Current NT History Grants Recipients
The 2009 NT History Grants were approved and issued in July by Alison Anderson MLA, Minister for Arts and Museums. Congratulations are extended to the following recipients of this year's grants.
Gordon Grimwade of Atherton: $3400 to research Chinese overland migration between the Northern Territory and Queensland, c1870-1910.
Claire Lowrie of Wollongong: $3000 to research a history of Chinese and Aboriginal male servants in Darwin, 1870s-1930s.
Jeffrey Corfield of Townsville: $3000 to research the life and music of Valentine Bynoe McGinness.
Peter d’Abbs of Darwin: $3000 to research a history of community based initiatives to control alcohol problems in Indigenous communities and regional centres in the Northern Territory, 1979-2006.
Henry Johnson of Darwin: $1000 to research a history of Dr Cecil Strangman, an early medical officer of the Northern Territory.
Christine Collins of Darwin: $2000 to research the history of sport parachuting in the Northern Territory.
Robyn McKenzie of Canberra: $3000 to research the string figures of Yirrkala.
Kim Johnstone of Darwin: $3500 to research a history of Indigenous fertility in the Northern Territory.
Georgine Clarsen of Wollongong: $2500 to research the Northern Territory in the national spotlight: celebrating and managing the Redex Trials of the 1950s.
Bill Lennox of Wellington, NZ: $2000 to research Kapalga, the story of land.
Eileen Cummings of Darwin: $3500 to record oral histories from two generations of Indigenous people in the Top End paid workforce.
Greg Blyton of Tea Gardens, NSW: $1100 to research the Todd River flood of 1988, its impact on Indigenous people and government responses.
Phil Herdman of Gove: $2000 to research origins of European place names of North East Arnhem Land.
Petronella Vaarzon-Morel of Alice Springs: $3000 to research camel histories and Aboriginal encounters on the Northern Territory settler frontier, 1860s-1970s.
Christian O’Brien of Darwin: $4000 to research a history of weather and climate in Australia’s Top End, 1820-1960.
Claire Brennan of Townsville: $3000 to research agricultural shows, ideas of breed and the pastoral industry in the Northern Territory.
Phillipa Hetherton of Sydney: $4000 to record oral histories of the Aboriginal sea-rights struggle in the Northern Territory.
Charlie Ward of Alice Springs: $3000 to research helpers and wayfarers recounting their experiences of the Wave Hill Walk-Off.
Thanks must go to all the applicants. The quality of applications was of a high order, and it is unfortunate that we are unable to support more projects.
