging with India-relevant issues. behaviour towards the external world designed to familiarise students with the origins and conduct Te undergraduate subject at the University of of India’s foreign policy. Te course maps the Melbourne focuses on developments in India historical trajectory and pre-colonial roots of since independence from British rule, specifcally: India’s foreign policy institutions and decision- India’s constitution and democratic structures; making processes and examines contemporary Indian society and social movements; and Indian thinking and policies. It covers intellectual debates foreign policy. Students are introduced to the on the nation’s external relations, the culture of process by which the Constitution was drafed, strategic thinking in India’s relations with the and the main amendments and principal debates outside world, India’s relations with its neighbours around its functioning since 1950. Contemporary and great powers, its nuclear weapons debate, and social issues covered include caste, secularism its engagement with multilateral institutions. and development. Continuity and changes in India’s foreign policy, starting with the era of Non-Alignment, are also introduced. Te subject MOOC Subject: Contemporary India explores critical dimensions of contemporary Te Australia India Institute is developing an Indian politics and society, and introduces online subject on Contemporary India to be students to intellectual debates around key issues. hosted on Coursera. Tis fully-fedged online teaching subject will be the frst of its kind anywhere in the world, and will help showcase the University of Melbourne’s commitment to Indian studies. ABOVE - Victoria-India Doctoral Scholars at Government House with Governor of Victoria Alex Chernov AC QC and Mrs Chernov Right - Student Andrea McLean with Indian friends in Jaipur

Victoria India Doctoral Scholarships t
Raj Kumar Shukla, Monash University. Research Title: ‘Dry Powder Formulation for Te Australia India Institute manages and Pulmonary Delivery of Peptides’ administers the Victoria-India Doctoral Scholarships (VIDS) for the Victorian t
Dhanasekaran Sakthive, Monash University. Government. Te program allocates scholarships Research Title: ‘Immune Reponses to vaccine to Indian PhD candidates accepted to a Victorian adjuvants’ university. Victoria’s nine universities all provide t
Harish Ravishankar, Deakin University. a full tuition waiver with the scholarships, worth Research Title: ‘A Nano-based Process AUD90,000 over the duration of the candidate’s Development of Membrane for Remediation studies. Launched in June 2011, the VIDS of Heavy Metals’ programme enters its third year in 2014. t
Amol Janardan Patil, Deakin University. Te successful candidates for 2013 now studying at Research Title: ‘Enhancement of durability Victorian universities are: of intrinsically conductive polymer coated t
Rahul Deb Das, University of Melbourne. textiles through nanotechnology’ Research Title: ‘Approach to Integrated t
Hina Kalra, LaTrobe University. Research Disaster Management Modelling using Title: ‘Role of WNT signalling pathway Artifcial Intelligence’ in modulating the extracellular matrix t
Poshmaal Dhar, University of Melbourne. components in colorectal cancer’ Research Title: ‘Understanding how t
Vasudev Dehalwar, Victoria University. Muc1 (Mucin1) regulates gastrointestinal Research Title: ‘Design and performance infammation caused by bacterial pathogens’ evaluation of cognitive radio network for real t
Nidhish Francis, University of Melbourne. time communication in smart grid’ Research Title: ‘Te role of protease-activated receptor-1 in muscle regeneration’

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Manpreet Kaur Grewal, Victoria University. between India and Australia and engages young Research Title: ‘Improving emulsion stability Australians as global citizens. of UHT milk by ultrasonication’. Participants were exposed to the intellectual and In 2013, the VIDS Knowledge Exchange was cultural life in a country that is both an emerging launched at the ofces of the Department of superpower and one of the world’s oldest and most Business and Innovation in Melbourne. A forum dynamic societies. Te students, from universities for scholars to meet and share knowledge amongst across Australia, travelled to Mumbai, Delhi, Agra themselves, with their supervisors, and with and Jaipur. Tey visited the sprawling slums of signifcant stakeholders in industry and business, Dharavi, in Mumbai, for an introduction to a way the knowledge exchange in 2013 included short of life they had never encountered before, and presentations from four VIDS scholars about interacted with Indian undergraduate students at their research, followed by a question-and-answer HR College to discuss the challenges facing today’s session. youth. In Delhi the students met Australia’s High The Australia-India Student Commissioner to India, and took part in an Old Experience – Study Tour Delhi heritage walk. Tey came to appreciate how In January 2013, the Australia India Institute tradition and modernity are seamlessly interwoven took twenty participating undergraduate students in every aspect of Indian life, be it economic or to visit two of India’s most prestigious higher social. In Agra and Fatehpur Sikri, they were education institutions, the Universities of Delhi impressed by the grace and grandeur of Mughal and Mumbai. Funded by the Commonwealth architecture, and its embodiment of tolerance and Department of Industry Innovation, Science, harmony. In Jaipur they visited Amber Fort, the Research and Tertiary Education, the Australia Palace on Water (Jal Mahal) and marvelled at the India Student Experience strengthens relations work of block painters. Tey also interacted with

17 Australian and Indian artists present in Jaipur for the Australia India Institute Artists’ Retreat. Te students’ blogs about their experiences can be read at www.aii.unimelb.edu.au/blog

The Australia-India Student Experience – Internships In 2013, the Australia India Institute took twenty Australian university students from disciplines including Information Technology, Law, Pharmacy, Commerce, Management, Health Sciences and Communications, to Mumbai to experience life and work in India’s fnancial capital. Te innovative Australia-India Internship Program provides one-month placements with Indian and Australian companies and institutions based in India’s fnancial capital. In 2013 participating organisations include the National Australia Bank, Tata Consultancy Services, the Bombay Stock Exchange, the Victorian Government, and Cipla, the world’s largest manufacturer of anti-retroviral drugs. Interns were selected from universities in NSW, Victoria, Western Australia and Tasmania.

Education Leaders’ Exchange Five Australian universities have joined a program of reciprocal visits to link Australian and Indian Vice-Chancellors and senior university executives. Te program includes leadership workshops and the opportunity to “shadow” each other’s daily roles. Te exchange, funded by the Australian Government Department of Education and managed by the Australia India Institute, comprises two phases. Indian universities hosted Australian education leaders during the week of the FICCI Higher Education Summit in Delhi in November 2013. Australian universities will reciprocate in May 2014. The A.I.I/Lowy Institute India Polls Attitudes to the World Ahead, cast light on Indian attitudes towards the world more generally, In 2012 the Australia India Institute, working including insights into Indian attitudes towards with the Lowy Institute and MacArthur China and the US. Foundation, conducted face-to-face surveys with 1,233 Indian adults on their opinions of India and the world. Te project was led by The Task Force on Indian Ocean Australia India Institute Associate Director, Rory Security, Stability and Sustainability Medcalf . In 2013, the release of the results, in Te Australia India Institute Task Force on the two tranches, attracted international attention. Indian Ocean unveiled its report at the Australian Te India-Australia Poll 2013 and associated Parliament House, Canberra in March 2013. publication, Partners, Problems and Prospects: Te report, Te Indian Ocean Region: Security, Indian Attitudes to Australia, revealed that Stability and Sustainability in the 21st Century, Indians feel warmly towards Australia and see it was formally launched by the Honourable Richard as a preferred destination for higher education. Marles, MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Te representative feld survey measured Indian Afairs. Its analysis of regional security included perceptions of Australia on issues including non-traditional security issues, such as fshing and education, diplomacy, naval strategy, energy, food security, global warming and environmental science, uranium and cricket. Te survey’s issues, population and migration, and access to surprise fndings on what Indians really think undersea energy resources. Indian and Australian about Australia, its political system and way of perspectives on the issues were canvassed at a life, provide insights for business, government roundtable meeting of analysts and policy-makers and universities. A second tranche of data and in Fremantle, Western Australia in May 2012. subsequent publication, Facing the Future: Indian

19 Several members of the Indian Ocean Task Force [L-R] Dennis Rumley, Sanjay Chaturvedi, and David Brewster

Principal contributors to the report were: t
Swaran Singh, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University t
Dennis Rumley, inaugural Professor of Indian Ocean Studies at the University of Western t
Siddarth Varadarajan, Editor, Te Hindu Australia newspaper. t
Ric Smith, former Australian Ambassador to China and former Secretary of the Australian The Task Force on Science, Department of Defence Technology, Innovation t
David Brewster, Visiting Fellow, Strategic Te task force evaluated collaborative scientifc and Defence Studies Centre, School of research projects conducted under the Australia- International, Political and Strategic Studies, India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF). Its report Australian National University – Science, Technology, Innovation: Australia and India – was launched by Australia’s Chief Scientist, t
Sanjay Chaturvedi, Department of Political Ian Chubb, at the Australia India Institute in Science, Panjab University May 2013. Te report cites lessons learned t
Timothy Doyle, School of Politics and from collaborative research and recommends International Studies, University of Adelaide further initiatives to stimulate collaboration and innovation in scientifc endeavours engaging t
Amitabh Mattoo, Director, Australia India the two nations. Te report discusses how the Institute, University of Melbourne, and race to provide cheaper goods for Asia’s middle Professor of Disarmament Studies, Centre class is driving down the cost of both consumer for International Politics, Organisation and and life-sustaining technologies, and creating Disarmament, Jawaharlal Nehru University, a win for rich and poor alike. So-called ‘frugal’ New Delhi or ‘inclusive’ innovation has produced AUD40

20 tablet computers, cars costing just AUD2 000, and JRE entities in India and Singapore. He began prosthetic feet for as little as AUD33. Te report his career in 1995 as an investment banker recommends that Australia extend the AISRF, with ICICI Securities before moving to AIG’s describing such collaborations as a key contributor private equity business. He was a director with to Australia’s growth in the Asian Century. both Standard Chartered Private Equity and the Merlion India Fund, before becoming a director Principal contributors to the report were: at JRE Partners, where he set up and led a private t
Robin Batterham AO FREng FAA FTSE – equity partnership between Rothschild, Jardines immediate past President, the Australian and Exor in Singapore and India. An alumnus Academy of Technological Sciences and of BITS, Pilani and IIM, Ahmedabad, he was a Engineering (ATSE); Kernot Professor, Chevening Gurukul scholar at the London School University of Melbourne of Economics.

