NT History Grants Recipients 2006
Alan Powell of Darwin: $5,000 to research a history of sea approaches to Darwin.
Anne Gardiner of Bathurst Island: $3,000 to research the history of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Sisters in the Northern Territory, 1908-2008.
Judith Lovell of Alice Springs: $5,000 to record and document the stories of Kathleen Wallace, Eastern Arrernte traditional owner and custodian of Keringke.
Kathy De La Rue of Palmerston: $6,000 to research the development of Darwin during the Commonwealth administration, 1911-1978.
Wendy Beresford-Maning of Darwin: $1,500 to research the work of missionaries of the Sacred Heart in the Top End.
Noel Kentish of Brisbane: $5,000 to research the life and work of Territorian missionary and humanitarian, Leonard Noel Kentish.
Matthew Stephen of Darwin: $2,500 to research a comparative study of Aboriginal involvement in cricket in colonial South Australia and the Northern Territory.
Heather Hancock of Alice Springs: $4,000 to research midwives’ stories and the history of home birth in the Northern Territory.
Katelyn Hemsley of Alice Springs: $3,500 to research and record deaths and lone burials in Central Australia.
Stephen Carleton of Brisbane: $3,500 to research the history of the Darwin Theatre Company, 1959-2009.
Jason Gibson of Alice Springs: $3,000 to research the history of communism in Central Australia.
Adelaide River Primary School Council: $3,000 to research the history of the Adelaide River Primary School.
Phil Herdman of Nhulunbuy: $2,000 to research the origins of early European topographical names in Eastern Arnhem Land.
Elina Spilia of Melbourne: $3,000 to record oral histories of the Djapu clan of the Yolngu people of North Eastern Arnhem Land.