Australian Capital Territory researchers have been awarded more than $800,000 in grant funding as part of the Rudd Government’s support for health and medical research work across Australia.
The funding is provided under the National Health and Research Council (NHMRC) Postgraduate Scholarships scheme and the NHMRC Training Fellowships.
The NHMRC Postgraduate Scholarships scheme supports outstanding Australian graduates [...]
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$808,345 funding boost for health and medical research in the ACT
New outreach worker to be placed in ACT
National efforts to close the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians within a generation received a boost today with the announcement of 83 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Outreach Worker placements across Australia.
Minister for Indigenous Health, Warren Snowdon, said funding had been approved for 83 positions, more than half of the 160 [...]
Community News: February 2010
At the bottom of this newsletter is a survey where I want to hear your views.
Investing in local jobs and education
The Rudd Labor Government’s economic and infrastructure stimulus is supporting local jobs and the Canberra economy. Investments include:
$242.705 million for 257 halls and classrooms across the ACT’s public and private schools.
$28.68 million for the construction [...]
Commercial Development Funding for Medical Research Project at ANU
Senator for the ACT, Kate Lundy has congratulated Dr Charani Ranasinghe from the Australian National University (ANU) for receiving $232,500 over two years for the Development of a novel strategy to enhance T cell-mediated immunity to vaccine antigens, through the latest round of National Health and Medical Research Council Development Grants.
Dr Ranasinghe’s research proposal looks at [...]
ANU Fellowship One of Nine Announced for 2010
The Rudd government recognised the extraordinary work of nine of Australia’s best health and medical researchers today with the announcement of the National Health and Medical Research Council Australian Fellowships.
Australian National University (ANU) Professor Christopher Goodnow, was among the nine researchers recognized for his work as one of Australia’s leading immunologists.
The Australia Fellowship will allow [...]
2009-10 Aged Care Approvals Round Commences
Minister for Ageing Justine Elliot, has announced that more than 442 new aged care places in the ACT will be on offer as part of the 2009-10 Aged Care Approvals Round (ACAR).
Increasing the number of aged care places is essential to meeting the challenges of Australia’s ageing population. The Government is committed to a sustainable [...]
ACT recipients for Australian Organ Donor Awareness Week 2010
Senator Kate Lundy has welcomed the announcement by the Parliamentary Secretary for Health, Mark Butler of $250,000 in Community Awareness Grants for organisations helping Australians to discover, decide and discuss organ and tissue donation.
The Community Awareness Grants program is administered by the Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority established in January 2009 as [...]
$93,083 for Carers in the ACT
Minister for Ageing, Justine Elliot, Member for Canberra Annette Ellis, Member for Fraser Bob McMullan and Senator for the ACT Kate Lundy today announced $93,083 in one-off funding grants for five services that provide respite for carers in the ACT.
The following services in the ACT received funding:
Carers ACT – $59,000 for Commonwealth Carelink Centre ACT [...]
More General Practice Training Places for ACT
An additional five general practice vocational training places will be made available in Canberra in 2010 by the Commonwealth Government.
Senator for the ACT, Kate Lundy has welcomed the announcement, which will take the number of Canberra registrars in training to more than 30.
The decision to add an extra five GP training places follows discussions between [...]
New BBF Forum ‘open to your ideas’ webpage
The broadband future web site now has Google Moderator ‘Open-to-your-ideas’ online forum functioning, which I just checked out!
I haven’t used Google moderator this way before but it looks like a great way to pitch your big ideas for the NBN (relatively succinctly and get them into the mix heading into the main conference [...]