R. A. Mashelkar FRS FTSE – National Research Susan George - Additional Director of Income Professor, CSIR National Chemical Laboratory, Tax (Vigilance), Government of India Pune; President, Global Research Alliance; Chair, Research title: “Decentralisation and Good National Innovation Foundation, Government of Governance: A Distinct Possibility or a Distant India. Utopia?” Emerging Leaders Fellowships George is an Additional Commissioner of Income Tax in the New Delhi ofce of the Indian Revenue For the second year running, the Australia India Service. Between 2007 and 2012, she worked Institute conducted a program of eight-week as a director in the Ministry of Panchayati Raj residential fellowships at the Institute’s Melbourne involved in policy formulation and advocacy ofce. Nine outstanding mid-career Indian for administrative and fscal empowerment of professionals from media, academia, the civil rural local governments in India. During this service and public life were brought to Australia to period, she oversaw Ministry schemes relating to further their research projects. empowerment of elected women’s representatives, Each fellow delivers a public lecture on a subject e-governance for Panchayats, and incentivising of international signifcance and produces an states to devolve powers to the Panchayats. extended essay on the same theme, then published Varughese K George - Chief of Bureau by the Institute. Te fellows, who travel to at (Political) Hindustan Times least one interstate destination, also engage more Research title: “Domestic Politics of India’s broadly with Australian society through the Foreign Policy” Institute and the University of Melbourne. Varughese K George writes and oversees political Te Emerging Leaders Fellowships program will coverage for the Hindustan Times, one of India’s continue in 2014. leading English language dailies. Based in New Te Emerging Leader Fellows in 2013 were: Delhi, he has also worked with the Indian Express and Tehelka. He has won several prestigious Arumugam Aramvalarthanathan - awards, and in 2006 was selected Ramnath Independent Business Advisor/Entrepreneur Goenka Journalist of the Year. Research title: “Start-up ecosystems in Asia and Australia” Aramvalarthanathan is an independent advisor to entrepreneurs and businesses, and serves on the boards of the Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship at IIM, Ahmedabad, and

21 Happymon Jacob - Assistant Professor, Rakesh Ranjan - Director in Housing Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Urban Afairs Division of Planning Research title: “Contours of South Asia’s nuclear Commission, Government of India instability” Research title: “Use of land-based fnancial instruments in funding urban infrastructure Based at the Centre for International Politics, projects and state level regulatory framework Organisation and Disarmament, School of suitable for attracting private investment in International Studies at JNU, Jacob teaches infrastructure projects” courses on ‘India & Disarmament’, ‘National Security & International Relations’ and ‘Foreign In his role as Director of the Housing and Urban Policy Decision Making’. His current research is Afairs Division in the Planning Commission, focused on South Asian nuclear order and India’s Rakesh Ranjan contributed signifcantly to foreign policy. Jacob writes a weekly column in drafing policies and programs for urbanisation in the Srinagar-based Greater Kashmir daily and the 12th plan period. He also worked as a director contributes to major national newspapers. He is in the Infrastructure Division (Highways and the author/editor of four books. Power sector) of the Planning Commission, tasked with developing a suitable regulatory framework Aprajita Kashyap - Assistant Professor, to attract private investment to the sector. University School of Law and Legal Studies, GGS Indraprastha University, Delhi K.P. Sudheer – Professor, Department of Civil Research title: “Managing Diversities in Engineering, IIT Madras, Chennai Federations: Natural Resources Issues in Australia, Research title: “Sustainable Water Management: Brazil and India” Challenges in India” Aprajita Kashyap has twelve years of research K. P. Sudheer is a professor and Head of the experience on diferent aspects of polity, Environmental and Water Resources Engineering governance, federalism and environment. Division of the Department of Civil Engineering She obtained her Masters from the School of at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Chennai. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Delhi, and for the last fve and a half years has Agricultural Engineering from Kerala Agricultural been working as an Assistant Professor at the University, his Masters from the Indian Institute University School of Law and Legal Studies, Guru of Technology Kharagpur, and his Doctorate from Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 2000. where she teaches Political Science, International Prior to joining the Indian Institute of Technology Relations, and Comparative Politics. Madras in 2003, he was associated with the National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee for six Balaji Parthasarathy - Professor, International years. He has conducted pioneering research Institute of Information Technology, in the area of hydrology and water resources Bangalore engineering. Research title: “Reversing the fow of ideas? From local technologies for the marginalised to new Sharda Ugra – Senior Editor, ESPNcricinfo forms of global governance” Research title: “Te role of Australia’s growing South Asian community in its cricketing Parthasarathy is ICICI Professor at the ecosystem and whether the transformation in International Institute of Information Technology, Australia’s immigration patterns – with their Bangalore. His research and teaching interests recent shif towards South Asia - will be felt within broadly focus on the relationship between its cricket in the decades to come.” technological innovation, economic globalisation, and social change. He holds a Bachelor’s degree Sharda Ugra has been a sports journalist for over from the Indian Institute of Technology, 22 years, working across print, radio and online Kharagpur, and a PhD from the University of outlets, including ABC Radio Australia. She California, Berkeley. is currently senior editor at ESPNcricinfo, the

22 world’s biggest independent single-sport website. Sharda has covered and reported on a range of sports in Iran, China, Port of Spain and Peshawar. Te majority of her writing has revolved around cricket, about which she has written for popular and academic publications in India, England and Australia. In late 2013 the next cohort of Emerging Leader Fellows was announced. Te following India- based researchers will be travelling to Australia to undertake research in 2014: t
Sushil Aaron, Director of Projects, Centre for Policy Research t
Rajshree Chandra, Post-doctoral fellow, Centre for Policy Research t
Swati Chatuverdi, Deputy Editor, Zee News t
Puneet Gandhi, Senior Manager (Business Development and M&A), Times Group t
Ashis Jalote-Parmar, Associate Professor and Head of Intelligent Design Lab Institute of Information & Communication Technology, (IICT) Ahmedabad University t
Binoy Job, Director, Prime Minister’s Ofce t
Ansuman Pattnaik, Additional Director of Income Tax (Investigation) t
Joy Purkayastha, Resident Editor, Te Times of India, Pune t
Rajesh Santhanam, faculty member, the Daly College, Indore t
Rajiv Sharma, CEO, Sterling Addlife India Limited t
Arvind Shrivastava, Secretary to the Government of Karnataka t
Amaresh Singh, Director (Investigation) Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance t
Nirupama Subramanian, Associate Editor, Te Hindu t
Kunal Upadhyay, CEO, Infuse Ventures & Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship, IIM Ahmedabad

24 Books Amitabh Mattoo and Mallika Joseph, Rise of China and India: Implications for the Asia Pacifc, Amitabh Mattoo, Te Reluctant Superpower: Manohar Publishers, New Delhi. 2014 Understanding India and its Aspirations, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne. 2012 Amitabh Mattoo and Souresh Roy, India-Australia Relations in the Asian Century: Perspectives from Happymon Jacob, Domestic Politics, Strategic India and Australia, Manohar Publishers, New Culture and Indian Foreign Policy, Manohar Delhi. 2014 Publishers, New Delhi. 2014 Amitabh Mattoo and Happymon Jacob, New Happymon Jacob and Mallika Joseph, India’s Directions in Indian Foreign Policy, Manohar Economic Growth: Opportunities and Challenges Publishers, New Delhi. 2014 for the Region, Manohar Publishers, New Delhi. 2014 Forthcoming titles Amitabh Mattoo, Deconstructing the Mallika Joseph, Demography in South Asia and Argumentative Indian, Melbourne University Implications for Regional and Global Political Press. 2014 Narratives, Manohar Publishers, New Delhi. 2014

25 Task Force reports

In 2013, the reports of two A.I.I. Task Forces were released. In each case, the contents of the reports were widely reported in Australian and international media.

