Northern Territory History Grants Program - Past Projects
The annual NT History Grants Program has funded projects relevant to NT History for over 30 years.
| Year | Recipient | Project | Amount Awarded |
|---|
| 2023/2024 | Rebecca Parker | Historical research for feature film, 'Splinter' | $7,000 |
| Wild North Arts Inc | True Tales from the Wild North | $7,000 | |
| Derek Pugh | The Ragged 13 - The Territory's Bushrangers | $6,200 | |
| Pilgrim Presbytery of Northern Australia | Truth-Telling from Colonising to Convenanting (in the Uniting Church in the North) | $2,400 | |
| Grey Morris | Mark Motlop Story | $7,000 | |
| Matthew Stephen | NT Football History | $5,593 | |
| David Hancock | Decades in Darwin V1 | $2,377 | |
| Richard Creswick | FYFS2024 (Cyclone Tracy 50th Anniversary Stories) | $5,300 | |
| Steven Andrews | Tropical Staff Housing: the designs and equipment in Darwin's iconic upstairs houses | $7,000 | |
| John Bonson | Daly River History Project | $3,800 | |
| Stick Mob Studio | Indigenous Women of Strength: Talking Histories | $4,330 |
| Year | Recipient | Project | Amount Awarded |
|---|
| 2022/2023 | Dr. Lisa Stefanoff | Stories from a Lost Trailway | $7,000 |
| Dr. Joanna Barrkman | The History and Significance of the Gurindji Freedom Day Banners | $6,695 | |
| Dawn House Inc | Dawn House - A New Beginning | $7,000 | |
| Kim Scott | Gardens of My Childhood | $5,236 | |
| Derek Pugh | Darwin: Survival of a City: The 1890s | $7,000 | |
| Tactile Arts | 50th Anniversary History Project | $7,000 | |
| Rachel Pekins | Investigation of Records Relating to Frontier Violence in Central Australia at Relevant Archives | $6,984 | |
| Betty Franklin | A Horse Named Polly - Creation of an Effective Children's Book | $2,719 | |
| Probus Club of Charles Darwin Incorporated | Historical Research for a Published Work: Capturing memories of the Territory through the eyes of Charles Darwin Probus members | $5,200 | |
| Maurice O’Riordan | Revisiting 'Reinscribing Skin' | $3,166 |
| Year | Recipient | Project | Amount Awarded |
|---|
| 2021/2022 | Maisie Austin | The History of Parap 118 Camp | $4,000 |
| Australian National Aviation Museum Alice Springs Inc | Compilation of History of Seven Mile WW11 Airfield Alice Springs | $1,500 | |
| Charles Darwin University | Pride and Revelation – Stories from the Charles Darwin University Nursing Museum | $4,983 | |
| Steven Farram | Palmerston (Darwin) Dingo Glee Club 1895-1905 | $1,500 | |
| Gillian Harrison | His Heart was Plugged into his Amp | $6,898 | |
| Jason Hampton | Tribute to Great Grandparents | $5,100 | |
| The Italian Club | Forgotten Italians | $5,500 | |
| Ingrid Johanson | Daluk Kunwok: Words from the Women of Maningrida | $5,476 | |
| NT Water Ski Association Inc | Darwin Ski Club – the Story of Water Sports in Darwin and the Territory | $2,000 | |
| Bev Phelts | Tourist history brochure of the Parap and Fannie Bay area | $968 | |
| Kim Scott | My Katherine Childhood 1961-1974 | $3,700 | |
| Top End Flying Club | Short History of the Top End Flying Club | $6,800 | |
| The Trustee for the Starwin Trust | Through Tiwi Eyes: Her-stories | $7,000 | |
| Variety, the Children’s Charity, Tent 82, NT Inc | A History of Bashing in the NT | $2,575 |
| Year | Recipient | Project | Amount Awarded |
|---|
| 2020/2021 | Alice Springs Lutheran Church Inc | 1967 Hermannsburg Choir Tour Diary | $4,300 |
| Alexander Ressell | NT Nuclear History | $7,000 | |
| Caddie Brain | The Other Side of the Line | $3,458 | |
| Darwin Lions Beer Can Regatta Association Inc | Can Do for 50: Fifty Years in Retrospect of the Darwin Lions Beer Can Regatta | $3,550 | |
| John Cleary | History of Electrical Trades Union in the Northern Territory | $6,338 | |
| Dr. Pat Bradley | History of Mental Health Nursing in the Northern Territory | $5,150 | |
| Matthew Stephen | NT Football History | $5,640 | |
| Norman Watson | "Clawing Back" A 70 Year History of the Nightcliff Football Club | $4,000 | |
| Simmone Croft | "A Voice Down the Line" | $7,000 | |
| Jennifer Reilly | Life of Gunar Bekeris | $5,703 | |
| Derek Pugh | Darwin in the 19th Century | $6,200 |
| Year | Recipient | Project | Amount Awarded |
|---|
| 2019/2020 | Derek Pugh | History of the Cobourg settlements: Victoria and Fort Wellington | $5,200 |
| Robert Neville Alford | The 49th Fighter Group USAAF in Darwin's Defence - a History | $4,400 | |
| Robyn Frances Higgins | The Real Map Of Batchelor According To Me | $4,906 | |
| Matthew Stephen: Jungung | Jack McGinness | $3,490 | |
| Kim Vanessa Scott | Pushing Longshots: Bruce Litchfield, architect. His Top End Years 1938-1948 | $1,500 | |
| Karl Herzog | Portrait of Tennant Creek 1970s and 1980s | $6,500 | |
| Royal Australian Artillery Association (Northern Territory) Incorporated | Publication of Territorian Indigenous Military Service book | $3,031 | |
| Samantha Disbray | Stories in Pictures: A photographic history of Pintupi-Luritja country | $3,400 | |
| Mike Longton | Gulf Women | $6,110 | |
| Charles Darwin University | Perspectives on the Hellenic Diaspora, Volume II | $5,500 | |
| Ptilotus Press Incorporated | Living In Hope: local publication and national launch | $7,000 | |
| Kirsty Howey | Town Camp History - Infrastructural Legacies | $5,470 |
| Year | Recipient | Project | Amount Awarded |
|---|
| 2018/2019 | Alexandra Edmondson | Pine Gap Women’s Peace Camp | $1,250 |
| Association of Independent Schools of the Northern Territory | Motivation and Leadership in the Emergence of a Non-Government Schooling Sector | $7,000 | |
| Council on the Ageing (NT) Inc | COTA’s 50 Years in the Northern Territory | $5,300 | |
| David Hancock | Nganabbaru: Buffalo | $7,000 | |
| David Price | Japaljarri’s Journey | $5,943 | |
| David Steinberg | Foreign Japanese pearling fleets working the Arafura Sea | $3,340 | |
| Derek Pugh | 19th Century Darwin – tales of our pioneers | $5,500 | |
| Fiona Shanahan | Heritage of the Air in the Northern Territory | $5,015 | |
| Peter Mumme | Australian Indigenous oral histories, stories, song-lines | $6,500 | |
| Robyn Smith | Mapping Massacres | $2,950 | |
| Tom Lewis | USAAF Airmen | $6,927 |