Page 1632 - Week 05 - Thursday, 2 June 2022
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1. (a)-(f) Portfolio arrangements and administration of grants have changed over time. The grants currently in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs portfolio are the Cultural, Leadership and Scholarship Grants and Reconciliation Day Grants. New and Emerging Organisations Grants were also awarded in 2019 and 2020.
The outcome of these grants, including recipients and amounts received is available here: https://www.communityservices.act.gov.au/atsia/grants. This webpage provides information back to 2014-15 for the programs that existed at that time (Leadership and Scholarship Grants). Note that the names of recipients are redacted when the recipient is an individual.
2. (a) Cultural grants are available to individuals and organisations for the purpose of delivering a program or holding an event within the ACT that will celebrate or strengthen cultural heritage and promote wider understanding of culture.
Leadership Grants aim to encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people or Community Organisations to undertake learning activities that will enhance their leadership skills and abilities to better equip them to lead and engage within the ACT on behalf of their communities and/or organisations.
Scholarship grants are available to individuals and organisations for studying or training, to build employment opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in the ACT.
Reconciliation Day Grants aims to support community organised events, which are held by individuals or organisations, with a strong focus on Reconciliation, specifically:
• promoting understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures in the wider community;
• celebrating and raising the significance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures in the wider community;
• promoting understanding of, and the impact on, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of past policies and historical events;
• delivering opportunities for children, young people and elders to be involved and have the ability to participate in community events that promote Reconciliation; and
• developing seminars and/or panel discussions on the importance of Reconciliation for all Australians.
New and Emerging Organisations grants supported Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations in Canberra with set-up costs, including business or strategic planning program design.
(b)-(c) Please see the publicly available information in Community Services Directorate (CSD) Annual Reports and the webpage link above. Provision of the level of detail requested would require a significant diversion of resources that cannot be justified.
(d) These grants are paid through the Territory controlled accounts and are therefore not accounted for as administered items.
(e) Provision of the level of detail requested would require a significant diversion of resources that cannot be justified.
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