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India, Australia, and the Asian Century by Hamish McDonald Te Fearless Nadia Occasional Papers are original essays commissioned by the Australia India t
Skills Challenge: Australia and India’s Skills Institute focusing on various aspects of the Training Needs by Prasenjit Kundu relationship between India and Australia. Fearless t
Unfnished Business: Re-imagining the Nadia (1908-1996) was an Australian actress who Australia-India Economic Relationship by began her career working in the Zarko circus Michael Moignard, and and eventually became a celebrated star of Hindi flms in India. Fearless Nadia brought a new joie t
China Rises, India Ponders: India’s “Look East” de vivre and chutzpah to Indian cinema with her Policy Gathers Momentum by Harsh Pant breathtaking ‘stunts’. Te occasional papers seek to inject a similar audacity and creative dialogue into the relationship between India and Australia. Tis year’s Fearless Nadia Occasional Papers included:

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Skills Challenge: Australia and India’s Skills Training Needs

The Fearless Nadia Occasional Papers on India-Australia Relations

The Fearless Nadia Occasional papers are original essays commissioned by the Australia India Institute focusing on various aspects of the relationship between India and Australia. Fearless Nadia (1908- 1996) was an Australian actress born Mary Ann Evans in Perth, Western Australia, who began her career working in the Zarko circus and eventually became a celebrated star of Hindi films in India. Fearless Nadia brought a new joie de vivre and chutzpah into Indian cinema with her breathtaking ‘stunts’. Her role in the Prasenjit Kundu renowned film Hunterwali, where she appeared dressed in boots and wielding a whip, became an iconic image in 1930s Bombay. The Occasional Papers series seeks to inject a similar audacity and creative dialogue into the relationship between India and Australia. Winter 2013: Volume 1

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28 Simi Garewal presenting the Satyajit Ray Memorial Lecture

29 The Mahabharata of Women Artists’ retreat Te Mahabharata of Women was performed In keeping with the Australia India Institute’s in Melbourne in 2013 with sponsorship from mission to engender greater interaction between the Australia India Institute. Directed by K. Australia and India, the Institute conducted a Madavane, the play puts a new twist on the pan- 10-day artists retreat in Jaipur in January 2013 . Indian epic, Te Mahabharata, interpreting it Curated by Chaitanya Sambrani, it was intended to from the perspective of the female characters. Te foster and intensify dialogue between Australian play has been produced independently in India, and Indian artists in the context of globalisation, Canada, France and Germany, in English, French to investigate ways in which tradition, media and German. It had three successful performances and materials may be mobilised in dealing with in Melbourne. challenges and possibilities of cross-cultural dialogue, and to promote understanding and Tagore’s Vision – The Poetry of India future collaborations. Tis retreat, built upon the success of the frst at Red Hill in Australia in (Ballet) 2011, was modelled on an academic ‘colloquium In 2013, the Australia India Institute joined forces of experts’; in this case, practicing artists with with the Victorian College of the Arts to present an interest in texts, and/or artists whose work a dance performance set to the poetry of Kelvin relates to globalisation. Te Institute will produce Brown and India’s iconic aesthete-intellectual, a publication which highlights the research and Rabindranath Tagore. discussions that took place during the retreat.

“Te Weight of Water” by Prajakta Potnis – Australia India Institute’s Permanent Collection

30 31 Pushpamala N. “Bicycling Friends” 2011 from the series: Travelogue ( Exotic Views). Archival Inkjet print. Photography: Ajay Bhaskar. Cast: Pushpamala, N. and Shreelatha Rao Seshadri. Image size: 32” x 25.6”. Edition no: 3/6 – Australia India Institute’s Permanent Collection

32 Jaipur Literature Festival; Kiran Bedi book launch At the 2013 Jaipur Literature Festival in India’s Rajasthan state, A.I.I. Director, Amitabh Mattoo launched anti-corruption activist Kiran Bedi’s book Uprising 2011, which chronicles the largest mass mobilisation against corruption in India since independence. Co-authored with Pavan Choudary, the book provides an insider account of the movement led by charismatic social activist Anna Hazare in the period 2010-12. On launching the book, Professor Mattoo called on all Indians to unite for a better-governed India in which people felt secure. “Politics is far too important to leave to politicians…we must all act, and act now.”

“Ark” by Gulammohammed Sheikh – Australia India Institute’s Permanent Collection Film Screening – Heat and Dust In 2013, Indians mourned the passing of one of Te following artists participated in the Jaipur their greatest modern storytellers, Ruth Prawer 2013 Retreat: Jhabvala. To mark this sad occasion, the Australia Indian Artists India Institute organised a screening of Heat Desmond Lazaro and Dust, the 1983 motion picture that Jhabvala Veer Munshi adapted from her own Booker-Prize winning Pushpamala N novel of the same name. Directed by James Manisha Parekh Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant, the flm Justin Ponmany earned Jhabvala a BAFTA Award for best adapted Prajakta Potnis screenplay. She would later win two Academy Mithu Sen Awards for her screen adaptations of A Room with Gulammohammed Sheikh a View and Howard’s End, and was nominated for Gigi Scaria another Oscar for her adaptation of Te Remains Parvathi Nayar of the Day. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala died in her home in New York City on 3 April 2013. She was 85. Australian Artists Lyndell Brown Jon Cattapan Kate Daw Charles Green Fiona Hall Lynne Roberts-Goodwin Hossein Valamanesh Angela Valamanesh Savanhdary Vongpoothorn

33 Former Australian Secretary of Defence, Ric Smith, giving his Tifn Talk “India: Refections over 50 Years”

Biren Nanda: the Alfred Deakin Alfred Deakin Memorial Lecture was compulsory Memorial Lecture 2013 listening for anyone interested in the rise of India, and Australia’s relations with an emerging Te High Commissioner of India to Australia, superpower in the Asian Century. Biren Nanda, delivered the annual Alfred Deakin Memorial Lecture on the subject Indian Foreign Policy in a Globalised World at an event in Simi Garewal: Satyajit Ray Memorial Melbourne hosted by the Australia India Institute. Lecture High Commissioner Nanda’s lecture explored To honour India’s greatest flmmaker, Satyajit developments in India and the world that are Ray, the Australia India Institute welcomed to shaping India’s foreign policy, and impacting Melbourne Simi Garewal, one of Ray’s female upon its neighbours, the major powers, and leads, and an infuential media fgure in India. middle-ranked powers like Australia. Te 2013 Garewal ofered unique insights into India’s

34 ‘Bollywood’ flm industry which, in the wake Greg Sheridan: the Australia India of the shocking 2012 Delhi rape case, has been Institute/Observer Research criticised for what some see as its patriarchal Foundation annual oration attitudes. In Garewal’s telling, the representation of women in Indian cinema reveals much Australia India Institute Distinguished Fellow about India’s modern history, and the shifing and journalist Greg Sheridan gave the inaugural expectations placed upon women, both on screen Australia India Institute/Observer Research and of. Foundation annual oration in India in 2013. As foreign editor of Te Australian newspaper, Sheridan is one of Australia’s most infuential foreign policy commentators and a passionate advocate of closer ties between Australia and India.

Tiffin Talks In 2013, the Australia India Institute continued its series of weekly lunchtime seminars to encourage exploration of issues of interest to both Australians and Indians. Te seminars are called Tifn Talks in honour of India’s famous tifn carriers and the metal boxes in which they deliver lunches to millions of ofce workers.

John McCarthy: the Ambassador’s Te ‘tifns’ encompassed a wide range of Journal series - Australia, Asia, topics, with engaging speakers from academia, and Beyond government, media and the business community, including visitors from interstate and overseas. In August 2013, former Australian High Te lunchtime forums have become a regular Commissioner to India, John McCarthy gave haunt for a loyal cohort of Melbournians a penetrating analysis of the challenges facing interested in India. Australia’s foreign policy, in the frst of the new Ambassador’s Journal series of lectures hosted Secretary of Defence, Ric Smith, former by the Australia India Institute. McCarthy spoke broadcaster and politician Maxine McKew, and on Australia, Asia and Beyond - Some Toughts author and opinion editor of Te Age newspaper, for a New Government. Widely acknowledged as Sushi Das. Past Tifn Talks can be heard online as one of Australia’s most accomplished diplomats, podcasts on the Institute’s website. McCarthy also served as Ambassador to Japan, Indonesia, and the United States. Speaking on Speakers in 2013 included Australia’s former the anniversary of India’s independence, he Secretary of Defence, Ric Smith, former emphasised the importance of closer ties between broadcaster and politician Maxine McKew, and Australia and India. author and opinion editor of Te Age newspaper, Sushi Das. Past Tifn Talks can be heard online as podcasts on the Institute’s website.

35 Kiran Bedi presenting at the Gondwanalandings: Voices of the Emerging Indian Diaspora Conference in Australia

36 Speakers in 2013 included:

Robin Jefrey Te Great Indian Phone Book Kevin Murray Te Jewel in the Crown Rakesh Ranjan Urbanisation in India – challenges and opportunities Balaji Parthasarthy Reversing the fows of ideas? From local technologies for the marginalised to new forms of global governance Greg Sheridan Australia Among the Great Asian Powers - India, China, and the United States Aprajita Kashyap Natural Resource Issues in Australia, Brazil, and India Maxine McKew Beyond the Lost Decade – a review of the Oz/India relationship Sanjay Chaturvedi Geopolitics of Climate Change in the Arctic: Emerging Indian Perspectives Arumugan Aramvalarthanathan Entrepreneurship and start-up ecosystems Swaran Singh India and China: Rivals, Friends or Foes? Sushi Das Indian Diaspora in Australia and Racism; A Journalist’s Perspective Soumitri Varadarajan Te Green Bus Project Roshni Narendran Te caste system and women entrepreneurs in India Marian Hadingham Muskaan’s keys to unlock educational disadvantage for children from the slum communities of Bhopal, India Susan George Decentralisation and Good Governance: Te Unfnished Agenda Bharat Ramakrishna Building Bridges: How community-based health is cultivating communities Happymon Jacob From Pariah to Partner India & the International Nuclear Order Anthony D’Costa How are Indians Positioned in Japan? Mike Moignard Unfnished Business: Re-imagining the Australia-India Economic Relationship Charles Green, Lyndell Brown Te Hippy Trail Sharda Ugra Going East: Australian cricket and the burning platform Robyn Eckersley India and the International Climate Negotiations Andrew May A Tousand Oranges: colonial authority in the Khasi Hills of North-East India Brian Stoddart Cricket, Sport and the “New India”- a Sof Power Analysis of India’s Global Position Gigi Scaria Dust: landscape of the future Ric Smith India - Refections over 50 years Phil Ryan Middle-class India - Te golf barometer Nadeem Malik Failed State or Absence of State: Te Case of Pakistan Chris Ogden India’s International Rise: Dynamics and Trajectories Varughese K George Elusive consensus: foreign policy debates in India K.P. Sudheer Sustainable Water Management: Challenges in India

37 38 Nandan Nilekani, Australia India Institute oration - India’s Transformation, the role of Information Technology “I’m going to speak today about technology and its role in India’s transformation. I think many people are familiar with the Indian sofware export story. Today India exports more than 50 billion dollars of IT and sofware around the world and it has transformed India, created millions of jobs and established India as a big player in the IT space.

