NT History Grants Recipients 2010
The 2010 NT History Grants were approved and issued in August by Gerry McCarthy, MLA, Minister for Arts and Museums. Congratulations are extended to the following recipients of this year's grants:
- Kevin Wong Hoy of Melbourne: $1700 to research the history of Hung Bak Cheong, as Australia’s first celebrity Chinese cook;
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Keith Castle of Byron Bay: $1400 to research the history of Central Australian Tours Association (CATA) 1961 – 1987;
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Peter Monteath of Adelaide: $2000 to research the life and work of Frederick Rose on Groote Eylandt;
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Stephen Gray of Melbourne: $2000 to research ‘Giese’s Empire?’: good intentions and the assimilation program in the Northern Territory 1954-1972;
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Barry Leithhead of Sydney: $3400 to research the life and work of Cecil EA Cook M.D. - A pioneer in Tropical Medicine and Public Health;
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Chrischona Schmidt of Brisbane: $1550 to research the history of the Utopia art movement in Central Australia;
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Russell McGregor (James Cook University) of Townsville: $4000 to research Reassessing the Territory: the Northern Australia Development Committee (1946 – 1949) and its Antecedents;
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Bev Phelts of Darwin: $1850 to research the life and work of Felix Ernest Holmes: A Darwin Electrician, Pearler, Horse-racer, Agriculturalist, Pastoralist, Butcher, Baker and Icemaker 1890 – 1930;
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Grieko Enter and Henny Haarlem of Netherlands: $2000 to research the life of Charles (Lindsay) Goodliff, Portrait of a Territorian;
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Darwin City Brass Band of Darwin: $1100 to research the history of Brass Bands in Darwin since 1895;
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Artback NT of Alice Springs: $3000 to record oral histories and images for the ‘Click! Project: Pictures of our music, stories in our songs’, Indigenous musicians of the Northern Territory;
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Jared Archibald of Darwin: $1500 to research and document the early deployment of armoured fighting vehicles in the Northern Territory;
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Sarah Gilbert and Elissa McKeand of Sydney: $2600 to record oral histories and research the story of the evacuation of missionaries and children from Croker Island to Sydney after the bombing of Darwin entitled “Croker Island: journey across the continent”;
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Christian O’Brien of Darwin: $2500 to research “Travails in the tropical troposphere: history, weather and climate in Australia’s Top End,1820 – 1960”;
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Olga Radke of Alice Springs: $1500 to research and record the history of the Mission Block, Alice Springs;
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Robert Levitus of Canberra: $3000 to research a history of Mudginberri Station, Northern Territory;
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John Rivas of Darwin: $2000 to research and document the settlement of the fourth wave of Filipino migration to the Northern Territory;
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Craig Bellamy of Darwin: $2000 to research the use and role of Radar countermeasures by ‘Section 22 ’ that operated out of the Northern Territory between 1943 and 1945 against the Japanese during WWII;
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Margaret Clinch of Darwin: $2000 to research and identify places of historical interest valued by members of the ordinary community in the Darwin and greater Darwin area;
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St Philip’s College of Alice Springs: $2800 to research the history of St Philip’s College, including Griffiths House, its predecessor which began its work as a children’s hostel in 1941 and ended it with the beginning of St Philip’s College in 1965;
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Tony Roberts of Bega Valley: $3500 to research and tell the definitive story of the Coniston massacres of 1928, and surrounding events;
- Alec O’Halloran of Sydney: $2600 to record oral histories of the Mt Liebig Community, Northern Territory.