But what I am going to talk about today is not so much about what we export, but how technology can be used as an instrument for transformation of a society. I think one of the things about information technology is that it’s ubiquitous, it’s cheap and it improves very fast. In some sense India, and other developing countries, have an opportunity to take advantage of this in ways that we could not take advantage in the previous industrial revolutions.

Now there are many defnitions of an industrial revolution, but the one I use is one by an economist at North Western called Robert Gordon who said, basically, there’ve been three industrial revolutions. Te frst was between 1750 and 1830, which was the rise of the steam engines, locomotives, the railways, and the telegraph. Te second industrial revolution as per his defnition was between 1870 and 1900 which was the rise of electricity, the internal combustion engine, indoor plumbing and water, communications, chemicals, plastics, and a whole list of things that came about in that era, and in his defnition the third industrial revolution is the one of computers, the web, smart phones, and all the things that we see here.

Now in some sense when the frst two industrial revolutions happened, India was not an independent country, and therefore was not able to leverage those revolutions. But this third industrial revolution of information technology is happening at a time when the country is free and therefore it is something that can be uniquely used for development.

Tere are also other certain things about this technology that make it very, very viable. As I said thanks to Moore’s Law, computing power is becoming cheaper and cheaper, and more and more powerful day-by-day. Te computer in your smart phone is equal in power to the computer in the early space programs. So you can see that things are becoming more and more powerful, and more and more accessible to everybody.

You can think of this as a rise of ubiquitous computing where everybody can have a device in his or her hand which is a smart device, a phone or a tablet. Tis is an era where you have an inexhaustible amount of computing storage and space on the cloud which you can access, and if you do so with your various Dropbox and Google drive technologies, then of course, you have an era of ubiquitous connectivity where everybody’s on the network.

39 Now India has seen the frst avalanche of that with the mobile phone, and the mobile phone in India has been a huge revolution. Today Indians have about 600 to 700 million mobile phones. Te mobile phone tarifs in India are among the cheapest in the world and there has been a huge amount of innovation which has put connectivity into the hands of everyone so they can make basic voice calls, and in fact there’s a great book by (A.I.I. Distinguished Fellow) Robin Jefrey and his colleague called Cell Phone Nation, which describes how India has adapted to the whole cell phone era.

But going beyond the cell phone, I think we are on the verge of another kind of revolution, because if you think about this technology, which is available ubiquitously, cheaply, and with broadband connectivity, it fundamentally provides ways to look at development. What we think, what we use to live, and how we bring change together. In some sense the project which I lead today, which is called as the Unique Identifcation Authority of India, or the Aadhar project, is one such example of how we are using modern technology to “leap frog”.

So what is the problem that we’re trying to solve in the Aadhar program? Aadhar means “foundation” and what it really is trying to solve is the problem of people not having acknowledgement of their existence by people and by the state, or lack of acknowledgement of their identity.

Tere are some states of India where more than half of the births are not registered at the time of birth. What this does is, you end up with a lot of people growing up without any identity documents for themselves, and the documents that we take for granted like a passport or a drivers licence are actually there with very few people. You know, out of India’s population of 1.2 billion people, something like only 50 million people have a passport, which is only 5 per cent of the population. Only something like 30 million pay taxes which is 3 per cent of the population. Maybe 150 million have driver’s licences, about 15 per cent of the population. But fundamentally all these traditional things which we take for granted as identity are really there for a very narrow part of the population. Tey have this huge, you know, mass of people who don’t ofen have an ID.

Just a simple concept of a number gives you so much fexibility. So why is this important? Because using these tools, using these capabilities you can transform the way you deliver things. You can transform the way you deliver fnancial benefts, you can transform the way you deliver non-fnancial benefts. You can transform the way people get access.”

40 Peter Varghese, the Australia-India Institute oration - Our Journey with India “India was in my blood long before it was ever on my mind. My parents were both born and grew up in Kerala, in the south of India; members of a Syrian Christian community which insists, probably correctly, that it dates back to St Tomas the Apostle. My parents, both now deceased, were unusual by any measure, and by the measure of their times they were extraordinary.

Tey were strong-willed risk takers. Tey both went from village to university, decided they would marry for love, not by arrangement, lef India soon afer their marriage to make careers as teachers in Kenya. And most extraordinary of all took a family of nine children to a country across the world where they knew not a soul and for which they were given only a two-year visa.

Tat country was Australia in 1964. Te visa was for two years because the White Australia policy was still in place and my father, by then a senior principal in the Kenyan school system, came under a special program for distinguished Asians.

So my connection with India is once removed. I have been a culinary Indian all my life and religion played a much bigger part in our upbringing than the culture of Kerala. All of us were taught from an early age to think for ourselves and to believe that there was nothing to which we could not aspire. Te result was a clan of argumentative Australians.

When I went to India in 2009 as Australia’s High Commissioner I did so primarily for professional, rather than personal reasons. My view then, as now, is that for an Australian diplomat there could be no more exciting an appointment than to India. Te reason was simple: India was the only big relationship which still had so much room for growth, which meant that a High Commissioner could make a real diference. With Australia’s other large, and much more established relationships, a Head of Mission may be able to shape ten or twenty per cent at the margin. But with India, it seemed to me, that number was more likely to be closer to forty to ffy per cent…

Te Australia India relationship can be seen in three distinct phases: Te period of empire, the decades between Indian independence and the opening of the Indian economy in the early nineties and the years since then.

I am not including in these three phases our geological connection because if you go back 300 million years, Australia and India were literally joined at the geological hip before continental drif separated us.

Te days of empire, from frst settlement in Australia in 1788 to Indian independence in 1947, were actually remarkably close.

41 In the early decades of our penal settlement, India was arguably our largest trading partner, linked through the infrastructure of the British Empire and sustained by a network of army ofcers and ofcials who made lives in both countries. Te Sydney-Calcutta sea link was a vital supply chain.

Tis was however for the most part a connection with India, not Indians. When the relationship with Indians in an independent India did commence, it was narrowly focused, although many of the personal links continued.

Seen from a state perspective, the stunted nature of the Australia-India relationship from the late forties to the early nineties should not surprise us. For the frst four decades afer India’s independence we inhabited diferent worlds. Our hard interests, strategic and economic, rarely intersected.

India’s economy went down the path of self-sufciency, not global trade. Strategically we inhabited diferent universes. India was a leading light of the Non-Aligned Movement, comfortable with the high moral tone of its foreign policy. Australia was a paid up member of the western alliance, a staunch ally of the US.

42 Today it all looks so diferent. India is in the top bracket of our international relations. We have committed to a strategic partnership. Te economic relationship is booming. Our geo- strategic interests are converging. We are fnding more common ground in multilateral fora, a welcome if still nascent change from the days when diferences over trade and non-proliferation soured a generation of Australian and Indian diplomats towards each other.

And the rapidly growing Indian diaspora in Australia – now just shy of 400,000 – is forging links which will add much-needed depth and texture to the people-to-people relationship.

Te turning point in all of this was India’s 1992 decision, led by Narasimha Rao and crafed by Manmohan Singh, to open its economy; a move which will be judged by history as every bit as signifcant as Deng Xiao Ping’s decision to open the Chinese economy.

Te opening of the Indian economy did what decades of diplomatic endeavour could not: it put India on a glide path which would see it redefne its economic and strategic interests and in the process create a convergence of interests between our two countries which has a long way to run.”

43 Biren Nanda, The Alfred Deakin Memorial Lecture - Indian Foreign Policy in a Globalised World “As I speak of the changing nature of our engagement with the international community, it is but natural that I should refer to relations between Australia and India. India and Australia have several commonalities including the shared values of a democratic system, a free press, an independent judiciary and a vibrant civil society. Tese elements have served as a solid foundation for close cooperation and multi-faceted interaction between the two countries. Today it is on the basis of shared interests that India and Australia are witnessing a robust development in their bilateral ties. We have established institutional platforms for furthering cooperation in diverse areas like foreign afairs, defence, education, science and technology and resources.

High-level visits on both sides are promoting engagement across a wide range of areas and creating new opportunities for both countries. Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s state visit to India in October last year was an outstanding success with substantive outcomes that have contributed signifcantly to the agenda of our strategic partnership. We have shared perspectives on global challenges like international terrorism and are partners in regional cooperation in the context of our dialogue partnership with the ASEAN and participation in the East Asia Summit.

As our bilateral ties expand we have a growing interest in the maintenance of security of sea-lanes of communication in our region. As the centre of gravity of the world economy shifs to Asia and the Indian Ocean region, India and Australia have the potential to cooperate more closely in areas like combating piracy, disaster management, food and energy security and the prevention of drug trafcking. We welcome the white paper on Australia in the Asian Century and its emphasis on building relationships with Asian countries including India.

Tere has been a signifcant expansion of trade and investment between our two countries. Te Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement negotiations which we have embarked upon will strengthen institutional connectivity and accelerate the rapid expansion of our commercial ties. We expect that the conclusion of the Agreement will expand the base of merchandised trade, remove non-tarif barriers, facilitate investment and address behind the border restrictions to trade. We seek to achieve some correction in the adverse balance of trade in goods and services with Australia. In services we seek greater Mode IV access and Mutual Recognition Agreements.

As the Indian economy grows, the global situation presents a mixed picture. On one hand, we are growing at a healthy pace, increasing our share in global trade and output. On the other hand, many obstacles have to be overcome if we are to sustain rapid growth in the years ahead. Particularly important are the supply side constraints of the Indian economy’s narrative of catch-up growth including energy, water, food, infrastructure and not in the least education and skills training. It is no surprise, therefore, that these supply side constraints are the driving force behind the rapid growth in ties between India and Australia.

44 Tere is much that India can gain from interaction and exchanges with Australia in terms of best practices, improved capabilities and… resources. Australia is a major and growing source for imports of gold, copper, coal and diamonds for the Indian economy. A number of Indian companies have invested in the resources and manufacturing sectors in Australia.

We have welcomed the decision of the Australian Government to allow exports of uranium to India. Nuclear power generation is an important element in India’s eforts to achieve energy security and to reduce the carbon footprint of the economy. Australian companies possess expertise, technology and products in a number of areas of interest to India. Tey are increasingly looking to opportunities in telecom, logistics, steel production technologies, mining technologies, energy exploration and infrastructure projects. Australian investments in India are making signifcant contributions to the economic relationship between the two countries.

Australia and India have a unique opportunity to be partners in progress in the Asian Century provided they equip themselves with the awareness, knowledge and the tools that would enable them to do so.”

‘Chai and Conversation’ continued at the Australia India Institute in 2013, providing an avenue for discussions with and introductions to high profle guests and visitors. Te sessions are a roundtable event with a select number of guests enabling free intellectual discussions in a private forum. Some high profle guests in 2013 included Nik Senapati, Rio Tinto India Managing Director, Rory Medcalf, Director of the International Security Program at the Lowy Institute and Associate Director of AII’s Sydney Node, Rajshree Chandra, Associate Professor from the University of Delhi, and Robin Jefrey, author of Te Great Indian Phone Book.

45 Launch of the India-Australia Poll 2013. [L-R] Geraldine Doogue AO, Neville Roach AO, Christopher Kremmer and Mark Laurie

Workshops, Seminars and Events

Jan 30-Feb 1 Australia India Youth Dialogue in Melbourne and Sydney Feb 11 Indian parliamentarians visit Feb 20 Chai and Conversation – “What lies ahead for India in 2013” with Rory Medcalf Feb 25 “If Gandhi Were Alive Today” – oration by Ela Gandhi Mar 15 Chai and Conversation – “Te Great Indian Media Bazaar” with students and faculty members of Indiana University (USA). Mar 20 Indian Ocean Security Task Force launch – Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Afairs, the Hon. Richard Marles Mar 21 Chai and Conversation – with top Indian TV interviewer Karan Tapar Mar 23 “Tagore’s Vision: Poetry of India” – dance and poetry performance with VCA Mar 25 Chai and Conversation – “Te Indian Resources Sector” with Nik Senapati Mar 25 Signing of MOU for the ICCR Visiting Chair by Indian Consul General and acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Engagement) Professor Simon Evans Apr 17 A.I.I. - Lowy India-Australia poll launch Apr 18 Heat and Dust - flm screening Apr 23-26 “Discovering the Deccan” lecture series Apr 30 Reception in honour of the Hon. Louise Asher MP May 6 Science Technology Task Force launch with Chief Scientist Ian Chubb May 7 Satyajit Ray Memorial Lecture: “Te Representation of Women in Indian Cinema” by Simi Garewal

46 May 16 Australia India Institute annual oration “Our Journey with India” by DFAT Secretary Peter Varghese May 20 A.I.I. - Lowy India poll launch May 27 Launch of Indian Ocean Task Force Report in India Jun 3 ‘Young Parliamentarians’ visit Jun 5 Friends of Asha reception Jul 10 Indian Education Minister oration – Pallam Raju Jul 23 State of the Nation: India - Melbourne Jul 25 State of the Nation: India – Sydney Jul 30 VIDS Knowledge Exchange Jul 31 Nuclear negotiator Venkatash Varma lunch Aug 13 AEF National Conference dinner with Asia Foundation Aug 15 “Ambassador’s Journal” – oration by John McCarthy Aug 21 CMC Vellore Director Sunil Chandy visit and dinner Sep 17 Australian Friends of Asha Slums reception Sep 25 “An Evening with Kiran Bedi” – Biopic screening and Q&A with Kiran Bedi Sep 25-27 Conference: “Gondwanalandings: Voices of the Emerging Indian Diaspora in Australia” Oct 2 Zubin Mehta conferral of Honorary Doctorate, Government House Oct 15 “India’s Transformation: Te Role of Information Technology” oration by Nandan Nilekani Oct 17 Dinner reception in honour of Meenakshi Gopinath Nov 10-13 FICCI Higher Education Summit

Dec 11 Chai and Conversation with Rajshree Chandra

47 A.I.I. in the News Te Australia India Institute was consistently engaged with the media both in Australia and India throughout 2013. Te Director, Professor Amitabh Mattoo, was called on regularly to comment on issues of interest to both countries. Distinguished guests and speakers hosted by the Institute in 2013 attracted an unprecedented level of media coverage in national print, radio, television, and online news media

5/01/13 Daily News and Analysis Over 100 foreign educational institutes in Vibrant Gujarat Summit Jan-13 Indian Link Flashback 2012 Jan-13 MUSSE Globally focused undergraduates head to India 5/01/13 Indian Voice Australian students get a taste of India 10/01/13 Indian Link University of Sydney Co-operative co-existence (Shashi Taroor) 16/01/13 News Students aim to challenge stereotypes on Indian study tour 16/01/13 Hindustan Times No real business plan 16/01/13 Campus Daily Students aim to challenge stereotypes on Indian study tour 23/01/13 Greater Kashmir Omar irked over ‘daf’ advisory 24/01/13 Te Australian Youth holds key to vibrant Australia-India relations 1/02/13 UNSW Kevin Jackson’s Teatre Diary 1/02/13 Te Interpreter Australia India Youth Dialogue 7/02/13 South Asia Times Rajiv Shukla leads parliamentary mission to Australia 12/02/13 South Asia Times Ela Gandhi Public Lecture 19/02/13 IBN Live Indian Ocean Security Task Force Maritime Security Asia to be launched in Australia SIFY News 25/02/13 ZeeNews Death penalty not a solution to end violence against women: Ela Gandhi 26/02/13 Te Australian Education misses the moral lessons: Ela Gandhi 11/03/13 Te Australian Brendan O’Connor infames row over ‘unfair’ 457 visas 13/03/13 MUSSE Gandhi’s granddaughter visits the University 20/03/13 Te Australian Australia and India “could lead region” 20/03/13 dfat.gov.au Launch of the Australia India Institute Indian Ocean study 20/03/13 Deccan Chronicle Nidhish receives PhD scholarship 20/03/13 ABC Australia, India need to do more on Indian Ocean: report 20/03/13 XinhauNet China has legitimate role in Indo-Pacifc security: report 25/03/13 Indian Express Meet the Winners (VIDS) 26/03/13 Te Hindu ICCR inks pact with Melbourne University to set up chair in Indian Studies 28/03/13 Te Malay Mail Bollywood wheels roll into Melbourne Apr-13 Bharat Times Tagore’s Vision 8/04/13 Te Asian Age Taming the Dragon 9/04/13 Sydhwaney.com Tagore comes alive in Victoria 10/04/13 Teatre People Te Mahabharata of Women

48 10/04/13 Te Age India beyond the clichés: we’ve got some catching up to do 10/04/13 Sydney Morning Herald India beyond the clichés: we’ve got some catching up to do 11/04/13 SBS Punjabi Mahabharata of Women 12/04/13 Te Australian No Passage to India 17/04/13 Sydney Morning Herald Bruised reputation hasn’t recovered 17/04/13 Te Hindu It’s not that complicated, mate 17/04/13 Te Australian Most Indians agree there’s more to our relationship than cricket 17/04/13 Financial Review Indians warm to Australia despite tensions 17/04/13 Te Age Indians believe student safety just not cricket 17/04/13 ABC RN New poll fnds Australia well-liked in India 17/04/13 ABC AM Australian education still highly regarded in India: survey 17/04/13 Te Age Indian student worries persist 17/04/13 Senator Bob Carr Survey confrms strength of Australia-India ties (press release) 17/04/13 Herald Sun Indians regard Australian education highly: poll 17/04/13 Te Interpreter Poll: What Indians think of Australia 17/04/13 SBS Indian opinions towards Australia warm: study 17/04/13 NZweek Indians think highly of Australian education, safety concerns continue: poll 17/04/13 Te Conversation It’s not just cricket: Indians have their say on Australia 17/04/13 Financial Express Australia re-emerges as preferred country for Indian students: poll 17/04/13 Invest in Australia Survey confrms strength of Australia-India ties 17/04/13 Te Times of India Australia still a favourite overseas destination for Indians: poll 17/04/13 Deccan Herald Indian students’ safety in Australia still a concern: poll India’s citizens think highly of Australian education, safety concerns continue: poll 17/04/13 Bernama 18/04/13 Hindustan Times Most Indians still favour Australia as study destination: poll 18/04/13 Te Interpreter Indians trust their media: why? 18/04/13 India EDU News 75 per cent Indians feel Australia good place to study - poll 2013 18/04/13 Te Hindu Timeless tale of anguish 20/04/13 Te Australian Ambivalent about Oz 2/05/13 Herald Sun Foreign workers on 457 visas could undergo “genuineness” test 2/05/13 Sydney Morning Herald McKew says Labor’s 457 visa stance ‘a political stunt’ Canberra Times 2/05/13 Te Telegraph McKew swipes at 457 visa reform Te Australian 2/05/13 Te Economic Times Tightening of working visa norms in Oz ‘political stunt’: Ex-MP

49 50 2/05/13 Te Australian Foreign Workers on 457 visas could undergo ‘genuineness’ test 3/05/13 Te Australian Visa scheme ‘not plagued by more than 10,000 rorts’ 10/05/13 News Track India Australia and India engaging on corporate afairs 16/05/13 Te Australian Help with Hindi is at hand 16/05/13 Herald Sun We don’t get India, they don’t get us 16/05/13 Adelaide Now We don’t get India, they don’t get us 17/05/13 Te Observer Paper calls for Hindi to be included in Australian curriculum 17/05/13 Te Age DFAT boss warns against pushing India Sydney Morning Herald Border Mail 17/05/13 ABC Radio Australia Protracted Aust, India relations ‘strengthening’, says top diplomat 17/05/13 ZeeNews Patience key to India-Australia ties: Varghese 20/05/13 Financial Review Call for unis to bolster Indian ties 20/05/13 Te Hindu How the world looks from India 20/05/13 Te Age China’s rise fuels mistrust among many Indians Sydney Morning Herald 20/05/13 Te Indian Express Australia India Institute calls for Hindi to be included in Australian curriculum 20/05/13 Te Indian Express 83% Indians view China as major security threat: poll 20/05/13 India Real Time Indians rank China a threat, survey fnds 20/05/13 Daily News & Analysis Indians like the United States most and Pakistan least: India poll survey 20/05/13 ABC Radio Australia New poll reveals Indian ‘hopes and fears’ 20/05/13 Te Economic Times Indians sceptical of China’s policy towards Asia, India: poll 20/05/13 Firstpost India poll 2013: Indians are worried about water, energy, and China 20/05/13 News Track India Lowy India Poll 2013 study: 83 per cent Indians consider China a security threat 21/05/13 Te Australian A chequered view of Chinese colours Li’s Indian travails 21/05/13 Business Standard Dialogue between Indian and Aus youth must for robust ties 21/05/13 Radio Australia China a security threat to India, says survey 21/05/13 Foreign Policy Wisdom of the crowd 21/05/13 News Track India Annual report of A.I.I. - Australia India Youth Business Standard Dialogue Partnership launched 22/05/13 Silicon India News Indians sceptical of China’s Policy towards Asia, India: poll National fear of the dragon: Poll reveals majority of Indians are apprehensive of China 22/05/13 Daily News & Analysis Report calls for Hindi to be included in Australia curriculum 22/05/13 Matters India Youth to take India Australia ties further 22/05/13 Te Australian Chief scientist Ian Chubb sees fall in research

51 22/05/13 Real Clear World A deep mistrust colours India-China ties 23/05/13 Te Asian Age Time for serious talks with China 23/05/13 Ooska News Water shortage among top threats to India’s security, survey fnds 27/05/13 Te Diplomat What Indians think about China 7/06/13 Punjab Newsline Harsimrat Badal seeks cooperation from Australian govt for safeguarding interests of Punjabi diaspora 8/06/13 Brisbane Times Passage from India widens to a highway 13/06/13 Financial Review Australia could help India modernise its economy 24/06/13 ABC Radio Australia Australian students embark on internship in India 26/06/13 Te Australian Internship earns Mark Powles a passage to India 2/07/13 ABC 774 Bruce Esplin, Robin Jefrey, Carillo Gantner 8/07/13 South Asia Times Oz warned losing India edu market 8/07/13 Te Satellite Report says TAFE should deliver service in India Northern Rivers Echo 8/07/13 Business Standard Aus TAFEs may miss out on big share of India’s market: study 10/07/13 Te Australian Push for VET centre of excellence in India 10/07/13 Business Standard Indian students present research work in Australia 10/07/13 Business Standard India, Australia welcome signing of MoU to promote agriculture, retail, telecom skills 17/07/13 Te Australian India calls for research alliances 19/07/13 Daily News and Analysis India poll 2013 reveals Indians are optimistic about economy, see Pakistan as major threat, and think corruption is holding us back 20/07/13 DAWN.com Bureaucratic, military-level talks urged with India 22/07/13 Business Recorder Jinnah Institute arranges 12th round of Chaophraya Dialogue 30/07/13 TwoCircles.net Former Pak’s Ambassador to US, Sherry Rehman to speak at Jamia 7/08/13 ZeeNews Indian-origin candidates in fray in Australia elections 8/08/13 Australia Network News Australia urged to put more efort into its trade relationship with India 8/08/13 Te Economic Times Australia asked to put more eforts in trade ties with India 12/08/13 ABC Radio Australia Australia urged to improve trade and business links with India 12/08/13 ABC RN Australian agriculture urged to look at India 19/08/13 Business Line Narendra Modi could give a new sense of direction: Ex-Australian envoy 19/08/13 ZeeNews Modi could give a new sense of direction: Ex-Oz envoy 20/08/13 NDTV Narendra Modi could give a new sense of direction: former Australian envoy 6/09/13 Business Standard Australia eyes mega Indian infrastructure projects

52 10/09/13 Te Economic Times India-Australia ties likely to get boost under PM-elect Tony Abbott 11/09/13 National Journal Australian election seen likely to speed talks with India on uranium deal 12/09/13 ABC Radio Australia India tweaks the dragon’s tail 17/09/13 Te Conversation Back to the drawing board as ‘shining’ India stumbles 25/09/13 IB Traveller Tourism Australia: What makes Indians ‘repeat travel’ and what scares them of 30/09/13 Te Age Big stakes in Indian numbers game 1/10/13 World Politics Review Global Insider: Australia seeks assurances from India in advance of nuclear trade deal 10/10/13 Te Age Exhibition captures beauty of salt desert 14/10/13 Te Economic Times One out of two Indians to have Aadhaar by mid-2014: Nandan Nilekani 16/10/13 ZeeNews Considering all my options: Nandan Nilekani on joining politics 16/10/13 FirstPost Half of Indians to have Aadhaar number by mid-2014: Nilekani 16/10/13 FirstPost Aadhaar will solve the problem of non-existent identity, says Nilekani 16/10/13 Te Economic Times Aadhaar example of using technology to leapfrog: Nandan Nilekani 16/10/13 Te Hindu Nandan Nilekani non-committal on joining politics 16/10/13 Te Indian Express Aadhaar example of using technology to Te Times of India leapfrog: Nandan Nilekani ZeeNews Press Trust of India 16/10/13 Business Standard New Australian government fags better ties with India 17/10/13 SBS Massive digital identifcation project in India 17/10/13 Hindustan Times Aadhaar will help the poor: UIDAI chief Nilekani 17/10/13 Te Conversation In Conversation with Nandan Nilekani 18/10/13 Te Times of India Honorary degree to LSR principal Meenakshi 19/10/13 Te Australian Gif for IT holds out best hope for Indian miracle 31/10/13 Te Diplomatist Start of a new innings: Australia changes guard 11/11/13 Te Australian History of shared sacrifce unites India, Australia 19/11/13 Te Times of India Time for Canberra and New Delhi to establish a new partnership 10/12/13 Te Age Start of something extraordinary in India 10/12/13 SMH Start of something extraordinary in India 13/12/13 Te Hindu Caring for the Crafs

53 Te Australia India Institute leadership team Te conference brought together approximately engaged throughout the year in a broad range 200 leading current and former policy makers, of dialogues and policy forums. scientists, and other opinion shapers from around the world to explore creative solutions to Trilateral Dialogue on Indian Ocean some of the world’s most challenging problems. (TDIO) Mattoo was elected to the council and executive committee of the organisation. Te A.I.I. Director, Amitabh Mattoo attended this dialogue hosted by the Indian Council of World Australian Leadership Retreat 2013, Afairs (ICWA), New Delhi in partnership with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI). Hayman Island, Great Barrier Reef Senior foreign policy and government ofcials, Australia’s premier gathering for business, and scholars from Australia, India and Indonesia political, academic and community leaders is took part. Te dialogue was followed by closed a forum that promotes the fearless exchange of door, track two talks between the three countries. ideas among domestic and international leaders. Te retreat has built its formidable reputation on Pugwash Conference on Science and substance over celebrity, and a high-powered roll World Affairs. call of speakers and attendees. Te retreat sets, rather than follows, national agendas through A.I.I. Director, Amitabh Mattoo participated in open, robust, and confdential debate, with a the 60th Pugwash Conference on Science and deliberate focus on the long term. Te theme for World Afairs. Te conference, themed “Dialogue, 2013 was Opportunity from Disruption. Te Chair Disarmament, and Regional and Global Security”, of the A.I.I. Board and the A.I.I. Director spoke at took place in Istanbul, Turkey, in November 2013. and participated in the retreat.

54 Lancet Commission on Adolescent Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, and the Health World Health Organisation (WHO) and others, deliberated on a range of ‘endgame’ ideas that have In 2013, the Australia India Institute’s Director, been proposed to accelerate tobacco control. Te Amitabh Mattoo, served as a University of Conference, which brought together 23 Indian Melbourne Commissioner on the new Lancet and international organisations as partners, heard Commission on Adolescent Health and Well- more than 600 speakers and delegates from 52 being. Te Commission also included academics countries, including Health Ministers from India from Columbia University, and from University and Jamaica, the Director-General of WHO, College London’s School of Hygiene and Tropical Margaret Chan, India’s parliamentary opposition Medicine, working across disciplines to explore leader Sushma Swaraj, and other MPs. More than a “green-feld site” in the areas of health and 200 abstracts on eight themes were presented over development. It is the frst time the University two days. of Melbourne has participated in a commission convened by the prestigious international medical journal. Jaipur Literary Festival; Kiran Bedi book launch Symposium on Plain Packaging at On the opening day of Jaipur’s Literature Festival the International Conference on in 2013, Professor Mattoo ofcially launched Public Health Priorities in the 21st anti-corruption activists Kiran Bedi and Pawan Choudhary’s inspiring book Uprising 2011. Te Century: The Endgame for Tobacco book, a collection of stories, reports, and cartoons, Amitabh Mattoo chaired a panel at this important discusses the work of social activist Anna Hazare international conference. Te conference, and the ‘second war of independence’ (against organised by the Public Health Foundation of corruption) that Bedi led from 2010 to 2012. India and HRIDAY, in partnership with India’s

55 From L-R Bernard Philip, Deputy High Commissioner to India, Ric Smith, former Secretary of the Department of Defence and Rory Medcalf, Associate Director Australia India Institute, NSW Node 56 Sydney Node, the University of New (Overseas Indians Day) conference in Sydney South Wales in November. Te Vice-Chancellor of UNSW, Professor Fred Hilmer, and the Node Associate Since early 2013, the University of New South Director both spoke at the conference. Wales (UNSW Australia) has intensifed its India engagement, stepping up the work of its Node of Te A.I.I. Node at UNSW has worked to support the Australia India Institute with the appointment the eforts of the NSW Government in engaging of former diplomat Rory Medcalf as Associate India, with senior UNSW staf joining Premier Director and Georgia Blérot as Executive Ofcer. Barry O’Farrell on his visit to Maharashtra and Gujarat in December 2013. It will look to deepen Highlights of the year included the Gandhi collaboration with the NSW Government and oration, held on Martyr’s Day, 30 January, and in these dynamic Indian states in 2014. 2013, given by eminent jurist Michael Kirby. On 2 October, in memory of the Mahatma and La Trobe University Node. his message, and commemorating the anniversary of his birth, UNSW hosted a public ceremony In 2013, La Trobe University continued to develop and panel discussion on Gandhi Jayanti. and consolidate the teaching of Hindi and, with Parliamentarians, business fgures, community the support of its Vice-Chancellor, secured an leaders and scholars gathered to hear members ongoing lectureship in Hindi and South Asian of the Australia India Youth Dialogue talk Studies. Te position has been flled by Dr Ian about Gandhi’s relevance to young Indians and Woolford, formerly at Cornell University, who Australians today. took up his post in January 2014. La Trobe has also established a new university-wide centre UNSW hosted a visit by India’s Minister for called La Trobe Asia, which will oversee all aspects Human Resource Development, Dr M. M. Pallam of its engagement with Asia, enhancing its long Raju. It hosted delegations of senior Indian tradition of expertise and interest in the region. In ofcials and government scientists to discuss doing so, La Trobe is working to fulfl its mission bilateral cooperation in science and technology, to create and disseminate knowledge in a world energy and green materials. Together with the increasingly shaped by Asia’s states and societies. Chairman of A.I.I., the Node hosted a dinner Working in and engaging with India is seen as for Nandan Nilekani, with distinguished guests a crucial part of La Trobe Asia’s activities in the including Communications Minister Malcolm coming years. Professor Nick Bisley has been Turnbull. It also hosted visits by senior ofcials appointed as the new centre’s Executive Director in education and water management from the Government of Maharashtra, and supported wider A.I.I. participation in the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas

57 Board of the Australia India Institute James Donald – Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social in 2013 Sciences, UNSW Te Australia India Institute’s Board comprises Julia Fraser - Associate Director – Asialink & Co- a Chair, Vice-Chancellor or nominee, the A.I.I. Director – Asia Australia Mental Health Director or nominee, Department of Education Amitabh Mattoo – Director, Australia India nominee, La Trobe University nominee, University Institute of New South Wales nominee, a representative of the University of Melbourne appointed by John Rosenberg - Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Council, the Chief Executive Ofcer, Asialink La Trobe University. or nominee, and up to two people co-opted annually by the Board. Te Board exercises Australia India Institute Staff governance oversight of the operations of the Amitabh Mattoo: Director Institute, formulates an annual budget for the Institute approved by Council, and sets the Rory Medcalf: Associate Director – Sydney Node strategic direction of the Institute, including Anthony D’Costa: Chair of Contemporary Indian consideration and approval of its strategic plan Studies and annual program of activities. It also monitors the performance of the Institute with regard Ashok Malik: Australia India Institute/Observer to any conditions placed upon grants from the Research Foundation Chair Commonwealth of Australia or any other sources. Shanka De Silva: Operations Manager

Te Australia India Institute Board met four times Aliya Elariss: Project Co-ordinator (India) in 2013: Elise Fagone: Events, Programme and Marketing ➢ 4 March Manager ➢ 18 June ➢ 2 September Tess Gross: Executive Assistant to the Director ➢ 25 November Alexandra Hansen: Media and Communications Ofcer Te 2013 Board members were: Shibu Kitroo: Operations and Finance Ofcer Robert Johanson – Chair, Deputy Chancellor of the University of Melbourne and Chairman of the Souresh Roy: Research Assistant to the Director Melbourne University Fund Marianna Sarris: Operations and Projects Ofcer Susan Elliott – Deputy Chair, Deputy Vice- Simone Traglia: Events and Project Ofcer Chancellor, Engagement, the University of Melbourne Susan Bennett - General Manager, International Education and Science Division, Australian Government Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education.

58 Patron Fellows Te Hon Alex Chernov AC QC, Farrah Ahmed Governor of Victoria Ravi Bhatia Distinguished Fellows Howard Brasted Lance Brennan Mani Shankar Aiyar David Brewster Deidre Coleman Richard Cashman Suranjan Das Robyn Davidson Swapan Dasgupta Peter Deutschmann Gareth Evans Bina Fernandez Charles Green Pavan Gandhok Robin Jefrey Meg Gurry Sunjoy Joshi Marlene Kanga Maxine McKew Christopher Kremmer Rob Moodie Wayne Lewis Ashis Nandy Jane Lu Linda Rosenman Hector Malano Greg Sheridan Jim Masselos Brian Stoddart Michael Moignard Shashi Taroor Michael Pearson Fazal Rizvi Dennis Rumley Samir Saran Kalvinda K Shields Christopher Snedden Pradeep Taneja Pera Wells

59 Attached are the income and expenditure fnancial statements of the Australia India Institute from 2008 to 31 December 2013 as prepared by Finance - Australia India Institute and for 2012 and 2013 audited and certifed by the Senior Financial/ Operational Auditor – Internal Audit - University of Melbourne. From 2008 to December 2010 the fnancial report was certifed by Chief Finance Ofcer, University of Melbourne and published in the 2010 annual report.

Te Government funds (including AGDE), State and Local Government Grants (DSDBI), University contributions and other income were expended for the purpose they were provided in the Conditions of Grant and the Institute has been in compliance with all contract, agreement and pertinent legislation.

60 Australia India Institute - Income and Expenditure Report 2008 - 31 December 2013 General operating / Aii Project Fed Gov DIICCSRTE UoM Project / Account number : 95576 95579 Actual as of end 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2012 2013 OPENING BALANCE (Notional cash carry - 5,503,789 4,389,266 3,900,270 760,385 - 1,507,152 forward from Previous Year) INCOME ------Commonwealth Funding / Block Grant Funding / 5,506,000 - 2,600,000 - - 1,500,000 - Financial Assistance State & Local Government Grants ------Other Grant Income (PCS) - - 137,580 77,715 - - - Investment Income - - - - - 7,152 36,067 Non Course Fees & Services ------Professional Services / Consulting and ------Contracted Services Other Income (GCP) ------Fee for Service Income - 604 214,407 -93,142 1,398 - - Asset Disposal - - 900 59 841 - - Internal Allocations/Transfers-Central Admin. ------(UoM) Internal Recoveries-Department Use (Shared ------expenses recovery) Total Income 5,506,000 604 2,952,887 -15,368 2,239 1,507,152 36,067

EXPENDITURE ------Salary Costs Permanent - 371,570 738,837 283,868 354,602 - - Salary Costs Casual - 25,989 47,028 142,774 54,697 - - Salary Expenditure Total - 397,559 785,865 426,642 409,299 - - Grant Expense - 25,000 529,522 261,761 72,500 - - Finance Related Costs (Tax) 534 5,090 39,157 102,922 11,259 - - Student Support - 2,158 21,828 20,828 - - - Consumable Goods and Services 430 42,645 257,659 385,786 52,681 - - Expert Services - 458,049 738,929 537,966 42,598 - - Travel, Accom, Conf, Seminars, Workshops, 1,247 167,311 867,173 1,164,253 40,463 - - Events & Programmes Expensed Assets - 2,985 31,424 32,006 6,562 - - Infrastructure Related Expenses - 2,322 134,946 183,505 57,848 - - Internal Allocations/Transfers-Central Admin. - 12,008 35,380 8,848 69,415 - - (Support Cost) Non Salary Expenditure 2,211 717,568 2,656,018 2,697,875 353,326 - - Total Expenditure 2,211 1,115,127 3,441,883 3,124,517 762,625 - - Net Surplus/(Defcit) 5,503,789 -1,114,523 -488,996 -3,139,886 -760,385 1,507,152 36,067 CLOSING BALANCE 5,503,789 4,389,266 3,900,270 760,385 -1 1,507,152 1,543,220

61 Australia India Institute - Income and Expenditure Report 2008 - 31 December 2013 General operating / Aii Project Vic Gov DSDBI UoM Project / Account number : 95581 95581 95583 Trust Account Trust Account Actual as of end 2012 2013 2013 OPENING BALANCE (Notional cash carry forward from Previous Year) - 1,554,990 -

INCOME - - - Commonwealth Funding / Block Grant Funding / Financial Assistance - - - State & Local Government Grants 1,500,000 - - Other Grant Income (PCS) - - - Investment Income 54,990 -26,803 1,543 Non Course Fees & Services - - - Professional Services / Consulting and Contracted Services - - - Other Income (GCP) - - - Fee for Service Income - - - Asset Disposal - - - Internal Allocations/Transfers-Central Admin. (UoM) - -750,000 750,000 Internal Recoveries-Department Use (Shared expenses recovery) - - - Total Income 1,554,990 -776,803 751,543

EXPENDITURE - - - Salary Costs Permanent - - 47,635 Salary Costs Casual - - 5,577 Salary Expenditure Total - - 53,212 Grant Expense - - 70,195 Finance Related Costs (Tax) - - 36,366 Student Support - - 5,307 Consumable Goods and Services - - 106,971 Expert Services - - 324,657 Travel, Accom, Conf, Seminars, Workshops, Events & Programmes - - 394,374 Expensed Assets - - -2,563 Infrastructure Related Expenses - - 37,196 Internal Allocations/Transfers-Central Admin. (Support Cost) - - - Non Salary Expenditure - - 972,504 Total Expenditure - - 1,025,716 Net Surplus/(Defcit) 1,554,990 -776,803 -274,173 CLOSING BALANCE 1,554,990 778,187 -274,173

62 Australia India Institute - Income and Expenditure Report 2008 - 31 December 2013 University of Melbourne Other Income UoM Project / Account number : 006-88- 0100-00- “0100-02- “0100-02- “0100-02- “0100-02- 0100- 02 - 00010 000010 000000 000000 000000 000000 000020 & 000010” & 000010” & 000010” & 000010” Actual as of end 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2013 OPENING BALANCE (Notional cash carry - 875,308 600,454 327,415 903,986 -2,059 - forward from Previous Year) INCOME ------Commonwealth Funding / Block Grant Funding / ------660,696 Financial Assistance State & Local Government Grants ------Other Grant Income (PCS) ------21,000 Investment Income ------Non Course Fees & Services ------Professional Services / Consulting and ------24,831 Contracted Services Other Income (GCP) ------Fee for Service Income ------3,150 Asset Disposal ------318 Internal Allocations/Transfers-Central Admin. 1,000,000 - - 850,000 - - - (UoM) Internal Recoveries-Department Use (Shared ------expenses recovery) Total Income 1,000,000 - - 850,000 - - 709,995

EXPENDITURE ------Salary Costs Permanent 110,386 188,381 193,643 200,504 779,594 - 589,048 Salary Costs Casual - 5,205 - 9,824 24,667 - 97,818 Salary Expenditure Total 110,386 193,586 193,643 210,328 804,261 - 686,866 Grant Expense ------Finance Related Costs (Tax) 173 4,965 883 58 -677 - - Student Support ------Consumable Goods and Services 4,545 4,658 7,018 -4,142 -738 - - Expert Services 903 10,394 40,522 34,277 11,141 - - Travel, Accom, Conf, Seminars, Workshops, 8,685 58,803 9,423 18,024 389 - - Events & Programmes Expensed Assets - 2,444 19,137 510 491 - - Infrastructure Related Expenses - 4 2,413 14,374 91,177 2,298 - Internal Allocations/Transfers-Central Admin. ------(Support Cost) Non Salary Expenditure 14,306 81,268 79,396 63,101 101,784 2,298 - Total Expenditure 124,692 274,854 273,039 273,429 906,045 2,298 686,866 Net Surplus/(Defcit) 875,308 -274,854 -273,039 576,571 -906,045 -2,298 23,129 CLOSING BALANCE 875,308 600,454 327,415 903,986 -2,059 -4,356 23,129

63 University In-Kind Contribution Report 2011 - 31st December 2012 Estimate Estimate Estimate Estimate Actual Actual 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

CHARGES Overhead Charges 1 42,346 58,155 299,498 339,332 - - IT Common Services - - - - 64,027 85,463 Finance Common Services - - - - 9,266 6,925 HR Common Services - - - - 3,931 13,241 Property Common Services - - - - 111,583 87,795 Property Rental - - - - 61,133 61,045 OHS Common Services - - - - 649 1,211 SPU Common Services - - - - 2,398 1,745 Total Charges 42,346 58,155 299,498 339,332 252,987 257,425

Drivers for Overhead Charges: FTE 1 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 Efective (FTE) staf 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

64 Australia India Institute - Income and Expenditure Report 2008 - 31 December 2013 Other special projects Vic Gov DSDBI UoM Project / Account number : VIDS VIDS I VIDS 2012 I Trust 95577 II Trust Account Account 95589 95585 Actual as of end 2013 2011 2012 2013 2013 2013 OPENING BALANCE (Notional cash carry forward from Previous - - 963,492 1,024,422 - - Year) INCOME ------Commonwealth Funding / Block Grant Funding / Financial ------Assistance State & Local Government Grants - - 2,000,000 - - - Other Grant Income (PCS) ------Investment Income 5,978 - - -1,664 29,878 -4,951 Non Course Fees & Services ------Professional Services / Consulting and Contracted Services ------Other Income (GCP) ------Fee for Service Income - 1,000,000 -1,000,000 - - - Asset Disposal ------Internal Allocations/Transfers-Central Admin. (UoM) 1,000,000 - - -2,000,000 1,000,000 -

Internal Recoveries-Department Use (Shared expenses recovery) ------Total Income 1,005,978 1,000,000 1,000,000 -2,001,664 1,029,878 -4,951

EXPENDITURE ------Salary Costs Permanent - - 60,169 -60,169 - 60,169 Salary Costs Casual - 28,858 29,942 -13,346 - 13,346 Salary Expenditure Total - 28,858 90,112 -73,516 - 73,516 Grant Expense - - - 87,041 - 540,000 Finance Related Costs (Tax) - - 651 -564 - 652 Student Support - - 810,000 2,743 - 90,000 Consumable Goods and Services - 1,082 1,372 -850 - 1,351 Expert Services - 6,568 1,244 -1,169 - - Travel, Accom, Conf, Seminars, Workshops, Events & Programmes - - 35,691 -16,653 - 18,267 Expensed Assets ------Infrastructure Related Expenses ------Internal Allocations/Transfers-Central Admin. (Support Cost) ------Non Salary Expenditure - 7,650 848,958 70,548 - 650,269 Total Expenditure - 36,508 939,070 -2,967 - 723,785 Net Surplus/(Defcit) 1,005,978 963,492 60,930 -1,998,696 1,029,878 -728,736 CLOSING BALANCE 1,005,978 963,492 1,024,422 -974,274 1,029,878 -728,736

65 Australia India Institute - Income and Expenditure Report 2008 - 31 December 2013 Other special projects Fed Gov DIICCSRTE F G F G AIC British AusAid Gov UoM Project / Account number : AIEC AISE RLP - IACP YPD PCS 95578 95580 AIELE 95584 95587 95582 95588 Actual as of end 2012 2013 2012 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 OPENING BALANCE (Notional cash - 370,750 - 159,620 - - - - carry forward from Previous Year) INCOME ------Commonwealth Funding / Block Grant 303,328 - 200,000 - 147,500 269,960 25,000 - Funding / Financial Assistance State & Local Government Grants ------Other Grant Income (PCS) ------131,036 Investment Income - - 869 1,376 - - - - Non Course Fees & Services ------Professional Services / Consulting and ------Contracted Services Other Income (GCP) ------Fee for Service Income 136,364 ------Asset Disposal ------Internal Allocations/Transfers-Central ------Admin. (UoM) Internal Recoveries-Department Use ------(Shared expenses recovery) Total Income 439,692 - 200,869 1,376 147,500 269,960 25,000 131,036

EXPENDITURE ------Salary Costs Permanent ------Salary Costs Casual - - 17,115 52,635 - - - - Salary Expenditure Total - - 17,115 52,635 - - - - Grant Expense - - - - - 53,000 - - Finance Related Costs (Tax) - - 31 14 - - 641 529 Student Support - - 1,040 1,894 - - - - Consumable Goods and Services 364 3,508 654 7,327 34 - - 12,340 Expert Services 45,000 42,636 - 4,293 6,266 120,000 - 30,951 Travel, Accom, Conf, Seminars, 20,250 19,001 22,409 93,011 25,117 6,807 19,942 87,562 Workshops, Events & Programmes Expensed Assets ------Infrastructure Related Expenses 3,328 - - 565 90 - - 167 Internal Allocations/Transfers-Central ------Admin. (Support Cost) Non Salary Expenditure 68,943 65,145 24,134 107,103 31,507 179,807 20,583 131,548 Total Expenditure 68,943 65,145 41,249 159,738 31,507 179,807 20,583 131,548 Net Surplus/(Defcit) 370,750 -65,145 159,620 -158,362 115,993 90,153 4,417 -512 CLOSING BALANCE 370,750 305,604 159,620 1,258 115,993 90,153 4,417 -512

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